Beth returns to the screens for one last time as the Chapman brood deal with her cancer struggle and catch serious criminals on their latest show.
Almost two months after Beth Chapman's death, the first look of Duane 'Dog' Chapman's latest reality TV show Dog's Most Wanted shows Beth actively participating in their life as fugitive hunters. The crime-fighting duo wanted to go after fugitives this time and not just bond jumpers as they have previously. The filming of the show had begun in February 2019 and in the middle of it, they had to pause it as Beth was placed in a medically-induced coma.
The first look of the new offering shows them going after more dangerous criminals while facing the difficult personal struggle of Beth's battle with Stage 2 throat cancer, according to Entertainment Tonight.
"Our show has become very real," the late Beth says in the first look of the show premiering in September. It truly is more real as they show scenes where she's coping with hair loss because of her treatment and in her challenging moments in the hospital as Dog stands by her bed.
"There's nothing that we want to hide from anybody. Just letting it all hang out, battling cancer on show. I don't want to have my kids all surrounding my bed. I want to have them all in my car. I want to be out on the streets. I want to be kicking ass, booting in doors and taking names and dragging guys to jail," she says in the video.
The final days of Beth's struggle have also become a part of the show, which is no longer just about catching the bad guys. We get to see the real people they are and not just as TV personalities.
"I have a 50-50 chance of surviving it with the chemo," she says in one scene. She lost the battle to cancer on June 26 this year and there were two memorials to bid her farewell. The fiery woman said, "If I am gonna die I am gonna die in my boots."
Between driving into wooded areas and hunting down the fugitives, we see the more humane side of Dog, who said, "This one's for Beth... she's my everything."
"For two to three years, she knew this might happen. So she would say, 'Who is going to sit next to you?' And I said, 'No one,'" he tearfully told Entertainment Tonight. "'Big Daddy, you better not let another girl take my place.' I said, 'I won't.'"
He also said he's unsure how much of her footage would be used for the show and confessed that he gets emotional every time he watches her on screen. "I've already looked at some of [the episodes] and I see her and I hear her and I freaking start bawling 'cause it happened," he told Entertainment Online. "I just instantly start crying ... I think it's also therapeutic that you have those. You know, if you lose a loved one, then you have the little pictures you look at. But I have her alive in that show."
She didn't want to remove the compassion even while they went after harder criminals to crack. Their motto for Dog's Most Wanted is "We wanna make America safe again."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzOHLxFCnJM
