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It's the same symbol. Now...

look at this.

The gorilla drew this.

It is the same image. It is the open eye.

That gorilla has seen the city of Zinj.

- And she will take us there!

- Have you been taking your medication?

Have your laughing, and I will have mine.

Sh*t...

- What is it?

- The signal stopped.

- Does that mean...?

- It just means the signal stopped.

I don't know what it means.

No problem.

Oh, my God!

- Shoot it!

- Amy!

- What is it?

- Turn the boat around, quickly.

Agh! Aah!

Shoot it! Oh, my God!

Turn the boat around!

Head for shore!

- How is he?

- It's just a big cut.

- I'll stitch it up, he'll be all right.

- Oh, God.

- What's that?

- A plane.

- Good luck to them.

- Who are they?

I don't know, but the Zaire Air Force

has got a piece of their ass.

Pitch camp. Tomorrow, Mt. Mukenko.

- She's getting excited.

- Why, do you think?

Somewhere on the other side of this

mountain is where Amy was born.

Wow, it's beautiful.

Is this your valley, Amy?

It is, isn't it?

It's home. That's your home.

Pretty jungle, that's right.

What's she doing?

She wants to go to the place in her heart.

- You mean the place in your heart, Herkermer.

- You may call me Mr. Homolka.

Come on, Amy, let's go.

- We've lost two porters.

- Where'd they go?

- Ran away.

- And they didn't invite me?

You want your glove? All right, sit still.

This, as they say, is a fork in the road.

We could go left or we could go right.

We go the wrong way,

we lose two or three days.

We must follow the gorilla.

Where she leads.

- That would be left.

- Best guess...

off my last coordinates was this way.

- That would be right.

- Amy, Peter, go this way.

Well, I don't have her passion.

I'll follow the gorilla.

This doesn't seem

like the right way to me.

Good Lord.

- It's that plane we saw burning in

the sky. - Who were they?

Travis, my boss, thought I wasn't gonna

make it. He sent another expedition.

Tried to push too far. Looks like a rocket

got them. There's no point going in there.

- My God, what a waste of life.

- We'd better keep moving.

Keep it moving.

- Don't move.

- I know.

- If you run...

- He'll chase me, I know. I've read the books.

- You did good.

- Where did you go?

I ran away. Sorry.

- He looked right into my eyes.

- It's a silverback.

I never thought you could just

walk along and see them.

Amy.

Hello. I'm Amy.

I'm Amy. Good, good, good. Amy.

Here, let's take this off.

She doesn't really belong anywhere,

does she?

No, she belongs here.

- What the hell is that?

- Perimeter alarm.

They had it around their camp.

But where's the camp, their equipment?

I don't understand it. There had to be

300 pounds of equipment.

And the bodies.

There's no sign of the bodies.

- It's a dead end?

- Maybe, maybe not.

Yes. Bingo!

- Son of a b*tch.

- Jesus.

What is this?

It is the city of Zinj...

that I have looked for all my life.

See, the eyes.

It is the same.

Kahega, guns up. Stay alert.

Come here, Amy. Stay with me.

First they found the diamonds,

Solomon's men.

A diamond mine of incredible bounty.

Then they built the city around

the mine, so that it should be protected.

The savagery of the guards was legend.

They instantly fell upon

any thief, any transgressor.

The diamonds flowed

to the kingdom of Solomon.

What happened? Why did the city die?

- I don't know.

- Maybe the mines ran dry.

No! No, the diamonds are here!

- Monroe, over here!

- What is it?

On the step, by the hood.

I found this.

Don't go in there. I'll check it out.

- Give me a gun and a flashlight.

- Don't be so John Wayne, you could get killed.

Now that I've said that,

I'm not going in there alone, either.

- I must go.

- Let's all look.

I'll just stay out here with Amy.

Not alone you won't. Kahega!

Stay close together. Homolka...

- Homolka!

- The same hieroglyphics, over and over.

- What do they mean?

- Homolka!

Amy, don't wander off!

- So do you speak English?

- Yes.

- What's your name?

- Claude.

Claude? Heh. That's an unusual name for

somebody from, um... Where are you from?

- Mombasa.

- It's an unusual name for Mombasa.

- Have you ever been to Mombasa?

- Uh, no.

Then what do you know about it?

I want to go home.

Amy?

Amy, come here.

Where are you, girl?

Come on, I'm not fooling around.

Amy.

Amy?

Come here, girl. Amy.

Charles!

Charlie!

- What are those holes?

- Lava tubes.

Molten rock must be flowing

through this whole place.

This must lead to the mine.

Please, bring a light.

Here.

Now here. Come on.

Up here. No...!

- That's not going anywhere.

- Where could they be? What happened?

Sh*t! Let's get out of

here while we still can.

Help me!

- What's that?

- Richard!

- Richard?

- Help me!

Help me!

- Richard!

- Let me go! Let me go!

No! Richard! Oh, my God! Something...

- Richard.

- Come on.

Let's get out of here.

- It's okay.

- Peter.

They're gorillas.

They're some kind of gorillas.

I never saw an animal move like

that. They just... Look. They just kill.

That's why the diamonds were never

found. The myth of the killer ape is true.

I can't believe it.

Bad gorillas.

Let me turn your volume down.

Here's your lovey.

Shh.

- It's okay.

- Mother. Mother.

Yes, you're okay now.

- See anything?

- No, but I'm the last line of defense.

They have sensor-operated machine pistols

on tripods.

Anything comes within 40 ft.,

get ready to the 4th of July.

What can I say, you

really know how to pack.

- I don't see anything.

- Put that out.

They're testing their perimeter.

How intelligent are they?

Gorillas are very smart,

but they're not aggressive.

- These things are very aggressive.

- I'd say they're smart. Too damn smart.

They're out there, but what are they doing?

Monroe!

Get down!

- They're gone.

- Couple of hours until first light.

Then we're out of here.

Those hieroglyphics

we saw inscribed everywhere?

- I have translated them.

- What do they say?

"We are watching you."

We must have hit some of them.

Where are the bodies?

- Have you seen Amy? She's gone.

- No.

She's joined the club, then. We've got two

porters missing and Homolka's run off, too.

- I'm going to find her.

- People come first, then gorillas.

- Do you agree?

- Yes.

Good. We'll retrieve our comrades,

then we'll retrieve your missing gorilla.

Then we'll get the hell out of here.

Mount up!

What's that?

- Peter, take this.

- I don't like guns.

I didn't ask if you like it. Take it.

Here's the story.

They domesticated gorillas.

You call that

domesticated? They're killing a man.

They taught them to be this way.

They bred them to violence.

They looked for the trait

and they encouraged it.

Guard dogs, and they

turned on their masters.

What's that smell?

These are all the bones of gorillas.

- You mean, these are...?

- No, these are normal gorillas.

- This one's skull was crushed.

- Feel that?

Feel what?

Hang on!

- Everybody okay?

- Yeah, let's go.

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