Thornton asks Hal where they're going, but Hal tells him that it's none of his business. Thornton tells Hal that the sled is frozen under the ice and breaks it free. As Charles prepares to strike Buck, John Thornton intervenes and stops him. Mercedes asks if they're broken, but Hal tells her that they're just lazy and orders Charles to hit Buck. Hal and his family try to get Buck and his team to mush, but they struggle to pull the sled. He then picks them up and takes them to his family. When Hal comes across Buck and his team after Perrault and Francoise sold them off, Pike barks at him. When he found out about Thornton's journey to find gold, he believed that he was out to find it for himself and keep it away from other prospectors. When Buck and the other dogs refused to cross the ice, he still insisted on crossing it and tried to kill Buck until Thornton stopped him.Īfter his family, dogs and fortune were lost, he became obsessed with getting revenge on Thornton and trying to kill him and Buck, although he himself was responsible for their disappearances. He didn't care about his family nor his dogs' safety of the dangers ahead, even ignoring Thornton's advice about the thin ice over the pond. Like his book counterpart and family, he is very inexperienced at surviving in the wilds of the Klondike. Hal is an extremely ruthless, greedy, abusive, egotistical, and hot-tempered madman who only cares about gold.

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