1. Welcome To Paradise

Beauregard "Beau" Thibodaux introduces us to the chaotic opening day of Alligator Alcatraz, a hastily-built detention facility in the Florida Everglades. When drainage systems fail and the intake building floods, Warden Buckley Fitzpatrick III and Deputy Warden Chet McKenzie scramble to maintain the illusion of competence while an eight-foot alligator supervises from the processing area. Enter Tommy Esperanza, a quiet maintenance worker who solves the flooding crisis with practical wisdom, earning his first glimpse of the facility's potential. Through Beau's wry Southern narration, we witness the collision between bureaucratic arrogance and swamp reality—and the beginning of an unlikely transformation.

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