Grizzly Man Page #4

- This watch is still running.

- Oh, wow.

It has been running continuously

since the time that I received it.

This was taken off Timothy's wrist.

Wow! There it is.

It's still running. I can't even believe it.

I can't believe it.

I'm gonna wear it.

And I'm gonna remember him,

and I'm gonna remember Amie.

Can you speak about Amie?

Amie was brave

and Amie was strong.

Amie was my friend

and she was Timothy's friend.

She was his girlfriend, but most important,

she was his friend.

And...

And I believe that

I'm gonna honor their choice.

I'm always gonna respect them for

what they did, and for how they did it.

And for being out there,

and for protecting bears

and living in wild nature.

And living their life to the fullest.

They truly died

doing what they lived for.

Representing Timothy.

And then I'll fill in the rest.

That's the specific number.

- So there it is.

- So there it is.

Full circle. I've got it all.

I can't even believe it.

- Hopefully it will continue to run a long time.

- I think it will.

Very good.

It's the last thing that's left.

Thanks, Franc.

Jewel Palovak,

you were very close

to Timothy Treadwell.

Do you sometimes

feel like his widow?

Do I feel like his widow?

Yeah, you know,

in some ways I do.

I feel like his widow because

everything that he had,

everything that he worked for,

he left to me.

I was his girlfriend.

I was his employee.

I was the person that figured

all the last-minute details out.

You also founded a foundation

with him?

Yeah. We did.

We founded Grizzly People,

whose mission is to protect

and preserve habitat worldwide.

For Treadwell, who had

a natural tendency towards chaos,

Grizzly People served

as his organized platform,

and Jewel was his

most trusted co-combatant.

I met him in a restaurant.

We both worked at this place

called Gulliver's.

It was a prime rib restaurant.

It was huge and theatrical.

Timothy was a squire,

'cause it was set in the time...

It was based

on Gulliver's Travels.

He had a chintzy felt hat

and a cheap plastic apron

and some knickers

and that blond hair

just sticking out.

And me, I would be your English

serving wench for the evening.

You had to toss the salad

with aplomb,

and you had to boil the soup

and serve it to the people.

I had seen Timothy,

and he was kind of fun.

I didn't really know who he was.

And one night, I just wasn't

in the best of moods.

I had a huge table.

A family of people that wanted me

to make it the best dining experience

of their life.

Do it up big. Make the soup big, you know.

Use the vernacular.

There was grandmas and babies

and hairdos and coats.

So I thought, "You know what? I'll make it.

I'll make it big for ya.

I'll make it really big.

You'll never forget this birthday."

So, one of the parts

was you'd take the soup cart,

and you'd light it up with this gas

so that the soup was bubbling and boiling.

You could smell

the deliciousness.

And I decided to make it

really big.

So I trailed a little bit

extra of the lighter fluid

around the polyester cloth,

and I kind of miscalculated

because the soup exploded.

The people screamed,

the fire went everywhere.

So I was called into the office

in the next couple of days.

And who do I see

when I sit down in the office,

waiting like you're in the jail or

you're in the principal's office?

I see Timothy Treadwell.

I was like, "Hey, How are you?

I know I've seen you. I'm Jewel."

He said, "I'm Tim."

I said, "What are you in for?"

He said, "I'm in for walking funny

in the dining room."

He said, "What did you do?"

I said, "I lit the soup cart on fire."

He said, "That was you?"

And you know,

it wasn't love at first sight,

but it was certainly kindred spirits.

Only Timmy is the boss

of all foxes and all bears.

You're their ruler.

Look at that face.

Hey, thanks for being my friend.

This is so good.

Does that feel good?

We patrol the Grizzly Sanctuary together.

How did we meet?

Over a decade ago.

He left his mother and father's side,

promptly peed on my shoes,

pooped on my clothes, that was it.

He was my friend. Timmy, the fox. Yep.

And we watch over things.

And he's the boss.

Takes care of everything.

Yep, yep. He says,

"I love the way you pet."

I think one of the things that's really important

is you can see the bond

that has developed between

this very wild animal

and this very,

fairly wild person.

And you realize

he has this gorgeous fur,

and people are trying

to kill him for it

with steel door traps

and cruel farming practices.

And other people run him down

on horses for sport.

Fox hunting.

We want this to end.

Between Timmy, the fox, this beautiful fox,

and me, we ask the public,

please stop killing and hurting these foxes

and torturing them.

Don't you think?

If they knew how beautiful he was,

and how sweet he was,

they would never hurt him.

Thanks.

Timothy used his camera as a tool

to get his message across.

Sometimes it was very playful.

Do another take here. I f***ed up the last

one. Almost fell off the cliff.

I'm a f***ing a**hole.

Behind me is the Grizzly Sanctuary

and also behind me,

hidden down below in those trees somewhere,

is my camp.

I must stay incognito.

I must hide from the authorities.

I must hide from people

who would harm me.

I must now hide from people

that seek me out

because I've made some sort of,

I don't want to say celebrity,

but they come to Alaska

and hear about Treadwell in the bush

and they want to go find him.

Well, they can't.

I'm hidden down below.

No one knows where I am.

Even I don't know where I am.

That's pretty shitty.

Let's do a really short take here.

But as a filmmaker,

he was methodical.

- Whatever.

- Often repeating takes 15 times.

One more really short,

excellent take.

Let's just really sum it up. Here we go.

This is gonna be the motherf***er.

Behind me is the Grizzly Sanctuary,

and also hidden below is my camp.

For I must now remain hidden from the

authorities, from people who would harm me,

from people who would

seek me out as a story.

My future helping the animals

depends on it.

I must be a spirit

in the wilderness.

With himself as the central character,

he began to craft his own movie,

something way beyond

the wildlife film.

There is going to be a number of takes

I'm gonna do.

These are called

"Wild Timmy Jungle Scenes."

We're gonna do

several takes of each

where I'll do it with a bandanna on,

maybe a bandanna off.

Maybe two different

colored bandannas.

Some without a bandanna,

some with the camera

being held.

I kind of stumbled.

Let's do it again.

So the basic deal is that this stuff

could be cut into a show later on,

but who knows what look I had, whether

I had the black bandanna or no bandanna.

Very rarely the camo one,

but I like the camo look.

Both cameras rolling. Both cameras rolling.

Both cameras rolling!

Sexy green bandanna,

last take of the evening.

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