The Shawshank Redemption Page #2

lost world is found and pillaged.

Public opinion is the one thing I can use

to preserve it, but to rally that support...

I need a complete photo record...

of those animals alive

in their natural habitat.

So you went from capitalist

to naturalist in just four years.

That's something.

It's our last chance at redemption.

John...

no.

Of course, no.

And I'm going to contact

the other three members of your team...

and stop them from going.

Who's the palaeontologist, by the way?

She came to me, I want you to know.

Who did?

Leave it to you, Ian, to have associations...

even liaisons with the best people

in so many fields.

Not Sarah.

Palaeontological behaviour study is a new

field, and Sarah Harding is on that frontier.

Her theories on parenting and nurturing

in carnivores have framed the debate.

- What are you doing?

- Where's your phone?

It's too late.

She's already there.

The others are meeting her in three days.

You sent my girlfriend to this island alone?

"Sent" is hardly the word.

She couldn't be restrained.

She was already in San Diego,

doing research at the animal park.

It's only a few hours' flight from there.

She was adamant,

absolutely adamant about, here you are...

about making the initial foray by herself.

She thinks she's Dian Fossey.

"Observation without interference",

she said. You know how it is.

After you were injured in the park,

she sought you out.

Then she went all the way to a hospital

in Costa Rica...

to ask someone she didn't know

if the rumours were true.

If you want to leave your name

on something, fine.

But stop putting it

on other people's headstones.

She'll be fine. She's spent years

studying African predators.

Sleeping downwind and all.

She knows what she's doing.

And, believe me, the research team will...

It's not a research expedition anymore.

It's a rescue operation and it's leaving now.

I can't shave three days off my deadline

and expect to be ready.

I'm not supplied.

I haven't tested any of this.

Why give her a satellite phone

if it doesn't work?

Could be solar flares, the satellite,

or maybe she turned it off.

I need half air on the tires.

We're flying pressurised.

- Does she know how to use it?

- You kidding?

She's faxed me refinements

on half the plans for this stuff.

Don't do that. You have to baby it.

Love it.

- I'll love it when it works.

- It'll work when you love it.

- You coming along?

- I don't usually, but I can't resist.

Thanks for the two-minute warning.

Nick van Owen, Ian Malcolm.

Nick's our photographer.

How do you do?

- You do wildlife photography?

- Wildlife, combat, you name it.

When I was with Nightline,

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