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That's funny.

Yeah,

Hedley, Marsh and the others are up in the Macondo flood control area.

No, no, I don't know when they'll be back.

I know they won't leave there until after the engineers have flooded the

though.

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.

Now, if you'll keep quiet, I'll give you some in a minute, okay?

That's a boy.

Yeah, Headley, I'm back.

Yeah, right. That's why they borrowed your guns.

They want to help herd the animals to safety.

Right, okay, will do.

Out.

That's a good boy. Now you get your pup.

Sorry, fellows, but I want you to hurry.

Okay, Dad.

Too bad we didn't start Operation Rescue sooner, Marsh.

Yeah, the only trouble is, if you start too soon, a lot of the animals might

wander back.

This way we're down to our last few drops of time.

Yeah.

I feel a lot better knowing that none of these animals are left here to drown

unless the engineers flood this area.

Okay, big fella I'm coming

Hi

dad

Well Paul I figured that if we hey you there

get your 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, huh?

Well, mister, I got news for you.

You're under arrest.

Sergeant, take their guns away.

752 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 soundproof to prevent subject from hearing extraneous noises.

Subject animal's reaction occurs three seconds later within limits of

instantaneous reactive.

Subject animal senses danger two seconds later and tries to escape.

Subject animal now greatly disturbed shows typical reaction of animal

with visual representation of danger.

755, 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

Tommy,

can I see you a minute?

I'm sorry.

Hello, Tommy. I see you've met Howard Oscar, Deputy Chief Engineer.

No, not formally.

He's just arrested me for trespassing.

Didn't you show him your permit?

He never gave me a chance. Tommy.

Did you give him permission to enter the flood basin area? You want to see him

get his head blown off? I gave him a copy of our plastic schedule.

We're perfectly safe.

Look, I don't want to cause any more delays. I know how important this

is. It is an easy time to tame the big river.

Every spring when the rains come, it goes on a rampage, flooding villages,

killing people, livestock.

How much time have we before you blow the levees holding the river in check?

Tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow morning?

Tonic, can you hold off a little longer? There are hundreds of animals out there

trapped. 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.

Now, what about the weather?

I am aware of that, Doctor.

Doctor, move it.

It's a mobile truck.

We're at the engineer's camp for the flood control project.

Hey, Paula, I wish you could see the results I'm getting with this baboon

They're great.

Jack, I know that's important.

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

Hey, put Marsh on, huh?

Jack, he's tied up now.

Doctor, 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. Two 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 bus 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, that wasn't important, was it?

You long hairs with the college degrees are all the same, full of theories and

phony ideas, but never knowing how to get things done in time. I'm sorry.

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... I'm sorry to cause you trouble at a time like this.

The trouble between Howard Austin 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.

Sandbags, not slide broods.

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 at the time and just two years out of graduate

engineering school.

Where did that leave Austin?

I was 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 dots might work on his old hide?

I don't know.

Thanks again, Tommy.

Good luck.

There's all the salt trees near coordinates C3 and B4.

Doctor, you figure there'll be zebras and giraffes, wildebeests?

Oh, I get it. We drive off the herds and then go after the individual animals

left in the basin.

They're mostly strays and sick ones.

Yeah, the ones that need us most.

Come on, Paul. Let's get him onto zebra diet.

Paula, Mike, look, we hit the jackpot.

The zebra herd's about two miles due south of here.

That puts them downwind.

Right. Look, you and Paula flank them, and we'll head them towards that new

waterhole. All right, Dad.

Come on, Judy.

Mike, they're heading your way. Turn them.

Gee, a baby baboon.

Oh, gee, I wish I could bring one back for Jack.

Oh, no, Judy, we'll have to come back later. Dad's waiting for us.

What's next on the schedule?

Well, according to this map, there's some old poacher's pits over here.

We're going to uncover them and bait them.

Funny, are you using poacher pits to save the animals?

I will use every trick in the book, because I don't want to leave a single

animal here when Butler floods this basin.

Well, it won't take three of us to bait the poacher's pits. Why don't I go on

ahead and do some scouting?

Well, I'm not very keen on you going out alone, young lady.

I've been out in the bush before by myself, Dad.

Yes, I was at the reserve, but there were miles from home.

Well, I'll take Judy with me. She's the best little jungle scout in the

business. Anyway, we spotted a baby baboon and Jack needs another for his

experiment.

Well, okay then, but only if you check in regularly on the walkie -talkie, huh?

It's a good way off. What do you think, Mike?

The rain isn't.

Ready for trouble?

Ready for trouble.

Hi, Tommy.

Did 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.

Dad?

Dad?

Yes, Paula. Everything okay?

I'm fine, Dad.

Judy's out on a reconnaissance patrol in search of that baby baboon. How are you

doing? Well, you can scratch one leopard.

Well, there goes Judy's signal. I have to go.

Oh, Judy, that's not the baby baboon we wanted for Jack.

Of course, there's nothing wrong with a spring horse for the animal nursery, is

there?

Help! Help! Help!

Buster, don't tell me you're still mad at me.

I thought you would have forgiven me by now.

You know, you're going to feel a lot better later on when we set you free in

your new home.

Oh, here, Jerry.

How is he, Dad?

Oh, he's fine.

Well, I'll have to take him back to a marathon.

No telling where his mother could be by now.

Everybody get started?

Yeah, I want to call Jack for it, but I know it'll be finished by six.

Well, we only have a couple hours left.

Yeah.

With reference to fire stimulus, animal reaction extreme will cut off flame

and repeat procedure.

Animal relaxes with removal of stimulus.

That's Marsh calling Romero. Marsh Tracy calling Romero. Do you read? Over.

Hey, Marsh?

Marsh, listen. I just tried the experiment again with flame as the

stimulus. Well, almost instantaneously.

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.

Well, we'll figure some way of setting it up so there's no transfer of heat

we get back tomorrow, okay?

Okay. Hey.

How come you're coming back so soon?

Well, there's danger of the river rising because the storm's up north.

So we have to finish up by six 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 slide.

Why? Look at Clarence, the social lion. He sweet -talked that lioness into

walking right into camp.

Well, at least it saved us a trip.

You can handle her? With Clarence's help.

Double vision or not, Clarence is a very sharp eye for the ladies. Yes, indeed.

He's a regular lady killer.

And will you give Clarence a hand in putting his girlfriend in a cage?

I'm going to run over and check with Tommy Butler and see if the water level

rising.

Here comes your friend again, the little shepherd of the animal kingdom.

Austin, Dr. Dottie is only trying to do his job.

But he keeps getting in the way of ours.

Why don't you give him that extra time? Why don't you just 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 soup keepers.

there's more to this project than stealing 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.

Run it, but don't say I didn't warn you Austin

Okay

to come ahead Nothing

will

happen until I activate this timing device the river level is still rising

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, is there? Not a chance.

You and your people will have to be out of here by 4 p .m.

Well, we should be able to make it. We're in pretty good shape right now.

I'll see you in a while. See you.

You after something?

A cheetah, but he's out of my range.

That must be the mother of the baby we have.

He's out of range, period.

He's been that way ever since I spotted him. It's as if he's playing games with

me. There's no time for games. This whole area's going to be flooded by 4 o

'clock. Come on, let's get moving.

What about the cheetah?

There's more than one way to skin a cheetah.

Let's see if we can head him towards the poacher's pits.

Well, we got him.

Listen, you better start heading for high ground. We don't have much time

Hey, Dad, do you think the animals can sense the danger of the river even

it's miles away?

Oh, 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 rather safe and sound. You only saw him once.

Say, where's Judy? I thought she was gonna be with you. Well, you took

so I gave Judy to Mike to keep in company.

Oh, you better scoot.

Don't carry on, girl. You don't know it, but you've never had it so good.

Mike? Mike, this is Marsh. Do you read? Over.

I'm here, Marsh.

Where is here?

Coordinates D6 north of the old waterhole.

Well, look, I'm at F7, four miles south of you.

I got a hot sheet on my hands. I sure could use some help.

Is he up a tree, or are you?

Neither. He's down in the pit.

Look, if you make it pretty fast, they're going to blow the levees at

I'm on my way.

He hasn't been trying to reach you. It's time to pull out.

Well, it's not even 2 o 'clock yet.

I'm sorry, Paula, but I want to make sure that we reach high ground before

Butler blows up those levees. I was hoping 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.

It's going to hurt you.

Easy, girl, easy. Nothing's going to hurt you.

Now that I've found you, I'm not going to let you go that easily. Oh, no.

Come on, I just want to 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, I thought you'd like that.

If you're real good, you can ride up in the front seat with me. If not, I'll

have to put you in the back.

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's at four o 'clock.

Maybe he forgot to tell the dynamite. Yeah, but Butler's not back yet.

Boss, wait!

Tommy, I thought you said you were going to blow those levees at 4 o 'clock. I

did. I don't know what went wrong. Well, I can't find Paula. I can't find a

trace of her.

Dad? Dad, are you there?

Paula, where are you?

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?

A few minutes. Let's pinpoint her position.

Well, I have you any idea what your position is.

I'm not sure I spent so much time going after the baby baboon Well,

there's a funny little hill it's shaped like a camelback 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

middle of the basin The main channel of the water will flow through here tell it

ahead Southwest

Tommy says to head southwest.

You got that?

All right, Dad. Southwest.

Dad? 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 ten

minutes. Right?

Okay.

I'm going in after you. I can't let you go in there. 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.

Take it easy, baby.

I know you're sick. Then tell us we're in danger.

Howdy, any word on Paula?

Well, she's heading southwest, trying to outrace the floodwaters. And the

flood's behind her.

you

But that can't be.

But the channel was set two miles away from there.

What does it know?

Report in when you're sure.

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 must have tampered with the charges.

That means we directed Paula right through the course of the river.

That's right.

Paula? Paula.

Paula,

answer me.

Paula.

Paula.

to come in.

Father?

It's too late, Dr. Harding.

The water's already passed the course she took.

No, Dr. Harding. My son!

No, Marsh!

Marsh, face the truth. It won't do any good! Go!

I'm sorry, Dr. Harry, but somebody had to do it.

Dad?

Dad, are you there?

Come in, Dad.

Dr. Harry, hold it, baller. Here's your 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.

You must have had her ESV working on all panels just like you did during our

experiment.

You know, that just goes to show you, you little fellas can teach us

a lot.

Huh?

I was following your instruction when the baby baboon got loose. All I could

think about was saving her.

And as a result, you saved both of them, huh? Yes.

Fairly. Oh, I wish I'd had a camera or...

Hey, recorder, I could have included the information for Jack's report.

Miss 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?

Did we 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

become a destroyer?

I'm an engineer, Dr. Hardy, 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

to be an innocent bystander

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