"You're certainly a great help, Galen." "We're trying not to leave tracks!" "Stay closer to the water." "Don't be afraid to get your feet wet." "My tracks are not cause for suspicion in this part of the world." "And besides, we are not quite as fond of water as you humans." "Oh, boy." "I wonder if this is Pismo Beach?" "Or Malibu?" "Hey, look!" "Come on!" "Hey, it's an old man, Al." "A survivor." "That's not a survivor." "He's a victim." "Come on, Pete." "Watch him, Pete, but keep moving." "Galen, let me have your knife." "At least he's still breathing." "Pete..." "Somebody must have put him on the outgoing tide, deliberately." "Let's get him out of here." "Here we go." "Hey, look." " Over here." " Yeah." "Here we go." "There." "Hey, there, now." "What's your name, huh?" "Hey, come on, you understand?" "In shock or deaf?" "It's hard to say." "He might not understand us." "I am dead." "Leave me." "He understands." "I don't." "Hey, listen to me, old man." "Listen to me." "What's your name?" "Where do you come from?" "I am dead." "You heard him." "Let's go." "Well, we can't just leave him here." "You listen to him." "Now, you're just talking yourselves into trouble." "There you go, pal." "Come on, you wanna tell me your name now?" "I am dead." "The gods have willed it." "Look, you know that, and we know that." "All we'd like to know is your name while you were alive." "Gahto." "My name was Gahto." "Gahto, huh?" "Well, that's a start." "Hey, Pete, look." "For identification, maybe?" "Maybe." "I'll tell you one thing, it'll be on there for life." "That's a band of an enforced labor camp." "He'll be killed if he's found so far from a permitted area." " What's a permitted area?" " It varies." "It's some distance from the labor center." "It's a method they have to stop humans from straying." "I am dead." "Leave me." "The gods have willed it." "Poor guy, somebody sold him a bill of goods." "Question." "If he wants to be dead, why can't he be dead?" "I've known a lot of humans who would be better off..." "Is that your question?" "Well..." "Here's the answer:" "Galen, you'll stay here and keep an eye on him." "We'll go out and scout the area and see if we can find out who old Gahto here belongs to." "Does that meet with your approval?" "Come on, Pete, let's take a walk." "Hey, don't mind him." "He just got up on the wrong side of the cave, huh?" " See you later." " Here." "Thanks." "Gahto." "Gahto!" "Shark!" "Shark!" "Man." "If this is Paradise Cove, they've sure made some changes." "Hey, Pete, look." "The bracelets." "What do you think?" "I don't know, Pete." "They've got a lot of artillery down there." "You!" "What are you doing here?" "Who are you?" "Where do you come from?" "Well, actually, we're just passing through." " We would have called ahead, but..." " Silence!" "This way!" "Stop!" "Stay!" "Watch them!" "You." "Do you know of Gahto?" "Wait!" "Does Gahto live here?" "Looks like old Gahto's got a lot of acquaintances and no close friends." "They're stray humans, sir." "I found them hiding near the fishing area." "Probably waiting to steal fish." "All right!" "Don't just stand there." "More problems!" "Send them in!" "That's all I need!" "Three wagonloads behind already this period!" "And the fertilizer factories wanting more, more, more!" "And you?" "How many fish do you have in your gullet, eh?" " We didn't steal any fish." " You wear no band of a fisherman." "How else would you get fish to eat if not by stealing them?" " Lf you'll let me explain." "We..." " Silence!" "If they're not fishermen, they're of no use to me." " Take them out and kill them." " Come!" "Wait a minute, now." "Hold it!" "You've made a mistake." "We're probably about the two best fishermen in this part of the world." "If you lie, you die." "Oh, no lie." "On the level." "Nobody fishes, but nobody fishes, like we do." "How is it that you're not wearing the bracelet of a fisherman?" "We were farmers." "We were just released from a big farm inland." "Because all we've ever wanted to do is fish." "We've been practicing." "You." "You have good wind?" "To fish long underwater?" "Yes, sir!" "Do you have your release papers?" " No, sir." "Unfortunately, we lost them." " Yeah, while we were fishing." "I could use two more good producers." "Have to discard the old ones." "Takes forever to grow the new ones." "We'll let the fire decide." "The fire?" "We'll test you tomorrow." "If you can prove your swimming ability under the sheet of flame I'll band you myself." "Two new producers in the prime." "Bandor will be delighted." "Actually, I don't think that we're really ready for swimming under fire." "Then it's out of my hands, of course." "You will be killed immediately, before the gods can be offended." "Guard them!" "No food before the test." "If we have to kill them I don't want to waste any fish rations on them." "Quotas, quotas." "Out!" "Here." "Maybe you are not too dead to have one of these." "Come on." "Eat." "I have failed the gods." "I am dead." "My friends have a saying, I think it goes like this:" ""You are a pain in the neck."" "And if anything happens to them I will personally feed you to the sharks, piece by piece." "It is the will of the gods." "Oh, shut up!" "It is the will of Galen that you stay right here." "They've been gone a day." "I'm gonna see if I can find them." "You understand?" "What do you think his chances are, Pete?" "He's probably been in training." "We get to go that route without even a test run." "Well, it can be done." "He made it." "Look at that." "Limbs as strong as a young horse." "Lungs like a whale's!" "When the run of fish is good they should produce an extra two, three hundred pounds a day." " Test them." " Come." "Good luck, pal." "Looks like you won the toss." "I say, I think that's the starting gun." "You're a hard act to follow." "Showoff." "As one big producer to another I hope we've graduated and don't have to take more tests." " Right." " Come!" "Well, well." "Bandor will arrive tomorrow with new quotas, no doubt." "He will expect me to squirm and complain." "He always wanted to put his nephew in charge here." "I think I will surprise Bandor with these new fishermen." "I want to see his face." "Bring them along!" " Did they say any more?" " They said nothing." "I am sure they have seen my father." "Gahto is alive." "Silence!" "If the gods hear you speak his name, they'll punish us all." "The sea has taken him." "It's the law." "Now be still." "Well." "Let them occupy the hut of the old discarded fisherman." "You hear that?" "There you are!" "Now, I warned you the next time you strayed you would be punished severely, and I meant it!" " Now, you come along with me!" " Wait!" "Stay!" "Who are you?" "Permit me to speak with you, sir." "Stay there!" "What a lovely place." "My name is Zooma, and I am on this expedition from Central City and you have just found my two rather ignorant servants." "They're always wandering off." "You know how it is." "I'm very grateful to you, and I'll just take them now." "Now, hold on." "This is all very irregular." " That's not the story they told me." " It isn't?" "Well, of course, it isn't." "They are liars." "They're the most terrible liars." "They lie all the time about everything, you know." "But I'll take them off your hands." "It is out of my hands." "Since they have lied, only the gods of the sea can decide their fate." "Well that sounds reasonable enough." "Who are these gods of the sea?" "The sharks." "I object!" "I won't have my servants fed to the sharks to satisfy some primitive custom." "I am sorry, my friend." "It may not appeal to your sophisticated Central City taste but in areas of production like this with minimum security, it is the law." "Send them out!" "Wait!" "At least, let me have the satisfaction of giving these troublesome humans a piece of my mind." "Very well." "See any chance of getting out of this at all?" "I don't." "Here." "Take this knife, it may help." "Remind me someday to tell you how grateful we both are." "Liars?" "Zooma." "Enough, enough!" "Send them to the gods!" "Watch it, Galen." "I don't think they're really particular who they shoot." "Move!" " Stay together till I reach the kelp." " I'll try to decoy them." "Well, that's that." "Get the production started." "Look!" "Well, I think that's that." "Your law has been carried out." "Now I think I'll take my slaves and be on my way." "I am not so sure about that." "The float carrying old Gahto to the gods." "It's on the beach with the lashings cut." " Someone has defied the gods!" " It is sacrilege." "High treason!" "I knew it." "He's alive." "The old man can't be far." "Find him!" "I don't think they can leave just now." "This is a matter for Bandor to decide." "If the old man lives someone must die." "Gahto?" "Ridiculous!" "Come on." "Why did you stop me?" "Gahto is dead." "Some of us would be better off if you were, but you are not." "Now you have got to stay out of sight!" "I am dead." "Oh, I am tempted." "I am tempted!" "Look, unless you stay out of sight, others may be killed." "You don't want that to happen, do you?" "It does not matter." "It may not matter to you but most humans do not share your enthusiasm with dying." "Look, I promise you, Gahto, I promise you sooner or later, you will be able to die." "In the meantime, stay in the cave!" "Galen, did you see him?" " He was out on the beach!" " Gahto?" "Don't mention his name." "Someone might hear you." "I wish I'd never heard it, believe me." "Me too." "I got him back in the cave." "I hope he stays there." "We'd like to thank you for rushing in and telling them we were liars." " It was a big help." " I couldn't think of what else to do." "And besides, if I hadn't found you you would've been banded as fishermen for the rest of your lives." "We gotta do something." "There's a big wheel coming tomorrow." "That's Bandor." "He's in charge of many of the producing areas." "And he presides over the banding of the fishermen ceremony." "You're pretty thick with Hurton." "Can't you get us out of here?" "I am primarily concerned that Hurton's patrols do not find Gahto." "If he points you two out, you will be killed instantly." "Move!" " Today you spear fish!" " Wonderful." " Move!" " All right!" "Where was he when we needed him yesterday?" "Move along, you two!" "All right, back in the water!" "Move!" "Great way to make a living." "That's why we're doing it, to keep on living." "You know, you go to school, you work hard you wind up fishing for raw material for a fertilizer factory." "Year after year they raise my quotas." "The law requires that I discard worn out producers like Gahto who can no longer pass the test even before new offspring can be raised to take their place." "I do so sympathize with your problem." "But then, these two slaves are mine." "I'm not sure the law of possession holds out here." "After all, they came to me and asked to be fishermen." "But they're liars." "I told you that." "They are such terrible liars." " The gods of the sea said differently." " They'll try to escape." "I am sure of it." "I am having them closely watched." "If they try to leave, they'll be shot." "Then you've gained nothing and I'm out two good slaves." "But I've told you that is out of my hands." "When Bandor comes for the ceremony of the bracelets, he'll decide." "Because Bandor is interested in increased production like you you think he'll decide in your favor." "Are you questioning the ethics of Bandor?" "He has high connections in Central City." "He knows Urko himself." "Urko himself?" " That's what he said." " That's just great." "Bandor knows Urko." "Urko knows us." "All the more reason we should split before the big man gets here." "I agree, except Hurton's got anti-split devices all over town." "All of this over old Gahto, who no one wanted in the first place." "Hello." "Gahto is my father." "Come on over here." "It's all right." "Galen's a friend." "Here, sit down." " Why did they do that to your father?" " It is the law." "So that's why Hurton looked at you when the rider came with the news." "Romar, my husband, is afraid we will both die, that we'll all be punished." "Now listen." "We saved your father against his wishes." "We took him to a hiding place but he'll die if we don't help him." " Take me to him." " We'd like to." " But they've got us heavily guarded." " I can help." "You're prisoners." "But remember, I can come and go as I please." "So?" "Well, if she's with me, we can just casually stroll right out of the village." "All right." "Listen." "Leave here like you're just taking a walk." "Ready for din-din?" " Soma?" " Take it easy." "Your wife's all right." " Where is Soma?" " Quiet." "You'll wake the rifleman." "Our friend took her to her father." "Calm down." " It's a trick!" "The gods want to trap her!" " Hold it!" "It's a trick!" "Soma?" "Soma?" "Soma!" "Wait here!" " I can't move it." " It went clean through." "You're lucky." " I won't pass the test for Bandor." " What do you mean?" "I knew it." "Now I'll be given to the sea gods like Gahto." "I knew it was death to mention his name." "You did this." "Sir, a visitor." "Welcome, Bandor, welcome." "Did you have a good trip?" "Tiring." "Whenever you greet me with such big smiles I feel you are holding bad news behind your back." "Not so." "In fact, I have a special surprise for you." "Hey!" "The wagon ropes are gone." "The factory workers are getting worse not sending wagon ropes back." "Get some in the storehouse." " You should have checked." " I should have?" "How about you?" " One of them should have checked." " Check." "Thank you." "I'm not interested in projections." "I'm interested in production." " My nephew said that." "Very clever?" " Yes." "Very clever." "Unfortunately, we cannot catch fish with words." "Or promises." "What is this great news?" "You have three young ones for me to band to replace the old one you discarded?" "Only one has been raised to age and size." "But two full-grown fishermen have joined us like they were sent by the gods." "Now Hurton is claiming partnership with the gods." "Bring in the two new fishermen." "You'll see." "Two excellent recruits." "They not only spear fish while swimming under the test of fire they kill sharks with their bare hands." "Two full-grown fishermen for you to band." "Sent by the gods you say?" "Well, actually, they are runaway slaves." "Once owned by a rather irresponsible chimpanzee named Zooma." " I knew there was some catch to it." " I dispute his claim to them." "He's here?" "To claim them?" "Does he have papers?" "Here, you see?" "Strong." "Many prime years of production in them." " You say this "Zooma" has no papers?" " None." "Or why would he have stolen one of our female slaves?" "These skins have not been long in the water." "But they kill sharks with their bare hands." "I would say this Zooma has made an unwise move." "We will just let him keep his worthless female." "Tomorrow, at the ceremony, I will band these two myself." "I knew you would decide quickly and fairly." "Someone has to keep these producing villages going." "The fish is burning." "I don't care if I ever see another fish again, ever." "I don't feel like spearing fish and ducking sharks the rest of my life." "This thing better work, Alan." "It will, Pete." "Or we're gonna be fitted with a pair of permanent handcuffs." "Come, human." "Don't worry." "Everything's settled." "You and your father have nothing to worry about." "Come along." "New areas are being opened for crops." "More fertilizer is needed, which means more fish." "There must be a limit." " We can't keep increasing production." " Now, now." "If you keep getting these god-sent producers..." " And where are they?" " What?" "I don't see these two new surprises who kill sharks with their bare hands." "Guard." "Where are the two new producers?" " Sir, they're missing." "They're not here." " Missing?" "Your surprises are getting tiresome, Hurton." "Okay, Al." "Let's go fishing!" "There they are!" " Shoot them!" " Wait!" "All right, Gahto." "This is where you stop being a dead discard and become a live hero." "If you want your daughter to live, go." " Gahto?" " That's it." "Bring it in." "Easy!" "Easy!" "Very good." "What is this?" "Fish by the dozens from some..." "From a net, mighty Bandor." "It can trap more fish in a few hours than your men spear in a month!" "Just another of the surprises I promised you." "And even old men and women can fish in this way." "You have fish." "The gods will be pleased." "So you can let old people and injured live on in your village." " That is so." "That is certainly so." " All part of my plan." "Now the producers will have all they want to eat and the security problems will be almost eliminated." "What has this discard to do with your plan, Hurton?" "Mighty Bandor, Hurton has saved his greatest surprise for last." "Tell them, Zooma." "This magic webbing, which brings in fish, is all Gahto's idea." "Hurton has saved Gahto so that he can teach others how to make and mend the webbing." "It's easy." "Hurton, I knew you could do it." "Now, that is why I have kept you on here despite efforts of those higher-ups to replace you with my nephew." "I appreciate it." "I always do my best, as you can see." "Extra rations for all from now on." "A celebration." "And first, we start with the banding ceremony." "Sir, would the mighty Bandor do us the honor of assisting in the greatest catch of all?" " What is that?" " Come with me, sir." "It's not fitting the greatest bounty of the sea be taken by a human." "Therefore, this revolving wheel will be held by Zooma." "I don't understand." "Oh, well, you see the largest fish can break the net but this cord will entangle it in its loop." " Well, here, you hold tight." " "Tight"?" " Tight." " Tight." "Come on, come along." "We must not keep Bandor waiting." "Aye, aye, sir." "You watch this." "Grab a paddle." "Would you rather swim?" "Me?" "End of the line." "Shoot!" "Shoot!" "At what?" "I said you were liars." "I had no idea you were that good at it." "Listen, Galen, I wanna talk with you about that." "I'd like to discuss this owner-slave relationship." "Well, I don't wanna have to pull you two out of another scrape right away!" "Subtitles by SDI Media Group" "[ENGLISH]"