[music playing]
NARRATOR: With only 12 hours of daylight left in the gator
hunting season, the pressure reaches
a boiling point as the hunters race
to fill the rest of their tags.
We gonna have to work hard and fast
and try to really make this a numbers game.
NARRATOR: After starting the season with 1,000 tags,
the Landry family is down to their last 20.
And today, King of the Swamp Troy Landry
is calling on his full armada to clear
the swamp of the remaining big breeder males.
TROY LANDRY: Lines down, big buddy.
Lines down.
TERRAL EVANS: Oh, lord!
TROY LANDRY: On the bank.
Oh, he's wrapped around that tree up there.
Is he dead, T?
TERRAL EVANS: I don't know, I'm gonna to go see.
TROY LANDRY: Be careful.
NARRATOR: Leaving the protection of the boat is a risky gamble.
Alligators can run up to 30 miles an hour on land.
TROY LANDRY: Oh!
Watch him, he's coming for you.
Watch him!
TERRAL EVANS: Troy!
[gunshot]
TERRAL EVANS: Woo!
Dude, I thought he was--
TERRAL EVANS: Man!
That was frickin' scary, huh?
TERRAL EVANS: Oh!
He almost got me, man.
Lucky you can still move pretty quick.
He made me 10 years younger, bro.
[laughter]
TROY LANDRY: I see.
I-- One, two, three!
Yeah, that was a close call, bro.
TROY LANDRY: Too close for comfort.
TERRAL EVANS: Yeah, boy.
NARRATOR: Two miles away, the other half of the Landry armada
is on a roll, with just two more tags to go.
HOLDEN LANDRY: Oh, to the right.
JACOB LANDRY: To the right?
NARRATOR: Suddenly, Jacob spots something only
10 yards away from the line.
Look right there on the rocks.
Look, look, look.
HOLDEN LANDRY: Whoa!
Oh, yeah!
[gunshot]
HOLDEN LANDRY: Oh!
NARRATOR: With this beast in the boat,
the boys are down to their last tag,
and quickly return to their line.
[gunshot]
TROY LANDRY: Oh, that's frickin' awesome, dude.
Prettiest alligator we caught all year.
HOLDEN LANDRY: Hel yeah.
TROY LANDRY: He ain't the biggest,
but he's the prettiest 'cause he's the last tag.
I guess we'll take two for one.
HOLDEN LANDRY: Two for one special, baby.
Huh?
Ha!
NARRATOR: Sunlight's quickly fading, and Troy and Terral
need just one more gator to complete
their 1,000 tag record season.
The hook's about to come out, Troy.
Oh, yeah.
It's about to come out, man.
TROY LANDRY: Pick 'em up.
NARRATOR: Troy and Terral's season-ending monster
is about to slip away.
TROY LANDRY: Watch him, he's gonna get away!
TERRAL EVANS: Get him quick, Troy!
Shoot him, Troy.
[gunshot]
TERRAL EVANS: Watch yourself, Troy.
He's still alive
TERRAL EVANS: Get him, Troy!
[gruntint]
TROY LANDRY: Huh?
TERRAL EVANS: Shoot him, Troy!
Coming up, coming up, coming up.
[gunshot]
TROY LANDRY: Oh, look at him.
TERRAL EVANS: Woo!
It was barely hanging, bro.
That was barely--
TROY LANDRY: Look.
He was trying to spit it out.
TERRAL EVANS: Oh, lord!
Jesus, we're lucky.
This year, it's like, when I filled that last tag,
it's like, thank you, Jesus.
I was so tired, so wore out.
You know, we had three groups huntin' out there.
We had a lot of help, but it was still harder than ever.
Ready?
On three.
One, two, three!
TERRAL EVANS: All right.
Come on.
One more time.
Ready?
One, two, three!
[grunting]
TROY LANDRY: we're done.
Finished.
Big buddy, you know what this is, huh?
TERRAL EVANS: That's the last one, bro.
TROY LANDRY: Come put it in for me, brother.
You can't wait for the season to be over.
Done tagged out and put that last tag in, and then
all of a sudden, it hits you.
Said, man, it's over.
All the good battles, and the camaraderie
over for a whole year.
And then you kinda miss it.
All right, big buddy.
Good job, man.
Good job.
TERRAL EVANS: I'll tell you what, bro--
I enjoyed hunting with you, Troy.
TROY LANDRY: Thank you, man.
Thanks for the help.
I feel good about what we've done this year.
We took on more tags than ever.
We filled them all, and the Landry's did our part.
We've made a good dent in the population.
And, at the end of the day, that's all that matters.
I tell you, big buddy.
We did a lot of good this year.
We took a lot of alligators out.
TERRAL EVANS: It's been an awesome gator season, bro.
TROY LANDRY: Do the alligator shuffle.
Yeah, yeah yeah!
Do the alligator shuffle.
TERRAL EVANS: [laughter]