As python season slithers to a close...
-Tes! -Okay, I'm coming, I'm coming!
Ay yi yi!
Hunters wage war against a relentless enemy...
-Whoa! -Come on.
As they call in reinforcements...
You got it. Go, come on, go. Where's it at?
-Is this your friend? -That ain't my friend.
Combat hidden foes...
-The snakes are gone? -Yeah.
Are you serious?
And battle the biggest beasts yet...
Grab him, grab him, grab him, grab him, grab him!
To win back the Everglades.
Come on!
I can barely lift her up.
-Grab it, Aaron. -Oh!
In the western Glades...
Major water source right here.
Got to drink to survive.
Desperate to break through a dry spell
as python hunting season enters its final stretch,
Zak and Aaron are betting it all
on a tip from an excavation crew.
You heard this was a good area?
I mean, they said they found a couple of pythons.
I believe it. Look at it.
I heard about this brand new canal that
was dredged recently; they've been spotting snakes
around it as they've been dredging it, so...
Aaron and I are gonna head back there
and get on it as fast as possible.
This is a brand new spot and a great opportunity
to find bigger snakes.
They said they were seeing them by the canal.
Looks like a good area.
Whenever they dug these canals, they had to put the dirt
somewhere. They bunched it up on the sides,
and vegetation has grown on those areas,
and now it harbors animals there.
It's a perfect hiding place for pythons.
I'm sure some of the python holes probably got dug up, too,
so maybe the mothers got pushed out of their nests,
you know, those big females.
We as a team need to feel a huge sense of urgency.
These big breeding female pythons,
they're about to lay eggs, we're gonna make
something happen as fast as we possibly can.
Let's see what we can find, buddy.
Watch where you walk right here.
Look, it's all patted down here, too.
Yeah, you see that line?
-Yeah. -That's a big trail.
Keep your eyes peeled.
Zak, right here, right here, right here!
All right, he's right here, he's right here,
he's right here.
I can't see him. I have no eyes on him, Aaron.
-You still see him? -Yeah, I can barely see him.
I'm gonna flush him out the other way. Come on.
Here we go, here we go, here we go, here we go.
-Whoa. -Come on.
Heads up, dude.
Oh, she's focused on you, Zak, she's focused on you.
Whoa! No, uh-uh.
You better not bite me.
Whoa, whoa, whoa! Uh-uh.
You got her, you got her.
Come on.
I can barely lift her up.
Be careful, Aaron.
-Grab it, Aaron. -Oh!
Grab that thing, Aaron. Grab it before she gets me.
Whoa! Whoa!
Oh-ho! There you go.
There you go, Aaron.
-Wow, wow. -There you go.
Look at the size
-of that monstrosity. -Oh, yeah!
[both laugh] I know you don't have any hands.
Come on, baby.
-Oh, yeah. -Okay.
This monster python is a great start.
Not only will it bring in almost $1,000,
it's also a step in the right direction,
ending their recent cold spell.
It just gives us that much more hope
that we know there's snakes back here.
And we needed that boost, that shot in the arm,
that confidence to really get back on our game,
open our eyes up and wake us up.
There you go, baby. Come on, man.
-That's right. -That's how we do it.
Thirty-two miles southeast...
As their first season hunting pythons together
in the Everglades draws to a close,
veteran hunter Ashley "Deadeye" Jones
and her partner, Florida native Kaylyn Glenn,
zero in on potential hiding holes
they may have missed over the past several months.
They say that the trail leads us right to it.
I guess we'll find out.
Kaylyn and I are looking for the Camel Hump.
The Camel Hump is a cypress dome
that's filled with cypress trees,
and the inside of it's filled with water.
So a lot of these animals are coming,
and they're getting underneath the shade,
and they're wanting to be there, too,
which is gonna bring the snakes there,
because the snakes wanna be anywhere
that the food source is.
-And the... -Who is that?
...they have no roots-- what?
Somebody walking.
You all right?
All of a sudden in the middle of nowhere we see a person.
And as we get closer and closer,
we're a little cautious,
because out here, you know, it could be someone friendly,
and it could be someone not so friendly.
-Are you okay? -I'm good.
Oh, hey, John. What are you doing out here?
Buggy ran out of gas.
-Oh, no. -Yeah, I'm heading back to camp.
-Where you guys going? -We're going to Camel Hump.
You're going the wrong way.
-I thought it was just up ahead. -No, you gotta
turn around and go back that way.
But there was three different turns back there.
-Which one of them is it? -Yeah, if you want,
I'll hop on the buggy. If you wanna turn it around,
I'll show you where to turn.
Okay, that would be really helpful.
My old pal John, thank goodness
that he was able to come across our path.
He knows this area better than I do,
and he was able to reroute us back.
We would've gone who knows how far.
We knew that there was, like, a three point turn,
but I didn't think it was the one back there.
Yeah, there's, like, three trails back there you passed.
But there's good snakes there?
Oh, there's huge snakes inside the Camel Hump.
-Really? -It opens up, and there's
huge cypress trees there.
We found them around the base of the cypress trees.
That's exactly what we're looking for actually.
Do you know if anyone's found them recently?
About a month ago.
-A month ago. -Yeah.
-That's great. -Yeah.
And I'm sure a lot of people aren't getting back there.
No, there's nobody going. We're too far out.
I'm glad to know you, especially today
we'd've been... wrong way.
Yeah, you'd have been out of gas.
I'd have to come get you.
Right, the tables would've turned real fast.
We'd be waving you down after heading back out.
My camp's just right up here, so I'll be good.
-Okay, great, okay. -I'm gonna get off here.
And you guys go down this trail here.
-Okay. -And it'll
take you back around to the Camel Hump.
You sure we can't carry you out further?
No, I'm good, I'm good. I appreciate the ride.
Well, it was great running into you.
-It was so great to see you. -You, too.
And enjoy the rest of your day.
Okay, you do the same. Be careful.
Yeah, you, too.
Don't let them get you. You get them.
That's right. That's the idea.
All right, bye, Mr. John.
-Thank you. -Bye.
Thank you again!
I don't know who was happier to see who,
me to see him telling us we were in the wrong direction,
or him seeing us and catching a ride.
This looks perfect for us to start.
We might need to get off and walk.
Yeah.
See those tall trees right there?
That's the Camel Hump.
-Gonna get out and walk? -Yup.
When Mr. John told us which way to go,
we were able to navigate a little bit better,
so now we're headed on the right path.
It's just really easy to get lost here
because everything looks the same.
Just wanna check it out first?
Yeah, we'll just go check it out.
Thirty-five miles away,
Wildman Dusty Crum is facing a daunting task.
Come on, Ry, we'll just do a little more searching.
Picking a successor to Riley, his python hunting partner.
I think finally it's time for Riley to retire.
Yeah, I've been battling the decision, man.
It's been a long time coming, you know,
but it's just another chapter in life, man.
One closes, another one opens.
We need to find out who is gonna be the next dog.
Who's gonna be the next defender of the Everglades, Ry?
Beagles are some of the most effective hunting dogs.
Part of the hound family, they were first bred
for hunting wild hares,
an activity known as beagling.
Gifted with a sense of smell
thousands of times stronger than that of humans,
beagles can be trained
to hunt a wide variety of small animals.
All right, guys, playtime's over.
Well, I'm starting out training my new snake dogs
and some new puppies, you know,
get some young blood on the ground.
It's hard to fill them shoes, son.
I got three puppies right now, and I'm really trying
not to name them all, you know, and get
too attached to them, son,
'cause once you put a name to them,
it's like that's the dog you're keeping.
So right now it's Red, White, and Blue.
I got three different collars on them.
One of you is gonna have to fill Riley's paws, you know.
With his younger snake dog Biscuits
away on a long-term assignment in the northern Glades,
Dusty needs to identify and train
a brand new snake-hunting prodigy.
We got a foreign invader on American soil right now,
and it's decimating our native wildlife.
It's time to see what you're made of.
See if you've got the courage, the heart,
to come out here and save the Everglades.
Are you guys up to the challenge?
Who's gonna step up to the plate?
Is it gonna be you, Red?
Is it gonna be you, Blue?
Or you, little White?
Who wants to go first? Come on.
You, White? All right, let's ride.
Only one of you is gonna make the cut.
To make this difficult choice,
Dusty has prepared a series of challenges
to evaluate his pups.
Now watch her. Watch what Riley does.
This first test, we're gonna put the snake bag out
and see if the dog will alert to it.
See how Riley, she smells and then she alerts.
Get it, girl. Good girl, Riley.
If you wanna be the best, you gotta learn from the best.
Get that snake, get that snake.
Bark at that snake.
She's smelling it.
Gotta work on it a little bit.
It's gonna be a work in progress.
You might just have it, little White.
You, Mr. Blue, let's see what's up.
Come on, Blue, get it, get it.
Get it, Blue, come on.
Blue, bark at it. Come on.
Come on, get the snake.
Come on.
Come on, Blue, come on, Blue.
Good girl, Ry, come on. Caught the snake.
Blue just don't have it. Come on.
Riley, smell that.
Get it, Ry. Watch the snake.
Get that, get it, Ry.
Come on, Riley, I know you got it in you. Come on.
Look, look.
Oh, man.
It won't be easy to replace Riley,
and Dusty knows he has a long road ahead.
It's gonna be a lot harder than I thought to find a good dog.
Well, it's a good thing I got more than one,
you know, test, because it's gonna take
all three of them to figure out who the next
snake dog's gonna be.
This younger generation, man.
This ain't gonna be easy.
Thirty-one miles east...
Troy and Tes begin their last week
of python hunting in a remote area
of shallow water and narrow slivers
of high ground known as the River of Grass.
This look like a good place.
Tes and I's going to hunt an area
that you can't get out there with an outboard motor,
you can't get out there with ATVs.
The only thing you can use to get out there
is either an airboat or a helicopter.
And I don't have a helicopter,
but I got a good friend that has an airboat.
Hundreds of thousands of acres in the Everglades
are covered with cattails and sawgrass,
inspiring the name A River of Grass.
These areas are spread across south Florida
from Lake Okeechobee to Florida Bay.
They remain submerged for most of the year,
with only small pockets of dry land breaking the expanse
and offering shelter to wildlife.
Oh, this is a snake place if I ever seen one.
They got high ground.
They got areas with shallow water.
It's a little bit-- a little mixture of everything.
So, it's a perfect area for pythons to hang out
because there's a lot of wildlife.
I think we got a good plan.
I mean, if I was a snake, I'd live up here.
Aware that most breeding females
have already settled on a nest,
Troy and Tes are looking for active nests
or a last-minute straggler.
We want the ones with the eggs,
and we gotta pick spots
that we think are gonna produce for us.
This place is perfect because it's got
a bunch of water surrounding it,
it's on a high ground,
not a lot of people go out here,
and they're not disturbed often.
Oh, this look good. What is this?
-Is it a little shell? -Oh, yeah, something
-been eating. -It's been eaten?
Something ate on it.
Like a turtle shell?
Yup, that's part of a turtle shell.
I think we in the right area, Tes.
-Ooh, look at all this. -Mm-hmm.
They can just slip away back in here.
Tes, Tes!
Tes!
Okay, okay, I'm coming, I'm coming.
I got a big one. I got a big one over here.
Hold on, I'll be there.
Bring the bag.
You got one? Yeah!
Whoa!
In the River of Grass...
-Ay, yi, yi! -Watch your foot,
-watch your foot! -Ay, yi, yi!
Troy, Troy, Troy, watch it.
Troy and Tes battle a monster serpent.
Grab him, grab him, grab him, grab him, grab him.
-Uh! -Yeah, yeah, yeah.
[both laugh]
No way.
Whoo!
Go get your bag. You got your bag?
No, no, I got it here, I got it here.
This nine-foot female is full of eggs
and worth close to $1,000.
Its removal is one more step in saving the Glades.
We definitely caught a good prize snake.
I mean, she's pregnant. No telling how many eggs
she got in her, and this is one less in the Everglades.
It's a win-win.
-Let's roll, you ready? -Mm-hmm.
Further south...
All right.
Dusty sets up phase two
of his puppy trials.
Well, the plan is I'm leaving a scent trail.
'Cause I'm gonna drag this snake bag through here
and hide it, and hopefully them puppies
are gonna be able to follow the trail.
Son, them beagles, their noses is
10,000 times more powerful than ours.
So they can smell stuff
that we don't even know what's going on.
And this Everglades...
That should be good.
This thick, dense brush,
you get a dog to go in there, son,
he's gonna tell you if the snake's there or not.
All right.
Come on, Red.
Are you up to the challenge?
Let's find out.
You got it. Go, come on, go.
Where's it at? You can do it. Come on.
Get it, get the snake.
Yeah.
Good girl, good girl, good girl.
Good girl!
I ain't never seen a dog start off that fast before.
All right.
White, you're on deck.
It's your time to shine.
You gotta get over some obstacles.
Good girl, White, good girl.
You got this.
You got it. Come on.
Come on, just one more step over that.
Yup, yup, yup, you got it, you got it.
Good girl.
All day long, baby.
The old apple don't fall
very far from the tree, now, does it?
That's a baby.
Whoo!
Who's the next one? You, Mr. Blue.
Old Blue, son, you're big and bad and strong.
We got one more challenge.
Out in the Everglades, sometimes there's big logs
and we gotta cross them.
So we need to test your agility.
You got it, boy?
You got it, boy, you got it.
Daddy's right here with you. You got it.
Good dog, good boy. You got this.
Keep your balance. Stay focused.
It's like a fricking ballerina, son.
Where's the snake?
You got it. Where's it at?
Yeah! Whoo!
Good boy.
I gotta make the right decision now
that's gonna benefit me in the future, you know?
Oh, man,
you guys are making it hard on your old daddy.
But these dogs, it's like trying to choose
between pizza and cookies
and... ice cream, man. It's impossible.
Gonna be one of the hardest decisions I've had to make
in a long, long time.
If I could keep you all, I dang sure would,
because each of you are special in your own way.
But I only got a slot for one on the team right now.
Y'all are all special in your own way, that's for sure.
Further west...
I told you this place was gonna be
awesome, man. Come on, man.
-What the hell? -This snake is heavy right here.
Yeah, but you're doing some good work today, Santa.
The gamble Zak and Aaron took
on a tip about snakes near a newly-dredged canal
is paying off handsomely
with three snakes caught already,
easily turning this
into their best day of the season so far.
-We're on our third snake. -Uh-huh.
A big one at that.
The area around this manmade canal
has really been paying off.
We already caught three snakes.
I'm thinking we can catch more today.
I'm feeling great. Our slump is over.
Completely turned around our season.
This new spot is paying off.
Yeah, big time.
Yo, what is this?
Oh, no.
What is it, what is it?
The tailgate's down.
Oh, Aaron.
-The snakes are gone? -Yeah.
Are you serious?
Near a newly-dredged canal...
Zak and Aaron make an unwelcome discovery.
-Yo, what is this? -What is it, what is it?
The tailgate's down.
Oh, Aaron.
The snakes are gone?
-Yeah. -Are you serious?
I swear on my life.
You're kidding me. After all that hard work?
Did you get his plates?
I didn't even see-- I didn't even look at the plate.
I just saw it peel-- look at where it peeled out.
The windows aren't shattered, the doors weren't open.
That's a lot of money gone.
All the cuts, bug bites we've endured out here.
We gotta go after them, man. Hop in the car. Come on.
-Are you serious? -Hell, yeah.
-No, I don't think so. -What else are we gonna do?
-We have one snake left. -Yeah, but someone that's gonna
steal like that, there's no telling what else they'll do.
What if they have a gun? We're in the middle of nowhere.
-Bro. -I'm just as angry as you,
but, I mean, what are you gonna do?
Chase someone and potentially, you know, get hurt?
And not return? I don't think so.
That's not worth it, Zak.
Just think level-headed, man. Let's just stay right here,
keep hunting. It's been producing really well so far.
I mean, we need to stay right here.
There's nothing you can do, and Aaron's right.
We need to continue to be out here, catch more snakes.
We're still helping the Everglades regardless.
We got them out, so we're just gonna try
to catch some more and-- and do more damage.
But, man, that stings, man.
All right, Aaron. Let's drive up ahead
a couple miles, and see if we can put
another one in the back of the truck.
Yeah, let's do it.
Man, that sucks.
Further southwest in a cypress dome
called the Camel Hump...
-See anything? -No.
Ashley and Kaylyn are finding this unexplored area
tough to navigate.
It's so thick through here.
I'm not gonna lie. There is no easy path
that has been, you know, driven by someone else before you.
You are going to be making your way through that brush,
you will get cut up and probably smacked in the eye,
but that is where the pythons are,
and that's where we have to go.
Let's come this way.
There he is. There he is right here!
Where, where?
He was just right here.
Look around your feet.
Right towards the water, right towards the water.
Aah!
It just went right here.
Come on, come on, let's go on this stick.
Can you walk out with me? Whoo! Watch out.
It's a little water-rotted.
I think it went this way.
Did he come underneath here or did he go across?
No, he went on this side. He went around here.
Oh! Jeez.
-Aah! -Wait--
-don't fall, don't fall. -Almost fell.
-Do you see anything? -I don't see anything,
but I don't wanna lose him. I don't think this thing's
-gonna hold me. -Be careful.
Just wanna see how deep it is. Is there a stick back there?
-Yeah, here, right here. -It's not too bad right here,
so maybe I can get around this spot.
-You know? -Yeah.
There's some bubbles popping up there.
-Oh, yeah, I see them. -Yeah.
How long you think a snake can hold its breath?
I don't know.
He was literally just right here.
I know.
Ashley, I think he's gone.
He got out of here fast.
We lost the snake, but this is why we came up here.
We're gonna keep hunting this area.
We know that she's gonna either be
back around, or we'll find more like her out here.
He couldn't have gone far.
Further east, as darkness falls on the River of Grass...
They could be anywhere in here.
After capturing a pregnant female,
Troy and Tes push for a second one.
What Tes and I's gonna do, we gonna stay close.
We gonna hunt real hard right in this area,
and we follow the edge of the high ground and the water.
When we do find one,
hopefully it's gonna be a big pregnant female,
which is gonna take out generations of snakes
out of the Everglades.
Tes, come here.
-Whoa. -Come here, look-a here.
Look at this.
Oh, look at that tunnel.
Oh, man, this goes back.
Goes way back there, huh?
Are those eggs?
Good-size mama.
Into the night...
Look at that tunnel.
Oh, man, this goes back.
-Are those eggs? -Yup.
Troy and Tes have found
a potential nesting site.
They're old.
That's old eggs from last year.
Look like they got about 20 of them in there,
20, at least 20.
Tes and I, we come across an old nest,
but it's a nest from last year. That's good sign.
Well, that means we're on the right track.
-You gonna scrape them out? -I'm gonna try to pull
a couple of them out-- oh, I see
-a bunch more in there. -I know.
The number of eggs in an old nest
can indicate the size of the python that laid them.
That could've been a good-sized mama.
If we're finding this, they're gonna be all along this area.
Oh, yeah, we in the right area. Let's keep going.
The hole just keeps going.
Yup, yup, it's full of them.
This nest is all the motivation the hunters need
to stay and keep searching.
Even though she didn't lay in this hole yet,
she might come back to this exact same hole.
All right, let's keep looking.
We're definitely in the right place.
Eleven miles north...
You see anything, Aaron?
I don't see anything yet.
We were doing so good, man.
Zak and Aaron are struggling to recover
from having two pythons possibly stolen from their truck.
-Damn it. -I know you're aggravated, Zak,
but let's just stay focused.
If we can get at least one more snake tonight,
I mean, then it's really like
we only lost, you know, one and not two.
I'm actually a really calm person,
and Zak is very hotheaded,
so I gotta try to even him out a little bit.
The snakes are gone. We can't do anything about that.
But what we're gonna do now is I'm gonna try
to keep him as calm as I can,
and hopefully he can get his mind straight
where we can hunt and catch one more snake
before the night is over.
Come on. Come on.
-Come on. -Let's bring one home.
Nothing under here.
Zak, right here, right here, right here, right here!
Oh, my God, it's a big one.
-I'm coming. -I got a good one.
Oh, my gosh. Look at her, she is pissed, Zak.
-Come on, come on. -I'm coming. You okay?
She's around that bush.
-Pull her back this way. -She's strong.
-Whoa! -Watch out, Zak.
-She's around that bush. -Damn!
Watch yourself, watch yourself, watch yourself.
Let her gas out, let her gas out.
Let's get away from around the bush.
-Ready? Ready? -Yup, yup, yup.
-Whoa! -Whoa!
Bring her that way, bring her that way,
around the-- gas her out, gas her.
There you go. Pull!
Pull now. There you go, there you go.
God, she ripped down that whole bush. Come on.
Watch it, watch it, watch it.
-She's focused on you. -Yeah, she-- whoa!
Whoa! You got a mouthful of grass, come back.
Come on. Come on.
You got it. You got it.
-Whoo! -Look at that thing.
This thing is a vegetarian, huh?
Hey, at least it's got a mouthful of dirt
and not your leg.
This egg-laden ten-foot beast
will bring in almost $1,000 after processing...
Bet it's full of eggs.
And is a welcome bonus
after their earlier loss
of two snakes to possible poachers.
After the event that Zak and I had earlier in the daytime,
there's a time to fight and there's a time
to know when to move on.
I get the aggravation, but, you know, sometimes
it's just not worth it to chase someone down.
Two's better than none, and two's better than one.
Come on, let's get out of here.
Yeah, go ahead.
That's money right there.
Further east in the Camel Hump...
Well, this is harder than I thought it'd be.
Ashley and Kaylyn have no pythons yet,
and they're running out of time
before having to start the long way out.
So many places to hide.
This is an absolute just leaf litter mess.
We're working our way through this brush.
It's super thick, super dense.
You could tell no one or nothing's been
through here that's at our height at least.
I mean, this has python written all over it.
But unfortunately we only have a couple hours left
until we have to get out of here.
We have to get a female with eggs
before the sun comes up.
See something. No, just a leaf.
So much brush and places to hide.
Kaylyn, look, there's a snake.
-A snake? -Yeah.
-Really? -Yeah.
Where, where, where? Right here?
It went straight underneath this brush.
Where'd it go?
I don't even see anything.
He couldn't have gone far.
Oh, my God!
Watch yourself.
Grab it, grab it.
-Got the tail? -I'll grab it.
-Okay. -Okay.
-Stay away from that tree. -Oh!
Uhh.
I'm gonna go for it.
Deep into the night...
Oh, my God!
Ashley and Kaylyn
try to capture a monster.
I'm gonna go for it.
-Whoa! -Whoa!
Come on.
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.
-Whoa! -Come on.
Oh-oh!
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
-You got it? Got it? -We are just
going around and around.
Reach behind him.
Lord have mercy.
Hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on, hold on.
-Wrapping? -Yeah.
I got him... good job.
Finally, the Camel Hump pays off with this giant.
This is amazing. It was worth it in the end.
It was everything we hoped for and more,
and so was the difficulty of trying to get through this.
We got a good snake, but it is not
for the faint of heart.
-Good job. -Oh, man.
Let's get on back to the buggy.
Time to call it a night.
Ten miles away...
There's so many places for them to hide.
I know, I know.
It's endless hiding spots out here.
Troy and Tes have been
pushing themselves to the limit all day.
Dude, I'm tired.
How about if we...
how about if we take five minutes, huh?
Yeah.
-Huh? -Sit a spell.
Let's just take us a little break for a little minute.
-Oy vey. -Whew.
You know, we been hunting hard.
We been hunting hard day and night,
and we getting kind of tired, so, you know, sometimes
in the middle of the night we gotta stop
and take a little break. It don't take much.
Ten-, 15-minute break
can kind of give you enough energy
to keep going and make it through the night.
But, Tes, look. Look in front of you.
Look right here.
Look at the fresh tender grass,
clover, dollarweeds.
You really see clover down here?
Yeah, this is wild clover.
Such a beautiful place.
Why doesn't this look like regular clover?
I thought it was, like, four-leafed.
That's a wild clover.
That's white clover, what grows in your yard.
-Oh. -You know what this is?
No.
That's morning glory.
Is this one that has, like, a flower that shows up?
They make beautiful flowers.
You can buy it in the store
and plant it in your, like,
pots at home, you know.
What color is the flower?
Beautiful white flower.
Some of them make yellow flowers.
The wildlife, the rabbits, the deer, they love it.
You know, with all this nice food out here,
I don't know why we're not seeing more of them.
Golly.
Them snakes done ate everything.
I'm talking about everything.
They're clearing it out
and making themselves quite at home.
This has been a much-needed break,
but the hunters know there's still work to be done.
I don't really wanna get up and keep hunting.
Once I'm down, I wanna stay down.
I don't wanna get back up. It's like a long day of work
and you lay down on the couch, it's like, nope,
I'm not gonna hang out with my friends anymore.
But, you know, it has to be done, and hopefully
we're gonna be able to come across some snakes here
and actually get them out of this area.
Help me.
Come on, I'm gonna help you up.
We'll go a little bit further and call it a night.
-You ready? -Yes, sir.
Six miles away...
This new spot is paying off.
Yeah, big time.
Zak and Aaron try to secure
one more python in the area
they were tipped off to by an excavation crew.
It'll make me so happy and relieved
if we can catch just one more python
to make up for the two that we lost today.
Maybe a big one.
Yo, yo, yo.
You hear that?
Yeah, I hear it.
I hear it.
Let's get back to the truck.
Come on, come on.
Come on.
Yeah.
-Yeah, the snake's there. -Everybody in the car.
-Come on, let's get away. -Let's go. Let's go.
-Let's go, let's go. -...in the car. Come on.
Come on, come on, let's go.
It's just not safe, and I understand that
as much as Aaron. We gotta get out of here.
There's more than one,
and there's no telling how many people are in there.
We don't need to talk to them.
What the hell are they doing?
We have our snakes, so no one stole anything.
They're not turning around, are they?
Hell, no. Come on, let's go, we're out.
Good luck turning around, buddy.
We have no idea what those people's intentions are.
I'm just happy and super relieved
that we got out of there.
At least we caught
this giant snake.
What the hell?
[both laugh]
In the River of Grass...
I'm seeing a lot of trails.
-Yeah, I've got some over here. -Nothing yet.
After a night of looking for a second python,
Troy and Tes are making one last push.
We hunted last night most of the night.
Got a couple hours of sleep and we back here this morning.
We been looking and looking, and we haven't seen a snake yet.
Troy, you seeing anything over there?
I ain't seen nothing.
Stay focused.
Troy, there's one right here!
-What? -Troy, Troy, Troy!
-Troy, look, look, look. -Oh, Lord.
Holy crap.
-I got its tail. -You got him?
-Yeah. You gotta hold
this tail, I'm gonna dive in there, okay?
-Oh, this is a big one. -Holy crap.
-You see the head? -Yeah, it's all the way in here.
-Don't let him turn on you. -Can you pull him a little bit?
[straining] Come on, you gotta get 'im.
All right, I see him, I see him, I see him.
-I can't get him out. -I don't wanna get
-too close to the head. -There you go.
That's your chance. Look, the head!
-That's your chance. -Yi!
In the early morning hours in the River of Grass...
Yi!
-He almost got you. -Yeah.
Grab the stomach right there.
-You got him? -Yeah.
Troy and Tes are wrestling
with their second python.
Whoo! I got the snake.
He's right underneath.
Watch him, Tes.
Whoa!
Whew!
Watch it...
He's not even looking at you.
Yeah, go for it.
Whoo!
Oh, man.
This nine-foot breeder
will bring in almost $1,000
and marks a great day at the tail end of their season.
Look at this thing, huh?
But it's the dozens of eggs they're removing
that brings the highest satisfaction.
To be honest, I wish I could do more to save the Everglades.
I feel in my heart what we doing is just the tip of the iceberg.
Man.
And I wish I could do
a lot, lot more.
Wow, she's got some eggs in here.
Back at Dusty's camp...
Well, Ry, I don't know, man.
It's fricking tough, isn't it?
It's time to crown one dog
as Dusty's official new hunting partner.
You really gotta help me make this decision,
because you're the one
that really knows this better than me.
I gotta make my decision and pick my dog fast.
I don't have time to train all three of them, you know.
I gotta focus on one dog and make that the best dog.
So I gotta make the right decision now
that's gonna benefit me in the future, you know?
Ry, we're still gonna be hanging out all the time.
I mean, I'm not trying to replace you totally here.
I'm just trying to give you a little break.
I mean, obviously nobody's ever gonna be as good as you.
I mean, who do you want to fill your paws, Ry?
Who do you think is gonna step up to the plate?
You know, White, she's a little bit smaller, you know,
and I think she might have a little more endurance.
You know, but she's also just kind of too crazy.
She... She won't stay focused, you know?
The thing about Red, it's just like,
it's almost like I feel about you, Ry.
It's just I got some kind of connection with her.
It's like she can almost read my thinking.
And Blue, right out of the box, man,
from the factory he put his nose to the ground
and he went to work, Ry.
I mean, that's the way you were
when you were a puppy.
You just had that gift.
I mean, what do you think, Ry?
You thinking White?
You thinking Red? You think maybe Blue?
Yeah, uh-huh, well...
Well, Ry, I guess that's it, then.
Decision's made.
Let's go break the news. Come on.
What's up, guys?
Well, today's the day.
You guys all did real good.
But I can only choose one of you.
Every dog has a collar,
but there's only a select few
that ever get to wear one of these python collars.
I think it's gonna be you, Red.
Wear this thing with pride, courage...
and know that you are the future.
It's not gonna be an easy mission.
The Everglades is tough and these snakes are big.
At the end of the day, one quality reigns supreme
in the search for Dusty's next hunting dog.
I can teach her how to catch a snake
and how to bark at a snake,
but I can't teach her to love me,
and that dog loves me.
We got a big mission ahead of us, little Red.
Enjoy your last day as a civilian,
because tomorrow the real work starts.
You got some big paws to fill.