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- [Man 1] Trap, this is helicopter. I've got a group of 30 about five miles out.
Be in there in about an hour.
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Trap, this is the helicopter. We're about two miles out.
Get everybody ready.
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Trap, turn the horse loose. Turn the horse loose.
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- [Man 2] Good morning, Mark. This is the valley of the shadow of death.
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- [Man 3] I'm 23. I came in when I was 17. I was in high school, my senior year.
I just came in with armed robberies, multiple, and attempted murder.
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I like being outdoors. I hate being inside.
Here a year in county jail, where you barely see sun maybe once every
three months, right?
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And when I come out here, I feel peace. Peace.
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- [Brian] These horses are wild, man. They've never had nothing on them.
We're trying to teach them that, "Hey, we want to get this saddle on and
get on your back and ride you."
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Woah.
You've got to teach them everything. You've got to teach them how to walk,
you know. Even though they can walk on their own, it's like a little baby.
That's what I equate with these animals.
You're okay, young man. Come here. The last four years of my life have been
encircled around horses. Now I'm getting out of here and I don't know if
I'm ever going to work with horses again.
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- Come on. You can't put a timeline on a horse. There's pressure but it's not...
"Get this done now, now, now, now, now." It's not like that.
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A horse can step on you like that. And it's going to kick you, going to
hit you in the face. It basically could kill you in a heartbeat.
There you go, missy.
Just calm down for five minutes. I guess I'm the same way at times,
sometimes I tend to go, go, energetic. I just can't stop.
Ho, ho, ho, ho.
He got loose?
- [Man 4] Yeah, he's loose.
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- Oh, hold on.
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- Now he wake up.
- He'll go to the same spot every time.
And I guess you appreciate that more when you see,
"All right, I can relate to this horse."
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I got thrown off and bucked off many times. Fell off. Stepped on. Bit.
Been kicked at.
Come on, straight over here.
But you build a relationship.
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- I'm so used to getting up five days a week and coming out here
and having my own horses that I train.
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And I go in and I love on them and pet on them, and it's like having a kid kind of.
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Tomorrow I'm getting out of prison after doing six flat years.
It's going to be a part of me that's going to have a hole.
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- [Man 5] Get that gate. [inaudible]
- Brian, what are you going to eat tomorrow? That's what we want to hear.
What's the first thing you're going to eat in the morning? A breakfast burrito?
- I don't know, man. Might be too overwhelmed to eat first thing.
- Ah, yeah?
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- I've had a lifetime of this. Prison.
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Didn't start as an adult. I've been doing this since I was six.
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This is a business for these people, you know. They want me to come back.
They get paid for that.
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So I'm just lining their pockets with my stupidity. My bad habits, you know.
Not anymore, man.
You going to take these with you?
- No.
- Okay.
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- [Woman] Full name?
- Brian D. Tierce.
- ADC number?
- 078439.
- Date of birth?
- 07/15/67.
- All right. Good to go.
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- I don't believe this. She's having a heart attack.
Saying goodbye to an animal, it's hard in the sense that
I built that bond with the horse.
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But it comes with the territory. You can't have a horse forever.
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Don't ever forget it's still a wild animal. It's unpredictable.
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- What aisle is your chili on? Like chili beans?
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