Shit!
Break off one of those stems and pretend to eat.
Act submissive.
I've never been so submissive in my life.
Where is he?
Losing interest.
Could you go over to him?
Digit?
- Now? - Is it all right?
I'm starting to be able to tell the difference between them.
Yeah, they...
As you can see, they're all different.
And they all have very different characters.
No two have the same nose print, right?
Right.
Effie and Marchessa, there.
Marchessa has a...
The bridge of her nose has a curve.
She has a...
...curve.
She has a line.
A beautiful line.
A beautiful shape.
A beautiful curve.
I was amazed when he came so close to you.
Digit and I have a strange connection.
He has no peers in his group.
He's alone.
I understand that.
Why is that?
It's nice to see a married man who can sew.
How did you know I was married?
The night you arrived, you shook the rain off your parka outside the door...
...so you wouldn't get the floor wet.
Does it matter?
Apparently not.
How'd you go? Get everything on your list?
- "Eight more Halloween masks." - Only red ones. Or ones with red hair.
I won't even ask why, but I'll try to get some for you in Nairobi.
Look what you've got.
Nice.
Look what I did. Sorry.
- What else will you do in Nairobi? - What do you mean?
Nothing. Never mind.
It looks bad for flying.
- It'll pass. - I don't think so.
Those puddle jumpers can fly in anything.
I know these storms. You shouldn't be flying. I'm right about this.
Yes, you are right.
I will be seeing my wife.
I know.
I love you.
What?
Oh, no!
Oh, my God.
No.
God. No!
No!
Goddamn you. You bastards!
David, I believe you're a good boy.
And I have lovely goodies here for such a good boy.
Now, you can have it, if you tell me where they took her.
Tie him.
Turn him around!
Bring him to me!
You tell me!
Tell me.
Tell me, damn it!
The man who buys the animals...
- Yes? - He wanted a baby gorilla.
Yes?
- He stays at hotel. - Where? Where?
At Ruhengeri.
Good boy.
Wait here.
Rushemba, get the tire iron.
Come on.
Shit.
Come here.
How could they do this?
Claude Van Vecten!
Which one of you is Claude Van Vecten?
Are you responsible for kidnapping this animal?
- How dare you break into my property. - If I see you or your van again...
...you'll be lucky if you don't end up in a wooden box!
Bill of sale, madame. From the minister of the interior.
- I'm going to have you arrested. - You try it. Just try it.
You piece of shit.
Bastard!
Mukara, wait! Wait!
I'm Dian Fossey. I must talk to you.
You're the American woman who lives with the gorillas.
I don't live with them. I study them. And today there are six less.
I don't understand.
Give her to me.
- This baby was sold to a zoo broker. - Yes, I know. I sold it.
- Just... - Why?
Money. Lots of it.
Five gorillas were killed in the bargain protecting this baby.
Here.
They were murdered by poachers.
The population now is half what it was 10 years ago.
Your problem is decreasing gorillas, mine is increasing people.
We're on opposite sides of the same problem.
- Can I have this water? - Sure.
That kind of money provides people with food.
Clothing. Shoes. Medicine.
Necessities.
- Do you want to compare priorities? - No, I don't.
The Virungas are supposed to be protected.
- It's expensive. - That's your problem.
Make new laws. Raise taxes. But give my gorillas protection.
Your gorillas?
As I recall, you're a visitor on a yearly renewable work permit.
I don't believe that status entitles you to make government policy.
What about this poor baby?
This animal's going to die in 24 hours.
You'll return all that money, because Van Vecten doesn't buy dead property.
I could try to make her well enough to make that journey, if...
If?
If you give me five men to train as rangers. Anti-poaching rangers.
Four men. And you pay half their salary.
Three men. And you pay all their salary.
Agreed.
You gotta eat something, you know. I know you're hungry.
Just try. Just try a little. Just a little bit. No?
It's got lots of vitamins in it.
Taste it?
What about this? This is good. Smell familiar?
Does it smell like home?
Pucker, don't do this to me.
Look at this.
Very tasty.
You don't want any, though, do you?
Do you want some?
Come on. Thattagirl. Thattagirl.
That's pretty good.
Now you can sleep.
Dian Fossey.
Pucker, look who's here.
Pucker, meet Bob.
- Pucker. - Hey, it's my turn.
- Jealous. - Yeah.
The tub's for me.
A daily scalding might just make this climate bearable.
You were meant to be a surprise.
That's a girl.
- She's adorable. - And this is for you.
- You're beautiful. Look at you. - Do you like her?
She's so beautiful.
Break these traps up and burn them.
- They're new. - I've hired anti-poaching patrols.
My woman's the only woman in the world with her own private army.
I have so much to tell you. Pucker was kidnapped...
I know. So does most of Rwanda, Nairobi, London and New York.
You, my beautiful, are becoming a legend.
Would you like to go to the movies?
- Can I have a bath first? - You can have a bath second.
Why am I in this movie so much?
You're the story. You're what people are interested in.
The gorilla girl.
It makes me look like some real weirdo.
Crawling around the mud in this climate...
...after a bunch of gorillas might be perceived as weird.
- Do you think I'm weird? - I do. Absolutely. Without question.
I also think you are wonderful.
Which comes first, weird or wonderful?
Weird.
The gorillas look great.
Look at that.
You see anyone you know?
I've asked my wife for a divorce.
Did you hear me?
- I'm scared. - You're scared?
I'm about to marry a girl who's liable to have gorillas for bridesmaids.
You should be scared.
Do you know what I want?
I want to get this film finished and be well paid for it.
Go to a warm climate...
...and be around to make love to you on your 64th birthday.
Are you looking after Pucker for me? Good dog, yeah. You're a good dog.
What?
He's got the shape of the face. But he missed on the nose.
That's not funny. Where did they get your hair?
I haven't seen my hairbrush.
- I thought Semby... - These Batwa are upset.
Well, I'm not running for Miss Congeniality.
That's a good girl. Yes. Yeah.
Leave her.
We've got to go now. Van Vecten's men are ready to leave.
Come on. Come on.
Yes. Look at this yummy drink. Come on, let's go.
Up you go. Yes, that's a good girl. What a good girl you are. Yes.
Yes, that's it.
Here's some nice cabbage.
- Okay, Pucker, in we go. - I put some cabbage in there.
There. It's all right.
- And lots of water. - Quickly, put that on.
- It's gonna be fine. Really. - I'll do that.
Be brave. Be brave.
- Off you go. Go on. - I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
- Pucker. - It's all right.
God!
You know, if you could mix up a shrinking potion, Witch Fossey...
...we could sit on this twig, float down this stream into the Nile...
...go through the Sudan, past Cairo...
...pop out into the Mediterranean near Alexandria...
...where I'd buy a bottle of retsina and I would toast your beauty.
Dian, we can't stay on this mountain forever.
Sure we can.
The pictures are selling very well. Job offers are coming in.
But the gorillas are here.
I'm here.
We'll get a good researcher to look after the center part of the year.
I don't want snotty little scientists with slide rules in their pockets...
...peering at my gorillas.
- Hold on. I'm talking about six months. - I don't.
Six months here. Six months out of here. That's all.
You know, I just can't imagine not being out with them every day.
Seeing their faces...
...hearing them. Smelling them.
Every time I think I know everything about a gorilla...
...something completely new happens.
I'm hooked.
How can I give that up?
Yeah.
This is from the Geographic.
I've been offered a job in Borneo.
They want you to come too.
It's studying primates.
Your field.
Is the projector well-packed?
Good.
That's both the tripods there, is it?
Look, I've gotta go, all right?
It's a job.
I can't go the rest of my life without working.
I'm sorry.
I'm not like you.
I can't spend the rest of my life up here. I wish I could.
I'm sorry.
I'll write to you soon.
But in the meantime, will you get a two-way radio so I can talk to you?
If you go...
...don't write.
Please don't come back.
Let's go.
You're our very first research students, actually.
Let me take one of those. It's a long road. Here.
What's in here? Rocks?
Mukara?
What did Van Vecten want?
It seems the Cologne Zoo wants another gorilla.
But don't worry, I told him that's all over.
One gorilla wasn't enough?
Pucker died a year after delivery.
Good for Pucker.
Well, when Leakey died, I almost chucked it all and went home.
But I thought of my gorillas.
I haven't lost one to poachers in over 10 months. That's a record.
- What does Toto ya Nyoka mean? - Who called you that?
Awaka.
It means, affectionately, "the worm boy."
Great.
Look around you.
This is as close to God as you get.
Let's go.
Get down.
I don't know this one.
No! Don't move!
It's just a bluff.
Kim? Good morning. Lovely weather. Better put your hood on.
You'll go with Sembagare and me today.
Good morning, Brendan.
Larry, you're late again!
It is not my job to get you up in the morning. Be on time.
Brendan and Larry, go with the rangers. Dominique, show them how to cut traps.
You all need to improve with a panga.
- Use it. - May I have a word?
What is it?
I know it's important to cut traps.
But I am so close to getting my data for the birth-frequency graph.
You know the rule. No research unless you put in the time to protect them.
Now, no more of that "me"-itis. Let's go.
- Simba's much bigger. - Yeah.
She's due in about two weeks now.
Check out the proud father over there. Digit.
It's the infant, Kweli.
That's right. You've been doing your homework.
In your book, you mentioned a great lobelia zone near here. Could I see it?
- Giant lobelia. - Giant lobelia.
Could I see it? Today, with you?
Sure.
Digit's group.
Go on!
Digit.
No, mademoiselle.
- What about the rest of the group? - They got away.
Tell him he no longer has his courage or his manhood.
Ruhengeri. Police.
How could you do that? I don't care what he did.
This isn't your private kingdom.
That was sick.
You think I'm sick?
Am I a murderer?
Did I do this? This won't stop until those butchers are stopped!
What are you crying about? If I hadn't been wasting my time with you...
- I found these. - Leave them.
Mademoiselle. Mademoiselle! That's too much!
- You get out of this! - No, no!
Stop it!
- I mean it! You stay out of this! - No, madame!
- Stop it! Stay out of this! I mean it! - No!
Kim? I'd like to talk to you, please.
May I come in?
God.
This is not a summer camp.
If you wanna crawl in and out of each other's beds, do it somewhere else.
You're fired!
You can't fire us! We don't work for you!
Get off my mountain!
What are you staring at?
What are you gawking at, you lazy wogs?
If you'd done your job, this wouldn't have happened!
- Don't speak to them that way. - I pay them! I can talk how I want!
- You don't pay much. - I pay plenty!
Sembagare, whose side are you on?
I'm on your side.
I'm always on your side, mademoiselle.
But you have made me ashamed of you.
They took his head.
And his hands.
They took his head.
I heard Digit's group last night.
Near the west ravine.
Get on with it, Sembagare.
Hi, Maggie. I'm back.
Hello. How are you?
Yes.
I don't see Simba.
Simba's not here.
Oh, no.
- No? - No. Nothing.
Simba.
Hi.
Hello. Hello.
Fourth and fifth digits webbed. I know you.
Nice ring, Van Vecten. Zoo sale profits?
Miss Fossey, where did you see your first wild animal?
In a zoo, wasn't it?
You like this ring? You wanna keep the hand it's on?
If I see or hear or smell you anywhere near my gorillas...
...you'll be writing with your other hand, and I'll have an ashtray.
- You understand me? - You are mad. Crazy woman.
- I am crazy. - You go too far.
- Good! - Don't push me!
I'll push you off the face of the earth! You murderer!
Mukara was here this afternoon. He is very angry with you.
He says you are telling people there's typhoid on the mountain.
The government needs money from the tourists.
They get very mad if you scare these people away.
Mukara also said last week you shot a tourist in the meadow.
Now, that is not true.
I shot way over their heads.
They are not going to turn this mountain...
...into a goddamn zoo.
They're not.
Mademoiselle, Mukara told me to tell you if you continue to do this...
...they won't give you a new work permit. - Did he, now?
A three-year work permit. Issued 10 days ago.
They can't touch me now.
That's a beauty.
You're beautiful.
"For as much as it hath pleased almighty God of his great mercy...
...to take unto himself the soul of our dear sister, here departed.
Almighty God, who did send so far thine only son...
...to seek and to save that which was lost, look down in mercy..."
I wish you'd leave Karisoke for good before it kills you,
You know, I always thought I'd go back to the States sooner or later,
I really expected to get married, have children,
Instead you've got a mountain full of gorillas...
...who wouldn't be alive if it weren't for you,
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