In the war of man vs. snake...
the serpents are everywhere.
Don't let him get off in that water.
Aah!
And so are some familiar beasts.
Whoo! It's a big one!
Whoo!
Outnumbered and outgunned...
Whoa!
The hunters use methods old and new...
-Whoa! -Hope this works.
..to stay one step ahead.
-Zak? -Aah!
-Can you see him?
Dancing around with the devil up here. Whoa!
On the high grounds of the Everglades,
master snake hunter Bill Booth
and hunting partner Tes Lee
have been called to a remote camp.
Grandpa Gene's camp
is way out in the middle of the Everglades,
two-hour ride by buggy to get to it.
Gene's one of my old Everglades buddies.
He's been around for a long time,
kind of like a dinosaur out here.
Josh is Gene's grandson,
good old kid following Grandpa's footsteps.
Great people.
I'm glad you guys are here.
-What's going on? -Yeah.
Well, Grandpa and I
got started on the reconstruction of the camp,
on Friday,
and, man, we got to tearing the deck up...
Oh, is that the old deck?
This is the old deck from over there,
and I got to about the sixth piece
and found a coiled-up snake under there.
-Really. -Scared the life out of me.
I jumped back about two feet,
he saw it coming...
-Yeah. -...and uncoiled itself
and went back up into the head oak over in that way.
-Was it a python, you think? -It was a python.
-Oh, it was. -Yeah, it was a python.
This is where that old deck was, right here, right?
The old deck was here,
but I was about here when I pulled up that piece of lumber.
And he was coiled up,
and I jumped back,
but he took off and went right up straight that way.
All right.
Gene and Josh have reached out to Bill and I
because they're not snake hunters,
and they identified that there's a problem out here.
There's a trail right over here
that I think they've been using.
-Yeah, look right here. -Yup.
See that a perfect trail.
Yeah, it's getting bad out here, guys.
I mean, the snakes have just wiped out everything:
deer, possums, raccoons.
Everything's gone.
Well, we'll take that trail
and see if we can find it.
Awesome.
Now that Josh pointed us in the direction
of where it went, I figure Tes and I
will go see what we can find on that trail.
-Hey, are you hungry? -Yeah.
You ever had one of the Everglades grasshoppers yet?
No. I don't have a desire to, either.
You don't wanna try it?
I mean, after you?
Bill!
Yeah, here.
-Try one. -Absolutely not.
You're disgusting.
Don't touch me.
That's one survival technique of yours
that I am not going to latch onto.
All right.
-Bill, there's one right here. -Get him, get him. Hurry!
Yeah, he's right here, right here!
-Oh, God. -Good job.
Holy crap.
All right, be careful.
He's watching us both.
-Aah! Oh! -He's a fighter.
You want his tail?
A little less, little less.
-Get his tail. -Okay, watch it, Bill.
Then they got all this cut grass in here, too, that stuff.
-There's now way to get him. -Uh-uh.
Look at him trying to go up in the tree.
He's coming to me.
-There he goes. -All right.
Just be careful, Bill. Don't let him get you.
Why don't you see if you can grab him.
I can grab his head.
Can you get him, girl?
My God, you got him, girl.
You got him. You had to jump for that.
Ooh, he is pissed.
-You don't even need help. -Oh, God. [bleep] everywhere.
Tes's acrobatic catch of this eight-foot python
is worth $300,
and it's a sign the python at Gene and Josh's camp
is not alone.
Good job.
These things are out of control out here.
It is-- Can you hear him hissing?
Yeah.
This just further drives home
the reason that Gene and Josh brought us out there.
They have a very serious problem,
and I'm glad they brought Bill and I out.
Take this one back?
Yeah, let's get out of here.
63 miles north, King of the Swamp Troy Landry
and his partner Pickle Wheat
are takinga day out of their season
to respond to an urgent call for help.
Miss Leanne said we would find the baby
over here somewheres by the swimming hole.
-Look at the sign. -Oh, yeah.
"Danger. Alligators and snakes in area.
Stay away from the water."
Miss Leanne contacted me, and she's very worried.
Her little teenage kids
are always swimming in the river,
and every time they get in the river and start to swim,
10, 15 minutes later,
alligators come from both directions.
And it's a very dangerous situation.
Very, very dangerous.
Girl, what you doing in here by yourself?
I thought they had alligators in this water.
They do, but I haven't seen any for a couple minutes.
Where's your mom at?
She--I think she's up at the house right now.
You're not scared to swim in-- over here by yourselves?
No, sir, not really.
I mean, we get about a good 15 minutes,
and then they start showing up.
And then you get out, right?
Then we get out. We go find another hole.
Alligators are extremely dangerous around swimming holes.
When I was younger, they were terrified of us,
and now if you tap the water,
they come up and come straight to you.
The more people that are in the area
for a long period of time,
the more comfortable they get around people.
These kids been swimming here for a long time,
and so they get used to them, and that's a scary thing.
As the alligator population in Florida swells,
there has been an explosion of dangerous encounters
between the prehistoric beasts and humans,
including a number of incidents involving children.
Y'all got snakes? I seen the sign.
We got snakes everywhere. I mean--
-There are snakes everywhere? -Everywhere.
It's hard to just walk around through the woods
'cause you never know what you'll find.
You don't only have an alligator problem,
you got a snake problem also.
Alligators and snakes.
I can recognize a dangerous situation when I see one,
and this is definitely a dangerous situation.
Well, me and Miss Pee-wee, we gonna do our best
to help y'all get rid of some of 'em.
Yes, sir, I appreciate that.
Appreciate that. We can go swimming a little longer.
All right, me and Miss Pee-wee going to work.
We're gonna see what we can do for y'all.
You'll be back in your swimming hole, okay?
Thank you.
-Be careful, girl. -Yes, ma'am.
32 miles southwest,
Zak and Aaron explore a remote pocket of the Everglades
that has picked up moisture from an isolated rainstorm,
as the rest of the region bakes in an extended drought.
It's real hot out here now that it rained.
-Now it's getting humid. -Yeah.
But it'll bring snakes out, though.
Yeah, for sure.
Pythons use water,
but right now, when it's a drought like this,
they're really sticking around
the small tight little puddles or ponds,
the places that still hold water when it's the dry season.
And they're plucking off all the smaller animals
that come out to take a drink.
And these little tiny pockets that you do find water
are few and far between.
We should venture out.
Oh, man.
We just have so much ground to cover, man.
I think we should split up
and really try to peel as much of it back as we can.
So if you go that way,
just go the left, I'll go to the right,
that would be good to have our eyes spread out.
You know what I mean?
And don't get too far.
It's really tough to hear out here.
The Everglades like to suppress sound.
Perfect hiding place for pythons, snakes.
I see one, I see one!
Oh, man.
Zak. Zak!
Hey, Zak!
Oh, man, he got away in here.
It had to have went in this water right here.
Zak!
-Zak! -I hear you, man.
Come on.
-Dude, there's a pond back here? -Yeah.
He went right in here.
The mud was turned up right here.
I've been calling you for a while.
I couldn't hear anything, dude.
Aaron and I ran into a little bit of an issue
because the swamp is just so dense out here.
The trees just are a natural sound depressant
and we can't hear each other, and that's all there is to it.
It's so thick back there.
I thought I lost you, dude.
I was so close to him.
There's bubbles coming up in here, too, though.
Well, you did see one, huh?
I seen him.
It's so thick right through here.
How are we gonna do better?
'Cause there's two of us, you know.
That thing's usually not getting away.
I can whistle loud.
That'll travel a lot further than yelling, I guess.
-Let's hear it. -[whistles loudly]
God, yeah.
That'll do better than you yelling.
You kinda are soft-spoken.
Well, glad to say I got the whistle.
Next time you see anything, use that whistle.
You know, you can hear my voice across the yard.
Yeah, yeah, you got that high pitch.
I got the high pitch.
-Get out of here, man. -[laughs]
-Hey, at least we saw a snake. -Yeah.
Let's keep focused, all right?
-That's it. -Come on, baby.
37 miles southwest,
Dusty Crum enters an overgrown area
barely accessible by truck...
Don't think nobody come down this road in a long time.
...to put a new idea to the test.
I knew I saved this old thing for something, boy.
I never cease to amaze myself sometimes.
I got this packer machine, man, up in a trade.
And that sucker,
it'll sit there and pat, pat, pat, pat, pat.
It's like a frickin' jackhammer, but for the earth.
I think this vibration, this pounding on the ground, son,
is gonna bring 'em right up to the surface.
The snakes can feel that vibration, son,
and they don't know what it is.
They're just gonna think
a dang thunderstorm or a damn tornado's coming,
and they're gonna get on the move
and that's where I'm gonna bust 'em.
Snakes hear by translating vibrations into sound,
using special sensors spread throughout their skin.
Being able to detect vibrations is crucial for their survival.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Oh, yeah. It's working.
Oh, they gotta feel that.
Knock, knock, knock, open the door.
I know you're home.
Darn. Gets stuck in that mud.
Oh, jeez.
It's all trial and error,
so I just kinda see what works.
And what don't work definitely is the mud, son.
Because it sinks down in there, bud, and gets stuck like chuck.
There it goes on a rock. You hear that?
Yeah, when I get up top of that rock,
start pecking on that like Woody Woodpecker, son,
I could feel it throughout the ground,
and I could feel like I actually hitting something there, bud,
and you could feel the ground shaking.
Know somebody's home now.
Knock, knock, knock.
It's the Big Bad Wolf.
He gonna huff and he's gonna puff
and he gonna blow the house down.
Oh, look, look, right there.
Ah!
Good morning, sunshine.
Where'd you come from? Whoa!
Oh! Get back here.
Crapping all over me.
Aah! It's nasty.
That vibration scared the crap out of her literally.
Popped her right out of the ground like a jack-in-the-box.
[laughs]
Whoo!
That's it, baby.
Another frickin' brilliant brainstorm, son.
Whoo!
This seven-foot python will bring $200,
proof that his earth-shattering idea may be working.
Tell you what, I'm definitely getting
a freaking workout today though, bud.
Between the packer and these frickin' snakes, bud.
Oh, yeah, baby.
Meanwhile, in a rural outpost,
Troy and Pickle have a day
to secure an area used by local children
against aggressive alligators and pythons.
It's so shallow back here.
This is where the little kids come swimming.
These kids are swimming in this river.
The water's extremely low
and the alligators are all piled up in the river
where they have a little bit of water left,
and that's where the kids are swimming.
So we need to take at least seven or eight alligators
out of just this area right here.
In Florida, hunting alligators
on private land such as this property
is allowed year-round
as long as each harvested alligator is properly tagged.
Ho-ho, we got something, Pee-wee.
-We got a tree shaker. -Oh, look at that, a tight line.
Grab the line, grab the line. All right.
-Watch, he's coming to you. -He's tangled up.
Grab him, grab him!
Get the gun.
Whoo, it's a big one, it's a big one.
Whoo!
Bring him up!
Bring him up, bring him up!
Whoo! It's a big one.
Whoo! Bring him up, Pee-wee, bring him up!
-Ooh! -Ooh-ooh!
Watch your foot. Don't let him bite your foot.
Let me get on this side of you. Hurry up.
Show him who's the boss, Pee-wee. All right?
-Oh, my God. -Show him who's the boss.
Come on, take the shot!
[gunshot]
-Whoo! It's a big one. -Whoo-hoo!
This eight-foot gator may not be a monster,
but Troy knows how dangerous they can be.
When they hungry, it don't take a 12-foot alligator
to kill a person or a dog or a horse or anything.
You know, a seven or eight-foot alligator,
when he's hungry, he can kill a kid easy.
Okay, Pee-wee, ready?
Oh, yeah.
Meanwhile, Bill and Tes continue to search
for the pythons that have besieged Grandpa Gene's camp,
and in less than an hour,
they've captured two tree-climbing serpents.
I'm just worried they're just all gonna be up here
after seeing that one climb that tree.
Yeah, just gotta look everywhere.
They can be anywhere.
Grandpa Gene, he's got more of a problem than he realizes.
If you've got a snake climbing a tree,
they can basically climb anywhere.
Right there. You almost stepped on that one right here.
-Golly. -See? God.
Okay, all right, all right.
All right, I'll get his tail and I'll get him distracted.
Don't let him come towards you.
Oh, God!
He's just wanting to bite anything.
[gasps]
I'm kind of backed in here with these trees.
Be careful not to get bit.
Watch him.
Aah!
Glad you're quick like that.
See if you can get his tail.
Man, that caught me off guard.
He's solid. Let's see if we can get him.
Watch him.
Whoa!
Yeah, this seems like a healthy one.
He's definitely eating well out here.
Yeah, he's eating everything in sight.
See if I can get his attention.
All right.
-You ready to catch? -Yup.
He's all yours.
Get him, girl. Oh, yeah.
This capture will net Bill and Tes $300,
but the fight to free the area around Grandpa Gene's cabin
is far from over.
-Ay yi yi. -They were not lying.
These things are all over this property.
It's a beautiful area, very remote.
But at the same time, it is overran by snakes.
Think old Gene's got a problem out here or what?
No kidding.
-Good catching. -Good eye.
65 miles south,
Zak and Aaron have split up to cover more ground,
but their new method of calling each other is yet to be tested.
Yelling wasn't getting it done.
It's so thick where we are,
it wasn't penetrating, you know, the woods far enough.
He said he couldn't hear me.
So the whistling method carries a lot further, it's sharper.
Um, it's more high-pitched,
so he's gonna be able to hear me a lot better,
hopefully, if my hands aren't full.
Oh, I see one.
Zak, Zak, aah!
Zak! Whoa!
He's fast. Oh!
Oh! Oh!
Zak! Zak!
Where you at?
I need help!
Aah! Oh, man.
I'm gonna have to do it on my own.
Unreal.
Zak! Aah!
Aah! [grunts]
Strong.
Oh, man, I can't whistle like this.
[blows]
It's not working. [spits]
That thing just [bleep] in my mouth. [spits]
Oh!
I need help, Zak!
-Yo! -Where you at?
Right here, baby.
What's up, man?
What's up with the whistle, dude? Hello?
Man, I had my hands full. I tried.
When you see the snake, you blow.
[blows]
That might've helped before he doodied in my mouth.
[laughs] You tried to whistle with the tail?
Yeah, I tried. I got too excited.
-My adrenaline was pumping. -Right in your mouth.
Yeah, I can understand that.
This eight-footer
is Zak and Aaron's first capture of the day.
Money, dude.
But it forces them to rethink hunting separately.
How about forget the whistling stuff?
Let's just stick together a little bit more.
-All right, that'll work. -Yeah.
Because you seem to be spotting them today, my boy.
Come on.
Meanwhile, as the earth shakes...
Son, that thing beats the crap out of you.
...Dusty's packer idea
has turned out to be more exhausting than helpful.
Man, it's frickin' wearing me out.
There ain't no way I can run a machine
and catch snakes at the same time.
It ain't gonna work.
Yeah.
Yeah, I need these straps.
All right, let's see what kind of magic we can make.
Old hucklebuck special.
Now let's see.
Hope this works, man. It's gonna be awesome.
That's good. Yeah, baby.
Whoo. Come on.
It's frickin' cool.
Yeah, baby. [laughs]
Whoo! Perfect.
I just got me an automated employee.
It's like them self-checkouts, you know what I mean?
A frickin' robot doing the work.
Now I can bounce around this thing,
pick up the snakes, son. [laughs]
Ooh-hoo-hoo.
Here it is, boy.
Yeah, come on.
Whoa!
Aah!
[hissing]
Dang it, there's another one.
Watch it. Aw, crap.
Aah! Gotcha.
There it is.
Come on, come on, come on.
You hear that Earth quaking?
Who's at the door, son? It's the Big Bad Wolf.
Gotcha.
Whew.
Dang it.
Aah! Got me handcuffed.
Aha!
Ah, yeah. How am I gonna do this?
This double capture will put $575 in Dusty's pocket.
Now if he's able to take full advantage of his invention,
this could be one of his best days ever.
You see me, son? They had me handcuffed,
so I thought I was going in the back of the car.
Whoo!
Meanwhile, along the northern border of the Everglades,
Troy and Pickle have removed six of the alligators
threatening a local swimming hole.
We know they got snakes in this area
with giant alligators right next to 'em.
That's a recipe for disaster.
We have to thin out the alligators in this area,
and then we'll definitely need
to help them get rid of these snakes.
Loose. Loose line.
Grab the tree.
What we got, Pee-wee, what we got?
It don't look like we got nothin' on here.
-Nothin'? -No. I don't think so.
Ooh, hold on.
Oh, Lord, yeah, look right there.
Ooh, it's a big one, it's a big one!
Quick! Show him who's the boss. Show him who's the boss!
Whoo! Bring him up, Pee-wee, bring him up.
Bring him up, Pee-wee. Whoo!
Whoo!
It's scary in a little boat.
-Ah, whoa. -Let me shoot.
Look right there.
Shoot, shoot!
[gunshot]
-Whoo! Good shot. -A good alligator, too.
That's what I'm talking about, baby girl.
This nine-footer is one more alligator
that won't be threatening the local kids.
Roll him over on his back.
One, two, three.
The main thing, we got him out before he hurt any kids.
Hopefully, them kids could swim with a lot more ease now.
But Troy and Pickle know this is just half of the job.
Me and Mr. Troy, we're kinda sticking around the area.
We're gonna hunt some more snakes around here.
So we gonna make a couple circles around the area,
hunt till late tonight and see if we're gonna find something.
We got that one out for sure.
Yup, any little bit of help we can do
is gonna help the Everglades.
Near Grandpa Gene's camp,
Bill and Tes expand their search.
Yeah, there's some water holes up by this trail that I know.
I wanna go check them out.
These snakes are everywhere.
They're literally high and low.
They're not just in the normal places.
They're finding new places and new spots to hide.
Hopefully, it's not too deep.
You think it's best to probably just work our way through these?
Yeah. I think we'll just run right through here.
-Whoo-hoo-hoo. -Ooh!
Bill? Hey, this thing's spewing water over here.
Maybe we don't do the buggy?
Yeah, look how deep it is.
It's over the top of that tire right there.
Yeah. I don't wanna have to stay the night out here.
We're just gonna have to go up here and park and get out.
We don't wanna walk home.
You wanna get one side, and I'll get the other?
That's probably deep over that way.
Wait, what's that? Is that one right there?
Yeah, he's right there.
Ho ho ho!
-Watch it, Bill. -He's blind.
-Another blind snake. -He can't even see.
He is pissed.
Bill, I'm seeing something move up there!
Bill?
Go get him, get him. Get another one.
Holy crap, I can see him!
-You got one? -Yeah.
Just getting some sun out here?
What the heck's going on?
We've got two. Don't let him bite you.
Oh, shoot.
You okay?
Yeah. He's just getting all mad.
Oh!
Hey, are you okay with that one?
Aah! I got him.
You definitely got a bigger one down there, though.
Yeah, he's trying to bite himself.
This one's got something going on with his nose.
He spit up or something.
I gotta wear this one out.
Oh!
Aah!
Little bastard.
Don't let him get in that water. He'll be gone.
That's what he wanted, to get in the water.
This one does not wanna let me get his head.
This guy's all pissed off up here.
This one is, too.
He's watching me.
Oh, yeah. I'm gonna catch him now.
Aah!
All right, got this little bastard.
He's getting tired.
Bill, I'm gonna try to catch this one.
Get him. Good job, girl.
Oh, my God.
[laughs]
We got a two-fer.
Holy crap, the watering hole. Man, you were so right.
Yeah. Good eye.
This pair of serpents will net them close to $600,
but it's obvious there are snakes everywhere.
Further proves how many they got down here, man.
We should check places out
that you never would've even thought to go to before.
There's snakes everywhere out here.
That's pretty dangerous.
-Let's go. -Let's do it.
Whoo-hoo-hoo! Yeah.
I never would've thought we'd catch two in a row like that.
65 miles north,
Troy and Pickle have shifted gears.
With only a few hours left,
they're determined to locate the pythons
scaring the local kids.
The kids don't really--
They don't know how dangerous it can be, you know.
Anything could happen at any second,
and once it happens, you can't take it back.
I'm looking.
Look, look and look some more.
Snake! Snake!
-What? -Snake!
Snake!
Go, Pee-wee! Hurry, hurry!
-Where? I never seen it. -Over here, right here.
Oh-ho!
Look at the size of that thing.
Watch it.
Whoo!
-Whoo! -She almost got you.
Aah!
Man, she's protecting the tail.
We gotta figure out a way to get it.
-Okay. -You know the drill.
Gotta get the tail.
There you got it.
Pull him back! Pull him back!
Pull him back! Aah!
Either she's fast or I'm slow.
Oh, yeah! Yeah!
Oh, yeah. Whoo!
I don't know how you spotted this thing from so far.
I'd have never seen it.
The sunlight hits them and they shine.
-You saw it shining? -Yeah.
This 10-foot python
is a bad sign for the local kids
and a reminder of the urgency of the situation.
One, two, three.
Good job.
No, you good job.
We better hurry.
We losing light pretty quick.
We gotta pick up the pace.
Eyes of an eagle, son.
-Good job, Cinderella. -Eyes of an eagle.
We gotta hurry.
Meanwhile, with the help of his packer,
Dusty has already captured seven pythons...
Frickin' killing it tonight, boy.
And he knows more are on the run.
Where you at? Where you at? I know there's more.
They're just popping out of their holes, you know.
This vibration has got them confused.
They don't know what's going on,
so they're just all on the run everywhere.
I'm gonna get a couple more, then go home.
A couple more, I'll be satisfied.
I can go home, get me a glass of milk,
hit that cookie, son.
Whoo.
Oh, I can't wait.
Ooh.
There he is. Right there, right there.
Popping up out of the ground, son, jack-in-the-box.
Whoo-hoo.
That's a big one, that's a big one.
Talk to me, son.
In the dead of the night, Dusty is fighting his eighth python
of the day.
I gotta get this one.
Whoa!
Aah.
Whoa!
All right, all right, all right.
Ah! Dang it.
There!
Ahh. Gotcha.
Whoo!
Son! Ooh, ooh. Watch out, watch out.
Easy now, easy now.
This eight-footer
brings Dusty's haul to just under $2,000,
his best day of the season so far.
Aah. Think this one's gonna be it for me tonight, boys.
I'm going all the way to the bank with this one, baby.
Hey, you know, I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer
or even a scientist,
but I think I might've figured something out, man,
that might be helpful.
I did three days' worth of work in one night.
Whoo! We did it.
[sighs]
Look at that pile of snakes, boy!
Aow!
Further south, after a slow day,
Zak and Aaron are pressing on into the night.
You never know what we're gonna bump into out here, dude.
They're way harder to see now that it's wet out.
Yeah. They already have that shine to them.
Now everything's shined.
All that water's glistening off the grass and the plants.
Aaron, right here!
Oh.
-Nah. -[laughs]
I can see where you got confused.
Yup. That's it.
-That's a little, uh... -Palmetto root.
When it rains out here in the Everglades,
everything is shiny like a python.
Every time you turn your head,
you get tricked thinking that that's a python.
I thought we had a giant, dude.
You can't run the risk of another one getting away.
Dude! Come on, look at it right through the grass.
-Where's his head, though? -I think it's under here.
-I got it, I got it, I got it. -Whoa! His head's right there.
-You got the tail? -I got it.
I thought I was grabbing its tail, man.
Whoa! Come on.
Zak, he's climbing.
He's climbing up the tree.
Look at him up there.
Oh, I see him up here.
Dang it. This thing is long.
Don't let him-- Can you pull him out?
Oh, you can't pull him out that way, huh?
Nope, nope. I can work around this way, though.
Look how far his head is up here, man.
We have to try to get him out of here
before we lose him up this tree.
This is an easy way to get bit, man.
-Oh! -He's eye level.
Don't let him get your face.
Not my face, please, big girl.
-Please! -Can you see his head?
Yeah. Whoa!
Can you let go of his tail?
-Want me to let it go? -Yeah, yeah, go ahead.
Hey, come around this way. Aaron, come around this way.
Just hold on to this one piece.
Okay.
Okay, ready?
-Aah! -Nice catch.
-Dude. -Don't let him get you.
Don't do it, don't do it.
I'm an inch too far behind his head.
Oh, I'm good.
Get ready. Go low, go low, go low.
Perfect, perfect.
-We almost got him, buddy. -He's strong.
We almost got him.
[laughs]
-Sweet. -How about that?
-You got a bag on you? -Yeah, I do. Sorry.
Got it?
Please, please do not bite me.
This 10-footer
brings Zak and Aaron's total to just over $1,000
and proves the value of perseverance.
-Come on, dude! -That's right.
Dialed in, baby.
We lost a snake earlier today.
We just kept pushing through into the night,
and it paid off in the end.
Way to go, buddy.
Just outside of the Glades...
Look at all the big rocks.
Before they leave the area,
Troy and Pickle hunt deep into the night.
Everywhere you look, they got rocks.
Yeah. Boulders, not rocks.
Yeah, yeah, giant rocks.
Look like they were just dug up and put here,
-but there's no water, no pond. -No.
Oh, my God.
There's holes in between the rocks, underneath the rocks.
This is a haven for snakes.
I thought the Everglades was infested with snakes.
This place is even worse.
Be careful. You gotta look real good in all this crap.
They gotta have one in all of this somewhere.
Oh, dude, right here, right here. Whoa!
[Troy laughs]
Gotta get that tail, we gotta get that tail.
-There you go, there you go. -Hold on.
There you go, get it.
Aah! Mm!
Grab it, here, here. Whoo!
All right, pass it back. Pass it back.
-Gotta wear him out. -Aah!
Pass him back. Gotta wear him out.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, no, you ain't going under them rocks.
Hey, P, hey, here.
Stretch him out. Stretch him out. Wear him out.
-Aah! -Stretch him out, Pee-wee.
Uh-uh. You ain't getting away.
Come on, man, we gotta hurry.
-[laughs] -Got him.
-Got it, Pee-wee? -It's in my boot.
[laughs] Good job, Pee-wee. Good job.
I almost missed him.
This rock-dwelling monster
is their fifth python in four hours.
Troy and Pickle end the day
with a well-deserved sense of accomplishment.
This is a snake paradise, huh?
All these rocks, they got everywhere to hide in here.
They got tunnels and trails everywhere you look.
We did good today.
We had a good day, a good night.
We had no idea coming over here to catch these alligators
that they had this many snakes here.
So we gonna call it a night.
We're gonna come back another day.
All right, let's get the torches.
-All right, Pee-wee, you ready? -Oh, yeah.
-All right, let's go. -Where we headed?
Let's go straight.
Straight this way. Right here.
Whew.
Meanwhile...
Creepy out here.
What the hell is this place?
Look at all these buggies in here.
Determined to search for pythons
everywhere around the camp,
Bill and Tes investigate
Grandpa Gene's old buggy corral.
They just park their buggies in here.
It's kind of cool.
This is an interesting-looking place.
There's all these old, what kind of look like busted-up
or maybe even broken down big vehicles with massive tires.
Kind of just looks like a place that stuff goes to die.
Bill, you seeing anything?
No, nothing. What about you?
I don't know, not much. This is kind of creepy.
This buggy corral is surrounded by the Everglades.
You got trees and water all around it.
It's slightly elevated with a blacktop surface on it,
so at night it's gonna stay warmer and hold the heat,
so it's possible that pythons could come up
and lay in the asphalt.
Hey, Bill, are you seeing any snakes?
No, I'm not seeing anything.
There's one right here! Come here.
-There's a snake? -Yeah, right here.
Underneath this buggy.
Oh, my God, he's right up in here.
Yeah, watch him. Try and get him out of there.
Okay. I'm gonna--
I'm kinda trapped in here, because I don't wanna get bit.
Be careful.
-Watch out. -I got him.
Oh! [laughs]
Oh, watch it.
Oh, no.
Oh! I'm gonna try and get his tail.
Whoa! He almost got me.
You want me to come around and grab him?
Yeah, see if you can get his tail.
Try and pull him out.
Where's his head?
It's up here.
And he is mad. Shoot.
-Aah! -Whoa! Watch out.
What are these things doing out here?
-I don't know. -It's insane.
God.
You wanna see if you can catch him?
-I can grab him. -Yeah.
You ready?
Right there. Get him, girl, get him.
Oh, good job, good job.
Holy crap, Bill, there's one right here.
Right up here, right up here. He's on top of this buggy.
Holy crap.
Can you get up there? I got my hands full.
I got this snake. Can I help you?
Nope, I got him.
-I got him. -Yeah?
-Watch it, Bill. -He got away.
Yeah, he's going in-- he's going to the back.
Oh, my God, he's under this tarp.
Let me get his head over here.
-Got him. -You want me to hold his tail?
Will that help?
No, I got him.
Be careful, be careful.
-Aah! -The other side.
Golly.
Dancing around with the devil up here.
Dancing on this frickin' buggy.
All right.
I gotta get him right here.
Here we go.
-You got him? -Yup.
Oh, my gosh.
There he is.
Can you believe this friggin' thing's up in this buggy?
They're all over the place. Golly.
This second double capture for the day
brings their haul to seven.
It's a good day, but the struggle
to keep the serpents out of Grandpa Gene's camp
may take months or even years.
We're a long ways from solving any problems out here.
They multiply like crazy,
and, you know, we get 'em out of here today,
next month there'll be more in there.
So, you know, we just gotta stay on top of it.
I wanna get out of here.
Good God, who would've thought
we'd find frickin' snakes right here?
Yeah, let's get outta here.