As the invading pythons spread out...
-What is that? -The skeleton of a snake.
The team pursues them...
I know that there is something massive out there.
You dirty bastard. Ooh!
-Hello? -...Into uncharted territory.
Looks like an old storage room of some sort.
It just feels like something's off.
Aaron, back up, man!
But as they battle cold-blooded killers...
-Aah! -Whoa!
The hunters are in danger...
This is bigger than any snake we've caught so far.
...Of becoming the hunted.
He's trying to get-- aah!
Aah!
Oh, it's got my bad leg!
Aah!
Two weeks into python season,
King of the swamp troy landry and his partner pickle wheat
Are out to settle a score.
Last year, zak and bruce, three nights in a row,
A giant snake got away from them.
They said it was the biggest snake
That they'd seen all year last year.
The last night, bruce could've grabbed him,
And I think he chickened out.
It got away from him.
It's kind of spooky
That bruce actually almost put his hands on it,
But zak said he froze.
This thing is huge, dude.
Dude, how long is this snake?
You got his head? You see his head?
Whoa! Watch him.
God dang it!
Since last year, I got that snake on my mind,
-Mm-hmm. -So I want us to come and try.
Mr. Bruce and zak have lost this snake,
From what I hear, three times, all at night,
So I nicknamed this snake the night serpent.
He just keeps getting away.
Zak said he's about 17, 18 feet long.
It's making me kind of nervous.
To me, that's a massive snake,
And I've never even seen anything like that before.
In the wild, burmese pythons
Can grow up to 18 feet in length,
But unconfirmed sightings
Suggest rare specimens can exceed 20 feet.
You see how the trail is fading away?
Yeah, it's getting real skinny over there.
Yup, yup. And that's what zak told me.
He said as soon as the trail narrows down,
That's where we lost him, to the right.
I think we oughta stop here.
-Let's go check it out. -Yup, yup.
Let's go see. Let me get the sacks.
We going into this spot that zak told us about,
And we gonna see if we could get him.
All right, now we gotta be careful.
We gonna stay kind of close together, okay?
That's a little stinky one there, huh?
Oh, yeah, pee-wee.
Watch him. He gonna get you.
Yup, yup, yup, yup.
They got a hundred little fish in there for him to eat.
When he opens that mouth, that's why they call him a cottonmouth.
-Right there. -See that white mouth?
The cottonmouth, also called a water moccasin,
Is an extremely venomous aquatic snake
Native to the southeastern u.S.
Its venom prevents blood from clotting,
Which can cause extensive internal bleeding and death.
He's having a buffet right here.
Let's follow this big trail right here from the water
Going back a little ways.
If he's here,
That means the other snakes are gonna be here, too.
We in the right area.
We on the right track. I really feel it.
Let's stay focused, stay focused.
[whispers] pee-wee, pee-wee, pee-wee.
Look right here. Look right here.
That's a huge trail, huh?
Yes.
That's a snake?
Yeah, that's a giant snake trail.
I think we in a good area here.
We seeing a lot of trails right now,
And the trails I'm seeing is mostly snake trails.
Pee-wee, pee-wee, hurry up, hurry up, hurry up.
Watch it, be careful. Don't let him--
We gotta get him out the tree before he goes any higher.
Look how he wraps himself and he can hold himself.
Watch that head.
Whatever you do, watch that head
Because he will come down and get ya.
Oh, [bleep].
Watch him, pee-wee, watch him.
-Here. Unwind him. -I'm trying.
Unwind him, pass him to me.
Watch him, watch him, watch him.
Okay, he's coming down. Be careful.
Aah! There's no way.
Look at him.
Oh.
-Aah! -Aah!
Get him over that way, I'll grab him.
Okay, let's get him down.
All right, pee-wee, good job.
Good job, pee-wee, good job.
Ring around the rosie now.
Watch him, watch him. He's mad.
Thought he was getting away.
All right, good job. We got him now.
Whew. First one out the tree, dude.
You never know where they gonna be.
Can be under a log, they can be in a tree.
They can be in the water, they can be on high ground.
-That was awesome. Ready? -One, two, three.
This tree-climbing giant is a good start
And will net them $300,
But it's not the night serpent they came for.
That was crazy.
-All right. -All right, good job.
That big snake that bruce and zak was after,
He's the big alpha.
I'm hoping we can find him.
We just gonna go back, put him on the buggy.
15 miles to the west, new python hunter tes
Takes bill to an unusual hunting ground,
But bill has his doubts.
You're taking me to a white, sandy beach
To hunt pythons?
Listen, I was out here with my husband a while back,
And I saw signs of snakes.
Eh...
A lot of these beaches
That are out here in the area
That we commonly go to,
You're not gonna see much more than a seagull.
But the one that I found out here in this area,
It is a little bit more secluded.
There's not a lot of people,
And so the wildlife moves a little bit freer.
I'm confident that we're gonna find some pythons.
Among the more than 4,500 islands
Dotting florida's coastline,
Many, especially those bordering the everglades,
Remain uninhabited,
Barely touched by humans.
These islands are home to hundreds of animal species.
It gets really thick up in there.
I can see the trees, yeah.
The beach has got this beautiful white sand.
All it was missing was the tiki huts
And the fancy drinks.
Come on. I promise.
There's seashells out here.
-No pythons. -All right. Yeah, I know.
I know what a beach looks like, bill.
We just gotta get a little bit further.
I wouldn't lie to you.
All right.
So you think there's a snake out here, huh?
Yup. I'm feeling good about it.
Fresh water.
You know, pythons really don't care for salt water,
So I just wanna give it a taste.
Okay, it's fresh water.
In my head I'm thinking, okay, there's a possibility
That maybe there might be something out here.
I promise you, I saw what I saw,
And I've got confidence.
Do you have confidence in me?
Well, I-- you haven't steered me wrong yet,
But this might be the first time.
Hey, bill, bill, bill.
Right here, right here, right here.
-Got one? -Yeah, yeah, yeah. Look.
Catch him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, get him.
He's right here, he's right here.
-Yeah, do you see him? -Yup.
Oh, my god, I can't believe it.
I told you.
I can't believe it.
I wouldn't lie to you.
All right, all right, all right.
He's looking my way.
Watch him.
-Watch it, watch it. -Oh, yeah.
I see you. Just let him wear himself down.
All right, I'm gonna go in and catch him.
All right, you got him?
-I'm going lefty on him. -Get him, get him.
Yeah!
This eight-foot python will bring $300,
But its mere presence in such an unusual location
Is startling.
Well, we get on the island,
And it wasn't just but a few minutes
And, bam, we caught the first python.
I'm like, okay, now I gotta start believing her.
I kind of doubted you, I have to say that.
I don't even have a bag.
-Bill! -We'll have to carry him out.
You doubted me that much? What is your problem?
It's on the boat. I left it.
-So we gotta carry this out? -Yeah.
Not gonna lie. Coming across this first snake
Is absolutely the most rewarding feeling.
It at least proves that I saw something
And I was right about what I saw
When I told bill that there was some sign out here earlier.
Good job, tes.
In the twists and turns of the mangroves,
Zak and aaron paddle towards
A notorious corner of the everglades.
Ever been out this deep in the everglades before, aaron?
No, never this far back.
Aaron and I are headed back to an old smuggler's trail
That they used to push a bunch of drugs back in the eighties,
Every type of exotic creature you could think of
And anything else illegal
That would come down here to south florida.
During the 1980s era of the cocaine cowboys,
The everglades were used to smuggle
Immense quantities of drugs into the united states.
Because of the vast untouched wilderness,
Smugglers could easily access the glades
From the gulf of mexico and disappear instantly.
I'll tell you what, man.
Back out here, they just smuggled everything.
I've been fishing back in these mangroves for a long time,
And I'm seeing more and more pythons
Every time I go out here.
As they explore the infamous trail,
The hunters realize it is the perfect place for pythons.
There's water there.
There's water on both sides of this place.
Yes, sir. So when they wanna sun...
When they're gonna get forage, where they gonna go?
It's a perfect trail. They just lay right on it.
Mm-hmm.
We're in the middle of nowhere right now.
Aaron! In the middle of the road!
-What is it? -Aaron, get over here.
Grab his tail. Don't let him get back in there.
Get him back out!
-Whoa! -Aaron! Aaron!
-Oh, man, he is alive! -This what they like to do
When they get all sunned up like that.
Watch yourself.
-Don't let him get you. -Aah!
Get him out, get him out, get him out of the weeds.
Grab his head. Grab his head right now,
Grab his head right now.
Grab him, dude, grab him right there.
That's all you for you. Watch out.
Grab him, grab him.
Aah!
Grab him, dude. Aaron, now!
Aah!
-Almost got me. -There you go.
Let's get him in the bag.
This 12-foot python is proof
That zak's hunch to explore the old smuggler's trail was right.
Aaron and I have a long day ahead of us,
And there's lots more where that one came from.
We're gonna keep on heading down this trail
And really try to be careful.
Not many places to hang the bags,
-But let's find a good one. -Yeah.
15 miles to the north,
Dusty's looking for new ways
To improve his solo style of hunting,
And he has come up with a revolutionary idea.
The master plan is, you know,
Is we make a sled out of something around here
So I can put the snakes on the sled,
The dogs will pull the sled out.
I can just walk on out, son.
I don't have to carry a thing.
I could sell these things, mass-produce 'em,
Put them on that internet thing. Whew!
Everybody's gonna need something
To haul their snakes out, you know.
Why wouldn't they buy a sled from me?
Look at that, baby, look at that.
Look at that.
Whew! You never know, son.
I might go to the moon with this one.
You guys ready to go to work?
[dogs bark]
Why you gotta be a daredevil, man?
Dusty heads out to test his invention
At one of his favorite hunting spots.
If I can load this sled up, son, with snakes,
It's gonna cut the walking time in half
Back and forth carrying it, you know.
All right, let's go this way.
Come on, ri.
Let's go. Let's go to work. Come on.
[dogs bark]
Holy cow, ri. [riley barking]
I got it, ri.
[hissing]
Good girl, ri.
Get out of there. You're all balled up.
It's nasty, ri.
Uh!
[laughs] oh!
Oh!
Whoo!
Yeah, baby.
Good girl, ri. Daddy got it.
Got me right in the bad part of your thumb.
This 10-foot python is worth $350, but it came at a cost.
Sometimes the little ones hurt the worst, you know.
So, you know, you don't wanna get bit by any snake,
But you get bit in certain places, son,
And that one there just lit me up
Right there underneath the thumbnail, boy.
That sucker's sore as heck now.
You know, snaking ain't easy, son.
Snaking ain't easy.
Oh! All right, guys, let's go this way, ri.
More snakes this way. Come on.
Let's go.
See, you guys are getting the hang of this thing.
It's easy, man.
Near the gulf of mexico,
Bill and tes continue hunting for pythons
On an uninhabited island.
But after a fast start, their prospects have dwindled.
Well, I'm kind of having my doubts.
-Why? -We found one,
But we've been going for another two hours.
We got on there right off the bat.
We find the first python and, okay, that's good.
And couple hours into it, we're not seeing anything else.
And I'm like, all right, let's find somewhere else to go.
I'm just not seeing the numbers in here that we should be.
It's a new spot to check out.
Let's give it just a little more time.
Part of the reason I was really turned on to this place
Is because I've seen sign out here already.
It was kind of around dusk when I saw it.
But I got it in my mind that we need to be in there at night,
Or at least while the sun's setting.
I'm about ready to eat something.
What about you? Are you hungry?
I can always eat. You know that.
What if we go back,
Just catch some fish real quick, cook some lunch?
If I'm gonna feed old grumpy pants,
I better do it now,
Because I don't wanna back out of the woods
When it's ideal hunting time.
And then we can come back, you know, later,
-Sunset, after dark. -Yeah, we'll do that.
Freaks come out at night.
Deep in the everglades...
That's a big snake trail.
That's bigger than normal.
Troy and pickle are tracking fresh snake trails
In hopes of encountering a 20-foot monster
Dubbed the night serpent.
Well, we looking at where they crossing in the mud,
The trails.
They got snake trails on top of snake trails back here.
Look at the size of that trail.
I see all of these little trails,
Like, just slithering off,
And I'm like, oh, what happened here, you know?
Like, there was obviously a lot of snakes in this area.
Uh-oh, uh-oh. Look here, look here.
-Lookie here. -What is that?
That's a skeleton of a snake.
I guarantee, according to the size of that backbone,
That was a 14-foot snake.
-Yeah. -That's a big old snake.
Very big. I hope that's not the one we looking for.
We right in the area where bruce and zak
Lost that big one last year three nights in a row.
Now, whether that's the same snake or not,
I have no way to tell,
But there's not a lot
Of big, dominant male snakes like that in the area.
Lookit, the terrain is changing here.
You can tell this had water until not long ago.
Yeah.
Look at-- oh, pee-wee, pee-wee, pee-wee.
Hurry up, hurry up!
Look at this thing.
Oh, my god.
Ooh, be careful.
Oh!
Watch that thing.
Whoa! Ay-yi-yi-yi.
He is mean as hell.
-Want me to get him? -Aah!
Wear him down, wear him down.
Hey!
Look here, look here, look here. Come here.
Aah-ha-ha!
If he strikes at you, I'm gonna grab him, okay?
He's focused at me, watch him.
-You ready? -Watch him.
Get ready! [laughs]
-Whoo! Good job. -Not today, you.
-Good job. -Not today.
Now you got me in a bind here.
Let the snake go for a second.
-Let the head go. -I can't.
-Can't let it go? -Uh-uh.
If I let it go, he's gonna get me.
All right.
-Oh! -He pooped on me.
He's really gonna get me.
No, he ain't. I ain't gonna let him get you.
He's slipping out. I gotta let him go. He's slipping out.
-He's slipping out? -Yeah.
Okay, let him go, let him go then.
-You gotta let him go. -I can't.
-You can't? -I can't.
Okay, it's all right.
It's all right.
Oh!
-Uh! -Yeah!
Okay, you hold the sack. Hold the sack.
Okay, ready? One, two, three.
Oh! You all right?
-Whew. Yeah, I'm good. -He didn't get you, huh?
-Full of snake [bleep]. -That's all right.
Long as he didn't bite you. He didn't bite you?
It stinks. No, uh-uh.
This eight-foot python,
Their second of the day, is worth $300.
It's a solid start,
But the real prize is the elusive night serpent.
We gonna keep going towards the big hill over there.
We doing good. We catching our share.
But I wanna go in there
And look for this big snake, the night serpent.
This way.
-A trail? -Yeah.
Back on the smuggler's trail...
So we still gotta be careful.
We don't know who's back here or what's back here.
Zak and aaron tread cautiously as they search for pythons.
Yeah, you can see some old remnants
Where people have been back here at some point.
Yeah.
What smugglers do is they take the quietest route,
The darkest, deepest routes,
Just to stay out of the way of anyone catching them.
So this would be a prime place for them to slip through,
Drop some goods off, and get them out onto the street.
There's just so much trash,
It looks like people still could be using this trail.
As we're walking along, we just start seeing
One little piece of trash, two little pieces.
Eventually, it's like a whole dump out here.
And it looks like, at one time,
It was probably some stuff that's pretty expensive.
During the heyday of drug smuggling in south florida,
Fast boats were used to outrun the coast guard,
And flat-bottomed airboats with powerful engines
Allowed smugglers to maneuver over land and water,
Giving them access to every nook and cranny
Of the vast wilderness.
Just garbage on garbage, man.
Aaron, check it out, check it out, check it out.
What? What is it?
He's right there. Check it out, deep in the water.
Right there, right there, right there.
Right there, right there. Hold on.
Let me get on the other side.
I see him.
He's still sitting in the corner.
If you can get a hand on him, get a hand on him, dude.
I see him. His tail's on your side right there.
All right, ready? Ready? Put your hand right there.
Right there, right there. I gotcha, I gotcha.
Don't let him go forward too far.
Man, he's tangled up.
Life him up, lift him up, lift him up.
There's his head. His head's right here, bro.
He's holding on to this piece of wood.
Get him out, get him out, get him out.
He's right here. Here.
Come on, come on. Pull him, pull him out.
Get him on the grass. There you go.
Oh, man, he's gotta be tired from that.
Whoa! Are you freaking kidding me?
He's still got energy, don't he?
-Oh! -Whoa!
-Are you freaking kidding me? -Just hold on to him, dude.
-He's still got energy. -I've got his attention, aaron,
If you wanna go in for this one.
-Ready? -Yeah.
-Keep his attention. -Ready?
Yeah.
-Got him. -There you go.
-Got him. -There you go, buddy.
Let's bag this one up.
I knew this place would be good, baby.
Man, with all this stuff around. Ready?
-Yup. Drop him. -Got it.
Let's hang this bad boy. Keep it moving.
All right, we gotta keep our eyes peeled, dude.
We got a lot of stuff to explore.
You wanna eat?
Yeah, I'm hungry.
I brought my diving gear.
Maybe I can get out there and get us a quick bite to eat,
Just something to hold us over.
And I'm really hopeful I can maybe convince bill to stay,
And, hopefully, we can find some snakes as well.
We're in about 20 feet of water now.
All right.
Those rocks are right up here about 100 yards.
Okay. A lot of time the wildlife down there
Will cling to any form of structure,
Whether it's a wreck or it's a bridge
Or there's just a pile of rocks.
-See you in a bit. -Okay.
So off she goes.
Spear fishing is a highly skilled
And physically demanding method of catching fish.
Since the use of scuba tanks during spear fishing
Is prohibited in florida,
Spear fishermen must be able to hold their breath
For extended periods.
Whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo!
You got us lunch.
I like my fish well-done.
These ends are gonna cook first.
Yeah, this is nice and cooked.
You want some of that?
Feed me.
Mm-hmm.
Yes.
So being able to come up with a fish and provide some food
And get old grumpy pants to smile,
That's a huge accomplishment.
Do you want more?
Just keep feeding me, woman. Feed me.
You know, after eating,
I'm ready to go back to the woods
And catch some snakes.
That's good.
All right, guys, let's go this way, ri.
More snakes this way.
Five miles to the east, dusty drags his snake sled
Through rough terrain in the cypress dome.
Ri, let's go to work. Let's go this way. Come on.
We're gonna put the dogs to the test. It's training day.
Pull, pull.
Mush, mush. Come on.
What is it?
[barking] what is it, ri?
Smell something?
What is it?
[riley barks]
Where? Where, ri?
Oh, I see it.
It's right here, ri.
Hold up, ri. Hold on.
Let daddy get it. Daddy's got it, ri.
I got it, ri. Back up, back up.
Whoa!
Watch it, watch it, ri. Get back.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh!
Good girl, ri, daddy's got it.
Whoo!
Whoo! An old chess match right there, bud.
This nine-foot python will net dusty $280.
Tell you what, son, after seeing this,
Them other hunters are gonna want me
To make them one of these suckers, boy.
But capturing it may have been the easy part.
Aw.
We're getting jammed up here, guys.
You get into this sawgrass, some of this stuff
Just gets so thick with these palmettos,
It's hard to pull a sled around.
It's too many stuff to get tangled up on.
[grunting]
Kinda starting to have second thoughts about this old sled.
It's like I probably would've been better off
Just carrying the bags. I don't know.
All right, lord.
Back on the island,
A re-energized bill and tes resume their hunt.
I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good.
-Are you? -Mm-hmm.
If we'd left or we went a different direction,
It probably wouldn't be the end of the world.
However, I don't like to quit on stuff,
So if there's an opportunity to keep looking
And then we found something,
That would be really cool and it would be worth it.
God, this is like south america right here.
Oh, my god.
What is that?
I don't wanna say anything, but...
Oh, my god.
Look at that.
Can you smell it? I can even still smell this.
That's a shed off of a giant, a freaking giant.
Ohh, I told you.
How big do you think this is?
Well, that's just part of the skin,
But looking at the belly scales on this,
That's 16, 15, 16-footer.
All right, now we need to find this big python,
Because it's out here somewhere.
With a monster snake and big payday lurking nearby,
Bill sees the island in a new light.
I'm not gonna doubt you.
Yeah, just right around sunset, that's my vision.
I know that they're out here.
I know they're gonna be moving.
This is the perfect time.
Right there, tes, right here, right here.
-Oh, bill, he's right here? -I got his tail.
-You got him? -Yup.
He's coming. He's looking at you.
Bill, watch it, watch it, he's right there.
-Oh, yeah. -Bill, watch it.
-Here, give me his tail. -Uh-uh.
-You got him? -Yeah, get his tail.
God, he's strong.
[bleep] now I'm in a hole.
See if you can hold him back away from me.
Bill and tes wrestle an angry python.
You dirty bastard, you. Uh-uh.
-Pull him back a little. -I'm trying.
He's trying to get me.
Ooh! Aw, damn.
This is a pretty good size snake here.
Bill, any chance this is the same one we found the shedding?
Not even close.
It would be bigger?
Way, way bigger.
I got his tail now.
Aah! Oh, my gosh.
He got your attention.
Oh!
This guy's warm.
He is mad.
He's got his eye on you.
Aah!
Don't let him bite you.
Bill, he is not happy.
All right, now he's eyeballing me.
See if I can get him out of here.
He's trying to get up under that log.
-I can't even see his head. -Here, I'll pull him back.
-Okay. Ready, ready? -There he is.
All right. You got it.
-Yeah. -You got it.
-Ready? -Come on with it. You got him.
Whoo, tes.
Damn it, girl.
-I'm gonna let his tail go. -Okay.
Look what I got.
Oh, so now you trust me.
-Ready? -Yup.
Whoo!
Come on with it.
Man, that felt good.
This 12-footer will earn bill and tes $375,
But they're after even bigger game.
That shed lit a fire inside of me,
And I know that there is something massive out there
Just waiting for us to stumble across it.
♪ I picked the spot that got the snakes ♪
[laughs] oh, my god.
What am I dealing with?
I'm feeling good.
As the sun sets on the swamp...
Pee-wee, look how the terrain changes.
-It's thick in here, huh? -Yes.
As soon as the elevation changes,
I mean, everything changes.
They got snake trails everywhere.
The snake trails troy and pickle have been following
Are leading them towards the last known location
Of the night serpent.
So we've caught some nice-sized snakes in the past here.
I'd really like to see it
Or to catch the biggest one out here if we could.
That's what I'd like.
If you can't put your hand right on him, he can get away.
Oh, yeah. It's so dense in here.
Oh, pee-wee, pee-wee, pee-wee, hurry up, hurry up!
Hurry up, hurry up. A snake, a snake. Look here, look here.
Oh, my god, look at the size of this thing.
[laughs]
Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi.
Watch him, pee-wee, watch him, watch him.
Oh.
Ooh. Watch him, pee-wee.
Aah!
Oh! Oh!
Watch him, pee-wee.
Wear him down. You gotta wear him down.
Oh!
Okay, pee-wee, watch him, pee-wee.
That's your chance.
Whoa! That's what I'm talking about!
That girl don't blink an eye.
No.
-You all right? -Yeah.
Whew.
He's ain't big, but he's fast, huh?
He's feisty.
-One, two, three. -Throw.
-All right, good job. -Whoo-hoo.
-Good job. -That one almost got you.
This nine-footer is nowhere near
The size of the monster they seek,
But it's still money in the bank.
The night serpent,
He's a totally different kind of animal.
If you go and do the average thing,
Nine out of ten, you ain't gonna catch him.
You gotta hunt different, you gotta think different.
It's a mental challenge as much as a physical challenge.
Let's keep following a couple of these trails.
They all over in here.
-Yup, they everywhere. -Okay.
Over in the cypress dome,
Dusty hunts for pythons,
But continues to struggle with his snake sled.
Come on, ri, let's go.
Mush! Mush!
Uh-oh. Murphy! Murphy! Come here.
Trying to juggle these dogs around, son,
It's like a freaking circus act, you know.
Hey, we don't need you running off again, murph.
The dogs ain't ready for it yet.
Come on, ri, come on, guys.
What you got, ri?
What is it, ri? Oh, a snake.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Watch it, watch it.
Watch it.
Look at that baby.
Watch it, riley.
Oh! Hang on, hang on, ri.
I got it.
Get back, ri.
Watch it, watch it, ri!
[riley yelps]
[riley barks]
Ri!
Uh! Gotcha!
Dusty prevails, but this snake won't go down without a fight.
It's got my bad leg!
Get off me.
Get off of there.
Get off of there. Uh!
Get off of there.
[grunting]
Whoo! I got it, riley.
Whoa!
This nine-foot predator is worth $280.
Yeah, baby. Even though it was a struggle, son,
This old boy ain't giving up.
There ain't no give-up in me.
We're gonna keep taking them out of the everglades
One at a time, son.
That's how we do it.
Let's go home.
Uh!
Come on, pull. Thought building that sled
Was gonna be like freaking albert einstein, man, you know,
But it just didn't work out that way.
Come on, pull! Uh!
As it nears midnight...
Wow, look at this building right here.
Uh-oh.
Zak and aaron continue their journey
Down the smuggler's trail.
Hello?
-Nobody's home right now. -Nah.
It looks like an old storage room of some sort.
Let's check it out.
Looks like it was made by spit and nails, man.
Wow. Man, there's no door on this.
Anything could crawl in here.
This shack that we came across,
It looks a little too new for me.
Because this salt water's so abrasive here,
And it should be a little more weathered than what it is.
These are airboat blades, dude.
They don't look too old either.
There's some items in there
That look like they've been recently used
And looks like they're going to be used fairly soon.
Aaron! Back up, man.
That's what we're looking for, baby.
-Oh, man. -Get his tail, get his tail.
His head's right here. Yeah.
Yeah.
Let me get him out of there.
Whoa, whoa.
Watch yourself, zak.
-Aah! -Aah!
Oh, my god, he nicked me.
Aaron, don't hit me, man.
Whoa, aaron! He's right there!
I'm just trying to get-- aah!
My headlamp fell off. You better not bite me.
Aah! Oh!
Okay, I got a good grip on him now.
-Whoa! -Aaron!
Be careful, man.
Whoa. Watch him, zak.
He's pissed off right now.
-Got him. -You got him.
-Come on, dude! -Oh, my gosh.
-Come on! -That's right.
Come on!
Oh, man.
-Got it? -Got it, got it.
-Pass me the tail. -Oh, man.
This nine-foot python is worth $280.
There you go.
But the intense battle has left zak and aaron on edge.
We caused a lot of commotion out here, dude.
Let's get out of here.
We shuffled this whole place up.
Yeah, buddy.
If there are any smugglers in this area,
There's no way they didn't hear us.
We were kicking stuff around in there,
Screaming at the top of our lungs being trapped in this box.
Watch your head.
[whispering] yo, yo, yo.
What is that?
That's headlights out there.
Shut off your light. Shut off your light.
I see three lights coming.
Now, I don't know what these people are doing.
I don't know if I wanna know.
We're just gonna get back to our boat
And get home as fast as possible.
Let's get out. Come on, come on. Let's go now, now.
Back on the deserted island,
Bill and tes have removed four more pythons since sunset,
Proving tes's theory.
Well, I have to say you were right and I was wrong.
-Yeah? -Yeah.
No, I can't believe we found so many snakes out here.
You know, you can't always judge a book by the cover.
And we pull up to this pretty little island,
And I'm thinking there's no way there's a python.
And by the end of the day,
We're starting to get into big numbers.
Look. There's another one right here.
Right here.
-You find him? -Yeah.
Oh, my gosh, he's moving.
Get him, get him. You got him?
Yeah. Oh, [bleep], no, I don't.
Where is he? You got him?
Yeah, let me get him back.
He's facing you. See him?
Yeah, he's looking right at me.
Oh, my god.
That thing almost got away from me.
It is so thick out here.
This vine is gonna get me bit.
Gotta wear him down.
-Uh-oh. -Bill, watch it.
He's wanting to tag me.
Oh!
Lookit, his skin's peeling off,
And it slipped right out of my hand.
He's shedding his skin.
Oh!
-Can you catch him? -Yeah, I can catch him.
-He's gonna get my leg. -Watch it, watch it, watch it.
You ready?
Yeah. Good job.
-Whew. -Good job.
Good lord.
Yeah, he's hard to hold on to.
Yeah, he is.
He's slimy as hell.
-Good catch. -Good eye.
I'm so happy we found this island and all these snakes,
But I'm not happy about this mess.
-All right, ready? -Yeah.
Whew.
-Whoo, tes. -Wait, bill.
Do you hear that back there?
Bill, I think there's... Bill, there's one right here!
Holy crap, I can see him, I can see him!
-Where he at? -Here he is.
I got his tail.
-I found just his tail. -Watch him.
I have no idea where his head is.
I'm tied up in these vines.
I can see him back in there.
-Can you see him? -Yup.
Watch him. Watch where he's at.
I don't want him to bite you.
-Oh! -Bill, watch it.
Look at him just eyeballing me.
I got no way of getting to him.
He's gotta turn and go that way.
There's the tail right there. Watch him.
He's stuck in these vines.
He's fired up.
They're hard to pull in that stuff.
Oh, I'm holding on
With everything that I've got right now.
On the end.
He needs to turn and go that way,
Because I can't even reach in for him.
He's gonna nail me as soon as I go in there.
Oof.
Can I do something up here?
All right.
-Is that working? -Yeah.
-Get him, bill. -I got him.
-Holy [bleep]. -Whoo!
How do we get him off of this?
Just let his tail go. I got his head.
-Okay. You got his head? -Yeah.
Okay.
These last two snakes are worth over $700
And cap off a successful hunt for bill and tes,
Who find themselves with an unusual problem.
I don't have another bag.
All the bags are at the boat.
We got a ton of snakes already in the boat.
Yeah. Can you carry the snake back?
Yeah, I'll carry him.
-You sure you're cool with that? -Yup.
We haven't found the monster that that skin came from,
But I'm feeling good.
I not only provided lunch for my hunting partner,
We've also had a really successful hunt out here.
Are you gonna be able to carry him out?
Oh, yeah. Here, you get this light.
Okay.
Let me change it. All right.
Thanks. Where's that bag?
It's just over this way.
Head back to the boat?
Yes, ma'am. I'm ready to get out of here.
Let's get out of here.
In total darkness,
Troy and pickle are following a snake trail
They believe will lead to the night serpent.
It's a jungle.
I know. It's so thick back here.
It's a jungle in here.
Man, it's nasty in here.
It's so thick.
It'd be hard to see an elephant in here much less a snake.
Pee-wee and I, we following the freshest trail we can find.
And you could kinda tell which one was the older trails
That wasn't being used as much as the fresher ones.
Look right here. Look at the size of this trail.
Oh, p, p, hurry up, look right there!
Oh, my god, oh, my god!
Watch him, pee-wee, watch him.
Oh, be careful.
Aah!
-Ay-yi-yi. -Aah!
We gotta be careful with this thing.
He got a reach out of this world.
It's the biggest one, dude.
This is bigger than any snake we've caught so far.
Listen, he's looking at me.
He's fixing to strike at me, okay?
When he strikes at me, you go for that tail.
-Okay? -Okay.
Distract him. Make him go that way.
He's already got his eyes set on me.
Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi.
Watch yourself, I'm gonna get him.
I'm gonna get him. You ready?
He's looking at me. Aah-uh!
Oh, yeah, there you go, p.
-Ay-yi-yi! -Aah-uh!
Look how he's protecting that tail.
That tells you how smart he is.
I know. That's why he's so big.
If I don't know no better, which I really don't,
He might've got that big one
That zak and mr. Bruce keep losing.
I mean, he's huge, dude.
We gotta make him move.
Aah!
There you go, that's your chance. Oh!
Grab it, grab it, grab it, grab it.
I got it, I got it.
-All right, stretch him out. -Oh, man.
Stretch him out. Watch him, watch him.
He's gonna get you. He's gonna get you!
-Ay-yi-yi. -Aah!
I couldn't. I had to let it go.
Get his attention. Make him look at you.
Okay.
Come here, you. Come here.
Look right here, boy.
Lord, please help me.
Yeah! Got him!
[laughs] oh!
Oh, [bleep]. Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi.
He's trying to twist out of my hand.
Get the sack. Hurry up.
Let's put him in the sack. Hurry up.
This ferocious 12-foot python
May have been the alpha male of the area...
Whoo! Lord have mercy.
...But whether it was the night serpent is up for debate.
You know, looking at the snake we just caught
And looking at the skeleton we found,
The skeleton was a bigger snake.
But that tells me he was an older snake.
And it's mother nature's course, you know.
The younger, stronger, take over the older and weaker ones.
Let's follow our trail,
Because we have to pick up the snakes we left on the way.
Putting two and two together,
I think the night serpent had his day,
And we got the next boss in line.
We got the king of the jungle here.
I hope we don't catch no more. We got enough.