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- Mrs. Nordley.

- How do you do?

- Mr. Brown-Pryce.

- Welcome.

- How do you do?

It's so exciting and thrilling

finally to arrive...

Take them up to the house, will you?

This way, please.

Hey, kid.

- Have you got money for your plane fare?

- Yeah.

- Wait a minute...

- I'll brain you if you don't take it.

Let's call it a 99-year loan.

This is one loan I'll pay back

if I have to live 99 years to do it.

Well, here we go. Bronx Zoo next.

- Everything all right? Good trip?

- This is charming.

Everything's so neat and clean.

I'll be unbearably frank

and say I didn't expect this.

I'll be frank and say

that you're a big surprise to me too.

In what way?

The wife of the last scientist

who was here...

...weighed 180 pounds

of pure muscle...

...had a good start on a mustache...

...and every time she spoke

to her husband...

...every lion in the territory took off.

He was a little man with a beard,

an authority on some kind of flea.

I sincerely hope I've disappointed you.

Come on, I'll show you your room.

This is Juma. He's your personal maid.

Anything you want, ask him.

You won't understand him,

but he will you.

- Isn't this nice?

- About the bed, I didn't know...

...so if you want twin beds...

- No.

- All right.

- Everything's most satisfactory.

- I have the beastliest ringing in my ears.

- Feeling down, darling?

It must be those shots we took.

The doctor said

they cause a reaction.

- What shots?

- Yesterday, at the settlement...

...the tsetse fly injections.

- Tsetse fly?

Your letter didn't say anything

about going to tsetse fly country.

We understood we had to go through

to get to the gorillas.

Not necessarily. And why gorillas?

It's a pet theory of mine.

I want to study gorillas,

their family life and so on.

Even get some of their vocal sounds

on a tape recorder I brought with me.

- It's a theory on the derivative evolution...

- I wouldn't understand.

Again, to be frank, it's a difficult safari,

and it doesn't fit with my schedule.

If I'd known about this,

I wouldn't have taken the job.

Why?

You can't promise anything with gorillas

but trouble.

Some have worked for ten months

and never even glimpsed one.

I have other work to attend to.

- Donald's perfectly willing to pay...

- I'm sorry.

We'll have to stand by

the original agreement.

I'll hand you over to one of my assistants,

Mr. Boltchak. Perfectly capable...

- I want to work with you.

- Mr. Marswell...

...Mr. Nordley made

his arrangements with you.

He made them with my company,

my organization.

Are you all right?

I think perhaps a glass of water...

- Donald, darling.

- Don't get excited.

What's the matter with him?

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