Savage Kingdom (2016–2019): Season 1, Episode 1 - Leopard's Rock - full transcript

[howling]

♪

[thunder]

I am life.

I am death.

♪

I give everything.

[snarls]

But I take all.

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I am the Savage Kingdom.



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♪

There is one that rises
above them all.

Saba, the phantom assassin,
watches everything.

Living alone, hunting alone.

[squawk]

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Stealth is her greatest weapon.

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[clucking]

[clucking]

[roars]

[squawking]

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She can kill almost anything.

But birds are her speciality.

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She is perfect,

but for a small nick to her ear.

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[trumpets]

[bellows]

The march of giants
means the rains are coming.

This means it's time
for more cubs.

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But killers control her lands,
looking for weakness.

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They'll show no mercy to you,
Saba, or any of your young.

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♪

[squealing]

But Saba has
her place of safety.

Leopard Rock.

Within its rocks and crevices,

she can simply...

disappear.

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It is your place to have
and hide young.

If your offspring live on,

your bloodline lives on.

Nothing else matters.

Leopard Rock is fortress
and home.

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[thunder]

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[thunder]

The wet season is here.

Saba has seen it
a dozen times before.

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The rain that baptizes
a new generation.

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Infusing new life.

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Plenty of life.

[chirping]

Plenty of food.

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It is time to have a family.

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Your time to give up
your solitude

and share your castle
with a king.

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[purring]

♪

[growls]

♪

[hissing]

[groaning]

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[birds calling]

[birds calling]

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The rains move on,
leaving life everywhere.

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With perfect timing,
Saba reveals her secret.

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Her daughter takes bold steps.

Her more timid son
stays close to the den.

Their different natures
foretell their future.

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[panting]

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The cubs are safe for now,

sheltered from the murder
and mayhem below.

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Saba has work to do.

She must leave her newborns
home alone.

She has to secure her borders.

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Every hill hides a killer.

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Saba has a rival with a curled
tail and deeply torn ears.

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If Torn Ear finds your cubs,
she will kill them.

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You would do the same.

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[chirping]

[roaring]

Saba sends a clear message.

[roaring]

[roaring]

This is mine. Back off.

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She has Torn Ear's
full attention.

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Leopard Rock.

Saba's stony fortress.

This rare stronghold
for the innocent

gives her cubs
a few carefree moments.

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Keep a watchful eye
over them, Saba.

Your family is everything.

♪

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It is only you and this rock
that can protect them.

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♪

[yipping]

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Outlaws rampage
through their land below.

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Even Saba's king trembles.

Dogs are a lone hunter's
worst enemy.

♪

[barking]

[growls]

[yipping]

Catch you and they will
tear you apart!

[squeaking]

There's a long and bloody
history here.

♪

This hatred runs deep.

[growls]

[hisses]

[snarls]

[growls]

Frustrated and
impatient to kill,

the gang spreads out
to search Leopard Rock.

♪

♪

Freeze.

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Don't move a whisker.

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[squawk]

♪

[bird squawks]

The kingdom shows mercy.

The dogs pass like a bad dream.

[yipping]

♪

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But bad dreams have
a habit of returning.

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Get them somewhere safer.

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The cubs are home alone.

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Saba is away hunting.

No meat for you
means no milk for them.

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[screech]

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[screeching]

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The more you fail,
the longer your cubs go hungry.

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A hunting leopard is
an absent mother.

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Her daughter is hungry
and impatient.

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She leaves the den and
her more timid brother behind...

...and wanders down
towards the edge.

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Time is running out.

Find something quickly.

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[birds chirping]

[screeching]

[birds squawking]

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[hissing]

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Saba remembered
this owl's hiding place.

[squawking]

An emergency ration set aside
for a day like this.

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Matsumi.

The huntress of the marsh pride
is looking for a den of her own.

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She heads towards
Saba's stronghold.

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[grunting]

Saba is finally home.

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But her calls go unanswered.

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[grunts]

[grunts]

Find them.

[grunting]

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Where are you?

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♪

[growling]

[birds squawking]

[growling]

[hissing]

Saba finds her cubs.

[hisses]

[birds squawking]

But it's too late.

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[growls]

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[growls]

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[snarls]

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The kingdom's cruel winds blow.

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Change sweeps across the land.

The great marsh has drained,
and the great thirst begins.

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Everyone follows the water.

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Killers are drawn dangerously
close to Leopard Rock.

[wildebeest lowing]

But Saba's former stronghold
lies abandoned.

♪

Up on the sand ridge, Saba lives
in hiding with her son, Neo.

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He is all that matters now.

♪

♪

A month older, he is bigger
and hungrier than ever.

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[snarls]

[purring]

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There is no choice;
she must provide.

[barking]

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Cover gone, she will have to
work harder to find food.

[barking]

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The pressure of the dry season
rises with the heat.

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Saba's rival, Torn Ear,
gets lucky.

[barking]

But she's old and vulnerable.

[barking]

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And everybody knows it.

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[growls]

[roars]

[yipping]

[groaning]

On this battlefield,

nothing is missed.

[squeaking, yipping]

Raw competition is the heartbeat
of the kingdom.

[growling]

To show weakness is
to show your throat.

♪

[squawking]

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Neo, still alone, waits
for his mother's return.

[bird squawking]

Caution saved his life.

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But no cat can contain
curiosity forever.

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Saba goes further from Neo.

Time is running out.

It's kill or die.

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[grunting]

[growling]

[screech]

[chirps]

♪

There is no truce between
felines in this kingdom.

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A long way back.

Need to get moving.

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[squawks]

♪

[vulture squawks]

[grunting]

[grunts]

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[mewing]

It's been days already.

[mewing]

Relieved and hungrier
than ever...

[screeching]

...he can't contain himself.

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Wild cat is his first
taste of meat.

He does not know how lucky he is

to feast in these
desperate times.

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[grunting]

As the last waters vanish,

the river channel becomes
a place of death.

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Matsumi's pride now
hunts its banks.

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[birds calling]

[buffalo grunting]

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♪

[flies buzzing]

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With all her kills stolen,

the aging Torn Ear
slowly starves.

[barking]

♪

[birds squawking]

This is no kingdom for the old.

♪

[grunts]

Saba's long distance hunting
is taking its toll.

She needs a big kill, close.

♪

She moves Neo once more.

[trumpeting]

Avoiding Leopard Rock,
she chooses a smaller hill

near the drying river channel.

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Saba leaves Neo
yet again to hunt.

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Find food, no matter
how long it takes.

Keep trying.

Never give up.

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[birds chirping]

♪

[whooping]

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A desperate Saba braves
the drying river channel.

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By day, it's dangerous.

By night, suicidal.

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[distant howl]

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Saba's survival instincts
take over.

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[flies buzzing]

A long, hard struggle for life
finally ends.

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Torn Ear, Saba's rival, is dead.

♪

How many still need to die
before the kingdom is satisfied?

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Neo, still alone,
anxiously waits.

[squeaking]

♪

But it's not his mother
he hears.

[sniffing]

They cannot see you, Neo,
but they smell you.

♪

[sniffing]

They know you are there.

♪

♪

[dogs squeaking]

[squeaking]

Survive the kingdom's
last deadliest phase...

...and you may just live
to see the rains.

[squawking]

♪

Saba is still on
the drying channel.

Salvation may lie
under her nose.

♪

This could feed us both.

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[spraying]

[trumpets]

[growls]

[bellowing]

[growls]

♪

Drag it to a hiding place,

there are more to be had.

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♪

She returns again and again.

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Survival fuels her frenzy.

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Exhausted, she cannot
kill anymore.

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It's now time to fetch Neo.

[grunting]

[mewing]

♪

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Saba, you've been pushed
to breaking point.

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You've been through hell,

through torment and loss.

And you've emerged
on the other side alive.