:57:02
Don't let anybody tell you
baboons aren't occasionally carnivorous.
:57:05
I observed instances of predation...
:57:08
...which involved the unmistakable
behavior of hunters.
:57:11
A pair of baboons killed
the Thomson's gazelle and ate it.
:57:14
There was even
a rudimentary communication...
:57:16
...between the two baboons...
:57:19
...so I've become...
:57:20
...fascinated with the work being done
on nonverbal communications with apes.
:57:23
I've been corresponding with the Gardners
at the University of Nevada.
:57:26
I may just go out and spend
a couple of weeks there this summer.
:57:30
I've got nothing else to do
except write up my report.
:57:33
I don't suppose you recorded
any of those baboon sounds?
:57:36
Of course I did. Why?
:57:38
I'd like very much to hear them.
:57:40
Of course.
:57:42
Mrs. Tally said she'll be here
tomorrow morning at 10:30...
:57:44
...to help you put everything away.
:57:47
She wanted to know if you wanted her
to come back to work steady.
:57:51
I got a letter from Mason
about a week ago...
:57:52
...just before we left Nairobi.
:57:58
He says you've been working
with a very complex drug...
:58:01
...which you brought back from Mexico.
:58:04
It hasn't been thoroughly tested yet
and is dangerous as hell.
:58:09
What else did Mason write you?
:58:11
That over the past year you've taken
about two grams of that drug yourself...
:58:16
...and you had a very unusual instance of
genetic regression about three months ago.
:58:20
You may have leukemia or lymphoma.
:58:25
He's been trying to get you
to go for a complete workup...
:58:27
...but you've refused to go.
:58:30
He's worried stiff that you're cracking up.
:58:32
He thinks you're behaving very strangely...
:58:35
...and he begged me to talk to you
about this when I got back.
:58:39
Mason is pathologically incapable
of keeping his mouth shut about anything.
:58:43
-He's a stupid, starched, doctrinaire idiot!
-Mason is a first-rate doctor!
:58:46
It's not leukemia!
:58:50
Or any other kind of cancer!
:58:53
I've let him do a liver-spleen scan on me
and a CAT scan.
:58:56
I have been probed, scoped and palpated!
:58:58
He's had a mirror down my throat
or up my ass for the last three months...