The first time I saw a mountain lion, you know, my initial reaction was, holy shit.

And then it was like, all right, where's my pocket knife?

It's like, what am I going to do? Fight it with a knife?

This is wildlife filmmaker Ben Masters.

I'm a wildlife filmmaker and I specialize in filming wildcats.

In particular, I specialize in filming mountain lions.

Ben understands why folks are terrified of cougars.

The mountain lion taps into that lizard brain fear, not of us as an individual with hopes and dreams, but as a human

being that is made out of meat.

There are so many unexplained deaths in rural America, and almost none of them make

international news.

Christopher Whiteley's dead.

Do you ever stop and wonder why?

Why were so many people eager to believe that Christopher was killed by a mountain lion

and so many others were outraged by the very same suggestion?

I don't think it really has all that much to do with Christopher,

except that his death landed right in the middle of a much bigger struggle.

A struggle that was about to erupt.

And this filmmaker, Ben Masters, was about to find himself at the center of the controversy.

Just like saying all this crazy stuff about my wife and like you better watch your kids or they're going

to disappear and I had to like talk to the FBI.

From free range productions in association with the Dallas Morning News, this is season

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