[thunder]
Weeks into the war against the serpents...
monsters are on the loose.
-Look at the size of this thing! -Aah!
Oh, my God!
-There's a better honey hole. -Oh, yeah?
We call it the Snake Pit.
As the battle rages near...
And the moms, they don't wanna go
to the playground anymore.
...and far.
Bill, there's one here!
It is a race against time...
Look. I got another one right here!
...for the survival of the Everglades.
Aah!
Grab it before she gets me!
-Oh! -Gotcha!
You big, scary trash basket.
As the serpents tighten their grip on the Everglades,
King of the Swamp Troy Landry
and his hunting partner Pickle Wheat
venture deep into a maze of buggy trails.
It's pretty rocky.
Thank God y'all got a super good driver.
I've always been excited to try new areas
and explore new areas.
I've been like that since I was a little kid.
The snakes are moving.
Whether we like it or not, it's a fact.
We got millions of acres to look for snakes.
Them snakes are spread out all over.
We're gonna move from the swamp and go up to the high ground.
I saw one good snake trail up the road.
Yeah. When you least expect it,
that's when you're gonna see 'em.
What's that?
Is that another buggy coming?
PICKLE: Maybe he's been doing some traveling.
I thought we'd be by ourselves out here.
Who the hell is that?
Golly.
-Well, hello there. -How you guys doing?
How you doing, old buddy?
-Troy Landry. -Nice to meet you. Pleasure.
-Nice to meet you, sir. -Pee-wee. Pee-wee.
-A pleasure. -A pleasure.
We out here hunting snakes.
I never thought we'd meet somebody else out here.
Oh, yeah, we're way out here right now.
-This is a hot spot. -Oh, yeah.
Well, there's a better honey hole
about 15 miles out.
We call it the Snake Pit.
Oh, Lord. Okay.
It's a ride, but there's a ton of snakes out there.
My camp is closer to the Snake Pit.
What direction I head in?
You keep going like you're going, follow the trail,
you'll come to a fork in the trail.
Stay to the right fork and follow it around
and just keep going, and you'll see a big pine head.
We headed that way right now.
Well, good luck. Be careful out there.
Watch where you walk.
Thank you, pop. You be careful.
-You by yourself, -Yes, sir.
-I got a little bit of help. -[laughs]
-Take care. -Take care. All right.
The Snake Pit.
The old-timers, you know,
they've been out here all their lives,
and if you listen to 'em, you can learn a lot.
I'm kinda pumped up to find the place
and see what it looks like.
The more areas you know
and you have in your back pocket,
the better off you are.
And it sound like it's a hot spot.
The Snake Pit.
We gonna go check it out.
47 miles north,
veteran snake hunter Bill Booth
and his hunting partner Tes Lee
are responding to an urgent call for help
from an unusual location.
If I was a snake,
I'd definitely be moving around in here for sure.
Yeah, there's really nowhere to hide
other than these rocks and stuff.
Look at that big old machine.
I wonder if that's the one it went up in.
I don't know.
I get a call from a guy named Todd
that runs one of these rocks quarries.
He said that they had a big snake
going up into one of these old-style drag lines.
So they're out of work until we can get in there
and see what we can find.
I'm Bill and this is Tes.
Good to meet you, Todd.
-Nice to meet you. -It's a pleasure.
What's going on here?
Well, we've had a pretty large serpent
encountered by one of my technicians
as they were crawling under the machine.
Just caught the tail end of him.
I for sure wasn't going in there.
So it's up in here somewhere, huh?
It still could be.
There's a lot of open areas inside one of these
up in the rotating works.
-Oh, yeah. -No kidding.
Lots of oil, too.
I hope he isn't covered in it.
That'll make it hard.
He comes out of there, he'll definitely need a bath.
You see anything, Tes?
I don't see anything over here.
Boy, there's all kinds of places they can hide up in here.
That's what I'm saying is it's everywhere out here.
Tes, right here, right here.
There's one?
Yeah, right down there by those rocks.
Oh, shoot, yeah, here he is.
He's gone in here.
Oh, I missed him.
It's just big caverns in here. There's no way.
-Be careful, please. -He's right under here.
But look at all these caverns.
How the hell are we gonna find him?
You get down in these rock quarries
and it's a whole different ballgame.
You're climbing on rocks
instead of running through mud and cypress trees.
It's a whole different environment for sure.
Losing this python may have cost them,
but it confirms snakes are here in the quarry.
All right, let's cover some ground.
All right. You wanna try looking...
There's some other stuff over here.
We can go check that out.
Yeah, there's a bunch right here, too.
I can't believe we missed that thing.
Along the border between the Everglades and the suburbs,
Zak and Aaron are answering a plea for help.
You know that I mentor for moms of preschoolers.
And so then these girls get together
for playdates with their kids.
Along the fence, there were three pythons,
like, slithering and chasing each other,
and the moms and the kids were, like, totally spooked.
They don't wanna go to the playground anymore,
and there's a wooded area
where the kids play near the playground,
where some boys had ventured off,
-and they saw it. -Yeah.
And they said that the python was as big as the thigh.
If they're not caught, they get big.
They get big fast, right?
Aaron and I have been called out here to this specific location
because the pythons are just pushing down to that concrete.
These little kids are out here messing around,
playing hide and seek,
thinking it's innocent to be out here,
because it used to be.
When I was a kid,
there was no such thing as a python in this area.
In 1992, Hurricane Andrew tore through Southern Florida,
with wind gusts of 160 miles per hour.
The category five storm
demolished everything in its path,
including an exotic reptile research facility,
releasing lizards, crocodiles and snakes.
This is where they were spotting those snakes.
Try to keep your eyes peeled.
These kids saw this snake in broad daylight,
which means it's probably active hunting in the daylight,
which snakes do sometimes,
but only if they're really, really strong
and really, really smart.
Zak, Zak, Zak, slow down.
-How's she doing, bro? -I see one, I see one.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, bro.
Get your hand on it.
Oh, my God, look at the size of this thing.
That is a monster.
Do not get bit by this thing.
Aah!
Aaron, grab this tail.
Grab the tail, grab the tail.
Spread her out, spread her out.
Oh, my God.
Aah! Whoo, man. That joker gonna strike far now.
Don't let go, don't let go.
Aaron, don't let go of that tail.
-Oh! -Oh, my God.
-I got him. -Hell, yeah.
Oh, my God.
-Oh, yeah. Oh, my God! -Don't let it get you now.
I can't do anything. I can't turn her around.
Aaron, hold her down.
-Don't let her head go. -[grunting]
-Don't-- Aah. -This is a mama.
-What a giant. -Aaron, look.
It's as big as my leg.
Don't let go of her
until I get the zipper close to your hand.
Okay, ready? Ready?
-Go. -Ahh.
Oh, my God!
Yes!
This massive pregnant female,
only a couple of miles from homes and schools,
is a stark reminder of the threat to the community.
That thing's over 100 pounds.
Dude, that is thousands of babies out of the swamp.
Thousands.
This is one of the biggest snakes that I've ever seen
and definitely the thickest.
It is my personal best as far as weight all day long.
This thing is literally a death log.
You could tell by just how fat this thing is
that it has to be hunting nonstop to get that big.
And we gotta get this thing out of the swamp
and take that payday. [laughs]
We couldn't get any luckier.
31 miles west...
Hold on, Ri.
Always looking for something new,
Dusty is exploring a seldom visited corner of the Glades.
All right, Riley, keep your paws crossed.
We're fixing to get out of that deep cypress.
I normally don't venture out this far
'cause really I ain't got that much reliable stuff.
You know, I try to stay closer to camp.
This is thick, it's swampy, it's rugged.
[sniffs]
Riley, did you fart?
[barking]
I smelled that smell.
It's unmistakable, son.
That's a Skunk Ape.
I ain't never seen one personally,
but I've smelled 'em, and I smell this one.
Known as Bigfoot of the Swamp,
the Skunk Ape is a legendary creature
notorious for its foul smell.
Numerous encounters have been reported in the Everglades.
Man, freaked me out, son.
I still smell that crap.
It's like stuck in my nose, man. Augh!
Come on, Ri, let's go to work.
Dang, holy cow.
It's a frickin' boneyard.
That's multiple snakes.
The rib bones and vertebrae from pythons.
Something's been eating 'em, dragging 'em here.
I don't see a bear or cougar or panther doing this.
Come on, Ri, it's time to go.
These snakes have been brought here by something.
Maybe the old Skunk Ape's on our team now,
and he's decided he's gonna hunt snakes, too.
That's a win-win for the Glades, babe.
[Riley barks]
What you got, Ri?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Ri, it's under the water. You can't smell it.
Watch out, Ri.
[barking] Watch out, Ri.
Get back. Whoa!
Ah!
Watch it, Ri! Whoa!
I got it, Ri, I got it, Ri. Get back, Riley.
Aah!
[barking]
Hyah!
Got it, Ri! I got it, Ri!
Good girl, good girl. Caught snake.
Caught snake. Hey!
No, Daddy's got it, Ri.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
[barking]
Chill out, chill out, huh?
[barking]
That's a good girl.
[rustling]
Frickin' Skunk Ape.
Hey! Yo, yo, yo!
[Riley barks]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop!
Hey!
It's okay, it's okay.
Man, frickin' scared the crap out me.
I thought you was a Skunk Ape.
No, no. I'm just out here
looking for an ivory-billed woodpecker.
Hasn't been seen in Florida since 2005.
You're out here looking for a frickin' woodpecker?
You haven't seen anything like that around, have you?
No, man, I'm a snake hunter.
I hunt pythons.
Trying to get these pythons out of the Everglades.
They're killing all our native wildlife.
That's probably why
you don't see them birds you're looking for no more.
See them deer back there?
Yeah.
That's what we're trying to protect.
Those small deer,
a snake could easily eat them deer right there.
They're everywhere, bro.
Yeah, I bet.
I mean, that last snake I saw was a big one.
-Where did you see it? -Oh, I don't know.
It was back here probably a quarter to a half mile.
I saw two pythons.
Well, hey, let me pack up this camera,
and I'll show you right where they're at.
All right. I thought I was fixing to have to throw down
with this stinking Skunk Ape, man.
I get up there, it's some guy.
He's fluffing around,
chasing butterflies and birds and stuff, man.
He's watching the birds, he sees the snakes.
It makes sense to me
'cause them babies are getting ready to fly and stuff.
That snake is sitting right there like a greedy grabber,
just gobbling them up, son.
What is that thing? Some kind of microscope or something?
Yeah, it's a 600 millimeter lens.
Millimeter?
It's good for birds.
Hey, it can spot snakes maybe, huh?
You could spot a snake with this a mile away.
[laughs]
Let's go. Come on, Ri.
27 miles away,
after receiving a tip from a local Gladesman,
Troy and Pickle are in search of a remote honey hole
known as the Snake Pit.
Feel like we've been on this trail for hours.
I think I can start to see the top of the big trees over there.
Anybody local,
wherever you're hunting or fishing, you know,
you kind of want to rely on their opinion and trust them.
They know the area
and they can kind of point you in the right direction.
Said it was a mixture of cypress and pine,
and I see both.
I see big, big cypress and I see big pines.
That's it. I guarantee that's where he was talking about.
It's about time, huh?
Dude, my behind hurts from riding in this buggy.
Come on, old man.
I hope it's as good as he says, huh?
I guarantee this is gonna be a new area for us.
Looking at the size of them trees and how tall they are,
that means there's a big hill there.
So that's one of them hammocks that they were talking about.
That's one of them big, big hills.
And when the water's high, that's where the animals go.
That's where the snakes go.
Oh, look, what's that? What's that? What's that?
Oh, that's a snake! That's a snake, snake!
Ho, ho, ho! Watch it, watch it, Pee-wee.
Hurry up, he's getting away, he's getting away, hurry up.
Don't let him get in that dirty stuff.
Oh, my goodness.
-Oh. -Eew!
Ay-yi-yi!
Oh, no.
Get him, get him, get him.
You notice he keeps wanting to go in the same direction?
Yeah, we gotta get him away from this tree, though.
That's right where that island is.
That's why he wants to go there.
Ay-yi-yi! And we stopping him.
Look, as soon as we let him go, he wants to go that way.
You got it, Pee-wee. Oh!
That's what I'm talking about!
Don't let him go whatever you do.
-Ready? -Drop him. One, two three.
Okay. Yeah, he kept wanting to go in that direction.
Yeah, he's going straight to where--
That's where that big island is. All right.
Oh, look. Wait.
Look, look, look. They got another one right here.
-Not another one right here. -Over here, over here!
Whoa!
Watch him!
How you spotted that thing from way over there?
I saw the tail.
Pee-wee, look at the size.
This is the biggest one yet.
I think so. Oh, my God.
-Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi! -Aah!
We are on to something here, dude.
We gonna need more bags and-- Yeesh!
-Aah! -Oh!
Stretch him out, wear him out. Wear him out.
Don't-- Ooh!
Make sure you grab the head.
He's looking at me. He's focused on me.
Yeah, but he's up in the air.
Can I grab him like that?
Oh, yeah, you can.
-Aah! -All right, I'm gonna make--
There you go, that was your chance.
Aah! Pee-wee, what you waiting on?
Dude, what you mean what I'm waiting on? Look at this thing.
My grandma could've caught that tail.
Oh, God help me, please, Lord.
Oh, you got him, dude.
Whew. Ahh.
Thank you, man.
Oh, Lord have mercy.
-We in the right place. -Dude, I think so.
That old man was right.
The Snake Pit. That's what he called it.
We didn't even get to the Snake Pit yet.
No.
And we've seen 'em one after another.
No, I'm looking at the trees
and it's high right over there.
That's where all these snakes are headed,
so I think we're getting close.
Let's find our way back to the buggy.
And then once we get there,
we'll take us a little break, drink some water.
These sumbitches are heavy.
Whoo-hoo!
At a rock quarry further north,
after losing a python,
Bill and Tes have intensified their search.
Let's check these rocks right here.
Yeah, if it's anything like the other one.
We got into the rock quarry,
and right away within just a few minutes found a python.
And I'm starting realize, you know,
this man's got a problem,
and they're gonna have to shut their operation down
if we don't get these snakes out of there.
Bill, Bill, there's one here!
-Got one? -Yeah!
Oh, yeah.
He's right here, he's right here.
Don't let him get in the rocks.
He's all up in the water. Hold on.
Oh, yeah.
Hurry, hurry, hurry, Bill.
Don't let him bite you.
Watch it.
Man, what is he just doing out here?
-Aah! -Watch it.
He's looking right at you.
-You got a mean one. -Oh, yeah.
-This one's nasty. -Be careful over there.
Oh!
Get him, Bill.
Get him, Bill, get him, get him.
Got him.
Lookit, look, he's trying to get me.
Oh, yeah.
Bagging this python may make the quarry safer,
but where there's one, there's usually more.
I get it why the workers are scared about being out here.
These things popping out all over the place.
I know. They could be anywhere in these rocks.
This quarry happens to be
about 45 minutes north of the true Everglades,
and we have pythons that far north now.
In areas that you wouldn't even expect to find a python,
they're there.
Definitely want to keep working this area a bit more.
Could be endless how many are out here.
Meanwhile, after capturing a monster
close to suburban homes,
Zak and Aaron scour the area for more.
There's so many tracks out here.
We're gonna start working our way into the Everglades.
-Plenty of wildlife to beat. -Uh-huh.
And that's why they're pushing back towards the city.
That trail looks like it wraps around.
See if we can find a little open spot.
There's just so many game trails out here, dude.
Yeah. I'm standing on one myself,
and one, two-- two, three behind me.
The snakes are attracted to mammals,
and they're tasting the ground and tasting the air.
That's what they do with those tongues.
So wherever the mammals are going,
the snakes will be sure to follow.
Zak, I see one right here.
What's he look like? How big?
I don't know. I can't tell.
His tail just went in the bushes.
Get in there. Get in there, man.
Try to flush him out. I'm gonna go the other way.
Here we go, here we go.
Whoa. Come on.
In the Everglades near the border
of a South Florida suburb...
God, is this the one that you saw?
Probably is the one I saw.
Let's get her away from that.
Here we go.
Whoa! Whoa!
Whoa! Uh-uh!
You got her, you got her.
Heads up, dude.
Heads up!
Oh!
-Got her? -Yeah, I got her.
All right.
I got most of the meat of her, dude.
Don't get bit, dude.
Oh! Come on.
Grab it. Grab the-- Oh!
Grab it before she gets me!
Nice! Nice, dude.
Oh, she bit herself.
-You got it? -Better bite her than me, right?
Yeah, I guess.
Zak and Aaron's second capture
proves there's an established population
of monster pythons circling the community.
We're gonna keep our eyes peeled.
We're gonna keep searching.
The night's still young right now,
but it is getting dark really quickly.
Way to go, buddy.
Yeah, man. Good job.
Here, I'll lead the way.
Back at the rock quarry,
Bill and Tes decide to split up to cover more ground.
Boy, there's all kinds of caverns and caves
and stuff like that for them to hide.
Anything?
No, I'm not seeing anything here.
All right then, this is perfect for it.
Right here, right here.
-Bill? -Yeah, right there.
Bill, there's one right here.
Get him, get him.
I'll get this one.
-Okay, you're on that one? -Yup.
They're hard to get out of the rocks.
He's trying to get up in there.
Yeah, don't let him get in there.
Shoot, shoot.
-Is yours in the rocks? -Yeah.
He is now, but I'm getting him out.
-Got him. -You got him?
I got him out.
Oh!
I'm gonna try to catch him. I think I can.
Yeah.
Aah! Whew.
Bill.
Aah!
Man, I just barely got this one out of the rocks.
Ooh!
You want me to hold that tail?
I got him right now.
We gotta start catching them, though.
Watch out. Don't let him get you.
God, it's a different ballgame in these rocks, isn't it?
Watch him. Don't get in the corner.
-Uh-oh, watch it. -Shoot.
We've got our hands full right here.
Okay, I'm gonna try to keep him away from you.
Hurry up, Bill, he's coming towards me.
All right. All right, I got this one.
You want me to hold his tail?
-Don't fall off this rock. -Grab his tail, grab his tail.
Don't--
Lookit, He's coming right to you.
Don't let him get you.
All right, I'm gonna catch him.
All right, get him, get him up.
Look, he'll come right back at you.
-Got him. -Good job, girl.
Oh, my God, that's a big frickin' snake right there.
Todd's really got a problem out here.
You got him okay?
Yeah.
-He's gonna hug you. -Mm-hmm.
I can't say that we're fixing Todd's problem.
We're catching snakes right and left out here.
He's got a bigger issue than he realized.
It's not just the one,
and if they're breeding out here? Hmm, good luck.
We're scoring out here. Can you believe that?
This place is money.
40 miles south...
Oh, yeah, right in here.
Let me shut her down. [turns off engine]
Dusty follows a nature photographer
to a python hotspot.
If he says he's seen them
and he knows where he's seen them at, son,
that's valuable information to me, bud.
I saw one. Right there is where I came out of the woods.
Oh, man. There's one right at the base of that tree.
I think that's the one I saw.
-No, you gotta be kidding me. -He's right there.
He's right there at the base of that tree.
Dang it, son, we gotta go.
Come on, Ri!
Hold on, right here, right here, right here.
Couldn't have gone too far. Where's it at, Ri?
Let's go to work. Find that snake.
I swear it was right here.
Riley, Riley!
What's she got? What she got?
She's got it. She's got it.
Watch it, Ri.
Oh, watch it, son.
Good girl, Ri.
Watch it, Ri, watch it, Ri.
You get his attention.
I'm gonna go for the grab. Riley, watch it.
Hey, hey!
Hey, hey, he's on me!
-Keep his attention. -I know.
Aah!
Watch him, Ri.
Ri, get back, get back.
Get back, Ri.
Keep his attention.
I got it. Ready? Oh!
Ri, watch it.
-Aah! I got him, Ri. -Whoa!
-You got him! -Whoo!
I got him, baby. I got him.
Hey, I caught the snake, Ri.
That is a good snake dog.
You know, after watching you do that,
you think if I tried to catch one, I'd get bit?
I think you got it all day, buddy.
-You know what I mean. -Yes, sir.
Where did you say you seen the other one?
Well, just up from here, there's a little game trail
that kind of veers off to the left.
He was just there, sunning himself right out in the open.
Really?
Yeah, it was an easy one to spot.
Huh. You seen him in the distance with that microscope?
Yeah, I put the lens on him.
It was a python for sure. I saw his markings.
Dang, son. I gotta get one of them frickin' things.
48 miles away as the sun begins to set,
Troy and Pickle have bagged four pythons,
but have not reached the Snake Pit.
I think we are right on the outside of the Pit, huh?
Oh, yeah. Look at them big trees.
Look at the size of the trees.
Yeah.
We're losing daylight here,
and the Snake Pit's right in front of us.
And I know there's plenty more snakes in the area.
And it's just counting down the clock and watching the sun
and hopefully, we don't lose daylight
before we get a couple in the bag.
What I'm worried about is they in that, right in front of us.
You see that jungle?
Maybe we could split up and kinda go around it.
I'll go one way, you go another.
Of course, if we split, we can find more snakes, okay?
But I don't want you catching a snake by yourself.
So we're gonna talk back and forth.
Every once in a while, just give a little, hey,
whoo, whatever.
Holler at you.
I wanna be able to hear you at all times.
And if you don't hear me, don't keep walking, stop.
-I'm gonna go this way, okay? -Okay.
You go straight in front of us.
And I wanna be able to hear you all the time.
All right.
My God, this is a jungle in here.
Pee-wee!
Hey, can you hear me?
Yup, I can hear you.
Mr. Troy!
Man, I don't know if this was a good idea.
Oh, look, look, right here, right here.
Oh, my God.
Where's Troy when I need him?
Get out of there, come on.
Come on. There we go, there we go.
It's just you and me, you and me, buddy.
Mr. Troy!
This wasn't a great idea, was it?
I gotta get his tail.
Aah!
He's so mean.
Whew!
You big, scary trash basket.
It's my idea to split up,
and so I got it in my head that if I stumble upon a snake,
I have to get the whole job done by myself.
We're losing daylight.
I gotta go find him before I get lost back here.
Pee-wee!
Oh!
Oh-ho-ho, look at that.
Whoo!
Look at the size of this thing.
Oh, my God.
Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi!
Where in the hell is Pee-wee when I need her?
Ooh!
All right, all right. Now we in business.
Now we-- Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi!
I thought I was in business.
I'm getting too old for this.
Oh, my God.
[laughs]
Oh, thank you, Jesus.
This python is number six for the day,
but they need to make an important decision.
Pee-wee, where in the hell you been?
Dude.
What you got? You got one in your sack?
Yeah, I got one.
You caught one?
No wonder you wasn't answering me.
-A big one? -I was out of breath, dude.
-A big one? -A mean one.
Let me see. He's heavy?
Yeah, he's heavy.
This one, too.
Oh, yeah, two big snakes.
Okay, what you wanna do?
It's getting late. It's almost dark.
You wanna keep going
or you wanna turn around and go back?
Your call.
I don't know, man.
They got a lot of snakes in the area.
I think we should keep going.
Yes, we're losing daylight.
It's pretty much dark at this point.
I don't know where I'm at, but I got him with me,
and I have all the confidence in the world.
I'm willing to stick it out and make some money.
Pee-wee, this is the tip of the iceberg.
The Snake Pit is where it's at.
As darkness falls on the quarry,
Bill and Tes still need to check
several massive machines for snakes.
If this is where they found a snake before
in one of these machines, I'm opposed to it.
This place is a big, empty hole.
There's these mounds of rocks and debris and dirt,
other machinery out here.
And at night, you know, everything just looks big,
and there's structure.
Things could hide anywhere.
Hey, Bill, there's one right up here.
-Where? -Bill, it's up here.
I just saw its tail go over.
-Up in there? -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
He's up in here.
All right, hang on.
-Oh, man. -Hang on.
There is all sorts of, like, grating, grates up here.
Oh, yeah. Did he go down in there?
-Yeah, I don't even... -Oh, yeah.
It really could've gone anywhere.
I'm not quite sure.
There it is right there!
There's no way that this one up here made it over there.
That's gotta be a different one.
Let's get it.
Right here, Tes.
I'm gonna try and get his tail.
That's a good size one.
Eee! Oh!
No.
See if you can distract it.
Looks like he's got something in his belly, too.
You mean, this thing's eating good out here?
He ate something. I can see it right there.
See if you can distract him.
Yeah, he definitely has something in his belly.
-Oh! -Bill, watch it, watch it.
Oh, good job.
See if you can catch him.
All right, yeah.
Get him, get him, get him, get him.
Oh, yeah, that's a big snake.
That's a frickin' giant.
God, he's strong.
This catch removes another intruder from the quarry.
I'd hate to stumble across one of these by myself.
This snake had a big bulge in its belly,
so it's obviously eating out there.
It could've been anything, any kind of small mammal.
Maybe ate a cat or something.
We gotta find that other one.
I'm telling you, I saw him go down.
He's gotta be in this thing somewhere,
but I just have no idea where.
Further south,
Zak and Aaron hunt into the night
to take out the monster pythons encroaching on a suburb.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Could be anywhere here.
It's crazy how many snakes you can find right outside the city,
and I'm seeing more and more and more every single day.
Come on, man, that big one's gotta be around here somewhere.
It's gotta be.
Hey, Aaron, there's some grass moving by you.
There it is. I see it, I see it.
Dude, get it. It goes on forever, man.
Oh, that's a big girl. That's a breeder, man.
-Humongous. -Oh!
Watch it. This could easily take down a small child.
All day long, dude.
We're in the big time!
Whoa! Whoo!
She is pissed off right now.
Look how long that thing is, man.
Come back over here.
-Watch yourself now. -Oh!
Come on, come on. Come on.
Oh!
Whoa! Too close to that thing, man.
Whoa! Oh!
Careful, Zak.
-You got her. -Come on.
She's strong, man. Hey, I have the bag in my pocket.
See if you can get it out.
Oh, my God.
Look at the size of this one.
It's a monster.
Got it?
-Got the tail in there? -Yup. Let me get it.
Got it. Hold on. Oh, it's a heavy one.
Trying to wrap me up.
Come on. Come on, get her in there.
Come on. All right.
There you go, buddy. There you go, buddy.
-Got it? -Yeah.
-Ready? Oh! -Got it.
Look at that thing. Barely fits in the bag.
Dude, that's what I'm talking about.
That's what I'm saying.
We accomplished our mission,
and we made a lot of money tonight.
We got these snakes away from the city
and out of the Everglades at the same time.
The Everglades are getting overrun,
and this is one step away from the city.
It's just half the work, though.
Now we gotta carry this thing all the way back to the truck.
-That's the name of the game. -Yeah.
Let's get outta here.
35 miles north...
You ready for a treat tonight, boy.
-Oh, boy. -Dusty's invited his friend
to join him for a taste of the Everglades.
Man, I've never eaten python before,
but I'm willing to give it a try.
I tell you what, bud.
This is a delicacy down here in the swamp, bud.
Being way out here, you don't see many people, son,
so, you know, I kind of try to keep it that way.
But popping in to somebody every now and then,
that's a blessing, you know.
We get to hang out and share a meal together.
After a hard day of work, son, inviting him back to the camp
and try to put a little something in his stomach,
that's the right thing to do.
Right here, this is enough to eat on for a whole week.
I'm gonna give you a little taste of it, bud.
You're gonna be hooked.
I'll have to bring some home and put it in the freezer.
You know, these pythons,
they're really beautiful, magnificent creatures.
And they're thriving in this environment
and it's our job to remove them.
But it's my job to use every piece of it.
We'll use the leather, make wallets, purses, you know.
The bones we could use to make jewelry, earrings.
And to survive out here, you gotta utilize all that.
Let's go cook us some steaks.
Oh, man, I'm looking forward to this.
Oh, yeah, there we go.
Oh, man.
I tell you what, that ain't gonna take long.
Oh, it's already smelling good.
Oh, man, I'm starving.
Get that little piece right there.
If it tastes as good as it smells, we're in business.
Ooh. Tell you what.
Here, buddy.
Oh, smells so good.
Mmm. Way more flavor than I thought it would have.
I think it's really cool, though,
to have an outsider come into camp
and he gets to see how I live, you know.
'Cause It's a different world out here, son.
I'll grab another piece of that snake
faster than I will a live one, that's for sure.
[laughs]
Meanwhile, in the Snake Pit...
Ooh, it's like a jungle back here, Pee-wee.
Feel like we just been walking for hours.
We have been walking for hours.
I've never seen anything like this.
It's really like the Amazon jungle in here.
Feel like there's a tiger gonna jump out and get me any second.
You know where you at?
No, not really.
Everything kinda looks the same.
I just been paying attention to the moon.
That's the only way I know where we at.
Oh, Pee-wee, right here, right here!
You see one? You got one?
Yes, look at this thing.
Ooh, it's a big one, it's a big one.
Dude, it's huge. He's huge.
-Aah! -Oh, Lord have mercy.
Troy and Pickle are trying to nab one more monster
before calling it a night.
This is the biggest snake of the day.
-Aah! -Oh, pay attention.
Looking at me, grab the tail.
Ooh, yeah, but he's strong.
Oh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
Okay, let's hold it down. There you go.
There you go, there you go.
Give it here. Don't throw it down.
Give it to me instead.
-Aah! -Pass it on.
There you go.
-Aah! -Watch him, Pee-wee, watch him.
-Aah! -Ooh, Lord have mercy.
Aah!
Oh, Lord.
That's your chance right there.
He's hiding.
Oh, that's what I'm talking about!
-Whoo! -Hoo-hoo-hoo!
Good job, girl.
Whoo! Good job, good job.
Dude, when you grab ahold of these things...
Oh, you better be holding on.
They're one big muscle.
Yup. You better be holding on, Pee-wee.
This beast brings Troy and Pickle's haul
to eight serpents.
[laughs] Yeah, you're right, dude.
That's the biggest one of the day.
I'm pumped up because I feel like I made the right decision,
and we didn't hightail it out of here
like we probably should've.
At this point, we just looking to get out of the woods.
We got more bags of snakes that we left behind,
and we gonna pick them up on the way out
and get us back to the buggy and go on home.
Them other ones is about 200 yards this way.
Come on.
Through the Everglades we go.
[thunder]
Back at the quarry...
This land just goes on forever.
Can you imagine how many snakes are out here?
Considering how many we found today?
Oh, my God, it's crazy.
After capturing more pythons than they expected,
Bill and Tes are doing a last walk-through.
I'm blown away at how many are out here.
There's endless spots for these snakes to hide,
and I think they've got a bigger problem on their hands
than they realize.
There's one right here.
-Right here, Tes. -Okay.
Right here.
Oh.
Get him out of those rocks.
Hold on.
All he wants is to get back in there.
Aah! [laughs]
Good jump.
[laughs] I'm not liking this.
Back to me, oh-ho, striking.
Here you go. Here.
Do you wanna catch him or do you want me to?
I got his tail if you can grab him.
He's looking my direction anyways.
All right, let me come around.
I won't let him get you. Okay.
-Bill? Bill? [laughs nervously] -Watch it now.
Yeah. I got him.
-Look. -Oh, man.
-He's trying to eat me up. -Yes.
What do you think about bagging him
and getting out of here?
You think? I'm ready. I'm done.
We've had so many, my light's dying,
I don't feel like getting trapped out here without.
Yeah, let's get him in the bag, get him out of here.
With a haul of seven pythons worth over $1,800,
Bill and Tes are ready to call it a day.
It's been a long day of hunting,
and we've been a bit more successful out here
than we were thinking we might be.
I mean, I think if we stayed out here longer,
there probably would've been more.
Who's coming?
Oh, that's probably Mr. Todd coming to check on us.
-Perfect timing. -Yeah.
We are outta here.
Oh, my gosh, yeah, I'm wore out.
Just in time.
We got a present for you.
Ha ha! How did y'all make out this evening?
Oh, God. We've been tearing it up.
Look at this. You got this on your property.
-Well, you had a lot more. -We got a pile of them.
We've got quite a few in the truck.
Well, I tell you what.
Including myself and all the fine people that work out here,
we're very grateful that y'all came out and took care of this.
Nobody wants to encounter one of those bad boys
first thing in the morning.
Getting on a machine and checking it out
and being faced with that is terrifying.
Yeah, yeah, and you got a bigger problem
than what you think,
because we pulled a lot of snakes out of here.
-Yes, sir. -It's bad.
They're all up in rocks.
And when we think we can get them,
they tuck in there so you've got them out here.
I reassured Mr. Todd that's probably not the last of it,
because this big rock quarry
is surrounded by woods all around it,
so he's got a mess on his hands.
Y'all are welcome to come back any time you want.
If you see one, give us a holler and we'll come back.
We're loading and going right now.
-We're wore out. -Okay, buddy.
I really appreciate y'all coming out.
Thank y'all, very much.
Thanks for calling us.
Let's go.
I'm tired.