The Valley of Gwangi Page #2

- You hurt?

Well, there are no bones broken,

but it's frightfully painful.

Oh, I don't believe we've met.

My name is Bromley.

- Hi, name's Tuck Kirby.

- How do you do?

Hey, hop on, we'll give you a ride back.

Well, perhaps Lope's mount

might be a little more practical.

Wait, my boy.

Up.

Right.

You ought to know better than

to get behind a stubborn mule.

Your advice comes

a little late, Mr. Kirby.

Look, professor,

Rosita's found her way home.

Vicious beast.

Give me your shoulder, Lope.

I'd say you could use

a good, stiff drink.

You're right, Mr. Kirby.

It's in the trunk there.

Lope tells me you're one of these

archaeologist fellows.

Well, he's pretty near the mark.

Actually...

...I'm a paleontologist.

- We dig deeper.

- My father used to say...

...it is not good to dig up the past.

Let sleeping dogs lie, eh?

We're not gonna get very far

that way, are we?

- That depends on where you want to go.

- The bottom of things, of course.

What Darwin did with

his theory of evolution...

...I intend to do with

my theory of humanoids.

- "Humanoids"?

- It means, "man-like."

It's believed amongst paleontologists

that man evolved a million years ago.

I intend to prove it was

many eons before that.

If you'd like to look in that trunk, you'll

find a piece of rock. Will you get it?

That's it.

Now look at the fossil.

The impression left in the rock.

- That looks like some sort of footprint.

- Precisely, it's an Eohippus.

- Eo...?

- Eohippus.

The so-called dawn horse.

The ancestor of our present-day horses.

I never saw a horse small enough

to leave a print like that.

Did you notice it had three toes?

Over the period of evolution,

horses have grown larger.

And that center toe has become

the hoof as we know it.

What is more incredible

is the fossil beside it.

I am convinced that

is the tibia of some humanoid...

...that existed at the same time

as the Eohippus.

Possibly more than 50 million years ago.

- You found this thing around here?

- In the foothills.

This is my whole life, Mr. Kirby,

but I need time and money.

My resources,

both financial and physical...

...are running precariously low.

Well, professor, what you

need is a good rest.

Yes, Mr. Kirby.

Thank you for your kindness.

Lope.

I'll bet you didn't know that

was your middle toe, did you?

- T.J.?

- Yeah?

- Can I speak to you a moment?

- Of course.

In private.

You want that money I owe you.

Don't worry, you'll get it.

We'll pack them in

with our new attraction.

Yes, El Diablo will be

a big success...

- Quiet. That's between us.

- It's not only money.

- What else?

- Us. Together. You and me and Diablo...

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