As the season rolls on...
This place is covered in snakes.
...the pythons are at their strongest.
Aah!
But bolstered by recent victories...
Off to the Mad Woman Woods, son.
the hunters advance into new territories...
So much stuff just waiting to chew you up.
...and set ambitious goals.
I gotta get seven snakes.
But they're about to learn the hard way
the serpents can strike any time...
Aah!
-Anywhere... -Oh!
-Anyone. -Aah!
Oh, my God, look at this thing!
On the outskirts of the Everglades...
Oh, look. They have the cutest little camps back here.
Oh, yeah, look how nice, huh?
King of the Swamp Troy Landry and his partner Pickle Wheat
are responding to a call from a friend.
What you say, old buddy?
-Hey, Mr. John. -Hey, what's up, guys?
Made it out here, huh?
Oh, we made it, old buddy.
I'm glad you could make it.
How you been, Mr. John? It's good to see you.
Ah, I'm doing okay, not great.
Got some issues need to talk to you guys about,
maybe you could help me with.
Came out about three days ago.
What?
I can't find my dog Ranger.
-Oh, no. -Ranger?
Yeah, he run off and haven't seen him for about three days.
I'm worried about dealing with the snakes and stuff.
Where you see him last? Right here?
Last time I seen him, he was running off that way.
-Chasing something? -I don't know.
He just took off after something and he hasn't been back.
You don't have a tracking collar on him or nothing like that?
Nothing.
How long he been gone?
-About almost three days. -Oh, Lord.
I've lost some for a few days and they showed back up.
But what's bad about here, you're in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah.
I think he'd have been back by now.
Ranger, his dog,
he's never trained it to hunt. It's a camp dog.
He brings it with him just to hang out
and have a buddy with him.
Mr. John is worried
that he thinks a snake might've gotten it.
Because in the last two, three months,
they've killed a couple of big snakes by his camp.
One of them I think was around 14 or 15 feet long.
And that could eat a dog in a heartbeat.
Oh, dude, that's a killing machine.
A mature Burmese python
can go up to four months without eating,
but when they do,
they're capable of consuming large mammals
such as pigs, deer, and dogs.
-We're gonna do our best. -Okay. I appreciate it.
And if we come across a snake
that looks like he ate something big,
-we'll know what it is. -Thank you.
All right, I appreciate it. I hope not.
I hope he comes running up to your buggy.
Ah! This just breaks my heart.
It's a sad thing, you know. Your dogs are like your friends
or, you know, your best pal,
and you get closer to your dogs than I find most people.
If we find something, we gonna let you know.
Okay, thank you for your help.
Hopefully we calling you soon.
Okay, we'll catch you later. Thank you.
-Well, now we got a dog to find. -Yup.
We're gonna hunt a little closer to Mr. John's camp
than we were planning on.
We're gonna try to look for snakes and look for his dog.
Poor Mr. John. You can see his heart's broken.
I think he's still running around out here somewhere.
I don't know.
Pee-wee, Pee-wee, Pee-wee, look, look, look, look!
Right here, right here, right here!
Watch him. Watch him.
Watch him, Pee-wee.
-Ooh. -Ooh-hoo!
This thing is nasty.
-Huh! -Whoo!
-Huh! -Ah-ah-ah-ah.
-[laughs] -Whew!
Be careful, Pee-wee.
Get his attention, I'll grab the tail.
Here, look at me.
-Look at me. Look at me. -There you go.
Grab the tail, grab the tail. Get it.
Get it!
Got him.
Aah!
Damn. Grab him. Grab him.
Now's your chance. Grab him.
Give me the tail, give me the tail.
Okay, that's your chance, P.
Grab him.
Whoo! That's what I'm talking about.
-Hey,you old feisty thing. -Good job, good job.
-Goodness. -Good job. You got him?
-You got him? -Oh, he's strong. Yeah.
That definitely ain't, uh, eating Ranger.
No, no, no, no. He didn't eat nothin' lately.
He's skinny, but he's gonna grow into
a 15- or 16-footer if we don't get him out of here.
One, two, three.
-Whew. -[laughs]
We gonna hunt some more snakes around here till late tonight,
and if we find one that's got a big swole belly,
I'm gonna be very upset.
I'm hoping we can catch something
like Mr. John was showing us in the pictures, you know?
-Those big ones. -Yeah, them big, big ones.
If Ranger's gone, that's most probably what got him,
a big one.
35 miles away...
Bill and Tes have a hunch
this new location will have plenty of pythons.
This is the area that I wanna check out.
There was a fire about two years ago,
like a raging brush fire from a lightning strike.
Dang.
A lightning storm will do this?
Oh, yeah.
See how there's all that regrowth,
real low, that green that's coming in?
It all comes back eventually,
and that just creates habitat
for raccoons and rabbits and possums
and all kinds of small mammals.
Which, when you have that,
then you have food for the pythons.
Most people think of Florida as being a swamp or underwater
and don't even think about wildfires.
The Everglades are especially susceptible to wildfires
during the dry season.
As destructive as wildfires can be,
they are a necessary part
of the natural lifecycle in the region.
Deer tracks right here.
See the wildlife's already back.
What's all this?
Fire line where the dozers come in
and push all this brush out of the way to contain the fire.
We're gonna have to catch
at least eight or 10 pythons today.
You could see how this is a new habitat
for all little, small critters.
Yeah, yeah. If we gotta chase a snake in here...
Yeah, you just can't go running
frickin' willy-nilly through here.
You'll be on your ass.
There's so much stuff just waiting to chew you up.
This stuff is thick and it is hard to walk through.
If the snake's not right in front of us,
I don't see how we're gonna see something.
If we have to chase a snake, we're gonna be in trouble.
Just be careful.
24 miles away...
Whoo-hoo!
[laughs]
Dusty embarks on a highly ambitious mission.
Got this sucker running just in time, boy,
'cause this is some tight trails.
I need the four-wheel drive.
Little bit of water,
you ain't never gonna make it back in there.
So today we're fixing to hit up the Mad Woman Woods, son.
We've had a drought this year, you know.
It's drier than usual.
So it's a good opportunity to get in and get out.
If it was full rainy season,
I don't think any of my buggies would be able to make it there.
It's a long, long way to get in there.
I gotta get seven snakes to make it worth my while.
The legend is that old boy moved his girl from Naples out here,
you know, a city girl,
and they ended up raising a couple kids.
And it's a hard life out here, you know,
and it got too much for her
and she just kind of went frickin' crazy, you know.
And she left and nobody ever seen her again.
The legend is the old man goes out to the woods
and he can still hear her hollering for him.
I mean, I kind of feel bad for the old mad woman, too, son.
I mean, old boy took her way out in the woods.
It's a tough life, you know, and...
guess I'd be mad, too.
Meanwhile...
See anything over there?
No. Believe me, you'll know.
Zak and Bruce navigate their way to an abandoned boatyard.
This is one of the best spots to hunt snakes,
right in the middle of the snake territory.
I've never been able to hunt in it
because this spot Bruce and I are gonna go today
is so far back and remote.
It's gonna take a lot of time just to get back there.
As they try to ramp up their captures,
the hunters have set an aggressive goal.
If we're gonna spend all this time getting there,
we're gonna need to come out with at least eight pythons.
Okay.
Oh, golly, wait, whoa, whoa.
-Whoa! -Are you all right?
You got a snake? What's up?
No, no, it ain't a snake. I pulled something.
What do you mean, you pulled something?
In the back of my leg right here.
-You hurt yourself? -Yeah.
Right here in the back. I don't know what it is.
Damn.
When you can't see the cypress knees or holes
or nothin' back here,
because these ferns are so thick...
And, sure enough, I stepped over one
and stepped in a little hole
and I pulled something in my leg.
I don't know what this is. It hurts like fire.
I can't hardly walk.
Every time I take a step, it hurts.
Ooh, golly.
When I put my toes down and bend my leg, I feel it.
Let's just go, man, just go.
-Can you still walk? -Yeah.
I'm gonna be good.
-You sure? -Yeah.
We got a long way to go, man.
You sure you don't wanna just head back?
No, I ain't going back. You know that. Oh!
-Dude, be careful, please. -I'm all right.
I'm gonna be all right, I'm telling you.
You're stubborn, man.
I'm good. I'm just walking slow.
All right, let me get ahead of you at least.
Come on.
Bruce, there's one right here!
Ooh, golly!
Under this log where I'm standing right now.
I can see him.
I don't.
Straight underneath me, man.
I'm gonna get behind. I'm gonna get behind him.
Whoa! He almost got me.
Yeah, I saw that.
Stay right there. I can grab him.
Ready? Got him, got him, got him.
He's pissed, he's pissed, he's pissed!
Whoa!
Be careful. Don't hurt yourself, man.
Too late for that.
-Whoa! Aah! -Watch it, watch it, Zak!
Watch it.
-Damn it. -I know, he's pissed off.
Aah!
Don't let him get you. Whoa!
-He's coming back your way. -Whoa!
I let him go.
Be careful, man.
Zak, get it, get it, get it, get it.
-I got him, I got him. -Oh!
Man, I can't hardly back up with this leg.
This son of a gun's crazy. Get him.
Oh!
Aah! I got him. Whoa!
Right now, that's all you.
Grab him, grab him.
He's right there for you.
Grab him if you can.
He's right there on the log. Grab him, grab him.
You okay?
No, he's tightening on me.
-Hold on. -Oh, no.
Get him off my arm. Hurry.
I'm getting the bag. I'm getting the bag.
He's pulling me.
He's gonna pull his head through.
Come on, man, get him off of me.
You know I don't like that.
Grab his tail. Grab his tail with the other hand.
He's trying to bite me.
I can't get him on my own.
Ooh, watch his head.
One, two, three, let go.
Whew, dude.
Dude, that son of a gun was mean, wasn't he?
This nine-footer is a good start,
but to reach their ambitious goal,
Bruce will need to fight through the pain.
Ooh, golly. Oh.
-How's that leg feeling? -It hurts.
I mean, usually when you're gonna get hurt,
you don't get hurt sitting on your couch.
So this is where you get hurt,
out in the middle of nowhere, you know,
and this is where I'm hurt.
Gotta deal with it, just keep going.
Tie him up over on that vine right there.
Let's keep pushing.
No matter what, I can't stay back here.
And we over halfway through now,
so I wanna push my way all the way to the other side,
see what we got.
I'm gonna keep on walking.
Are you sure you wanna do that?
Yup. We got to.
Ooh, it's pulling good now.
Damn.
I've been hurt a lot worse than this.
I'm gonna be all right.
27 miles west...
This is a real well-defined snake trail here, Pee-wee.
Troy and Pickle search snake country
for signs of Mr. John's lost dog Ranger.
Look. There's puppy tracks.
The trail's huge.
Oh, look. He's going into the water.
The dog tracks is going into the water. Look right there.
-With the snake trail. -With the snake trail, yeah.
For like two or three days now,
Ranger has been running around out here in the Glades.
Now, there's panthers and there's snakes
and there's all kind of things in Florida
that could've possibly gotten the dog.
Hmm. I don't see where he went from here.
Looks like the dog would've disappeared unless he went back.
I don't see the tracks going back.
The snake trail continues, but I don't see no dog tracks.
I'm gonna go look a bit further.
Now, we could've lost the tracks in this water.
-Oh, look! Back here! -What? What?
A snake, a snake, a snake!
Oh, my God.
Oh, look at the size of this thing.
-Back him up, Pee-wee. -Watch him, watch him.
Back him up, back him up. Don't let him go--
Ay-yi-yi! Aah!
-Aah! -Aah!
Oh, watch it, watch it, watch it.
Son of a bitch.
Okay, P, grab the tail.
Grab the tail.
Hand it off to me
so you can get out of that deep spot.
-Uh! Hey! -Watch it!
Whew.
Damn! Uhh...
-Son of a--watch it! -Aah!
Ooh!
This snake is unreal.
They in the water like that, man, they get--
I think they faster in the water.
Go that way.
-She's trying-- -Oh! Ay-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi-yi.
Come on, Mr. Troy, get him.
Watch it, watch the head, watch the head.
Pee-wee! Oh, I need a half hour break
after catching this thing, huh?
This vicious nine-footer is a good catch,
but it doesn't offer any clues about what happened to Ranger.
She's mean, but I definitely don't think
this is the one that got Mr. John's dog.
Oh, no. This thing didn't eat a dog.
It didn't eat nothin' it look like in a few days.
I'm really disappointed we haven't found Ranger yet,
but I still think that he's out here.
We got a little bit of time left.
I just... I don't wanna be the one
to have to tell Mr. John that we didn't find his dog.
I thought that one was gonna get away to be honest with you.
Yeah, I thought so, too.
Let's go back out this way.
-Whew! -We got her.
In the meantime...
It's a shame that fire killed all these trees.
They're beautiful trees.
Bill and Tes explore an area
they suspect may be infested with pythons.
Look at them right there.
They're just hopping.
They're coming back in here.
That's a good sign.
They hope to bag eight serpents,
but so far, finding them has proven difficult.
It's a little bit of a workout through that stuff.
It's no joke.
I don't know how we would've caught a snake
if we came across one.
Well, after we trekked through the deadfall
and all this thick vegetation,
we finally came up with the decision
let's hunt in, uh, cover that's a lot thinner than this.
This is more like it.
A little more open.
Yeah, a lot easier walking.
Right here!
-You see one? -Watch out.
Oh, yeah.
Aah! [laughs]
I got his tail.
Watch it, watch it.
Be careful, Tes.
This thing is just trying to get away.
That's a biter.
-Oh! -Whoa!
-Did he get you? -No. No, no.
-Watch out. Aah! -Aah!
No, don't you bite me.
-Oh! -Look how fast that thing is.
Aah!
Bill, you got it?
I got it.
Aah!
Be careful.
Oh, don't bite me.
Catch him, Tes.
Hold him there, hold him there.
-Aah! -Be careful.
Get him. Catch him!
Hurry up, Tes, catch him.
Good job.
-Ahh! -Oh, man.
Moving to an area with new growth
was the perfect call to nab this big breeder.
Coming across this first snake
is absolutely the most rewarding feeling.
-You have a good eye, though. -Yeah.
Let's get to the boat right here.
Yeah, don't worry. I got this.
All right.
Just gonna lose my leg in the process.
23 miles northwest...
Here it is, son, the Mad Woman Woods.
I've been traveling all day to get in here.
We ain't got much time left, son.
After a grueling four-hour trek,
Dusty arrives at his destination
with the goal of catching seven pythons.
That orange ball's just sinking fast.
I got about a few hours here.
I need to catch seven or eight snakes
to make this thing worth it.
Yeah, you know, it's got an odd feeling back here.
I kind of feel what the old boy was going through
when the old lady was mad at him.
You know what I'm saying?
Man, this place is getting tight in here, boy.
Ooh, ooh, ooh, there it is, there it is.
See it?
Yeah! Aah!
Dang it! Dang!
[bleep]!
Where'd it go? It was just right here.
Dang it.
Oh!
I can still smell him.
Mm.
You know, it's so frustrating, you know.
You see a snake.
That's the hardest part of snake hunting
is finding them, you know.
I saw one.
By the time I got down off the buggy, son,
it slipped away, it was gone.
That sucker found a hole or something.
Oh! Could be anywhere.
Aah.
I can't spend all night looking for one frickin' snake.
I gotta keep moving.
This missed python means that Dusty has no captures
and only a few hours left to hunt in the Mad Woman Woods.
Aah! Dang it!
30 miles away...
Oh!
You sure you're gonna be okay?
Yeah.
Zak and Bruce look for an abandoned boatyard
infested with pythons,
but Bruce's injury is slowing them down.
Maybe there's somewhere you can rest for a little bit
while I check it out.
No, I'm with you.
I pulled a muscle in the back of my calf.
It hurts when you're walking,
but, you know, you just gotta tough it out sometimes
and keep going.
Aah!
-Wow, dude. -Wow.
Yeah, we're here, Brucie.
All right, man, they got some junk in here, huh?
-Make me feel at home. -[laughs]
Nothing.
-Dang. -Come on,
-let's keep on going. -Look at all of this junk.
There's gotta be something back here.
Man, this is some old stuff, huh?
Yeah.
Man, be careful climbing up on all that old mess.
Yeah, look at all this sharp junk.
I know.
There's so much garbage back here, man.
It's a good place for a snake to hide, though.
I don't know. You seeing anything?
Not yet.
Be careful under there.
Hey, Brucie, here's one!
There's one at the back of this boat, man.
Hang on, I'm coming.
Gonna take me a minute.
Yeah, he's right here.
Whoa, whoa, he's way over here. Damn.
I'm not letting go of his tail.
Let it go. I've got his body.
-You sure? -Yeah.
Whoa!
-All right, I'm coming. -Hurry.
He's going back the other way.
Get him. I got his tail.
-I have nowhere to go, Bruce. -I know. Be careful.
-Damn, what's he tangled around? -I don't know.
I'm fixing to let it go if it comes at me.
Do not let it go. Don't let it go.
You better catch him then.
Oh, he doesn't like that, Bruce.
I don't know what to do.
If you hold on to him, I might be able to get around him.
Stay right there. Hold on.
Hurry. Hurry.
Oh, crap.
This ain't working, this ain't working.
Now he's going down.
Zak, Zak, I lost him. He's under the boat!
Where you at, Zak?
Aah. Aah!
He's going towards you.
No, I got-- I see him.
-Grab him. -Aah! Aah!
Be careful.
Can I get back there?
-You got him? -Yeah, I got him.
Oh, dude, that's a big snake.
Oh, golly.
He came right to me.
I'm glad you was able to get under that boat.
Two, three, go. Got him.
-You got it? -Yeah, I got it, dude.
How's your leg feeling?
It hurts, but we all right.
Keep pushing, that's all I know.
With only two bagged pythons,
Bruce and Zak have a long way to go
before they reach their goal of eight snakes.
Whoo!
I have a good feeling about this place.
Yeah.
This is just a honey hole and a half,
and it's almost like a snake trap, to be honest.
Probably a lot of them down here, dude.
We need to keep searching.
I know.
Further west,
Bill and Tes have captured three Burmese pythons.
Try this area up here.
Okay. It works for me.
Look at this.
What is that?
Looks like a cat. See it?
See those toes right there and the pad?
You sure?
It looks like it to me.
They're out here.
-Did it swim across? -I don't know.
He may have come down from up there,
got a drink, and went out through this low spot.
There's panthers out here, right?
-Yeah, looks like it. -Hmm.
We're about to go in the same direction of it?
-Well, maybe we'll see it. -Oh, great.
This thing was obviously in or around the water.
Maybe it swam across.
Maybe it was walking the shoreline,
and that's where it decided to go up.
But this is a good size footprint.
I like this, a little more open.
I mean, kind of.
It is more open tree-wise, but...
At least we're not climbing over all that deadfall.
That was a little dangerous. I won't lie.
Right there, Tes, right here. Come here.
Snake, snake.
Watch out.
-Holy crap. -Watch him.
Look at him.
Hold on. His eyes are all black.
Be careful. He's blind.
Don't let him just snap at us.
I got him.
-Oh! -Whoa, watch out.
Man, this is a tight area in here.
I know, be careful.
Watch out, Tes.
-Uh! -Whoa. Oh!
-Watch it. -God, you see him come at me?
Be careful.
Watch him.
In a scorched pocket of the western Glades...
Watch out.
Watch him, Tes.
He's watching you.
-Oh! -Oh, gosh.
You got his tail?
-Mm-hmm. -Okay.
-Watch it. -Oh! Aah!
Oh, watch out.
-Oh! -Oh, God, he got your shoe.
Watch out, I got him. Oh!
Look out. God, he got my shirt.
Get him, get him, get him.
Oh, my God.
This feisty eight-footer takes them halfway to their goal.
-Ready? -Yeah.
We're finding them,
and it leads me to believe that there's more out here.
We're just not seeing them because it's so thick in here.
Good job, man. He almost got you.
Almost, but he was too slow.
And you were so quick.
-Like a ninja. -Here's your prize.
Thank you.
I think we need to go back to the boat
and move up the canal a little bit.
Well, you know I'm on onboard.
13 miles away...
Look at this trail, Pee-wee.
Looks like it's getting fresher and fresher.
Troy and Pickle
continue searching for Mr. John's lost dog.
Everywheres they got a little bit of water or mud,
you can see the slide.
Uh-huh, trails everywhere.
We've been looking for him all day
along with catching all of these pythons,
and I haven't seen a snake yet
that could've eaten a dog, you know.
We found a couple of dog tracks in the mud
that led up with the snake trail and then the tracks disappeared.
I'm not really sure what happened there.
That's got me a little down, but we're still out here
and we're looking and hopefully he turns up soon.
Oh, look, right here, right here, right here.
-Snake, snake, snake! -Oh, [bleep].
Oh, my God, look at this thing.
Whoa, watch it, he's coming after you.
-Pee-wee. -Aah!
Whoo, that's a big one. Oh, my God.
Don't let this thing get close to you.
Oh, [bleep].
Look at him. He's like a cobra.
I got his attention. Grab the tail.
That's your chance. Watch him, Pee-wee.
Whoa! Got him?
Hurry up, give him to me. Damn.
Oh, man, she pooped all on me.
Yeah, got me, too. I'm full of crap.
Aah! Man, them big ones can reach so far.
Watch him, watch him, watch him.
Watch him, Pee-wee, watch him.
Now he's looking at me over here.
Aah! Ay-yi-yi!
Whoo!
[laughs]
Good job, Pee-wee. That's a big snake.
This is almost as big
as what Mr. John and all killed at his camp.
All them pictures they got, yeah, she looks very similar.
This monster is certainly big enough to take down a dog.
Oh, yeah.
-Ready? -Ready.
-One, two, three. -Three!
Whoo-hoo-hoo!
Well, I got good news and I got bad news.
Mm-hmm. Good news is we caught a lot of snakes today.
We caught a lot of snakes, that's right.
That's the good news.
Bad news, no Ranger.
I had all the faith in the world that he was still out here.
And, P, he could be out here, but, man, I don't know.
I think we gonna turn in for tonight.
And first thing in the morning,
we gonna go to Mr. John and, uh, tell him the bad news.
We never could find his dog.
We didn't find a snake that ate his dog,
but we didn't find his dog neither, so it's not good.
This thing is heavy. [laughs]
You want me to carry it?
Oh, no, I got it.
-You got it? -I got it.
Right this way.
[thunder] As a storm approaches...
-Weather's coming in, Brucie. -Yeah, I know.
It's starting to rain pretty good, man.
Bruce and Zak have captured six of the eight pythons
they're looking to bag in this area.
This place is covered in snakes.
We found a good amount,
but I still think there's tons of snakes left over.
I'm trying my best to climb up and over stuff
and really check the spots that Bruce can't reach.
I mean, with his bum leg,
I'm surprised he can even walk this far.
He was really complaining about it.
You're a trouper, man.
Ain't no quit. Gotta keep going, dude.
[groans] My leg, it's slowing me down a little bit,
but we gonna manage it.
We gonna keep on pushing through, see what happens.
There's so much junk out here, man.
Need a boat seat?
That's not gonna help us.
[Bruce groans]
-Zak, is that a snake? -Oh, look who's down there.
Yes, it is.
Whoo.
There's nowhere for him to escape, dude.
We gotta roll it off of here somehow or another.
On the count of three, ready?
Oh, golly, it's heavy.
One, two, three.
Oh, yeah, that's a solid one.
I'll get him.
Ooh, he's pissed off, too, man.
Come on, give me that tail, give me that tail.
Grab it.
Grab it, grab it, go! Got it, got it, got it, got it.
-You got it? -Yeah, I got it.
Watch out, he's going back this way.
Coming your way.
Heads up.
Heads up. Watch out, Bruce!
-Whoa! -Oh, he got you.
No, he almost got me.
Whoa!
This thing's fired up.
Aah! Grab him.
Grab him right now. He's right here.
Grab him. Grab him, Bruce.
Got him.
[laughs] Whoo!
Got your sack? Whoo!
-Got yours. -Okay.
We're just gonna grab this guy and get outta here.
Come on.
Oh, that's a nice one. Come on.
As the rain falls...
-Got it? -Yeah.
Bruce and Zak pack it in with seven pythons.
But even though they're one short of their goal,
they've stumbled upon a serpent goldmine.
Seven snakes tonight. Good little honey hole.
Now that we know where it's at, we're coming back.
Tell you what, I think we're gonna be out of here
just in time if we start heading home right now.
Yeah, grab your flashlight.
Want me to carry him or you got it?
No, I got him. You just focus on walking.
-You all right? -Yeah, I'm good.
-Let's get it. -All right, come on.
[thunder]
Back in the Mad Woman Woods,
Dusty is still looking for his first python,
but he's running out of time.
You know, I've been running around
like a frickin' chicken with my head cut off.
Here, there. You know, so frustrating.
Snaking ain't easy, son, you know what I mean?
I don't know how much more of this I got in me, son.
Dang sure looks like a good spot for one.
Dude, dude, dude, right there, right there.
Hold on.
Watch it, boy.
Whoa!
God.
I got you, boy.
The boy is pissed.
Look at that. Come here, boy.
Whoo-hoo.
Mad Woman Woods, boy.
From the wood to the hood, huh?
Ooh! He is mad as that woman is.
Holy cow.
Did she teach you a thing or two about being mad in these woods?
Aah!
Uhh! Give me a shot.
Ooh, here it is, here it is, here it is.
Waah, gotcha!
Whoo! Son.
Dusty's first capture of the day
will also be his last
because it's a long journey home,
a reminder there are no guarantees
when it comes to hunting pythons.
Ohh, that's it, baby.
I'm frickin' worn out, son, but you know what?
Every snake that we take out of this ecosystem right here
gives me that kind of sense
of trying to help save the world in a small part.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Let's go, get outta here.
To the west...
Just pop up, up here?
Yup, right there is good.
Bill and Tes are looking for their eighth python.
Oh, my God, watch out for these stumps in here.
-Ooh. -Watch that tree.
Man, there are just busted-down trees everywhere.
Yeah, this is not easy to maneuver.
This type of terrain makes it extra difficult
to hunt these pythons in any time of day.
At night, it's extra hard.
We really got ourselves in one this time.
Ooh.
-You all right? -Yeah.
Right here, Tes, come here.
Look, it's going in the water. Oh, watch that hole.
Watch it, Bill, watch it.
-I got him. -You got him?
Yeah, don't step in that freaking hole.
Watch out.
Aah!
Oh!
Yeah, that's a deep hole right there.
Don't let him frickin' bite you.
-God, what is over here? -I don't know.
This is like sinking sand.
-It's like quicksand. -It's coming right for me.
Don't let him get you.
-Get your leg out of there. -I can't!
Hurry up, hurry up, he's gonna bite me.
That thing just swallowed me whole.
All right, he was going to that water.
-Aah! -Be careful.
Aah! Oh!
-It's hard to move in this mud. -Sure is.
I think he saw us coming
and he started going right for this water.
Oh!
Watch him, Tes, be careful.
Don't let him get you.
Ah!
Don't fall in that hole again.
God, this is a deathtrap in here.
-You got him, Bill? -Yeah. We just gotta calm down.
He's squeezing. Be careful.
Oh!
Watch out, Tes.
God, he's getting out of my hand.
Shoot.
Oh!
Get him, Tes.
Oh, good job, girl.
Oh, my God.
Whew. Was that crazy or what?
Look at these freakin' holes. How deep is that?
You can't tell. It took my entire leg.
-Here, let me get this. -You got it?
-Okay. -God.
He was all over you.
With eight pythons worth $1,700,
the hunters call it a day
knowing they've discovered a brand-new python hotspot.
I'm ready to get outta here.
I've been ready to get outta here.
Well, I'm all about going to new locations
and checking things out.
You know, we've worked hard,
and you're walking all over deadfall,
getting dirt and ash all over you.
But it was a productive day.
-You got it? -Yup.
As the sun rises over the Everglades...
I really thought we were gonna find him.
Troy and Pickle return to Mr. John's camp.
You tell him. I'm not telling him.
I don't wanna tell him. You tell him.
Okay. I'll break him the bad news.
That poor puppy.
It's disheartening, you know?
We were out here hunting all night
and we didn't see any signs of him.
We saw a couple of dog tracks,
but, I mean, it could've been anything, you know.
It could've been somebody else's dog.
As far as we know, he's gone for now.
Hey, old buddy.
[dog barks]
-[gasps] Ranger! -Look who came back.
What the hell?
Yeah, he come back this morning.
-Hey, roll over. -Hey!
Ranger, say hi.
-Ranger, where you been? -Yeah, came back this morning.
Aw...
Yup, not beat up, not eaten, not anything.
-Dude. -Where were you?
I don't know what he was doing, but he had a good time, I guess.
He could smell your breakfast, huh?
I guess. Maybe that's what brought him back.
I don't know, the bacon and eggs, you know.
He got hungry. He got hungry.
Maybe that's what brought him back.
We stayed out till almost 1:00 this morning looking for him.
Oh, my goodness. I appreciate that.
We didn't find Ranger,
but we found a big snake.
Probably would've been a snack for him if it was that big.
But he didn't.
Oh-oh.
Oh, what a relief that was.
It was a happy ending.
It felt awesome.
I mean, it was the best feeling in the world.
-Take care, old buddy. -All right.
Thank you for all your effort. I appreciate everything.
I'm glad it turned out the way it did.
Me, too. You guys be safe.
It's a happy ending.
Happy ending. Thanks again.
Keep him close, Mr. John, keep him close.
Bye-bye. We will.
He'll be right here, right in my lap.
I'm excited because he was like my dog
while I was looking for him, you know.
And I see Mr. John. He looks happy.
I'm happy, relieved because Ranger's back, y'all.
Told ya.
Told me what?
That he was still out here.
Oh, yeah.