Congo Page #4

- Oh, no!

- This isn't gonna work.

- Yes it is. I'll take Amy.

- She might get hurt. I can't risk it.

- You know how to fly this plane?

- No.

- The pilot and co-pilot are gone.

So, what are you going to do?

Ugh.

Go! Go, go, go!

Push me, please.

Harder, please.

You want me to push you too?

See you down there.

Oh!

- Where's Amy?

- Now she's asleep.

Over there. On the way down,

she decided to wake up.

- And that little lady has some set of teeth.

- I'm sorry, but we have to call this off.

- I beg your pardon?

- I'm in over my head.

- I'm not James Bond.

- Don't worry, I'll take care of you.

I don't want you to take care of me.

Fine. I'm taking a safari

into the Virunga region of the Congo.

If you don't want to go, just go wherever.

But you should know this is a dangerous

place, and people die here very easily.

Now, excuse me.

Amy?

Amy? Amy!

Amy?

Such an extraordinary animal.

Those paintings. Do you think she was

drawing something she saw in life?

Or in a dream, maybe?

- I think she was drawing a jungle, home.

- What about those oval shapes?

- Just a shape she likes, something like that.

- Perhaps.

- Video game?

- It gives latitude and longitude.

- More than that, from the look of it.

- Well, you know, it's a gadget. It has features.

You're picking up a signal.

Someone or something?

- A little bit Of both.

- Ah.

- So why did you quit the CIA?

- I never worked for the CIA.

Of course you didn't.

But if you had worked for the CIA,

why would you quit?

Because they're a loveless bunch

of sons of b*tches.

- And you're not?

- And I'm not.

Glad to hear it.

- Okay, here we go.

- Ah. Fabulous equipment.

- Best of the best.

- I have air-conditioning, too.

Air-conditioners?

- I suppose it is a bit much.

- Sh*t, I'll take one.

Hey, Stop it!

Mr. Homolka...

- Please, call me Herkermer.

- All right. You can call me Mr. Kelly.

- I wonder what she's about.

- What do you mean?

She's after something.

You're after something.

What you're after, I've got figured.

But what she's after, I don't know.

I'll get you! I'll get you!

I'm helping that young scientist

return his ward to the wild.

He says the ape may be able to tell us

the thoughts of the wild gorillas.

Well I can tell you your thoughts.

You're looking for King Solomon's

diamonds. The lost city of Zinj.

- I've given it up.

- You'll never give it up.

The problem is, Herkermer,

it doesn't exist.

Solomon must have gotten his diamonds

from Cartiers, like everybody else.

Ha-ha-ha. You like that, don't you?

Ha-ha-ha.

Time for Madam Amy's vitamins.

This is Karen Ross. 81452.

That is KR81452.

Houston, Travis, do you read?

Karen Ross, 81452.

Houston, Travis, do you read?

I read and see you, Dr. Ross.

Congratulations on crossing the border.

I'm picking up a signal

from the laser's power pack.

Excellent. Wherever the laser is,

Charles should be too.

Let's hope so. Tomorrow we enter the

rainforest at the base of the volcanic range.

Good. Karen, I've had those images

of that creature analyzed. Rudy.

What's W?

- My primatologist tells me it's something new.

He doesn't know what,

but it's gorilla-like.

Are you sufficiently armed?

- Do you have enough manpower?

- Yes.

Good. The bad news is Geo-thermal.

You've got to hurry.

That region in the Virungas is bad.

Sometimes the volcanic activity...

is breaking out of the graph.

The region's going to blow.

Could be a week, could be sooner.

Dr. Ross...

- What the hell...?

- Watch out!

No, dammit! Not again!

Oh. I'm terribly sorry.

It's destroyed.

It's completely destroyed.

- What is that?

- What is that?

Full moon. Colobus monkeys.

- That's monkeys?

- Mating season.

When there's a moon like that, every monkey

for 200 miles thinks he's Elvis Presley.

Aah!

Aah!

Aah!

It's Amy's medical supplies.

They can't get wet.

- Oh, sh*t! Somebody help me.

- What is it?

There's something on my...

Like, a creature, growth or something.

- Look.

- Ah. That's a leech.

- Take it off.

- It's your leech, you take it off.

- Need some help?

- No.

- Here, burn it off with this.

- Ha-ha-ha.

- Ha, ha.

- Ugh.

- Mm!

- This is disgusting.

Thank you for your compassion.

Mm-hm.

Here.

- Monroe?

- Don't indicate you see them.

Mizumu. The ghost tribe.

There are probably 20 of them.

- I only see two.

- Yes, that's how they are.

- Are they friendly?

- They're sensitive. They're forest people.

- Why are they laughing?

- They asked who was in charge, I said I was.

- What's so funny about that?

- I'm black.

I should have luggage on my head.

He says there's a dead white man...

in this forest with a

symbol on his clothes.

He's dead? Did they say he's dead?

- What does "TC" mean?

- TraviCom. The company I work for.

They have several levels of "dead."

Someone's not dead

until they're completely dead.

They haven't moved him.

They believe his soul has left his body.

If they move him, his soul will be lost,

never finding his body again.

They're calling to his soul,

asking it to come back.

Where is the man?

- It's not him.

- Not who?

It's Bob Driscoll. What happened to him?

Bob? Bob?

- Let's sit him up.

- Who is this man?

My company sent an expedition to

the Virungas. This man was with them.

Lay him over there.

- What happened to him?

- I don't know.

Bob?

- He's dead.

- God, no.

That region of the Congo is uninhabited.

- Something inhabits it.

- What did you see?

Camp destroyed. People dead.

A gray gorilla or something.

- No such thing as a gray gorilla.

- I saw one.

- That's hard to believe.

- Two men are unaccounted for.

Jeffrey Weems

and Charles Travis, my fianc.

- My former fianc.

- Former?

We'd better get to him, then.

Beautiful boats.

Money's a wonderful thing.

Give her the banana with the dope inside?

Yes, he gave her the banana

with the dope inside.

I know. Shitty Peter. I know.

Hey, what's this?

Oh.

All the leaves are brown

And the sky is gray

I've been for a walk

On a winters day

On a winters day

I'd be safe and warm

If I was in L.A.

- California dreaming

- California dreaming

On such a winters day

Stopped into a church

Watch out for the rock!

Whoa!

Hang on!

- What is this Zinj, Mr. Homolka?

- I don't know what you're talking about.

It's been believed that King Solomon

had a diamond mine in the Congo...

in a city called Zinj.

Diamonds?

I suppose there's no point

in playing stupid.

We shall arrive there together,

we shall all be rich.

That's fine with me.

Except there's no Zinj.

Half the safaris that have gone in looking

never made it back.

The other half came back with nothing.

Yes, but we have a trumping card

that they did not have.

- We do?

- We do. That gorilla...

- knows where it is.

- What?

The gorilla?

As a young man,

I found a book in Soviet Georgia.

It contained a detailed drawing

of the city of Zinj.

The drawing contained

a peculiar decoration.

An open eye.

Later, on safari, I found this.

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