Daktari (1966) s01e10 Episode Script

Harp, l told you once, l'm not gonna tell you again.
- Don't make a racket in this forest.
- L'm sorry.
l was only trying to get us something to eat.
Why l ever came to Africa? Animals make me downright nervous.
They should make you nervous, after shooting at that leopard yesterday.
- L hit him though, didn't l? - Yeah, with a pistol, a popgun.
Like l said, you should be nervous.
What do you mean? Sometimes wounded leopards follow the people who shoot at them.
Follow? Roy.
You're joking me, ain't you, Roy.
Huh? Roy, that looks like a road over there, about a hundred yards.
- Lt might be easier if we took the road.
- Keep clear of the roads.
- Patrols will be out.
- You can't go much further like this.
We've got to.
We've got to get to Wameru compound.
- Why? - Because there's a doctor there.
Daktari Marsh Tracy.
Judy, get off the table.
L'm operating.
Mike, take a tissue impression, will you? Solvent.
Hmm.
How's the eye reflex? All right.
Biopsy, uh, negative.
No malignancy.
Heartbeat? Heartbeat almost normal.
More sodium pentothal? No, no.
L'm almost finished.
Hey.
That ought to do it.
- Jack, finish up for me, will you? - Sure.
Good thing we got to her in time.
She'll be coming around shortly.
Dad, that was just beautiful.
Well, thank you, honey.
l hope someday, l can be as good as you.
Oh, sure you will.
But you can't afford mistakes.
That's why it takes a lot of studying and practice.
Well, Hercules.
While we're about it, let's have a look at your sore throat, huh? Come on over here.
Come on over here and let's take a look.
Over here.
Let me take a look.
Open wide.
Now, don't lick the thing.
No, you can't eat it.
Let me look.
Yep.
Come on.
Upsy-daisy.
That's better.
Come on.
One more little look-see, huh? Aw.
Lucky little dear.
You'll get to go back to the forest, while poor old Mike Mike has to stay cooped up here in the bush.
Ha-ha-ha, that's right.
l'm a city boy.
l learned all this stuff in college in Nairobi.
l want to learn something about where animals live.
You gotta be kidding.
- You grew up right here.
Yes, but not in the bush.
- You, uh, grew up in New York, huh? - Mm-hm.
Right in old Washington Square.
Ever see the Statue of Liberty? No.
As a matter of fact, l never got around to it.
Ah, well, l never got around to seeing the real Africa.
Not the way, uh, Dr.
Livingstone saw it.
Well, Mike, l know we've been pretty busy around here - but after we l know, l know.
After we finish the, uh, antivenom project the animal intelligence test project the eel-in-captivity breeding project.
Come on, Judy.
Okay, Mike, you win.
Tell you what.
Maybe next week, we can take a couple of days off and, uh, we'll have a field trip.
- How about it, huh? - Good.
Lydia, you old thing.
You know what your problem is? You think you're a dog.
lf you weren't so darn affectionate, we wouldn't have to tie you up.
Daktari! - Hi there.
Hello, Paula.
Here's your last one.
Judy, give Lydia her bath, all right? Commissioner, this is a surprise.
l didn't expect you till pink gin time.
My dear child, any time is pink gin time.
Ha, ha.
However, unfortunately, this morning, duty calls.
- Where's daktari? - Oh, he's up at the hospital.
Hop in.
Got word this morning, Marsh, from Dubiti.
Wounded leopard somewhere south of the village.
- Wounded in the reserve? - Right.
Nasty job of work, a wounded leopard, as you know and very dangerous to the village children.
- You'd wanna do something about it.
- Yes, l do.
Thanks, Hedley.
l'll take off as soon as l can.
- Do you wanna get the truck ready? - Right.
Me too, Marsh.
Huh? Oh, come on.
Well, it, uh, would mean leaving Paula here all alone Dad.
l don't need a babysitter.
l'm a big girl.
l know, but that isn't the point.
And anyway, l won't be here alone.
Mrs.
Fusby's coming by to give me my voice lesson.
And you know Mrs.
Fusby.
She's absolutely formidable.
And then later on at pink gin time, Hedley will be dropping by.
Will l? Oh, yes, of course.
Come to think of it, Hedley's formidable too.
And if all else fails, Clarence will protect me.
Won't you, Clarence? Clarence is a great watchdog, Marsh.
Can l go? Well, uh, all right, all right.
You win, you win.
Uh, Mike, go give Jack a hand, will you? Ha, ha.
Thanks, friend.
Daughters.
Let's see.
South of Dubiti, that would in the dry area? Right.
How are you doing, Roy? Bad.
How far is it to this compound we're heading for? - Oh, maybe 10 miles.
- Maybe we oughtn't to go there, Roy.
Look, l told you already.
There's a doctor there.
- What kind? - Oh, he's all kinds of doctor.
He's very famous.
Everybody knows about him.
He takes care of animals too.
Animals? He's the one that helped catch me and to send me up to prison.
Him and his lion.
Lion? Yeah.
Friendly lion.
Come on, Roy, there ain't no such thing as a friendly lion.
Well, this one knocked me down just because he liked me.
Maybe we ought to not go to this doctor.
Could've got clean away, but this bloody lion had to jump me.
- How was l to know he wanted to play? - Maybe we can find a doctor here.
- Even a witch doctor.
- Harp.
Who was the boss in that prison? You were, Roy.
You were the boss.
Who's the boss now, Harp? Well, you are, Roy.
You know that.
But a lion? Maybe the doc won't do the operation.
Oh, he'll do it.
Well, how about afterwards? He might tell the police.
He might tell the police we were there.
Yeah.
Yeah, he might if he was still alive.
Come on, come on, come on.
Yeah, l think she's gonna be all right, Mtuli.
We'll have her back with her herd in a day or so.
Oh, um, that load of Zambezi grass arrived while you were operating.
l thought l'd unload it down by Elephant Shed Number 6.
Better take all the men.
l want it unloaded before it dries out.
l can't give you a hand but l've got a wounded leopard up country.
l heard.
Ah, come on, come on.
- Good luck.
Thanks, Hedley.
Keep your eye on this one, will you, Mtuli? l told Miss Paula to change the bandage every four hours, keep up the solvent.
Good luck with your leopard.
Well, we're on our way.
l'm sorry, Judy, but not this trip.
Come on, Judy.
Men only.
l put in some food and sleeping bags, just in case.
Oh, sorry, Judy.
Uh, we put in food and sleeping bags.
Well, let's hope we don't need them.
But leopards can be uncooperative at times.
Uh-oh.
Look at Mike.
And what? Just what do you mean, "Uh, oh, look at Mike"? Well, look at you.
You look like you're practicing to be the world's greatest hunter.
- Huh? L don't get it.
- Oh, Mike.
Just because we're going out where, uh As you say, where our animals live that doesn't mean we'll need rifles.
- L thought we would have - You know with a little knowledge.
Well, a man can walk across Africa unarmed.
Marsh claims animals don't bite.
No, no.
No, they'll bite, but only if they're threatened or wounded.
But this leopard is wounded.
We're going there to help him, not hurt him.
All we're gonna need is a tranquilizing rifle.
Just to put him to sleep for a little while.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Here, Mike, l'll take the guns.
l'll phone in if we're gonna be out overnight.
All right, l'll be listening.
Come on, big hunter.
Told you once, l'll tell you again, you're not going.
Now you're gonna stay home.
- Take care of this young lady, will you? Oh.
- See you in a while.
- Okay.
Good safari.
By Jove.
Ten years ago, no one would've believed the things this man is doing.
lmagine, unarmed in Africa.
- L must go on my rounds.
- Oh, here, l'll take that.
Oh, thank you.
Cheerio.
Oh, Judy, that's not for you.
That's strictly for Commissioner Hedley.
Do you see him? No, l, uh, was just taking a look at that water hole down there.
Mike? - Hmm? - You know what a symbiosis is? - Sure.
A symbiosis is a case of an animal of one species who depends on or helps an animal of another species.
Well, take a look at your first symbiosis.
But that's only one species, antelope.
Where are the animals they depend on? Well, how do you suppose a water hole got there in country as dry as this? l don't know.
How? Do you know, Jack? Well, l'd say a rhino was wallowing there recently maybe during a rainstorm or he sensed a spring underneath the ground.
At any rate, his body formed that depression which makes a perfect basin to hold the water for the antelope.
Right.
See? No rhino, no water hole.
No water hole, no antelope.
No symbiosis.
- Aha.
Um, just one thing, Marsh.
- Mm-hm.
Whoever thought it all up? Yeah, well, l Let's go.
Roy.
Roy.
Roy.
Roy, wake up.
Roy, come on, wake up.
Look.
Shh.
lt's the leopard you wounded yesterday.
- Same one? - Yeah.
Roy, he's following me.
Like l said.
Maybe if we both shoot at the same time? No, it wouldn't do any good.
Unless he was right on top of us.
Don't say that.
Maybe we can scare it.
- Go ahead.
Fire one.
- Huh? Yeah.
Do you think he'll come back? Who knows? - Help me up.
- Here.
Sit down.
Take it easy, Roy.
You're shivering.
Yeah.
Hey, listen.
What's the matter? ls it the leopard again? lt's a car.
- Must be over there.
- A patrol from the prison.
- Yeah, go see.
Go see.
- No, no, Roy.
- With that leopard out there? - Come on, but keep undercover.
Well, we can't drive through that.
Dubiti village's just about four miles ahead.
l think it's a good place to start.
So this is the real Africa, huh? Ha, ha.
Boy, oh, boy.
Yes, Mike.
But Africa's so big, it's almost any kind of country you can imagine.
- L'll get the tranquilizer gun.
- All right.
- Small or large doses? - Better bring them all.
- We don't know what condition he's in.
- Right.
All right.
Look out, Marsh.
Beautiful, isn't she? Nothing to be afraid of with a python.
They go for smaller prey like, uh, rabbits or monkeys or small deer.
Why, you know that, Jack.
l know it, but l still get a start every time l see one.
Uh-huh.
lf they're harmless to man, why is it everybody all over Africa is afraid? l don't know.
Racial memory, l guess.
You know, after all, our remote ancestors were only about so big.
Boy, oh, boy, what luck.
Like l told you, boss, those three hunters went into the forest that way.
Get to Wameru compound fast.
Hey, Mike, give me a swig of that canteen, will you? Those colobus monkeys are sure handsome, aren't they? Uh-huh.
- Are they afraid of us? Mm-mm.
l doubt it.
They just whoop like that to be sociable.
Let everyone know that everything is secure in his tree.
lf they spotted that python back there that sociable whoop would change to a warning bark pretty quickly.
They know that pythons eat only every six weeks.
And that python looked pretty well-fed.
Oh, wow.
To think that Dr.
Livingstone might have sat right here where l am.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ooh! Ooh! l don't think Dr.
Livingston sat there.
That's full of safari ants.
Come on, Jack.
Give him a hand.
There you go.
Get them.
Right.
Turn around.
There you go.
Get them.
Hey, take a look.
Look over there.
Yeah, they're safari ants, all right.
Look over here.
There's an old bone some hyena stole from a lion.
Yeah, the big animals are pretty messy eaters in the jungle.
lt takes the jackals, the hyenas and the vultures to clean up.
But the ants do the final housekeeping.
Oh, by the way, you'd better shake those clothes out before you put them back on.
Marsh, like l said before who ever thought it all up? Uh.
- Lot of men there, Roy.
- Yeah.
- See that shed? - Yeah.
We'll lock them up in that last one there.
- There's six of them.
- They're not armed, we are.
Look, l'll cover you.
Lf there's any trouble, l'll drop one or two of them.
All right.
What are you saving that for? l'm saving this for Daktari Marsh Tracy.
Wait, wait, wait.
Look.
What is it? Yoo-hoo.
Yoo-hoo.
Everybody, Mrs.
Fusby's here.
Heigh-ho.
Yoo-hoo, where is everybody? Mrs.
Fusby is here.
Come here, Judy, my darling.
Oh, you've grown since l saw you.
Well, Clarence, you too.
l do believe your vision is improving.
How many Mrs.
Fusby's do you see? - Hi, Mrs.
Fusby.
- Hello, darling.
Judy started jumping up and down as soon as she heard your horn.
That wretched little hooter.
l understand that in the colonies l think they call them the States now.
one can have a Klaxon that's sounds a perfect major.
Or even a minor, if one wants that sort of thing.
Or even aroo! Aroo, aroo! Judy, do you like my hat? Well, now, l thought you would.
l wore this in the second act of Lucia di Lammermoor.
lt was back in 19 Well, never mind.
Well, Paula, shall we simply plunge into it? And l want no extraneous noises from you, do you hear me? Nor from you either.
Now, that's exactly the sort of thing l meant.
Well, let's be off now.
Judy, l do think you've put on a little weight.
Off we go.
All right.
Now.
You the boss here? - Yes, but l'm a little busy right now.
- Tell them to hold up on the work.
You heard me.
Hold up.
The man's got a gun.
All right.
Lnside, all of you.
Come on, get in there! Where's the keys to the shed? Where's the keys to the shed? Which one? Get inside.
Come on! Come on, Harp.
Okay.
Judy, that's for dessert.
Now, scat.
Come on, scat.
Go on.
Go, Judy.
Well, my dear, now, l do believe we're ready.
How about a folk song? Oh, my goodness, no.
Goodness, no.
Basics first.
We have to do our scales first, you know.
That's all l've been doing for months.
Discipline, please, dear.
Discipline.
Basics first, that is the cornerstone to success.
Now, here, l'll show you.
Always think big.
lnhale, expand.
Up.
Do.
Re.
Mi.
Fa.
So.
La.
Ti.
Do.
Roy.
What is that? l don't know.
Come on.
La, ti, do.
Now then, my dear, let's do it together, shall we? A lovely, soaring duet.
Up and out, expand, inhale and let's hear it.
Do.
- Re - Re.
- Mi - Mi.
- Fa - Fa.
- So - So.
Stand up.
Straight up.
La.
Ti.
Let's try that one once more, shall we, darling? Ti.
Do.
- Do - Do.
- Re - Re.
You couldn't think a little bigger than that, could you, darling? Mi.
That's quite big enough.
Fa.
Otherwise, my darling, how will you ever be able to do: Think fa bigger.
Fa.
So, Ia.
Roy, you said he only had a tame lion.
There's animals all over this place.
Roy, look, there's an elephant over there.
Well, l've been rather good voiced today, l would say.
All right, dear, now you try it for me now.
Remember, expand.
Think big.
The first word is "do.
" Do.
Roy, let's get out of here.
l don't like animals.
Come on.
Mi.
Fa.
Fa La.
l'll take care of that racket.
La.
Roy, Roy, there's a lion.
There's a lion there, Roy.
No, that's the friendly one.
What is this disturbance? - What is it you want? - Well, little lady, we meet again.
Roy Meadows.
- At your service.
- You know them? And who, may l ask, is Roy Meadows? He's a killer my father captured and sent to prison.
That's right.
He sent me to prison.
Him and his lion sent me there.
Well, then what are you doing here, my man? - Why aren't you in prison? - Roy.
- That lion's looking at me cross-eyed.
- Yeah.
- Does it mean anything? - Shut up.
Where's the doc? He's not here.
He's in the bush somewhere.
Oh.
Now, then, if you value this pet of yours, you'll tell the truth.
Where's the daktari? lf you don't believe me, that's Dad's car you've stolen.
The radio.
Take it easy, Roy.
- Can you get him on the radio? The only radio they took with them is the one on this dash in this car.
Look, little lady.
l'm very sick.
l'm very desperate.
There's a bullet that's still in my shoulder.
And l think the arm's broken.
l need an operation.
- There's nobody here who can operate.
- You're here.
You'll do that operation.
- Me? Like l said.
- L'm not a doctor, not even a nurse.
- You'll do that operation or else - Harp.
- Yeah? Hold your gun on them.
l think l'm gonna All right, Roy.
All right.
pass out.
Nothing.
Nothing since we saw that blood yesterday.
At least we know we winged one going over the stockade.
The reserve is just up ahead.
Perhaps we'd better poke around in there a bit.
Then we'll alert District Commissioner Hedley.
lt is his district.
- Better hold it here for a minute.
- Why? Because of those baboons? You know, if a hunter ever kills one, the others become his life-long enemy.
As long as that hunter's in their territory, they'll tear him to pieces.
Serves the hunter right.
Who would want to shoot a baboon? Ha-ha-ha.
L think that's what the baboons wanna know.
l saw a group of baboons like that once by a river.
This crocodile came along, took one out of the group.
l must have been there for two hours.
Never came to shore again.
When l left, he was still in the middle of the stream and a screaming bunch of baboons is throwing rocks and sticks at him Wait.
Wait a minute.
Something's up there.
Why doesn't he go up after them? He can't.
He's wounded.
Hey.
Hey, that's the leopard we're after.
- Jack, give me a hypo, will you? - Yeah.
- Twenty milligrams? - You better make it 15.
He's lost blood.
Thanks.
Jack, bring the kit.
Over here.
Give me antiseptic and some And a scalpel.
Yeah.
Here you go.
Here, put some antiseptic on there.
Attaboy.
There it is.
Hey, this isn't from a rifle.
lt's from a pistol.
A.
38.
A pistol? What numbskull would shoot a leopard with a pistol? How's the respiration? Almost back to normal.
More pentothal? - Nope.
We're all right.
Let's throw some sulf in there and then we'll stitch him up.
- Right.
- There you go.
Let your calcium get it.
Yeah.
Yeah, you'll feel better when you wake up, old tomcat.
Yeah.
So will all those natives in the village.
With that bullet out of him, he'll be his natural sweet self again.
Roy.
Roy.
Hold on.
What's that? Smelling salts.
What else? l always carry them with me in case of the vapors.
You, whatever your name is, put that thing away and help hold his head up.
- Here we go.
- Now, watch it.
Now, watch it.
Sniff.
Sniff, sniff, sniff.
You didn't do like l said.
You didn't operate.
Well, how could she with you lying about like a sack of potatoes? - You might at least say thank you.
- Yeah.
Meadows, l couldn't.
l don't know how to.
- You watched your father often enough.
- But to do it myself? L just could The authorities say l killed a man once.
Maybe l did, maybe l didn't.
But l certainly wouldn't hesitate to shoot that pet lion of yours.
No, no, don't shoot.
What's this? lt's a walkie-talkie.
Why, Judy, you're great.
Well, that's a great idea.
That's it.
Meadows, there's a chance.
lt's a remote, but if you go along with it, l'll try.
lt does mean letting Clarence go though.
Well, it might be all right.
We've still got this chimp here.
Just in case you've got any tricks in mind.
Clarence, listen to me.
Take this walkie-talkie and go find Dad.
lt's very important.
You have to find Dad.
Okay, come on, Clarence.
Go find daktari.
Put him in the car.
L'll give him something to relieve that pain.
Now, you keep that chimp right where we can see her.
Ugh.
l'm sorry, Judy, but we do what the man says.
Oh, relax, my good man.
Oh, that isn't gonna hurt a bit.
Not a bit.
- Hold this.
- There's your needle.
- Just relax.
- What is this? - Lt's nothing but an ordinary painkiller.
- Nothing but an ordinary painkiller.
Now, let's get this sleeve up.
Up, up, up.
Oh, drat.
This hat.
Stand aside, good man.
Oh, l hate needles.
Ugh.
Big ferocious convict like you afraid of a needle? l must say, you are always in the way.
- You all right, Roy? Uh.
- Come on, hurry up.
- Hey.
Hey, will you get rid of her, please? Please? - You mean shoot her, Roy? - Lock her up in that cage over there.
Those cages are occupied.
What do you expect, a private room? lt's melodrama.
Pure melodrama.
Take your hands off.
And may l get my belongings please? l must say, l'm enjoying myself.
Don't worry, Mrs.
Fusby, the lion cubs won't hurt you.
Little one's only 10 weeks old, the big one's just five months.
Come on, in you go.
Hello, babies.
Oh, now, Mommy's here to play with you.
Come on, sweetie.
Come on to Mommy.
Hello there.
Oh, you're a darling.
Just a darling.
You feel it? Yeah.
Yeah, the pain is starting to go.
Thanks.
Roy, the lion.
l think he stopped.
l thought you said he could find the doctor.
Clarence, take a rest.
CIarence, now Iisten to me.
Take a rest.
Paula.
Paula, are you there? Clarence, you've rested long enough.
Now, get up and go.
Get up and go, CIarence.
Paula, Marsh, are you here? Commissioner Hedley.
Tell him to come in.
You won't hurt him, will you? Not if l don't have to.
Yes, commissioner, l'm in here.
As you were, commissioner.
Roy Meadows.
That's right, Hedley.
Hoped we'd not be troubled with you again.
lt's good to see you, commissioner.
You may come in handy to us.
l came to warn you.
These two escaped from prison.
l think it's fairly obvious to the young lady, Hedley.
Yes, l suppose it is.
What's that, Judy? Nicely done.
Oh, that's a little sneaky one back there.
My dear Mrs.
Fusby, what on earth are you doing in there? Oh, l'm in here by special invitation.
- Shall l lock him up too, Roy? - We might have some use for him.
lt's Clarence on the loudspeaker.
He's got a walkie-talkie on.
Oh.
Strange.
Shouldn't be any lions down here.
Why not? Well, it's a matter of food.
They stay down on the plains where the herds are.
Hey, look, she's coming around.
Well, right on time.
Thirty-eight minutes.
But we'll hang on until, uh, she does come around.
Yeah, maybe we'd better with that lion lurking around, huh? You know, there's something mighty peculiar about a lion being up here.
- Think maybe she has wind of us? - Yeah, it could be, but Clarence, what? What are you doing here, huh? Come here.
What are you doing here? For crying out loud.
- What's that around his neck? - Lt's a walkie-talkie.
Wameru? Come in, Wameru.
Come in, Wameru.
Wameru, can you hear me? - Dad? - Yes, Paula.
- Ls there anything wrong, honey? - Oh, Dad.
Please don't ask any questions.
Roy Meadows is here with another man.
They've stolen your car.
They have guns.
Meadows is wounded.
l have to operate on him.
Tell me how.
Marsh, you can't do that.
Who ever heard of phoning in an operation? - Meadows was armed.
- You could prescribe something to knock him out long enough for us to get down.
He's got a partner.
He's liable to catch on.
Paula.
Paula, can Meadows hear me? - Yes, he can.
- Yeah.
Yeah, l can hear you, doctor.
Well, listen, Meadows.
lf anything happens to Paula She'd better patch me up, doc.
lf she doesn't, l'm done for.
So you tell her, doc.
You'd better tell her good.
l'm ready for the operation, Dad.