Grizzly Man Page #6

In the case of Timothy and Amie,

what I had were body parts.

Just the visual input of seeing

a detached human being

before my eyes

makes my heart race, makes

the hair stand up on the back of my head.

Particularly in combination

with the contents of a tape,

an audiotape that is the sound portion

of the videotape.

And when I find out

from other investigators

that the shoes neatly placed

at the entrance to a tent,

and the cap left

on a camera so that

the visual part

could not be recorded,

yet the tape is running so that we can

hear the sounds of Amie screaming

and the sounds

of Timothy moaning,

tells me that this event

occurred very, very quickly,

suddenly and unexpectedly.

I clearly can hear her screaming,

"Stop" and "Go away."

Maybe "Run away."

There's a lot of background noise.

Timothy is moaning.

And I hear Amie beating on the top

of this bear's head with a frying pan.

And Timothy is saying,

"Run away. Let go!

Run away. Run away, Amie.

Run away."

Amie had a great deal

of conviction.

She had a great deal of conviction

in this relationship. We know that.

Although in the past,

she was more standoffish.

She didn't get as close

to the bear as Timothy did.

She was more cautious.

However, I know,

that at the moment of death,

when one is being tried

to the maximum of one's ability

to be faithful,

to stick to a situation,

to be loyal, if one can say that,

to Timothy,

she stayed there,

and she fought with Timothy.

She did not run away.

Amie, we know, fought back

for approximately six minutes.

Amie stayed with her lover,

with her partner, with her mate,

and with the bear.

Ultimately she stayed

with the bear in the situation.

This is Timothy's camera.

During the fatal attack,

there was no time

to remove the lens cap.

Jewel Palovak allowed me

to listen to the audio.

I hear rain, and I hear Amie,

"Get away! Get away!

Go away!"

Can you turn it off?

Jewel, you must never

listen to this.

I know, Werner.

I'm never going to.

And you must never look at the photos

I've seen at the coroner's office.

- I will never look at them.

- Yeah.

They said it was bad.

Now you know why

no one's gonna hear it.

I think you, you should not keep it.

You should destroy it.

- Yeah.

- I think that's what you should do.

Okay.

Because it will be the white elephant

in your room all your life.

Here I am at the scene

of the fight.

It looks as if tractors tore

the land up,

raked it, rototilled it,

tossed it about.

There is fur everywhere, and in the camera

foreground excreted waste.

In the middle of the fight

so violent, so upsetting

that Sergeant Brown

went to the bathroom,

did a number two during his fight.

Extremely emotional,

extremely powerful.

And yet, both bears

back in pursuit of Saturn,

including Mickey, who appears

to have gotten the worse for the wear

in the fight between

Sergeant Brown and Mickey

for the right to court Saturn,

the queen of the Grizzly Sanctuary.

Amazing.

Oh, Mickey, I love you. And Mickey's

now the closest bear to Saturn.

Back in like a horse in a race

that does not give up.

We love that bear. Mickey!

We love him! We love him.

But, Mickey,

I've been down that street.

You don't always get the chick you want.

Let me tell you.

It doesn't always often work out.

Hey, he's after my own heart.

He don't give up,

even when it looks shitty.

All right, love you, Mickey.

Love you, Mickey.

I just wanna discuss that fight

with Mickey bear right here.

He's right next to me here

in the Grizzly Sanctuary on the tide fly.

Saturn off to camera left.

Mick, you underestimated Sergeant Brown.

You went in for the head.

He seemed to be rope-a-doping you

like he wasn't that tough.

And then once you

banged into him,

man, he turned out to be

one heck of a rough bear,

a very rough bear.

I was so scared, I almost got sick

to my stomach watching you fight.

Then when he knocked you down

and you were down on your back,

it was terrible,

it was terrible!

I'm not duking it out for any girl like that.

I'm telling you right now.

I'm not duking it out

for any girl, but l...

Well, I've had my troubles

with the girls. Yeah, yeah.

And I'll tell you something.

If Saturn was a female human...

I can just see how beautiful

she is as a bear.

I've always called her the Michelle Pfeiffer

of bears out here.

All right, you lay there.

I'm gonna go off with your girlfriend.

Don't beat me up over it.

I'm cool, I'm cool. I'm respectful.

Things are bad for me

with the human women,

but not so bad that I have

to be hitting on bears yet.

Okay? Okay.

In his diaries,

Treadwell speaks often of the human world

as something foreign.

He made a clear distinction between

the bears and the people's world

which moved further and further

into the distance.

Wild, primordial nature was

where he felt truly at home.

We explored the glacier in the back country

of his Grizzly Sanctuary.

This gigantic complexity

of tumbling ice and abysses

separated Treadwell

from the world out there.

And more so, it seems to me

that this landscape in turmoil

is a metaphor of his soul.

Off there in the distance

is his bay and his campsite

where he battled his demons.

What drove Timothy

into the wild?

We visited his parents

in Florida.

Timothy grew up with

four siblings in Long Island

in a solid middle-class family

where the father worked as the foreman

of a construction team

for a telephone company.

There must have been

an urge to escape

the safety of

his protected environment.

I was moved to find that among

all memorabilia in the house,

his mother was clutching

Timothy's favorite bear.

This has been to Alaska

many times.

I'm sure he loved it

to the end, you know?

It's just... his childhood toy.

Tim's childhood pointed towards

nothing extraordinary.

A normal everyday kid.

Never any trouble in school.

Always a good student.

Not an "A" student,

a "B" student.

And got along great

with kids and animals.

Him and I were extremely connected

to animals in the house.

I think more so

than anybody else.

This squirrel named Willie

became Timothy's best friend.

Teddy bears meant a lot to him.

He seemed to develop into

an all-American boy, handsome,

athletic, full of promise.

He excelled on

his high school swim team.

He went to Bradley University

on a diving scholarship.

I think he started drinking

out there and having,

you know, just hanging out

with the wrong people.

Then he injured his back.

And he ended up

losing his scholarship

and coming back home.

He did attempt to smoke

marijuana in the house.

Yeah, he did.

But I put the kibosh on that.

But obviously he was

doing it elsewhere, so...

He really wanted a new start,

a fresh start.

So when he went out to California,

he was 19 or 20.

He wasn't a young 15 or 16-year-old.

He was of age.

He'd gotten a job just to make money

on the Queen Mary at the gift shop.

He did hire an agent.

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