"[DRUMS BEATING]" "[SMOOCHES]" "[ROARING]" "Ngaio kill simba alone." " Stay back." " Ngaio, that simba is dangerous." "[SNARLING]" "[GROWLS]" "[SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "I wouldn't have missed this for the world, Chief Kukuia." "The manhood ceremony and the lion hunt dance are always exciting to see." "You are too much a stranger." "You have gone over to the new ways." "There's a lot to be said for new ways." "That is truth." "You have saved many of our cows with your magic needle." " We have other ideas too." " I know." "You are sad because we train warriors to kill the lion and the leopard." "But they slaughter our cattle." "And to our people, cattle is life." "But the wildlife is also a treasure Africa cannot afford to lose." "You are too much like those strangers at Wameru." "You go crazy in the head just like them." "Heh, maybe so." "Say, I didn't see your son, Ngaio." "He is ready for his manhood initiation, isn't he?" "Ngaio is out in the bush to kill Latomba." "Latomba?" "The killer leopard they were hunting over at Tozewa?" "Mm." " Is he with a hunting party?" " No." "He hunts alone." "As I did at his age, and my father before me." "Oh." "Well, have no fear, my friend." "Ngaio will kill Latomba." "A chief's son must be braver than all the others." "And when he comes back with the kill, he will join the other warriors but he will stand by my side." "A leopard." "[GROWLING]" "[LEOPARD SNARLING]" "PAULA:" "Well, there you are, baby." "Just one more day and you'll be out of this cage." "[CLARENCE GROWLS]" "You know it's your own fault, letting a hyrax bite you." "You're some king of the beast." "Well, you know, even funny as you are, Judy and I still miss you." "Don't we, Judy?" "So eat your breakfast and you'll be out of here before you know it." "[JUDY GIBBERING]" "All right, Judy." "You mention the word breakfast and there's no stopping you." "Well, we'll see you later, Clarence." "Come on, Judy." "He got away just in time." "He's lucky he's not dead." " He is dead." " What?" "He run away when Latomba attack." "But, chief, at least give Ngaio a chance to explain." "My eyes do not lie." "He turned his back like a coward." "All right, let me treat these gashes before infection sets." "You will not treat." "But, chief, your own son." "No son of Kukuia is a coward." "I have no son." "He is a woman." "If he dies, he dies." "If he lives, let him live like woman." "Take him from my sight." "[GOAT BLEATING]" "They treat Ngaio like woman, Ngaio get revenge." "[COW MOOS]" "Let simba come, kill cows." "Then they remember Ngaio." "[DRUMS BEATING]" "You are always welcome in Osali." "My house is yours." "Yes, but apparently no longer your son's." "I looked for him this morning, but he was gone." "The drums." "Am I hearing them right?" "I see you have not forgotten the language of the drums." "No, of course not." "But I can't believe what I'm hearing:" ""A coward roams the bush." Ngaio?" "The other villages must be warned for their own safety." "Your own son?" "My son is dead to me." ""Do not take him in." "Do not feed the coward." "Do not trust him with spear." But he'll starve in the bush." "He is already dead." "How can he die twice?" "And you put me down for following the new ways." "[MIKE SCOFFS THEN TSKS]" "Well, I've got to be pushing off." "My house is your house, my friend." " Will you return to Wameru?" " Yes." "But first I intend to look for Ngaio." "Chief, I...." "Farewell." "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "[DRUMS BEATING IN DISTANCE]" "[DEER BELLOWING]" "[GROWLS]" "[ALL GIBBERING]" "[MIKE YELLS]" "[JUDY SCREAMING CHICKENSSQUAWKING]" "MARSH:" "Mm-mm." "Just as I suspected." "Jack, come here, take a look." " I don't see anything." " Right." "There's nothing to see." "Well, good deal." "Tell our dear neighbor Mr. Hawkins that his cows don't have anthrax." "Should make him happy." " It ought to, but I'm afraid it won't." " Why not?" "Well, there are some people who are hypochondriacs about themselves but Mr. Hawkins is a hypochondriac about his cattle." "He's always convinced that one of his cows is sick." "Judy." "Leave that alone." "Clarence is still in quarantine, and you know you can't read very well." "I really shouldn't blame you for missing Clarence." "We all do." "Say, why don't we go ask Dad and see if we can't get Clarence out a little sooner, okay?" "Let's go." "[HORN HONKS]" "MIKE:" "Marsh, Jack, come here, will you?" "[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" " Judy, don't." " Judy." "Come here, come." "[NGAIO GROANING]" "It's all right, it's all right." "It's all right." " Watch it." " Uh-huh." " Jack, get the antidote." " Yeah." " Better get him on the veranda." " He's lucky to be alive." "Easy." "NGAIO:" "Ngaio can walk." "All right, just come over here, son." "Sit down, right here, huh?" "Let me look at that back." "It's a good thing he just got him in the back." " Ah." " Was he running away?" "Ngaio not running away from leopard." "Ngaio not afraid." "Not coward." "MIKE:" "Of course not, Ngaio." "All right, just take it easy, son." "This won't hurt." " Don't be afraid." " I am not afraid of anything." " Whoa." " Easy, easy, easy." " What you do?" "MARSH:" "It's just to stop any infection." "And here we go." "That ought to do it." "Jack, let's not put any bandages on his back." "I want it to heal." "But give him a clean shirt to keep the bugs out, huh?" "Right." "Okay, come on." "We'll give you a hand." " Take it easy." " Ngaio not woman." "Not a child." "Walk on own feet." "Jack, I think this man could use a square meal and a little rest." "JACK:" "All right." "I think we can scrounge up something in the kitchen." "Come on." " Now, Mike?" " Mm-hm?" " Mike, you know this boy?" " Mm-hm, Ngaio." "Chief Kukuia's son." " Over at Osali village?" " Just flunked his manhood test." "That's what I figured." "What was his punishment?" "Kukuia banished him to the women's quarters, but he ran away." "They had the drums warning other villages not to take him in." "MARSH:" "Yeah." " Won't they give him a second chance?" "I tried to argue with Kukuia, but he is a man who puts pride before reason." "Well, I guess I can understand his point of view." "That's cruel." "His own father." "I mean, Dad, you'd give me a second chance." "If I was in Chief Kukuia's position, honey, I doubt it." " Well, I don't believe you." " It's like the army, Paula." "The tribe has to depend on its warriors." " But he's a young boy." " Well, not by native standards, he isn't." "You know, he's suffering from some severe traumatic shock." "You see his reaction to Judy?" "How would you feel if a leopard ripped your back?" "That's not much comfort to a boy whose whole life is based on being fearless with animals." "PAULA:" "Well, can't you do something for him?" "Well, we can fix him up physically, but I'm no psychiatrist." "It just depends on how deeply that fear struck." "Well, meanwhile, we can let him stay here a few days." "Rest won't hurt him, huh?" " Good." " Yeah." "Now, don't worry, Paula." "We'll do what we can to help him." "[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "Come here." "[MIKE GRUNTS]" "Judy's trying to make friends, Ngaio but I'm afraid her manners aren't very good, though." "Let's shake hands, shall we?" "Here." "Come on." "Come on." "How about that?" "Judy, this is your friend and my friend Ngaio." "[SMOOCHES]" "[NGAIO LAUGHING]" "[CLARENCE ROARS]" " Simba!" " It's all right, Ngaio." "It's all right." "It's all right, Ngaio." "It's all right." "It's all right." "You don't have to prove anything to us." "One thing at a time." "[ROARING]" "After lunch you'll feel even better." "You'll see." " Come on." "Come on." " Unh." " Okay, children, watch this one." "PAULA:" "Let's see it." "Oh!" "[ALL LAUGH]" "[GIBBERING]" "How about you try and get wet, Judy?" " Hey." "PAULA:" "I think you better work on that one." "MIKE:" "He can't...." "PAULA:" "He can't swim." "Hey, what's the big idea?" "Ngaio not afraid of anything." "[PAULA SIGHS]" "You do not believe Ngaio." " Boy, of all the crazy things to pull." " Be careful with him, Jack." "He's proud and he's hurt." "I better go after him." " Great." " Yeah." "[ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING]" "[ALL TRUMPETING]" "[YELLS]" "[YELLING]" "[SIGHS]" "That was brave deed you did, Mike." "Oh, I don't think he wanted to hurt us, Ngaio." "It's just that you startled him." "You see, animals are sensitive to sound." "Sometimes it will provoke them to charge sometimes it will drive them away." "The trick is to know which is which." " Then we go kill elephant." " No, Ngaio." "We don't kill him." "But ivory worth plenty money." "It's worth more to me to see him keep it." "After all, it's his bush too." "He was here before we were." "I do not understand." "At Wameru, we try to save animals, not kill them." "I know it's a big mouthful." "Don't try to swallow it all at once." "Let's get home, shall we?" "It's time for chow." "Chow?" "Food." "Eat." "And then he said, "Ngaio's not afraid of anything."" " Except animals." " Dad, he's not a coward." "If you'd seen the way he went off that truck knowing that he couldn't swim...." "Look, you're talking about two different worlds." "Ngaio could dive off Victoria Falls for all the good it would do him." "Oh, the only bravery that counts at Osali village is with animals." "Ngaio's got pride as well as courage." "He's not about to let them walk over him." "He ran away to face the starvation in the bush." "He insists he did not run from that leopard, Marsh." " It jumped him from a tree." " And that's not cowardice." "I didn't say he was a coward." "Look, if Ngaio had a second chance, he's still in no condition to prove it." "You saw the way he collapsed when Clarence roared." "He didn't even see him, he just heard him." "Now, his fear of animals may well be pathological." "By the way, Mike, Clarence is clear." "You can spring him now." "Wait, Daktari." "I've got an idea." " About Ngaio?" " Mm-hm." "And I'll need this ferocious king of the jungle to work it." "Ferocious?" "What, Clarence?" "MIKE:" "Mm-hm." "He is now the deadliest beast in the jungle." "Well, if you say so." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "Yeah, that ear infection is just about all cleared up." "Reggie, I think we can let you go home now." "Go on." "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "Come, I want to show you something." "Oh, come on." "It's all right." "Come on." "Come on." "That's it, come on." "Sit down up here." "That's it, sit down." "Good." "So you got teeth, huh?" "You think you're ferocious, huh?" "Ah." "[MIKE LAUGHS]" "You're just a big pussycat." "Right, Ngaio?" "Yeah, yeah." "Here, you take him, I've got work to do." "Uh, on second thought, I don't know." "Ngaio, promise me you won't bite him." "Hmm?" "[CHUCKLES]" "Okay." "Here." "Dad, look at Ngaio." "Mike, I wouldn't have believed it." "Oh, that was just the first lesson." "The next one may be tougher." "He's got a long way to go before he really has confidence in himself." "Dad, you don't seem happy about it." "I don't know, Mike." "Your motives are good but, uh...." "Dad, we all promised to go along with Mike." "You're not gonna spoil it now." "I don't want Clarence around until tomorrow." "Think he could stand being caged up one more day?" "Clarence?" "Heh." "I don't think he knows there are bars." "He hasn't taken a step since we locked him up." "Heh, good." "Ngaio and I are going on a little outing this afternoon." " Any sick cats in the neighborhood?" " Sick cats?" "None that I know of." "Any that could use a shot of vitamins?" "Well, I guess an extra dose of vitamins never hurt anyone." "Vitamins?" "[CHUCKLES]" "You think you are ferocious, huh?" "[CHUCKLES]" "Simba." "Right." "Ngaio, we're going to get her." " Come on." " Ngaio stay." "Suit yourself." "[GROWLING]" "MIKE:" "Hand me the kit." "Ngaio, lift that front paw, will you?" "Simba not dead." "No, no." "You see, the dart put her to sleep." "Now she gets her medicine." "Uh, hold her paw for me, will you?" "Come on." "Come on." "Yeah, there." "Okay." "Well, there's old simba." "And you are shaking hands with her just like you did Judy." "Ngaio did shake paw of simba." "Uh-huh." "You want to do it again?" "I'll take your picture." "Now, kneel down, Ngaio." "That's it." "Smile." "Got it." "[LAUGHING]" "PAULA:" "Mike, this is great." "Has Ngaio seen it?" "No, not yet." "I'm going to show it to him now." "I would have bet the compound he couldn't do it." "Well, he's coming along." "You still got our ferocious live simba caged up?" "Well, there's some doubt about Clarence's being alive." " But he's here." "Ha, ha." "MIKE:" "Ha, ha, good." "He's about ready to make his grand entrance." "Mike, I still don't like it." "No matter how much goodwill you have, you're still conning the boy." "He has to live in a real world, you know." "It's just a stepping stone, Daktari." " Yes, but" " Dad, you promised." "Oh, I'll string along, I'll string along." "But don't ever forget, you're dealing with a human life." "[GIBBERING]" "See, little cub, how bravely our Ngaio shakes the hand of a big simba." "[NGAIO CHUCKLES]" " Okay, ferocious one, let's go." " Come on, come on." " Come on." "Come on." " Come on." "All right, Jack, be careful now!" "Okay." "[CLARENCE GROWLS]" " They catch simba?" "MARSH:" "Be careful." "Careful, Jack." "Attaboy." "Tie him securely." "Alrighty." "I got an idea." "Why don't we take your picture with him." " You put him sleep first, like before." " No, not this time." " Simba kill." " No, he won't." "Ngaio no like." " Would I kill you?" " No." " Why not?" " You are my friend." "No reason for you to hurt Ngaio." "That is exactly how the simba feels." "You are not attacking him." "He's not hungry." "Look." "[SHRIEKS]" "I know." "You see, Ngaio?" "You can do it." "Come on." "Give me your hand." "Come on." "Come on." "Tsk, come on." "Stroke hard." "That's it." "Stroke hard." "That's it." "That's it." "[SHRIEKS]" "I'll take your picture." "Ngaio, look this way and smile." "Got it." "Wait till your father sees this." "No man in my village ever touched live simba before." "No man." "[LAUGHING]" "Well, Mike, I really gotta hand it to you." "You're certainly working wonders with that boy." "Still think my methods are wrong, though, Marsh?" "Well, I can't help but have an uneasy feeling about it." "Hey, where have you got Ngaio bedded down, your room?" "No, can't introduce too many changes at once." "I got him bedded down outside the elephant shed with Judy." "Oh." "Hey, Mike, what's with the drums, huh?" "Simba on the prowl." "The villages are warning each other." "Speaking of simba how much longer are you gonna kid Ngaio about Clarence?" "He's gotta learn the difference between a compound and a jungle animal." "Mm-hm." "I'll tell him tomorrow, Daktari." "Then we take up his postgraduate work with really wild animals." "Well, good luck but if there's a psychological trauma of any deeper nature..." " ...we could be in real trouble." " True, true." "[DRUM BEATING IN DISTANCE]" "[JUDY GIBBERS]" "Shh, Judy." "Simba near Osali village." "My village." "Oh." "Ngaio do bad thing." "Must go." "Save cows." "No, Judy, you stay here." "Ngaio must go alone." "[GIBBERS]" "Don't worry, Judy." "Ngaio no longer afraid of simba." "Ngaio brave warrior." "Ngaio walk up to simba and pull his mane!" "Like this." "Judy." "[GIBBERING]" "Did you see Ngaio after dinner last night?" "The way he was sharpening that spear?" "Couldn't miss him." "He was walking 10 feet tall." "Mike, you're doing a great job with Ngaio." "Save your compliments until after today." " Gonna tell him the truth, huh?" " Well, it's the proof of the pudding." " Might be too much of a shock." " I'm going to rely on his good sense." "After all, he knew the bush lioness was asleep, therefore harmless." "I will explain to him that Clarence is tame and a pet but he did not know this." "Therefore, his bravery was nonetheless." "Mm-hm, good luck." "He'll have to approach a wild lion with a lot more respect." "I propose to work on that today." "By the way, where is he?" "JACK:" "Search me." " I haven't seen him." " Neither have I." " Strange." "He's usually the first one at the table." "Chow time." " Do you think he's all right?" " He just probably overslept." "Yeah, the soft life is getting to him." "MIKE:" "Breakfast time, rise and shine." "Judy?" "Where is Ngaio?" "[GIBBERS]" " Find him, Mike?" " He's gone, took his spear." "I was afraid he might be going after Clarence." " Well, apparently not." " Where, then?" " Wait a minute." " What's on your mind?" " Remember the drums last night?" " Yeah." "Some of those villages were in the Osali area." "If he's heading there thinking all lions are as tame as Clarence, we're in trouble." "I know, Daktari, I know, and I am the one who is responsible." "Come on, let's go." "PAULA:" "Come on, Judy." "[ENGINES START]" "[DRUMS BEATING]" "[MIKE  KUKUIA SPEAK IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "And welcome, Daktari." "[MARSH SPEAKS INDISTINCTLY]" "Have you seen your son, Ngaio?" "I have no son." "But he's a fine boy." "Women and children speak when they are told." "Uh-huh, but the girl speaks the truth, Chief Kukuia." " You hear the drums speak?" " Uh-huh." "Simba is on the march." "No place for a coward." "All the men of my village are out looking for simba." "Ngaio is no coward." "We think he might be out trying to kill simba." "Well, if Ngaio is not coward, why is Daktari here?" "Why is everybody so worried about him?" "In trying to help, I may have put him in danger." "We have to find him before he meets that lion." "Will you help us find your son?" "I have no son." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "Strange." "I've heard many fine words about you, Kukuia." "What a great warrior, what a great hunter." "I did not know until now that he is afraid." " Kukuia is afraid of nothing." " Except the opinion of women." "Kukuia speaks his own mind." "And Kukuia's heart?" "We go." "Find Ngaio." "[LION ROARING]" "[LION ROARING NEARBY]" " Ngaio." " Ngaio not boy now." "Ngaio kill simba alone." " Stay back!" " Ngaio, that simba is dangerous!" "Ngaio show he great warrior." "I'll deal with this." "Chief, he doesn't know that that simba is" "If he is warrior, he will kill simba alone." "Now we will see if he is brave like you say." "And he say." "Look!" "[ROARING]" "[YELLING]" "To kill simba is brave." "To conquer simba without weapon is more brave." "Ngaio, my son, is brave hunter." "And great warrior." "[DRUMS BEATING]" "[VILLAGERS SINGING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "[KUKUIA SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "Proud of your pupil, Mike?" "What I am most proud of is he did not have to kill to prove his courage." "Yes, you certainly can take credit for that, Mike." "And, you know, you may have forged a link between the old and the new." "[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" " You know what I think, Dad?" "MARSH:" "Hmm?" "I think fathers are pretty much the same wherever you find them." "[English" " US" " SDH]"