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- Now, this area is pretty much the same way it was

when the Indians wandered around in it.

That's because of this country's

national parks system senators.

It's so much in the the national park system

to protect the wildlife,

the forest from thousands of campers coming here every year.

I know that my opinion don't mean too much

but, I think if we get any further encroachment

on these park areas

we're going to destroy the natural beauty

of what you are looking at.

If the government could somehow manage

to protect these areas,

we just might be able to keep this difficult,

completely American landscape like this forever.

- Never thought you'd make it!

- I wouldn't miss a Kelly briefing for the world.

Alright, this is the largest

post-season crowd we've ever had.

There's no way with this skeleton crew

that we're going to be able to handle it.

- What Kelly's concerned about is we got more backpackers

pitching tents than raccoons in the woods.

- Okay, now everybody goes out on patrol.

- There's no way we can keep an eye

on all those backpackers!

- We're just gonna do the best we can.

Okay, everyone knows where they're supposed to go.

So let's get with it.

- Kelly...

MY apologies.

- Accepted.

- I'm going up to R4.

- You know, maybe the two of us should go!

- It's really loaded up there, Kel.

Hey, come on.

I can use the help.

- Well you see, Hayes called in sick.

So I'm going to need Gail down here

to help hold down the fort.

- Mm-hmm.

We tried!

Look, I'll talk to you later for dinner.

. GREY.

- Okay girls, keep it moving.

I know that the season's closed,

but that's no reason to let up, hmm?

If you get any complaints about cold food,

I want to hear about them right away.

- Dad!

- What are those?

- Unpaid bills, I believe.

- Aw, I must have put them in the wrong drawer.

I'll take care of them right away.

- And I've been looking over the wine list.

You know, you haven't been charging nearly enough.

Look what you've been paying!

- I know what I've been paying.

- And?

- Well, good wine at reasonable prices

brings the customers back

and they've been coming back.

- I know you've had a really good season, but this...

- Allison, for the last two weeks you've been trying

to help me run my business.

- That's not true.

Dad, every man needs a helping hand.

- You told me that you were coming up here

to shoot pictures of the changing seasons!

- Well, I did, I am.

That's what I've been doing.

- Yeah, well keeping check on how your old man is doing

is not going to help you meet your deadline.

- I only got maybe a third to go.

I need maybe thirty or forty more photographs.

I got my publisher's note.

He'll wait.

- Allison.

Why don't you write a how-to book.

How To Avoid Responsibility.

- Oh hell, I was supposed to meet you.

Kelly, I'm sorry.

- Well, let's go.

See you, Walt.

- It was sweet of you to come and get me.

I really appreciate it.

- Well, I should be angry.

I mean, I said I'd take you around

but I just might have been needed.

I'm an important person around here.

- Guilty as charged.

- You know what the problem is?

The problem is you're spoiled.

And your father did it.

- How long have you known me?

Oh, a few weeks.

- Then, why don't you just reserve judgment.

I mean, spoiled is a pretty heavy word.

First of all, I don't feel spoiled.

I feel needed.

I mean, Dad's taking a lot more than he can handle, so,

I feel just a bit torn between career and father.

- You know, I think your father can handle his end.

It's yours you should be worried about.

Somehow I always manage to get it together.

- When I get back, Mel's gonna give me his fraternity pin.

- You're kidding me!

That's great!

- Yeah, well I don't know if I want it.

- Well, it's sure good to get away

just to get down to good old girl talk.

- I think I'm gonna try being a vegetarian

and live off nature.

- It'd clean you out, that's for sure.

- At last.

- I don't believe we're here finally!

We must have walked 10 miles today.

We got to do something with this.

- I want to sit down and get out of these boots.

- Yeah.

- I feel a lot better.

- Uh-huh.

What's that?

There's something out there.

- Hey!

You scared us.

- Sorry, I didn't mean to.

- What can we do for you?

- Stay out of trouble.

- What kind of trouble?

- Well, just don't take any unnecessary risks.

This is a pretty tricky area.

How long you girls going to be up here?

- We're leaving shortly.

Right after we eat.

- Don't forget to check in

at the ranger station before you leave.

- Don't worry, we'll be down before it gets dark.

. GREY.

Come on, boy.

- Well, better get moving.

It's going to get dark pretty fast.

- You're right.

- Why don't you start on the tent and I'll get the fire.

- Okay, but I have to go first.

- Whenever it comes to cleaning up,

you always have to go.

I'll be right back.

- Mm-hmm.

June?

June?

' Megan!

No!

- You never stop shooting, do you?

- Most of what I shoot I don't use.

Wrong angle, wrong light.

- Wrong faces.

- No, the faces are never wrong.

Remember, every face tells a story.

- Oh yeah?

What story does this face tell you?

- You're a dissembler.

You hide everything behind that tight jaw.

One day it's going to break.

See, it's cracking already!

- How you doing, Tom?

. Héy-

- Where you going?

- Up to R4.

Got a couple of missing girls.

- Oh?

- Come on.

They said they'd be down before dusk.

They haven't made it yet.

- Ah, they're not going to make it.

The sun will be down in a little bit.

- Hey, you want to go up with him?

- Uh-huh.

- We'll follow you, go ahead.

. GREY.

They were back there, past the shack.

Maybe a hundred, hundred fifty yards.

- Let's walk on in.

Hey, hold it Tom.

I'm going to check out this shack.

What the hell?

- Find anything?

- No.

How about you?

- No, nothing.

- Tom?

' Yeah?

- How far down are you?

About a quarter of a mile from the shack.

There's just nothing here.

I can't tell whether a bear came through or not.

- Well, keep looking.

Roger, out.

- Better keep looking. - Here comes Kelly.

- You all got a hell of a job.

- You find anything?

- No sir, not a thing.

- All right, keep at it.

Remember, we're probably not looking for a full body.

- Kelly, what in the hell's going on?

- A bear.

He attacked and killed a girl.

- Jeez, that's all we need.

A killer bear on the loose.

- Well, there were two of them.

We haven't found the other one yet.

- Reckon she made it out?

- No, too much blood around here for that.

- Well, what you want us to do?

- Look, I got a bunch of guys up on the western slope,

5° YOU guys go on up north.

He just might go back up-country.

- Check.

Allison!

Where are you going?

- Back here to get another angle on the camp.

Okay, but don't go too far.

- Hey, Kel?

- Yeah?

- Parker and I came up empty-handed.

Well, look, get 'em back out there.

Nobody sleeps until we get that son-of-a-bitch.

- Hey, come on Kelly, you can't...

- Tom, we got a killer on our hands,

now no excuses, please!

- It was a big one alright.

It seems to me the girls came across a cub,

got too close, and the mother attacked.

- They didn't find any sign of a cub.

They didn't find a sign of the bear anywhere.

- Well, she ate and buried the rest of her meal for later.

- Why would she come down?

- She came down for food.

- Oh shit.

We hauled them up to high country last season.

There is more than enough of food

and fish for them up there.

- Maybe she had enough fish.

- Hang on to your sick humor, Doc.

- It's not sick.

She was hungry enough to eat two women.

- Bears don't eat people.

- This one did.

- Hallitt, do me a favor.

Just put it in writing for me.

- Who's going to contact the family?

- Me, I guess.

- Why the hell wasn't I notified?

- Well, obviously you got the message.

- I had to hear it on the goddamn radio.

- Hey, I'm glad to hear that you turn it on these days.

- If you'll excuse me, gentlemen.

- Aw, that's okay, Hallitt, I was just leaving.

- I want to see that report.

Kelly.

Okay, let's hear it.

What the hell happened out there?

- One of our bears got lonesome.

Came down for a little action.

- That's not funny.

- Not supposed to be.

- What are you doing about it?

- Well, I've got men out on the field hunting him.

I put R3 and R4 off-limits to campers

and I think we can contain him in that area.

. GREY.

This time, you keep me informed all the way.

And when this thing is over with,

I want a full investigation.

- Investigation?

What kind of investigation?

- We have a responsibility to the public.

I mean, it's my head.

This bear is supposed to be in the high country.

- That's where we put him.

- Two possibilities.

One of them came back,

or you didn't do your job.

- No way.

We tagged every one of those bears.

Arthur Scott knows every bear that's in this forest.

No way he could have missed one.

- Okay, then Scott's the man I want to talk to.

Now, you get him on the wire and get his ass out here.

Kelly!

I hope I'm not talking to myself.

- I read you.

Loud and clear.

We interrupt this program

to bring you a special news bulletin.

Two young women were savagely killed last night

by what the local authorities believe to be a large bear.

Michael Kelly, ranger in charge of operations,

orders all backpackers in the high country

to evacuate the area immediately.

Campers in all other areas of the park

should not venture in the upper regions

until the rangers are certain

that the bear has been apprehended

and the area's declared safe.

If anyone should see this animal,

please contact your local authorities

or the park ranger service immediately.

Stay tuned to 1060 news

for further up-to-the-minute news bulletins.

- If Scottie is not in the office, where is he?

If he's in the field, connect me.

You mean you won't connect me or you can't connect me?

Well, you listen to me, you little...

I've got two girls, ages 19 to 20

both eaten to the bone.

So don't give me any of your bullshit about regulations.

Now, you get Scottie on that field phone

or you're going to be

in the unemployment line tomorrow morning.

You get that?

Yeah, I'm still here.

Sit down.

- No!

No!

What the hell's the matter with you down there?

I gave strict orders!

Who is this?

- It's Kelly, Scottie.

Kelly!

- Kelly, do you know what you just did?

I had a whole family of deer up here.

I've been following them, living with them,

and you scared them off.

What happened?

- It's a bear, killed two girls, but,

a funny thing happened is that he buried one of them.

- But bears do that anyway.

They cover their kill with a shallow grave.

Then they go away, they come back later and finish eating.

- Look, Kittridge is holding you and me responsible,

so just pack it up and get your carcass in here

as fast as you can.

- Alright.

- Who's Scott?

- He's a naturalist attached to this department.

You know...

I think he knows every bear in this forest personally.

- You guys really love what you're doing, don't you?

- Yeah.

We really do.

Sure has changed my values around.

- Changed your values?

From what, Kelly?

- Well...

I had a perfect plan to fame and fortune.

- So what happened?

- I tried a shortcut.

I married this beautiful lady

who just by chance happened to be filthy rich.

Trouble was, we were both mercenaries.

And after a while, I just wanted out.

I couldn't take it anymore.

- You left?

Well, it was a little more subtle than that.

I made believe I was having an affair

and that turned around.

So I sold all my holdings,

gave it to the Salvation Army, and became a ranger.

That turned her off.

- You're lying, aren't you?

- What do you think?

- I really don't care.

- Well, we're down in area three already.

I don't think he's going to come down this far.

- These woods are so damn thick

you can't see anything anyway.

- Yeah, he could be hiding anywhere.

- Well, one thing's for sure.

He's not around here.

- Look, why don't you go over and take a break.

I'll go up to Powder Ridge and check it out

and be back in 15 minutes.

Good, I'm going to soak my feet in the stream.

. GREY.

- Had another drink?

- When will I stop remembering?

- It should take about 25 years.

- Poor Tom.

- He liked her, didn't he?

- There's something I'm not doing!

- Sure, you're not killing the bear.

- I don't think I'm cut out for this.

You know what I enjoy?

Giving lectures around a campfire,

showing slides, taking long rides in the woods,

and just watching the animals.

- For a man who thought of himself as a mercenary

you're doing pretty fine.

- Oh yeah.

There is a killer bear out there

and I'm sitting right here crushing ice cubes in my mouth.

Where the hell is that damn Scott?

- He'll be here.

There's nothing else you can do but wait.

- Oh yes there is.

Except I'm too paralyzed to know what it is.

- You better have another drink.

- No.

- How about another ice cube?

- Yeah.

You know Don, I want to thank you for helping us out.

Sure going to make finding that bear a lot easier.

Maybe's got some kind of favorite cave.

- No, the reason we can't find him is he keeps moving.

And he has a few million acres to cover his tracks.

- Well, if it moves near a clearing

we might just pick him up.

Can you get this bird any closer?

- No, negative.

Too much downdraft today.

It might push it into the trees.

- Feel like I've been wearing these things permanently.

- Have you locked into any of his patterns yet?

You know, bears got patterns.

- Patterns, yeah patterns.

He likes women, he keeps moving.

- Sort of like me.

Always trolling.

- Yeah, yeah.

- What about that filly you've been riding?

Oh.

I didn't know it was that way now.

No offense, my man.

Hey, take her down.

Take her down, I think I see something.

Oh boy, that might be our baby.

- Hold it, Kelly!

Are you crazy?

- What the hell are doing up here?

- Trying to find your bear!

- Well you're supposed to be down at camp.

Kittridge is been all over me!

- You better tell him that man

that bear is not one of ours.

- Are you sure?

- Positive!

- Well you still should have come on down.

- Why?

I can do better on my own.

- You almost got your tail shot off!

Almost!

- Well, if you ain't a big bag of grits.

What the hell you'd done if you had caught that big brown?

- It isn't a big brown.

It's a grizzly.

- Grizzly?

- Mm-hmm.

- There ain't no grizzlies up here.

I used to hunt these woods for years.

It can't be a grizzly.

- Come on Scottie, they were killed off years ago.

Big bounty hunt, remember?

- This one survived.

- I'm telling you, it can't be.

- I'm telling you we got a grizzly, and then some.

Guys, I'm a little bushed.

Can I hitch a ride back with you?

- Yeah, come on.

- You know, the average grizzly, he's about seven feet tall.

- Some of 'em shorter.

- This one here is at least 15 feet.

- Oh no.

Maybe in Alaska, just maybe,

but not down here.

- Right here.

I just checked the claw marks on the tree.

- Well, that means he's established his territory.

The whole damn forest?

- What you talking about is unreal.

- Wait, I got a little more.

According to the depth of his paw prints,

he weighs over two thousand pounds.

You boys want a bite?

- Look, Scottie.

You may be some kind of authority on all this,

but what you talking about is science fiction, a fairy tale!

- Science, yeah.

Fiction, no.

See, the only known grizzlies that large

were called Arctodus Ursus Horribilis.

And they were the mightiest carnivores

in the Pleistocene era.

- Well, when was that?

- About a million years ago.

- Ah, he's a mere baby then!

- Well, he was a hardy ancestor

that managed to hang in there.

- What the hell is a million year old grizzly doing here?

- He's looking for food.

See, they were strictly carnivores, those things.

They sure do love meat.

- Well, in that case, let's get the hell out of here.

- Yeah.

♪ I've been working on the railroad ♪

♪ All the live long day ♪

♪ I've been working on the railroad ♪

♪ Just to pass my time away ♪

♪ Can't you hear the whistle blowing ♪

♪ Rise up so early in the morn ♪

- No!

No!

No!

- Alright people, go on back.

Let's go now.

Go on back to your campsites.

We got it here.

Go on back.

Come on now, get those kids out of here.

Let's go, show's over, come on.

Clear on out.

Everybody back to your campsite.

Let's go.

Keep it moving, that's it.

Mr. Walker?

You can ride in the ambulance.

- Sally loved me, mister.

She really did?

- Come on.

- What the hell happened?

I thought you said he was in the high country.

- Did I say that?

Well, I guess he came down.

- Kelly, this is your baby, your responsibility.

I wash my hands of it.

- You wash your hands of it?

Well, it's your park, Mr. Park Supervisor.

- And this is your district, nobody else's,

and that bear is yours.

- Correction on that...

- You didn't do the job, Scott.

- Hey, you got your head in the sand.

We got a killer grizzly on our hands!

- Scott, you're a maniac.

Always were, running around in costumes.

There are no grizzlies.

- Oh, you donkey. - Let's go, Scottie.

- Kelly, I want that damn bear!

- Then give me some men from Washington.

- And blow this thing out of proportion?

Listen, campers come in here, they leave food around,

the bears get the smell of it, and that's it!

- Well this is different!

This bum's eating his victims!

- I have to agree.

Four people have been killed.

So let's quit arguing responsibility!

- You've got enough men at your disposal,

now either you do the job, or I will.

- Yeah, sure you will.

- If there's a bear out there I'm going to get him.

- Not if I get him first.

- You got the ammo, Charlie? - Yep, I got plenty.

- We'll flush that old boy out.

- Easy fella, easy.

Don't get rambunctious.

- Come on, let's move out.

- Damn dogs.

Hunters.

- What the hell are they doing out here?

- They're probably looking for your bear.

- Who opened up this forest for the hunters, huh?

You know that those clowns,

they're going to shoot everything in sight.

- Well, let them.

They might get that old bear for us.

Yeah, including some of my rangers.

Let's head back.

- Jesus!

Oh God!

Jesus!

- There are seats in this room.

- I don't want to sit.

I want to know what those hunters are doing out there.

- I didn't have a choice.

- Do you know you made it open season

for every animal in those woods?

- My instructions are clear, they're hunting for bear.

- It's not bear, it's grizzly.

There's a difference.

- A bear is a bear.

- A bear is not a bear, believe it or not.

Besides, you got a bunch of drunken bums out there,

not professional hunters!

- I can't help that.

You always get a few crazies.

- I want them out of my forest.

- It's not your forest, Kelly.

- You know woods are full of campers?

- Not in R3 and R4.

- You think they're walking around with a map or something?

- They're in no danger.

- Bull!

- I'm through.

- No.

I'd like to ask you something.

Why are you on my ass?

- I'm glad you asked that.

Kelly, you're a maverick.

We don't have room for mavericks.

- Well, let me tell you something, Kittridge.

While you've been sitting around here on your fat ass,

I've made this forest part of me.

- You listen here, you...

- No, you listen!

Those hunters are in my jurisdiction.

And I'm going to deal with them the way I see fit.

Now you just try and stop me!

Scottie, wake up.

Tom?

- Yeah?

. You Okay?

- Fine.

Bastard got a hold of a hunter.

He managed to get away.

- Where is he?

- Over at the clinic.

He's really beat up.

- He's also one lucky hunter.

- Yeah.

- Okay, let's go.

Hey Scottie, will you take Don over to pick up his stuff?

- Load in some extra rifles, we'll need 'em.

- I was feeling unloved.

- Well, so was I.

I'm glad you stopped by.

We're just getting ready to take off.

- I'm coming with you.

- Look, it's a butcher shop out there

and you just couldn't handle it.

- I couldn't?

- Alright, maybe I couldn't handle it then.

- Look, I'll stay out of your way.

- Honey, it's not safe out there,

now I don't want to see you get hurt.

I mean, for both our sakes.

- Is that a line that's supposed to make me feel grateful?

- I don't feel like playing little boy-girl games.

- You just said the wrong thing!

- Now you just pack it up.

You're not going with me.

- Dammit, Kelly!

- I'm glad you see it my way.

Really!

- I lost 20 years.

He just might be that old Grizzly's cub.

- No way.

- It's a possibility.

- Hey listen,

that thing might come in here after that cub.

Let's get him outta here.

- He's right.

Put it back in the woods.

- Hey, I got an idea.

We use this cub as bait.

We'll take it back in there, find us a clearing,

we'll go in the blinds.

When mama come by...

POW!

- It's a lot different from deer hunting.

- Yeah, that damn thing fights back.

- Hey, we gonna have to hold the noise down.

Damn thing won't come around.

Shh!

- Whose stupid idea was it to use that cub as live bait?

- It was mine.

- Now, that's the kind of bait we need to use, Kelly.

- It really doesn't make any difference anymore, does it?

- Anybody see it happen?

- Nah.

She just grabbed up the cub and that was it.

- We know one thing for sure.

What's that?

- Our grizzly is a he instead of she.

- Now, how the hell you know that?

You been peeking?

- Don't have to.

Only the males are cannibalistic.

They'll eat a cub if they are hungry.

- Yeah but does that help us, Scottie?

- Sure does, he's going to retrace his route.

I mean, he's gonna come back to the scene of his crime.

- Well then, he could still be around here.

- He could be listening to us right now.

- Well, if that's the case, maybe we can flush him out.

- Can we help?

- Yeah, but we go by the book.

Everyone follows orders.

- Call the shots, mister.

- What's your name? - Pat.

- Okay Pat.

You and the rest of the guys go up the north ridge.

That's Pinto Pass.

- I know where it is.

- Alright, we're going to spread

and hold the line at Culvert Basin.

Now, if he comes down,

that's were he's coming down.

- Hey listen, y'all boys come down that ridge

and make like a war party.

Make a lot of noise, will you?

Maybe that grizzly will head towards us.

- Alright, we'll expect you to be in place

and ready to go at daybreak.

Well, let's get with it.

. GREY.

- Tom, you're not going to be going with us.

- What?

You're not leaving me out of this, man.

No way.

- I'm not leaving you out of anything.

I'm assigning you to Arrow Tower.

- Don't do me any favors.

- Look, I can handle myself down here.

- You cool off and listen.

Now, you know how thick it is down here.

Now, from up there you might be able to spot him

and you might get a crack at him.

- Yeah, and I might just get left out

of this whole damn thing.

- Tom.

You're not going to be left out of anything.

Okay?

- Wish the hell it would hurry up and get daylight.

- It won't be much longer.

- Nah.

- Still a little bit chilly this morning, though.

Ain't it?

- Yeah, sort of cool for this time of year, anyway.

- You come on. - Alright.

- Let's go.

- Let's keep it quiet, okay?

- Kelly, I'd like to have the first shot.

- Well, I can't promise that.

- See, we got a grizzly out there

that's at least 15 feet tall,

weighs maybe two, three thousand pounds, right?

I want to capture him.

- You what?

You want to capture him?

- That's right.

- He's not kidding.

- I've been developing these brand new tranquilizer shells...

- Oh Christ...

That shell won't penetrate a hair of its chino y-chin-chin.

- Not trying to kill him with it, mister.

Just want to put him to sleep.

- Oh yeah, well that's fine.

But first you got to knock him down.

That BB won't do it.

- We'll see about that.

- Well, I sure hope you ain't out there alone.

You're liable to become his breakfast.

I figure that old grizzly's hungry again by now.

- Not for a while.

I told you he just ate the cub.

I doubt if he's hungry now.

- Yeah?

Well, that was merely an appetizer, my man.

I figure that old grizzly's had himself some human flesh

and he ain't gonna settle for nothing else.

- That's pretty ridiculous.

- It is, huh?

Well, let me tell you a little story, boy.

A long time ago this tribe of Indians

up here in these woods,

they was all laid down with the pox.

Something I can't remember.

Anyway, this herd of grizzlies smelled them out.

They come in and they ate 'em.

They tore them all up.

Little children, sick ones, everybody.

There's a few braves that was healthy enough

to go out on a hunt.

They came back...

And the grizzlies turned on them.

So, they had a little situation.

A whole herd of man-eating grizzlies.

Just ran around, tearing up Indians.

- That's pretty hard to believe.

- Unless you happened to be one of them Indians.

- Kelly, I can still root him out my own way.

Hell, I can look like him.

I can smell like him.

Now, give me a chance.

Let me go in!

- You got a dime?

I'm going to call his mama!

I mean, does your mama know that you're raring around

out here in the woods trying to act like a bear?

You smell like one,

you scratching around on the ground like one?

I mean, does she know that you're making

a damn fool of yourself,

you're chasing something about the size

of a D8 Cat with teeth?

You know, I think your mama would be a little disappointed.

- Maybe.

But not nearly as disappointed

as she would be if she had you for a son.

Sonny!

- Scottie.

Scottie!

We spot him first,

you get a crack at him.

But I don't want you going out in those woods alone.

- Postman here.

- Do you see anything moving out there at all?

- Only your hunters tearing up the forest.

- Well, keep looking.

He has to be out there some place.

- Oh Jesus!

It's the grizzly!

- Hold on Tom, just hold on.

We're on our way!

Come on Don, come on!

He's up there, we're almost there!

- How do you think this bear thing is being handled?

- Okay, I guess.

I mean, they kept the bear away from here,

and that's what counts.

I sure do feel sorry for that poor forest ranger, though.

- Yeah, I think we all feel the same way.

I'm sorry.

-So am I.

- Is there anything I can do?

- No, he had a family.

- Send some flowers.

- I've got a plan.

But I need time and men.

- Kelly, I'm not... - Listen!

- Just listen.

He got Tom here.

Now, his first killing took place up here.

He circled and killed,

circled and killed,

circled and found and killed Gail here.

And he circled again, got behind us,

and killed Tom.

Now, I think he's gonna continue heading down

looking for human food.

That thing seems to know what we're thinking.

And I'd like to get the jump on him this time.

- A grizzly is an animal, Kelly.

Don't give it human qualities.

- He's not even listening to you, Kelly.

See, he doesn't understand that we're dealing

with a highly intelligent beast.

- Scottie.

Scottie!

Would you take that sandwich outside and eat it?

Please?

Charlie...

Close the park and give me another crack at him.

- There is no need to close the park.

- Do you know that there are more reporters out there

and TV cameramen than there are animals?

It's a goddamn circus!

- I invited them.

- You invited them?

- I want them to see the kind of clean,

thorough job that we are capable of doing.

- You're kidding!

We have five dead people.

One raving, almost dead man,

and you call that clean?

- We are doing everything in our...

- Bullshit!

' Kelly!

- You know, I just figured you out!

You don't give a good goddamn if we get that grizzly or not!

As long as you get your press,

so you can go to Washington

and get one of those nice dark brown plastic offices!

- Get out!

- Well, you just lost your office.

Because when I finish with you,

there's not gonna be anybody there

waiting to shake your greasy, bloody hand!

- You are finished, dismissed, removed!

' UP Yours.

- Whatever it's worth, don't take it all on your shoulders.

They're not broad enough.

- Yeah, I mean...

What the hell those hunters know about...

Rangers know about hunting?

You know something, Scottie?

Do you know the kind of real estate deal

I could make on this property?

I mean, if it was a private property.

First I'd parcel off the lots, then...

- Do whatever you like.

Maybe you want to hang up your jock.

That's your business.

- Scottie, do me a favor.

Go home.

- Mm-mmm.

I'm gonna get that grizzly.

- What?

- You heard me.

- Stay out of the forest.

- Why?

It's not just a job to me.

I'm in the forest anyway.

It's like home to me.

I like it there and I can find it.

- You're crazy, you know that you're crazy?

- Could be.

But meanwhile, you could just sit here

and nurse your battered pride, and your Scotch,

and I'll get us our ursus horribilis.

- Robert, you stay close now, you hear?

Do you hear me?

- Yes, ma'am.

Mommy!

Help!

- Carnival over?

- Yes.

- Everybody goes?

- Yes.

- That includes the press, mister.

The park's closed.

- People have a right to know.

- Oh, you got your stOFY-

The story is about greed.

I don't want him to go to Washington.

Feeling sorry for myself.

- Hey, that's a good lead line for the story.

- Well, your hands aren't clean either, pal.

You and your cameras,

you've made it so exciting, so attractive!

- We told like it was.

- There's only one person who can tell it how it was.

And that's little Bobby.

- He's alive?

- Part of him is.

If we get him to the city hospital in time.

Poor little bastard.

- It feels like 'Nam all over again.

That special excitement.

- Ah, we'll get him this time.

- You think so, huh?

- Well, I haven't got a choice.

And listen, I wanted to thank you.

I'd be in over my head without your help.

- You getting it.

Alright.

If this ain't all ironic.

Now, in 'Nam I had zapped a hundred,

maybe 200 gooks.

People.

We called them gooks

so it wouldn't get personal.

But it did get personal, anyway.

So I stopped counting and tried to stop caring.

You know...

Now I don't kill nothing no more.

Not even flies.

Made myself that promise.

- I'm sorry.

- No, sorry ain't necessary.

It's my choice.

I could've said no.

Where's Scott?

- He went out there on his own.

He's crazy.

- You know, that boy is weird.

What makes you think this old bear

really booted back up-country?

- Well, what we know about grizzlies,

they don't like to stray.

- This one made it into town.

I call that straying.

- Well, I think he's just lost.

He wants to go home where it's safe.

- We gonna help him go home?

Here.

- I got one.

- No.

That Army regular you got ain't gonna get what we need.

This here is 30.06 with a K4 scope on it for fast shooting.

You gonna need it.

Hold this, will you?

I wish my mom had taught me how to tie a knot.

Let's take it over there somewhere.

- Alright.

- You get some kinda downwind,

old brother bear might smell this animal

and come on after it.

You could help!

- This mother's heavy.

Okay.

Hold it right there.

I am holding it right there.

- Don, will you lift?

- What do you think I'm doing?

Come here, sweetheart.

. GREY.

- Here.

I'm gonna go on back and get the rest of the gear.

- Alright.

I'll start on the blind.

DQn!

I hear him!

He's on the run!

- We lost him.

- We were right behind him.

- I don't know about that.

He's gone.

Christ!

We must have run a mile.

- Only thing to do is to go back to the copter.

- Son of a bitch.

He figured us out.

He took us out and then circled back.

- That's what he did.

- Just like a couple of his toys.

- We are.

You know, he could circle back and try again.

- Well, don't even say that.

We gotta try and get some sleep.

- It's too late to track him now.

Let's go on back to the chopper.

- Alright.

- You sure you wanna take the first watch?

Oh, by the way,

just in case you should fall asleep,

you feel a wet snout on the face,

whatever you do, don't move.

And don't kiss it back 'cause it ain't me.

- That ain't funny.

- You know, you're right.

- Kelly, come in.

- This is Kelly, Scottie.

Where the hell are you?

- Never mind that, just listen to me.

I found a partially eaten buck.

- That must be one that we gutted.

- What are you talking about?

Never mind.

Where are you?

- I think it was our grizzly that was doing the eating.

- Where the hell are you, Scottie?

- What do you want, compass coordinates?

- No, a street and zip will do.

- Alright.

I'm above R4 and Zone 821.

- Okay, stay there.

No.

Listen, on second thought,

get the hell out of there.

He might be coming back for the rest of his meal.

- That's just what I'm hoping for.

Look, I got a rope.

I'm going to put it around his neck

and haul him through the woods to where you fellas are.

With any luck our friend is going to follow.

- Negative!

- I'm leaving right now.

I'll meet you halfway.

- Scottie.

Scottie!

- Come on!

- How we gonna get him back?

- We'll bury him here.

We'll radio in the coordinates

and someone can come and get him.

- It's funny how a fella kinda goes up and down

like some kind of yo-yo.

I'm getting ready to kill again, I can't hardly wait.

I kinda liked that old boy.

You know, when I was kidding around with him,

I never meant him no insult.

- I know.

You know, Don,

you two were a lot alike.

- Let's have another look at that grid map.

There.

Right there.

That's were he's going.

- Back to his first kill.

It's incredible!

- He's programmed.

Like some kind of damn computer.

- How?

'MW, man?

- Hell, I don't know.

Why do salmon swim back upstream where it all began?

- You're getting in kind of close.

- Have faith, brother!

- Oh man, he's really moving!

- Let's give the son-of-a-bitch a run for his money.

- I think we lost him.

I see him, I see him!

- He's on the mother-lovin' run.

Just takes one rocket.

We'll get that damn launcher and blast it.

- Set her down.

- You sure?

- Yeah, let's go in after him.

He's tired and he's scared.

He's coming back out.

- Alright.

- Shit!

' Kelly!