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Safari! Safari!

Thank you.

Thank you.

There goes the bait.

Guess I'm ready for Dr. Marsh Tracy now.

There, you see?

One tiger.

Which doubles the mystery.

What mystery?

Reports of a tiger roaming free on the reserve.

Really? Oh, I had me someone seeing things.

Tigers are found only in Asia. You know there aren't any in Africa.

Except yours.

Which is why I wanted to check.

They probably saw a leopard or something.

Nodoro!

Several local hunters, solid, reliable people, described the same animal.

Large as a lion, but striped like a zebra.

It frightened them.

An Asian tiger loose in Africa frightens me a little.

Well, I told them they were seeing things, so they brought proof.

That could be a tiger print, but...

Hadley, this is fantastic.

Where was he spotted?

Over here.

On the far side of the gorge.

Pretty far back in the free area.

Oh, that's wild country.

Unmapped, mostly unexplored, unknown.

Dad, what if there were tigers there? You know, left over from the last land

migration a thousand years ago.

There are always legends about unknown animals, and every now and then someone

sees a...

A living fossil, a creature that's supposed to be extinct but still roaming

free. It would be what we have here.

A living fossil?

Well, I've always wanted to have another look at that free area.

You three better continue with your experimental work.

Marsh, this time you'd better take a rifle.

Any of you take a rifle or I'll only kill you.

Well, good hunting anyway.

Well, Compound.

Come in, Compound.

Compound here.

Find anything, Dad? Over.

Not yet.

I'll start looking for tiger tracks.

I'll call you back later. Out.

Okay, Judy, old girl.

Let's see what we can find, huh?

Come on, Judy.

Find something?

Here.

That's Tiger.

You've just earned yourself a great big banana split covered with chocolate

syrup.

Dr. Tracy!

I'm delighted that you accepted my invitation.

Invitation? I'm sorry.

A four -footed invitation.

Panthera tigris.

A tiger?

Is that your tiger?

I released it. For any particular reason?

What else would get Dr. Tari out here so quickly?

Oh, allow me to introduce myself.

Garvin Drake.

Oh. The Garvin Drake, the big game hunter?

Sooner or later, we had to meet. But having a flair for the dramatic, I

to call the shots. I selected this arena.

Arena? Arena for what?

You know, Tracy, for years you've been crusading throughout Africa, persuading

governments to close down open hunting areas, turning them into closed game

reserves.

Well, I got you out here to prove to you that your theory is built on a false

premise.

Now, maybe once you're convinced, you're going to get off my back.

I've never been on your back.

I've merely been pursuing a way of life.

I'm not just speaking for myself, Dr. Tracy, but for all big game hunters who

have found a zest for life when closest to death.

Why don't you get your kicks out of Russian roulette and leave innocent

out of this?

You've never hunted, huh?

Yes, I hunt for specimens, but I never kill.

Is that for target practice?

This is a hypodermic rifle. It can hardly be called a weapon.

Your books claim that.

I don't believe it.

I'm afraid Judy resents your calling me a liar.

Now, Mr. Drake, it's quite simple.

I avoid threatening animals, and they don't threaten me.

That's amazing.

Frankly, I'd hoped so. I wanted it to be true.

But my experiment... Mr. Drake, if you'd like to make an experiment along these

lines, you're welcome to use my compound. I have all the facilities.

Not for my little test.

I'm sorry, you're losing me again.

But I mustn't lose you, Dr. Tracy.

Because for my experiment, you... are the experimental animal.

I'm sorry.

I'm just not available.

But I insist.

And I refuse.

Very, very carefully.

I don't want to harm you.

Now, please put that rifle on the ground.

That's much better.

You won't be needing that. But you can keep your knife.

That you will be needing.

That's for part of this experiment?

You're approximately four days by foot from your compound.

You're traveling there.

By foot.

What's that going to prove? That I have a sense of direction?

That you will face an animal attack.

And then suddenly you're going to become a hunter like me.

Once you've made your first kill, you're going to suddenly become a completely

different man, one of us.

And then you're going to discover that every man is basically a hunter.

Perhaps.

But not a killer.

But that's my experiment, Dr. Tracy.

To expose you to wildest Africa and make you kill.

Well, I won't work.

And I don't believe that if I turn my back and walk away, you'll use that

You know,

you are absolutely right. I don't want to kill you.

But I'd have absolutely no hesitation in killing your chimp.

No.

Get going on foot Northeast and I'll be right behind

you watch

Dr.

Ty, you get past the tribe of gorillas.

Oh, I'm respecting them.

Not disturbing them?

They're curious, but they're not vicious animals.

I'll show you.

Doctor, you're not going to avoid testing your theories.

You claim animals aren't dangerous, huh?

Walk in a straight line, right past those gorillas.

There's only one animal that kills compulsively.

Man.

Especially a man like you, Drake.

That's what life really is all about, isn't it?

A mortal struggle between a winner and a loser.

The loser always dies.

Come in, Dad. Come in.

I can't seem to raise them.

She gave up with this radio business.

You can't expect your father to be a disc jockey while he's out in the bush,

know. At this moment, Dr. Ari is probably enjoying the sunshine.

With the ever -suffering assistance, stuck with the paperwork again.

Here, give him another sniff.

Sooner or later, somewhere, there's an animal waiting to attack you.

And you're going to be forced to kill, and you'll be shocked to find yourself

enjoying it as I do.

I run it for food, Drake, but never for sport.

All I regard killing as serious, not fun.

You're a queer duck, Tracy.

You really are trying to protect the animals on this reserve.

Create a sort of blessed veil, you garden of evil.

I'm trying to protect a place where animals can live and die normally and

naturally, and we can study them.

Perhaps you're right, though.

It is sort of a garden of Eden.

Oh, it is.

I'm very much afraid I'm the reptile bringing you the bitter truth.

What, that animals kill when they're hungry?

Hunger's just the excuse. Animals kill because they must.

Because we all must test ourselves against nature, lesser animals, against

men. The true test always ends with a death.

No, Drake.

A true test always produces an answer.

Let's see if we can find an answer.

It was just a reminder, Doctore.

The experiment's always working.

All right, all right, Drake.

Since I have no choice, I'll have to do a little experimenting of my own.

Well, if we can just make those splits.

Judy, I'll take this vine up the hill.

Up you go.

Go on up.

Atta girl.

Atta girl.

Come on, take the vine up.

Judy, pick it up.

Go on up. Hurry. Atta girl.

Judy, go on.

Judy, put it over something. Put the loop over something.

Good girl, Judy!

Drake, this was supposed to be an experiment between the animals and me.

Now you're meddling in it.

Not really much you can do about that, is there?

Well, I guess not.

I'm sorry.

Got a lot more fight in you than I imagined.

Get moving.

Good morning.

I wondered if you'd spot it.

I see him.

A wounded leopard will attack anything that comes near it.

You're including him in your experiment?

Sure. That leopard would attack a bull elephant.

Maybe, Drake.

But I don't think this one will.

You won't attack a friend not when he needs help.

You're the doctor, doctor.

A doctor can't refuse to treat a patient just because he's irritable.

Of course.

He'll tear you in half.

Not this one.

I recognize him.

Yes, he's the same one I treated at the clinic.

That's absurd.

An animal has no memory.

Even if he did, a wounded leopard will attack instantly.

See?

Easy, easy, easy.

I'm here to help you.

Calm down.

You're in a fight here, huh?

It's probably pretty painful, but not too serious.

Let me just give you a little sofa.

That should fix you right up.

There,

she won't get infected.

There, you see?

He accepts help.

And that way, he demonstrates memory.

Easy. Easy.

It's all right. The pain's going to go away.

It'll be all right.

Well,

Drake.

Did you conceive me your experiment?

Not yet.

That's very impressive.

Yeah. But the great driving force in the jungle is hunger.

That's the real test.

What are you going to do when you have to pass a hungry carnivore?

For that matter, when you get hungry yourself.

Well, there are always berries and grass and tree bark.

Come on, Judy.

Come on.

Go on.

Oh, you're not gonna shake me or lose me.

It's getting late.

It's not all that late.

He's probably waiting till nightfall to call in.

I'll bet he's planning to sleep out.

He'll come back tomorrow.

But that wasn't his plan.

I'm worried.

What's to worry?

He knows the game reserve as well as he knows the compound. He probably ran into

something interesting.

All right.

I think I'll go out and see what's so interesting.

Paula. You're not thinking it would be dark before you got there. Right. Let us

do that.

If he doesn't check in soon, we'll take the truck first thing in the morning and

have a look. Is that a deal?

All right.

I just wish he'd call in.

This will do just fine.

Come on, Judy.

There we go.

This ought to do it, Judy.

Funny. You'll hunt me.

That isn't against your principles.

No, Drake, I... I still allow myself the luxury of self -defense.

Good, good. I like that.

You'll need that.

Tracy, you're gonna have to kill.

Or be killed.

Because I guarantee you'll be the target of the very deadly animal.

So that's all the great sportsmen hunt, huh?

Kills in cold blood.

All right, Tracy.

I'll make it a real contest.

A truly exciting contest.

I'm going to give you exactly one hour head start, and then I'm going to follow

you.

Go on, run.

Be ready to kill.

Because I intend... Yep.

Jake!

Almost there.

Now, we'd better wait here, Judy.

If that dead foal gets to me, he's going to need medical help as fast.

Amateur.

This way.

Ho, ho, ho!

As they say in the bullring, a moment of truth.

If truth is murder.

But murder is just a word.

Life and death.

Those are the facts.

I could put an arrow right through you.

Yes, you could.

Don't move any further.

A tiger.

Isn't that fitting?

Tiger, Tiger, burning bright. He's the one that brought you out here to me, Dr.

Tari. Isn't it fitting that he should be here now?

That you're dead.

Oh, dear.

Oh, no.

I don't know. He's not going to attack.

He's fed recently. He's just a big, lazy cat.

Yes, but do you believe that?

Of course I do.

I've hunted tiger. I know them.

Well, if you've hunted tiger, then you know they can vary in their habits.

They're just trying to unsettle me.

That tiger is just curious like all cats, only cats.

It's going to be absolutely fascinated when I shoot.

I'll kill you, Dr. Tariq.

On my terms.

You had a chance to kill me, Drake.

But you fell into a trap instead.

A trap because you couldn't imagine a partnership between a man and an animal.

Judy and me.

Fat chimp.

Come on.

He couldn't understand what could he do, huh?

Just couldn't understand if he could cooperate.

He was all alone.

Bill don't understand it, Tracy.

I'm an expert hunter. You're just a doctor.

That should beat me at my own game.

Drake, from the beginning, I had the advantage over you.

In what way?

The sides weren't even.

See, there was always two of us.

Two? Yeah, Judy and me.

She was more useful than any weapon I could have had.

She's just an animal.

Yeah, she's just an animal. A target, a trophy, something to be destroyed. But,

well, to me...

She's quite a friend.

Off you go, Greg.

That's funny.

Hi.