"[DOG BARKING]" "Yeah, Hedley, Marsh and the others are up in the M'Kondo flood control area." "No, I don't know when they'll be back." "I know they won't leave until after the engineers have flooded the basin." "[ERNIE GIBBERING]" "Right, right." "Hold it a minute, huh?" "Hey, Ernie, take it easy." "Will you relax?" "We've got a busy day today." "Come here." "Yeah, I know, I know, your ESP tells you there's coffee in here." "You're right." "If you'll keep quiet, I'll give you some in a minute, okay?" "That's a boy." "Yeah, Hedley, I'm back." "Yeah, right, that's why they borrowed your guns." "They wanna help herd the animals to safety." "Right, okay, will do." "Out." "That's a good boy." "Now you get your coffee." "Sorry, fellas, but I want you to hurry." "[GUNFIRE]" "Paula, Mike?" "Over to you, Dad." "MARSH [OVER RADIO]:" "That herd should reach the new water hole in an hour." "So I think we're all right." "Come on, let's head back fast." "Okay, Dad." "Too bad we didn't start Operation Rescue sooner, Marsh." "Yes, only trouble is if you start too soon a lot of the animals might wander back." "Hmm." "This way we're down to our last few drops of time." "Yeah." "I'll feel a lot better knowing that none of these animals are left here to drown once the engineers flood this area." "[GROWLS]" "Okay, big fella." "I'm coming." "[CAR APPROACHING]" " Hi, Dad." " Hi." "Hello, Judy." "Where to now?" " Well, Paula, I figure that if we-- MAN:" "Hey, you there." "Can't you knuckleheads read?" "Yes, we can read." "That's why we're trying to get the animals out of here." "One of those bleeding-heart nature lovers, eh?" "Well, mister, I got news for you." "You're under arrest." "Sergeant, take their guns away." "[GROWLING]" "Seven fifty-two." "Subject animal in survival instinct experiment number 27 not yet acclimated to test box conditions." "Tape recorder and cameras are operating." "First stimulus will be introduced into hidden area of test box." "Completely soundproofed to prevent subject from hearing extraneous noises." "[GIBBERING]" "Subject animal's reaction occurs three seconds later within limits of instantaneous reaction." "Subject animal senses danger two seconds later and tries to escape." "[SHRIEKING]" "Subject animal now greatly disturbed." "Shows typical reaction of animal confronted with visual representation of danger." "Seven fifty-five, start reversal of danger stimulus." "Within two seconds, subject test animal reacts to lessening of danger stimulus." "Subject animal now almost totally relaxed as danger stimulus almost completely removed." "[CHATTERING]" "MARSH:" "Tommy, can I see you a minute?" " Daktari." "MARSH:" "Hello, Tommy." "You met Howard Austin, our deputy chief engineer." "No, not formally." "He's just arrested me for trespassing." "Did you show him your permit?" " He never gave me a chance." "HOWARD:" "Tommy." "Did you give him permission to enter the flood basin area?" "You wanna see him get his head blown off?" "TOMMY:" "I gave him a copy of our blasting schedule." "It was perfectly safe." "Look, I don't wanna cause any more delays." "I know how important this project is." "It isn't easy trying to tame the big river." "Every spring when the rains come, it goes on a rampage flooding villages, killing people, livestock." "How much time before you blow the levees holding the river in check?" "Tomorrow morning." "Tomorrow morning?" "Tommy, can you hold off a little longer?" " Hundreds of animals are trapped there." " Now, Mr. Butler this guy isn't an official government game warden." "If we let every butterfly collector in here to round up stray animals" " How much time do you need?" " Three days." "But I'll take two." " You got it." " And what about the weather?" "I am aware of that factor." "Daktari, over here, please." "JACK [OVER RADIO]:" "Repeat:" "Wameru Center to mobile truck." "We're at the engineer's camp for the flood control project." "Paula, I wish you could see the results I'm getting with this baboon baby." "They're great." "PAULA:" "Jack, I know that's important." "JACK:" "Hey, well, listen." "I used water as the external stimulus and from all indications, it would seem as though animals can actually sense hidden dangers by extrasensory perception." " Hey, put Marsh on, huh?" " Jack, he's tied up now." "TOMMY:" "Daktari, the rains have started upriver there." "If they hit down here, I'll have to blow the levees and flood the basin." "If I don't" "Three years' work down the drain and another killer flood." "Don't sound so cheerful." "Mr. Butler, I know rivers." "Angry rivers that can tear through land like a buzz saw through bamboo." "I've battled them all, everywhere." "The Amazon, the Mississippi, the Nile, the Columbia." "In those days you fought the river with your bare hands and your guts." "You were up to your neck in mud while you piled the sandbags." "No slide rules, no computers." "Just plain old-fashioned guts." "And did you ever give any thought to the animal population?" "Look, mister, we were busy protecting property and human lives." "But whether the animals lived or died wasn't important, was it?" "You longhairs with the college degrees are all the same." "Full of theories and phony ideas, never knowing how to get things done in time." "Daktari, go ahead with your work." "You're right." "It would be criminal if we didn't try to save the lives of the animals in this basin." "Howard, radio the field stations and get me a river level report." "Right away." "Tommy, I'm sorry to cause you trouble at a time like this." "Trouble between Howard and me started when the men from the home office came here on an inspection trip." " And Austin started his river fight talk?" " You can bet he did." " Hmm." " Sandbags, not slide rules." "Dynamite, blast, bulldoze the villages." "But beat the river." "I can imagine that the home office men were not impressed." "It was more than that." "Howard's whole approach to the project was old-fashioned and costly." "They asked me for my ideas, bought them and suddenly put me in charge." "Even though I was Howard's assistant just two years out of engineering school." " Where'd that leave Austin?" " As the number two man." "I wanted to retire him because I sensed his antagonism." "But they kept him on." "Company policy, they said." "Anyway, that's my problem." "Do you think one of your tranquilizer darts might work on his old hide?" "I don't know." " Thanks again, Tommy." " Good luck, daktari." "There's a grove of salt trees near coordinates C3 and B4." "Daktari, you figure there will be zebras and giraffes, wildebeests?" "PAULA:" "I get it." "We drive off the herds and go after the individual animals left in the basin." " Mostly strays and sick ones." " The ones that need us most." "Come on, Paula." "It's getting on to zebra time." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "Paula, Mike, look, we hit the jackpot." "The zebra herd's about two miles due south of here." " That puts them downwind." " Right." "You and Paula flank them." "We'll head them toward that new water hole." "All right, Dad." "Come on, Judy." "[ENGINES START]" "[JUDY SHRIEKS]" "Mike, they're heading your way." "Turn them." "PAULA:" "Judy, a baby baboon." "[GIBBERING]" "Oh, gee, I wish I could bring one back for Jack." "No, Judy, we'll have to come back later." "Dad's waiting for us." "PAULA:" "What's next on the schedule?" "Well, according to this map, there's some old poachers' pits over here." "We'll uncover them and bait them." "Funny our using poacher pits to save the animals." "We'll use every trick in the book." "I don't wanna leave a single animal when Butler floods the basin." "PAULA:" "It won't take three of us to bait the pits." "Why don't I go on ahead and do some scouting?" "MARSH:" "I'm not very keen on you going out alone, young lady." "PAULA:" "I've been out in the bush before by myself, Dad." "MARSH:" "Yes, that was at the reserve, but we're miles from home." "PAULA:" "Well, I'll take Judy with me." "She's the best jungle scout in the business." "Anyway, we spotted a baby baboon." "And Jack needs another for his ESP experiment." "MARSH:" "Well, okay, then, but only if you check in regularly on the walkie-talkie, all right?" "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "Thunder's a good way off." "What do you think, Mike?" "The rain isn't." " We're in for trouble?" " We're in for trouble." "Hi, Tommy." "You come to watch us operate?" "I'm afraid there's no time." "The rains have let go up north." " What about the river level?" " Too high." "I'm afraid I can't give you the two more days I promised." " How much time?" " As of now, 30 hours." "At 6 p.m. tomorrow, I'm blowing the levees." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "[SNARLS]" "[GROWLING]" "PAULA [OVER RADIO]:" "Dad?" "Dad?" "MARSH [OVER RADIO]:" "Yes, Paula, everything okay?" "I'm fine, Dad." "Judy's out on reconnaissance in search of that baby baboon." " How are you doing?" " Well, you can scratch one leopard." "[JUDY GRUNTING]" "There goes Judy's signal." "I have to go." "Hey, Judy?" "Oh, Judy, that's not the baby baboon we wanted for Jack." "Of course, there's nothing wrong with a springhaas for the animal nursery." "[JUDY GIBBERING]" "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "PAULA:" "Come on, buster." "Don't tell me you're still mad at me." "I thought you would have forgiven me by now." "You're gonna feel a lot better later on when we set you free in your new home." "Oh, here, Judy." " How is he, Dad?" " Oh, he's fine." "We'll have to take him back to Wameru though." "No telling where his mother could be by now." "All ready to get started?" "Yeah, I wanna call Jack first, let him know we'll be finished by 6." " We only have a couple hours left." " Yeah." "[GIBBERING]" "With reference to fire stimulus, animal reaction extreme." "Will cut off flame and repeat procedure." "Animal relaxes with removal of stimulus." "MARSH [OVER RADIO]:" "This is Marsh calling Wameru." "Marsh Tracy calling Wameru." "Do you read?" "Over." "Hey, Marsh?" "Marsh, listen, I just tried the experiment again with flame as the hidden stimulus." "Well, almost instantaneously." "MARSH:" "Yeah, well, how's everything at the compound?" "Okay?" "Well, yeah, sure." "But listen, It took only a couple of seconds and that little baboon started moving away." "You've been using heat stimulus with flame." "Could be that your baboon is reacting to the heat change." "Yeah, I never thought of that." "We'll figure some way of setting it up so there's no transfer of heat..." " ...when we get back tomorrow, okay?" " Okay." "How come you're coming back so soon?" "There's danger of the river rising because of the storms up north." "So we have to finish up by 6 tonight." "I'll see you later." "Out." " Hey, where's Mike?" " Oh, he's waiting on Clarence." "We haven't got time to wait on Clarence." "We've got a deadline to beat." "Clarence!" "Clarence!" "Clarence." "You sly devil." " Mike?" "MIKE:" "Ha, ha." "Look at Clarence, the social lion." "He sweet-talked that lioness into walking right into camp." "MARSH:" "Well, at least he saved us a trip." " Think you can handle her?" " With Clarence's help." "Double vision or not, Clarence has a very sharp eye for the ladies." "Yes, indeed." "He's a regular lady-killer." "Well, then will you give Clarence a hand in putting his girlfriend in the cage?" "I'm gonna run and check with Tommy Butler, see if the water level is rising." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "HOWARD:" "Here comes your friend again the little shepherd of the animal kingdom." "Austin, daktari is only trying to do his job." "But he keeps getting in the way of ours." "Why did you give him extra time?" "Why didn't you boot him out of this area?" "I will when I think it necessary." "Let me give you a hunk of advice, son." "Concentrate on the river." "Slug it out, toe to toe." "Don't waste valuable time playing politics with crackpot zookeepers." "Howard, there's more to this project than steel and concrete." "There are other considerations you refuse to understand." "I appreciate your concern, but I'll make the decisions." "You've already made a wrong decision at a crucial time that could wreck the whole works." "It's my responsibility." "I'll handle it my way." "Go ahead, junior." "Run it your way." "Out of a textbook." "Ruin it!" "But don't say I didn't warn you." "Austin." " Okay to come ahead?" "TOMMY:" "Sure, come ahead." "Nothing will happen until I activate this timing device." "The river level is still rising up north." "I'm going to have to revise the schedule." "I'm setting it for 4 p.m. now." "We've laid the charges so the river will follow a definite channel." " No chance of it going off prematurely?" " Not a chance." "You and your people have to be out by 4 p.m." "We should be able to make it." "We're in pretty good shape now." " I'll see you in a while." " See you." " You after something?" " A cheetah, but he's out of my range." "MARSH:" "That must be the mother of the baby we have." "Yeah, he's out of range, period." "Been that way since I spotted him, as if he's playing games with me." "No time for games." "This area will be flooded by 4:00." " Come on." " What about the cheetah?" "There's more than one way to skin a cheetah." "Let's see if we can head him toward the poachers' pits." "[HORN HONKING]" "[CHEETAH SNARLING]" "Well, we got him." "You better head for high ground." "Don't have much time left." "Do you think the animals can sense the danger of the river..." " ...even though it's miles away?" " I don't know." "If they did, it would prove your theory and Jack's experiments in ESP." "But animals do sense things that we humans are unaware of." "I sure wish I could use some ESP to find that baby baboon." "Oh, he's probably safe and sound." "You only saw him once." " Where's Judy?" "She was with you." " You took Clarence..." " ...so I gave Judy to Mike for company." " Oh, well, you better scoot." "[SQUEAKING]" "Don't carry on, girl." "You don't know it, but you've never had it so good." "MARSH [OVER RADIO]:" "Mike?" "Mike, this is Marsh." "Do you read?" "Over." "I'm here, Marsh." "Well, where is here?" "Uh, coordinates D6, north of the old water hole." "Look, I'm at F7, four miles south of you." "I've got a hot cheetah on my hands." "I sure could use some help." "Is he up a tree or are you?" "Neither, he's down in the pit." "Could you make it pretty fast?" " They're gonna blow the levees at 4." "MIKE [OVER RADIO]:" "I'm on my way." "MARSH [OVER RADIO]:" "Paula, Paula, do you read me?" "Over." "Paula, this is Dad." "Do you read me?" "Over." "Dad?" "Yes, I've been trying to reach you." "It's time to pull out." "Well, it's not even 2:00 yet." "I'm sorry, but I wanna make sure that we reach high ground before Tommy Butler blows up those levees." "I hoped to catch that baby baboon." "You head for camp right now, and that's an order." "All right, Dad, I'm on my way." "Over and out." " Let's roll." " Okay." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "[BABOON GIBBERING]" "Easy, girl." "Easy, no one's gonna hurt you." "No one's gonna hurt you." "Yeah." "Easy, girl, easy." "No one's gonna hurt you." "Now that I've found you, I'm not gonna let you go that easily." "Oh, no." "Come on, I just wanna take good care of you, okay?" "Anyway, in a couple of days you'll meet a nice boy baboon and have plenty to eat, a nice place to sleep and all new friends." "Now, how would you like that?" "Yeah, well, I thought you'd like that." "If you're good, you can ride in the front with me." "If not, I'll have to put you in the back, okay?" "[ENGINE STARTS]" "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "I know, two hours early." "Check the observation post and get a head count." "Hello, hello, Butler here." "Yes, yes." " I don't understand." "Butler said 4:00." " Maybe he forgot to tell the dynamite." " Yeah, but Paula's not back yet." " Marsh, wait!" "[CAR APPROACHING]" "You said you were gonna blow those levees at 4." " I don't know what went wrong." " I can't find a trace of Paula." "PAULA [OVER RADIO]:" "Dad?" "Dad, are you there?" " Paula, where are you?" "PAULA:" "Gee, Dad, I'm not sure." "Well, look, Paula, the levees were blown up prematurely." "So get out of the basin and head for the closest high ground." " How much time does she have?" "TOMMY:" "A few minutes." "Pinpoint her position." "Paula, have you any idea what your position is?" "I'm not sure." "I spent so much time going after the baby baboon." "TOMMY [OVER RADIO]:" "Can she spot any landmarks?" "PAULA:" "Well, there's a funny little hill that's shaped like a camel back." "That's to the west." "To the southeast, there's a grove of shade trees." "Here it is." "C5 is where I make it." "Smack dab in the middle of the basin." "The main channel of the water will flow through here." "Tell her to head southwest." "Paula, Tommy says to head southwest." "You got that?" "All right, Dad, southwest." " Dad?" "MARSH:" "Yes, Paula?" "Don't worry, we'll be all right." "Thank you." "Now, look, get out of there as fast as you can and check in here every 10 minutes, right?" "Okay." " I'm going after her." " I can't let you." " Can't stop me." " You won't make it in time." "Look, I might be able to get her to high ground." "You take off, I can't guarantee what will happen to either of you." "Sergeant." "Stay close to Dr. Tracy." "He is not to leave the base camp." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "[BABOON GIBBERING]" "[BABOON GIBBERS]" "Take it easy, baby." "I know your sixth sense tells us we're in danger." "Hey, get back here!" "You're going the wrong way!" "[CAR APPROACHING]" "Daktari, any word on Paula?" "She's heading southwest, trying to outrace the flood waters." " And the flood's behind her?" " Yeah." "[GIBBERING]" "[SHRIEKING]" "[PHONE RINGS]" "Hello, Butler here." "Yes?" "What?" "But that can't be." "But the channel was set two miles away from there." "MARSH:" "What is it now?" "Report in when you're sure." "MARSH:" "More trouble?" "I set the charges so the river water would flow through here." "The course we gave to Paula went through this sector." "Something went wrong." "The river is not following this channel." "Somebody tampered with the charges." "We directed Paula right through the course of the river." "That's right." "Paula?" "Paula!" "Sorry, daktari." "Paula, answer me." "Paula." "Paula." "Paula." "Paula, come in." "Paula?" "It's too late, daktari." "The water has already passed the course she took." " No, daktari." " Let go of me!" " Mike, sergeant!" " Let go!" "MIKE:" "No, Marsh!" "Marsh, face the truth." "It won't do any good." "No!" "I'm sorry, daktari, but somebody had to do it." "PAULA [OVER RADIO]:" "Dad?" "Dad, are you there?" "Come in, Dad." "Daktari." "Hold it, Paula." "Here's your dad." "Paula?" "Paula, are you all right?" "Dad, we're okay, both of us." "We're high and dry." "And so are those rhinos that followed us, thanks to you." "Yeah, well, thanks a lot." "That's great news." "Out." "Well, Ernie, how about that?" "Looks like your little girlfriend saved Paula's life." "She must have had her ESP working on all channels just like you did during our experiments." "You know, that just goes to show you you little fellas can teach us scientists a lot." "Huh?" "I was following your instruction when the baboon got loose." " All I thought about was saving her." " As a result she saved both of you." " Yeah." " Come here." "Oh, I wish I'd had a camera or a tape recorder." "I could have included the information for Jack's report." "Ms. Tracy, believe me, I didn't know you were out there." "I wouldn't have pushed the time control forward if I knew a human life was in danger." "Howard, did you hate me that much that you would destroy all that work?" "I don't know why I did it, Tommy." "Maybe you can figure it out." "Tommy, have you any idea why a professional builder like Austin should suddenly become a destroyer?" "I'm an engineer, daktari, not a psychiatrist." "But maybe it was an accumulation of small things over the years becoming bigger and bigger inside of him until one time he had to explode." "The home office pushing him aside like a rusty shovel my shooting to the top so quickly when all of his life he never made it at all." "I guess it just doesn't pay to be an innocent bystander." "[HORN HONKING]" "[CLARENCE GROWLS  JUDY SHRIEKS]" "[English" " US" " SDH]"