Grizzly Man Page #9

Ding.

Hi. Go back to your friend.

Go back to your friend.

Shh, shh, shh.

It's okay.

It's okay.

You're awfully close.

You're awfully close.

Hi. Oh, hi, there!

The park restrictions made him

increasingly irate.

Well, we're into autumn now.

Expedition 2001 coming to an end.

The bears moving safely

towards their winter dens.

The foxes hiding in the woods,

safe from the humans

that would come to harm them.

It's been an amazing season.

It's been difficult.

But I came, I served,

I protected and I studied.

And I promise, I'll be back.

My hair.

Expedition 2001 coming to an end for

Grizzly People, for me, Timothy Treadwell.

I came here and protected

the animals as best I could.

In fact, I'm the only protection

for these animals out here.

The government flying over a total

of two times in two months.

How dare they!

How dare they challenge me!

How dare they smear me

with their campaigns!

How dare they, when they do not

look after these animals,

and I come here in peace

and in love,

neutral in respect.

I will continue to do this.

I will fight them.

I will be an American dissident

if I need be.

There's a patriotic time

going on right now,

but as far as this

f***ing government's concerned,

f*** you,

motherfucking Park Service!

Now Treadwell crosses a line

with the Park Service

which we will not cross.

He attacks the individuals with

whom he worked for 13 years.

I beat your f***ing asses!

I protected the animals!

I did it! F*** you!

Animals rule.

Timothy conquered.

F*** you, Park Service!

Okay.

It is clear to me that the Park Service

is not Treadwell's real enemy.

There's a larger, more

implacable adversary out there:

The people's world

and civilization.

"Oh, Timothy, I'm getting

a bad feeling about you."

He only has mockery

and contempt for it.

"I saw you on David Letterman.

You're fairly entertaining."

His rage is almost

incandescent, artistic.

The actor in his film has

taken over from the filmmaker.

I have seen this madness

before on a film set.

But Treadwell is not an actor in opposition

to a director or a producer.

He's fighting civilization itself.

It is the same civilization

that cast Thoreau out of Walden

and John Muir into the wild.

Animals rule.

All right.

That's my happy stuff.

Let's do a couple

of nice takes now.

Oh, man, did I get angry!

F*** them, right?

They do not watch these animals.

They don't care about these animals.

All they wanna do

is screw people like me around.

It's amazing. "Let the fishermen

f***ing shoot the animals.

Let the f***ing poachers

come in here and f*** 'em.

Let the f***ing commercial

people f*** them around

with their f***ing cameras

and the tourists.

But we're gonna go screw

with Timothy Treadwell

because he loves animals

and teaches kids for free.

Let's go. Let's do that.

That's what we're gonna do."

Well, f*** them. F*** them.

I beat you, motherfuckers. I beat you.

Beat ya, so f*** you.

I beat ya. I beat ya.

I'm the champion.

I'm the f***ing champion.

I beat you.

I beat your f***ing asses.

F***ing losers!

F***ing nobodies!

F***!

F***ing fucks!

Well, Expedition 2001

coming to an end.

The bears safely moving into their winter dens,

the foxes hiding in the woods.

I came here. I studied them,

protected them.

And I promise you, I promise the

Grizzly People, I will be back. I will be back.

And I thank the animals for keeping

me safe and for inspiring me.

I thank them so very much.

Good-bye.

This is my favorite.

This is my cowboy.

Always in black.

Always sunglasses.

And always a bandanna.

I miss you terribly.

He was very dear to my heart.

Very dear to my heart.

My heart hurts every day

for him.

He was a good friend.

I've known him 13 years.

And he just was a good friend.

He was a distant friend

in the winter

and a close friend

in the summer.

And... I helped him do

quite a few things here.

He'd always come back.

And I was kind of

his confidante here.

But I miss him.

I miss his... rambunctious personality

and his outgoing... his heart,

you know, just everything

about him, I think.

Kathleen Parker still holds

some of

Timothy Treadwell's ashes.

She insists that she was

a platonic friend only.

She stored his gear in her basement

during the winters.

He would set out into

the wilderness from her house.

When he would leave,

he would say at my back door,

he says, "I love you."

He says, "This is going to be

the best year of my life out there."

And he says,

"If I don't come back,

it's what I want,

this is the way I wanna go."

His last camp was just right

in the right-hand edge of this slope.

Patch of trees here.

Right down here in this...

very end of these trees here.

This is his ashes.

Some of them for me to spread.

And some bear hair, fur.

And some weeds.

And what else is in there?

There's a little bit of lupin,

there's a little bit of iris.

- There's, I think...

- Where did you get the bear fur?

- We picked it up off the ground.

- Cool. Cool.

Where are we?

We are at a campsite

where Timothy last camped.

Not where he was killed.

But over here in Hallo Bay.

And, Willie, you can...

'cause you brought him over here.

His last campsite was right here

in the trees here.

He camped there because

he was right between two fox dens.

I'd been in the camp there.

The fox would come right to the edge

of the tent, and go in their dens.

So I think that's probably the main reason

he camped right there.

Okay, Timothy.

I love you.

And rest peacefully.

Rest peacefully, my love.

Finally figured a way out

to live here forever.

He's here forever.

This is Timothy Treadwell's

and Amie Huguenard's route

to the site of their death.

There was a certain absurdity

in their end.

As usual, the expedition was over

by the end of September,

and both had returned to Kodiak

on their way back to California.

Treadwell writes in his diary

that at the airport

he had an altercation

with an obese airline agent

over the validity of his ticket.

"How much I hate

the people's world, " he writes.

And disgusted,

he decides right then

to return to this spot

and his bears.

Once back in the Grizzly Maze,

Amie had mixed feelings.

She was afraid of the bears

and had a deadline to return

for a new job

and spoke openly

about leaving him for good.

According to one of the last entries

in Treadwell's diary,

Amie called him hell-bent

on destruction.

And yet, inexplicably, she remained

with him here in the Maze.

Normally Treadwell would not

be here this late in the year.

And upon their return,

he discovered that many of his bear friends

had gone into hibernation.

And scary,

unknown and wilder bears

from the interior had moved in.

This is the spot where

they set up their last camp.

Let me tell you.

Honestly, camping in grizzly country

is dangerous.

People who camp in grizzly country

should camp out in the open

to let the bears know

where the tent is.

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