"♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(BOARS ROARING)" "Water table's still dropping." "Have you ever seen it like this before?" "Well, the main creek's never been dry." "Marsh, what about upstream?" "Is there anything that, from a steep bank, that could fall in, divert the stream?" "Divert it where?" "It's Marsh Tracy calling Wameru, do you read, over?" "Tracy calling Wameru, do you read?" "Over." "He's drinking it, Paula." "He's drinking it." " Is he, Mike?" " He sure is." "This is Marsh Tracy calling Wameru." "Do you read?" "Over." "Come in please." "Dad, this is Paula." "I read you." "Over." "Oh, Paula, Bart and I gotta head up creek to the north boundary." "The water table here is very low." "We've dug down several feet and not a sign of water." "That's too bad." "Guess what?" "Taj is now taking his medicine from the bottle." "That's good news." "Well, Paula, we should be back in a couple of hours." " Check with you then." "Out." " Out." "Here, sweetheart." "You hold it now." "Atta girl." "Paula, he's letting me feed him." "(TRUMPETING)" "JENNY:" "Taj, come back here, you're not even finished." "Oh, his mother called, and he just went." "Well, that's what children are supposed to do, Jenny." "Maybe his mother and auntie are a little jealous." "Is she really his auntie?" "Well, that's just a name." "You see, she protects Taj while his mother is out working and feeding." "Oh, she's a babysitter." "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "MIKE:" "You know, I wish it would rain." "Some of the upper streams have already dried up." "I know." "Dad seemed terribly anxious." "You don't think the creek's dried up, do you?" "I don't see how." "It's fed by a river and a mountain." "What the devil?" "Somebody's dammed up the creek." "I wonder what's going on around here." "Sure wish I knew." "(GUNSHOT)" "Get away from there." "It's Bart Jason." "Put down that rifle, Charlie Rone." "Bart?" "Bart Jason?" "You know him?" "Yeah." "I used to work for him a couple years ago." "Let's find out what he's doing out here." "Hi, Bart. Didn't mean to scare you." "There's a lot of folks creeping around lately." "How've you been?" "Thirsty." "What's the idea of building a dam here?" "Why?" "Any complaints?" "Dr. Marsh Tracy, Charlie Rone." "He moves mountains and puts them in other people's way." "Oh, yeah." "I've heard of you." "You're Daktari." "You're on the animal compound in the reserve." "That's right." "And for your information, every creek and stream below here is dry." "Just temporary, doc." "Temporary until when?" "CHARLIE:" "It's hard to say." "Come here, let me show you something." "I heard shots." "CHARLIE:" "Forget it." "Go on back and watch the workers." " I don't need you here." " Yes, sir." "Take a look at this." "You see this creek here?" "Runs down here and into that pipe over there." "That's ours." "Then we put this pipe in here specially for you." "First time it rains, this'll fill up." "You'll have all the water you need." "What do we do until it rains?" "Can't be more than a day or two." "C'mon, Charlie." "It hasn't rained here in two months." "Well." "It's not my fault." "Just what is your stake in this anyway?" "I make my living conducting camera safaris on the reserve here." " Camera safari?" " What's so funny?" "You mean, so people can take pictures of animals?" "He must've hit the bottom of the barrel." "You know, he used to shoot lions for me to protect my workers." "Called himself the greatest hunter in Africa." "Well, now he's in the business of protecting animals, Mr. Rone." "That's why this reserve was created." "And given water rights." "Rights which you cannot legally take away." "Listen, doc." "There's an entire tribe on the move, headed for a farming project back in those hills." "My job is to provide water, and that's what I'm doing." "I don't want to hurt you." "Look over there." "CHARLIE:" "Water from those hills will benefit you when it rains." "We need water now." "You'll have to find some way to share this creek." "Now, don't push me, doc." "The priority in water's been the same for thousands of years." "Human beings first, and then animals." "Does the government know that you diverted this creek?" "I have a contract with a deadline to meet." "That's all they care." "We'll see about that." "But Marsh, I couldn't possibly interfere." "It's out of my jurisdiction." "Andy, I can prove that the law has been broken" " and that is in your jurisdiction." " Well, yes, but" "All right, come on." "I'll show you the papers." "(GRUNTING)" "Sorry, Judy, but we have to save water." "You can have some later to drink, but not to play with." "Taj is thirsty, Paula." "I know, Jenny." "They're all thirsty." "Mike, when are you going to water the elephants?" "Oh, tonight." "Are they being rationed, too?" "Hmm." "Your father said all the animals." "But Taj needs his milk." "His mother's gonna dry out." "Well, we'll have to wean him to a bottle." "I can do it, Paula." "Taj likes me." "Don't you, Taj?" "(TAJ TRUMPETS)" "I know, Jenny, but it's not as easy as you think." "Hedley, this ground lease spells out our rights without question." "The government's taking the water, not a private citizen." "Hedley, the government doesn't even know about Rone's actions." "They haven't even approved it, Hedley." " Oh?" "Are you sure?" " I'm positive." "Rone said as much." "This new housing minister, zangani, he's a friend of yours." "Now, why don't you go and see him?" "Because I don't know him all that well." "That's what I get for not keeping up with politics." "You'd have the matter settled in no time." "All right, I'll go." "First thing in the morning." "Bart, you're gonna have to take over." "Okay." "I'm in a bit of hurry, Judy, old girl." "Oh, I'm sorry, Judy." "I'm afraid that is out of my jurisdiction." "I wish there was some other way." "What do you mean?" "Marsh has his rights, of course." "But this sort of thing can get very sticky." "Knowing Rone, couldn't you possibly work it out?" "More agreeably." "I don't know." "I can try." "CHARLIE:" "Mark!" "All right, stake it." "CHARLIE:" "Mark!" "Stake it." "I'll meet you over in the north side." "(GRUNTING)" "(LAUGHS) What is this, psychological warfare?" "She's thirsty." "Hey!" "I don't think she likes you, Charlie." "Go on, beat it." "Go wait in the truck, Judy." "Charlie..." "As old friends I'd like to ask you a favor." "Look, I wouldn't do it for Daktari, and I'm not gonna do it for you." " Why not?" " I've got a deadline to meet." " Tribe of 300 people." " Oh, come on, Charlie." "Look, what do you know of responsibility?" "You move around from job to job, no competition." "I'm responsible for my company's contracts." "If I don't fulfill them, somebody else will." "And will they go for you stealing somebody else's water?" "Look, Charlie." "Tracy's no lightweight." " He's going to Ngoro tomorrow." " Ah!" "You don't scare me, not a bit." "One day is rain, and I'm a hero." "Hey, would you like to go up the hill and see what we've been doing with the drainage?" "Who's that?" "That's my assistant." "Two years out of engineering school and he knows more than I do." " You want to come up?" " No." "I want water." "Don't you realize that I'm not gonna touch that dam until the government orders me to?" "Come back some day when I'm not working." "Why ask me?" "Charlie's the boss." "Because I can't get a straight answer from him." "I mean, is sharing the water asking too much?" "The river's drying up in the mountains." "It was a miscalculation of absorption and run-off." "Right, so somebody goofed." "Look, you couldn't have planned to take our water on purpose." "All right." "All right, so Charlie made a mistake." "What can we do about it?" " Nothing." " What do you mean, nothing?" "The tribe's on its way." "Look, I told Charlie three weeks ago to warn the company home office that we couldn't make the deadline." "Now it's too late." "Otis." "Will Charlie be fired if the government makes him take out that dam?" "There's always an investigation as to judgment." "Methods." "Well, as number two man, that kind of puts you in the driver's seat, doesn't it?" "That's right." "There isn't enough seepage to make it worthwhile." "I know." "Maybe we ought to keep digging, though." "We might strike a little water." "Then at least some of the animals will be able to drink." "I tell you, if we don't, they're all going to leave the reserve." "Let's get at it, then." "(LION GROWLS)" " Hi." " Hi." "I'm looking for Bart Jason." "Oh, he's not here." "Gee, that's a funny hat." " Is it?" " I never saw one like that before." "Here." "It's called a hard hat." "Is he tied down?" "No, he doesn't wanna be any more than you do." "Besides, he's my friend." "Here, I'll introduce you to him." "Here, I'll put this away first." "CHARLIE:" "Well, I..." "I don't know." "Who are you anyways?" "Well, my grandchildren call me uncle Charlie." "You can too, if you want." "How come they don't call you grandpa?" "Because I don't like to be called grandpa." "You're funny." "Here, I'll introduce you to him." "Well, I don't know." "Clarence, this is uncle Charlie." "Uncle Charlie, this is Clarence." " Are you putting me on?" " What do you mean, uncle Charlie?" "Nothing." "Pet him, and then he'll be your friend." "I don't think so." "Oh, come on, uncle Charlie." "Haven't you ever petted a lion before?" "Frankly, honey, that's one experience I've done my best to avoid." "Paula says he has E.S.P." "That means Extra Special Periscope, I think." "I guess you mean Extra Sensory Perception." "You know, uncle Charlie, he's awful fierce when he doesn't like anyone." "Aren't you, Clarence?" "I hope he likes you." "I hope so, too." "Pet him hard so he doesn't think it's a fly and be annoyed." "Well, the last thing in the world I want to do is to be a fly and annoy you, Clarence." "Hey ha." "But I'm glad to know ya." "I came here looking for Daktari." "Did he go into Ngoro?" "Yes." "Somebody took our water, so he went to get it back." "May I have the pliers, Judy?" "The pliers, Judy." "Thank you." "Okay, now you two get up on the veranda and stay out of the sun." "Morning, Miss Tracy." " I'm Charlie Rone." " Rone?" " That's right." " You're the one who stole our water." "Well, yes and no." "Jenny, will you see if Taj will drink from this?" "Okay, Paula." "I just dropped by to see if I couldn't help you find some water." "Ground water." " Ground water?" " Yeah." "There're two kinds, you know." "Surface and ground." "That's under the earth." "Well, why don't you just give us back what belongs to us?" "But the water under this land does belong to you." "Don't you understand?" "When's Bart coming back?" "I'll have to radio him and find out." "I don't suppose you would mind watching Jenny?" "I don't like to leave her alone with the elephants." "Come on, Taj." "Please try to drink your bottle." "All right." "(TAJ TRUMPETS)" "What's the matter with his mother's milk?" "JENNY:" "Well, she's dry because she doesn't have any water." "Oh, is that so?" " Who's the other one?" " Oh, that's Taj's auntie." "His mother picked her out to be a babysitter." "Before Taj was ever born." "Before he was born?" "That's the way they do it." "Very smart." "Why did you take our water?" "Well, frankly, honey, I..." "I made a little mistake." "You ever made a mistake?" "I guess." " CHARLIE:" "Did you get punished?" " No." "When you grow a little older and you make a mistake, people don't forgive you so fast." "If you give us our water back, I'll forgive you." "Well." "I gotta see what I can do about it." "(TAJ TRUMPETS)" "Mr. Rone, Bart can't make it in." "He asked if you'd come out and see him." " Where is he?" " Well, it's not very far." "If you just take this road to the riverbed, turn south, then you won't miss him." "All right." "Bye, Jenny." "Bye, Mr. Rone." "Come on, Taj." "Please try to drink it." "All right, then I'll feed the milk to my other babies." "You're just gonna be out of luck!" "Ground water?" "I'd punch a hole in that dam before I'd waste my time looking for ground water." "Look, I'll do the looking." "All I want is someone to show me around." "Bart, I'm trying to help you." "Help me?" "You mean, since you found out about Marsh yesterday." "Look, I asked some questions." "So Daktari's a big man." "Maybe he can hurt me." "But if my equipment hadn't broken down and the weather turned so dry, there wouldn't be any trouble." "Or if you weren't so stubborn and would listen to your assistant." "Now don't tell me...!" "Look, I'm still in the driver's seat." "And I'm not asking any favors." "You know, Charlie, the government will divert the flow of that dam before you find any water." "Look, can you stick it out for another week?" "It won't take Marsh a week." "Well, I've got news for you." "The housing minister is out of the country." "He won't be back for a week." "And I'm not touching that dam until he orders me." "Look, I'm trying to help you, Bart." "Mike knows the reserve better than I do." "He's out scouting the area now." "I'll have him help you when he gets back." "Thanks." "Charlie..." "I'm not going to let this reserve dry up." "If you don't find water, I'll do anything." "Including dynamite your dam." "Bart, you wouldn't do that to me?" "You look what you've done to them." "Is this the lowest spot in the area?" "From here to the south boundary it's about the same." " Any water holes?" " No." "Every one on the reserve is dried up." " BART:" "Come on." "We're gonna wash." " Gosh, she's dirty." "Might as well let her have a good time before the water evaporates." "Go on." "Come on, pull that back." "(GRUNTING)" "Gee, look at him." "You know, when I was a little girl," "I used to get hippopotamuses mixed up with rhinoceroses." "Maybe Mr. Rone and Mike will find an underground river." "I'm not holding my breath." "Neither am I, but I'm just praying for rain." "(BRAKES SQUEAK)" "(TRUMPETING)" "(CHATTERING)" "Enjoy yourself, Lucifer." "Okay, Judy." "Go inside." "TOM:" "Hi, I'm Tom Otis." "I brought you my own tank of water." "Oh, Bart, why don't you meet Tom Otis?" "Yeah, we've, uh, met." "He's brought us a tank of water." "Well, that's not the main reason I'm here." " Where's Charlie?" " He went to Ngoro for the weekend." "To answer your father's charges, I suppose." "Oh..." "The main reason I'm here is to look for another source of water on the reserve." "Tomorrow's Sunday, I can" "Forget it." "Now what makes you suddenly concerned with Charlie's troubles?" "I've been concerned ever since I was assigned to him." "I'm sorry for him." "He's a good man, but the new technologies passed him by." "So he's scared." "And why shouldn't he be?" "You want his job." "I wanna work with him." "I don't know half as much as he does." "Just a lot of book theories from engineering school but he resents what I know." "Now look, Charlie's 58 years old." "Maybe you weren't respecting him." "Maybe I wasn't." "Like he says, I'm at the bottom of the barrel." "But if we don't get things straightened out, that's just where he will be." "Is it that bad?" "He'll have a hard time finding another job as chief engineer." "What are you doing away from camp?" "What's that water truck doing here?" "It's pretty obvious, isn't it?" "Who'd you leave in charge?" "For all we know, the rest of the tools may be gone by now." "I set guards." "Look, I'm not going to Ngoro." "I'm gonna stay here tonight." "Now you get back to that camp just as fast as you can." "Mike, will you show him where to dump that water?" "(TRUMPETING)" "Hey, what's that all about?" "They smell water." "(TRUMPETING CONTINUES)" "Those trunks are like divining rods." "They're smarter than that assistant of mine." "Dumb kid." "Now you can see what I'm up against." "Sure that you don't need glasses?" "Just what's that supposed to mean?" "It means that I think you're getting old, Charlie." "Come on, Mike." "Breathe." "If I breathe, I'll lose." "Look, Mike, I'm betting on ya." "I'm betting on you too, uncle Charlie." " Thank you, dear." " Oh, you traitor." "C'mon." "Pull it, Mike." "Go, uncle Charlie." "Ah... (LAUGHS) You're too much for me." "All right." "Come on, Bart. Sit down here." "Come on." "Go on, muscles." "Now listen." "You sure you don't wanna retire undefeated?" "Put it up here, boy." " All right." "You loosened up?" " Yes, sir." "Are you ready?" "I'm ready." "Now, all right." "Keep that arm up in the air and let's keep this legal." "Here we go." "Go!" "Ha!" "Gee, uncle Charlie." "You're strong." "Yes, sir." "How's that for an old man?" "Oh, I..." "I thought you pulled a muscle." "That's the way the karate boys do it." "You learn something new every day." "Some days you're..." "extremely lucky." "Come on, Jenny." "It's time to go." " Goodnight, uncle Charlie." " Goodnight, Jenny dear." "Sure you wouldn't rather stay at the house?" "Oh, no, thanks." "This is fine." "Goodnight." " Goodnight." " Goodnight." "Night night." "Hey uh, Charlie, got any more of that coffee?" "It's a nice place you have here." "What do you do for excitement?" "Eh..." "Arm wrestle old men who cheat." "I suppose by this time you're learning a lot about wild animals from that Daktari fellow." "Yeah, with a man like Marsh around you can't help but learn." "When do you think you're gonna take over?" "Charlie, stop running scary." "If anything shows a man's age," " it's that." " Don't tell me." "I just told you." "And if I didn't like you I wouldn't have bothered." "And what am I supposed to be scared of?" "Charlie, how many young assistants have you trained?" "You treat 'em all like Otis?" "Well, maybe the rest of them weren't so arrogant." "He gave you an earful, didn't he?" "You can say that." "And you still think he's not out to get me?" "He came here this afternoon, offering to look for water." "To help you." "I don't believe that." "Charlie..." "Charlie, what's wrong with growing old?" "Everybody's gotta step down sooner or later." "Yeah, but I want to retire, not be fired." "But I need the diviner." "Yeah, these scientific instruments are okay, but if you wanna find water, there's nothing like a man." "A diviner." "An old-fashioned dowser with a divining rod in his hand." "(GROWLING)" "Shh." "Easy, ladies." "Okay, you four-legged beauties." "Let's go find some water." "Taj, you stay here." "Hold on." "Come on." "Hup." "(TRUMPETING)" "(TRUMPETING)" "Taj, where have your mother and auntie gone?" "Don't worry, Taj." "They won't leave you." "What happened, Jenny?" "Well, we heard Taj cry, so we came to see what happened." "Judy, did you see anything?" "You see Taj's mama and auntie?" "What do you think happened to them, Mike?" "I don't know, honey." "They went off that way." "I'll get Bart and we'll start tracking them, huh?" "Bart?" "Bart!" "Slow down." "Steady, Mo." "Steady." "Head down." "Bring it down." "All right, you four-legged dowsers." "Let's go find some water." "(TRUMPETING)" "Well, you got if figured out yet?" "I wanna get started." "Let's catch up with the elephants and see how Bart's doing." "Well, I don't understand why he let them loose in the first place." " To find water." " Water?" "Elephants can smell water better than any other animal." "Even under the ground?" "Oh, sure." "They dig for it." "Mike and I know that better than Bart." "We've just been too busy being mad at you to think about it." "Well..." "I'm sorry about that." "But what about all the other elephants in the area?" "There aren't any." "All the herds have gone east looking for water." "I see." "(TRUMPETING)" "You girls smell something?" "Well, take me to it." "Come on." "(TRUMPETING)" "Keep going, girls." "That's it." "Take me to it." "(TRUMPETING)" "Otis, help me drive them away." "OTIS:" "I've got water here, they're thirsty." "BART:" "Look, I know they're thirsty." "Now help me drive them away." "I'll explain about the water later." "Come on, Mo." "Get out." "Let's go." "Well, come on, man." "Let's move it." "(TRUMPETING)" "BART:" "Alright, come on." "Move it out." "Taj, you've gotta drink while your mother's gone, or you'll get sick." "(TRUMPETING)" "Judy, why don't you show Taj how to drink it." "Taj, look." "(PLOPPING SOUND)" "Please try to drink it, Taj." "Paula, Taj won't drink his milk." "Well, maybe he will later on." "We have other animals to feed." "Come on." "Bye, Taj." "(TRUMPETING)" "(HOWLING)" "(TRUMPETING)" "JENNY:" "Taj, you've gotta drink while your mothers gone or you'll get sick." "(CHATTERING)" "Oh, what's that truck doing here?" "Otis was here, or somebody." "There's another set of prints." "They went off this way." "Nah, this is far enough." "Stumped the water downwind of here, so they won't smell it." "I'm sorry." "I was only trying to help." "Yeah, I know." " Look!" " Yeah, I see him." "No, the elephants." "Well, come on." "Let's help them." " (LEOPARD HISSES) - (TAJ TRUMPETS)" "If there's water, there's a rock cap." "Anybody hit anything yet?" " Yeah, I think I have." " Oh, good." "Here, give me two holes, then." "One about here, one about here." "Otis, you better pick up the tools." "Bart, see if you can flatten out a couple pieces of that stuff." "Better get out of here, Mike." "Take this fuse back and keep it straight." "MIKE:" "All right." "You too, Bart. On your way." "(TRUMPETING)" "CHARLIE:" "All right." "That's ready." "All right, light it." "Let's get out of here!" "(TRUMPETING)" "It's Taj!" "Get away!" "(TRUMPETING)" "Charlie, come back." "Charlie!" "Stop, Taj!" "Stop." "Get away from there!" "Come on, Taj." "Let's get out of here." "BART:" "Charlie, you all right?" "MIKE:" "You okay, Charlie?" "CHARLIE:" "Yeah, I'm all right." "Yeah." "Did we get anything?" "BART:" "I don't know." "ALL:" "Yeah!" "You did it, Charlie." "You did it." "BART:" "Good boy, fellow." "OTIS:" "You did it, Charlie." "You did it." "(FESTIVE SOUNDS)" "OTIS:" "For the elephants!" "CHARLIE:" "Taj, get in there, boy!" "OTIS:" "You did it!" "You did it!" "CHARLIE:" "Hey, listen." "You guys wanna take a swim?" "There's water enough for forty elephants." "Oh, boy." "Hey, Margie." "Come on, big girl." "Come on." "Ho, come on, get in there." "Come on, Modoc, come on." "Come on, big boy." "BART:" "I bet he takes up six gallons in one time." "OTIS:" "That's beautiful." "There you are." "Thank you, Judy." "Looks like Judy wants to make up with you." "(KISSING SOUND)" "You know, I didn't do anything." "It was you and the elephants did it." "You put your life on the line for Taj." "That makes you a big man around Wameru." "Makes you a big man in Ngoro, too." "The Housing Ministry was mighty pleased you were able to meet your deadline and still get us back our water." "Well, I was just lucky, I guess." "Considering." "Oh, anybody can make a mistake." "What you have is invaluable experience." "I... was just on the radio with Hedley." "I have some rather interesting news." "It seems that your home office would like to have you be chief engineer on the new Esmara Dam project." "Hey, Charlie." " That's great." " Thanks." "Congratulations." "Thank you." "You know, that Esmara job might be a long one." "Maybe a year." "Real rugged country, too." "Wanna be my chief honcho again?" "(LAUGHS)" " It's a deal." " Atta boy." "(TRUMPETING)" "(GROWLING)" "(CHATTERING)" "♪ (THEME MUSIC PLAYS) ♪" "(English US" " SDH)"