Gorillas in the Mist (1988) - full transcript
Sigourney Weaver stars as Dian Fossey, in this true story about Fossey's study of gorillas, and her efforts to stop the decimation of the endangered apes.
There are, I feel, only two major frontiers left.
One is the exploration of space,
have been carried out in a such visual
way in your country by Colonel Glenn.
The other, is the exploration of the past,
a whole background of geography,
climate, and animal life
which accompanied man's change
from a prehuman to a Homosapiens.
The earliest evidence of man is the work of
nameless human artists to the walls of caves.
Before this, there is no recorded history.
One part of our search has
led us to the study of apes.
And it was existence of the gorilla and
the chimpanzee in Central Africa
led us to believe our early ancestors
lived on this great continent.
These two animals...
...and rarest of all the apes
is the mountain gorilla.
It inhabits the lush, tropical
highlands of Central Africa,
so remote that our last researcher
suffered an attack of appendicitis
and would have died if not for Roz Carr,
an American friend living in Rwanda
who got him to hospital.
These animals greatly outrank
monkeys in intelligence.
But the study of the mountain
gorilla has virtually ceased.
George Schaller's pioneering study in 1960
told us that this, the largest of all the
primates, is in danger of extinction.
His census showed there
were fewer than 500 left.
God knows how many we've lost since then
to the poachers who invade the forests.
Finally,
I'm always being asked, "Why do you do this?
"Why have you spent your
life looking for something
"buried in the past for almost two million years?"
I suppose that the only answer
I can give either you or myself
is simply this,
I want to know who I am and what
it was that made me that way.
Thank you.
- Dr. Leakey.
- Dr. Leakey...
Dr. Leakey, how do you do, my name is Dowd.
- Howard Dowd.
- Oh, yes, yes.
- I'd like you to meet my wife Lucille.
- How do you do?
Lucille's a real fan of yours. We made a little
contribution to this wildlife fund of yours.
- Lucille and I were real pleased...
- Excuse me.
- You're doing just one hell of fine job.
- Well, thank you, Mr. Dowd and Lucille.
We need all the contributions we can get.
- It's all pleasure, doctor.
- Dr. Leakey.
- I'm Dian Fossey. I wrote to you.
- Oh, thank you, Miss...
- Fossey.
- Fossey.
- We appreciate each every contribution.
- No, no, no, no, no.
I wrote to you about working for you in Africa.
Oh you must forgive me, Miss Fossey but
I get great many letters from people...
- DIAN: Yes, but I wrote you six times.
- Dr. Leakey!
- About the gorillas.
- PHOTOGRAPHER: Sir!
- Oh, you're the physical therapist.
- I'm the physical therapist. - Dr. Leakey!
Oh, hello, hello.
- Yes.
- Excuse me, we're having a conv...
Right-o.
Dr. Leakey, I work with handicapped children.
Which means, I spend a hell of lot of time
- trying to get...
- Excuse me. Do you mind?
- Go ahead.
- Thank you.
I spend a hell of time trying to get close to
people who don't like anyone around them.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
I mean, I know I have no formal training,
but I... I love animals, Dr. Leakey.
and I've... I've spent two years
in preveterinary training.
Miss Fossey, I know you're sincere,
but I'm affraid there're a hell
of allegiance cosideration.
- Just liking animals isn't enough.
- You just said in there,
that you need someone right now to take
a census of the mountain gorillas.
What about me? I can count. 1, 2, 3?
Do you really think you can do it, roughing
it in Africa for six months?
Yes.
Yes.
I tell you what. Let me think about it.
How long will you think about it?
Until all the gorillas are gone?
Dr. Leakey, you need me, and I want this job.
Give me this chance.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
Dian!
Hi!
I made it.
You sure did.
It's so exciting.
- Do you have your inoculations certificate?
- Yeah. It's right here, somewhere.
Good trip?
Very interesting.
Thank you. Okay.
[DR. LEAKEY SPEAKING FRENCH]
There are a lot of soldiers around.
Is something special going on?
Soldiers? Oh, yes, I don't know.
I suppose it's because they've been
having some sort of civil war.
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Civil war?
- It's nothing to worry about, really.
- There's a civil war going on here now?
Now, first thing we have is to find porters and
a tracker, then stock you up with provisions.
Come on.
DR. LEAKEY: This is the weekly market.
You'll be able to find everything you need here.
First, let's find the chaps
who'll be your porters.
Ah, there they are. There they are.
- No, no bonbon.
- Bonbon?
No, bonbon, I've got no bonbon.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
What is it?
Some believe a woman living
alone up there has to be mad.
Alone?
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Choose your man.
Your top man. Your tracker.
[SPEAKING SWAHILI HALTINGLY]
Swahili.
Jesus Christ.
Bad hand, good feet.
You speak English?
The priest.
St. Christopher.
Patron saint of travelers and me, too.
What's your name?
Sembagare.
Sembagare. I am the finest tracker.
This man is not good as me.
Him is a good liar.
Me, I'm the best.
Okay. Okay, Sembagare, you're on.
Thank you.
[GIVING ORDERS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Can you help me buy groceries?
Food. Food?
- Oh, food.
- Okay, good.
BOY: Bonbon!
Are you coming? Come on.
Maybe you'll get lucky.
[ALL SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
- Do you want this?
- Oh, candles.
I've got that, I've got five of those.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
All right.
Yours. Part of the package.
You'll need to get around when
you're off the mountain.
- Great.
- Now, look here.
We're here.
The base of Mount Makoua is a four-hour drive.
Leave the jeep here. It'll be quite safe.
Pick up some local porters, climb
here, up to here, then finish here.
Kabara Meadow. George Schaller's cabin's there.
Really? Quite comfortable.
- You mean... we go now?
- Yes, to make it by sundown.
Dr. Leakey, I just spent 35 hours
on four different airplanes.
I think I should at least take a shower.
No one will mind, dear. I put a little
something in there for you.
Thank you. That's very nice of you.
I think, you forgot the rest of my luggage.
There's no room. They'll be sent in a fortnight.
- They will bring the rest again.
- Now wait just a goddamn minute.
I just quit my job, left my fiancé,
to say nothing of my appendix,
and flew halfway around the world.
Now, those cases, contain my hair dryer, my
makeup, my underwear, and my brassieres.
If they don't go, Dr. Leakey, I don't go.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Now for the car.
- Thank you.
- As you can see...
what we have here is a Land
Rover with four-wheel drive.
It's very simple, my dear, where
once you get the hang of it.
Red is low, high ration, yellow is two to
fourth wheel, but just use the black.
That's the clutch, clutch in, first
gear, clutch out, second gear.
Okay?
Good luck, Dian. I have to go.
You're not coming with us?
Of course not. My work's in Tanzania.
I like weekly reports, typed.
Of course, you'll be expected to contribute
material to the National Geographic.
However, I mustn't miss my plane. Good luck.
- Don't forget.
- Dr. Leakey.
DR. LEAKEY: If you have any problems,
get in touch with Roz Carr.
- Dr. Leakey.
- Have fun.
- Is it true there's a civil war going on here?
- Not where we are going, mademoiselle.
[WOMEN SINGING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[DIAN GROANS]
[PANTING]
You must stop.
I'm fine.
Okay.
[GRUNTS]
Buffalo take four days to cross the plain.
- They stop and start and stop and start.
- I said I'm fine.
[PORTERS CHATTERING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON TAPE PLAYER]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
- SEMBAGARE: Mademoiselle, I have more tea.
- Oh, great.
Thank you. That's just what I needed.
Come on in.
I'm just trying to cram more of George
Schaller's gorilla book into my fat head.
Come in. Shut the door. It's freezing.
Is that Dr. George Schaller?
George Schaller? It's David. He's my fiancé.
My future husband.
- That's good, woman, man, children.
- Mmm.
- Do you have a family, Sembagare?
- Once, and no more.
My tribe were killed while I was tracking.
I'm so sorry.
Me, too. Good night.
Good night.
[CHOPPING]
- How big are these night nests?
- I don't know.
- You mean you've forgotten.
- How can I forget? I never knew.
Night nests, Sembagare.
You know, George Schaller's book says,
"We count the gorilla's night nests
in order to get the census."
I don't know about gorillas.
Of course you know about
gorillas. You're a tracker.
Yes, of buffalo, antelope and elephant.
What?
Hey! Hey!
That's great. That's just great.
What the hell have you been
doing for the last five hours?
I've been waiting for you to show me.
Shit.
Oh, shit.
Shit!
DIAN: "March 23, 1967, Dear Dr. Leakey,
"Sembagare and I are doing our
very best to track the gorillas.
"We're covering a lot of ground,
but making very little progress.
"The only guide we've got
is George Schaller's book.
"And so far, we haven't had any luck at all.
"I'm not discouraged, but I'm starting to think
that "I'll spend my entire six months
in Africa without ever seeing any".
DR. LEAKEY: April 22nd. Dear Miss Fossey,
surely you didn't expect the full beggars
to come out the jungle and line up
just so you could count them.
These animals are being methodically
wiped off the face of the Earth.
They hold a clue to the way early man
live in to adapted to his environment.
Which's why it's essential...
- we discover as much as we can to report to...
- I know that.
- I know that and I'm not an imbecile
- I know you're not an imbecile,
but sometimes it does help to put in
mind the elementary steps someone
always overlooks in situations like this.
DIAN: Maybe I'm just no good at this.
Six weeks.
Six whole weeks, and not a
single goddamn gorilla...
[EXCLAIMS]
Shit.
Shit. I sat in shit.
Oh, my God. It's gorilla spoor.
- And it's fresh.
- It most certainly is.
[RUSTLING]
[WHISPERING] Go on.
Just you wait, Louis Leakey. Just you wait.
[WHISPERING] So beautiful.
[GROWLING]
No, mademoiselle, no.
- [ROARING]
- Run!
[DIAN GRUNTS]
Run, run, mademoiselle!
[EXCLAIMS]
[DIAN COUGHING]
Oh, God!
- Are you all right?
- Yes.
What does Schaller's book
say when a gorilla charges?
It says, "Never run".
Oh!
God, he was big. How much
do you think he weighed?
Maybe two or three men.
I'm sorry. It was my fault. I did not do my job.
So fast. I didn't think he could move that fast.
[MEN LAUGHING]
Oh, mademoiselle. No, mademoiselle, no!
Stop it! Stop it! What the hell are you doing?
That's mein, get your hands off! That's
my property! That's my work!
Stop it! Goddamn it!
Sembagare! Tell them, Sembagare! Tell them!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
What's he saying? What's he saying?
Here in Kivu, there's problem. They
don't want white people, here.
It's okay. I have work permit.
More of work permit.
I have work permit. I have permission.
I have permission.
Tell him. Tell him, Sembagare.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
No, no. No, no, no, no! Sembagare!
- I'm not leaving!
- SOLDIER: British people out!
- I'm not British! Look! I'm American!
- Out, out! From now on, I'll shoot!
[SOLDIER LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Are you in charge here? Are you
in charge? Are you in charge?
Get your filthy hands off me!
Goddamn it, get off me!
Find Roz Carr! American woman.
Across the border!
- Sembagare, run! Run!
- I will get Roz Carr.
Run!
[WOMAN CRYING]
[CAR HORN HONKING]
[ARGUING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[SCREAMING]
[GIVING ORDERS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Out, out!
Thanks for the lift!
We don't want any foreign spies in our country.
Arar, Tanga! Let her through!
Don't touch me!
- Passport.
- Ok, ok.
DIAN: "Dr. Leakey, we have been
thrown out of the Congo,
"all my research destroyed.
"This place is a disaster.
Some 'little' civil war.
"For two days now, I've been trying
to reach Roz Carr's plantation..."
Do you know Roz Carr?
"...and I'm afraid I'll never
see Sembagare again."
[CAR HORN HONKING]
Aha, mademoiselle.
I told you. I told you. Sembagare's
a good tracker. The best.
DIAN: I won't ask how you got here.
I'm not sure how I got here. Thanks.
Good God!
What happened to you, child?
Oh, here. You look exhausted. Come inside.
Oh, what happened?
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
DIAN: Come in.
- Oh.
- Mrs. Carr.
I'm just writing to my dear patron, Dr. Leakey,
letting him know that things
have hit a small snag.
Well, pleased to see you're looking better.
Would you like some breakfast?
I'd like to wrap Louis Leakey's
cane around his neck.
Thank you.
My resignation.
- You're leaving?
- What else can I do?
Don't look at me like that.
I can't offer you a job when I
don't have one myself, can I?
Can I?
Now he can't speak English.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Sembagare, it's not like I'm giving up. I
was kicked out. I didn't have a choice.
I'm gonna go home.
I'm gonna buy the sexiest dress I can find,
I'm gonna marry David,
and he's never gonna hear
another peep out of me.
ROZ: There's always war and poverty here,
but I love these people, and
I cannot bear their suffering.
Sometimes it seems so hopeless
that I think I will leave.
I never really decided to stay,
but each time I came up for air, it was
spring, and I was planting again.
The truth is, I love it here. This is my home.
You've really made a life for yourself here.
How far away are those mountains from Kabara?
Oh, not far, really, but Kabara is on the
Congolese side, and the border's closed.
But gorillas don't know borders.
They don't need passports.
Whatever are you talking about?
Dian?
Dian.
Oh, God, that letter! I've got
to stop that awful letter!
Wait! Dian!
DIAN: "Dr. Leakey, we are starting up again,
"this time from the Rwandan side of the,
mountains where there is no civil war.
"Sembagare has put together a new team, and
we begin at daybreak tomorrow morning.
"This time, I have bought a gun.
"And if any civil war comes my way,
it had better watch its ass.
"I'll write again once as soon as
we've established base camp.
"P.S. I'm sending along a few bills
for necessities that were lost..."
DR. LEAKEY: Miss Fossey, if you
expect the National Geographic
to pay for a hair dryer and nail polish,
you have another thing coming.
Now, the first item on the
agenda is a new census.
This time when you begin, I
suggest you follow Schaller.
Try counting night nests as a guide
to how many there might be.
Mount Karissimbi.
Mount Visoke.
- Karisoke Research Centre!
- [PORTERS LAUGHING]
DIAN: "We have established our new
base in excellent gorilla country,
"dense vegetation, steep slopes.
"I have been in contact with
gorilla groups almost daily.
"However the most complete counts
Sembagare and I've been able to make
"is half of what it was seven years ago.
I'm afraid we don't bring very..."
DR. LEAKEY: The number of gorillas that you
report is appallingly low, but I'm not surprise.
At this rate, the poachers will have wiped out
the entire species within the next five years.
That makes it even more urgent
that we get much infomation...
DIAN: "For some time now, I have been
following one particular gorilla group,
"which I shall call 'group four'."
"I have been able to get progressively
closer to the females and the young,
"but the silverback remains aloof.
"He keeps his distance, but watches
everything very carefully.
"I'm moving to within 30 to 60 feet of
them, and they do not seem afraid.
"I'm hoping in time I make to get close enough
to make some kind of real cotact..."
DR. LEAKEY: Dian, the great George Schaller,
who spent his life studying animals in the wild,
was wise enough to keep his distance.
Please be careful. While you ready...
"For the first time, last week, a couple
of them actually approached me.
"They were boisterous and high-spirited.
"The silverback watched with great interest.
He never take his eyes of..."
DR. LEAKEY: Dian, I urge you for
once in your life to be cautious.
George Schaller himself was never able
to make actual physical contact
with a gorilla group,
and the male silverback can
be extremely dangerous.
DIAN: "Last week several young gorillas
played around me for over an hour.
"There aren't words to describe my emotions.
"It's made everything we've
been through worthwhile.
"I suppose my only regret is that, except for
Sembagare, I have no one to share this with.
"To be perfectly frank,
"I think they're quite confused as to my species.
"I've gotten them accustomed
to me by mimicking them,
"and they're fascinated by my facial
grimaces and another actions
"that I wouldn't be caught dead
doing in front of anyone.
"I feel like a complete fool, but this
technique seems to be working,
"and because of the increased proximity,
"I've been able to observe a
lot never recorded before."
[GORILLA ROARING]
DR. LEAKEY: Miss Fossey, that was
undoubtedly the most foolhardy,
the most harebrained, lunatic
thing I've ever heard of.
However, since you seem
to have been successful,
congratulations.
It is an amazing accomplishment,
and I'm quite proud of you.
The National Geographic has approved new
funding and I extended your work permit.
I cannot tell you how pleased I am
that you're staying on with us.
I am, of course, sorry for your
young man back in the States,
but I'm sure if you pointed out how much
he was saving each month on candy bars
and cigarettes, not to mention
lipstick and shampoo,
I'm certain his disappointment
would be tempered.
Hey! Don't you dare cook Moosey.
- What?
- No further.
- What is it?
- Sumu.
Black magic.
Black magic?
What is all this?
Batwa cemetery.
Oh!
No! Put it back!
The stones around the grave keep
the soul in the ground at peace.
The circle joins two souls and
makes them one forever.
Batwa. We have disturbed their burial place.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Oh, shit.
They want you to kneel down.
Do it!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
He wants to touch your hair. Let him.
What was that all about?
Your hair is color of fire. They
think you are a witch.
Oh, yeah?
They wouldn't be the first.
DIAN: I got it!
I got my work permit renewed, after
four hours of batting my eyelashes.
I need a treat, so I'll be back.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
This is for ashtray.
Where did you get this? Mama, Mama.
Sembagare!
Sembagare!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
I just want to ask you...
I just want to talk to you!
They say this park is protected.
These goddamn Batwa spring
traps everywhere.
Some protection. No animal is safe around here.
Beautiful!
That's what it's all about.
[THUDDING]
Oh, no!
[WHIMPERING]
SEMBAGARE: His back is broken
from the fall. He'll be dead soon.
- In 30 minutes, it will be all over.
- That's too long.
The Batwa did this!
And their fathers and their fathers before them.
And their sons and their grandsons after them.
I don't think so.
If they want a witch, I'll give them a witch.
[YAWNING]
Fourth and fifth digits webbed.
Hello, Digit.
[GORILLA SOUNDS PLAYING]
[IMITATING GORILLA]
This here is her house.
- Thanks.
- Great to be your helper.
- Good night.
- Good night, sir.
[GORILLA SOUNDS PLAYING]
What the hell's going on in there?
What is that?
[DIAN IMITATING GORILLA]
Hello?
Hello?
That's pretty good. Had me fooled.
Hi. I'm Bob Campbell.
Rotten lousy weather you have up here.
Sorry I'm a day-and-a-half late.
I sent a message from Kigali.
No?
That's Africa for you.
What was the message?
I'm here to photograph your apes.
They're mountain gorillas.
You can't take photographs.
Who the hell did you say you were?
Bob Campbell, National Geographic.
I've got to... get warm.
This might explain things for you.
Cold enough in here to hang meat. Here you go.
I'll save you the eyestrain.
National Geographic want pictures.
It's a matter of not biting
the hand that feeds you.
Do you have any experience
with animals, Mr. Campbell?
In 1950, I was bitten by a snake in the outback.
There you go. I was 20.
- In '58, a Bengal tiger, Shivpuri, India.
- Gee, they don't seem to like you very much.
No, they... don't.
In '64, I went through the ice in Alaska. I had
to tread 48-degree water for too long at time.
I've had a pathological fear
of the cold ever since.
You can bunk with Rushemba,
first tent on the right.
- Good night.
- Good night.
BOB: Ow! Bloody woman
and her monkeys. Fuck!
- What is this stuff?
- DIAN: Good morning, Mr. Campbell.
Are you having trouble?
Nettles aren't nearly as dramatic
as Bengal tigers.
They bloody hurt.
Oh, if you think they hurt now,
just wait a few hours.
Thanks.
You can come with us, but no pictures, and
you have to stay at least 30 feet back,
so put those away.
Now.
Yes, ma'am.
[GORILLA WHIMPERING]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Damn.
Gorillas get caught in these traps.
Sembagare and I went through
four days ago. We cut 11 traps.
So, imagine a carefree animal.
Goddamn Batwa!
- You can't put all the blame on the Batwa.
- No?
They've been feeding their families
like this... for generations.
If you're going to blame anyone, you
can blame the doctor in Miami.
He's the one who hires the
bloke that hires the Batwa.
Batwa get to feed their kids, the
middleman gets a silk shirt,
and the doctor gets a gorilla-hand
ashtray for his coffee table
- and a great big gorilla head for his wall.
- Well, I can't get to the damn doctor in Miami.
You ever been to a doctor's office that didn't
have a copy of National Geographic?
Have you?
When you photograph,
no sudden movements, stay low,
no pointing or waving, that frightens them,
and not too much direct eye contact,
or the silverback may charge.
If he does charge, stand your ground.
Never, ever run from a gorilla.
- And don't scratch.
- You have any calamine lotion, do you?
Better than that, my own brew.
Is it true you're a witch?
That's what the Batwa say.
It just looks like guacamole.
Great.
The latest in modern medicine.
Well.
- Good night.
- Good night.
Thanks for the lesson in gorilla etiquette.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
What?
It means "brightness and light".
Sembagare, really.
[DIAN IMITATING GORILLA]
[WHISPERING] Obviously they know I'm not
a gorilla, but the sound reassures them.
So, what do you want?
[WHISPERING] The gorillas.
You with the gorillas.
I'll go... I'll go over there.
- All right.
- They don't know you.
They've never seen a tripod,
so... move very slowly.
Hello, Tiger. Hello.
Wow.
[ROARING]
[EXCLAIMING]
[WHISPERING] Break off one of
those stems and pretend to eat.
Act submissive.
[WHISPERING] I've never been
so submissive in my life.
Where is he?
Losing interest.
Could you go over to him?
Digit?
Now?
Is it all right?
[IMITATING GORILLA]
I'm starting to be able to tell the
difference between them now.
Yeah. They...
As you can see, they're all very different,
- and they all have very different characters.
- No two have the same noseprint, right?
Right.
Effie and... Marquesa, they're...
Marquesa has...
The bridge of her nose has a curve.
She has a... curve.
- She has a line.
- A beautiful line.
A beautiful shape.
A beautiful curve.
I was amazed when he came so close to you.
Digit and I have a strange connection.
He has no peers in his group.
He's alone. I understand that.
Why is that?
It's nice to see a married man who can sew.
How'd you know I was married?
The night you arrived,
you shook the rain off your
parka outside the door
so you wouldn't get the floor wet.
Does it matter?
Apparently not.
Wow.
How'd you go? Get everything on your list?
Eight more Halloween masks.
Only red ones, or ones with red hair.
I won't even ask why, but I'll try
to get some for you in Nairobi.
Look what you've got.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Oh, look what I did. Oh, sorry.
- What else are you going to do in Nairobi?
- What do you mean?
Nothing. Never mind.
Looks bad for flying.
- It'll pass.
- I don't think so.
Those puddle-jumpers can fly through anything.
I know these storms. High
winds and heavy rainfall.
- You shouldn't be flying. I'm right about this.
- Yes, you are right.
I will be seeing my wife.
I know. I know.
I love you.
What?
Oh, no!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Oh, my God.
Oh, no... oh, no.
No!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
DIAN: No!
[DIAN CURSING]
- Daveed, I believe you're a good boy.
- [SEGUMBARE INTERPRETING]
And I have lovely goodies
here for such a good boy.
You can have it if you tell
me where they took her.
Tie him.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[PROTESTING]
[GORILLAS GROWLING PLAYING ON TAPE]
Turn him around.
[GROWLING]
Bring him to me!
You tell me!
Tell me! Tell me, damn it!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
SEMBAGARE: The man who buys the animals...
Yes?
- He wanted the baby gorilla.
- Yes.
- He stays at hotel.
- Where? Where?
At Ruhengeri.
Good boy.
[HORN HONKING]
Wait here.
[CHILDREN LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Usheppe, get the tire iron.
Come on.
Oh, shit.
[WHIMPERING]
Come here, oh, come here.
How could they do this?
Claude Van Vecten!
Which one of you is Claude Van Vecten?
Are you responsible for kidnapping this animal?
- How dare you break into my private property...
- If I ever see you
or your meat wagon again, you be lucky
if you don't end up in wooden box!
Bill of sale, madam, from the
Minister of the Interior.
- I am going to have you arrested.
- You try it. Just try it. You piece of shit!
Bastard.
Mukara, wait! Wait!
My name's Dian Fossey. I have to talk to you.
I know who you are. You're the American
woman who live with the gorillas.
I don't live with them. I study
them. I count them.
And today there's six less
than they were yesterday.
- I don't understand.
- Give her to me.
- This baby gorilla's been sold to a zoo broker.
- Yes, I know. I sold it. Just...
Why?
Money. Lots of it.
Five gorillas were killed in the
bargain protecting this baby.
They were murdered by poachers.
The gorilla population is now
half what it was 10 years ago.
Your problem is decreasing gorillas.
Mine is increasing people.
We're on opposite sides of the same problem.
- Can I have this water?
- Sure.
That kind of money provides people
with food, clothing, shoes, medicine.
Necessities.
Do you want to compare priorities, Miss Fossey?
No, I don't.
The Virungas are supposed to be protected
parks land. Where's the protection?
Protection is expensive.
That's your problem, make
new laws, raise taxes,
but give my gorillas the protection
they entitle to.
Your gorillas?
As I recall, Miss Fossey,
you're a visitor on a yearly
renewable work permit.
Now, I don't believe that status entitles
you to make government policy.
What about... this poor baby?
This animal's going to die in 24 hours.
You'll be giving back all that money
because Van Vecten doesn't look like
the kind of guy to buy dead property.
I could try to make her well enough
to make that journey... if...
If?
If you give me five men to train as
rangers, antipoaching rangers.
Four men, and you pay half their salary.
Three men, and you pay all their salary.
Agreed.
Got to eat something, you know.
I know you're hungry.
Just try. Just try a little. Just a little bit, no?
It's got lots of vitamins in it.
Taste it?
What about this? This is good. Smell
familiar? Does this smell like home?
Pucker, don't do this to me.
Look at this. Mmm. Very tasty.
You don't want any, though, do you?
Do you want some?
Come on. That a girl. That a girl.
That's pretty good.
Now you can sleep.
Dian Fossey!
Pucker, look who's here!
Pucker, meet Bob.
Hey, it's my turn!
- Jealous.
- Yeah.
[DOG WHIMPERING]
The tub's for me.
A daily scalding might just
make this climate bearable.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
You were meant to be a surprise.
That's a girl.
- Oh, she's adorable.
- And this is for you.
- Beautiful. Look at you.
- You like her?
Oh, she's so beautiful.
Break these strips up and burn them.
They're new.
I've hired antipoaching patrols.
My woman's the only woman in the
world with her own private army.
I have so much to tell you. Pucker
was kidnapped. I had...
I know all about it, and so does most of
Rwanda, Nairobi, London and New York.
You, my beautiful, are becoming a legend.
Would you like to go to the movies?
- Can I have a bath first?
- You can have a bath second.
Sembagare.
Why am I in this movie so much?
Hey.
'Cause you're the story. You're
what people are interested in.
- The gorilla girl.
- Aha!
Makes me look like some real weirdo.
Well, crawling around the mud in this
climate, after a bunch of gorillas
might just be perceived as weird.
- Do you think I'm weird?
- Yes, I do. Absolutely. Without question.
I also think... you are wonderful.
- Which comes first, weird or wonderful?
- Weird.
The gorillas look great.
Look at that.
See anyone you know?
I've asked my wife for a divorce.
Did you hear me?
- I'm scared.
- You're scared?
I'm about to marry a girl who may have gorillas
for bridesmaids, and you're scared?
You should be scared.
You know what I want?
I want to get this film finished, be well
paid for it, go to a warm climate,
and be around to make love to
you on your 64th birthday.
Good dog. Yes. Good dog.
Dian!
What?
Well, he's got the shape of the face,
- but he missed on the nose.
- That's not funny.
Where'd they get your hair?
Well, I haven't seen my hairbrush for a while...
- I thought...
- You've got these Batwa very upset.
I'm not running for Miss Congeniality.
That a good girl.
Be a minute.
We've got to go now. Van Vecten's
men are ready to leave.
Come on. Come on.
Yes, look at this yummy
drink. Come on. Let's go.
Up you go. Yes. That's a good girl.
What a good girl you are. Yes.
Yes, that's it.
Here's some nice cabbage.
- [PUCKER SQUEALING IN FEAR]
- Okay, Pucker, in we go. That's a girl.
Come on. Here we go.
DIAN: There's a nest inside
here and lots of water.
It's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. Really.
Be brave. Be brave.
- Off you go.
- I'm sorry.
- Go on.
- I'm sorry!
Pucker.
God!
You know, if you could mix
up a shrinking potion,
Witch Fossey,
we could sit on this twig, float
down this stream, into the Nile,
go through the Sudan, past Cairo,
pop out into the Mediterranean
somewhere near Alexandria,
where I'd buy a bottle of red vino,
and I would toast your beauty.
Dian, we can't stay on this mountain forever.
Sure, we can.
The pictures are selling very
well. Job offers are coming.
But the gorillas are here.
I'm here.
We'll get someone good to look
of the center part of the year,
one of those researchers who writes to you.
I don't want a lot of snotty little scientists
with slide rules up their back pockets
- peering at my gorillas.
- Now, hold on. I'm talking about six months.
Six months here.
Six months out of here. That's all.
You know, I just can't imagine not
being out with them every day,
seeing their faces, hearing
them and smelling them.
Every time I think I know everything
there is to know about a gorilla,
the next day something
completely new happens.
I'm hooked.
How can I give that up?
Yeah.
BOB: Dian?
This is from the Geographic.
I've been offered a job in Borneo.
They want you to come, too.
Studying primates.
Your field.
Dian?
- Is the projector well-packed?
- Yeah, well.
Good.
That's both the tripods there, is it?
Look, I got to go, all right?
It's a job.
I can't go the rest of my life without working.
I'm sorry.
I'm not like you. I can't spend
the rest of my life up here.
I wish I could.
I'm sorry.
I'll write to you soon, but in the meantime,
can you please get a two-way radio
so I can at least talk to you?
If you go,
don't write.
Please don't come back.
BOB: Thank you. Let's go.
[CRYING]
You're our very first research
students, actually, guinea pigs.
It's a long road. Here. Indeed.
- What's in here, rocks?
- [SPEAKING FRENCH]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Mukara.
What did Van Vecten want?
It seems the Cologne Zoo
wants another gorilla.
But don't worry, I told him that's all over.
One gorilla wasn't enough?
Pucker died a year after delivery.
Good for Pucker.
Well, when Leakey died, I almost
chucked it all and went home.
Then I thought of my gorillas, you know.
I haven't lost one to poachers
in over 10 months.
That's a record.
- What does "toto nyoka" mean?
- Who called you that?
Nwaka.
It means, affectionately, "the worm boy".
Great.
Look around you, kids. This is
as close to God as you get.
Let's go.
[ROARING]
[WHISPERING] Get down!
I don't know this one.
No, don't move.
Oh, it's just a bluff.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
[INTERPRETER SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Kim? Good morning.
Lovely weather. Better put your hood on.
You'll go with Sembagare and me today.
Good morning, Brendan.
Larry, you're late again.
It is not my job to get you up in
the morning. Be on time, please.
Brendan and Larry, you go with the rangers.
Dominique, show them how to cut traps.
In fact, all of you need to be
much better with the panga.
- So, today use the don...
- Dian, may I have a word, please?
What is it?
I know how important it is to cut traps,
but I am so close to getting my data
for the birth frequency graph.
Brendan, you know the rule.
You cannot research them unless you put
in the time to protect them, all right?
Now, no more of that "me-itis". Let's go.
Simba's much bigger.
Yeah.
She's due in about two weeks now.
Check out the proud father over there, Digit.
Is the infant quailing?
That's right. You've been doing your homework.
In your book, you mention a
great lobelia fern near here.
Could I see it?
- Giant lobelia.
- Giant lobelia.
Could I see it... today with you?
Sure.
Digit's group.
Go on.
[PANTING]
DIAN: Digit.
No, mademoiselle.
What about the rest of the group?
They got away.
[MUFFLED PLEADING]
Tell him he no longer has
his courage or his men.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Ruhengeri Police.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
How could you do that?
I don't care what that man did.
This isn't your private kingdom.
That was sick.
You think I'm sick?
Am I a murderer?
Did I do this?
This won't stop until those
butchers are stopped!
[KIM CRYING]
What are you crying about? I have
been wasting my time with you.
DIAN: Sembagare!
[RANGERS CHATTERING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[DIAN GRUNTING]
- I found these.
- Leave them.
Mademoiselle. Mademoiselle!
- No, mademoiselle. This too much.
- No. Get out of there!
- No, no. this too much. No!
- Stop it!
- I mean it! Stay out.
- No. No. No, mademoiselle! No!
- Stop it, stay out of there. I mean it!
- No. No.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
DIAN: Kim?
Kim, I'd like to talk to you, please.
May I come in?
Oh, God.
This isn't a summer camp.
If you want to crawl into arm of each other's
beds, you can do it somewhere else, all right?
You're fired!
You can't fire us! We work for the
Leakey Foundation not you!
Get off my mountain!
What are you staring at, what are you gooking
at, you stupid, lazy fucking wogs?
If you'd were doning your job, none
of this would've happened.
You must not speak to them that
way, they work hard for you.
I pay them. I can talk to
them the way I want to.
- You don't pay them that much.
- I pay them plenty.
Sembagare, whose side are you on?
I'm on your side.
I'm always on your side, mademoiselle.
But you have made me ashamed of you.
They took his head and his hands.
They took his head.
I heard Digit's group last night,
near the west ravine.
Oh, get on with it, Sembagare.
[COUGHING]
Hi, Maggie. I'm back. Hello.
How are you? Ha?
Yes.
Oh, yes.
I don't see Simba.
Simba's not here.
Oh, no.
No?
No. Nothing.
Simba.
Hi.
Hello. Hello.
Fourth and fifth digits webbed. I know you.
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Nice ring, Van Vecten.
Zoo sale profits?
Miss Fossey, where did you
see your first wild animal?
The zoo, wasn't it?
You like this ring? You want to
keep the hand this ring is on?
If I see or hear or smell you
anywhere near my gorillas,
you'll be writing with your other hand, and I'll
have a new ashtray, you're understand me?
- You're understand me?
- You are mad.
- Please. You are mad.
- Yes, I am mad. I am crazy.
You go too far.
- Good! Good!
- Don't push me.
I'll push you off the Earth, you murderer!
[COUGHING]
Mukara was here this afternoon.
He is very angry with you.
He says you're telling people there's
typhoid here on the mountain.
Mademoiselle, the government
needs money from the tourists.
They get very mad if you
scare these people away.
Mukara also said last week you
shot a tourist in the meadow.
Now, that is not true. I shot
way over their heads.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
They are not going to turn this
mountain into a goddamn zoo.
They're not.
Mademoiselle, Mukara told me to tell you
if you continue to do this, they will
not give you a new work permit.
Did he, now?
A three-year work permit issued 10 days ago.
They can't touch me now.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON TAPE PLAYER]
That's a beauty.
[RATTLING]
[ANIMAL CHATTERING]
You're beautiful.
Yes.
Wow.
"For as much as it hath pleased almighty God
with His great mercy to take unto himself
"the soul of our dear sister here departed.
"Almighty God,
"who did send so far Thine only son to
seek and to save that which was lost,
- "look down in mercy."
- ROZ: Oh, I wish...
you'd leave Karisoke for good before it kills you.
DIAN: Now, I always thought I'd go
back to the States sooner or later.
I really expected to get married, have children.
ROZ: Instead, you've got a
mountain full of gorillas
who wouldn't be alive if it weren't for you.
One is the exploration of space,
have been carried out in a such visual
way in your country by Colonel Glenn.
The other, is the exploration of the past,
a whole background of geography,
climate, and animal life
which accompanied man's change
from a prehuman to a Homosapiens.
The earliest evidence of man is the work of
nameless human artists to the walls of caves.
Before this, there is no recorded history.
One part of our search has
led us to the study of apes.
And it was existence of the gorilla and
the chimpanzee in Central Africa
led us to believe our early ancestors
lived on this great continent.
These two animals...
...and rarest of all the apes
is the mountain gorilla.
It inhabits the lush, tropical
highlands of Central Africa,
so remote that our last researcher
suffered an attack of appendicitis
and would have died if not for Roz Carr,
an American friend living in Rwanda
who got him to hospital.
These animals greatly outrank
monkeys in intelligence.
But the study of the mountain
gorilla has virtually ceased.
George Schaller's pioneering study in 1960
told us that this, the largest of all the
primates, is in danger of extinction.
His census showed there
were fewer than 500 left.
God knows how many we've lost since then
to the poachers who invade the forests.
Finally,
I'm always being asked, "Why do you do this?
"Why have you spent your
life looking for something
"buried in the past for almost two million years?"
I suppose that the only answer
I can give either you or myself
is simply this,
I want to know who I am and what
it was that made me that way.
Thank you.
- Dr. Leakey.
- Dr. Leakey...
Dr. Leakey, how do you do, my name is Dowd.
- Howard Dowd.
- Oh, yes, yes.
- I'd like you to meet my wife Lucille.
- How do you do?
Lucille's a real fan of yours. We made a little
contribution to this wildlife fund of yours.
- Lucille and I were real pleased...
- Excuse me.
- You're doing just one hell of fine job.
- Well, thank you, Mr. Dowd and Lucille.
We need all the contributions we can get.
- It's all pleasure, doctor.
- Dr. Leakey.
- I'm Dian Fossey. I wrote to you.
- Oh, thank you, Miss...
- Fossey.
- Fossey.
- We appreciate each every contribution.
- No, no, no, no, no.
I wrote to you about working for you in Africa.
Oh you must forgive me, Miss Fossey but
I get great many letters from people...
- DIAN: Yes, but I wrote you six times.
- Dr. Leakey!
- About the gorillas.
- PHOTOGRAPHER: Sir!
- Oh, you're the physical therapist.
- I'm the physical therapist. - Dr. Leakey!
Oh, hello, hello.
- Yes.
- Excuse me, we're having a conv...
Right-o.
Dr. Leakey, I work with handicapped children.
Which means, I spend a hell of lot of time
- trying to get...
- Excuse me. Do you mind?
- Go ahead.
- Thank you.
I spend a hell of time trying to get close to
people who don't like anyone around them.
- Thank you.
- Thank you.
I mean, I know I have no formal training,
but I... I love animals, Dr. Leakey.
and I've... I've spent two years
in preveterinary training.
Miss Fossey, I know you're sincere,
but I'm affraid there're a hell
of allegiance cosideration.
- Just liking animals isn't enough.
- You just said in there,
that you need someone right now to take
a census of the mountain gorillas.
What about me? I can count. 1, 2, 3?
Do you really think you can do it, roughing
it in Africa for six months?
Yes.
Yes.
I tell you what. Let me think about it.
How long will you think about it?
Until all the gorillas are gone?
Dr. Leakey, you need me, and I want this job.
Give me this chance.
[CROWD CLAMORING]
Dian!
Hi!
I made it.
You sure did.
It's so exciting.
- Do you have your inoculations certificate?
- Yeah. It's right here, somewhere.
Good trip?
Very interesting.
Thank you. Okay.
[DR. LEAKEY SPEAKING FRENCH]
There are a lot of soldiers around.
Is something special going on?
Soldiers? Oh, yes, I don't know.
I suppose it's because they've been
having some sort of civil war.
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Civil war?
- It's nothing to worry about, really.
- There's a civil war going on here now?
Now, first thing we have is to find porters and
a tracker, then stock you up with provisions.
Come on.
DR. LEAKEY: This is the weekly market.
You'll be able to find everything you need here.
First, let's find the chaps
who'll be your porters.
Ah, there they are. There they are.
- No, no bonbon.
- Bonbon?
No, bonbon, I've got no bonbon.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
What is it?
Some believe a woman living
alone up there has to be mad.
Alone?
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Choose your man.
Your top man. Your tracker.
[SPEAKING SWAHILI HALTINGLY]
Swahili.
Jesus Christ.
Bad hand, good feet.
You speak English?
The priest.
St. Christopher.
Patron saint of travelers and me, too.
What's your name?
Sembagare.
Sembagare. I am the finest tracker.
This man is not good as me.
Him is a good liar.
Me, I'm the best.
Okay. Okay, Sembagare, you're on.
Thank you.
[GIVING ORDERS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Can you help me buy groceries?
Food. Food?
- Oh, food.
- Okay, good.
BOY: Bonbon!
Are you coming? Come on.
Maybe you'll get lucky.
[ALL SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
- Do you want this?
- Oh, candles.
I've got that, I've got five of those.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
All right.
Yours. Part of the package.
You'll need to get around when
you're off the mountain.
- Great.
- Now, look here.
We're here.
The base of Mount Makoua is a four-hour drive.
Leave the jeep here. It'll be quite safe.
Pick up some local porters, climb
here, up to here, then finish here.
Kabara Meadow. George Schaller's cabin's there.
Really? Quite comfortable.
- You mean... we go now?
- Yes, to make it by sundown.
Dr. Leakey, I just spent 35 hours
on four different airplanes.
I think I should at least take a shower.
No one will mind, dear. I put a little
something in there for you.
Thank you. That's very nice of you.
I think, you forgot the rest of my luggage.
There's no room. They'll be sent in a fortnight.
- They will bring the rest again.
- Now wait just a goddamn minute.
I just quit my job, left my fiancé,
to say nothing of my appendix,
and flew halfway around the world.
Now, those cases, contain my hair dryer, my
makeup, my underwear, and my brassieres.
If they don't go, Dr. Leakey, I don't go.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Now for the car.
- Thank you.
- As you can see...
what we have here is a Land
Rover with four-wheel drive.
It's very simple, my dear, where
once you get the hang of it.
Red is low, high ration, yellow is two to
fourth wheel, but just use the black.
That's the clutch, clutch in, first
gear, clutch out, second gear.
Okay?
Good luck, Dian. I have to go.
You're not coming with us?
Of course not. My work's in Tanzania.
I like weekly reports, typed.
Of course, you'll be expected to contribute
material to the National Geographic.
However, I mustn't miss my plane. Good luck.
- Don't forget.
- Dr. Leakey.
DR. LEAKEY: If you have any problems,
get in touch with Roz Carr.
- Dr. Leakey.
- Have fun.
- Is it true there's a civil war going on here?
- Not where we are going, mademoiselle.
[WOMEN SINGING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[DIAN GROANS]
[PANTING]
You must stop.
I'm fine.
Okay.
[GRUNTS]
Buffalo take four days to cross the plain.
- They stop and start and stop and start.
- I said I'm fine.
[PORTERS CHATTERING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON TAPE PLAYER]
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
- SEMBAGARE: Mademoiselle, I have more tea.
- Oh, great.
Thank you. That's just what I needed.
Come on in.
I'm just trying to cram more of George
Schaller's gorilla book into my fat head.
Come in. Shut the door. It's freezing.
Is that Dr. George Schaller?
George Schaller? It's David. He's my fiancé.
My future husband.
- That's good, woman, man, children.
- Mmm.
- Do you have a family, Sembagare?
- Once, and no more.
My tribe were killed while I was tracking.
I'm so sorry.
Me, too. Good night.
Good night.
[CHOPPING]
- How big are these night nests?
- I don't know.
- You mean you've forgotten.
- How can I forget? I never knew.
Night nests, Sembagare.
You know, George Schaller's book says,
"We count the gorilla's night nests
in order to get the census."
I don't know about gorillas.
Of course you know about
gorillas. You're a tracker.
Yes, of buffalo, antelope and elephant.
What?
Hey! Hey!
That's great. That's just great.
What the hell have you been
doing for the last five hours?
I've been waiting for you to show me.
Shit.
Oh, shit.
Shit!
DIAN: "March 23, 1967, Dear Dr. Leakey,
"Sembagare and I are doing our
very best to track the gorillas.
"We're covering a lot of ground,
but making very little progress.
"The only guide we've got
is George Schaller's book.
"And so far, we haven't had any luck at all.
"I'm not discouraged, but I'm starting to think
that "I'll spend my entire six months
in Africa without ever seeing any".
DR. LEAKEY: April 22nd. Dear Miss Fossey,
surely you didn't expect the full beggars
to come out the jungle and line up
just so you could count them.
These animals are being methodically
wiped off the face of the Earth.
They hold a clue to the way early man
live in to adapted to his environment.
Which's why it's essential...
- we discover as much as we can to report to...
- I know that.
- I know that and I'm not an imbecile
- I know you're not an imbecile,
but sometimes it does help to put in
mind the elementary steps someone
always overlooks in situations like this.
DIAN: Maybe I'm just no good at this.
Six weeks.
Six whole weeks, and not a
single goddamn gorilla...
[EXCLAIMS]
Shit.
Shit. I sat in shit.
Oh, my God. It's gorilla spoor.
- And it's fresh.
- It most certainly is.
[RUSTLING]
[WHISPERING] Go on.
Just you wait, Louis Leakey. Just you wait.
[WHISPERING] So beautiful.
[GROWLING]
No, mademoiselle, no.
- [ROARING]
- Run!
[DIAN GRUNTS]
Run, run, mademoiselle!
[EXCLAIMS]
[DIAN COUGHING]
Oh, God!
- Are you all right?
- Yes.
What does Schaller's book
say when a gorilla charges?
It says, "Never run".
Oh!
God, he was big. How much
do you think he weighed?
Maybe two or three men.
I'm sorry. It was my fault. I did not do my job.
So fast. I didn't think he could move that fast.
[MEN LAUGHING]
Oh, mademoiselle. No, mademoiselle, no!
Stop it! Stop it! What the hell are you doing?
That's mein, get your hands off! That's
my property! That's my work!
Stop it! Goddamn it!
Sembagare! Tell them, Sembagare! Tell them!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
What's he saying? What's he saying?
Here in Kivu, there's problem. They
don't want white people, here.
It's okay. I have work permit.
More of work permit.
I have work permit. I have permission.
I have permission.
Tell him. Tell him, Sembagare.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
No, no. No, no, no, no! Sembagare!
- I'm not leaving!
- SOLDIER: British people out!
- I'm not British! Look! I'm American!
- Out, out! From now on, I'll shoot!
[SOLDIER LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Are you in charge here? Are you
in charge? Are you in charge?
Get your filthy hands off me!
Goddamn it, get off me!
Find Roz Carr! American woman.
Across the border!
- Sembagare, run! Run!
- I will get Roz Carr.
Run!
[WOMAN CRYING]
[CAR HORN HONKING]
[ARGUING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[SCREAMING]
[GIVING ORDERS IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Out, out!
Thanks for the lift!
We don't want any foreign spies in our country.
Arar, Tanga! Let her through!
Don't touch me!
- Passport.
- Ok, ok.
DIAN: "Dr. Leakey, we have been
thrown out of the Congo,
"all my research destroyed.
"This place is a disaster.
Some 'little' civil war.
"For two days now, I've been trying
to reach Roz Carr's plantation..."
Do you know Roz Carr?
"...and I'm afraid I'll never
see Sembagare again."
[CAR HORN HONKING]
Aha, mademoiselle.
I told you. I told you. Sembagare's
a good tracker. The best.
DIAN: I won't ask how you got here.
I'm not sure how I got here. Thanks.
Good God!
What happened to you, child?
Oh, here. You look exhausted. Come inside.
Oh, what happened?
[KNOCKING AT DOOR]
DIAN: Come in.
- Oh.
- Mrs. Carr.
I'm just writing to my dear patron, Dr. Leakey,
letting him know that things
have hit a small snag.
Well, pleased to see you're looking better.
Would you like some breakfast?
I'd like to wrap Louis Leakey's
cane around his neck.
Thank you.
My resignation.
- You're leaving?
- What else can I do?
Don't look at me like that.
I can't offer you a job when I
don't have one myself, can I?
Can I?
Now he can't speak English.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Sembagare, it's not like I'm giving up. I
was kicked out. I didn't have a choice.
I'm gonna go home.
I'm gonna buy the sexiest dress I can find,
I'm gonna marry David,
and he's never gonna hear
another peep out of me.
ROZ: There's always war and poverty here,
but I love these people, and
I cannot bear their suffering.
Sometimes it seems so hopeless
that I think I will leave.
I never really decided to stay,
but each time I came up for air, it was
spring, and I was planting again.
The truth is, I love it here. This is my home.
You've really made a life for yourself here.
How far away are those mountains from Kabara?
Oh, not far, really, but Kabara is on the
Congolese side, and the border's closed.
But gorillas don't know borders.
They don't need passports.
Whatever are you talking about?
Dian?
Dian.
Oh, God, that letter! I've got
to stop that awful letter!
Wait! Dian!
DIAN: "Dr. Leakey, we are starting up again,
"this time from the Rwandan side of the,
mountains where there is no civil war.
"Sembagare has put together a new team, and
we begin at daybreak tomorrow morning.
"This time, I have bought a gun.
"And if any civil war comes my way,
it had better watch its ass.
"I'll write again once as soon as
we've established base camp.
"P.S. I'm sending along a few bills
for necessities that were lost..."
DR. LEAKEY: Miss Fossey, if you
expect the National Geographic
to pay for a hair dryer and nail polish,
you have another thing coming.
Now, the first item on the
agenda is a new census.
This time when you begin, I
suggest you follow Schaller.
Try counting night nests as a guide
to how many there might be.
Mount Karissimbi.
Mount Visoke.
- Karisoke Research Centre!
- [PORTERS LAUGHING]
DIAN: "We have established our new
base in excellent gorilla country,
"dense vegetation, steep slopes.
"I have been in contact with
gorilla groups almost daily.
"However the most complete counts
Sembagare and I've been able to make
"is half of what it was seven years ago.
I'm afraid we don't bring very..."
DR. LEAKEY: The number of gorillas that you
report is appallingly low, but I'm not surprise.
At this rate, the poachers will have wiped out
the entire species within the next five years.
That makes it even more urgent
that we get much infomation...
DIAN: "For some time now, I have been
following one particular gorilla group,
"which I shall call 'group four'."
"I have been able to get progressively
closer to the females and the young,
"but the silverback remains aloof.
"He keeps his distance, but watches
everything very carefully.
"I'm moving to within 30 to 60 feet of
them, and they do not seem afraid.
"I'm hoping in time I make to get close enough
to make some kind of real cotact..."
DR. LEAKEY: Dian, the great George Schaller,
who spent his life studying animals in the wild,
was wise enough to keep his distance.
Please be careful. While you ready...
"For the first time, last week, a couple
of them actually approached me.
"They were boisterous and high-spirited.
"The silverback watched with great interest.
He never take his eyes of..."
DR. LEAKEY: Dian, I urge you for
once in your life to be cautious.
George Schaller himself was never able
to make actual physical contact
with a gorilla group,
and the male silverback can
be extremely dangerous.
DIAN: "Last week several young gorillas
played around me for over an hour.
"There aren't words to describe my emotions.
"It's made everything we've
been through worthwhile.
"I suppose my only regret is that, except for
Sembagare, I have no one to share this with.
"To be perfectly frank,
"I think they're quite confused as to my species.
"I've gotten them accustomed
to me by mimicking them,
"and they're fascinated by my facial
grimaces and another actions
"that I wouldn't be caught dead
doing in front of anyone.
"I feel like a complete fool, but this
technique seems to be working,
"and because of the increased proximity,
"I've been able to observe a
lot never recorded before."
[GORILLA ROARING]
DR. LEAKEY: Miss Fossey, that was
undoubtedly the most foolhardy,
the most harebrained, lunatic
thing I've ever heard of.
However, since you seem
to have been successful,
congratulations.
It is an amazing accomplishment,
and I'm quite proud of you.
The National Geographic has approved new
funding and I extended your work permit.
I cannot tell you how pleased I am
that you're staying on with us.
I am, of course, sorry for your
young man back in the States,
but I'm sure if you pointed out how much
he was saving each month on candy bars
and cigarettes, not to mention
lipstick and shampoo,
I'm certain his disappointment
would be tempered.
Hey! Don't you dare cook Moosey.
- What?
- No further.
- What is it?
- Sumu.
Black magic.
Black magic?
What is all this?
Batwa cemetery.
Oh!
No! Put it back!
The stones around the grave keep
the soul in the ground at peace.
The circle joins two souls and
makes them one forever.
Batwa. We have disturbed their burial place.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Oh, shit.
They want you to kneel down.
Do it!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
He wants to touch your hair. Let him.
What was that all about?
Your hair is color of fire. They
think you are a witch.
Oh, yeah?
They wouldn't be the first.
DIAN: I got it!
I got my work permit renewed, after
four hours of batting my eyelashes.
I need a treat, so I'll be back.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
This is for ashtray.
Where did you get this? Mama, Mama.
Sembagare!
Sembagare!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
I just want to ask you...
I just want to talk to you!
They say this park is protected.
These goddamn Batwa spring
traps everywhere.
Some protection. No animal is safe around here.
Beautiful!
That's what it's all about.
[THUDDING]
Oh, no!
[WHIMPERING]
SEMBAGARE: His back is broken
from the fall. He'll be dead soon.
- In 30 minutes, it will be all over.
- That's too long.
The Batwa did this!
And their fathers and their fathers before them.
And their sons and their grandsons after them.
I don't think so.
If they want a witch, I'll give them a witch.
[YAWNING]
Fourth and fifth digits webbed.
Hello, Digit.
[GORILLA SOUNDS PLAYING]
[IMITATING GORILLA]
This here is her house.
- Thanks.
- Great to be your helper.
- Good night.
- Good night, sir.
[GORILLA SOUNDS PLAYING]
What the hell's going on in there?
What is that?
[DIAN IMITATING GORILLA]
Hello?
Hello?
That's pretty good. Had me fooled.
Hi. I'm Bob Campbell.
Rotten lousy weather you have up here.
Sorry I'm a day-and-a-half late.
I sent a message from Kigali.
No?
That's Africa for you.
What was the message?
I'm here to photograph your apes.
They're mountain gorillas.
You can't take photographs.
Who the hell did you say you were?
Bob Campbell, National Geographic.
I've got to... get warm.
This might explain things for you.
Cold enough in here to hang meat. Here you go.
I'll save you the eyestrain.
National Geographic want pictures.
It's a matter of not biting
the hand that feeds you.
Do you have any experience
with animals, Mr. Campbell?
In 1950, I was bitten by a snake in the outback.
There you go. I was 20.
- In '58, a Bengal tiger, Shivpuri, India.
- Gee, they don't seem to like you very much.
No, they... don't.
In '64, I went through the ice in Alaska. I had
to tread 48-degree water for too long at time.
I've had a pathological fear
of the cold ever since.
You can bunk with Rushemba,
first tent on the right.
- Good night.
- Good night.
BOB: Ow! Bloody woman
and her monkeys. Fuck!
- What is this stuff?
- DIAN: Good morning, Mr. Campbell.
Are you having trouble?
Nettles aren't nearly as dramatic
as Bengal tigers.
They bloody hurt.
Oh, if you think they hurt now,
just wait a few hours.
Thanks.
You can come with us, but no pictures, and
you have to stay at least 30 feet back,
so put those away.
Now.
Yes, ma'am.
[GORILLA WHIMPERING]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Damn.
Gorillas get caught in these traps.
Sembagare and I went through
four days ago. We cut 11 traps.
So, imagine a carefree animal.
Goddamn Batwa!
- You can't put all the blame on the Batwa.
- No?
They've been feeding their families
like this... for generations.
If you're going to blame anyone, you
can blame the doctor in Miami.
He's the one who hires the
bloke that hires the Batwa.
Batwa get to feed their kids, the
middleman gets a silk shirt,
and the doctor gets a gorilla-hand
ashtray for his coffee table
- and a great big gorilla head for his wall.
- Well, I can't get to the damn doctor in Miami.
You ever been to a doctor's office that didn't
have a copy of National Geographic?
Have you?
When you photograph,
no sudden movements, stay low,
no pointing or waving, that frightens them,
and not too much direct eye contact,
or the silverback may charge.
If he does charge, stand your ground.
Never, ever run from a gorilla.
- And don't scratch.
- You have any calamine lotion, do you?
Better than that, my own brew.
Is it true you're a witch?
That's what the Batwa say.
It just looks like guacamole.
Great.
The latest in modern medicine.
Well.
- Good night.
- Good night.
Thanks for the lesson in gorilla etiquette.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
What?
It means "brightness and light".
Sembagare, really.
[DIAN IMITATING GORILLA]
[WHISPERING] Obviously they know I'm not
a gorilla, but the sound reassures them.
So, what do you want?
[WHISPERING] The gorillas.
You with the gorillas.
I'll go... I'll go over there.
- All right.
- They don't know you.
They've never seen a tripod,
so... move very slowly.
Hello, Tiger. Hello.
Wow.
[ROARING]
[EXCLAIMING]
[WHISPERING] Break off one of
those stems and pretend to eat.
Act submissive.
[WHISPERING] I've never been
so submissive in my life.
Where is he?
Losing interest.
Could you go over to him?
Digit?
Now?
Is it all right?
[IMITATING GORILLA]
I'm starting to be able to tell the
difference between them now.
Yeah. They...
As you can see, they're all very different,
- and they all have very different characters.
- No two have the same noseprint, right?
Right.
Effie and... Marquesa, they're...
Marquesa has...
The bridge of her nose has a curve.
She has a... curve.
- She has a line.
- A beautiful line.
A beautiful shape.
A beautiful curve.
I was amazed when he came so close to you.
Digit and I have a strange connection.
He has no peers in his group.
He's alone. I understand that.
Why is that?
It's nice to see a married man who can sew.
How'd you know I was married?
The night you arrived,
you shook the rain off your
parka outside the door
so you wouldn't get the floor wet.
Does it matter?
Apparently not.
Wow.
How'd you go? Get everything on your list?
Eight more Halloween masks.
Only red ones, or ones with red hair.
I won't even ask why, but I'll try
to get some for you in Nairobi.
Look what you've got.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Oh, look what I did. Oh, sorry.
- What else are you going to do in Nairobi?
- What do you mean?
Nothing. Never mind.
Looks bad for flying.
- It'll pass.
- I don't think so.
Those puddle-jumpers can fly through anything.
I know these storms. High
winds and heavy rainfall.
- You shouldn't be flying. I'm right about this.
- Yes, you are right.
I will be seeing my wife.
I know. I know.
I love you.
What?
Oh, no!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Oh, my God.
Oh, no... oh, no.
No!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
DIAN: No!
[DIAN CURSING]
- Daveed, I believe you're a good boy.
- [SEGUMBARE INTERPRETING]
And I have lovely goodies
here for such a good boy.
You can have it if you tell
me where they took her.
Tie him.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[PROTESTING]
[GORILLAS GROWLING PLAYING ON TAPE]
Turn him around.
[GROWLING]
Bring him to me!
You tell me!
Tell me! Tell me, damn it!
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
SEMBAGARE: The man who buys the animals...
Yes?
- He wanted the baby gorilla.
- Yes.
- He stays at hotel.
- Where? Where?
At Ruhengeri.
Good boy.
[HORN HONKING]
Wait here.
[CHILDREN LAUGHING]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Usheppe, get the tire iron.
Come on.
Oh, shit.
[WHIMPERING]
Come here, oh, come here.
How could they do this?
Claude Van Vecten!
Which one of you is Claude Van Vecten?
Are you responsible for kidnapping this animal?
- How dare you break into my private property...
- If I ever see you
or your meat wagon again, you be lucky
if you don't end up in wooden box!
Bill of sale, madam, from the
Minister of the Interior.
- I am going to have you arrested.
- You try it. Just try it. You piece of shit!
Bastard.
Mukara, wait! Wait!
My name's Dian Fossey. I have to talk to you.
I know who you are. You're the American
woman who live with the gorillas.
I don't live with them. I study
them. I count them.
And today there's six less
than they were yesterday.
- I don't understand.
- Give her to me.
- This baby gorilla's been sold to a zoo broker.
- Yes, I know. I sold it. Just...
Why?
Money. Lots of it.
Five gorillas were killed in the
bargain protecting this baby.
They were murdered by poachers.
The gorilla population is now
half what it was 10 years ago.
Your problem is decreasing gorillas.
Mine is increasing people.
We're on opposite sides of the same problem.
- Can I have this water?
- Sure.
That kind of money provides people
with food, clothing, shoes, medicine.
Necessities.
Do you want to compare priorities, Miss Fossey?
No, I don't.
The Virungas are supposed to be protected
parks land. Where's the protection?
Protection is expensive.
That's your problem, make
new laws, raise taxes,
but give my gorillas the protection
they entitle to.
Your gorillas?
As I recall, Miss Fossey,
you're a visitor on a yearly
renewable work permit.
Now, I don't believe that status entitles
you to make government policy.
What about... this poor baby?
This animal's going to die in 24 hours.
You'll be giving back all that money
because Van Vecten doesn't look like
the kind of guy to buy dead property.
I could try to make her well enough
to make that journey... if...
If?
If you give me five men to train as
rangers, antipoaching rangers.
Four men, and you pay half their salary.
Three men, and you pay all their salary.
Agreed.
Got to eat something, you know.
I know you're hungry.
Just try. Just try a little. Just a little bit, no?
It's got lots of vitamins in it.
Taste it?
What about this? This is good. Smell
familiar? Does this smell like home?
Pucker, don't do this to me.
Look at this. Mmm. Very tasty.
You don't want any, though, do you?
Do you want some?
Come on. That a girl. That a girl.
That's pretty good.
Now you can sleep.
Dian Fossey!
Pucker, look who's here!
Pucker, meet Bob.
Hey, it's my turn!
- Jealous.
- Yeah.
[DOG WHIMPERING]
The tub's for me.
A daily scalding might just
make this climate bearable.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
You were meant to be a surprise.
That's a girl.
- Oh, she's adorable.
- And this is for you.
- Beautiful. Look at you.
- You like her?
Oh, she's so beautiful.
Break these strips up and burn them.
They're new.
I've hired antipoaching patrols.
My woman's the only woman in the
world with her own private army.
I have so much to tell you. Pucker
was kidnapped. I had...
I know all about it, and so does most of
Rwanda, Nairobi, London and New York.
You, my beautiful, are becoming a legend.
Would you like to go to the movies?
- Can I have a bath first?
- You can have a bath second.
Sembagare.
Why am I in this movie so much?
Hey.
'Cause you're the story. You're
what people are interested in.
- The gorilla girl.
- Aha!
Makes me look like some real weirdo.
Well, crawling around the mud in this
climate, after a bunch of gorillas
might just be perceived as weird.
- Do you think I'm weird?
- Yes, I do. Absolutely. Without question.
I also think... you are wonderful.
- Which comes first, weird or wonderful?
- Weird.
The gorillas look great.
Look at that.
See anyone you know?
I've asked my wife for a divorce.
Did you hear me?
- I'm scared.
- You're scared?
I'm about to marry a girl who may have gorillas
for bridesmaids, and you're scared?
You should be scared.
You know what I want?
I want to get this film finished, be well
paid for it, go to a warm climate,
and be around to make love to
you on your 64th birthday.
Good dog. Yes. Good dog.
Dian!
What?
Well, he's got the shape of the face,
- but he missed on the nose.
- That's not funny.
Where'd they get your hair?
Well, I haven't seen my hairbrush for a while...
- I thought...
- You've got these Batwa very upset.
I'm not running for Miss Congeniality.
That a good girl.
Be a minute.
We've got to go now. Van Vecten's
men are ready to leave.
Come on. Come on.
Yes, look at this yummy
drink. Come on. Let's go.
Up you go. Yes. That's a good girl.
What a good girl you are. Yes.
Yes, that's it.
Here's some nice cabbage.
- [PUCKER SQUEALING IN FEAR]
- Okay, Pucker, in we go. That's a girl.
Come on. Here we go.
DIAN: There's a nest inside
here and lots of water.
It's going to be fine. It's going to be fine. Really.
Be brave. Be brave.
- Off you go.
- I'm sorry.
- Go on.
- I'm sorry!
Pucker.
God!
You know, if you could mix
up a shrinking potion,
Witch Fossey,
we could sit on this twig, float
down this stream, into the Nile,
go through the Sudan, past Cairo,
pop out into the Mediterranean
somewhere near Alexandria,
where I'd buy a bottle of red vino,
and I would toast your beauty.
Dian, we can't stay on this mountain forever.
Sure, we can.
The pictures are selling very
well. Job offers are coming.
But the gorillas are here.
I'm here.
We'll get someone good to look
of the center part of the year,
one of those researchers who writes to you.
I don't want a lot of snotty little scientists
with slide rules up their back pockets
- peering at my gorillas.
- Now, hold on. I'm talking about six months.
Six months here.
Six months out of here. That's all.
You know, I just can't imagine not
being out with them every day,
seeing their faces, hearing
them and smelling them.
Every time I think I know everything
there is to know about a gorilla,
the next day something
completely new happens.
I'm hooked.
How can I give that up?
Yeah.
BOB: Dian?
This is from the Geographic.
I've been offered a job in Borneo.
They want you to come, too.
Studying primates.
Your field.
Dian?
- Is the projector well-packed?
- Yeah, well.
Good.
That's both the tripods there, is it?
Look, I got to go, all right?
It's a job.
I can't go the rest of my life without working.
I'm sorry.
I'm not like you. I can't spend
the rest of my life up here.
I wish I could.
I'm sorry.
I'll write to you soon, but in the meantime,
can you please get a two-way radio
so I can at least talk to you?
If you go,
don't write.
Please don't come back.
BOB: Thank you. Let's go.
[CRYING]
You're our very first research
students, actually, guinea pigs.
It's a long road. Here. Indeed.
- What's in here, rocks?
- [SPEAKING FRENCH]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Mukara.
What did Van Vecten want?
It seems the Cologne Zoo
wants another gorilla.
But don't worry, I told him that's all over.
One gorilla wasn't enough?
Pucker died a year after delivery.
Good for Pucker.
Well, when Leakey died, I almost
chucked it all and went home.
Then I thought of my gorillas, you know.
I haven't lost one to poachers
in over 10 months.
That's a record.
- What does "toto nyoka" mean?
- Who called you that?
Nwaka.
It means, affectionately, "the worm boy".
Great.
Look around you, kids. This is
as close to God as you get.
Let's go.
[ROARING]
[WHISPERING] Get down!
I don't know this one.
No, don't move.
Oh, it's just a bluff.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
[INTERPRETER SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Kim? Good morning.
Lovely weather. Better put your hood on.
You'll go with Sembagare and me today.
Good morning, Brendan.
Larry, you're late again.
It is not my job to get you up in
the morning. Be on time, please.
Brendan and Larry, you go with the rangers.
Dominique, show them how to cut traps.
In fact, all of you need to be
much better with the panga.
- So, today use the don...
- Dian, may I have a word, please?
What is it?
I know how important it is to cut traps,
but I am so close to getting my data
for the birth frequency graph.
Brendan, you know the rule.
You cannot research them unless you put
in the time to protect them, all right?
Now, no more of that "me-itis". Let's go.
Simba's much bigger.
Yeah.
She's due in about two weeks now.
Check out the proud father over there, Digit.
Is the infant quailing?
That's right. You've been doing your homework.
In your book, you mention a
great lobelia fern near here.
Could I see it?
- Giant lobelia.
- Giant lobelia.
Could I see it... today with you?
Sure.
Digit's group.
Go on.
[PANTING]
DIAN: Digit.
No, mademoiselle.
What about the rest of the group?
They got away.
[MUFFLED PLEADING]
Tell him he no longer has
his courage or his men.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
Ruhengeri Police.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
How could you do that?
I don't care what that man did.
This isn't your private kingdom.
That was sick.
You think I'm sick?
Am I a murderer?
Did I do this?
This won't stop until those
butchers are stopped!
[KIM CRYING]
What are you crying about? I have
been wasting my time with you.
DIAN: Sembagare!
[RANGERS CHATTERING IN LOCAL LANGUAGE]
[DIAN GRUNTING]
- I found these.
- Leave them.
Mademoiselle. Mademoiselle!
- No, mademoiselle. This too much.
- No. Get out of there!
- No, no. this too much. No!
- Stop it!
- I mean it! Stay out.
- No. No. No, mademoiselle! No!
- Stop it, stay out of there. I mean it!
- No. No.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
DIAN: Kim?
Kim, I'd like to talk to you, please.
May I come in?
Oh, God.
This isn't a summer camp.
If you want to crawl into arm of each other's
beds, you can do it somewhere else, all right?
You're fired!
You can't fire us! We work for the
Leakey Foundation not you!
Get off my mountain!
What are you staring at, what are you gooking
at, you stupid, lazy fucking wogs?
If you'd were doning your job, none
of this would've happened.
You must not speak to them that
way, they work hard for you.
I pay them. I can talk to
them the way I want to.
- You don't pay them that much.
- I pay them plenty.
Sembagare, whose side are you on?
I'm on your side.
I'm always on your side, mademoiselle.
But you have made me ashamed of you.
They took his head and his hands.
They took his head.
I heard Digit's group last night,
near the west ravine.
Oh, get on with it, Sembagare.
[COUGHING]
Hi, Maggie. I'm back. Hello.
How are you? Ha?
Yes.
Oh, yes.
I don't see Simba.
Simba's not here.
Oh, no.
No?
No. Nothing.
Simba.
Hi.
Hello. Hello.
Fourth and fifth digits webbed. I know you.
[SPEAKING FRENCH]
Nice ring, Van Vecten.
Zoo sale profits?
Miss Fossey, where did you
see your first wild animal?
The zoo, wasn't it?
You like this ring? You want to
keep the hand this ring is on?
If I see or hear or smell you
anywhere near my gorillas,
you'll be writing with your other hand, and I'll
have a new ashtray, you're understand me?
- You're understand me?
- You are mad.
- Please. You are mad.
- Yes, I am mad. I am crazy.
You go too far.
- Good! Good!
- Don't push me.
I'll push you off the Earth, you murderer!
[COUGHING]
Mukara was here this afternoon.
He is very angry with you.
He says you're telling people there's
typhoid here on the mountain.
Mademoiselle, the government
needs money from the tourists.
They get very mad if you
scare these people away.
Mukara also said last week you
shot a tourist in the meadow.
Now, that is not true. I shot
way over their heads.
[SPEAKING LOCAL LANGUAGE]
They are not going to turn this
mountain into a goddamn zoo.
They're not.
Mademoiselle, Mukara told me to tell you
if you continue to do this, they will
not give you a new work permit.
Did he, now?
A three-year work permit issued 10 days ago.
They can't touch me now.
[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING ON TAPE PLAYER]
That's a beauty.
[RATTLING]
[ANIMAL CHATTERING]
You're beautiful.
Yes.
Wow.
"For as much as it hath pleased almighty God
with His great mercy to take unto himself
"the soul of our dear sister here departed.
"Almighty God,
"who did send so far Thine only son to
seek and to save that which was lost,
- "look down in mercy."
- ROZ: Oh, I wish...
you'd leave Karisoke for good before it kills you.
DIAN: Now, I always thought I'd go
back to the States sooner or later.
I really expected to get married, have children.
ROZ: Instead, you've got a
mountain full of gorillas
who wouldn't be alive if it weren't for you.