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If we can put this tremendous machine of ours...

Which has made this victory possible...

To work for peace...

We can look forward to the greatest age in the history of mankind.

Speed of progress in the satellite project...

Cannot be taken as an index of our progress...

In ballistic missile work.

I feel we're on the brink of an aerial expansion...

Of knowledge about ourselves and our surroundings...

That is beyond description or comprehension at this time.

For the first time, we're putting cameras into space...

And looking down on the Earth...

Allowing us to discover places and things we've never seen before.

The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world...

Won't be man or monkeys.

They'll be machines.

We set sail on this new sea...

Because there is new knowledge to be gained.

Whether this new ocean...

Will be a sea of peace...

Or a new terrifying theater of war.

"To tame the savageness of man..."

"And make gentle the life of this world."

Let us dedicate ourselves to that.

- Stop the war! - No more war!

Stop the war!

The city wide protests have brought...

Congressional committee hearings to a standstill...

Promising more gridlock in the days and weeks ahead.

Mark my words...

There'll never be a more screwed up time in Washington.

But we can't let it stop us.

Come on man, get out of the way!

Maybe now's not the best time to ask.

Monarch is on the cusp of being shut down...

Brooks. We're broke!

When this war ends, we'll never get approval for our expedition.

I'm not confident in our presentation.

I mean, all of our materials are loose leaf.

In one day, one day...

I could've had all of this organized and bound.

That we today, have concluded an agreement...

To end the war and bring peace with honor in Vietnam.

All American forces will be withdrawn.

We don't have a day.

Hello there.

Bill Randa here to see Senator Willis.

Of course, Mr. Randa.

I left you a message this morning about rescheduling today's appointment.

But he should have something available in the coming week...s.

Oh God.

Al, you're looking well.

So, you didn't get the message, Randa?

To reschedule?

For the fifth time? I must have missed it.

It'll be quick.

Okay, don't get comfortable. You got five minutes.

I'm late for a meeting.

So, what imaginary monster are you hunting this time?

This is a satellite photo...

Of an uncharted island in the South Pacific.

It has defied discovery until now.

Many civilizations spoke of it in legends.

Skull Island.

The land where God did not finish creation.

It's notorious for the number...

Of ships and planes that have gone missing there.

Like the Bermuda Triangle?

Or like that balloon and foil hat that I like to wear on the weekends?

It's more like the triangle than the hat...

But we like to think it's much more than that.

The 1954 Castle Bravo nuclear tests...

Weren't tests.

They were trying to kill something.

I believe there's an ecosystem out there the likes of which we can't imagine.

And the place to find it is this island.

A place where myth and science meet.

Randa, it's a fairy tale.

Harry Truman didn't think so when he funded Monarch in 1946.

You know, in terms of sheer waste...

Monarch ranks right up there with the search for alien life.

Yeah, but those guys are nuts.

We should've shut you down years ago.

This is an opportunity for our country.

Listen, Senator, Landsat is sending a mission to the island.

We could piggyback on that operation.

With your permission, of course.

What are you hoping to find?

Resources, medicine, the cure for cancer, geological discoveries. I mean..

Possible alternate fuels, Senator...

Listen, to be honest...

We don't know for sure what's there.

Okay? But I will tell you what we do know.

Tomorrow night, the Russian Novosat passes over this sector and...

In three days, they're gonna have the same images we have.

So, whatever's there...

You want us to find it first.

Right?

I don't believe I'm saying this...

But that almost makes sense.

Thank you.

So I will get the piggybank for you. I will.

But listen to me. Listen to me. This is it...

It's gotta end. This is it.

You promise me? Last favor? Okay?

Senator?

One last thing.

I'm going to need a military escort.

Attention all soldiers and base personnel...

Final troop withdrawal will commence at 0600.

Pack your bags ladies, we're going home.

- Hey, Mills. - Yeah?

How many letters did you end up writing her?

Ten, fifteen.

How many she write you?

I don't know. Three? Four?

Man, you got a shitty mom.

Truth be told, clearin' that up! Thank you.

I'll be sure to tell her when I see her in the next 48 hours.

Yeah, you might have a shitty mom.

Right?

Sir?

Chapman.

You need anything, sir?

All good.

Roger that.

So, what are you gonna do when you get back to the world, Chapman?

Oh, I'm already set up with Eastern Airlines.

Grace and Billy all moved in and Atlanta just...

Waiting on me.

'Bout you sir?

All this for what?

Sir?

Get out of here, Chapman. Go have some fun.

Everything okay?

Tip top.

Colonel Packard! There's a phone call for you.

This is Packard.

Packard, General Ward.

You and your boys up for one last op?

I would not be opposed to that, sir.

Your orders to head home are already processed.

Sure you don't want to take some time?

I'm here to execute whatever orders I'm given, sir.

Yeah, don't get too excited...

But the scientists called Landsat discovered a new island on their satellite.

They need helicopter transport for a survey job.

Roger that. And sir?

Yes?

Thank you.

Randa, I don't get it. You already got us a military escort.

Why do we need a tracker? And why SAS?

Former SAS. No allegiance to anyone.

And he rescued 12 downed pilots in Danang in '72.

But your source says that he spends most of his waking hours...

In some back alley water-at-hole.

Is your Yale degree supposed to lead us though the jungle, Brooks?

Beside, my father told me never to judge a man by where he drinks...

Only how he holds it.

You on board with me here?

You go.

Well, okay.

So, how much do we tell him?

Just enough to get him to say yes.

Now there's a man worth talking to.

An uncharted island?

Let me list all they ways you're gonna die.

Rain, heat, mud, disease carrying flies and mosquitoes.

Sure, you could load up on the Atabrine for the malaria.

But what about the other bacteria?

I mean, I haven't even...

Started on the things that want to eat you alive.

We'll double that.

You have no idea how dangerous this is.

I want five times that.

Plus a bonus if we make it back.

"If"?

Pay him.

I mean I think, Mr. Conrad should be fairly compensated.

Here's to profit during peace then.

One question.

You came here looking for a tracker.

Who or what am I tracking?

This is all the information that we have.

Okay? There is no map.

Only satellite images.

So we need someone like you...

With your skill, and unique expertise in unchartered jungle terrain...

To lead us on our ground expedition.

We're just scholars and scientists. We need someone with experience.

In case things go sideways.

Men go to war in search of something, Mr. Conrad.

If you'd found it...

You'd be home by now.

- Weaver. - Yeah, it's Jerry.

Hey Jerry.

Tell me, did we get it?

That Landsat thing? You got it.

I did?

Hello?

It's the Athena docked in Bangkok.

Pier 14, 6'o clock tomorrow night.

1800 tomorrow.

Thank you. I really owe you one.

I don't get it. Why do you want a gig documenting a mapping mission...

When you're up for the cover of Time?

Jerry, when three sources tell you the same thing word for word...

You know they're lying.

There's something going on here, something that nobody is talking about.

I can't believe we're doing this. Are you guys kidding me?

A day away?

One day away!

And now, now we gotta go to another island...

With another jungle!

Vietnam's not an island, dumbass.

Well, Key West is...

And that's exactly where I need to be right now, with a drink in my hand.

Key West ain't an island either. It's a key.

You ain't funny, Cole.

Mason Weaver, photographer.

Mason Weaver is a woman?

Last time I checked.

Can I help you?

Two years in the country. Where you been?

Embedded with MAC V-SOG.

You in the shit.

I respect that.

Was people like you, lost us support back home.

You're not actually gonna blame the people without guns...

For losing the war, are you?

Camera's way more dangerous than a gun.

And we didn't lose the war...

We abandoned it.

Right.

Hello and welcome.

I'm Landsat field supervisor, Victor Nieves.

This is my colleague, Steve Woodward. Our data wrangler.

Our expedition takes us to a place...

Every nautical trade route known to man has avoided for centuries.

As our satellites show...

The island is surrounded by a perpetual storm system...

Allowing it to remain hidden from the outside world.

But with Colonel Packard's helicopter transport...

We will be the first to break through to the other side.

We're also pleased to be joined for the first time...

By the resource exploration team...

Led by Mr. Randa...

And the company by biologist, Miss San...

And geologist, Mr. Brooks.

Our focus will be on the island surface.

Theirs, what lies beneath.

Mr. Brooks.

Simple, really.

We're using explosives to shake the earth, and create vibrations...

Helping us to map the sub surface of the island.

We'll fly in over the south shore and then strategically drop seismic charges...

To better help us understand the density of the earth.

You're dropping bombs?

Scientific instruments.

You hear that, boys?

We're scientists now!

You guys are not scientists.

We'll then land and make base camp...

For ground excursions led by Mr. Conrad.

Major Jack Chapman.

All right. Once on the island...

The storm's interference will block all radio contact with the ship.

That means we'll be by ourselves.

Three days later, refuel team will meet us here on...

The north end of the island.

That might be our only safe departure window...

For an unknown period of time.

So, tip for everybody...

Don't miss it. Please?

What are you doing down here?

I could ask you the same thing.

Why does a geological mapping mission need explosives?

You weren't listening in class.

Seismic charges for the geological survey.

Uh-huh. You believe that?

I didn't say that.

Have you met Colonel Packard yet?

Yeah.

The guy's wound pretty tight.

Well, the man's a decorated war hero. It's the package they come in.

And you?

Isn't shooting a mapping mission a step down for a photojournalist?

The right photo can help shape opinions.

And win you a Pulitzer.

Okay, Captain Conrad.

What about you?

How did British special forces get dragged into this?

Just Conrad. I'm decommissioned.

They offered me money.

You don't strike me as a mercenary.

You don't strike me as a war photographer.

Anti-war photographer.

What you writing there, Chap?

Letter to my boy.

"Dear Billy..."

"I know I said I'd be home by your birthday, but I lied straight to your face."

"I'm a terrible dad."

"I hope this letter makes up for it".

It's too short.

This storm looks a lot nastier in person.

Maybe we should consider postponing the mission.

How far away is this island?

50 miles. Maybe more.

Take us closer.

You wanna launch, you do it from here.

Can you punch through that, Colonel?

- Our opening is now. - Through this hole right here?

Yeah, it's a real low pressure pocket.

I appreciate your passion, Randa...

But as field supervisor of the controlling agency...

I say we abort. That's it, we're gonna abort.

Wise call.

I'm sure the Landsat inspector will be inspired by your courage.

He'll be inspired by my common sense.

This is only a map survey.

To one of the last unchartered areas on the face of the earth.

And you want to call it on account of rain?

Stay on the boat if you want to.

It could be years before we get another shot at this.

I'm told your unit is capable of handling inclement weather, Colonel.

Why don't we leave it to Colonel Packard to break the tie?

There is no way I'm getting on that helicopter.

We did ask on those helicopters. Shouldn't they know why?

Why? And raise an alarm?

Purely a precaution, Brooks.

Right.

Two mikes to launch.

Two mikes to launch.

What's the old man getting us into, Cole?

Nothing he wouldn't do himself. He's taking the lead.

I mean, doesn't he miss his bed? I miss my bed.

Don't you miss your bed?

Do you even have a bed, Cole?

You got a bed, right?

See you at the rendezvous, Chapman.

Yes sir.

1 Mike 30.. I repeat 1 Mike 30 to launch!

Complete FOB lockdown, and clear the deck.

One mike to launch.

- Battery? - Check.

- Generator start? - Check. Check.

- Engine start? - Checked three times.

This is Fox. Leader of the Fox Group.

It is time once again...

For the Griffin and ants show.

As usual, remember...

Hold on to your butts!

Attention pilots. You are clear for takeoff.

Launch, launch, launch.

Combat formation.

Keep visual.

Fox Five, let me know when you're close.

Fox Five is in the slot.

Roger that.

Fox Team, follow up on me. Keep it together.

Let's do this!

Maintain course.

Nothing we haven't done before.

Dear Billy.

You ever look into a hurricane and decide...

Maybe I should fly straight through it?

Cause that's what's about to happen.

Dear Billy...

You might want to hang on.

Fox Leader to Fox Group.

Switch to inertial navigation.

And remember the story of Icarus...

Whose father gave him wings made of wax...

And warned him not to fly too close to the sun.

But the exhilaration was too great.

So he flew higher and higher...

Until the sun melted his wings...

And he fell into the sea.

But the United States Army is not an irresponsible father.

So they gave us wings of white hot, cold rolled...

Pennsylvania steel!

Guaranteed not to melt.

Oh hey, that's pretty, huh?

Let's take 'em down, low and level.

Fox Leader to Fox Group.

Split up, survey is on.

Fox Seven, put Landsat on deck.

Copy, Fox Leader. Fox Three headed to Zone Six.

Put us down over there.

Everyone else, stay with the team leader.

Get going, let's go out, Come on, Let's move it!

Ready for seismic charges.

Roger that.

Fox Group, let it fly.

Copy all, Fox Three. Heading 0-9-0.

Are you seeing what I'm seeing?

The seismic response is incredible.

Hey, Randy, you're not gonna believe this.

The bedrock...

It's practically hollow.

Incoming!

Look out!

On guard, Fox Five!

Fox Eight is down! Fox Four is down!

Respond, Fox Three!

Oh my God!

Does anybody know what that is?

I don't know, man!

Three miles west of LZ.

I've never seen anything like it!

Roger Five...

Is that a monkey?

What the hell is that?

Somebody talk to me, man.

Turn right to 2-5-0. Visual contact.

Fox Leader to Fox Group.

Form a perimeter. Ready gunner positions.

Holy shit!

Fox Leader to Fox Group. Fire at will!

- What the hell is that? - I don't know!

- Pull out now! Pull out! - I don't take orders from you!

Get us the hell out of here!

Fox Nine out!

Fox Six, we got nominal control.

We are going down.

Fox Five, this is Fox Leader. Fox Nine is down.

1 click north of river bed.

Insert recovery team.

- Over! - Fox Five is hovering!

We got men going out the door!

I need help here. I need...

Oh shit!

Kill this son of a bitch.

Comin' in hard! I got eyes on it!

Pull up!

Brace for impact!

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday!

Just run to the side, you idiot!

Watch out!

Oh God!

Prepare to crash!

Brace!

Fox Leader is down!

Fox Five in bound for pick up!

We have him in sight.

Hold tight, Colonel Packard! We are on our way!

Hang on, Briggs. I'm coming.

We're going down.

I repeat, we are going down!

Listen, I want you to tell me something right now.

- Do you love your mama? - I love her!

- How much do you love your mama? - I love my mama so much!

Calling all units! Is anybody airborne?

I repeat, is anybody airborne?

They're all down. Every one of them.

We're on the south side of the island.

There's a river a couple of clicks from here.

If we sticks to its banks, we'll make it to the ex-fil site on the north shore.

And then what? All our choppers are down.

We'll find a way to signal the ship.

They'll send a search party. We just have to make it by the exit window.

I should be sitting at a desk.

So wait, are we just not gonna talk about this?

My best guess is we're scattered over a 4 to 5 mile radius.

We should head north and join anyone we find.

Are you alright?

I don't know how to answer that question right now.

I don't know what that was either.

All that money that they paid you? I hope you're worth it.

We're really not gonna talk about it?

You know, this is not normal, right? Stuff like that doesn't just happen!

This is Fox Leader to Fox group.

Anybody with ears, come back, respond, over.

Fox, Chapman.

Fox Six, Chapman.

Say again your last.

4 clicks west, highest peak...

November Alpha 3-0-0. Out.

Roger that, Chapman. West highest mountain peak.

Over.

Fox Six confirmed. With the Sea Stallion.

Chapman, hold your position.

We'll come to you. There's enough munitions..

On that Sea Stallion to kill this thing.

Survey your perimeter.

Locate possible ambush sites. Over.

Chapman.

Reles.

Takin' a non R-Day or you good to go?

- I'm good to go, sir. - Get him up.

Chapman, all stations.

Recon environment.

Cole, what's wrong with you?

How you even got an appetite right now?

Eatin's for the living.

We just got taken down by a monkey the size of a building!

Yeah!

That was an unconventional encounter.

Is that really all your brain tellin' itself right now?

There was no tactical precedence.

We did the best we could in the situation.

Griffin, Cole!

Thank God you guys are okay!

Good to see you, sir.

How many left?

Seven survivors.

Seven confirmed KIA.

Colette, Swafe, Hodges.

Slivko and the rest are unknown.

Where's Randa?

How you doing?

I'm fine. Thank you.

Good.

Glad to hear it. I was worried about you.

You are going to tell me everything I don't know...

Or I'm gonna blow your head off.

Monsters exist.

No shit.

Nobody believed me.

Yesterday, I was a crackpot.

But today?

So, this was never about geology.

You dropped those charges to flush something out.

Who are you?

You heard of the USS Lawton?

Neither did the public.

Out of the thousand young men on that ship, I was the only survivor.

They told my family she was sunk in battle...

But I know what I saw.

It had no conscience.

No reasoning, just destroy.

I spent the last 30 years...

Trying to prove the truth of what I learned that day.

This planet doesn't belong to us.

Ancient species owned this earth long before mankind.

And if we keep our heads buried in the sand...

They will take it back.

My agency is known as Monarch.

We specialize in the hunt for massive unidentified terrestrial organisms.

You knew that thing was out here?

I'm sorry for your men, Colonel. I truly am.

Get us home with proof.

So we can send the cavalry.

I'm the cavalry.

It's called the Hollow Earth Theory.

Randa hired me...

Because I wrote a paper...

Substantiating what most people think is a crackpot idea.

That there are these massive underground spaces.

- Isolated from the surface world. - Passageways.

Randa believed this island may be one of those.

An emergence point for whatever lives below.

Ancient species like what we just saw.

I thought he was out of his mind.

This is Slivko, do you read?

Anybody out there?

We're headed north to the EXFIL location.

Everyone here seems way too calm right now.

You copy? Anybody?

We're out of range, Slivko.

Shit.

Save it for when we get closer to the group.

Nobody move.

Easy.

- Slivko. - What?

Put it down.

These men did not die in vain.

I swear to God...

Their deaths will not go unanswered.

Now let's get to Chapman and those munitions.

You ever heard the story of the mouse, the lion and the thorn?

Yeah.

There you go then.

In case we ever see that primate again.

You do know that story is about a mouse becoming friends with the lion...

After taking the thorn out of his paw though, right?

No it's not.

The mouse kills the lion with the thorn.

Who told you that, Cole?

My mother.

That actually explains a lot.

- Up above! - Oh shit!

- Watch out! - What is it?

Watch your six!

- Up above. - Up in the trees! Watch out!

Cole!

No!

- No! - We got you!

I can't get a shot!

Cut the legs! Cut it off at the legs!

I got you!

Shake it off, guys! Move out!

Stay tight.

What the hell is this?

Behind you!

Stay calm, stay calm!

Conrad.

Stay back!

Guys.

Nobody shoot. Nobody shoot.

No, no, no. No need for that.

Come on now!

Everybody keep your wigs on now!

What?

I didn't believe it when they said you would come.

I was up all night...

Just thinking about how me and Gunpei dreamed of this moment.

And now here it is.

Twenty-eight years, 11 months...

And 8 failed attempts to get back to the world.

And instead, the world comes to me?

Ain't that a crack?

They never smile.

Did you crash here?

Oh! Sorry miss.

Lt. Hank Marlow of the 45th.

Put the old flight suit on for ya.

You are more beautiful...

Than a hot dog and a beer...

At Wrigley Field on opening day.

But you're real.

Right?

I told ya. Didn't I tell ya?

I said...

"It's fine".

There we go.

There's something out there, man.

Oh, there's a lot out there.

Now, come on. We gotta get home.

You don't want to be out here at night.

You probably noticed a lot of weird things on this island.

As long as we stay in here, where the people live, we'll be alright.

That wall...

Is that supposed to keep out that thing?

No, he's not the one they're trying to keep out.

What?

These people live up in the top of the trees, while we're down in the roots.

Some of them don't even seem to age.

No crime.

No personal property.

They're past all that.

Thank you. Thank you.

So good news.

They say you can shack up here.

I didn't hear them say anything.

Oh, they don't speak too much.

You've been here as I long as I have, you'll start to understand. You'll see.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

We can't stay here. We have to get off the island.

We have lives. I have a life.

Nieves, now is not the time. Alright?

What lands here tends to stay here.

As far as I can tell...

This ship washed up about 10 years before I did.

You've been here since '44?

Yeah.

And what happened with the war? Did we win?

Which one?

That makes sense.

This is all hallowed ground to them.

So if you like your hands, don't touch anything.

Look at that.

The way they tell it, for thousands of years...

The people on this island lived in fear.

It's a hell of a long time to be scared.

And then one day, the damndest thing happened.

Some of the things they were afraid of...

Started protecting them against the things that were eating them.

But nothing lasts forever, I guess.

And this is where they honor the last of their saviors.

Yeah.

That's Kong.

He's king around here.

He's God to these people.

Kong's a pretty good king.

Keeps to himself mostly.

This is his home. We're just guests here.

But you don't go into someone's house and start dropping bombs...

Unless you're picking a fight.

Wasn't Kong the one who killed your friend?

No.

One of them did.

Kong's God on the island...

But the devils live below us.

And what are they called?

The Iwis won't speak their name.

But I call 'em skull crawlers.

Why?

Cause it's sounds neat.

Okay.

Look, I just made that name up. I'm trying to scare ya.

I'm fine calling them that.

- Are you cool with it? - Yeah...

- I like the name... - That seems like a great name.

I've never said that name out loud before.

It sounds stupid now that I say it. Just...

You call them whatever you want.

The big lizard things. Nasty.

They come from the vents.

Deep down. That's why Kong got so mad.

Those bombs woke up a bunch of 'em.

I tell you what, you're lucky he's out there too...

Or you wouldn't have made it this far.

Crafty bastards. Mean as hell.

He can handle 'em as long as he gets to 'em when they're still small.

You don't want to wake up the big one.

- How big is it? - It's bigger.

It wiped out his whole family.

Kong's the last of his kind but he's still growing.

And you better hope he does.

Because the Iwis say once Kong goes...

Then the big one comes up.

Then it's good night Irene.

Listen, there's a refueling team...

Coming to the north end of the island in three days.

You should come with us.

On the north end of the island?

We're gonna get out of here.

- In three days? - Yes.

We can't get to the north end in three days.

It's impossible. That's it. No way.

At least not on foot.

That is one ugly ass bird.

Dear Billy...

This place is hell.

Monsters exist.

Under beds, they sign the pay checks.

Come on, man. It seems like...

Like maybe he wants to go kill that ape instead of get us off this island?

Yeah!

Are we even gonna make it?

- Make what? - The EXFIL!

We gotta be there in three days!

We'll make it, we're gonna make it.

Yeah, Cole, but what happens if Chapman's not at...

Hey! Colonel said he's there, he's there.

We were this close...

To gettin' it working.

Me and Gunpei were gonna take off to the open sea, try to get home...

When one of them things got him.

There she is.

Well, that's lovely.

Damn right.

Does this thing even float?

Me and Gunpei spent six years of our lives building this thing.

It's called the Grey Fox.

And she floats.

Pulled the engine parts from my P- 51...

And his old Zero.

On a B-29 on the beach one day, that was something.

You gotta be kidding me.

This thing looks like it's made out of pure tetanus.

I know she ain't pretty to look at...

But it's nothing a couple of extra hands can't fix.

And unless you got a better idea, I suggest we get cracking.

Alright.

Come on, get up!

Well, would you look at that?

It bleeds.

We did that.

We hook up with Chapman...

There's enough munitions on that downed Sea Stallion...

To finish the job.

Magnificent.

You know why I carry this instead of an M-16?

I took it off a farmer fighting for the NVA.

He surrendered right after we leveled his village.

He was 50 years old.

Said he never even seen a gun 'til we showed up.

Sometimes, an enemy doesn't exist...

'Til you go looking for one.

What happens when they show up on your door step?

I'll still have his gun.

Best of luck with that, soldier.

Okay. So we've got 48 hours to make it to the North Shore.

Slivko, do you know what you're doing back there?

Yeah. Pop's a mechanic.

I can't fix this, he'll disown me.

If he ever sees me again.

Hold the phone there, Churchill.

Russia was our ally.

Now you're saying we're at war with them?

It's more of a cold war.

Cold war like...

Like they take the summers off?

What about the Cubs? The cubs win a world series yet?

The Cubs?

Man, not even close.

Were they ever good?

Happens to be my team. Where are you from?

- Detroit. - Okay.

The tigers! They win it all this year?

- I don't know. - Doubt it. Yeah.

Hey, who do you think would win in a fight?

A tiger or a Cub?

A tiger would win.

Yeah, because the cub is a baby bear.

A full grown tiger can eat a baby bear.

You gotta think it through.

We also put a man on the moon.

No kidding.

What did they do? Just leave him up there?

What's he eating?

Tang. Spam.

Come on, we're losing daylight.

Fox Leader. This is Chapman, over.

Fox Leader. This is Chapman, over.

Dear Billy...

Sometimes life just punch you in the balls.

Dammit.

What kind of music is that?

What happened to swing?

Benny Goodman?

You're like a time traveler, man.

Telling you, this is the new sound.

I don't know if I'm gonna like whoever's under this beard.

I really hope that thing you call a boat can get us upriver in 36 hours.

Because if we miss that window...

We're literally up a creek.

When I first wrote that paper on the Hollow Earth theory...

The whole committee laughed out loud.

Not Randa.

The one guy in the crowd who actually took me seriously.

It felt good.

Then I thought he was crazy when he said the earth was full of monsters.

I can't tell when I'm talking...

- Or when I'm not talking. - You're talking.

- Am I? - Yes.

- I'm talking? - Yes.

Your mouth is moving.

What?

I'm gonna stab you by the end of the night.

Really?

Just kidding.

If the boat doesn't work, we'll just take the train.

Isn't it odd the most dangerous places are always the most beautiful?

I'm trying to take a long exposure photograph...

But my flashlight broke.

Try this.

Thank you.

- Royal Air Force? - My father's.

He threw it to me from the train as he rolled off to fight the Nazis.

He was like John Wayne to me.

Some kind of mythic hero.

Did he come back?

His plane went down near Hamburg.

They searched for him for months but...

I suppose no man comes home from war.

Not really.

Mills, quit dickin' around. I'm going off perimeter.

Colonel Packard...

This mission to the crash site is folly.

I understand going after your man.

But the rest of it...

This is beyond us.

You don't like the way I'm running things?

You know where the door is.

You set this in motion when you put this place on the map.

And I will not cut and run.

I know an enemy when I see it.

This man's name was Gunpei Ikari.

If you take away the uniforms...

And the war...

Then he became my brother.

And we swore we'd never leave each other behind.

Let's get off this island.

Not yet!

- Bind the lines. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Bind it up, Let's go!

Keep going!

Third time's a charm. Here we go. Here we go.

Let's go. Let's go. Let's go!

Come on. Come on!

Yes.

Yes! Yes!

I guess this is good bye.

Thank you.

If you're ever in Chicago, look me up, I guess.

Here, no. Let me, let me help.

A man's gotta do what...

Are you okay?

I'm okay, I'm okay.

Allow me.

You should see me in the library.

I got a wife.

Had a wife.

Have a wife?

I guess I don't know anymore.

Got hitched right before I deployed.

Got a telegram from her the day before I got shot down.

She said we just had our baby boy.

I got a son out there.

Grown man I've never met.

Yeah, she definitely thinks you're dead, man.

Hey!

I'm just saying.

You don't know that.

You'd be surprised how long people wait.

Truth is, I don't expect 'em to be waiting.

I'd be fine either way.

I just want one last chance to see 'em.

That'd be good enough for me.

We're gonna get you home.

Fox Five, come back.

Is there anyone out there?

This is Fox Five. We hear you.

Yeah! We're on a boat...

We're on a boat headed up north on a river.

A boat?

Where'd y'all get a boat?

We met this like crazy Santa Clause, time traveler...

Guy from World War II. You'll meet him.

What kind of boat y'all got?

It's more of like a plane than a boat really.

Uh, it's called a ploat.

We're on a ploat.

We need their location, Slivko.

Send up a flare so we can find you..

Roger that, Fox Five.

Fire in the hole!

There!

Yes!

I repeat, we have a visual. 2 clicks to our north.

Roger that, Fox Five. Fox One, out.

Rendezvous point. One hour.

Mount up!

Can we fit everybody?

Yes!

We're going home!

Get down!

What the hell, man?

He's gone.

Everybody grab your gear. We have to keep moving.

We'll go ashore, meet up with Packard.

No. No! Wait a minute, wait a minute!

Is nobody gonna say anything about the...

He's gone!

And he ain't coming back. There's nothing to say.

Oh my...

Their flare was only 2 clicks north.

They should be here soon.

Unless they were eaten by something that's bigger than us.

Ah! Holy shit!

Slivko!

Never thought I'd see you guys again.

- I thought you were crazy. - I wish I had been.

- What's your count? - What you see...

Is what I got.

We lost one too.

Good to see you fellas!

Who the hell is this?

We picked up a hitchhiker.

Lieutenant Hank Marlow of the 45th pursuit squadron of the 15th.

You've been here since World War II?

Yes sir. I miss the parade?

I'll be damned.

Snap to, Lieutenant.

We're gonna get him home, sir.

We follow this river...

We'll make it to the boat and we'll make it to the north shore in time.

That sounds good.

But we're not leaving yet.

Still got a man out there, Conrad.

Wait a second. You got someone out there?

Chapman.

He's with the downed Sea Stallion, just west of here.

West? We can't go west!

That's where those skull things live.

We have an old saying here, "East is best, west is worst!"

That's why we say it!

You go southwest...

We could talk about that.

But you're gonna need a lot more guns if you're gonna go west.

Guys. I think that we should listen to Marlow.

This is crazy.

Hey.

Your job is finding lost men, right?

Okay, sir.

But if we reach that position and he is not there...

We don't send out a search party.

We're back here by nightfall, understood?

In 24 hours, we have to be on the other side of this island.

Roger that. Hear you loud and clear.

Alright. You heard the man. Moving out in 10.

This is a good group of boys.

We're all gonna die together out here.

You're a good group of boys to die with. I'll tell you that much.

You shouldn't have come here.

Don't forget to tell me this is a bad idea.

This is a bad idea.

Yeah, you smell that?

That's death.

What the hell is this place?

This is what's left of Kong's parents.

I've taken enough photos of mass graves to recognize one.

The crash site's just on the other side of this valley.

We'll cross through and make it to the highest point west.

Uh uh.

This place is a real no no, sir.

We need to be going to the north side right now.

And you're welcome to do that, my man.

By yourself.

I'm not leaving Jack out there. Now, who's with me?

We can make it.

You mighty right we can make it.

Now stay sharp keep an eye out.

I've only been here 28 years. What do I know?

Cole...

We ain't got time for that, man. Put the cigarette out.

Watch those fumes!

Idiots.

Let's go. We gotta move!

Run!

In here!

Quiet.

I told you this damn place was a no no.

Shh!

Alright, let's move.

Rally on me.

Somebody cover the civilians, quick. Let's move!

Oh shit.

Randa!

Set up the 50!

Bring the torch! Do your thing!

Slivko!

Gas!

Marlow! Sword!

Slivko, hang on!

This thing's moving!

Now look, Colonel.

You may outrank me...

But I've been here hell of a lot longer.

And I'm telling you...

That thing that just shredded us was only the first of 'em.

Now we're on their turf...

And we need to turn back! Toot sweet!

Not as long as Chapman's still out there.

I'm sorry, Colonel Packard.

Chapman is dead.

Doesn't change a thing.

We're still going to that crash site.

What's at that crash site that you want so badly?

Weapons!

Enough to kill it.

Kong didn't kill Chapman.

But he did kill these men!

My men!

You can't kill Kong, Colonel.

Kong is God on this island.

He's the only thing keeping them lizard things in the ground.

He's right, Colonel. We can't kill Kong.

And that other creature?

That's the threat. And there are more of them down there.

If you take away a species' natural competition...

They'll proliferate out of control!

Then we'll end 'em too!

After we bring this thing down.

- I can't let you do that, Colonel. - Whoa! Wait! Hold your fire.

This is one war we're not gonna lose!

Nuts!

You hear me? This is nuts!

Please! You need to listen to us!

We're not at war, Colonel. You're making a mistake.

Your lies got my men killed!

- And you're gonna get us all killed. - Not our fight.

Whose side are you on, Captain?

Okay, Colonel.

You'll find your Sea Stallion 3 clicks up that ridge.

Now, I'm gonna take these civilians back to the boat...

And we'll wait for you there.

Alright?

Saddle up!

Let's go kill this thing!

Steve?

You runnin' with the big dogs or stayin' on the porch?

I don't wanna be on the porch.

Marlow, you okay?

We need to stop him.

You want to talk with him about it again?

He seemed to really go for it the first time.

He's losing his grip.

Follow me...

We'll get off this rock alive.

Dear Billy...

I'm just trying to get home to you and your Mom.

Be strong.

I love you.

Make sure those get back to his family.

Dear Billy...

Your dad was one of the best to ever do it.

There's water close by.

Are you lost? Which way?

Hang on.

Wait here.

I've gotta get to high ground to find the river.

Hey! I'm coming too.

I'll be right here.

Keep your eyes open.

Up in the trees too.

Why?

Ants.

Big ones.

There's one.

Sounds like a bird but it's a fucking ant.

Gather up everything you can, including those seismic charges.

They got his attention the first time.

This is a bad idea.

Let's just get on with it.

Mills, Cole...

Prep this ordnance.

Make him a special gift out of that napalm.

The boat must be around that bend.

We have to go. Now.

Don't shoot!

Conrad, which way are we going?

You three need to go back to the boat.

It's that way.

Wait for us 'til dawn.

If we're not back by then...

Just go.

Where are you two going?

We're goin' to save Kong.

Not without me, pal.

Oh God.

Men!

Place the charges.

It's time to show Kong...

That man...

Is king!

On one.

On two.

On three.

Packard!

Don't do it.

Asked you fellas nice the first time.

We don't want to fight here, Packard.

This thing brought us down! It killed my men!

Kong was just defending his territory.

We are soldiers!

We do the dirty work...

So our families and our countrymen don't have to be afraid!

They shouldn't even know a thing like this exists!

You've lost your mind.

Put that detonator down.

Stop!

The world is bigger than this.

Bitch, please!

Slivko, get her out of there!

You know it's the wrong thing to do, son.

Put it down, sir.

Packard!

Come on.

It's over.

That's the big one.

Fall back.

Go!

Colonel.

Sir!

Die you motherfu-

- Kong! - Kong's down. Let's go!

They told us to leave at dawn.

- I know. - It's dawn.

I know!

So what are we going to do?

This is the edge of the island.

Weaver, get up on those rocks and fire a flare.

With any luck, Brooks will see it.

We'll buy you time.

This way.

Come on. Every second counts.

Cole!

Come on, man, we gotta fall back.

Go live your life.

Get out of here.

- Cole, no! - Cole!

Cole, no!

- Cole! - Cole!

No, don't!

Cole!

Cole!

Come on. Come on, you son of a bitch.

Come on! Go!

Come on!

Come on! Hurry!

Come on!

- Marlow, a little help here? - I got you. Step around. Watch out!

- Clear! - Okay!

Come on, you bastard!

Weaver!

Weaver?

Hey, hey, hey!

You're okay.

So what do you think, fellas?

This way to Key West?

I think it is, brother.

This place will change.

Word will get out.

It always does.

Well, it's not coming from us.

We'll meet again.

Don't know where.

Don't know when.

But I know we'll meet again.

Some sunny day.

We'll meet again.

Don't know where. Don't know when.

But I know we'll meet again.

Some sunny day.

Thanks to Asmita, BioHapzard, Oom and Psagmeno.com.

Corrections and post credit scene by PerilousElm.

You just gonna sit there?

In the dark?

You're enjoying this, right?

Is this fun for you?

I promise I won't tell the russians.

- Promise I will tell the russians. - She's gonna tell the russians.

Why are you keeping us here?

- I wanna go home. - We get it.

There was no island.

We were never on an island.

Island?

What island?

Brooks, what the hell is going on?

Welcome to Monarch.

This island is just the beginning.

There's more out there.

What do you mean more?

This world never belonged to us. It belonged to them.

The question is, how long before they take it back.

Kong is not the only king.

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