At a photo shoot, Charles observes Bob and Mickey kissing platonically. The three men fly to the home of a local man for photographs. A note on his door indicates he is miles away hunting bear. They fly north, where the man is supposed to be hunting, but the plane strikes a flock of birds and nose-dives into a lake, killing the pilot. Charles, Bob, and Stephen barely reach shore. Lost in the crash is a book Charles was recently given on surviving in the wild.