Flipper (1964–1967): Season 3, Episode 12 - Flipper's Island - full transcript
Porter is trying to get an island named after them and leaves the boys alone on the island to map it out for two days. But what Porter doesn't know is that they are not alone. Danger lurks very near.
- Watch, you almost dropped
that stuff on the radio.
- Sorry.
Dad, isn't it great, I
can hardly believe it.
An island named after us.
- Well, don't jump the gun, Bud.
You know, I've only made a recommendation
I'd be included in the park.
- On.
- Will they really call it Rick's Island?
- Well, a lot's gonna
depend on what kind of a map
you guys come up with.
Are you sure you have everything?
- Sure.
Oh, when will you be back?
- Two or three days.
- I wish you could stay with us, Dad.
- Well, I wish I could too, Bud.
But I promised the inspector
I'd finish those tests.
Now, listen to me, you
boys are gonna be here
alone on this island for
two days and two nights.
- Oh, Dad, we have the
skiff and the radio.
- And plenty of food and supplies.
- And we have Flipper.
After all, he is the one
that found the island, Dad.
- Okay, I know you're good campers.
Now, look, just remember,
if you get into trouble,
use your head and the radio, right?
- Right, Dad.
- Flipper!
Keep your eyes on the boys.
Remember, I'm counting
on you for a good chart.
- Okay, Dad.
- So long, Dad.
- See you boys later.
' Bye, Dad.
- Sandy, isn't this great?
On an island with nobody else on it.
Do you think there might be some treasure?
- Well, maybe.
Look, look, why don't we
get the camp squared away
and everything unpacked,
and then start charting the island.
. Okay"
♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper
♫ Faster than lightning
♫ No one you see is smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper
♫ Lives in a world full of wonder
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea
- Thanks, Flipper, I think
it's pretty good myself.
- Well, the radio's working all right.
What do you say we go for
a walk around the island
before we start our map?
- That sounds like a great idea.
Hey, I wonder what's eating him.
- Let's go see.
- We're coming, Flipper.
Boy, you sure make a lot of noise
over a hump of bushes, Flipper.
- Hey, look at that.
- What?
What is this?
See anything?
- No, I don't like the looks of this.
- Why would anybody
camouflage a boat like this?
- I don't know, but whoever owns it
doesn't want anyone to know it's here.
Let's go ashore and take a look around.
- Sandy, that looks like
it should be a bonfire.
- Yeah.
There's a trail.
- What is this?
- It's cold.
- Sandy?
What's that over there?
What do you suppose it is?
- It's heavy.
Guns!
- Holy mackerel.
What's that?
- It's ammunition, I guess.
We better get out of here.
- Yeah.
- The skiff, the motor's gone!
- The oars, too.
- We gotta call Dad.
- Flipper, we gotta contact Dad.
You keep your eyes open.
What's the matter?
- The mic's gone.
- What?
- Somebody stole the mic.
- We better send Flipper
to get Dad right away.
- No, that would take too long.
We might need him in the meanwhile.
We know there's at least one
other person on this island,
maybe more.
Whoever it is sure doesn't
want us to contact anywhere
or get away.
- What do you think they'd do to us?
- I don't know, but I don't
think we ought to stick around
here and find out.
- Well, we can't get away.
- We can try!
- Listen, Sandy, the nearest piece of land
is miles away from here.
- I'm gonna take their boat.
- What, are you kidding?
- Flipper can do it.
All I have to do is untie the line.
He can tow it out far enough,
and I'll start up the
motor and pick you up.
- Listen, Sandy, wouldn't it be easier
just to have Flipper
tow us in our own skiff?
- No, theirs has a motor, we
can get to Dad much faster.
Now, listen, you watch for me.
When I get out far enough
I'm going to send Flipper
to pick you up, okay?
- Oh, okay.
But what am I supposed
to do in the meantime?
- Hide, but not in here.
Come on.
Right over there.
- Sandy, what if they see ya?
- They better not.
Okay, Flipper, I'm coming.
Now, remember, whatever you
do, just stay out of sight.
- Sandy?
Be careful, please?
- Flipper, wait outside.
I'll untie the boat.
- You come with me.
- I am pleased to make your acquaintance,
but I do not think you're
pleased to make mine.
I'm sorry.
lam Tio Ramon.
My nephew, Pedrito.
He's a good boy, enterprising like you.
What is your name?
Very well, then I talk.
I know you have been
here with a little one.
Your brother, right?
Ah, we are thinking we
are banditos, outlaws.
But there is a difference.
This, this is not for profit.
This is something I must do for my people.
The most important thing in my life.
More important than you,
more important than him,
and more important than the little one.
Do not forget that.
I am not a bad man.
I don't do this thing for pleasure.
Well, now, when is the
big boat coming back?
And where is the little
one with the red hair?
- Flipper, where's Sandy?
Oh, no.
Flipper, we gotta do something.
- It's a pity your brother is not with us.
You make very good sandwich.
- You had no right to take that food.
- A right?
No right.
You're absolutely correct, amigo.
I have had no right to do
too many things for too long.
No right even to live like a human being.
So, me and my people,
we have to change that.
You know, Pedrito's
friend, what they call me?
They call me Tio Terrible
because I am not afraid
to do terrible things.
- Like stealing our food, and our motor?
- No, amigo.
Not afraid to take the rights I don't have
and win them for my people.
What did you think this is all about, hmm?
- Illegal smuggling of arms.
- You are very young.
Like the young, your vision is
very clear, but very narrow.
But you have courage.
You're not afraid to
speak, and that is good.
It's a pity you're not on my side.
- What are you gonna do with me?
I asked you what you're gonna do with me?
- Use you to move these boxes to the beach
with Pedrito tonight.
- And then?
- Use you again to lug them in the plane
when my contact comes to pick us up.
And, my friend, do not try to escape.
There is no place to go, anyway.
- Then will you let me go?
- Now it's my turn not to reply to you.
Okay, it's about time.
- Flipper, Flipper, you gotta help me.
You gotta tow me to Dad.
Flipper, you gotta go faster than this.
Wait, Flipper.
Go for shore.
Okay, Flipper.
Flipper, I want you to go to Dad.
You can get there a lot
faster without me, okay?
Go on.
- Flipper!
This isn't the way back to the island.
Flipper, where are you taking me?
.Dad!
Dad!
- Bud, you all right?
What are you doing here?
- Yeah, I'm all right, Dad.
Flipper towed me here.
- Flipper?
- That's right, Dad.
There's these two guys on
the island smuggling guns.
They took our engine and
they ruined our radio.
- Where's Sandy?
- Dad, Sandy was trying to take their boat
so we could get away, but they caught him.
They didn't hurt him or anything.
- All right, let's go.
- Get in the backseat, Bud.
- Dad?
- Yeah?
- What'll you do if they recognize you?
- Well, Bud, from what you overheard,
I don't think they know who it
is that's gonna pick them up.
At any rate, I'll try and
stay as covered as I can.
But you get down, okay?
- Okay, Dad.
- There it is!
Pedrito.
You cover him while I
go to guide the plane.
- Dad, there's Flipper!
- Bud, get down!
- Shoot him, Pedrito.
Shoot him!
- I don't see why you want
to change the name of the island.
- Sandy, if you can't see why,
I don't see how I'm
gonna make you see why.
- Rick's Island's what we all agreed on.
Now you want to change it.
- Listen, Sandy, Gunrunner's
Island's a good name, too.
And it fits.
- Rick's Island is better.
- Dad, what do you think?
- Well, first of all,
you boys are assuming
that the authorities are gonna
approve my recommendation.
- Oh, come on, Dad, just
give us an idea, will ya?
- All right, I've got an idea
how to end this argument.
Who was it that found the
island in the first place?
- Flipper.
- Right.
- And who was it that got us
out of a pretty tough scrape
just a little while ago?
- Flipper.
- Then why don't we call
it Flipper's Island?
- Yeah!
- I'll buy that.
- How about you, Flipper?
♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea
♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he
♫ Tricks he will do when children are near
♫ And how they laugh when he's near
♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper
♫ Faster than lightning
♫ No one you see is smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea
that stuff on the radio.
- Sorry.
Dad, isn't it great, I
can hardly believe it.
An island named after us.
- Well, don't jump the gun, Bud.
You know, I've only made a recommendation
I'd be included in the park.
- On.
- Will they really call it Rick's Island?
- Well, a lot's gonna
depend on what kind of a map
you guys come up with.
Are you sure you have everything?
- Sure.
Oh, when will you be back?
- Two or three days.
- I wish you could stay with us, Dad.
- Well, I wish I could too, Bud.
But I promised the inspector
I'd finish those tests.
Now, listen to me, you
boys are gonna be here
alone on this island for
two days and two nights.
- Oh, Dad, we have the
skiff and the radio.
- And plenty of food and supplies.
- And we have Flipper.
After all, he is the one
that found the island, Dad.
- Okay, I know you're good campers.
Now, look, just remember,
if you get into trouble,
use your head and the radio, right?
- Right, Dad.
- Flipper!
Keep your eyes on the boys.
Remember, I'm counting
on you for a good chart.
- Okay, Dad.
- So long, Dad.
- See you boys later.
' Bye, Dad.
- Sandy, isn't this great?
On an island with nobody else on it.
Do you think there might be some treasure?
- Well, maybe.
Look, look, why don't we
get the camp squared away
and everything unpacked,
and then start charting the island.
. Okay"
♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper
♫ Faster than lightning
♫ No one you see is smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper
♫ Lives in a world full of wonder
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea
- Thanks, Flipper, I think
it's pretty good myself.
- Well, the radio's working all right.
What do you say we go for
a walk around the island
before we start our map?
- That sounds like a great idea.
Hey, I wonder what's eating him.
- Let's go see.
- We're coming, Flipper.
Boy, you sure make a lot of noise
over a hump of bushes, Flipper.
- Hey, look at that.
- What?
What is this?
See anything?
- No, I don't like the looks of this.
- Why would anybody
camouflage a boat like this?
- I don't know, but whoever owns it
doesn't want anyone to know it's here.
Let's go ashore and take a look around.
- Sandy, that looks like
it should be a bonfire.
- Yeah.
There's a trail.
- What is this?
- It's cold.
- Sandy?
What's that over there?
What do you suppose it is?
- It's heavy.
Guns!
- Holy mackerel.
What's that?
- It's ammunition, I guess.
We better get out of here.
- Yeah.
- The skiff, the motor's gone!
- The oars, too.
- We gotta call Dad.
- Flipper, we gotta contact Dad.
You keep your eyes open.
What's the matter?
- The mic's gone.
- What?
- Somebody stole the mic.
- We better send Flipper
to get Dad right away.
- No, that would take too long.
We might need him in the meanwhile.
We know there's at least one
other person on this island,
maybe more.
Whoever it is sure doesn't
want us to contact anywhere
or get away.
- What do you think they'd do to us?
- I don't know, but I don't
think we ought to stick around
here and find out.
- Well, we can't get away.
- We can try!
- Listen, Sandy, the nearest piece of land
is miles away from here.
- I'm gonna take their boat.
- What, are you kidding?
- Flipper can do it.
All I have to do is untie the line.
He can tow it out far enough,
and I'll start up the
motor and pick you up.
- Listen, Sandy, wouldn't it be easier
just to have Flipper
tow us in our own skiff?
- No, theirs has a motor, we
can get to Dad much faster.
Now, listen, you watch for me.
When I get out far enough
I'm going to send Flipper
to pick you up, okay?
- Oh, okay.
But what am I supposed
to do in the meantime?
- Hide, but not in here.
Come on.
Right over there.
- Sandy, what if they see ya?
- They better not.
Okay, Flipper, I'm coming.
Now, remember, whatever you
do, just stay out of sight.
- Sandy?
Be careful, please?
- Flipper, wait outside.
I'll untie the boat.
- You come with me.
- I am pleased to make your acquaintance,
but I do not think you're
pleased to make mine.
I'm sorry.
lam Tio Ramon.
My nephew, Pedrito.
He's a good boy, enterprising like you.
What is your name?
Very well, then I talk.
I know you have been
here with a little one.
Your brother, right?
Ah, we are thinking we
are banditos, outlaws.
But there is a difference.
This, this is not for profit.
This is something I must do for my people.
The most important thing in my life.
More important than you,
more important than him,
and more important than the little one.
Do not forget that.
I am not a bad man.
I don't do this thing for pleasure.
Well, now, when is the
big boat coming back?
And where is the little
one with the red hair?
- Flipper, where's Sandy?
Oh, no.
Flipper, we gotta do something.
- It's a pity your brother is not with us.
You make very good sandwich.
- You had no right to take that food.
- A right?
No right.
You're absolutely correct, amigo.
I have had no right to do
too many things for too long.
No right even to live like a human being.
So, me and my people,
we have to change that.
You know, Pedrito's
friend, what they call me?
They call me Tio Terrible
because I am not afraid
to do terrible things.
- Like stealing our food, and our motor?
- No, amigo.
Not afraid to take the rights I don't have
and win them for my people.
What did you think this is all about, hmm?
- Illegal smuggling of arms.
- You are very young.
Like the young, your vision is
very clear, but very narrow.
But you have courage.
You're not afraid to
speak, and that is good.
It's a pity you're not on my side.
- What are you gonna do with me?
I asked you what you're gonna do with me?
- Use you to move these boxes to the beach
with Pedrito tonight.
- And then?
- Use you again to lug them in the plane
when my contact comes to pick us up.
And, my friend, do not try to escape.
There is no place to go, anyway.
- Then will you let me go?
- Now it's my turn not to reply to you.
Okay, it's about time.
- Flipper, Flipper, you gotta help me.
You gotta tow me to Dad.
Flipper, you gotta go faster than this.
Wait, Flipper.
Go for shore.
Okay, Flipper.
Flipper, I want you to go to Dad.
You can get there a lot
faster without me, okay?
Go on.
- Flipper!
This isn't the way back to the island.
Flipper, where are you taking me?
.Dad!
Dad!
- Bud, you all right?
What are you doing here?
- Yeah, I'm all right, Dad.
Flipper towed me here.
- Flipper?
- That's right, Dad.
There's these two guys on
the island smuggling guns.
They took our engine and
they ruined our radio.
- Where's Sandy?
- Dad, Sandy was trying to take their boat
so we could get away, but they caught him.
They didn't hurt him or anything.
- All right, let's go.
- Get in the backseat, Bud.
- Dad?
- Yeah?
- What'll you do if they recognize you?
- Well, Bud, from what you overheard,
I don't think they know who it
is that's gonna pick them up.
At any rate, I'll try and
stay as covered as I can.
But you get down, okay?
- Okay, Dad.
- There it is!
Pedrito.
You cover him while I
go to guide the plane.
- Dad, there's Flipper!
- Bud, get down!
- Shoot him, Pedrito.
Shoot him!
- I don't see why you want
to change the name of the island.
- Sandy, if you can't see why,
I don't see how I'm
gonna make you see why.
- Rick's Island's what we all agreed on.
Now you want to change it.
- Listen, Sandy, Gunrunner's
Island's a good name, too.
And it fits.
- Rick's Island is better.
- Dad, what do you think?
- Well, first of all,
you boys are assuming
that the authorities are gonna
approve my recommendation.
- Oh, come on, Dad, just
give us an idea, will ya?
- All right, I've got an idea
how to end this argument.
Who was it that found the
island in the first place?
- Flipper.
- Right.
- And who was it that got us
out of a pretty tough scrape
just a little while ago?
- Flipper.
- Then why don't we call
it Flipper's Island?
- Yeah!
- I'll buy that.
- How about you, Flipper?
♫ Everyone loves the king of the sea
♫ Ever so kind and gentle is he
♫ Tricks he will do when children are near
♫ And how they laugh when he's near
♫ They call him Flipper, Flipper
♫ Faster than lightning
♫ No one you see is smarter than he
♫ And we know Flipper lives
in a world full of wonder
♫ Lying there-under, under the sea