"♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(MARSH):" "War was coming to Wameru." "And the lands around it already were feeling the destruction it was to bring." "This was not to be a war of men against fellow men, but a war of 1 man against a new kind of enemy." "Thousands of elephants." "The famous Old Spindletooth herd." "For some mysterious reason, the herd had deserted its natural habitat in the north and began migrating toward Wameru, leaving in its powerful wake a path of destruction and terror." "Lying in the elephants' path is a village of Mike's uncle Mtoko, where Mike had gone to celebrate their grain harvest." "When suddenly, with thundering fury, the herd struck the village." "The enemy's target was the village grain supply." "The injured-- dozens of villagers including Mike and Clarence." "1 man was assigned to wage this war." "Simon Tredwell, ex-US Army colonel and former comrade-in-arms of mine, who had once saved my life on the battlefield." "His plan?" "A simple and efficient way to control the elephant population." "(TREDWELL):" "We'll plant landmines at the approaches to the village." "Landmines near the village?" "(TREDWELL):" "We could reduce the risk if we keep the villagers out of the area." "Now, our only other choice is the water hole." "The elephants would go there first because they probably drained all the others, as Marsh will confirm when he gets back." "But by planting landmines at the water hole, we'll endanger other animals." "So we're gonna plant 'em here, here, and here." "Well, you're not gonna like this, Marsh." "The government has given me full authority to instant control measures." "Control?" "Well, must be quite a scientific project to bring you all the way down here." "No." "It's more of a military project." "To achieve positive control." "Positive control?" "(TREDWELL):" "Doctor, that entire herd and all the others that'll follow, must be destroyed." "(MARSH):" "So while Tredwell was planning his tactics," "I was given 48 hours to come up with an answer." "Why had the herd migrated, and how to get it to return to its own reserve." "I was gambling my reputation and the fate of Wameru." "And so if you've no further objections," "I hereby deputize you, Mike Makula, and you, Jack Dane, for service during this emergency." "Well, he can't do that, can he, Marsh?" " He already has." " Not quite, Marsh." "They have to be sworn in by the commanding officer." "Someone call?" "We're all set." "I commandeered a spotter aircraft from the National Park Service." "Well, how's my task force?" " Ready to move?" " Not on your life." "I'd sooner go to jail than take part in the useless slaughter of thousands of helpless elephants." "Hey, whoa, whoa, now." "Wait a minute." "A few minutes ago, you were raring to go." "What happened?" "What'd you say to them, doc, to make 'em change their minds?" "It was what we said, Colonel Tredwell." "We only pretended to want to help you so that we could slow your work down." "They just wanted to give Dad enough time so he could work this out." "I see." "Let me tell you something." "Apparently I know Marsh Tracy a lot better than you do, because I know he'd never sanction anything like that." "Exactly." "And if they won't help you voluntary, they'll be drafted for duty." "Heh." "Thousands of helpless elephants?" "Heh." "Come on, Hedley, let's get rolling." "Colonel, aren't you going to swear them in?" "No, I don't want any conscientious objectors on this mission." "There are plenty of villagers who are willing to fight the elephants to protect their homes." "My people don't know anything about the ways of the elephant." "What about the animals, Dad?" "They'll panic if we don't do something to protect them." "Oh, I'm sure Colonel Tredwell has taken that into account." "Well, you know, doc, I thought I had." "But it seems my animal experts are no longer part of my task force." "We'll have to recruit other men." "Even if they don't understand the elephants or care about the animals." "All right, colonel." "You 2 better go with him so you can keep the herds from stampeding." "But you must not work against the colonel." "Don't worry, Hedley." "They won't." "But we will." "Fair enough?" "All right, doc, fair enough." "But don't forget, your 48 hours is running out." "So let's dig out." "(MIKE SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE)" "(VEHICLE APPROACHES)" "Marsh." "(CONTINUES IN LOCAL LANGUAGE)" "Hi, Mike." "How's it going?" "I play drill sergeant quite well." "Don't you think?" "Yeah." "How's it going with you, Marsh?" "Well, you know those blood samples I took?" "I think I'm on to something." "Good." "Please hurry, Marsh." "He's already evacuated the village... and ordered us to plant the landmines." "(PLANE OVERHEAD)" "(PLANE ENGINE RUNNING)" "The colonel?" "And Jack." "They're trying to spot the herd." "Mike, is Hedley in radio contact with them?" "Mm-hmm." "Over there." "See you later." "(ENGINE STARTS)" "(SNARLS)" "Roger, reconnaissance, that's a group of 15 strays." "The coordinates 15 north and 18 east." "Hedley, I gotta talk to you." "Marsh, shouldn't you be out collecting samples or taking pictures or whatever you have to do?" "Your time's running out." "Yes, I know." "But, Hedley, I think the migration is caused by a vitamin and mineral deficiency." "But you haven't had time to sample the vegetation and soil in the feeding grounds up north." "No, but I've analyzed their blood and I sampled this area for specific mineral traces." "You see, if the elephants eat and drink a high concentration of a specific mineral here, then this may be what they're lacking in their diet up there." "Of course, I'll have to cross-correlate with the samples from the north but, uh, it's a promising lead." "(TREDWELL, OVER RADIO):" "Tredwell to ground control." "Main group is 10 miles due east, moving in your direction." "Roger, reconnaissance, that means they'll be in the village in about 2 hours." "(TREDWELL):" "Negative, Hedley." "Considering the distance and time of day, they'll probably stop first at the water hole outside the village." "Good, that means we can proceed with our plan." "(TREDWELL):" "Roger." "We're on our way down to lay the incendiary blockade." "If you see Marsh, tell him I'm sorry if this cuts short the time limit I gave him, but the herd doesn't seem to be cooperating." "Spotter plane out." "Well, Marsh." "There's your answer." "In a few hours, the battle will drawing." "I'm sorry, too." "If you should want to watch, our observation point's on that rise over there." "Oh, Hedley, is Chief Mtoko in the village?" "Yes, he's here." "He wants to see you." "He's determined to save his village, Marsh." "I'm afraid you'll find him very unsympathetic to your ideas." "(ENGINE STARTS)" "(PLANE ENGINE RUNNING)" "(MARSH AND CHIEF SPEAK IN LOCAL LANGUAGE)" "Chief Mtoko, you must tell Colonel Tredwell to stop this plan." "Chief, I'm certain that we can do something without destroying that herd out there." "Miss Tracy, Daktari, it is not within our hearts to destroy any living thing without cause." "But think you this." "If we do not destroy them, then they will destroy us." "And so it is that our village becomes a battleground." "But, chief, I don't think the herd will return to your village." "Good." "Then the explosives that protect my village will not harm them." "But you don't understand." "Tredwell will hunt them down no matter where they go and kill them." "Miss Tracy, I am chief of only 1 village that the colonel has taken oath to protect." "If he seeks the elephant in other places," "I cannot stop him." "(ROARING)" "Clarence." "Chief Mtoko, would you take care of Clarence 'til we get back?" "(MTOKO):" "He is always welcome in my village." "Now come on, Paula." "Tredwell must have landed by now." "We'll talk to him." "Chief, I--I do understand how you feel, and I'm just sorry." "(MTOKO AND MARSH SPEAK LOCAL LANGUAGE)" "(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING IN DISTANCE)" "(ROARING)" "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "Simon, I think I've come up with something." "Yeah, Hedley told me about your theory." "Well, it's more than a theory, Simon." "Look, I'd like to have you hold off just long enough to let me run some more chemical tests." "Marsh, you can collect all the data you want," "I'm not going to interfere..." "yet." "But it's no way to fight a war." "No, it isn't, but with enough information and understanding, we could win this war by preventing it in the first place." "Your idea of using chemicals isn't bad." "I've never considered chemical warfare against the elephants." "You know, that's hardly what I had in mind, Simon." "Oh, Dad, the chemicals." "The M44." "Hi, folks." "Firebombs are all loaded, colonel." "Good." "Uh, Jack," "I brought along an extra supply of M44 for use on the animals." "It's, uh, pretty highly concentrated, so you'll have to cut the dosage." " All right." " What're you gonna do, put 'em all to sleep and transport 'em up north?" "No, colonel, it's to ease the pain of any injured animals." "You think you can get it over to Mike?" "He's got the dart guns, and he can start loading 'em." "Yeah." "Uh, Judy." "Judy, come here." "Bring that box to me." "Come on." "Take it on down to Mike." "Right down there." "Be careful." "Marsh, before you leave," "I want to tell you about our ring of defenses starting with the incendiary charges." "Now, as the animals pass through toward the village, we're gonna detonate the charges, setting up a controlled ring of fire, which will force the animals to continue toward the village." "And smack in the minefields." "It ought to work pretty good." "It was the same strategy we used when we trapped that Nazi panzer unit outside of Bizerta." "(CHATTERING)" "(TREDWELL):" "Negative, Hedley." "Considering the distance and time of day, they'll probably stop first at the water hole outside the village." "What're you gonna do, put 'em all to sleep and transport 'em up north?" "♪ (PLAYFUL jazz MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(CHATTERING)" "Now, if you'll excuse me," "I'm going to check my young lieutenant's handiwork." "Come on, Paula." "No sense wasting time here." "(TREDWELL):" "Marsh." "You don't have that much time left to waste." "Judy isn't back yet." "Here she comes on the double." "Judy, did you give Mike the M44?" "(CHATTERING)" "Aw, good girl." "Uh, come back in about an hour for the fireworks, as distasteful as it may seem to both of us." "(ROARING)" "I want to analyze a sample of this water, too." "(CHATTERING)" "What's gotten into Judy?" "She probably senses a nearness to the herd." "Don't worry, young lady." "We'll be out of here before they get here." "(CHATTERING)" "(SNARLING)" "Get all your little mines planted?" "Mm-hmm." "All ready to explode, even if a bird lands on 1 of those mounds." "(ROARS)" "So you, too, are nervous, Clarence." "But maybe it is only that you are thirsty." "Well, it is all right for you to drink at the water hole outside our village." "But be careful, and return to me before the elephants get there." "(SNARLING)" "(TRUMPETING)" "Marsh have any luck with Tredwell?" "Heh." "Are you kidding?" "Our colonel out there is just aching to get back into action." "Some people always need an enemy to fight." "Yeah, especially when the enemy can't fight back." "Jack." "Look!" "Clarence!" "No!" "Get away!" "Clarence, go back!" "You'll get yourself killed!" "He can't hear us." "Clarence, no!" "Get away!" "(MIKE):" "Clarence, get back!" "That's a landmine." "It'll explode!" "(JACK):" "Clarence!" "(JACK):" "Clarence, go back!" " Go back!" " Stop!" "Halt, you idiots!" "He'll set off 1 of those mines and be killed!" "Come on, Jack!" "(ROARS)" "Colonel, thank you." "You saved Clarence's life." "Forget it." "But now maybe you'll realize that thinking not only involves the brain." "Sometimes it involves the heart, too, huh?" "(PURRING)" "(JACK):" "You cockeyed character, you scared the daylights out of us." "Looks like he was going to the water hole for a drink." "(JACK):" "Well, ok, get your drink." "And then get home on the double." "Well, I wonder what that explosion was." "Oh, probably Tredwell testing one of his weapons." "You wanna put the, uh, water sample in now." "There we go." "Yeah, that confirms it." "Yeah." "Calcium content?" "(MARSH):" "Yes." "Very high." "Hmm." "There's something else in here that doesn't belong." " Some sort of drug." " Drug?" "(MARSH):" "Hmm." "Well, we'll analyze that later." "(ELEPHANTS TRUMPET IN DISTANCE)" "Uh-oh." "The herd's heading this way." "We better get out of here if we want to stay in 1 piece." "(ENGINE STARTS)" "(TRUMPETING)" "(CHIRPING)" "(SLOW SNARLS)" "(TRUMPETING)" "Ah." "The advance party's already here." "Can't we get through the road?" "No, we better double back by the waterhole." "They're moving a lot faster than I expected." "Dad, look." "It's Clarence." "Well, it's a fine place to take a nap." " It's not a nap, Paula." " Dad, what's wrong with him?" "Well, his pulse rate's down." " Looks like he's been drugged." " How?" "(MARSH):" "Must be the waterhole." "Well, we gotta give him an antidote quick." "Well, Paula, I can't give him an antidote unless I know what the drug is." "Well, then we better put him in the back end of the truck." "Don't be ridiculous, it'd take 5 men to lift him into that truck." "We just can't leave him here to be trampled to death." "Some cold water, maybe we can shock him into consciousness." "Well, we could drag him into the water, all right, but then if it didn't work, he'd either drown or that herd would be on top of us." "(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)" "Dad, we have to do something." "Wait a minute." "A shock." "A real shock." "Yeah, it might work." "Look, Paula, get the blanket out of the truck and soak it in that water." "Good, now put it under his head." "Ok, now back off." "Electroshock." "Will it work?" "Well, it will when I attach this wire from the chain to the coil." "Paula, get me the towel from the medical kit." "Now lay it down here." "I want to insulate this." "Thatta girl." "Come on." "(ENGINE TURNING)" "(ENGINE TURNING)" "(ROARS)" " Clarence!" " Well, it worked." "Well, the puzzle all fits together now." "Knew there had to be some logical reason for that elephant herd migrating into the area." "But not in time to stop Colonel Tredwell's slaughter." "Well, Paula, I tried." "After all, human life comes first." "Oh, I know, Dad." "We'll publish your findings and perhaps make people aware of the problem and then we could save some other herds." "Well, at least something." "(DOORS CLOSE)" "Well, colonel, how was the battle?" "Well, Marsh, uh, our little war didn't take place." "What?" "The elephants turned away from the village." "Yeah, they reached the waterhole, but for some reason they didn't drink from it." "Well, of course not." "It was loaded with M44." "Any idea how it happened to get there, colonel?" "M44?" "Oh, come on, Marsh." "Give me more credit than that, will you?" "Now that's the reason they went in search for other water, huh?" "All except Clarence." "He knows the smell of medicine." "Didn't think anything of it." "So the elephants won't attack the village now, huh?" "On the contrary." "We've got to see that they do." "Well, what do you mean?" "The village was saved." "Doesn't that satisfy you?" "I'm not gonna be satisfied until this job is completed." "That's the reason we came back here." "What do you want now?" "Paula's help?" " No." "Food." " Food?" "We've got to fill the back of the truck with the sacks of your animal meal." " What for?" " To bait a trap." "We'll leave a trail of meal for the advance party of the herd." "They'll lead Old Spindletooth right to the village." "And to our reception fireworks." "Nothing doing." "You're not gonna touch 1 grain of my food supply." "Very well." "Mike, you'll drive me to the neighboring villages." "We'll commandeer their grain supply." "But the food supply's buried to protect it." "They can't spare a single grain." "You want to save the lives of the villagers by starving them?" "It's better they go to bed tonight with empty stomachs and are alive tomorrow to plant new crops." "All right, colonel." "Take what you want." "(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)" "Right on the bean." "Look." "It won't be long now, men." "There are the scouts." "The herd will follow right along." "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "(VEHICLE APPROACHES)" "Well, it worked like a charm." "Mission accomplished." " The herd?" " Following right behind." "Yup." "They're snapping up the bait." "Like lambs to the slaughter." "We're going up to the vantage point and get prepared to set off the incendiary targets." "(ENGINE STARTS)" "Well, we better get out of here." "It's not gonna be safe now." "Dad, isn't there anything we can do?" "You've done everything that is humanly possible, Daktari." "Yes, everything humanly possible." "(CHATTERING)" "Let's go." "(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "You people watch out for the incendiaries." "They're right in the middle of a fire blockade and any sudden shock might set 'em off too soon and scare the herd away." "Let's see now, I think everything's in order." "We have the detonator, the incendiary charges, the landmines, and last but not least" "The deadly enemies." "Look, can't we at least save the babies?" "Now, listen, Paula, Marsh, please, don't take this all so personally." "We've taken the precaution of evacuating the village." "(TRUMPETING)" "(TREDWELL):" "Right in the middle of the fire blockade area and any sudden shock will set 'em off too soon and scare the herd away." "(ELEPHANTS TRUMPETING)" "Mike, you take my truck, go back to the village and pick up some of the natives so they can come back and help fight the fire." "Look, the elephants, they're retreating." "They never got inside the fire blockade." "Come on, Paula, we may still have a chance to save some of those nursing babies." "(SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE)" "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "Oh, Dad, this is useless." "We can't possibly dart all the mothers, let alone get close enough to try to." "How we gonna save those babies?" "Paula, have you noticed how their nursing cycle is higher than usual?" "Must be the calcium deficiency." "It's the only answer." "(PLANE OVERHEAD)" "(PLANE ENGINE RUNNING)" "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "Well, it didn't take him very long to get started again." "No, the fire was no problem to him." "But if I'm right about hungry elephants, they're gonna regroup and try for the village again." "I'm afraid they haven't given up yet." "I won't give up." "That's it." "Colonel, we checked them again from the air." "They're frightened off, and there is no chance in the world of their returning." "He's right, colonel." "They've had it." "We'll have to work out a new plan." "And unless you have specific instructions, we can't lawfully keep these people here any longer." "Look, we've lived up to our part of the agreement." "We helped you plant your mines, string up your incendiary charges, we" "Tried it your way." "Now we should like" " to help Marsh his way." " Right." "(CHATTERING)" "Well, look who's back." "Where were you when the fireworks started, young lady?" "If I didn't know any better," "I'd say she had a hand in starting it." "I never did trust that little ape." "(CHATTERING)" "Look, colonel, at least let us get her back to the compound." "Ok, the 3 of you go on." "Hedley, you go with them." "But stay close to the radio, will ya?" "If I see the dust of the herd regrouping," "I want you back here on the double." "Right." "So it was just a case of mother nature just trying to put things back into balance again." "But I don't see how heavy rains in the northern reserve 7 months ago could have anything to do with the elephant invasion here now." "Oh, that's really very simple, Hedley, you see," "Marsh had found out up north that" "Well, no, Jack, it isn't really quite" " that simple for the layman." " No, I guess it isn't." "We ran some pretty sophisticated tests here and analyzed all these samples." "You see, Hedley, all living things maintain a balance with their environment." "Even with their food and mineral supply." "And the exceptionally heavy rains we had last season washed away the calcium and trace mineral deposits in the soil up north." "So the elephant's natural need for calcium and cobalt and other minerals just wasn't available in the vegetation water supply up here." "And then the erosion up north washed down unusually large supplies of calcium to this part." "Therefore, they had to migrate in this direction for new supplies." "But once the migration started, the food supply and the entire terrain and its villagers became fair game for Old Spindletooth and his herd." "But how on earth do you expect them to return to their normal feeding grounds?" "Well, by using a little tactic I learned from the colonel-- baiting a trap." "I fixed up some bags and calcium pellets and I'll just leave them along the trail." "(TREDWELL, OVER RADIO):" "Wameru compound, this is Colonel Tredwell at the village." "Do you read me, over?" "We're here, colonel." "Have you spotted the herd?" "Uh, roger, Hedley." "I've had the herd under surveillance for the past 10 minutes." "They've regrouped." "They bypassed the village and are headed straight for the compound." "I don't know why, but my battle's over, Marsh." "But I'm afraid yours is just beginning." "Over." " Then we'll evacuate." " No." "You know Marsh has never abandoned that menagerie of his." "No, we'll make our stand there." "Now, I think it's about time that Dr. Tracy and I join forces again." "What do you say, Marsh?" "Simon." "Simon, I couldn't agree more." "(TREDWELL):" "Good." "Uh, Hedley, put all available gasoline into small cans and bottles, and I'll drive the truck back there." "I've got the rifles and grenades and I'm sorry I don't have time to dig up the mines." "We'll use the grenades, Marsh, to frighten them off." "We'll only use the rifles for our self-protection." "If I keep off the main roads," "I can stay ahead of the herd and be there pretty soon." "Uh, roger, Simon, and uh, listen, watch out for deep ruts." "You're not familiar with that area." "Don't worry about that." "Tredwell out." "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "(ENGINE STARTS)" "(BIRD SCREECHES)" "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "Now, Dad, I've put the small animals in their cages, but shouldn't we let them out?" "They're acting very jittery." "Yes." "They sense the nearness of the herd." "(ROARS)" "(BARKS)" "(CHATTERING)" "I'll let them out only as a last resort." "(CLARENCE SNARLS)" "What about Clarence?" "You better put him in the house." "Ok." "Come on, Clarence." "Come on." "Marsh, I can't raise Tredwell on the radio." " Funny, he should be here now." " I know, but not a peep." "I think something's happened." "If his escape's cut off by that herd" "Oh, Hedley, listen, he'd be the first 1 to tell you that he can take care of himself." "He'll need to." "If he's surrounded by elephants, not even another animal could get through to save him." "And like it or not, we need him now, Marsh." "(CHATTERING)" "Yes." "Well, we'll secure our positions here first." "If he hasn't shown up by then, I'll go look for him." "Right." "First, we'll plant the containers of petrol around the compound." "They'll be our last line of defense." "In a pinch, they'll scare the elephants off if Tredwell doesn't get here with the grenades." "(CHATTERING)" "Come on, chaps, hurry it up." "Don't plant them any more than 10 feet apart." "Ok, but how are you going to ignite them?" "I've got it all worked out, Jack." "Hey, Dad, where's Judy, I want to put her with Clarence." "I don't know." "She was here a minute ago." "I saw her go off towards Modock shelter." "Better make it snappy, honey." "Look, uh, I'm making some notes here, Hedley." "Oh, yes." "Judy?" "Modock?" "Where are you?" "Now how can a chimpanzee and an elephant both disappear?" "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "(CHATTERING)" "(TRUMPETING)" "The defense ring's all in place, Hedley." "Good." "Marsh, I still can't get through to Simon." "Well, he must've taken another route to watch the herd." "And I can't find Judy or Modock." "What?" "Now, where in the devil could those 2" "Uh-oh." "Look." "The advance party." "They'll all be swarming in now before long." "(GUNSHOT)" "(GUNSHOTS)" "Well, it wouldn't do much good to shoot just 1 of them, now, would it?" "(CHATTERING)" "(TRUMPETING)" "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "Oh, Jack." "Jack, what's happening in your area?" "(JACK, OVER RADIO):" "I can see everything pretty well from this tree, Marsh." "They're beginning to move in now." "All right, stand by for my signal to light the gasoline." "Ok, will do." "Paula, I thought I told you to stay in the house." "I couldn't, I wanted to be with you." "Look, Marsh, over there, 1 of these blagger's breaking through." "It's no good." "They're getting bolder now." "I'm sorry, Marsh, but I'm going to have to shoot this 1." "Let me have that please, Mike." "That's Modock!" "The colonel and Judy!" "Let's get him off here." "Paula, get my medical kit, hurry." "Come on, Judy." "Come on, let's take him over here." "Easy." "Easy." "Simon, what happened?" "Oh." "The truck-- I lost control." "Ok, ok." "Don't try to talk." "You'll be all right." "Marsh." "Marsh, that--that elephant herd is advancing." "We'll light a wall of flame around the compound if they get too close." "A tactic we learned from you." "Marsha, I to tell you something." "That elephant of yours and Judy saved my life." "Seems like there's always an animal to the rescue, eh, Simon?" "A regular pied piper." "Heh." "Paula, where did Modock and Judy go?" "Over there." "Marsh, we better tell Jack to start igniting the petrol." "Now, hold off a minute, Hedley." "I got an idea." "If I can just get close enough to that herd." " Take over for me." " What's he mumbling about?" "Dad?" "Mike, if he lights that gasoline, he'll burn the whole place down." "We can rebuild." "Jack, can you see the herd?" "No, Hedley, I can't see much of anything yet." "Hey, wait a minute, there's some stirring in the bush near the compound." "Yeah, it's coming into the clear." "It's--it's a single stray, and it's headed away from the compound." "Hey, wait a minute." "That's Marsh!" "It's Marsh, and he's riding Modock, and--and they've got Judy with them." "And they're mixing right into the herd." "There's a search for minerals that got those elephants down here in the first place." "And now Marsh is leading them away by dropping those calcium pellets." "(TRUMPETING)" "Yeah, they're breaking up into small groups and heading away from the compound." "How about that?" "The pied piper of Wameru." "Now, whatever Modock is saying to those elephants, it must be something like, "Come and get it."" "Thank you." "You know, Simon, I" "I certainly wish we had some sort of medal we could give out." "I think you deserve the medal, Marsh." "Well, so do Judy and Modock." "But tell me, do you think Old Spindletooth'll come back" " and do any more damage?" " No, I don't think so." "(JACK):" "I don't either." "Elephants by nature are not very aggressive." "What about when nature gets out of balance?" "Well, then man will just have to try to help put it back into balance." "As a matter of fact, the northern district has already replenished the calcium and trace mineral supplies in every waterhole in this reserve." "And the crop dusting planes have completed the work." "Well, then maybe Old Spindletooth won't come back after all." "Hmm." "What about next time?" "You've only won a battle, you know." "And not the war?" "Yes, I'm afraid you're right, Simon." "The elephant population problem still exists." "But, you know, I think now we can solve it scientifically." "And I just have a feeling that perhaps people will now stop and think and listen." "Well, I'll admit." "You've got 1 convert right here." "No offense, Marsh, but I really owe it all to Judy and Modock." "(MIKE):" "Many times we must look to the animals themselves for the answers." "Well, whatever the answers, Mike," "I do know that Marsh and I agree on the ground rules for the questions." "That's to deal with the elephant problem humanely and efficiently." "And not disturb the overall animal population." "Thanks so much for taking care of our patient." "It was our pleasure." "Oh, and I'll be seeing those government officials I mentioned." "and I think that some sort of a study grant is in the bag." "I just hope it's elephant-sized." "Thanks." "(ENGINE STARTS)" "Mission accomplished, my friends." "Mission accomplished." "(TRUMPETS)" "(ROARS)" "(TRUMPETS)" "♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(English" " SDH)"