1 00:01:50,276 --> 00:01:52,446 Haw, Togo! Haw! Haw! 2 00:01:55,657 --> 00:01:57,827 Good dog! Good dog! 3 00:02:04,791 --> 00:02:05,791 Leave it! 4 00:02:11,965 --> 00:02:13,675 Leave it alone! 5 00:02:30,358 --> 00:02:31,358 Good dog. 6 00:02:42,078 --> 00:02:43,198 Well done, Togo! 7 00:02:44,164 --> 00:02:45,174 Well done, all! 8 00:02:45,749 --> 00:02:48,629 There'll be full bellies and warm beds tonight. 9 00:02:51,129 --> 00:02:54,049 All right, Togo! Hike! 10 00:03:21,826 --> 00:03:24,786 Whoa! 11 00:03:28,041 --> 00:03:29,961 There's been a diphtheria outbreak. 12 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:31,043 How long? 13 00:03:31,127 --> 00:03:33,167 - More than a week. - Constance? 14 00:03:33,254 --> 00:03:34,264 Fine. She's fine. 15 00:03:35,173 --> 00:03:36,383 It's mostly children. 16 00:03:37,384 --> 00:03:38,394 Five have died. 17 00:03:39,010 --> 00:03:40,140 Bless them. 18 00:03:40,220 --> 00:03:41,930 Twenty more sick here in Nome. 19 00:03:42,639 --> 00:03:44,929 And no telling how many in the Inuit villages. 20 00:03:46,059 --> 00:03:47,769 They found serum in Fairbanks. 21 00:03:47,852 --> 00:03:50,612 They just don't know how to get it from there to here. 22 00:03:53,149 --> 00:03:56,649 Anyway, everybody's at Dexter's, and they're asking for you. 23 00:04:00,949 --> 00:04:02,119 Hike! 24 00:04:04,369 --> 00:04:06,829 What we have in our children is an epidemic. 25 00:04:07,956 --> 00:04:10,746 And without antitoxin, it's a death sentence to most, 26 00:04:10,834 --> 00:04:12,174 if not all those infected. 27 00:04:15,005 --> 00:04:16,165 The good news is, 28 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:19,756 they've located antitoxin at the Fairbanks Railroad Hospital, 29 00:04:20,260 --> 00:04:23,430 and they're ready to put it on the next train to Nenana. 30 00:04:23,513 --> 00:04:26,143 A round trip from here to Nenana is still 600 miles. 31 00:04:26,224 --> 00:04:30,524 They have aeroplanes in Fairbanks, and we could fly it here. 32 00:04:30,603 --> 00:04:32,748 Did you see those clouds on the horizon when you came over? 33 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:35,402 Of course I did, but maybe it's not as bad as it looks. 34 00:04:37,569 --> 00:04:40,659 Seppala, you were out there. What do you think? 35 00:04:41,823 --> 00:04:42,993 It's going to be bad. 36 00:04:44,743 --> 00:04:45,913 How bad? 37 00:04:46,494 --> 00:04:48,004 Memorable, I think. 38 00:04:48,788 --> 00:04:49,998 What makes you think? 39 00:04:50,457 --> 00:04:52,577 Well, it looks biblical enough, 40 00:04:52,667 --> 00:04:56,797 and the barometer's falling in a pretty disturbing way but... 41 00:04:57,922 --> 00:04:59,012 But what? 42 00:04:59,716 --> 00:05:01,626 We came up on caribou this morning. 43 00:05:01,718 --> 00:05:04,548 About 200 yards to our right, he saw them. 44 00:05:04,637 --> 00:05:08,767 My foot was ready on the brake, and he ignored them and kept running. 45 00:05:09,684 --> 00:05:12,524 That's when I knew this storm was special. 46 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:15,153 I'm sorry, I don't understand. 47 00:05:15,231 --> 00:05:17,441 Togo's a caribou chaser of some renown. 48 00:05:18,109 --> 00:05:19,859 I still don't understand. 49 00:05:19,944 --> 00:05:23,374 Never in 12 years had he not at least turned for them. 50 00:05:24,115 --> 00:05:26,485 When an animal denies his nature 51 00:05:26,576 --> 00:05:29,326 and runs for the barn because he fears the storm... 52 00:05:29,954 --> 00:05:31,834 man better fear the storm. 53 00:05:33,583 --> 00:05:34,673 I see. 54 00:05:34,751 --> 00:05:37,801 In a storm like this, how quickly could you get there and back? 55 00:05:37,879 --> 00:05:39,299 Not "how quickly," 56 00:05:39,381 --> 00:05:40,381 "if." 57 00:05:41,883 --> 00:05:43,223 Then I say aeroplane. 58 00:05:44,427 --> 00:05:45,847 Open cockpit aeroplane? 59 00:05:47,347 --> 00:05:50,137 Water-cooled engines? Did you call that airfield in Fairbanks? 60 00:05:50,225 --> 00:05:51,555 They're making an assessment. 61 00:05:51,643 --> 00:05:52,733 I'll bet they are. 62 00:05:53,603 --> 00:05:55,483 I seriously don't think flying's an option. 63 00:05:56,898 --> 00:05:58,818 But, in answer to your question, "how quick?" 64 00:05:59,651 --> 00:06:02,401 Seppala once ran for me, all the way to Nenana, in four days. 65 00:06:04,072 --> 00:06:05,992 For factual reference only. 66 00:06:06,074 --> 00:06:08,794 Personally I never cared for the notion that sled dogs 67 00:06:08,868 --> 00:06:10,618 should be replaced by machines, 68 00:06:11,246 --> 00:06:14,076 but today I'm a champion of progress. 69 00:06:17,669 --> 00:06:18,799 Come on, pup. 70 00:06:42,277 --> 00:06:45,107 Seppala, you going by the hospital? 71 00:06:46,114 --> 00:06:47,124 Climb on. 72 00:06:52,871 --> 00:06:53,871 Hike! 73 00:07:06,009 --> 00:07:07,719 Whoa! Whoa! 74 00:07:14,601 --> 00:07:15,601 Much obliged. 75 00:07:19,731 --> 00:07:20,821 Good luck, doctor. 76 00:07:25,528 --> 00:07:29,488 Towns are, uh, usually founded by topography... 77 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:33,037 proximity to roads and rivers. 78 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:36,250 Nome was founded by luck. 79 00:07:38,291 --> 00:07:39,711 The gold at Anvil Creek? 80 00:07:40,835 --> 00:07:42,455 You could see it with your naked eye, 81 00:07:43,380 --> 00:07:45,550 pick it up with your fingers from the sand. 82 00:07:47,634 --> 00:07:49,514 Gold dries up. 83 00:07:50,804 --> 00:07:52,104 Luck dries up. 84 00:09:17,432 --> 00:09:18,932 Where does he find the energy? 85 00:09:19,267 --> 00:09:21,977 By his reckoning, he's still ten weeks old. 86 00:09:33,573 --> 00:09:34,573 So, you'll go? 87 00:09:35,241 --> 00:09:38,871 I just got home. You're anxious to be rid of me? 88 00:09:38,953 --> 00:09:40,253 Hmm. Could be. 89 00:09:40,330 --> 00:09:43,290 Have reason for me to be gone, do you? 90 00:09:43,375 --> 00:09:44,825 - I have lovers. - Ah? 91 00:09:44,918 --> 00:09:46,168 Too many to count. 92 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:48,302 I have no one but myself to blame. 93 00:09:48,797 --> 00:09:52,377 I was warned not to marry someone so beautiful. 94 00:09:52,467 --> 00:09:53,797 Warned by whom? 95 00:09:54,719 --> 00:09:56,139 Everyone with eyesight. 96 00:10:01,059 --> 00:10:02,229 So, you will go? 97 00:10:03,812 --> 00:10:05,612 I have no such inclination. 98 00:10:05,689 --> 00:10:07,519 Then why are you waxing sled runners? 99 00:10:10,318 --> 00:10:11,488 They need wax. 100 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:26,880 Can it even be done in this weather? 101 00:10:27,252 --> 00:10:28,462 Anything can be done. 102 00:10:28,545 --> 00:10:30,625 Well, let them choose someone else for once. 103 00:10:31,381 --> 00:10:33,511 - The room was full of mushers. - Right. 104 00:10:33,591 --> 00:10:35,431 But it's always my husband they come for. 105 00:10:36,511 --> 00:10:38,301 Pick someone with more at stake in this. 106 00:10:41,307 --> 00:10:45,187 I stopped at the hospital. All those children, we know them. 107 00:10:45,854 --> 00:10:47,024 I know. 108 00:10:47,105 --> 00:10:51,065 That little girl that lives next to Mallon and always runs out to pet the dogs. 109 00:10:51,151 --> 00:10:54,491 Sally, who pets everyone's dogs, not just yours. 110 00:10:56,156 --> 00:10:58,316 We know those children. We know their parents. 111 00:10:58,867 --> 00:11:02,197 I understand this. And tomorrow I'll be ashamed. 112 00:11:02,287 --> 00:11:04,327 But right now, I'm sorry, I'm afraid. 113 00:11:06,958 --> 00:11:10,048 It's not the first storm to hit Alaska. 114 00:11:10,128 --> 00:11:11,418 Don't patronize me. 115 00:11:14,924 --> 00:11:16,014 You're right. 116 00:11:45,622 --> 00:11:47,962 Don't take Togo. Fritz could lead. 117 00:11:48,041 --> 00:11:50,131 I'll cross that bridge when and if. 118 00:11:50,210 --> 00:11:52,800 He's 12 years old. You said he's too old to go to Elwald, 119 00:11:52,879 --> 00:11:54,959 and that isn't even a quarter of this distance. 120 00:11:55,048 --> 00:11:56,798 You're upsetting yourself for nothing. 121 00:11:57,592 --> 00:11:59,012 Let's go to sleep. 122 00:12:10,188 --> 00:12:12,748 I must say this before you make a decision you'll forever regret. 123 00:12:14,943 --> 00:12:18,573 You're more attached to him than you know, and you're about to run him to his death. 124 00:12:19,030 --> 00:12:22,620 And you're not prepared for what it's going to do to you, I promise you. 125 00:12:24,160 --> 00:12:25,250 Is that all? 126 00:12:26,705 --> 00:12:30,165 He is, of course, your dog, and a working dog. 127 00:12:30,250 --> 00:12:33,250 And, were I more pragmatic, I wouldn't love him, but I do. 128 00:12:34,087 --> 00:12:39,177 And I'm just so heartsick that these are my last hours with him. 129 00:12:40,051 --> 00:12:41,141 Two things. 130 00:12:42,637 --> 00:12:48,097 One: if I were to try for Nenana in these conditions without him, 131 00:12:48,184 --> 00:12:51,234 these would be your last hours with me. 132 00:12:51,312 --> 00:12:56,532 And two: at this hour, nothing's decided. 133 00:13:01,698 --> 00:13:02,818 You were saying? 134 00:13:09,247 --> 00:13:10,247 George? 135 00:13:10,874 --> 00:13:12,674 Evening, George. 136 00:13:12,751 --> 00:13:14,961 It appears your forecast is correct, 137 00:13:15,420 --> 00:13:17,300 if my journey out here is any evidence. 138 00:13:19,549 --> 00:13:22,549 The wind almost stopped me dead a couple times. 139 00:13:24,387 --> 00:13:29,347 Oh, I... I talked with Fairbanks. There will be no airborne rescue of Nome. 140 00:13:30,643 --> 00:13:36,523 So, the time of the dog, not only continues, it's at hand. 141 00:13:36,608 --> 00:13:39,438 So, you felt the need to come all the way out here to share this news? 142 00:13:39,527 --> 00:13:41,357 Some things you need to say to a man's face, 143 00:13:41,446 --> 00:13:42,816 isn't that right, Mr. Mayor? 144 00:13:44,199 --> 00:13:45,199 Yeah. 145 00:13:46,159 --> 00:13:47,289 Coffee or whiskey? 146 00:13:47,911 --> 00:13:50,211 Whiskey. If it's no trouble. 147 00:13:50,288 --> 00:13:53,248 No. No trouble. I'm having both. 148 00:14:06,971 --> 00:14:08,721 We have to be smart about this. 149 00:14:10,392 --> 00:14:12,892 You're going to ride in the sled when I tell you. 150 00:14:13,978 --> 00:14:16,518 No squirming. No arguments, for once. 151 00:14:22,320 --> 00:14:23,910 Got one more in ya, pup? 152 00:14:30,954 --> 00:14:32,044 Almost there. 153 00:14:34,499 --> 00:14:35,539 Good dogs. 154 00:14:44,676 --> 00:14:45,756 I've seen worse. 155 00:14:46,678 --> 00:14:47,848 We could have a picnic. 156 00:14:55,270 --> 00:14:56,860 I'll be back before you know it. 157 00:14:57,439 --> 00:14:58,859 I won't even make the bed. 158 00:15:13,121 --> 00:15:15,581 Hey. Hey. 159 00:15:17,667 --> 00:15:19,457 You bring him back to me, okay? 160 00:15:21,212 --> 00:15:22,712 And you come back to me. 161 00:15:25,717 --> 00:15:26,887 Good boy. 162 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:44,150 All right, Togo! 163 00:15:47,697 --> 00:15:48,777 Hike! 164 00:16:31,116 --> 00:16:32,406 Come on, Togo! 165 00:16:32,492 --> 00:16:34,082 Come on, Togo! 166 00:16:35,912 --> 00:16:38,962 Come on! There you go. 167 00:16:39,708 --> 00:16:40,708 Hike! 168 00:17:07,694 --> 00:17:08,704 Here it comes. 169 00:18:03,124 --> 00:18:05,004 You tend to your business, I'll tend to mine. 170 00:18:05,085 --> 00:18:08,205 How can it not be my business? No dogs in the bedroom. 171 00:18:08,296 --> 00:18:09,836 He's in such pain. 172 00:18:09,923 --> 00:18:11,093 And in our bedroom. 173 00:18:13,385 --> 00:18:16,345 A runt has more imperfections than just size, you know. 174 00:18:17,055 --> 00:18:20,425 Nature has its ways of sorting things out. 175 00:18:20,517 --> 00:18:23,017 Oh, should I just drown him and speed up the process? 176 00:18:23,520 --> 00:18:30,150 I'm just saying that Alaska can be particularly cruel to the weak. 177 00:18:30,235 --> 00:18:32,025 I don't need to be reminded. 178 00:18:34,739 --> 00:18:37,279 What does it cost you to give this life a chance? 179 00:18:39,619 --> 00:18:42,829 What does he bring to the breed if he survives? 180 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,400 The heart of a survivor. 181 00:18:50,338 --> 00:18:51,628 You're too softhearted. 182 00:18:53,299 --> 00:18:54,799 You're too Norwegian. 183 00:19:16,406 --> 00:19:17,446 Get! 184 00:19:18,867 --> 00:19:20,697 Why don't you put him back in the kennel? 185 00:19:20,785 --> 00:19:23,405 Every time I do, he digs his way out. 186 00:19:23,997 --> 00:19:28,747 I'm spending more daylight filling holes than doing the work I should be doing. 187 00:19:31,087 --> 00:19:32,917 I catch you, you'll be sorry. 188 00:19:38,011 --> 00:19:39,551 It's all your fault. 189 00:19:39,637 --> 00:19:42,017 I thought you were supposed to be a great trainer of dogs. 190 00:19:42,098 --> 00:19:43,518 He's a devil. 191 00:19:43,600 --> 00:19:46,600 Saint Francis of Assisi would shoot this dog. 192 00:19:47,395 --> 00:19:48,395 Hey! 193 00:19:49,731 --> 00:19:51,901 - He's fast. - He's mentally deficient. 194 00:19:52,442 --> 00:19:55,322 He's undersized, unintelligent, untrainable. 195 00:19:56,363 --> 00:19:57,363 Yeah, but he's fast. 196 00:19:57,447 --> 00:19:59,567 I think you ought to give him a chance on the sled. 197 00:19:59,657 --> 00:20:02,577 Stop, stop. That is not a sled dog. 198 00:20:02,660 --> 00:20:03,790 Never ever. 199 00:20:03,870 --> 00:20:05,540 Well, you won't know until you try. 200 00:20:05,622 --> 00:20:07,292 I won't know, period. 201 00:20:07,374 --> 00:20:09,584 Victor Anderson wants one of my pups. 202 00:20:10,377 --> 00:20:12,497 Well, I have the dog to give him. 203 00:20:19,219 --> 00:20:20,719 Every year we go through this. 204 00:20:20,804 --> 00:20:22,264 Not like this. 205 00:20:22,347 --> 00:20:24,517 How many times do I have to remind you? 206 00:20:24,599 --> 00:20:28,139 They're not pets. They're not our friends. They're not our children. 207 00:20:29,020 --> 00:20:30,690 They're animals. 208 00:20:30,772 --> 00:20:31,942 Work animals. 209 00:20:42,158 --> 00:20:43,158 Serves you right. 210 00:21:03,179 --> 00:21:04,179 Here you go. 211 00:22:02,238 --> 00:22:03,868 Here's your damn dog back! 212 00:22:21,549 --> 00:22:25,469 Well, shame on you, Victor Anderson. If you didn't want a dog, why bother us? 213 00:22:25,553 --> 00:22:27,433 He's more trouble than he's worth. 214 00:22:32,519 --> 00:22:33,729 I think I'll go down now. 215 00:22:35,313 --> 00:22:36,483 I would. 216 00:22:58,753 --> 00:22:59,753 Hike up! 217 00:23:17,772 --> 00:23:19,022 The easy part is over. 218 00:23:34,205 --> 00:23:36,035 Easy! Easy! 219 00:23:55,352 --> 00:23:57,852 Whoa. Whoa! 220 00:23:58,855 --> 00:23:59,855 Haw! 221 00:24:04,611 --> 00:24:05,951 Whoa! 222 00:24:35,392 --> 00:24:39,272 Togo! Hike up! Hike up! 223 00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:50,070 Togo! Togo! Hike up! Hike up! 224 00:25:01,209 --> 00:25:02,499 Pull, Togo! 225 00:25:02,585 --> 00:25:03,835 Pull! 226 00:25:05,171 --> 00:25:06,171 Pull up! 227 00:25:13,346 --> 00:25:14,346 Pull! 228 00:25:14,431 --> 00:25:17,141 Togo! Pull up! 229 00:25:26,693 --> 00:25:27,693 Yes! 230 00:25:28,236 --> 00:25:29,236 Yes! 231 00:25:35,994 --> 00:25:37,004 Good dog! 232 00:25:42,959 --> 00:25:44,629 Yes! Pull. 233 00:25:55,138 --> 00:25:56,428 Good dog! 234 00:25:56,514 --> 00:25:59,434 Next time I go the wrong way, you tell me to go to hell. 235 00:26:00,894 --> 00:26:02,024 Good dog. 236 00:26:03,188 --> 00:26:04,648 Good dogs, all! 237 00:26:11,112 --> 00:26:13,072 We have to take care of this at the roadhouse. 238 00:26:31,758 --> 00:26:32,838 Thank you. 239 00:26:54,364 --> 00:26:56,834 Her name, Atiqtalik, 240 00:26:56,908 --> 00:26:59,948 means "polar bear mother." 241 00:27:01,204 --> 00:27:03,674 Your dog is her cub now. 242 00:27:17,345 --> 00:27:18,345 She can fix. 243 00:27:22,350 --> 00:27:23,640 What does her song say? 244 00:27:25,937 --> 00:27:27,977 "Don't worry, young one... 245 00:27:29,441 --> 00:27:32,361 soon it'll be warm again." 246 00:27:38,908 --> 00:27:42,828 When I finish, you'll start serving life in prison. 247 00:27:43,747 --> 00:27:45,867 All because I married a Belgian. 248 00:27:47,334 --> 00:27:49,094 Belgium is a soft country. 249 00:27:49,794 --> 00:27:52,964 Norway, on the other hand, is a harsh country. 250 00:27:53,965 --> 00:27:57,335 In Brussels, you'd sleep in a feathered bed 251 00:27:58,011 --> 00:27:59,931 and have salmon roe for breakfast. 252 00:28:00,764 --> 00:28:03,644 In Storfjord, your days would be numbered. 253 00:28:05,226 --> 00:28:08,976 Lesson number one: never marry a Belgian. 254 00:28:09,606 --> 00:28:11,316 They're sentimental. 255 00:28:11,399 --> 00:28:13,229 And you end up doing days of hard work 256 00:28:13,318 --> 00:28:16,448 for a problem that a bullet solves in seconds. 257 00:28:17,614 --> 00:28:22,704 Lesson number two: for you, Satan, or whatever your name is... 258 00:28:25,080 --> 00:28:26,750 try digging out now. 259 00:28:44,057 --> 00:28:45,137 Okay! 260 00:28:48,186 --> 00:28:50,686 Hike! Hike! Good job! 261 00:31:10,286 --> 00:31:11,956 Hey! Stop that! 262 00:31:12,831 --> 00:31:14,081 Hey! 263 00:31:14,165 --> 00:31:17,535 Hey, stop that! Hey! 264 00:31:17,627 --> 00:31:20,167 Whoa! 265 00:31:21,297 --> 00:31:22,757 No! No! 266 00:31:23,925 --> 00:31:24,925 You. 267 00:31:30,473 --> 00:31:32,773 Oh, no. 268 00:31:32,851 --> 00:31:35,101 Easy now. Leave it! 269 00:31:35,186 --> 00:31:36,226 Leave it! 270 00:31:37,105 --> 00:31:38,765 No! No! 271 00:31:39,691 --> 00:31:42,191 Leave it! No! 272 00:31:45,989 --> 00:31:47,319 On by! 273 00:31:50,660 --> 00:31:51,660 Leave it! 274 00:31:57,917 --> 00:31:59,207 Leave it alone! 275 00:32:01,838 --> 00:32:02,838 No! 276 00:32:07,177 --> 00:32:08,597 Whoa! 277 00:32:12,557 --> 00:32:13,887 Haw! Haw! 278 00:32:44,381 --> 00:32:45,471 Go! Get! 279 00:32:48,426 --> 00:32:51,716 Since when did you start worrying about keeping people out of the tack room? 280 00:32:51,805 --> 00:32:53,425 This isn't for keeping people out. 281 00:32:55,850 --> 00:32:59,190 You're taking him out of the kennel and putting him in here? 282 00:32:59,270 --> 00:33:00,690 The kennel won't hold him. 283 00:33:01,231 --> 00:33:03,361 - Apparently your dog... - Not my dog. 284 00:33:03,441 --> 00:33:06,111 Your dog, who disrupts my team. 285 00:33:06,194 --> 00:33:08,204 Your dog, who jumps on me 286 00:33:08,279 --> 00:33:10,779 no matter how many knees I put to his chest. 287 00:33:10,865 --> 00:33:13,985 Your dog, who violates the rules of the pack 288 00:33:14,077 --> 00:33:17,537 and upsets the hierarchy I've worked years to establish. 289 00:33:18,373 --> 00:33:22,753 Your cur, who rewards your kind nature with anarchy. 290 00:33:24,754 --> 00:33:26,134 This is for keeping him in. 291 00:33:31,511 --> 00:33:33,141 Was that a piece of our house? 292 00:34:08,131 --> 00:34:09,261 Hey! 293 00:34:09,341 --> 00:34:10,381 Hike! 294 00:34:14,512 --> 00:34:15,512 Good dogs! 295 00:36:39,407 --> 00:36:40,867 Well, good afternoon. 296 00:36:52,337 --> 00:36:53,587 Good luck, little one. 297 00:36:58,593 --> 00:37:00,973 Hey! You again? 298 00:37:01,054 --> 00:37:02,974 Just leave it. Leave it! 299 00:37:03,848 --> 00:37:05,978 Stop! No! 300 00:37:07,268 --> 00:37:11,108 Stop! Let... You little devil. 301 00:37:13,024 --> 00:37:14,614 Hey! Stop that! 302 00:37:25,870 --> 00:37:27,750 When you see Oki, say hello. 303 00:37:27,831 --> 00:37:29,291 Not going to see Oki. 304 00:37:30,041 --> 00:37:31,581 You're gonna cut across the Sound? 305 00:37:31,668 --> 00:37:32,918 It'll save me a day. 306 00:37:33,003 --> 00:37:34,173 It'll cost you your life. 307 00:37:34,254 --> 00:37:35,384 I've done it before. 308 00:37:36,297 --> 00:37:37,667 The ice is unpredictable now. 309 00:37:37,757 --> 00:37:39,547 We'll make it. Listen to me, 310 00:37:40,301 --> 00:37:44,141 stay away from contact with people until I come back with the medicine. 311 00:37:45,765 --> 00:37:48,175 Who would be foolish enough to come here in this weather? 312 00:38:37,650 --> 00:38:38,690 All right, Togo. 313 00:38:41,905 --> 00:38:42,905 Hike! 314 00:39:31,746 --> 00:39:33,916 Good dog! On by! 315 00:39:46,720 --> 00:39:49,640 What, my pups, are we to fear ice now? 316 00:39:50,557 --> 00:39:53,307 He which hath no stomach to this fight. 317 00:39:54,185 --> 00:39:57,475 Let him depart. His passport shall be made. 318 00:39:57,564 --> 00:40:00,574 We will not die in that dog's company. 319 00:40:01,234 --> 00:40:06,454 Old dogs forget but he will remember, with advantages, 320 00:40:06,531 --> 00:40:08,371 the feats he did that day. 321 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:14,580 Then shall our names familiar in his mouth as household words, 322 00:40:14,664 --> 00:40:16,464 Seppala, the driver, 323 00:40:17,167 --> 00:40:21,047 Fritz and Sally, Molly and Red and Togo, 324 00:40:21,421 --> 00:40:23,761 the great Togo in lead, 325 00:40:23,840 --> 00:40:28,220 be all in their flowing water bowls freshly remembered. 326 00:40:29,012 --> 00:40:34,562 And dogs in Nome, now abed, shall think themselves accursed they were not here. 327 00:40:35,852 --> 00:40:42,532 We few, we happy few, we band of champions. 328 00:40:43,568 --> 00:40:47,278 Now, run, my pups. Run! 329 00:41:18,895 --> 00:41:21,015 Max, get this out to the Associated Press. 330 00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:24,230 People should know what's happening here. 331 00:41:24,901 --> 00:41:26,441 This is all you want to write? 332 00:41:28,029 --> 00:41:29,239 It's all I have in me. 333 00:41:59,269 --> 00:42:01,769 "Temperatures of almost 60 degrees below zero 334 00:42:01,855 --> 00:42:04,475 and winds topping 50 miles an hour." 335 00:42:04,566 --> 00:42:06,816 "Man and dog risk all 336 00:42:07,318 --> 00:42:10,568 on a 640-mile round trip." 337 00:42:10,655 --> 00:42:12,216 With lives in the balance, 338 00:42:12,240 --> 00:42:15,490 a heroic race runs through conditions so terrible we can scarcely imagine. 339 00:42:15,577 --> 00:42:18,264 ...The question on everyone's lips is not "can they get there and back in time?" 340 00:42:18,288 --> 00:42:20,208 but "can they get there and back at all?" 341 00:42:36,681 --> 00:42:39,931 Well done, pups. Well done! 342 00:43:06,836 --> 00:43:07,996 You're trail weary. 343 00:43:09,047 --> 00:43:10,167 I've been worse. 344 00:43:12,342 --> 00:43:13,802 So, to Nulato next? 345 00:43:14,344 --> 00:43:15,804 In an hour. 346 00:43:15,887 --> 00:43:17,677 Why? We bothering you? 347 00:43:18,264 --> 00:43:20,314 Only the white man bothers me. 348 00:43:21,685 --> 00:43:24,055 I only tolerate you because I like your little dog. 349 00:43:24,604 --> 00:43:26,404 You like to bet on my little dog. 350 00:43:27,816 --> 00:43:30,856 There are advantages to being at this roadhouse on race days. 351 00:43:32,112 --> 00:43:36,832 Most dogs, when they reach Shaktoolik, have worry in their eyes. 352 00:43:37,867 --> 00:43:40,037 This one, never. 353 00:43:40,745 --> 00:43:42,245 This one wants to hurry up and win 354 00:43:42,330 --> 00:43:44,920 so he can chase caribou and fight polar bear. 355 00:43:47,252 --> 00:43:48,802 I tried to give him away, you know. 356 00:43:52,590 --> 00:43:53,590 Twice. 357 00:44:21,536 --> 00:44:22,746 Whoa! 358 00:44:30,712 --> 00:44:33,342 When I told my father I was leaving for Alaska, 359 00:44:33,965 --> 00:44:36,045 he laughed at me. He thought it was a joke. 360 00:44:36,801 --> 00:44:38,851 Only an idiot would be foolish enough 361 00:44:38,928 --> 00:44:42,468 to give up an apprenticeship in Norway to be unemployed in America. 362 00:44:44,351 --> 00:44:47,811 When I said the word "gold," he slapped me. 363 00:44:48,813 --> 00:44:52,153 And he promised me that the only gold I would find in Alaska 364 00:44:52,233 --> 00:44:53,993 was what I'd brought in my own teeth. 365 00:44:56,029 --> 00:44:57,529 He was right. 366 00:44:59,324 --> 00:45:01,624 I've dug so many holes in this country. 367 00:45:02,577 --> 00:45:06,747 The law of averages would say that, at least, I'd find some gold but... 368 00:45:08,875 --> 00:45:09,875 no. 369 00:45:13,254 --> 00:45:16,554 My business is dogs, not pets. Working dogs. 370 00:45:16,633 --> 00:45:18,803 And hard decisions have to be made. 371 00:45:19,552 --> 00:45:21,892 If this is the hardest decision we ever have to make, 372 00:45:21,971 --> 00:45:24,221 then you can consider us lucky. 373 00:45:26,935 --> 00:45:29,395 You see spirit and something lovable. 374 00:45:30,355 --> 00:45:34,605 All I see is trouble, waste of time, and failure. 375 00:45:37,028 --> 00:45:38,028 Step up! 376 00:45:48,415 --> 00:45:51,745 Oh, he's just perfect. 377 00:45:51,835 --> 00:45:54,745 He's an escape artist, though, as I told you before. 378 00:45:54,838 --> 00:45:58,588 Oh. Don't worry about that. I want him to be an inside dog. 379 00:45:58,675 --> 00:45:59,965 Well, inside might not... 380 00:46:00,051 --> 00:46:02,101 Last winter I had wolves at the door. 381 00:46:02,178 --> 00:46:04,848 They would jump up at the window and stare at me. 382 00:46:05,598 --> 00:46:09,268 Trust me. There were no wolves where I was raised in Ireland. 383 00:46:09,352 --> 00:46:13,732 But with this lad by my side, no wolf would dare enter. 384 00:46:13,815 --> 00:46:15,475 Unless he opens the door for them. 385 00:46:16,526 --> 00:46:17,736 I beg pardon? 386 00:46:17,819 --> 00:46:21,819 Uh, my wife was just reminding me that we must be going. 387 00:46:21,906 --> 00:46:25,076 So, please, enjoy your puppy. 388 00:46:25,160 --> 00:46:26,240 Thank you. 389 00:46:32,584 --> 00:46:36,634 It's okay, sweetheart. This is your new home. 390 00:46:41,051 --> 00:46:42,091 He'll be fine. 391 00:47:02,489 --> 00:47:03,569 Okay, hike! 392 00:47:11,081 --> 00:47:12,871 That's enough now, you daft mongrel. 393 00:47:13,875 --> 00:47:15,745 You're no dog, you're the Devil himself. 394 00:47:16,586 --> 00:47:19,916 That's it. You go ahead and run. 395 00:47:20,006 --> 00:47:21,626 There's no way out. 396 00:47:22,842 --> 00:47:24,592 All the time in the world. 397 00:47:24,678 --> 00:47:27,758 You'll run till you're tired, then we can start working on your manners. 398 00:47:28,848 --> 00:47:32,308 Oi! This isn't Little Creek anymore, you little hooligan. 399 00:47:41,027 --> 00:47:42,947 Ah, that's better. 400 00:47:43,613 --> 00:47:45,033 There you are. 401 00:47:45,115 --> 00:47:46,445 Now, you be a good boy 402 00:47:47,117 --> 00:47:49,367 and I'll fix you a nice beef steak for your lunch. 403 00:47:53,957 --> 00:47:55,497 Oh, no! No. No! 404 00:48:13,893 --> 00:48:15,603 Hike! Hike! 405 00:48:20,567 --> 00:48:21,567 Whoa! 406 00:48:55,352 --> 00:48:56,602 Whoa! 407 00:49:08,156 --> 00:49:09,156 Hey! 408 00:49:10,492 --> 00:49:13,202 Every predator for miles smells that blood. 409 00:49:13,995 --> 00:49:15,285 I'm trying to save your life. 410 00:49:16,331 --> 00:49:18,291 Okay, Russky, come with me. 411 00:49:19,250 --> 00:49:21,750 Come on, up. Up. 412 00:49:24,339 --> 00:49:25,339 Good dog. 413 00:49:27,217 --> 00:49:29,757 Oh, no. Don't even think about it. 414 00:49:37,811 --> 00:49:40,941 All right. Last row for you. 415 00:49:44,067 --> 00:49:50,447 Meet Ilsa. Try something with her and I promise you, you'll regret it. 416 00:50:12,971 --> 00:50:14,721 All right, hike! 417 00:50:50,008 --> 00:50:52,888 Well, you outran Ilsa. Let's see how you do on point. 418 00:50:54,971 --> 00:50:55,971 Good. 419 00:50:57,682 --> 00:50:58,732 Come on. 420 00:51:02,062 --> 00:51:03,312 Good dog, Jens. 421 00:51:58,284 --> 00:51:59,374 Haw! 422 00:52:10,380 --> 00:52:11,800 Good pups. 423 00:52:47,959 --> 00:52:51,669 Good dogs! Good dogs! Good dogs! 424 00:53:02,098 --> 00:53:05,058 Whoa! 425 00:53:05,143 --> 00:53:07,443 It's the most extraordinary thing I've ever seen. 426 00:53:07,520 --> 00:53:09,610 He's not a sled dog, he's a lead dog. 427 00:53:09,689 --> 00:53:12,479 You should have seen him. He outran every single one of them. 428 00:53:13,360 --> 00:53:16,860 - He's magnificent. A future champion. - There's blood. 429 00:53:16,946 --> 00:53:20,906 You were right. He's got the heart of a survivor. 430 00:53:22,869 --> 00:53:24,999 I'm going to name him Togo. 431 00:53:25,789 --> 00:53:29,919 After the admiral. An underdog named for an underdog. 432 00:53:31,211 --> 00:53:32,301 It's fitting. 433 00:53:44,641 --> 00:53:47,561 Honey! Come here, please? 434 00:53:52,148 --> 00:53:54,438 Come. Step around him, he won't move. 435 00:53:54,526 --> 00:53:57,736 - I have things to do. - Over here. Next to me. 436 00:53:58,697 --> 00:53:59,697 Please. 437 00:54:07,330 --> 00:54:10,920 Okay, now, call him. Ask him to come into the bedroom. 438 00:54:11,793 --> 00:54:12,793 Do it. 439 00:54:14,087 --> 00:54:15,167 Togo, come. 440 00:54:15,797 --> 00:54:16,837 Again. 441 00:54:16,923 --> 00:54:20,013 - This isn't fair. - Of course it is. Again, more demanding. 442 00:54:21,636 --> 00:54:24,506 Togo, you come in this room! 443 00:54:24,597 --> 00:54:26,977 My husband is trying to prove a point of some kind. 444 00:54:28,143 --> 00:54:30,443 No dogs in the bedroom. 445 00:54:31,646 --> 00:54:33,816 Good boy, Togo. Good boy. 446 00:54:34,357 --> 00:54:36,647 Outstanding! 447 00:54:37,736 --> 00:54:38,736 Good dog. 448 00:54:39,446 --> 00:54:41,549 I don't care what the governor says, he's wrong. 449 00:54:41,573 --> 00:54:44,083 Irrespective of how you feel, Jafet... 450 00:54:44,159 --> 00:54:45,579 Well, Mrs. Seppala. 451 00:54:45,660 --> 00:54:48,660 Any musher would be lucky to survive 30 miles in this weather. 452 00:54:48,747 --> 00:54:51,327 Seppala's the only one who can survive a longer run! 453 00:54:51,416 --> 00:54:53,336 What's this nonsense about a relay? 454 00:54:53,710 --> 00:54:56,550 Uh, now, Constance, this is a good thing. 455 00:54:56,629 --> 00:54:58,049 - Is this it? - It is. 456 00:54:58,131 --> 00:55:00,341 Fourteen teams stationed at these roadhouses 457 00:55:00,425 --> 00:55:02,215 between Nenana and Shaktoolik. 458 00:55:02,302 --> 00:55:04,392 Even as we speak, they're running short legs 459 00:55:04,471 --> 00:55:06,471 passing the serum from one sled to the next. 460 00:55:06,556 --> 00:55:10,556 And on our end, two teams will go out to these roadhouses and wait for Seppala. 461 00:55:11,895 --> 00:55:14,055 We'll need another sled for the relay on our end. 462 00:55:14,147 --> 00:55:16,000 Is it possible you can put together a team for us? 463 00:55:16,024 --> 00:55:17,034 Of course. 464 00:55:17,108 --> 00:55:18,544 Do you think your man, Gunnar, would drive them? 465 00:55:18,568 --> 00:55:19,988 - Of course. - Good. 466 00:55:20,070 --> 00:55:21,610 The governor came up with this when? 467 00:55:21,696 --> 00:55:23,406 Twelve hours after Seppala departed. 468 00:55:24,657 --> 00:55:27,537 Leave it to a politician to change the rules after the game's begun. 469 00:55:27,619 --> 00:55:29,999 No. This is a good thing. 470 00:55:30,080 --> 00:55:31,540 Seppala won't have to go as far. 471 00:55:31,623 --> 00:55:34,173 - But he has no idea there's a relay. - Exactly. 472 00:55:34,250 --> 00:55:36,290 Just... Please. 473 00:55:38,046 --> 00:55:40,296 Now, by best estimate, 474 00:55:40,382 --> 00:55:44,142 the relay should be at the roadhouse in Shaktoolik tomorrow. 475 00:55:44,219 --> 00:55:46,259 Now the governor's people have worked this all out. 476 00:55:46,346 --> 00:55:49,516 And by all accounts, when Seppala arrives at Shaktoolik tomorrow, 477 00:55:49,599 --> 00:55:51,429 the serum will be there waiting for him. 478 00:55:51,518 --> 00:55:52,918 He's in Shaktoolik now. 479 00:55:54,020 --> 00:55:56,900 - Or past it. - What? No. No, that's not possible. 480 00:55:56,981 --> 00:56:00,321 I know my husband, if there's ice on Norton Sound, he's crossed it. 481 00:56:00,402 --> 00:56:02,702 In this storm? Surely he's not going to try and cross... 482 00:56:02,779 --> 00:56:03,859 Of course he would. 483 00:56:04,656 --> 00:56:07,656 Going around the Sound is 90 miles, crossing it is 20. 484 00:56:07,742 --> 00:56:08,992 He saves a day each way. 485 00:56:09,077 --> 00:56:12,537 George, if there's ice on the Sound, he's crossed it. 486 00:56:13,373 --> 00:56:14,934 And if they don't meet at the roadhouse... 487 00:56:14,958 --> 00:56:18,208 Then they'll just hook up on the trail. 488 00:56:18,294 --> 00:56:21,214 There are 1,000 ways a driver can miss another on the trail. 489 00:56:21,297 --> 00:56:23,217 A thousand ways in good weather. 490 00:56:24,092 --> 00:56:26,012 - You know this. - I do. 491 00:56:26,094 --> 00:56:29,474 So, if my husband doesn't magically run into your relay team, 492 00:56:29,556 --> 00:56:30,658 the one he is not even looking for, 493 00:56:30,682 --> 00:56:32,392 he and his dogs will drive on for Nenana. 494 00:56:32,475 --> 00:56:35,725 And your relay driver, when he realizes he's missed them, 495 00:56:35,812 --> 00:56:37,232 he will set out on his own. 496 00:56:37,313 --> 00:56:38,673 But he wouldn't do that, would he? 497 00:56:38,732 --> 00:56:41,072 - Who is it? Who's the driver? - Henry Ivanoff. 498 00:56:41,151 --> 00:56:43,031 Well, Henry is tough and brave, 499 00:56:43,111 --> 00:56:46,161 and he's not going to sit in front of a warm fire while children die. 500 00:56:46,239 --> 00:56:47,659 I promise you that. He'll set out. 501 00:56:50,285 --> 00:56:51,405 Well, can he make it? 502 00:56:54,122 --> 00:56:55,962 I won't speculate on the life of a musher. 503 00:56:58,585 --> 00:56:59,585 Can he? 504 00:57:01,588 --> 00:57:04,048 My guess is we don't find Henry until the spring. 505 00:57:05,050 --> 00:57:08,600 Not him, not his dogs, not the serum, until the thaw. 506 00:57:09,512 --> 00:57:10,512 But, uh... 507 00:57:10,597 --> 00:57:12,137 Four days ago, in this very room, 508 00:57:12,223 --> 00:57:15,563 we concluded only one man and one dog could make that run. 509 00:57:16,269 --> 00:57:18,019 And nothing has changed but the weather. 510 00:57:20,106 --> 00:57:21,226 It's worse. 511 00:57:21,858 --> 00:57:24,438 All those children... lost. 512 00:57:29,449 --> 00:57:30,619 Pray they meet. 513 00:57:53,515 --> 00:57:55,055 Gee! Gee! 514 00:57:58,770 --> 00:58:01,560 Gee! Gee! Round. 515 00:58:10,824 --> 00:58:13,244 Hike! Gee! Gee! 516 00:58:22,669 --> 00:58:24,549 Leave it. Leave it! 517 00:58:25,171 --> 00:58:27,261 Haw! Haw! 518 00:58:30,176 --> 00:58:31,176 Leave it! 519 00:58:33,304 --> 00:58:34,314 Haw! 520 00:59:09,007 --> 00:59:10,007 No, no, no, no, no. 521 00:59:10,842 --> 00:59:12,052 Sepp, no! 522 00:59:12,802 --> 00:59:13,802 Don't! 523 00:59:15,680 --> 00:59:17,220 Sepp! Sepp! 524 00:59:19,059 --> 00:59:20,309 I have the serum! 525 00:59:21,936 --> 00:59:24,686 No! I have the serum. 526 00:59:25,857 --> 00:59:26,857 Sepp! 527 00:59:28,026 --> 00:59:29,066 Sepp! 528 00:59:30,320 --> 00:59:31,320 No! 529 01:00:33,842 --> 01:00:37,682 Bill Shannon took the first leg. Ran through the night. 530 01:00:38,513 --> 01:00:39,973 Fifty below, easy. 531 01:00:40,724 --> 01:00:43,734 He arrived in Tolovana with his face black from frostbite. 532 01:00:45,061 --> 01:00:47,151 He passed on to Ed Kallands. 533 01:00:47,731 --> 01:00:50,981 They had to pour hot water on his hands 'cause they were frozen to the sled. 534 01:00:52,819 --> 01:00:54,199 Then went Tommy Patsy. 535 01:00:56,197 --> 01:00:57,317 Then Jackscrew. 536 01:00:58,199 --> 01:01:00,699 But none of us are as tough as you, Sepp. 537 01:01:07,167 --> 01:01:08,877 - Sepp? - Yeah, what? 538 01:01:10,211 --> 01:01:11,211 You okay? 539 01:01:12,797 --> 01:01:15,427 Of course. Never better. 540 01:01:20,764 --> 01:01:22,024 What about him? 541 01:01:22,098 --> 01:01:23,138 What about him? 542 01:01:24,559 --> 01:01:26,269 Please take this the right way, okay? 543 01:01:27,979 --> 01:01:31,229 That, right there, is the best dog I've ever known... 544 01:01:33,026 --> 01:01:35,236 but what I'm looking at is a spent animal. 545 01:01:36,613 --> 01:01:40,123 He is. This storm just about broke all my pups. 546 01:01:42,118 --> 01:01:44,698 I wouldn't be a true friend if I didn't speak my mind and... 547 01:01:50,043 --> 01:01:52,923 Leave him here. I'll take good care of him till the weather breaks. 548 01:01:53,004 --> 01:01:54,094 He's my lead! 549 01:01:56,257 --> 01:01:58,757 Now do yourself a favor and tend to your own. 550 01:02:04,474 --> 01:02:05,484 Sure, Sepp. 551 01:02:13,066 --> 01:02:14,106 I'm sorry. 552 01:02:15,360 --> 01:02:17,780 I shouldn't have spoken to you like that. 553 01:02:17,862 --> 01:02:19,492 Yeah, don't give it a second thought. 554 01:02:19,572 --> 01:02:22,492 No, that was shameful of me. 555 01:02:23,368 --> 01:02:25,948 Especially since what you said was out of kindness. 556 01:02:28,206 --> 01:02:29,456 Whatever happens tomorrow, 557 01:02:29,541 --> 01:02:32,591 fortune or fault, is mine and mine to reconcile. 558 01:02:33,586 --> 01:02:36,126 But I thank you, Henry, for thinking of the dog. 559 01:02:38,508 --> 01:02:39,678 Not many do. 560 01:02:45,724 --> 01:02:48,144 "To sleep, to sleep. 561 01:02:49,144 --> 01:02:50,984 The long bright day is done. 562 01:02:51,980 --> 01:02:54,520 And darkness rises from the fall of the sun. 563 01:02:56,067 --> 01:02:58,487 To sleep, to sleep. 564 01:02:59,696 --> 01:03:02,906 Whate'er thy joys, they vanish with the day. 565 01:03:04,034 --> 01:03:08,204 Whate'er thy griefs, in sleep they fade away. 566 01:03:09,164 --> 01:03:11,424 To sleep, to sleep. 567 01:03:12,208 --> 01:03:16,548 Sleep mournful heart and let the past be past. 568 01:03:17,172 --> 01:03:19,262 Sleep, happy soul. 569 01:03:20,216 --> 01:03:22,796 All life will sleep at last. 570 01:03:24,846 --> 01:03:25,846 To sleep. 571 01:03:27,515 --> 01:03:28,765 To sleep." 572 01:03:32,729 --> 01:03:34,649 Still time for me to place a bet? 573 01:03:34,731 --> 01:03:36,571 Thanks for your hospitality. 574 01:03:36,649 --> 01:03:37,939 Looks like I was wrong. 575 01:03:38,026 --> 01:03:41,696 You weren't wrong. The die is cast. We'll make it. 576 01:03:52,415 --> 01:03:54,785 All right, Togo! Hike! 577 01:03:59,547 --> 01:04:01,047 He's going across the Sound again. 578 01:04:01,925 --> 01:04:03,585 Seppala, no! 579 01:04:04,761 --> 01:04:06,471 He knows what his dogs have left. 580 01:04:07,639 --> 01:04:10,019 For him, it's the Sound or nothing. 581 01:04:48,388 --> 01:04:49,388 Hike! 582 01:05:04,237 --> 01:05:05,237 Gee! Gee! 583 01:05:18,209 --> 01:05:19,339 Haw! Haw! 584 01:05:22,797 --> 01:05:24,167 Good puppies! 585 01:05:25,508 --> 01:05:26,678 Good dogs! 586 01:05:27,635 --> 01:05:29,505 Good dog! Go puppies! 587 01:05:30,180 --> 01:05:31,180 Go! 588 01:05:32,515 --> 01:05:33,925 Hold up, Togo! 589 01:05:36,353 --> 01:05:37,563 Good dog. 590 01:05:39,022 --> 01:05:40,022 Run! 591 01:05:42,275 --> 01:05:43,275 Run! 592 01:05:45,153 --> 01:05:46,203 On straight. 593 01:05:49,074 --> 01:05:50,454 Run, puppies! 594 01:06:02,253 --> 01:06:04,513 - Come on! Come on! - Go, go, go, go, go! 595 01:06:09,636 --> 01:06:12,636 Twenty more dollars on Leonhard Seppala. 596 01:06:13,515 --> 01:06:15,925 Twenty dollars on those itty-bitty dogs. 597 01:06:16,017 --> 01:06:17,887 Scotty Allan, the greatest musher of all time, 598 01:06:17,977 --> 01:06:20,017 left the last roadhouse in the lead. 599 01:06:20,105 --> 01:06:21,225 Friend, this race is over. 600 01:06:35,662 --> 01:06:36,962 You see that? 601 01:06:37,038 --> 01:06:39,288 That's the best dog team in the world, right there. 602 01:06:40,375 --> 01:06:42,915 - Hike! Hike! - They know who they are, 603 01:06:43,003 --> 01:06:45,013 time for us to find out who we are. 604 01:06:46,965 --> 01:06:50,635 Go! Come on, puppies! 605 01:06:50,719 --> 01:06:53,219 Haw! Haw! 606 01:06:53,304 --> 01:06:58,234 Haw! Haw! Haw! Haw! 607 01:06:58,309 --> 01:06:59,729 Hike! Good dog! 608 01:07:07,235 --> 01:07:09,355 Come on, dogs! Come on, dogs! 609 01:07:09,446 --> 01:07:12,816 Hike! Hike! Hike! Hike! 610 01:07:12,907 --> 01:07:17,947 Good dogs! Good dogs! Good dogs! 611 01:07:18,038 --> 01:07:19,038 Hike, doggy! 612 01:07:24,294 --> 01:07:25,504 Whoo-hoo! 613 01:07:27,756 --> 01:07:28,966 Wait a minute. 614 01:07:29,049 --> 01:07:30,379 That's not Scotty. 615 01:07:32,886 --> 01:07:33,966 Who is that? 616 01:07:34,054 --> 01:07:38,814 That, my friends, is Leonhard Seppala and his itty-bitty dogs. 617 01:07:38,892 --> 01:07:42,152 Whoo! 618 01:07:53,531 --> 01:07:55,951 Whoa! 619 01:08:00,580 --> 01:08:01,960 Congratulations, Sepp. 620 01:08:08,797 --> 01:08:10,507 Togo. Hi. 621 01:08:10,924 --> 01:08:13,934 Well done. You did it. 622 01:08:14,552 --> 01:08:15,762 Good boy. 623 01:08:29,818 --> 01:08:32,148 Did you ever think we'd have such a thing on our wall? 624 01:08:32,237 --> 01:08:35,657 I never thought we'd have $5,000 in prize money. 625 01:08:35,740 --> 01:08:37,700 Prize money you can't hang on a wall. 626 01:08:37,784 --> 01:08:40,754 Actually, you can if you have enough pins. 627 01:08:42,330 --> 01:08:44,460 All thanks to this troublemaker. 628 01:08:45,417 --> 01:08:49,047 The only one who never underestimated you, was you. 629 01:08:49,129 --> 01:08:52,339 And my genius wife. 630 01:08:52,424 --> 01:08:54,974 My beautiful, genius wife. 631 01:09:25,457 --> 01:09:26,457 Haw! 632 01:09:28,710 --> 01:09:29,710 Haw! 633 01:09:47,979 --> 01:09:49,019 Hike up! 634 01:10:24,516 --> 01:10:25,516 Hike up! 635 01:10:30,188 --> 01:10:31,518 Up! Up! Up! 636 01:11:00,301 --> 01:11:01,301 Run! 637 01:11:10,395 --> 01:11:11,475 Hike up! 638 01:11:38,882 --> 01:11:40,882 Togo! Hike up! Go! 639 01:11:48,975 --> 01:11:49,975 Good dog! 640 01:11:51,519 --> 01:11:53,019 Good dog! 641 01:11:54,564 --> 01:11:55,944 Run puppies! 642 01:12:05,992 --> 01:12:06,992 We made it. 643 01:12:09,954 --> 01:12:11,414 We made it! 644 01:12:14,876 --> 01:12:16,586 Whoa! Whoa! 645 01:13:09,973 --> 01:13:12,643 No matter what happens, forgive me. 646 01:13:18,481 --> 01:13:21,191 Hike up, Togo! Hike! 647 01:13:26,781 --> 01:13:28,621 Hike up! Hike up! 648 01:13:37,334 --> 01:13:38,544 Pull up, Togo! 649 01:13:39,461 --> 01:13:40,631 Pull! 650 01:13:41,671 --> 01:13:42,841 Pull! 651 01:13:43,256 --> 01:13:45,216 No, Fritz. Wait! Wait! 652 01:13:57,062 --> 01:13:58,062 Yes! 653 01:14:01,483 --> 01:14:02,573 Yes! Hike! 654 01:14:36,101 --> 01:14:38,521 Good boy, Togo! Good dog. 655 01:14:41,314 --> 01:14:42,574 Good dogs, all! 656 01:14:49,155 --> 01:14:50,485 Get up there, puppies. 657 01:15:00,041 --> 01:15:01,381 You know, I can do that. 658 01:15:01,918 --> 01:15:04,048 I'll do it. Drink that. 659 01:15:27,485 --> 01:15:28,485 Why? 660 01:15:40,498 --> 01:15:42,328 The pine stings her eyes. 661 01:15:52,594 --> 01:15:54,354 Thank you for doing this, Gunnar. 662 01:15:54,387 --> 01:15:55,787 Anything I can do to help. 663 01:15:56,139 --> 01:15:58,309 My greatest worry is that he'd be within miles and... 664 01:15:58,391 --> 01:16:00,231 No such thing is going to happen. 665 01:16:00,310 --> 01:16:04,150 Sepp is the best musher I know. Nothing will stop him from getting home. 666 01:16:04,230 --> 01:16:06,440 If you'll outfit the sled, I'll start pulling dogs. 667 01:16:06,524 --> 01:16:08,194 No, no, Mrs. Seppala. I can do both. 668 01:16:08,276 --> 01:16:09,436 You should sleep. 669 01:16:09,527 --> 01:16:11,197 I've had my fill of time in the house. 670 01:16:11,279 --> 01:16:14,819 If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer to fetch dogs. 671 01:16:14,908 --> 01:16:17,908 Sure. And who do you think I should have in lead? 672 01:16:17,994 --> 01:16:21,414 Fox is the best dog left. Paired with Balto. 673 01:16:22,415 --> 01:16:23,535 They won't win any races, 674 01:16:23,625 --> 01:16:25,785 but they'll plow through snow and run home for dinner. 675 01:16:37,347 --> 01:16:38,347 Thank you. 676 01:16:47,148 --> 01:16:48,148 Hike up! 677 01:16:49,359 --> 01:16:50,569 Good dogs. 678 01:16:57,117 --> 01:16:59,327 Pass the word there's chores waiting for him. 679 01:17:00,203 --> 01:17:01,203 Gladly. 680 01:17:06,751 --> 01:17:08,841 Fox, Balto. Hike! 681 01:17:25,478 --> 01:17:26,478 Come with me. 682 01:17:27,105 --> 01:17:28,305 I haven't the time. 683 01:17:29,024 --> 01:17:30,074 Come. 684 01:17:30,150 --> 01:17:31,440 I need to go. 685 01:17:40,201 --> 01:17:41,951 Last night I was worried about you. 686 01:17:43,997 --> 01:17:46,247 Thought you'd bit off more than you could chew. 687 01:17:48,126 --> 01:17:49,206 Then I saw that. 688 01:17:50,837 --> 01:17:52,167 And asked myself... 689 01:17:53,256 --> 01:17:56,756 "Why should Amituk worry about any man... 690 01:17:58,136 --> 01:18:00,756 who cheats death like this?" 691 01:18:17,655 --> 01:18:19,445 Now, you're gonna ride in the sled. 692 01:18:20,200 --> 01:18:22,330 Even if it's just for 20 miles. 693 01:18:28,375 --> 01:18:31,125 Come now, for once ride in the sled. 694 01:18:33,672 --> 01:18:34,672 Stay. 695 01:18:58,071 --> 01:18:59,071 Hike! 696 01:19:44,034 --> 01:19:45,044 Whoa! 697 01:20:03,136 --> 01:20:07,216 Togo! I'm sorry. I can't help you. 698 01:20:08,016 --> 01:20:09,016 I can't see. 699 01:20:09,726 --> 01:20:11,726 We need to get to the next roadhouse. 700 01:20:12,437 --> 01:20:14,437 Take us to Big Joe. I know you can. 701 01:20:16,024 --> 01:20:17,194 I know you can. 702 01:20:18,068 --> 01:20:20,238 Good dog. Good dog. 703 01:20:21,738 --> 01:20:22,738 Hike up! 704 01:21:46,322 --> 01:21:47,572 Oh, no. 705 01:21:58,835 --> 01:21:59,955 Togo? 706 01:22:05,175 --> 01:22:06,175 Togo? 707 01:22:15,143 --> 01:22:18,153 We can't stop. We must keep going. 708 01:22:18,855 --> 01:22:23,775 Do you understand? We stop, we die. 709 01:22:24,569 --> 01:22:29,989 Listen to me, if you stop, you die. 710 01:22:40,335 --> 01:22:41,745 - Seppala? - Oh! 711 01:22:43,421 --> 01:22:45,301 - Seppala, is that you? - Oh, God. 712 01:22:45,382 --> 01:22:47,092 Joe, we're here. 713 01:22:47,175 --> 01:22:48,465 Oh, God. 714 01:22:48,551 --> 01:22:50,391 The serum's in the sled. 715 01:22:54,974 --> 01:22:57,194 You go inside. I'll get the dogs in the barn. 716 01:22:57,268 --> 01:22:58,808 Thank you. But not him. 717 01:23:02,816 --> 01:23:04,776 You're magnificent. 718 01:23:11,741 --> 01:23:15,701 Magnificent. Magnificent. 719 01:23:16,746 --> 01:23:18,456 Seppala! Inside. 720 01:24:01,207 --> 01:24:02,917 Now, Leonhard, your race is over. 721 01:24:03,752 --> 01:24:04,922 Just have a drink with me. 722 01:24:11,843 --> 01:24:14,513 This one, this one here. 723 01:24:15,180 --> 01:24:18,390 All those miles in this storm, 12 years old. 724 01:24:19,517 --> 01:24:21,307 That's just incredible. 725 01:24:21,394 --> 01:24:22,404 Wish me luck. 726 01:24:54,469 --> 01:24:56,139 Charlie, you made it. 727 01:24:56,221 --> 01:24:58,061 - Here. - Is this the serum? 728 01:24:58,139 --> 01:24:59,929 - Warm this. - Aye. 729 01:25:00,016 --> 01:25:01,726 - Good luck, Gunnar. - Thanks. 730 01:25:01,810 --> 01:25:04,650 My dogs, my dogs, they're... I need help. 731 01:25:52,068 --> 01:25:53,398 There is a sled coming to town. 732 01:26:04,205 --> 01:26:05,535 Here. 733 01:26:05,623 --> 01:26:06,713 Thank you. 734 01:26:13,465 --> 01:26:17,755 Sir, I need your name, for the record, sir. 735 01:26:18,345 --> 01:26:19,635 Gunnar Kaasen. 736 01:26:20,263 --> 01:26:23,023 "Gunnar Kaasen." Excellent. 737 01:26:23,099 --> 01:26:26,189 Now, the lead dog. What's its name? 738 01:26:26,269 --> 01:26:27,899 One's called Fox. 739 01:26:27,979 --> 01:26:29,229 "Fox"? 740 01:26:29,314 --> 01:26:32,654 People will think it's a real fox. The other one, what's its name? 741 01:26:33,401 --> 01:26:34,531 Balto. 742 01:26:34,611 --> 01:26:37,111 "Balto." Yeah. Perfect. 743 01:26:37,822 --> 01:26:40,372 Hey! Get that dog's photo there. 744 01:26:40,450 --> 01:26:44,200 That's Balto. Champion savior of Nome. 745 01:27:35,880 --> 01:27:38,220 You ought to stay another week, at least. 746 01:27:38,299 --> 01:27:39,469 Look at this. 747 01:27:39,551 --> 01:27:43,511 I know, I just wish you would allow yourself more... 748 01:27:43,596 --> 01:27:45,556 You've been a fine host, Joe. 749 01:27:45,640 --> 01:27:47,890 You treated me and my dogs like family. 750 01:27:47,976 --> 01:27:49,016 Thank you. 751 01:27:54,566 --> 01:27:55,646 He up to it? 752 01:28:01,573 --> 01:28:02,573 We'll make it. 753 01:29:21,736 --> 01:29:23,026 There's a dog in our bedroom. 754 01:29:23,780 --> 01:29:24,860 Yes, there is. 755 01:29:26,991 --> 01:29:28,471 There's a dog on our bed. 756 01:29:29,369 --> 01:29:32,209 Yes. There is. 757 01:30:11,828 --> 01:30:12,908 You should've woke me. 758 01:30:13,997 --> 01:30:16,077 You had him to yourself long enough. 759 01:30:17,042 --> 01:30:18,882 Then again, to hear the newspapers tell it, 760 01:30:18,960 --> 01:30:21,880 you never left the house. It was all Balto and Gunnar. 761 01:30:21,963 --> 01:30:23,053 We have company. 762 01:30:35,185 --> 01:30:37,805 If you like pears, these'll put a smile on your face, I think. 763 01:30:37,896 --> 01:30:39,186 Thank you, Eileen. Come in. 764 01:30:40,315 --> 01:30:43,815 Ah, bacon. It's the best I ever made right here. 765 01:30:43,902 --> 01:30:45,362 Thank you, Bill. 766 01:30:47,030 --> 01:30:48,030 Hey, Sepp! 767 01:30:48,656 --> 01:30:49,866 Really, this is too much. 768 01:30:50,658 --> 01:30:52,038 Oh, it's not nearly enough. 769 01:30:55,455 --> 01:30:56,655 Good morning, Dan. 770 01:30:58,333 --> 01:30:59,753 Morning, Constance. 771 01:30:59,834 --> 01:31:00,884 Sepp. 772 01:31:01,503 --> 01:31:06,633 So, I had some furs laying around and I stuffed them with straw. 773 01:31:06,716 --> 01:31:09,716 You know, something for between him and the cold floor. 774 01:31:10,470 --> 01:31:11,720 Hey, Togo. 775 01:31:11,805 --> 01:31:13,215 I made something for you. 776 01:31:15,558 --> 01:31:16,938 Well, go on. Give it a try. 777 01:31:19,104 --> 01:31:20,114 Go on. 778 01:31:32,242 --> 01:31:34,702 Thank you, Dan. Have a seat. I'll bring you some coffee. 779 01:31:35,662 --> 01:31:38,672 Uh, no. No, I mean, I'd love to, 780 01:31:38,748 --> 01:31:42,668 but I have my own dogs to attend, 781 01:31:42,752 --> 01:31:44,632 so thank you. 782 01:31:47,257 --> 01:31:48,257 Sepp. 783 01:31:52,762 --> 01:31:53,762 Morning, Dan. 784 01:31:54,597 --> 01:31:56,427 - Knock-knock. - Hello, Mayor. Come in. 785 01:31:59,060 --> 01:32:00,100 That all right, then? 786 01:32:00,186 --> 01:32:01,686 Sepp, thank you so much. 787 01:32:02,856 --> 01:32:04,976 We appreciate everything you've done for us. 788 01:32:05,734 --> 01:32:07,253 Ever so grateful, Mr. Seppala. 789 01:32:07,277 --> 01:32:09,437 - Thank you so much. - Thank you. 790 01:32:23,293 --> 01:32:24,673 No, it's too much. 791 01:32:38,058 --> 01:32:41,558 Hi, Sally. Hello, Dev. Won't you please come in? 792 01:32:48,485 --> 01:32:50,105 - For me? - Mm-hmm. 793 01:32:55,658 --> 01:32:56,868 It's Togo. 794 01:32:57,285 --> 01:32:58,365 Thank you. 795 01:32:59,579 --> 01:33:02,079 Father carved it, but I painted it. 796 01:33:02,832 --> 01:33:05,592 Well, it's a brilliant likeness, Sally. Thank you. 797 01:33:13,635 --> 01:33:15,005 He likes his ears. 798 01:33:16,680 --> 01:33:21,140 Another man would be enjoying all this but not a private man like yourself. 799 01:33:21,226 --> 01:33:22,476 Am I right? 800 01:33:22,894 --> 01:33:24,830 Do you think he stayed warm outside? 801 01:33:24,854 --> 01:33:27,774 I wouldn't have come myself if not for her insistence. 802 01:33:27,857 --> 01:33:30,537 But she wanted to see him... 803 01:33:32,195 --> 01:33:36,825 and I want to be with her at every moment. 804 01:33:36,908 --> 01:33:37,968 Around the side. 805 01:33:37,992 --> 01:33:40,622 - Top? - The top. 806 01:33:40,704 --> 01:33:44,624 It's strange. You know, I... I see her and yet... 807 01:33:45,792 --> 01:33:49,052 I don't know how to describe it, it's unworldly. 808 01:33:49,671 --> 01:33:50,761 Does that make sense? 809 01:33:52,173 --> 01:33:56,553 Kinda like every moment I'm with her seems impossible yet... 810 01:33:58,054 --> 01:33:59,144 yet there she is. 811 01:34:05,311 --> 01:34:06,311 Mr. Seppala... 812 01:34:07,564 --> 01:34:08,984 is Togo going to die? 813 01:34:16,406 --> 01:34:18,196 Leonhard. Leonhard. 814 01:34:21,619 --> 01:34:24,659 Um, excuse me. I have cake for you both so please stay. 815 01:34:24,748 --> 01:34:26,248 - Okay. - Please. 816 01:34:28,793 --> 01:34:30,803 Leonhard, come back inside and apologize. 817 01:34:30,879 --> 01:34:32,209 They're guests in our home. 818 01:34:32,297 --> 01:34:34,167 Apologize for me. 819 01:34:34,257 --> 01:34:36,797 She meant no ill by it. She's just a child. 820 01:34:36,885 --> 01:34:38,795 I know. She spoke the truth. 821 01:34:38,887 --> 01:34:40,927 No, don't say that. He's on the mend. 822 01:34:41,014 --> 01:34:43,984 It's not winter lameness. He doesn't have a bad paw. 823 01:34:44,059 --> 01:34:46,849 You know. You've seen it before. 824 01:34:50,148 --> 01:34:51,648 Well, could another dog have lead? 825 01:34:51,733 --> 01:34:53,153 We'll never know. 826 01:34:53,234 --> 01:34:56,074 Well, I think you should consider a world where Dev has no child 827 01:34:56,154 --> 01:34:57,494 and I have no husband. 828 01:34:57,572 --> 01:35:00,952 Everything you ever tried to warn me about has come true. 829 01:35:03,870 --> 01:35:05,250 I have run him to death. 830 01:35:06,831 --> 01:35:07,961 I have. 831 01:35:10,085 --> 01:35:12,085 And I'm not at all prepared. 832 01:36:32,167 --> 01:36:33,287 Be safe. 833 01:36:59,778 --> 01:37:00,898 I have to go. 834 01:37:02,655 --> 01:37:03,865 I have to go to work. 835 01:37:06,326 --> 01:37:07,406 Forgive me. 836 01:37:26,054 --> 01:37:28,644 Togo. Togo! Hey. Come. 837 01:37:42,153 --> 01:37:43,993 Togo! Hey! Come. 838 01:37:44,072 --> 01:37:46,372 Come now. Togo, come now. Come. 839 01:37:47,200 --> 01:37:48,910 Togo! Come. Calm down. 840 01:37:51,287 --> 01:37:52,287 Hike up! 841 01:37:57,460 --> 01:37:58,460 Quiet! 842 01:38:12,308 --> 01:38:15,148 Okay. Hike! 843 01:38:41,338 --> 01:38:42,628 Togo, you want some bacon? 844 01:38:45,091 --> 01:38:46,681 Good boy. Tog... 845 01:38:48,553 --> 01:38:51,063 No! No, no, no, no. No! Togo! Hey! 846 01:38:51,139 --> 01:38:52,769 Hey! Togo! 847 01:38:55,435 --> 01:38:57,265 Togo! Togo, come! 848 01:39:19,626 --> 01:39:20,786 Togo! 849 01:39:22,921 --> 01:39:24,051 Togo! 850 01:39:35,892 --> 01:39:36,892 Togo! 851 01:39:46,069 --> 01:39:47,359 Whoa! 852 01:40:41,082 --> 01:40:44,042 It was foolish of me to think Togo would ever be denied. 853 01:40:46,629 --> 01:40:49,129 I always thought he lived for the sled. 854 01:40:50,133 --> 01:40:54,893 When all along, what he lived for was me. 855 01:41:00,769 --> 01:41:02,769 We resumed the trail. 856 01:41:02,854 --> 01:41:05,694 We discovered a walk was as good as a run. 857 01:41:11,196 --> 01:41:14,236 As always, Constance was right. 858 01:41:14,991 --> 01:41:17,451 Togo had the heart of a survivor. 859 01:41:18,578 --> 01:41:21,038 Not the storm of the century, 860 01:41:21,122 --> 01:41:23,582 nor a harrowing serum run could stop him. 861 01:41:26,878 --> 01:41:29,508 He lived out his golden years with a new job... 862 01:41:31,132 --> 01:41:32,432 father. 863 01:41:39,140 --> 01:41:41,850 For two years he sired pups. 864 01:41:45,522 --> 01:41:48,442 While the lower 48 celebrated Balto, 865 01:41:49,150 --> 01:41:53,660 mushers from all over the world elbowed to get one of Togo's line. 866 01:41:54,781 --> 01:41:56,871 Kennels from Fairbanks to Maine 867 01:41:56,950 --> 01:42:00,160 bred what came to be known as Seppala Siberians. 868 01:42:01,287 --> 01:42:05,287 A breed valued for their intelligence, stamina, courage, 869 01:42:05,375 --> 01:42:10,205 but most of all, their good nature and uncommon bond with humans. 870 01:42:19,764 --> 01:42:22,274 He left us on a Thursday in December. 871 01:42:28,940 --> 01:42:31,230 Constance and I continued working with dogs 872 01:42:31,317 --> 01:42:34,237 because if you're around them long enough... 873 01:42:34,320 --> 01:42:35,320 Whoa! 874 01:42:35,405 --> 01:42:36,985 ...they tend to get under your skin. 875 01:42:38,908 --> 01:42:41,748 And if you're lucky enough to have known a great one, 876 01:42:42,620 --> 01:42:44,120 they never really leave. 877 01:42:45,749 --> 01:42:48,629 They stay with you as long as you live. 878 01:42:50,003 --> 01:42:51,763 Harnessed to your heart, 879 01:42:51,838 --> 01:42:53,548 giving their all... 880 01:42:59,888 --> 01:43:00,888 Hike! 881 01:43:04,017 --> 01:43:05,267 Always.