Alabama fans will get a look behind the curtain of Kalen DeBoer’s first season, as the Crimson Tide’s 2024 campaign is the subject of a new documentary from Fox Nation titled The Tides That Bind: Inside Alabama Football. The six-part series released its third episode on Wednesday and will air weekly.

For those who aren’t subscribed to Fox Nation, don’t worry. Tide Illustrated will be providing takeaways from all six episodes moving forward. Here’s a look at some of the highlights from Week 3 of the series.

For the most part, Alabama’s editorial control of the series has been obvious. However, the Tide should get some credit for allowing Fox Nation to dive into one of the tougher topics from last year.

Episode 3 begins with Malachi Moore’s on-field tantrum following the loss to Vanderbilt and provides an inside look at the team captain. The segment shows clips of Moore leading Alabama through practice and includes an interview with the graduate defensive back, who explains his mindset during his on-field outburst at Vanderbilt.

“The Vandy game, man, it was — at the end I was just really emotional, and everything kind of just hit me at once,” Moore said. “We just worked so hard, and we know that we’re the hardest working team in the country. And we know that nobody works harder than us. To not go out there and perform and come out on top when we know that we are the better team, that we are the more prepared team, it was just frustrating. And I just kind of lost it.”

Later in the episode, the documentary provides a look inside Moore’s home, where he is signing jerseys for fans. Moore then makes an appearance at Paine Elementary School, where his mother, Penny, teaches first grade. He is shown reading to the class and gifting his own action figure to every student.

“I’m proud of Malachi because he just pours out into the young people,” Penny said. “He is a leader. He wants everybody to win. He wants everybody to be great. He’s ready for the next level, and I’m so excited for him that he’s made it that far.”

The other star of the episode is Kane Wommack, who discusses his upbringing as the son of a college coach and his dream to follow in his father Dave’s footsteps.

“I always saw myself through the lens of a football coach,” Wommack said in the documentary. “I got to dress up whatever I wanted to for Halloween. So my mom got a little white shirt, she wrote coach on the back, and she got one of my dad’s whistles out, and I was a coach.

“I remember when I graduated high school thinking, “Four more years, and I get to do what I want to do.”

Dave Wommack served as a defensive coordinator at Bemidji State, Southwest Missouri State, UNLV and Southern Miss before breaking into the Power 5 level at Arkansas. He later served as the defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech, Arkansas State and Ole Miss.

“I remember my dad always saying that his dream was to be an SEC defensive coordinator,” Kane said. “He did it at three different SEC institutions. For me, getting to accomplish the same thing that my dad got to accomplish in being an SEC coordinator was really a special moment.”

Now retired, Dave provides a helping hand to his son at Alabama. The episode shows the two watching the film and discussing how to coach a young team.

The episode also provided Kane’s reasoning for taking the Alabama job after serving as the head coach at South Alabama from 2021-23.

“Two things were true when it came to taking this job,” Kane said. “To be able to step in in the place of Nick Saban, who is arguably the greatest defensive mind in the last probably three decades of college football and to be able to uphold the standard that he created here. And secondly, to represent my dad’s defense and what he has done over the years in places that maybe we didn’t have the same talent and resources that we have here at Alabama made this a no-brainer for me.

One of the most unique parts of the documentary so far has been a listen inside the coaches’ headset communication during games. While the soundbites haven’t provided much insight, episode three featured an interesting snippet of former safeties coach Colin Hitschler providing instructions from the coaches' box.

“Tell Chi [Malachi Moore] to stay patient,” Hitschler said over the headset. “He keeps getting down too low. It’s not allowing him to play inside and outside.”

Following the instructions, Moore is shown intercepting a pass from Tennessee quarterback Gaston Moore.

“Hell yeah, defense,” a voice is heard saying on through the headsets. “Nice job! Nice shot! Way to see the hot route, baby. Big time play, that’s what we needed.”