"♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(ROARS)" "Well, that fungus growth was reported right around here." "All we have to do is get a little sample, and we can head right back to Wameru." "Now, let me see." "We'll try over here." "Well, here we are." " (JUDY CHATTERS) - (LEOPARD SCREAMS)" "(SIGHS IN RELIEF)" "Thank you, Judy." "Hey!" "Leave him alone." "Well, Judy, we're gonna take this sleeping beauty back to the compound." "I wanna see Marsh's face when he realizes that he finally has in his possession the world famous Phantom leopard." "Wonder what he's doing down here, though." "His home is hundreds of miles away in the Kawanga district." "(JACK):" "Where did he get this old spear scar?" "Well, we'll worry about that later." "In the meantime, we're gonna get our prize home." "It's an honor to have you visit the Wameru district, M'Kono." "Even here, hundreds of miles away, we've heard of you." "And I've heard of things you do here in Wameru." "Yes." "It's a pity you couldn't see our district in a better light." "Terrible drought, you know." "Killing vegetation, drying waterholes, animals moving off." "It's a very, very bad show." "I have worked my craft through many seasons drought, flood, winter, summer..." "I can't help wondering what brings you so far from your home in the Kawanga district." "I, and native hunters like myself who go after game with only our age-old weapons, are part of the old Africa." "What you do here is the new." "I wish to see for myself." "You're very welcome." "But, um, this is a no-kill area." "Perhaps you might like to leave your leopard spear behind." "When I put aside my childhood, I tipped this spear, for the wood to fit my hand, my strength, my eye." " I would feel naked without it." " Hmm." "I wouldn't want to separate old friends." "Enjoy your stay in Wameru." "Now, you must excuse me, but I have to check for fire." "Now, do look me up again." " Goodbye now." " Goodbye." "(SNIFFS)" "Here you fell." "No longer can you run from me." "Others came." "Poachers!" "Tire tracks." "They had no right to take you." "I wounded you." "For months, I tracked you." "You were my kill." "There is no kill without the skin." "I reached for your skin for too many years to be cheated." "I will kill again if I must for that pelt." "Well, that antibiotic seems to have done the trick, Mike." "He's come along nicely." "Hey, did you find out where he last was?" "Well, the soil samples I took were a red clay with traces of manganese, peculiar to the Kawanga district." "Kawanga district?" " Mm-hm." " Hmm." "Hey, Dad, are you going on that fire prevention trip with Hedley tomorrow?" "Which trip?" "What trip?" "You know, Hedley." "Game reserve, drought, fire danger." "You tuned into me, Daktari, or don't you realize you got a restless native on your hands?" "I'll be your father surrogate, Paula." " How soon do you want to leave?" " First thing in the morning." "Right now, I've gotta help Jack with his new project." "See ya later." "I should go along with you two tomorrow." "I did promise Hedley." "Well, I'm sure Hedley will understand, Marsh." "After all, how often do you get a chance to study a magnificent specimen in detail, like the Phantom?" "And a fire that could wipe out the preserve?" "We only run that risk every five or ten years." "(ROARS)" "Here's my portable." "Now, what are you gonna do with all these typewriters?" "Well, with all these typewriters, we are gonna debunk one of the great cockeyed theories of the Western world." " We are?" " Uh-huh." "You haven't heard of the idea that if you put enough monkeys in front of enough typewriters, eventually one of them is gonna come up with the King James version of the Bible or the complete works of Shakespeare?" " I have, but I don't believe it." " Well, I don't either." "You know, this may have some merit after all." "At least we'd be able to keep all those little troublemakers" " in one place." " Yeah, that's a thought." "Well, how are you two doing?" "Well, uh, Jack isn't set up quite yet." "Hey, old buddy, maybe you'd like to participate in the running of this." "I'm an ordinary field hand, Jack." "You're the psychologist on the team, and this looks like it's long on psychology." " So be it." " Ooh, paper." "We'll need just reams and reams of paper." "There isn't enough here." "Reams and reams of paper." "I'll get it." "Hmm." "We better load the truck for an early start." "Oh, Mike, would you do me a favor and check this typewriter out?" "I haven't used it in just millions of years, not since I was in high school." " Please?" " Paula" "I'll load the truck." "(SIGHS)" "(GRUMBLES)" "(COUGHS)" "(GROWLS SOFTLY)" "Aah." "(COUGHS)" "The quick brown... fox jumped... over the dog." "Science." "(GROWLS)" "Not exactly your favorite habitat, is it, old boy?" "Hmm?" "Well, I have to honest with ya." "I've waited for a long time to meet you." "You're quite a legend, you know?" "Yes, sir, you've outsmarted the best of hunters for a long, long time." "Now I have a chance to find out what makes you so different." "Well, now......then, boys and girls." "I'd like to welcome you to the Wameru steno pool." "Now, we're quite flexible here." "You can feel free to work in any way which best suits your individual talents." "You can touch type." "You can hunt and peck." "You can use the biblical system." "That's, uh, "Seek and you shall find."" "Uh, yes, uh, you can single space, double space, triple space, outerspace." "I couldn't care less." "Whoa, Toto!" "You stay right there, young lady." "(JUDY HOOTS)" "Now I've seen everything." "A snobbish chimp." "Judy, you see, that's the beauty of research." "It's a great leveler." "(JACK):" "Ok, folks, shall we commence?" " (KEYS CLACKING) - (MONKEYS CHATTERING)" "Oh, Judy." "(ELEPHANT TRUMPETS)" "(MIKE):" "Paula, that was a very good meal." "Well, thank you, but Dad doesn't seem to think so." "Yeah, I don't know if Marsh is hypnotized with Phantom or vice versa." "Well, they can stay there all night, but we scientists have work to do in the morning, so someone please bring in Dad's plate." "(MIKE):" "I'll get it." " (PAULA):" "Good night, Dad." " (JACK):" "Night, Marsh." "We're turning in, Marsh." "Well, I guess they're trying to tell me something." "Good night, old boy." "I'll see you tomorrow." "(GROWLS SOFTLY)" "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "So we meet again, old one." "Each of us, the last of our kind." "You must be Clarence." "Yes, I've heard of you." "(M'KONO):" "The lion who does not know he is a lion." "But you, Phantom, yes, you are truly a miracle." "I speared you with all the strength of my arm, and yet you live, and are able to travel 200 miles." "But soon your journey will be over." "You will have a monument that men will talk about with wonder." "Soon your mark will be here." "We have saved a place for you." "The last log, last kill." "Come to us, old one." "Come." "Go." "I have set you free." "There is the bush, where we both are more at home." "Go." "Go." "If I play tricks with you, it will be there, where we each must test our skill and courage." "Go that way." "South." "Yes." "We have many miles to travel before I start hunting you to fill this last place of honor." "South, Phantom." "It wasn't forced open." "Well, why didn't Paula and Mike say the cage was empty" " when they left this morning?" " I don't know." "They probably figured the same way I did," "That you had the Phantom down at the lab, running..." "Running more tests." "Well, I suppose I haven't been rather communicative lately, ever since he arrived." "Well, he's departed now, and there go his tracks." "Yeah, and take a look." "There's some footprints there as well." "Yeah, well, at least we know it wasn't Judy this time." "No, and it definitely wasn't Judy or anyone else from this compound." "Well, if there was somebody here last night, and we didn't know about it, it's not surprising." "Our faithful watchdog lion was probably sound asleep on the job as per usual." " Jack." " Huh?" "You remember that scar on the Phantom's side?" "Yeah." "It was a spear wound." "Yeah." "Spear wound." "But made by a particular spear." "Huh?" "Is my, uh, tranquilizing rifle and medical kit in the truck?" " Yeah." " Good." "Hey." "You're not going after him?" "Look, Jack..." "No one, I don't care who he is, is going to kill an animal on this reserve." "Even if it just happens that the animal who's gonna be killed is the Phantom?" "It's purely incidental." "Well, what about the drought we've been sweating through and the fire threat." "Is that purely incidental too?" "Well, I won't be gone that long, and besides, I'll keep checking back with you." "Ok." "Some extra darts." " Oh, yeah, thanks." " Canteen." " Ok." " Uh, Marsh, if you're gonna be checking back don't you think you oughta take this?" "Thanks." "You will have to do better than that if you want to lose me, old one." "Much better." "Just keep to south." "Only a few more miles and then we shall finally know." "You and I together." "(BIRD CRIES)" "(ROARS)" "(MONKEYS CHATTERING)" "(JUDY CHATTERING)" "(TOTO VOCALlzlNG)" "Ok, keep it up." "Doesn't bother me at all, 'cause I'm gonna ship out." "As soon as Marsh comes back, I'm gonna find myself a nice, friendly little forest fire to fight." "Then, as far as I'm concerned, you can take all those little machines, tear 'em up piece by piece and eat 'em." ""Operation Shakespeare." Bah." " (KEYS CLACKING) - (MONKEY'S CHATTERING)" "Well, Phantom, you've moved out of my area now." "Hm." "But you're leaving a good trail, and making good time." "I wonder where your friend is." "You can come out now, M'Kono." "I have been waiting for you, Daktari." "Well, the next time you visit my compound, you don't have to make it in the middle of the night." "You'd always be welcome." "I am surprised that you know of me." "Why wouldn't I?" "You're one of the most famous hunters in Africa." "Hedley told me you were in the area, and so I was rather expecting you since we had another famous visitor from Kawanga." "The Phantom." "Also in my land, where the green forests spill over the low hills of Kawanga, we have heard tales of, Daktari and the wonders of Wameru, where animals learn to live as men cannot." "So this is the famous Kawanga leopard spear, huh?" "You must know that men like myself hunt with only native weapons." "There are many leather thongs tied to the shaft." "(M'KONO):" "Story of a long life." "(MARSH):" "There's one missing." "My life is not yet over." "You had no right letting the Phantom out of his cage." "And you had no right putting him in there." "Did you ask the Phantom?" "Did he choose the role you had for him?" "This is his life." "Our life." "Yours and mine." "Our life, M'Kono?" "We are not different." "We both feel something the Phantom has over us." "A part of us he will always have has long as he shall live" " or we shall live." " Yes." "But I'm not interested in killing him." "I am." "That is my way." "And that's why you drove him south, out of the reserve, into the open area." "I am not always at home with the new rules, the new laws." "But I respect them." "(M'KONO):" "They are your way." "And your way is killing." "Is that a better way, M'Kono?" "Who knows?" "It is a battle that has been raged in this land for centuries." "Perhaps now, you and I can decide it, not for Africa, but for ourselves." "Together, we shall stalk him." "Your skill, your knowledge, against what I have learned and become." "M'Kono, as you know, I can't stop you." "This is a free area." "But are you willing to agree that if I reach him first, with this?" "With this, he lives." "Yes." "And if I reach him first with this, he dies." "You are a worthy opponent, M'Kono." "Let us pray that we are each worthy of the stakes." "The life or death of the leopard of Kawanga that you call the Phantom." "Calling Wameru." "Come in, Jack." "Come in." "(JACK):" "Yeah, Jack here." "Have you heard from Marsh?" "No, he hasn't checked in yet, Mike." "Well, we've got to find him." "Fire's broken out on the reserve." "Fire?" "Is it anywhere near the compound?" "Tell him we're ok, if the wind doesn't change." "(PAULA):" "It's still blowing south." " (MIKE):" "Did you hear that?" " Yeah, I heard that." "South is the way Marsh was headed." "How do you know?" "(JACK):" "I followed the Phantom's tracks to the edge of the compound." "Look, keep me posted, huh?" "Out." "Don't worry, Paula." "Marsh can take care of himself." "(LEOPARD SCREAMS)" "Well..." "I'm out of range." "Won't be needing this anymore." "Might as well get rid of it." "(SIGHS, BLOWS)" "Yeah." "You're gonna be needing water yourself, pretty soon old boy." "This just might work." "Now all I have to do is get downwind." "Water." "Yes, he will need water." "(MONKEY SQUEAKING)" "(LEOPARD ROARS)" "(HOOFBEATS)" "Daktari!" "You know, I could have sworn that was the Phantom." "He wanted to make certain all was safe." "(MARSH):" "So he sent a scout ahead." "He's a clever one, all right." "Mmm." "It is an old trick with the Phantom." "(MARSH):" "Wait a minute." "This is fever country." "(CHUCKLES)" "It is fresh water." "It came from your canteen." "Yes, but that log has been there a long time." "Here." "Take one of these each time you drink water." "I have hunted this country and drank water long before you ever came to Wameru, Daktari." "Are these pills part of the new Africa that you cannot live with, M'Kono?" "She was very young, the wife of my early manhood." "Very young." "But she had the beauty of the first gazelle you have ever seen running across the setting sun." "Our love was the love of children." "All laughter and long nights and secret signs that no one else ever saw." "But of that, there was a son." "As a hunter, I had to be away." "While I was gone, they both died of fever." "No, it is not that part of the new Africa that I feel is like a garment made for another." "I would have given anything for pills such as these, and the understanding and courage to use them." "I'm sorry, M'Kono." "That is a tragic and cruel thing." "No, Daktari." "I have lived with cruelty." "It was not that." "Let them build their new Africa, but let them leave me one corner, one place where men like me can still do what the gods have ordered us." "M'Kono, I could understand your hunting for food, but that's not why you're stalking the Phantom." "You wanna kill him because he's a challenge." " Your skill against his life." " You speak truth, Daktari." "But don't forget, it is also the Phantom's skill against my life." "I'll get my water bag." "Our Phantom has had his water." "And we weren't more than 20 feet away." "While I had my drink, he had his." "And you won't be getting any more until he does." "You think he'll head south, huh?" "No." "No, he will double back, circle north." "You agree, of course." "No." "No, I think he'll head east." "Yes." "Yes, over that hill there's, um..." "There's tall grass, high enough for him to hide in to see who's coming." "Yes, my friend, I will be heading east." "I will let you know when I find the Phantom." "North." "And I will be in the east, waiting with a tranquilized leopard." "And then we can sit around and tell each other tall stories." "Privilege of all hunters." "Uh oh, coffee break time again." "Well, let's see what our fine literary minds have produced." "Nothing." "Nothing." "Where are you?" "Haven't budged a finger." "Ok, Toto." "And after all I've done for you." "All right, Judy." "Ah, Judy, that's disappointing." "It really is." "Look, let's face it, I really didn't expect the complete works of Shakespeare, but maybe just a bad Elizabethan sonnet." "Ok, look, group, now you've gotta get back to work." "I cannot stand over you all day long, not with the threat of the whole bush going up in smoke." "So please try." "At least give it a try." "(CHATTERING)" "(M'KONO):" "Daktari." "I see the grass grows very tall in this part of Africa." "Yes, and the north part of the bush has suddenly moved to the south." "Now we can stop fooling each other." "Your senses are becoming dulled, M'Kono." "Didn't you see me?" "You passed me right by." "Are you tiring of the hunt?" "I tire as you do, Daktari but as long as there is strength in my body," "I will pursue the Phantom until I kill him." "You do not like to hear me say I will kill the Phantom." "It is nothing you can stop." "You're wrong, M'Kono." "It is something I must stop." "There is only one way to stop me." "You would have to kill me, Daktari." "He is still moving south." "I have never been in that part of the free area." "Have you?" "No... but neither has the Phantom so we're even." "Hmm." "(JUDY CHATTERING)" "(CHATTERING)" "(ROARS)" "M'Kono, hey look." "They're fresh tracks." "Yes." "We are very close." "Yeah, but it's strange." "Been a long time where we were lucky to see any sign of the Phantom." "Now it's as if he doesn't care." "His tracks are right out in the open." "Wait a minute." "Hey." "Smell it?" "(SNIFFS)" "Look." "Fire!" " (M'KONO):" "I should've seen it." " (MARSH):" "We both should've, but our minds are on other things." "Come on." "(FIRE blazing)" "(ROARS)" "(COUGHING)" "We have to go back." "No, we'll never get through." "M'Kono, hey." "Over there." "Looks like the only safe area around." " Yes, we're in the wild." " Come on." "(SCREAMS)" "(COUGHING)" " No!" " You agreed!" "Whoever saw him first." "Can't your killing wait for a little while?" "The moment is now!" "Look, what good's a skin if you can't get it out?" "Don't you understand?" "The Phantom can get us out of here." "I trust his instincts, don't you?" "Now, let's follow him out, if there is a way out, and then you can have your chance." "(EXHALES)" "Come on, Phantom." "(ROARS)" "Come on, boy!" "Come on!" "Come on, boy." "Come on." "(SCREAMS)" "(MONKEYS CHATTERING)" "Yeah, well, everything's just about the same, isn't it?" "Ok, I give up." "You guys win this round, but it's only round one, it's not the whole fight." "And even though you don't deserve it, it's lunchtime, so take off and go chow down." "Go on, scram." "Come on, Toto, beat it." "As a matter of fact, you can all take the whole afternoon off." "Nobody has time for you guys today." ""The quick brown fox..."" "I don't believe it." "This is fantastic!" "Judy, you're a genius." "(KISSING)" "I love you, I love you!" "What a rotten time for the discovery of the century." "Well, this is gonna just have to wait till they get all finished with that fire." "(KISSES)" "(LEOPARD SCREAMS)" "(SCREAMING CONTINUES)" " I've lost the tracks." " There, there, over there." "(PANTING)" "(GROWLS)" "M'Kono." "You are a man of honor, Daktari." "The moment is now." "(PANTING)" "(SCREAMS)" "Thank you." "We will never see him again, Daktari." "Neither you nor I." "You'd better get your spear." "Dad!" "We've covered the whole south end of the reserve looking for you." "Well, thanks." "Did you find the Phantom?" "Yes." "We found him." "Who won?" "The Phantom." "He earned the right to live and die at his moment, not mine." "Hop in." "(SLURPS)" "Marsh, I, uh, didn't wanna say anything while the fire was going on, but, um, well, focus on that." " Hmm." " Well, what do you think of it?" "Well, I think someone needs a brush-up course on their typing, that's what I think." "Even if that someone's a 4-year-old chimpanzee by the name of Judy?" " Judy!" " Our Judy?" " Mmm-hm." " None other." "Oh, I admit, it's not "to be or not to be,"" "or the Gettysburg address, but, uh, it makes sense." "(PAULA):" "Oh, Judy, I'm very proud of you." "Just think, Marsh, if we can keep her at it, who knows what she might turn up with?" "Here it is, Marsh." "Hey, Mike..." "Take a look at this." "I thought I threw that away." "Threw it away?" "You can't do that." "This is valuable scientific evidence." "I'd rather throw it away." "A man with my education should be able to type better than that." "Mike, did you do that?" "Well, just because I made a few mistakes, please don't rub it in." "Judy, you dirty, deceitful, double-dealing..." " You'll answer for it!" " Judy, quick, run away!" "It is time for me to go, Daktari." "I wish you could stay longer, M'Kono." "Thank you." "But before I return to where the purple hills bend down to the cool plain," "I have a gift for you." "There is still one thong missing." "This place meant for the Phantom means as much to you as it does to me." "Thank you, M'Kono." "I also have a gift for you." "You think I can learn to use this, Daktari?" "With your hunter's eye, you'll be an expert by tomorrow." "Here's some extra darts and the case." "Perhaps because of men like you, Daktari," "I can still learn to live with the new ways in this big, beautiful land." "Thank you." "Thank you." "♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(English" " SDH)"