Heatstroke
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(PANTING)
(SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(BIRDS CHIRPING)
(HYENAS CHATTERING)
hyenas as cowardly scavengers,
waiting around
impotently for leftovers
while the stronger, faster
animals eat their fill.
They're wrong.
There's a lot more
to them than that.
Look at them.
Hyenas are fierce hunters.
They're all muscle, teeth.
Their top speed is about
35 miles an hour.
Now, the brain of the spotted hyena
relation to its body size.
Question is, why did these
hyenas evolve such a brain?
It could have been
environmental challenges or...
Or as with the human brain,
it may have derived from them
living in complex social groups.
Now, over the past 18 months,
we've darted and collared a few
who I've come to
know as individuals.
I look forward to meeting up with
them again on this next trip.
Listen, observing the way these
is far better than any
show on television.
(SIGHS)
The boots seem tough to get off.
So, how'd it go with
the Sar people?
(RUSSIAN ACCENT) They would be happy to have
me teach search and rescue here in America.
(CHUCKLES)
(GRUNTS)
(LAUGHS)
Come here.
(CHUCKLES)
I haven't taken the job yet.
I wanted to talk to
you about it first.
(CHUCKLES)
Well, what's there to talk about?
Take it. Take the job.
(LAUGHS)
(CELLPHONE RINGS)
- Do you need to get that?
- No.
(RINGING CONTINUES)
(COMPUTER BEEPS)
(SIGHS) Hi.
- MIRIAM:
God, finally!- What's going on?
Jo and some friends got picked
up by the cops. They had drugs!
- Jo had drugs?
- Weed, some pills.
- I want you to take her with you.
- What? Where?
- On your field trip of course.
- No, this is a work trip.
We're gonna be out in
the middle of nowhere.
Exactly. Maybe you can get through
to her, because I just can't.
Let me talk to her.
Jo! Jo! It's your father.
Hi, dad.
- What's going on, Jo?
- Nothing.
Nothing?
Your mom said you got caught with weed and
your friends had pills. What is going on?
Oh, my God! I already told
mom they weren't mine.
She wants you to go
on this trip with us.
Yeah?
What? You don't want to?
(SCOFFS) Not with her.
Well, Tally's nonnegotiable.
Do you understand that?
Doesn't she have some
disaster to go to?
She's taking some time off
before she starts a new job.
This is a holiday for her.
(SARCASTICALLY)
Great, a "holiday" with Tally.
- Just what I always wanted.
- Jo, come on, all right?
Hey! Jo!
Jo? Jo?
She just walked off as usual.
Listen, Miriam, I don't
think this is a good idea.
bad path, and I need your help.
She needs you, Paul.
Yeah, okay. You're right.
Let me talk to Tally,
and I'll call you back.
(SCOFFS) Okay.
So?
Jo's hanging with the wrong crowd.
(SIGHS) She's in trouble again.
Miriam's beside herself.
Wow.
She's just 13. This is
only the beginning.
Miriam wants her to go with us.
Hmm.
I told her I'd talk to you first.
I need to do this, Tal.
I haven't been there as
much as I should be.
I know. But what will
she do there, Paul?
We've camped out in some
Maybe it'll be good for her.
She was a girl scout.
She isn't a girl scout anymore.
That's true.
What can I say?
Whatever you like. You always do.
- Okay.
- Thanks, babe.
Hey...
It'll be one hell of a trip, huh?
You're in Africa, ladies. Hang on!
Ow! (LAUGHS)
(POP MUSIC PLAYING)
You okay, Jo?
(MUSIC CONTINUES)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKING)
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
That's them. We're
in the right place.
That's the matriarch in the
pack, an Alpha female.
She has a dick?
(CHUCKLING) Yeah.
All females have a pseudo penis.
They urinate, copulate,
Weird.
We had hyenas in Southern Russia
up until the late 19th century.
(SARCASTICALLY) Fascinating.
My grandmother told me about them.
- She said...
- And I care because?
Jo!
Look!
That looks like Violet.
(HYENA GROANS)
I've known him since he was a cub.
We name them before we
know what sex they are.
There's two more out there!
You see that? She's the
She's beautiful.
(CAR DOOR SHUTS)
Hey, what are you doing?
I said to stay in the car.
They're curious. They'll be over
here in a minute to check you out.
JO:
Do they attack people?If they caught you asleep, they could take
a chunk out of you, bite your head off.
Yeah?
(HYENAS CHATTERING)
If you ever find yourself face-to-face
with one, stay still, don't move.
I mean it.
Now I see why you brought me here.
Why?
So you could feed me to the hyenas.
(CHUCKLES)
Come on.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
Hopefully tomorrow we'll be able to
observe some of their eating habits.
How's that look?
- That's good.
- Okay.
All right.
(INSECTS CHIRPING)
country. I feel like a tourist.
Well, you are a tourist.
(GASPS)
I'm not... I'm not used
to wearing a skirt.
I like it.
It's cool, and it
keeps the sun off.
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
- Jo, would you mind not doing that?
- Whatever.
I thought you might like to have
some pictures of your "holiday"...
(CAMERA SHUTTER CLICKS)
- so you can remember it.
- I'll remember it.
Jo, you're being annoying.
Just kidding.
I wouldn't mess with
Tally, Jo. She's tough.
She's got balls.
Yeah, well, we know
she's got your balls.
Okay. What don't you drive,
Tally? I'll sit in the back.
Okay. Sure.
(CAR DOOR CLOSES)
You know, young teenage hyenas
their rank in the clan,
- especially the females.
- (ENGINE TURNS OVER)
They're always picking
I want to talk to my mom.
JO:
It sucks here, mom.It's hot and boring.
All anybody can talk
about is hyenas.
Hyenas, hyenas, hyenas...
There aren't even water
holes to swim in.
There's just nothing.
I really want to come home.
MIRIAM:
Okay. Well, letme talk to your father.
Okay.
Mom wants to talk to you.
Hello?
- You'd be glad to get rid of me.
- No, Jo.
I want this to work, for
your dad's sake at least.
He doesn't really care.
I'm not a hyena.
They'll always come
first, you know?
- (SCOFFS) Please.
- (SATELLITE PHONE BEEPS)
Your mom wants you to try
a bit longer. So do I, Jo.
All right, Jo, why don't you
help Tally with the trailer?
That's fine. I've got it.
She's got it, dad.
PAUL:
Let me help you out.All right, Jo, well, you can
help me chop some wood.
Teamwork is essential. Gives
you somebody else to blame.
I'm going back to the tent.
What?
- I really thought she'd like it here.
- She likes her iPad.
So, what can we do?
I got to talk to her.
- I just wish...
- What do you wish?
Maybe you could try a little
harder. She's just a kid.
I've been in Haiti helping children
who lost both parents. That's hard.
This isn't Haiti. This
is the way kids are.
She's my daughter.
Okay. I'll try.
Why aren't there any
birds or animals?
They've probably gone
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