Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid Page #4

You wanna blame anyone?

You blame me.

These boots are killing me.

- Cole.

- What?

You got some...

Oh, God, what is that?!

Get it off! Get it off!

- Oh, my God! Take it off!

- Relax.

- Help me! Help me!

- Hold on.

- Get it off me!

- Hey! Calm down!

- Get this off me!

- Calm down!

Cole! Cole! Calm down.

What is it? What is it?

- Get it off me. Get it off.

- All right. Look.

- Just a lighter. Just a lighter.

- Oh, hell no! You ain't burning me!

Okay. Okay. Okay.

You burn me, I'll kill you.

- Okay, okay, okay.

- All right.

- You all right? You okay?

- Yeah. I'm fine.

- What?

- Hold on. Put your arms up.

What are you doing?

Why are you going under my shirt?

- What are you doing?

- Jesus.

What, what? What is it?

What is it? What is it?

Anybody got a blowtorch?

Stop!

Careful.

- What's it...?

- Lf that thing bit you...

...you would be lumpuh.

Paralyzed, like stone, for two days.

- What do you call this fella?

- Laba laba batu. Stone spider.

I may have discovered a valuable

new anesthetic agent for Wexell-Hall.

Oh, no, no, no. Forget Wexell,

we can get this to the highest bidder.

All right. Show and tell's over.

We gotta get to that boat.

Put your boots on and let's go.

Bugger it.

What the hell was that?

Holy bloody hell.

Whoa! What was that?

Oh, my God.

What the hell was that?

Come on.

No, no, no! Oh, come on, man!

What the hell happened?!

Livingston!

Here we go.

He got drunk and fell off

the bloody boat!

Your friend! Your friend!

Now what we gonna do now?!

Sh*t!

Search the wreckage.

Find anything we can use.

And hope to God there's a phone.

Come on, come on.

Yes.

Hello?

Hello?

- Come on, come on!

- Anything?

- Nothing.

- Keep trying.

What do you think I'm doing, Jack?!

Hello? Sh*t.

Hello?

Come on, man. Hello?

All right, keep looking!

No phone?

- Nothing.

- Couldn't get a signal on the radio.

Now what?

What's going on?

Where'd these come from?

- Lopaks.

- Who?

Local tribe.

- Descended from headhunters.

- What?

Been in this region

for thousands of years.

- Headhunters?

- There's still some villages here.

- Must be one of their fishing spots.

- Hold on, excuse me.

Did you say headhunters?

There haven't been practicing

headhunters in Borneo for a century.

Just because they ain't practicing

don't mean they don't remember how.

They must be along this branch

of the river.

If we can find their village,

maybe they can lend us a boat.

So wait a minute. We just gonna walk

towards the headhunters, not away?

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, that makes sense.

Oh, God. I'm so hungry, I'd sell

my grandmother for a Tic Tac.

You mention food one more time...

...I'm voting you off this island.

Oh, God.

- Is that...?

- Livingston.

Oh, my God, man.

What the hell happened to him?

Anaconda.

If he was eaten by the snake...

...why is his body...?

- Listen, listen!

All right. These things are

at their weakest when they digest.

But if threatened, they will spit up

their food and attack again.

What? There's a snake out there

with an empty stomach?

- Yeah.

- The same one that got Ben?

No. No. There's no way that snake

could've gotten to Livingston.

- It had to be another one.

- You said there wouldn't be...

...another one for miles.

- There wouldn't.

- Unless...

- Unless what?

- Unless it's mating season.

- Oh, my God.

- Mating season?

- Yeah.

You see, the males are territorial,

but when they smell a female in heat...

...they come running

from everywhere.

Females find a nice, wet, muddy pit,

and they all go after her at once...

...in one big mating ball.

So there's some snake orgy

out in the jungle?!

Yeah. Something like that.

Look, we're losing the light.

All we gotta do is get to that village.

So please, pay attention.

Do not stray from the group.

Let's go.

Stay quiet. Sacred burial ground.

Jesus.

I thought you said that anaconda

was the biggest you'd ever seen.

It was.

- Well, this one's...

- Bigger.

The males must've come through here

looking for the female.

Some bullshit.

- They took their boats.

- Good for them.

Bad for us.

Which one's the Mendranang?

On the right.

The Tokut keeps going to the left.

- Fastest way to Kotabaru.

- How long?

You'll be soaking in a tub

at the Four Seasons in two days.

How, man?

We don't even have a boat.

We're gonna build one.

Man, do that in my neighborhood,

and that's your ass.

Sh*t.

Sam.

What does this look like to you?

My God.

Perrinia immortalis.

Now we know why these snakes

are so big.

What?

Anacondas keep growing

till they die, right?

And these are the biggest

Bill's ever seen.

- Because they're living longer.

- Exactly.

Because Perrinia immortalis

is part of the food chain.

These snakes have transcended

the Hayflick limit.

The chemical in the orchid

does exactly what we predicted.

And not in theory, in the real world.

This is proof, Sam,

of your research, carved in stone.

This is proof?

It's anecdotal evidence at best.

- Let's get to the orchid and find out.

- You are out of your mind.

Do you have any idea

how close we are?

The orchid was found here...

...on the Mendranang,

just around the next bend.

- We'll be going right past it.

- No, we won't.

We are going down the Tokut.

If we go down the Mendranang,

it's gonna be a week...

...before we reach another village.

I'm not waiting that long for my bath.

Yeah, well, it's not up to you.

Jack.

Maybe you can just come back.

Come back?

In seven years?

What if it's not here?

What if some local farmer decides

to slash and burn the entire basin?

Instead of the fountain of youth,

we'll have a giant rice paddy.

This is our only chance.

You know it is.

Do you wanna give in

when we're this close?

Look. You know

I got your back, right?

We've been in the trenches

a hundred times together.

- But I'm not going in that jungle.

- Damn straight, man.

Thank you.

This is my expedition,

and we're going to the orchid.

No.

We're not.

Don't be an idiot, Sam.

This is bigger than penicillin,

for God's sake.

Lives will be saved by this drug.

People will live longer.

They'll stay young longer.

If we don't put this to human trials,

it'll be a crime against humanity.

Two people have died already.

Scientists have always risked

their lives to change the world.

If they didn't, we wouldn't have cures

for yellow fever, polio and smallpox.

- We all knew the risks.

- We thought we did.

Until you decided to start making

decisions behind our backs.

- What are you talking about?

- He offered Bill an extra 50 grand...

...to keep going, even though

he knew it wasn't safe.

Oh, my God.

Is that true, Jack?

- I was thinking of the expedition.

- You were thinking of your career.

Look. You're my assistant.

I don't need to consult you!

I'm the one with the authority here.

We're in the middle

of the jungle, Jack.

At this point, your authority

is what we say it is.

Guess you got a mutiny

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