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growth is reported right around here.

All we have to do is get a little sample and we can head right back to America.

Well, let me see.

We'll try over here.

Thank you, Judy.

Hey,

leave him alone.

Well, Judy, we're going to take this sleeping beauty back to the compound.

I want to see Marsh's face when he realizes that he finally has in his

possession the world -famous phantom leopard.

I wonder what he's doing down here, though. His home is hundreds of miles

in the Kalanga District.

Where did he get this old spear scar?

Well, we'll worry about that later.

In the meantime, we're going to get our prize home.

It's an honor to have you visit the Wameru District, my colonel. Even here,

hundreds of miles away, we've heard of you. And I have heard of things you do

here in Wameru. Yes.

It's a pity you couldn't see our district in a better light.

Terrible droughts, you know.

Killing vegetation, drying water holes, animals moving off. It's a very, very

bad show.

I have worked my craft through many seasons.

Drought, flood, winter, summer.

I can't help wondering what brings you so far from your home in the Kawanga

district. I and native hunters like myself, who go after game with only our

-old weapons, are part of the old Africa.

What you do here is the new.

I wish to see for myself.

You're very welcome.

But this is a no -kill area. Perhaps you might like to leave your leopard spear

behind.

When I put aside my childhood, I tip this spear.

For the wood to fit my hand, my strength, my eye.

I would feel naked without it.

I wouldn't want to separate old friends.

Enjoy your stay in Romero. Now, you must excuse me, but I have to check for

fire. Now, do look me up again.

Goodbye, now.

Goodbye.

Here you fell.

No longer can you run from me.

Others came.

Poachers.

Tire tracks.

They had no right to take you.

I wounded you.

For months, I tracked you.

There is no kill without the skin.

I have reached for your skin for too many years to be cheated.

I will kill again if I must for that belt.

Now, that antibiotic seems to have done the trick, Mike. He's coming along

nicely. Hey, did you find out where he last went?

Well, the soil samples I took were red clay with traces of manganese, peculiar

to the Kawanga district.

The Kawanga district, hmm?

Hey, Dad, are you going on that fire prevention trip with Hedley tomorrow?

A trip? What trip? You know, Hedley. Game reserve, drought, fire danger.

You tuned into me, Doctor. Don't you realize you've got a restless native on

your hands?

I'll be your father's delegate, Paula. How soon do you want to leave? First

thing in the morning.

Right now I've got to help Jack with his new project. See you later.

I should go along with you two tomorrow. I did promise Hedley. Well, I'm sure

Hedley will understand, Marsh. After all, how often do you get a chance to

a magnificent specimen in detail, like the phantom?

And a fire that could wipe out the preserve.

We only run that risk every five or ten years.

Well, now what are you going to do with all these typewriters?

Well, with all these typewriters, we are going to debunk one of the great

cockeyed theories of the Western world.

We are?

Mm -hmm.

You've heard of the idea that if you put enough monkeys in front of enough

typewriters, eventually one of them is going to come up with the King James

Version of the Bible or the complete work of Shakespeare?

I have, but I don't believe it.

Oh, I don't either.

You know, this may have some merit after all.

At least we'd be able to keep all those little troublemakers in one place. Yeah,

that's a thought.

Well, how are you two doing?

Well, Jack isn't set up quite yet.

Hey, old buddy, maybe you would like to participate in the running of this. I'm

an ordinary field hand, Jack.

You're the psychologist on the team, and this looks like it's long on

psychology. So be it.

Oh, paper.

I need just reams and reams of paper. There isn't enough here.

Reams and reams of paper.

I'll get it.

Hmm. We better load the truck before it at least starts.

Oh, Mike, would you do me a favor and check this typewriter out? I haven't

it in just millions of years. Not since I was in high school.

Please? Hold on.

I'll load the truck.

over the dog.

Science.

Not exactly your favorite habitat, is it, old boy, huh?

Well, I have to be honest with you.

I've waited for a long time to meet you.

You're quite a legend, you know.

Yes, sir, you've outsmarted the best of hunters for a long, long time.

And now I have a chance to find out what makes you so different.

I'd like to welcome you to the Wameru Stell.

Now, we're quite flexible here. You can feel free to work in any way which best

suits your individual talents. You can touch type. You can hunt and peck.

You can use the biblical system. That's seek and ye shall find.

Yes, you can single space, double space, triple space, outer space.

I couldn't care less.

Whoa, Toto.

Stay right there, young lady.

Now I've seen everything.

A snobbish chimp.

Judy, you see, that's the beauty of research.

It's a great leveler.

Okay, folks, shall we commence?

Uh...

It was a very good meal.

Well, thank you, but Dad doesn't seem to think so.

Yeah, I don't know if Marsh is hypnotized with phantom or vice versa.

They can stay there all night, but we scientists have work to do in the

Can someone please bring in Dad's plate?

I'll get it.

Good night, Dad.

Night, Marsh.

We're starting again, Mom.

They're trying to tell me something.

Good night, old boy.

I'll see you tomorrow.

A lion who does not know he is a lion.

But you, Phantom, yes, you are truly a miracle.

I spared you with all the strength of my arm, and yet you live and are able to

travel 200 miles.

But soon your journey will be over.

You will have a monument that men will talk about with wonder.

Soon your mark...

skill and courage.

Yeah, it wasn't forced open.

Well, why didn't Paula and Mike say the cage was empty when they left this

morning? I don't know. They probably figured the same way I did, that you had

the Phantom down at the lab running more tests.

Well, I suppose I haven't been rather communicative lately ever since he

arrived.

Well, he's departed now, and there go his tracks.

Yeah, I'll take a look.

There's some footprints there as well.

Well, at least we know it wasn't Judy this time. No, it definitely wasn't Judy

or anyone else from this compound.

Well, if there was somebody here last night and we didn't know about it, it's

not surprising. Our faithful watchdog, Lion, was probably sound asleep on the

job, as per usual.

Jack. Huh?

Do you remember that scar on the phantom side?

Yeah, it was a spear wound.

Yeah, a spear wound.

But made by a particular spear.

Huh?

Is my tranquilizing rifle and medical kit in the truck?

Yeah.

Good.

Hey, you're not going after him.

Look, Beck.

No one, I don't care who he is, is going to kill an animal on this reserve.

Even if it just happens that the animal who's going to be killed is the Phantom?

It's purely incidental.

Well, what about the drought we've been sweating through and the fire threat? Is

that purely incidental, too? Oh, I won't be gone that long. I'll keep checking

back with him.

Okay.

Some extra darts. Oh, yeah, thanks.

Canteen.

Okay. Marsh, if you're going to be checking back, don't you think you ought

take this?

Thanks.

You will have to do better than that if you want to lose me, old one.

Much better.

Just keep to south.

Only a few more miles and then we shall finally know.

You and I together.

Okay, keep it up.

Doesn't bother me at all, because I'm going to ship out.

As soon as Marsh comes back, I'm going to find myself a nice, friendly little

forest fire to fight.

Then, as far as I'm concerned, you can take all those little machines, tear

up piece by piece, and eat them.

Operation Shakespeare.

You've moved out of my area now.

You're leaving a good trail and making good time.

I wonder where your friend is.

You can come out now, Makono.

I have been waiting for you, Doctor.

Well,

the next time you visit my compound, you don't have to make it in the middle of

the night.

You'd always be welcome.

I am surprised that you know of me.

Why wouldn't I?

You're one of the most famous hunters in Africa.

They told me you were in the area, and so I was rather expecting you since we

had another famous visitor from Kawanga.

The phantom? Also in my land, where the green forests spill over the low hills

of Kawanga, we have heard tales of Daktari and the wonders of Wamero, where

animals learn to live as men cannot.

So this is a famous Kawanga leopard spear, huh?

You must know that men like myself hunt with only native weapons.

There are many leather thongs tied to the shaft.

Totally have a long life.

You have one missing.

My life is not yet over.

You had no right letting the Phantom out of his cage.

And you had no right putting him in there.

Did you ask the Phantom? Did he choose the role you had for him?

This is his life.

Our life.

Yours and mine.

Our life, McConaughey?

We are not different.

We both feel something the Phantom has of us.

A part of us he will always have as long as he shall live or we shall live. Yes.

But I'm not interested in killing him. I am.

That is my way. And that's why you drove himself out of the reserve into the

open area.

I am not always at home with the new rules, the new laws.

But I respect them. They are your way. And your way is killing. Is that a

way, Makono?

Who knows?

It is a battle that has been raged in this land for centuries.

Perhaps now you and I can decide it.

Not for Africa, but for ourselves.

Together we shall stalk him.

Your skill, your knowledge against what I have learned and become.

McConnell, as you know, I can't stop you. This is a free area.

But are you willing to agree that if I reach him first, with this, with

this he lives?

Yes. And if I reach him first with this, he dies.

You are a worthy opponent, McConnell.

Let us pray that we are each worthy of the stakes.

The life or death of the leopard of Kawanga that you call the Phantom.

Calling Romero. Come in, Jack. Come in.

Yeah, Jack here.

Have you heard from Marsh?

No, hasn't checked in yet, Mike.

Well, we've got to find him. Fire's broken out on the reserve.

Fire?

Is it anywhere near the compound?

Tell him we're okay.

The wind doesn't change.

It's still blowing south.

Did you hear that?

Yeah, I heard that.

South is the way Marsh was headed.

How do you know?

I followed the Phantom's tracks to the edge of the compound.

Look, keep me posted on him. Out.

Don't worry, Paula.

Marsh can take care of himself.

Well, I'm out of range. We won't be needing this anymore.

Might as well get rid of it.

You're going to be needing water yourself pretty soon, old boy.

Just might work.

All I have to do is get down there.

Water.

Yes, you will need water.

Thank you.

Doctor! You know, I could have sworn that was the Phantom.

He wanted to make certain all was safe.

So he sent a scout ahead.

He's a clever one, all right.

It is an old trick with the Phantom.

Wait a minute.

This is fever country.

Fresh water.

It came from your canteen.

Yes, but that log has been here a long time.

Here.

Take one of these each time you drink water.

I have hunted this country and drank water long before you ever came to

Dastari. Are these pills part of the new Africa that you cannot live with,

Makono?

of my early manhood.

Very young.

But she had the beauty of the first gazelle you have ever seen running

the setting sun.

Our love was the love of children.

All laughter and long nights and secret signs that no

one else ever saw.

But of that there was a son.

As a hunter, I had to be away.

While I was gone, they both died of fever.

No.

It is not that part of the new Africa that I feel is like a garment made for

another.

I would have given anything for pills such as these, the understanding and

courage to use them.

I'm sorry, Makono.

That is a tragic and cruel thing.

No, Dr. Ari.

I have lived with cruelty. It was not that.

Let them build their new Africa.

But let them leave me one corner.

One place.

Where men like me can still do what the gods have ordered us.

Kono.

I could understand your hunting for food.

But that's not why you're stalking the Phantom.

You want to kill him because he's a challenge.

Your skill against his life. You speak truth, Doctor.

But don't forget.

It is also the phantom's skill against my life.

I'll get my water bag.

Our phantom has had his water.

We were more than 20 feet away.

While I had my drink, he had his.

You won't be getting any more until he does.

You think he'll head south, huh?

No.

No, he will double back, circle north.

You agree, of course?

No.

No, I think he'll head east.

Yes, over that hill there's tall grass, high enough for him to hide in to see

who's coming.

Yes, my friend, I will be heading east.

I will let you know when I find the phantom.

Now.

And I will be in the east, waiting with a tranquilized leopard.

And then we can sit around and tell each other tall stories.

Privilege of all hunters.

Uh -oh, coffee break time again.

Well, let's see what our fine literary minds would produce.

Nothing.

Nothing?

Where are you?

I haven't budged a finger.

Okay, Toto.

And after all I've done for you.

Judy, that's disappointing, it really is.

Look, let's face it, I really didn't expect the complete works of

but maybe just a bad Elizabethan sonnet?

Okay, look, Drew, now you've got to get back to work. I cannot stand over you

all day long, not with the threat of the whole bush going up in smoke.

So please, try.

At least give it a try.

I see the grass grows very tall in this part of Africa.

Yes, in the north part of the bush you suddenly move to the south.

Now we can stop fooling each other.

Your centers are becoming dulled, McConnell.

Didn't you see me? You passed me right by. Are you tiring of the hunt?

I tire as you do, Doctor.

But as long as there is strength in my body, I will pursue the phantom until I

kill him.

You do not like to hear me say I will kill the phantom.

There's nothing you can stop.

You're wrong, Makono. It is something I must stop.

There is only one way to stop me.

You would have to kill me, Dr. Lee.

He's still moving south.

I have never been in that part of the free area.

Have you?

No.

Neither is the Phantom, so we're even.

Yes, we are very close.

It's strange.

For a long time now, we were lucky to see any sign of the Phantom. Now it's as

if he doesn't care. His tracks are right out in the open.

Wait a minute.

Hey. You smell it?

Look.

Fire.

I should have seen it.

We both should have.

But our minds are on other things.

Come on.

I'm the only safe area around.

You agreed?

Whoever saw him first.

Tell me, wait for a little while. The moment is now.

What good is skin if you can't get it out?

You understand a phantom can get us out of here.

I trust his instincts, don't you?

Let's follow him out.

If there is a way out.

Then you can have your chance.

is just about the same, isn't it?

Okay, I give up. You guys win this round.

But it's only round one. It's not the whole fight.

And even though you don't deserve it, it's lunchtime, so take off and go chow

down.

Come on, tram.

Come on, Toto, beat it.

Matter of fact, you can all take the whole afternoon off.

Nobody has time for you guys today.

The quick brown fox.

I don't believe it.

This is fantastic.

Judy, you're a genius.

I love you. I love you.

What a rotten time for the discovery of the century.

Well, this is going to just have to wait until they get all finished with that

fire.

I've lost the truck.

There, there, over there.

What's going on?

You are a man of honor, Dr. Artie.

The moment is now.

We will never see him again, Ducari.

Neither you nor I.

We'd better get you to bed.

Dad, we've covered the whole south end of the reserve looking for you.

Oh, thanks.

Did you find the phantom?

Yes.

We found him.

Who won?

The Phantom.

He earned his right to live and die at his moment, not mine.

I didn't want to say anything while the fire was going on, but... Well, focus on

that.

Well,

what do you think of it?

Well, I think someone needs a brush, of course, on their typing. That's what I

think.

Even if that someone's a four -year -old chimpanzee by the name of Judy?

Judy!

Our Judy?

None other.

Oh, well, I admit it's not to be or not to be or the Gettysburg Address, but it

makes sense.

Oh, Judy, I'm very proud of you.

Just think, Marsh, if we can keep her at it, who knows what she may turn up

with.

Here it is, Marsh.

Hey, Mike.

Take a look at this.

I thought I threw that away.

Threw it away?

You can't do that.

This is valuable scientific evidence.

I'd rather throw it away.

A man with my education should be able to type better than that.

Mike, did you do that?

Well, just because I made a few mistakes, please don't rub it in.

Judy, you dirty, deceitful, double -dealing little... Judy, come back!

It is time for me to go, Doctor.

I wish you could stay longer, McConnell.

Thank you.

But before I return to where the purple hills bend down to the cool plain, I

have a gift for you.

There is still one phone missing.

This place meant for the Phantom means as much to you as it does to me.

Thank you, McConnell.

I also have a gift for you.

You think I can learn to use this, Doctor?

With your hunter's eye, you'll be an expert by tomorrow. Here's some extra

on the case.

Perhaps because of men like you, Doctor, I can still learn to live with the new

ways in this big, beautiful land.