All right, Pickles, we ready?
I'm ready, Papa Troy.
NARRATOR: Troy and his deck hand,
Pickle, prepare to fight a recent invasion
of powerful alligators.
And the new team are already acting like they've
hunted together for years.
Sure is nice to have somebody pretty
in the boat for a change.
Usually, I got one of my boys.
Yeah, them boys are ugly, boy.
They look just like their daddy.
And always with a smile.
PICKLE: Mm-hmm.
TROY LANDRY: Cinderella at her finest.
PICKLE: The Beauty and The Beast-- that's what
they ought to call it, huh?
You know, Pickles and I in the boat.
She says what she feels, and I say how I feel.
And we get along good that way.
You know, she barks at me, bites back at me.
And I like it.
She can tell me whatever she wants,
as long as she does her job.
We out there for one reason--
to catch alligators.
And nothing else matters.
PICKLE: Looks all tore up.
TROY LANDRY: Oh yeah.
Oh yeah, we've got a crime scene here, baby.
I don't see the line.
Do you see the line?
I don't see the line, either.
Oh, what the hell?
He broke the whole branch off.
TROY LANDRY: Oh my goodness.
Damn.
Now what?
Looks fresh, too.
He wasn't here long.
Oh, yeah.
That blows my mind.
Especially a willow tree.
That gives and twists, and it don't ever break.
Well, he broke that one.
That's right.
So he's got to be as big as a freight train to break that.
It takes a lot of power to break a big branch like that.
But now that we know he's here, we're going to focus
right here in this area.
We're going to tie the stronger stuff.
We might even have to double up a line.
So we're going to do whatever we got to do to catch him.
PICKLE: Look at that, Mr. Troy.
Oh, what'd you see?
Oh!
There's the limb.
Oh, no.
That's the line he broke.
It ain't got no hook on it, look.
He popped the line.
TROY LANDRY: Oh, that thing is frayed, huh?
How he breaks that, huh?
What's that?
TROY LANDRY: He chewed the hook off of it.
What pound test is that?
TROY LANDRY: That's 1,100 pound test.
Dude, he chewed that line to nothing.
Freight Train, huh?
That's a big old boy right there.
It's in my head now.
I got a vendetta against this alligator.
Like, we got to get this big boy out of the bayou here.
That's-- he's just-- he's got to come out, and he's got
to come home with me, you know?
TROY LANDRY: If he's that hungry,
he's going to come back.
PICKLE: I hope we get him.
TROY LANDRY: That's a freight train.
He's as big as a locomotive.
PICKLE: He might still be out there.
We're in the area where we lost Freight Train.
We know what we up against now.
We know he's not your average alligator.
I didn't realize we had as big a gator as this in this area.
He took me by surprise.
But now that we know he's here, I know what to do now.
PICKLE: I don't see nothing at all.
Oh, look at that line going straight down.
You see it, Mr. Troy?
Look at-- look at it.
Look at him, splashing around the water like that.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, we got something?
PICKLE: Ooh, look at his tail.
TROY LANDRY: Huh?
PICKLE: I see a tail, yep.
He's all wrapped up, yep.
Look like he got a little bite mark on it.
- Can you bring him up? - Mm-mm.
Oh, he's tangled up?
Yeah.
TROY LANDRY: Damn.
You saw the bite marks on him?
PICKLE: Yeah, he got a couple of 'em on him.
Huh?
He's all chewed up.
PICKLE: Freight Train's leaving his marks all over the bayou.
TROY LANDRY: See where your line is going.
Get your gun.
OK, get ready.
Get ready, he's coming up.
Watch him.
Woo!
PICKLE: Yeah, he fighting!
TROY LANDRY: Whoa, ho!
It's a big one.
It's a big one!
Ooh, watch him.
Watch him.
PICKLE: Woo!
TROY LANDRY: Woo!
Shoot him!
Whoa!
[INAUDIBLE] Shoot him, Pickle!
Shoot him!
[GUNSHOT]
Woo!
Look at that big boy.
OK.
Grab that leg.
On 3-- you ready?
1, 2, 3!
What?
What you talking about?
You did a good shot.
But this is not Freight Train.
PICKLE: No.
It's a big alligator, but it's not Freight Train.
We're going to have to do our homework to catch this thing.
PICKLE: Whoa, Mr. Troy, look at that.
Who you think did that, huh?
TROY LANDRY: Huh?
PICKLE: Who you think did that?
Another Freight Train victim.
TROY LANDRY: We've got to do some investigating here.
What we got?
Oh, I see him back there.
TROY LANDRY: You see the gator?
PICKLE: Yeah, he's right there. TROY LANDRY: Huh?
Yeah, he's right there behind them-- on the other
side of them stumps.
You think that's Freight Train?
PICKLE: Ah, he don't look big enough.
I don't think this is him, Mr. Troy.
TROY LANDRY: He's dead?
PICKLE: Are you dead?
TROY LANDRY: What a mess.
We get to one of our next lines down the bayou,
and we got an alligator all chewed up.
I mean, all chewed up from one end to the other.
[INAUDIBLE]
PICKLE: OK, OK, ready?
TROY LANDRY: On three.
PICKLE: One--
TROY LANDRY: 1, 2, 3.
Just hold him right there, and I'm
gonna try to pull the back in.
It's a big alligator, but it's not Freight Train.
And it just goes to show you how aggressive
these alligators are becoming.
Right there, perfect.
And you know, it's no telling how strong and big
this alligator is.
This thing is really big.
Look at that limb.
Look at, that limb's broken.
And that's where we tied it off, huh?
That's where we tied it off.
Right there.
TROY LANDRY: Oh yeah.
PICKLE: Huh?
TROY LANDRY: Oh yeah.
The whole limb's gone.
PICKLE: Boy, he took the whole limb.
TROY LANDRY: Our flag's gone, too.
PICKLE: That's the second limb he done broke, huh?
It's unbelievable.
I tied it to a branch way bigger than I
had tied it to yesterday.
And this branch is broken off.
I don't know what it would take to hold this big alligator.
You think it's him?
TROY LANDRY: Freight Train? - Yeah.
TROY LANDRY: Oh yeah, he's got to be.
PICKLE: Gotta be, huh?
TROY LANDRY: What other gator would do that?
PICKLE: I don't know. He's the only one I know.
He done did it to us twice already.
Oh, look at, Mr. Troy.
Look at that limb pulling in the bayou.
TROY LANDRY: Oh, look, it's moving!
PICKLE: Look at him over there.
Look! TROY LANDRY: Hurry up.
Grab your pole.
I just seen it moving.
Hold on. You all right?
PICKLE: Yeah, I'm good.
Go ahead.
TROY LANDRY: Hold on.
Hold on.
I just seen it.
Hey.
Grab it.
Look at that--
PICKLE: I think we got it.
Oh boy!
Is that him?
TROY LANDRY: Back up in case it's a good one.
Watch it-- whoa!
Boy, that's him!
TROY LANDRY: You got him?
Don't let him go.
PICKLE: Yeah, I got him, boy.
He's on there.
TROY LANDRY: You've just got to-- he's heavy?
PICKLE: I'm gonna need your help with this one.
Freight Train, baby!
Tell you what we're going to do.
Just in case, wrap it around the gas tank.
Here, wrap this around the gas tank, so we don't lose him.
And I'm gonna pull it up towards the bank.
All right.
NARRATOR: Knowing this monster is too big
to fight in deep water, Troy has a plan
to lure him into the shallows.
I don't even know where he's at.
TROY LANDRY: Woo!
PICKLE: Come here, you.
TROY LANDRY: Woo!
Show him who's the boss.
PICKLE: Ooh, he's heavy.
[GUNSHOT] TROY LANDRY: Woo!
PICKLE: Shoot him again! TROY LANDRY: Bring him up!
Bring him up!
[INAUDIBLE]
TROY LANDRY: Oh!
PICKLE: He's all mad.
TROY LANDRY: Woo!
Woo, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo!
Watch him!
PICKLE: Come on, you!
TROY LANDRY: Huh?
PICKLE: Shoot him!
You gonna shoot him?
TROY LANDRY: Yeah, I'm gonna shoot him.
PICKLE: You wanna shoot him, go ahead.
You ready?
TROY LANDRY: Bring him up. Bring him up.
Bring him up.
[GUNSHOT]
[LAUGHING]
You know what this is?
PICKLE: That's it-- I know--
I know what this is.
That's what you call a freight train.
TROY LANDRY: This is definitely Freight Train.
PICKLE: That's him.
OK!
Try to grab his foot.
Yep, he was a fighter.
He was fighting till the end.
Oof!
I'm wore out.
PICKLE: OK, ready?
TROY LANDRY: On three.
1, 2, 3!
OK, now I got him.
1, 2, 3!
[HIGH FIVE]
PICKLE: We got him now.
TROY LANDRY: We got him, baby girl.
PICKLE: No more breaking branches.
Whew!
TROY LANDRY: We got him.
That's all that matters.
PICKLE: Woo-woo!
It's-- it's just-- it's very satisfying to pull a big,
massive gator out of the water like this--
to get a dinosaur like that, you know?
And I've never seen one that big before.
TROY LANDRY: All right, let's get our butts home.
PICKLE: Let's go.
NARRATOR: Over in Pierre Part, Troy and Pickle
unload Freight Train, their biggest catch of the season,
a massive 650-pound giant.
TROY LANDRY: Freight Train, baby.
PICKLE: Gonna be happy he's out the water.
I say good.