Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes Page #3

[DOG GROWLS]

JOHN:

Animal. Animal.

[SCREAMS]

[THUNDER ROARS]

[BOY YELLING]

Six taps this time, huh?

But nine the next.

- So don't do it again, eh?

BOY:
No, sir.

[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

[MUSIC PLAYS]

BOY, please.

May I have some water, please?

Thank you.

Put something on, old boy.

One of the rules.

Got to keep a sense of decorum.

Otherwise we'll all end up like savages.

Well...

Thank you, sir.

John.

I'm Buller, the proprietor.

Capitaine Phillippe D'Arnot.

Belgian.

[COUGHS]

D'ARNOT:

John.

My friend is also Belgian,

but he has no English.

Presumably...

- ...you want a room?

- Yes, please, sir.

You fellows here for long?

Well...

[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]

Thank you, sir.

[THUNDER ROLLING]

This is not the world, John,

just the edge of it.

BULLER:
Convicts?

MAN 1:
I don't think so.

BULLER:
I would bet on it.

MAN 2:
Animals, more like.

MAN 3:

Very nasty monkeys, old boy.

You see, John...

...we haven't changed places. This...

LOOK.

Fire, John. Fire.

Oh! Oh!

[CHATTERING]

BULLER:

Come and sit down, capitaine.

MAN 1:

That's a nine, you miss a go.

Ah, capitaine.

Captain Billings you have met, yes?

He's been here longer than any of us.

Now the rest of the gentlemen.

We have Jeff son Brown.

Olivestone.

Stimson.

Chalky White.

BULLER:

And that's Mrs. White on his shoulder.

I hear you've lost all your belongings.

Yes.

BULLER:

Where did that happen?

D'ARNOT:

In the north.

BULLER:

Come now, Mr. D'Arnot.

Where are you really from?

D'ARNOT:
I was a member

of a zoological expedition...

...funded by the British Museum.

Several months ago we were attacked.

I urgently need to return to Europe...

...but unfortunately I have no funds.

However, I can leave you

a promissory note.

Well, the last frog we had through here

couldn't pay his bills either.

We turned him over to French authorities,

who were jolly pleased to have him back.

Turned out to be a convict.

I can assure you, sir...

...that I am no criminal.

Then what are you?

I'm an explorer.

What a liar.

BULLER:
I think that deserves

a thrashing, don't you?

Six.

John! John!

[ROARING]

Fire. Fire. Fire!

[SCREAMING AND YELLING]

D'ARNOT:
I sense that we have a long

and difficult journey ahead of us.

Perhaps weeks of waiting for a ship

that will give us passage to England.

I will try to teach John

some rudimentary manners...

...and a greater understanding

of the language.

Like a father, I am resolved

to impart to him all that I can.

But never, not even for a moment,

do I doubt that to take him back...

...is a perilous undertaking.

For John...

...but also for his family.

Apes, did you say?

Allies?

I can't believe it.

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