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besides me?

Unless we can find Gutierrez.

Maybe we can find a guide there.

How much gold

do you think we'll find?

Tell me, Leo...

...if you had lots of money,

what would you do?

Buy a sailboat, I guess.

Sail around the world.

You gotta be kidding.

All the globe-hopping we've done,

and you want to sail around the world.

Just once.

Just once,

I want to do it in style.

No deserts, no jun--

No mosquitoes.

No guns.

Just sandy beaches,

sipping champagne

in fine restaurants,

gambling in casinos,

and women.

Man, I can't wait.

I don't remember inviting you.

You will.

Is there a shorter route

to this damn village?

Yes.

Hey! Don't wander off!

I'm gonna crash.

Okay, okay, I'm awake.

Damn it, Leo, I said--

It's gonna be one of those days.

Move!

- What if they find the dagger?

- The hell with the dagger.

We've gotta save our lives.

They're trying to decide

what to do with us.

Indecision...that's a good sign.

Got 'em just where we want 'em.

Stay cool, Leo.

No matter what happens,

let's just keep our heads.

We need a new plan.

Don't you think

it's a little late for that, Max?

Prepare to die, Yankees.

- He said--

- I know what he said.

What's he waiting on?

Are you in a hurry, Max?

I always said you were

too pretty for jungle work, Max.

Corky?

Hey, cut 'em free.

!Por mis amigos!

- Salud.

- Salud.

Yeah, it was right after Nam,

some snot nosed little second looey

had me kicked out of the corps.

- What'd you do?

- Only thing I could do.

I cut off the little bastard's ears.

I got 'em in a pickle jar.

Wanna see?

So, I kicked some butts

over in Africa for a while,

till the money ran out.

- How'd you get here?

- Blind chance.

Came down here on a drug run.

Heard about the fighting.

They got one rule down here.

- You can have what you can take.

- Plenty, right?

Right! Hell, they're killing each other--

I'm getting rich!

- Sounds dangerous.

- Nah, piece of cake.

Go on--he ain't never danced

with a girl before.

Hell, she's a looker.

What'll you take for her?

She's not for sale.

Watch this careful, now.

Give me room, son.

Give me room.

Goddamnit,

that son of a b*tch moved!

He goddamn moved!

- No...

- Go on!

Hope you got life insurance!

Quiet! I can't concentrate.

Goddamn it,

he didn't move for you!

- I did it!

- He moved for me!

- I'm not playing with you anymore!

- Poor sport!

Biting the hand that fed you!

Those sons of b*tches dropped us

right in the middle of a hornet's nest.

So...

...after four hours of fightin',

me and Max is the only ones

in the squad that ain't hit.

Guess what happens next?

They give up!

We whupped 'em so hard,

they must have thought

there was a thousand of us!

Oh, we had us some times, Max.

- You was a pretty good grunt.

- You made me that way.

Oh, hell, wasn't nothin' I did.

You got the charm, boy.

Can't nothin' kill you

if you got the charm.

Why don't you

stick around a while, Max?

It'd be great

fightin' side by side again.

I can't.

That's what I figured.

How long you gonna

hang around here, Corky?

Isn't it time you packed it up

and headed home?

This is my home.

You gonna spend

the rest of your life in the jungle?

Oh, hell, this is

just temporary... till I'm king.

What's so damn funny about it?

He didn't mean anything by it.

A man's gotta have

a goal in life, don't he?

I aim to give these people leadership!

What if they don't want it?

You know,

I never thought about that!

You think my idea's crazy,

don't you, Leo?

Could get you killed.

Well, now, dying ain't somethin'

I worry about, Leo.

You know why?

You see, I got the charm, too.

You'll never let me go

that far, will you, Leo?

- No, I won't.

- Glad you're here.

I'm glad you're my partner.

- You really mean that?

- Yeah, I do.

In that case, you can

come on my sailing trip.

I accept your invitation.

- Sandy beaches.

- Luxurious hotels.

Fine restaurants.

- And...women!

- And...women!

What do you think, Max?

This is my command vehicle!

I want you to

go out of here in style.

- She's a terror in the jungle.

- I bet she is.

- Bye-bye, Cork.

- Bye-bye.

Hey, now, listen, Max.

You'll need this.

You stick to the low jungle,

and look, you can have this back.

- Watch your back.

- You, too, Corky.

- Bye.

- Bye.

Oh, wait, wait, wait!

!Presente!!Presente!

Do you think

you'll ever see him again?

No.

Which one are we gonna eat first?

Oh, Max, that's disgusting.

Leo, stop the car!

That's horrible! Stop it!

Oh, poor babies.

Get them out of here!

Max, that's disgusting.

And that's when we

stumbled onto the Zulu war party.

- The hunting party.

- Right.

A heavily armed

Zulu hunting party.

That wasn't Zulu.

They were pygmies.

Right. Pygmy cannibals.

Must have been a hundred of them.

Oh, maybe about twenty.

Leo, if you don't let me tell this,

it's not gonna be worth hearing.

- Where was I?

- Pygmy cannibals.

Right...anyway,

I don't speak Zulu or pygmy...

- Or cannibal.

- Not even cannibal.

Definitely not cannibal.

Oh, God!

Howwonderful!

Might as well

camp here tonight, huh?

You guys can make camp.

I'm gonna take a bath.

No, you're not.

Come on, give me

one good reason why not.

One good reason.

I think I better go

wash these dishes.

I think we're getting

real close, don't you?

Yeah, I feel a real bond between us.

No, silly, I mean to the gold.

Oh...yeah, we should be there

sometime tomorrow.

That is, if we're not off course.

- You mean we may be lost?

- No, just off course.

- What's the difference?

- Attitude.

You like this life, don't you?

Yeah, I guess so. Why?

I don't know...

jungles, deserts, caves.

It all sort of seems scary to me.

What scares you, Max?

Suits.

Alarm clocks.

Apartment buildings.

Oh, my God, it's blood.

Look.

Do you think it was the crocodile?

How the hell should I know?

He had a feeling about this trip.

But I wouldn't listen.

It's not your fault, Max.

It is my fault!

This whole idea was stupid!

Stupid!

What are we gonna do?

Go back.

No. No, we can't.

I said we're going back,

and that's it!

- What about the gold?

- There is no gold.

There is, too. I know it!

Max, it's normal for you

to feel this way, but--

Look! Don't talk to me about normal.

I don't need any advice from a...

A what?

A fruitcake?

Witch woman? Lunatic?

Go ahead, Max,

I've heard it all before.

Yeah, I'm different.

You think I like feeling that way?

But, damn it,

I know there's gold there.

Either I'm right, or I'm crazy.

But I'm gonna find out which,

with or without your help.

You won't make it alone.

I will, too.

So will you.

Who cares?

Damn you, Leo!

Damn you.

This looks like

a good place to cross.

- How do you know?

- It's my job to know.

- Damn.

- What's happening?

We're sinking.

Get out! Swim for shore!

Come on!

What's the matter?

Can't you swim?

Of course I can swim!

Oh, God.

Barely.

I hate the water.

Nothing like a morning swim

to get the old circulation

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