Daktari (1966) s01e07 Episode Script

What beautiful diamond.
Gerard.
Look at this one.
Oh, that's a nice one.
Ha, ha.
Okay.
- A car.
- Somebody's coming.
Hey.
Gerard, hide all the diamonds.
Help me with my boots.
Hurry.
- Come on, hurry.
- Sit.
Hey, that's quite a dog you've got here.
A pretty brave one.
- Mister, uh? - Gerard Arnoux.
How do you do? You have a pretty formidable animal yourself, Dr.
Tracy.
Ha, ha.
- Oh, you know me? - Of course we know you.
We heard all about you on the native drums.
They call you the Albert Schweitzer of the animal kingdom.
Well, don't believe everything you hear on those drums.
This is my daughter, Paula.
l'm Jack Dane, Mr.
Arnoux.
Pleasure to meet you, sir.
And this is my colleague, Michel Duval.
- Hello.
- How do you do? l gather from the bones l noticed over there that, uh, you gentlemen are paleontologists.
Well, technically, yes, but realistically, we're bone collectors.
Uh-huh.
- Robbing ancient animal graves.
But all in the pursuit of knowledge.
See, Dr.
Tracy we are on the opposite ends of the spectrum.
You're dealing with the living and we're dealing with the dead.
You know, Mr.
Arnoux, what, uh, surprises me is that how come we never heard you were out here? Well, the authorities know about it.
We have a permit for our excavations.
Well, how come you, uh, picked this area? A friend of ours was here in a camera safari, was a journalist and we thought this would be the perfect spot for our expedition.
How exciting.
Perhaps you and Mr.
Duval could tell us more about it at tea tomorrow.
Yes, by all means.
Thank you very much.
We'd be delighted.
Where's Judy? Judy.
Judy.
Judy, you come out here at once.
Come on.
Oh, shame on you.
Shame on you.
l'm terribly sorry but she's awfully curious.
lt's all right.
- Can we count on you tomorrow? - By all means, thank you.
Good.
Nice to have met you.
- Doctor.
- Mr.
Duval.
- Yeah.
- Gerard.
- Shh, shh.
Okay, Judy.
Go in.
Come on, Clarence.
Hop in.
Prince.
Here.
Prince.
That nosey chimpanzee went thought everything we have.
So? She didn't carry anything out.
And she can't talk.
- So, what difference does it make, huh? - Lt's something.
Those people ask too many questions.
lf they had any idea that we were mining diamonds illegally - Ugh.
- Ha, ha.
Don't worry, mon ami.
Before we are through here there's gonna be more than half-a-million dollars at stake.
Nobody's gonna get in our way.
Nobody.
Judy.
Shame on you for eating Mr.
Arnoux's lovely flowers.
They look like weeds.
Jack, Gerard Arnoux is a gentleman.
He's a creep.
Well, you could pick up a little polish from him.
l have polish.
Judy.
Come with me to the casbah.
- Oh, you - Hey, l was kidding.
L was Roy Kimba's on the shortwave.
Trouble with his plane - wants to speak to your father.
- Never mind, Mike.
L'll get him.
Come on, l'll help you with the table.
After all, everything must be perfect for Monsieur Arnoux.
But of course.
Judy? Judy, you mustn't eat Mr.
Arnoux's food.
Two-four-six to 357, Roy Kimba here.
Will you come in, please? Over.
Hello, Marsh? Marsh is that you? Two-four-six to 357, Roy Kimba here.
Do you read me? Over.
Marsh? What's going on at that crazy zoo of yours, huh? You been drinking jungle juice? Ha, ha.
Aye, Judy, cut out that monkey business.
Hey, go get Marsh or l won't give you a banana the next time l see you.
Judy, come on.
Come on.
Get out of here.
Go on, shoo, shoo.
Roy, this is Marsh.
What's up? Well, my plane isn't, for one thing.
- What's wrong now, old buddy? The fueI pump again.
The rocker arm crystallized and snapped.
When are you gonna turn that old bucket of bolts in for a new helicopter, huh? Ha, ha, when l get through paying for this one.
MeanwhiIe, I'II be a day Iate with my deIivery to you.
- L'd like to talk to him.
- Oh.
Uh, Roy, Mr.
Arnoux, you know, the French paleontologist, is here.
He'd like to talk to you, hang on a minute.
Mr.
Kimba you promised you'd be in my camp tomorrow to pick up a crate.
lt's imperative that you do so.
Well, it'll take a day or two to get parts.
My shipment must be in Nairobi tomorrow night to meet the jet cargo that arrives there.
Well, this is the jungle, Mr.
Arnoux, not Paris.
l'll pay you double if you can meet my schedule.
Okay, Mr.
Arnoux, l'll work through the night and try to build a replacement.
Thank you very much.
We'll expect you then at noon.
Roger.
Marsh, I'II be coming by your pIace first so put some gas on the fieId for me, okay? Thank you.
Oh, and say, put Judy on.
Judy? Yes.
All right.
Just a second.
Judy, you're wanted on the phone.
Judy, you behave yourseIf, you hear? And l shall bring you a nice big chocolate banana.
And tell Clarence l've got an old ox bone for him.
Roger and out.
Hey, Roy.
This Gerard Arnoux guy, doesn't he strike you as kind of a phony? Jack, your hostility's showing.
- No, no.
L'm serious.
- Ha-ha-ha.
Look, you've flown enough scientists in and out of the bush.
l don't know, doesn't he just seem too smooth? Jack, if you're inferring that research scientists are squares l must register a strong protest.
Hey, Judy.
Don't you know that only birds can fly, huh? Ha, ha.
Jack.
Will you put the lid on and take the funnel? Right.
- Thank you.
Sorry l can't stay and visit l've got a couple of impatient Frenchmen waiting for me.
Okay, l'll take a rain check.
ls there anything l can do for you? Oh, yes, indeed there is.
Just make sure that Clarence has not stowed away, okay? - Ha, ha.
- Okay.
Okay, have a good flight, Roy.
Bye.
There we go.
Prince.
Stay, stay.
Stay away from that porcupine.
Come on, Prince.
Come on.
Sit.
Stay.
You leave that porcupine alone, huh? Good dog, yes.
Good boy.
Stay.
These fossils are packed in a proper scientific manner.
- Ln plaster of paris, correct? - Correct.
Scientific Relics.
" Ha, ha.
But you are absolutely sure that the custom official will let it pass without question? Of course.
lt goes to a legitimate museum in Paris.
The custom officials will handle it with extreme care.
From fear they might break something.
So they will not notice this.
Ooh-la-la.
Now, you take these stones, you cut them you polish them, you sell them in the black market and what do you have? A quarter of a million dollar.
And more where this come from.
You guide the plane and l'll finish the rest.
Come along, Prince.
Come on, boy.
Come on.
Now.
Got it.
Bull's-eye.
Ha, ha.
Hey, ha, ha.
lt's not exactly the eye, but you're getting there.
lt won't be long before l'll be as good as Dad at tranquilizing animals.
Sure it won't be long.
All you need is a college degree and a very definite knowledge of the effect of drugs on the animals depending on their size and weight.
Other than that it's a cinch.
Kill joy.
Hey, Judy, leave that.
Clarence, you leave that gun alone.
- Clarence, you thief.
Drop it! - Shame on you.
Yes, what are you doing, huh? What are you doing? What are you doing? For Pete's sake, you know better than to shoot this gun.
You might shoot yourself.
Now just leave it alone.
l'm sorry, but you know Clarence.
He has to be in on everything.
Sometimes l think he has the blood of a fox in him.
Paula, you better put this in the truck where it'll be safe.
How'd you do? - How about that grouping, Marsh? - Daktari.
Daktari.
Hedley's on the shortwave.
Roy has crashed his plane in the jungle just after he took off from the Frenchmen's camp.
Hedley, can you be more specific? That's more than a hundred square miles to search.
Sorry, oId man, that's the Iast position we have.
Say, Hedley, Roy was scheduled to make a pickup at the camp of those French paleontologists.
They may have some idea where his next destination was.
SpIendid idea, Marsh.
Uh, Roy was stiII transmitting from his reguIar aircraft pIan when he crashed so keep trying him, just in case.
Roger, out.
Jack, l want a stretcher and emergency kits.
- Paula, you better give him a hand.
- Are we taking the animals? You can take Judy.
- All right.
Mike, hang on to that.
Take a dozen hypo darts.
- Won't you need the rifle? - No, l've got the pistol in the car.
See anything? No trace of the plane.
There's no sign of smoke which means he could've landed without catching fire.
But he could be lying out there dying or even dead.
And he could be hiking his way out.
Roy's walked away from more crashes than any other bush pilot simply because survival is second nature with him.
You and Mike take to the hills.
We will stick to the lowlands.
See anything, give a holler.
- Right.
- Come on, let's go.
MobiIe unit 191 to 246.
Come in.
Come in.
MobiIe 191 to 246.
Come in.
Come in.
MobiIe 191 to 246.
Come in.
Come in.
- Anything, Dad? - Nope.
Paula, get the map, will you? Mobile 101, this is 357.
HedIey, this is Marsh.
Do you read me? Mobile 101 to 357.
L read you, Marsh.
Where are you, old chap? Paula and l are at, uh, coordinates, 37 and 42.
- Any word? No words but I think I hear animaI sounds over Roy's waveIength.
Very faintIy, though.
Now, you may be closer, so give it a whirl.
Roger.
His mike may be open and still sending.
L'll check it out.
Roger, out.
Now if you're ready, let's go.
- What's that, Dad? - A leopard.
lf there's any blood A hippo.
That means he's down around water.
Yeah, but what kind of water? A river? A lake? A fishing eagle.
There's a fishing eagle.
That means he's down by a lake.
And there's only one lake in that area, right here.
Paula, call Jack and Hedley.
Tell them to meet us at the lake.
Three-five-seven calling mobile unit 101, come in.
Come in, 101.
There it is.
Paula, give me the dart pistol, quick.
Dad, it's not here.
Judy or Clarence must have taken it.
Well, stay put.
Paula, get the medical kit.
Dad, look out! Jack, your timing is terrific.
- How's Roy? - L don't know.
l haven't had a chance to examine him yet.
He's taken a shock.
Head injury.
Pulse rate's good though.
We better get him back to the compound.
- Mike, will you bring up the truck? - Mm-hm.
What about the leopard? Yeah, l better prepare an antidote.
We'll give it to him before we leave.
Now let's check for broken bones.
Mike, give the leopard an antidote, will you? Okay, Mike.
Let's go.
Paula, follow us.
Judy.
Come on, Judy, let's go.
All set, Judy? Daktari, here are the x-rays.
Oh, certainly.
There are no broken bones, but it does look like a minor skull concussion.
Mm-hm.
Looks like a good diagnosis.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he should be all right in about a week or so.
You radio Hedley and tell him the good news, huh? All right.
Judy, no, no, no.
You don't belong on the bed.
Stay where you belong.
And the aircraft lost its undercarriage and skidded on its fuselage for approximately a hundred meters and ended up just short of the lake.
Hello, Arnoux.
- Mr.
Hedley.
- Duval.
- Hey.
- Nasty piece of business.
- Oh, yes.
Oh, yes.
Terrible, terrible.
- How's the pilot? - Dr.
Tracy says he's doing fine.
He's in much better condition than the plane.
He was extremely lucky his aircraft didn't catch on fire.
That would have been a tragedy, tragedy.
By the way, uh we had some cargo in the plane, uh, it's a small crate.
- May we pick it up? - Well, l don't know.
Oh, right here is, uh, our bill of lading from Roy Kimba.
- L got it.
- Well, it's our property.
Well, it's a bit irregular.
Still, what the blazes? You scientific chaps.
We haven't touched a thing, we're still taking photos.
- Come on.
- No, no.
- We don't wanna disturb your work.
- No trouble.
l just wanna make sure you get your right cargo.
Gerard, what do we do now? - Well, we have to bluff our way out.
- But what if we can't? l assume this is yours.
Mr.
Hedley.
We want you to see why we are so concerned about our shipment.
You see, these fossils are very, very delicate.
And we were worried that they got broken in the crash.
- Something missing, chaps? - Yes, a small bag.
Lt lt contained the fossil papers, uh Did the pilot have a bag with him? Only what you see strewn about.
- May we look around? - Go ahead.
Any luck, chaps? These papers are very, very important for us.
They represent weeks and weeks and weeks of work.
Why don't you drop down at Dr.
Tracy's and have a word with Roy? - He may be able to give you a clue.
- Thank you.
Come on, Prince.
Michel, relax.
They suspect nothing.
Besides, the girl will bring the pilot's flight suit.
Paula, how kind of you.
You see, Mr.
Hedley thought that perhaps our papers might be in the pilot's possession.
- Any luck? - Nothing.
Paula, will you tell your father that it's very important that we must talk to the pilot the minute he regains consciousness? - Lt's very important.
- Well, of course.
The diamonds.
Where can they be? Somebody has removed the pouch.
l'm convinced of that.
Somebody? Somebody, but who? Dr.
Tracy? The pilot? Who? - Your father.
What did he say? - Dad just gave Roy a sedative.
All right for you to talk with him, but only a minute.
We'll make it very quick.
My apologies, gentlemen.
l'm sorry l couldn't deliver your cargo.
Well, that's all right.
We're more concerned in recovering part of our shipment.
Did you search the wreckage? Yes, but there is still one article missing.
A small leather pouch.
Did you see it by any chance? No.
The only thing l saw was that tree when it came up and hit me.
l wish l Um Doctor, could we see you outside alone for a second, please? Yes, certainly.
Paula, will you, uh, stay with him? Tombo, l have told you a hundred times to stay off the furniture.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Go on, scoot, scoot, scoot.
When you're housebroken, you can stay in.
All right, gentlemen, what can l do for you? You were at the plane wreck, were you not? Yes, why? Did you see a little pouch? The one we mentioned to the pilot? l'm afraid we were more concerned about a leopard and, uh, getting to Roy.
Well, was Roy near the cargo? Well, he was unconscious.
We rushed him back here for treatment.
Why? What's so important about the pouch? Well, it contained important papers.
Uh, our report.
Well, wouldn't you have your notes from your field book? Well, let's not play any more cat-and-mouse game, Dr.
Tracy.
You know very well what we had in the pouch.
Diamonds.
Oh, l see.
- Diamonds, huh? - Yes, diamonds.
And you were the first one on the wreck, were you not? And maybe you saw our pouch in the crate? We will cut you in for a piece, huh? lf you hand them over now.
Quickly and quietly.
What makes you think, if l had found the diamonds that l didn't turn them over to Officer Hedley? Oh, no.
You never mentioned diamonds to Hedley.
Gentlemen, l'm afraid we're at an impasse or impasse as they say in your country.
So, what do we do now? You will sit in this chair for a while.
You may be a little bit uncomfortable.
At least until we round up the others.
Arnoux, don't you think it's time we called an end to this farce? l assure you it will end as a tragedy unless you bring me the diamonds, immediately.
We've never seen the diamonds.
Not one of us.
You are, all of you, being very stupid now by not cooperating.
We don't know anything about your diamonds.
Somebody took the pouch from the crate at the plane wreck.
lt had to be one of you four.
We were too concerned with Roy to go searching through the cargo.
And we were the only one's there.
Arnoux.
We have no reason to steal your diamonds.
We're scientists, not thieves.
Then l'm afraid someone amongst you has been dabbling in our profession.
l can vouch for everybody in this compound You have someone in mind.
Who is he? Well, it's not a he, it's a she.
Judy.
Oh.
Judy? Who? The chimpanzee? Don't be ridiculous.
She was at the wreck and she has a peculiar habit of picking up things.
Well, untie me and l'll find out.
Ha, ha, no.
All right.
Any calls for help, my friends or if you're not neatly tied-down when we come back your Dr.
Tracy will receive a cold bullet in his warm heart.
Judy.
Judy, come here.
Now, listen, Judy.
Did you see a pouch? A sack with a string? No? Judy, a little sack.
Did you see it at the airplane? Judy, are you telling me the truth? Judy, if you're telling me the truth, l'll give you a banana.
A cup of coffee? All right, Judy, come here, quick.
All right, Judy.
Go get the pouch.
Judy, no.
The pouch.
Judy.
Not a tin can.
A pouch, a bag.
A pouch that you put stones in.
Michel.
Judy, this is very important.
The pouch.
Are you sure you haven't seen it? Doctor, you're bluffing.
The animal had nothing to do with the stones.
Gerard! Look.
All right, doctor.
Where are the rest of the stones? Well, who knows? With Judy playing with them, they could be anywhere.
She might have even buried them.
Or one of the workers might have picked them up.
l will not listen anymore to your fantastic theories, doctor.
l will give you 30 seconds to give me the rest of the diamonds.
Look, you want the diamonds and l want you to have them so you'll leave here without harming anyone.
You have 15 seconds left.
Now, Michel, be reasonable, you don't want a murder on your hands.
Clarence, am l glad to see you.
Yes, l am glad to see you.
Yes, indeed.
Yes.
Good boy.
Good boy.
Here they are.
You give me this pouch, slowly and carefully, doctor.
Or this gun might go off.
Michel's too.
Your hands behind your head, if you please, doctor.
- Are they all there? - L don't know, we'll count.
Okay.
All right.
All right, Otto.
Take him away.
Then come back for him.
l say, old chap, what happened to that biter? Well, l don't know.
l just gave him a shot and, uh, well, l guess he passed out.
When those two Frenchmen walked away without taking their fossils with them, naturally l became suspicious.
Well, l thank you for your astute detective work.
You're the one who did the real detective job, old chap.
Locating a plane by the sounds of animal was a masterpiece of deductive reasoning.
lt was a feat worthy of Sherlock Holmes.
Elementary, my dear Watson.
Think nothing of it, old boy.
Ah, the government will think something of it when l turn them in.
They'll probably offer you some sort of reward a percentage of their value as a finder's fee.
The reward really should go to Judy.
She was the finder.
Hedley, what'll become of the original finders? Ones who found the diamonds in the ground? Oh, those French blokes? Prison, l presume.
l think l found a good home for their dog, if you don't mind.
A farmer in the neighborhood.
He'll take good care of the animal.
That's all right with me.
Of course, you want the money used for saving wildlife.
How did you guess? Judy.
Stand up.
Judy, you touch those diamonds again and l'll take your coffee away.
Oh, Judy.