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00:00To be continued...
00:30Yes, and all samples galore from that new Zanger copper mine.
00:36Challenger! Malone!
00:40Left a note.
00:44Hope the trading trip went well.
00:46Don't tell me you've gone to the Eastern clearing.
00:50Can you blame Malone?
00:52Well, he does these days.
00:54Let's watch the skies for Veronica.
00:56Surely we all heard that much.
00:57Without Veronica's treehouse and her parents' supplies,
01:00why would we all be wearing raptor skins,
01:02living in caves and conversing with grunts?
01:04Oh, what makes you think that's not how you boys communicate now?
01:08Oh!
01:10Oh!
01:11You know, flying observation balloons in the war was a lot like this.
01:18Waiting and watching for hours, days.
01:21Followed by five minutes of sheer terror when the bombardments began.
01:25Oh, that's war for you, whether it's by land, sea or air.
01:28You know, that's one thing we never talked about.
01:30What did you do during the Great War?
01:32Well, I tried to join the Navy,
01:34but the Admiralty felt I'd be more valuable pursuing scientific advancements.
01:39Downed as I am by the Official Secrets Act, I can't tell you anymore.
01:45What about Roxton?
01:46Did he ever tell you what he did in the war?
01:48Fairness to Roxton, I think that's a question for him, don't you?
01:51Well, I get the feeling he doesn't want to talk about it.
01:54At least not to me.
01:55Well, I think even you would have had experiences during the war
01:58that you don't want to talk about.
02:00To blowdown. Where did that come from?
02:03There!
02:06Below!
02:10Gunshot.
02:11Someone's in trouble.
02:17Take cover!
02:18Good idea.
02:18That must be a little poison.
02:30Take him!
02:36Come on!
02:40Cover the rear, private!
02:45Keep down, then. Keep down!
02:46Whatever you say, Sergeant.
02:49Get up, Malone!
02:50Make for the tree!
02:55Whatever you say, Sergeant.
02:58Move, Leibold!
02:59Gotta get to the trench.
03:01Trench?
03:04Move!
03:07Come on, you two, move!
03:08Go!
03:09No, no! Get over there!
03:12Go, go, go, go!
03:16Go, go, go!
03:17Go, go, go, go, go!
03:26No!
03:32No!
03:34No!
03:34No!
03:35No!
03:36No!
03:36at the dawn of the last century a band of explorers searched for a prehistoric world
03:47driven by ambition secret desires a thirst for adventure and seeking the ultimate story
03:55they are befriended by an untamed beauty stranded in a strange and savage land each day is a
04:05desperate search for a way out of the lost world
04:35snap out of it lad lad are you with us sergeant that's better what happens now
04:59too soon to tell lad morning sergeant askell lovely day for a picnic that's enough out of you what did
05:06you see enemy patrol broken through the line maybe 20 25 and all should be a walk in the park
05:11not here as soldiers today we're here as nannies for the journalists we'll pull back and let
05:15artillery take care of the patrol did you hear that lad we're pulling back to command
05:19up you get lad what about this man we can't just leave him well you want to see some action so welcome
05:27to it the burial teams will take care of the private let's go i'm sorry sergeant says i gotta go
05:34come on
05:45What is it, John?
06:09Something moving in those trees.
06:11Raptors?
06:12No, raptors would make more noise.
06:15Ah, gotcha.
06:21What?
06:27You think that's who Challenger Malone ran into?
06:34I certainly hope not.
06:36I don't like the look of those blowpipes.
06:40Sergeant Haskell, I didn't hear you.
06:44I didn't hear you.
06:45Sounds like some of our lads have run into that enemy patrol.
06:48Or shouldn't we help them?
06:49There's no turning back now, lad.
06:51Yeah, you're in now, up to your neck, just like you wanted.
06:54Just keep telling yourself, it's a lovely day for a picnic.
06:58Eventually you'll believe it.
06:59A handful on the lab's face.
07:02Challenger!
07:03Malone!
07:04Keep walking, Icefront.
07:16I thought we scared off whoever was watching us.
07:18Yeah, not so lucky.
07:21At least two to the right, one to the left.
07:23Likely more.
07:26What are they waiting for?
07:27An invitation to tea?
07:28I wish.
07:31We'll have to work out a way to discourage our newfound friends.
07:34My thoughts exactly.
07:37Oh, go ahead.
07:37You fall back.
07:39Whoever's watching us, I'll have to split their attack when we set up a crossfire.
07:42Why, Marguerite, I am impressed.
07:44Two years on the plateau have certainly honed your tactical skills.
07:46Well, the plateau's got nothing to do with it.
07:48When I was a child, running off in two directions was how my friends and I evaded the gendarme in Paris.
07:53Why may I ask?
07:54Are you running from the police in Paris?
07:56I didn't want them to catch me.
08:13Three to the right, one to the left.
08:15Likely more, I said.
08:16Which for establishing a crossfire?
08:22Well, this isn't good.
08:24Now, colloid concentrate.
08:26First it knocks you out, then it kills you.
08:28Maybe we can make them sit on their own door.
08:30It's poetic justice.
08:31Unfortunately, that wouldn't do any good.
08:33The killers that hunt with this kind of poison carry an antidote in case of accidental exposure.
08:37So much for my wishful thinking.
08:39So, what other tactics did you use to avoid the Parisian police?
08:48Bribes were effective.
08:49What?
08:53Running the police, offering bribes?
08:54What on earth were you doing in Paris?
08:56I was trying to survive.
08:58Which is what we should be doing right now.
08:59In case you haven't noticed, they are surrounding us.
09:01All right.
09:05I'll hold them here.
09:06You go through the jungle.
09:08I'm leaving you behind.
09:10Stage withdrawal, Marguerite.
09:11I'll cover you.
09:12You cover me.
09:13If we both make a run for it, we'll end up with darts on our backs.
09:15I'll see you in the clearing.
09:18Of course.
09:27Move!
09:27Move!
09:31Get down!
09:34Stay low!
09:38Wouldn't we be safer in the trenches?
09:40Be safer back in Brighton Beach.
09:42For that private, you take the advance.
09:46See you around, Yank.
09:47Remember to spell my name right.
09:53There's a sniper out there!
09:58How's the weather, Rutherford?
10:02Should have brought my brawley, Sergeant!
10:06Brawley.
10:07That's an umbrella to you, Yank.
10:09I know.
10:10Private Jones, give Rutherford a hand, would you?
10:12There's a sniper out there!
10:13He'll surely kill us unless we kill him first.
10:16Here's your brawley, Rutherford!
10:33Clear!
10:34Come on, lad.
10:41Now it's safer in the trench.
10:44Come on, go.
10:45Go.
10:45You could have been killed.
10:59You could have been killed.
11:03Here's not what you're here for.
11:05Think of the story you could have written.
11:07The newspapers you could have sold.
11:09And then we had to spoil it for you for not having our heads shot off.
11:12I believe we owe you an apology.
11:13That's enough.
11:14We've still got a few miles to go before we reach command.
11:17Now, are you sure you're going to bear up?
11:20I'll be fine.
11:21None of us is fine, lad.
11:22Pay attention.
11:23Now, we need to find a place to rest.
11:24Jones, your turn to scout about.
11:26Check south like a good lad.
11:27And if you see any frauleins, tell them not to settle for you, because I'm worth waiting for.
11:31Get started.
11:32I'm not doing this to sell newspapers.
11:35And why are you here?
11:41Well, you slippery little devils have finally come to your senses.
11:46Only when Winnow and blowdarts go up against my Webley 45s.
11:54Well, that's close enough.
11:57John!
11:59I gave you fair water.
12:09Well, come on!
12:11I'm ready for you!
12:27I haven't finished you yet!
12:48Oh, thank God.
12:49You better be right about them always carrying the antidote.
12:54I've been waiting for you!
13:00Look at that.
13:01Come on!
13:02Come on!
13:10Come on!
13:15Okay, come on!
13:17Come on!
13:17Come on!
13:17Come on!
13:18Go on!
13:18Come on!
13:19Come on!
13:22Come on!
13:22all right looks clear good
13:28not the day you had in mind is it what do you mean as i recall we were to give you a tour of
13:38these old trenches where the front used to be i was given strict orders to keep you away from
13:43the front but the front came to you well i guess war never turns out the way it's oh still nothing
13:50does lad the sooner we realize that more bearable life is mortar that's all right lad we're all
14:06afraid accept it use it i'm not afraid i'm just startled i'll take over for a while
14:20sergeant giving you a hard time is he yank not really pity you've been giving me a hard time
14:29for the last two years thanks to him i'm still alive you want a good story yank write about the sergeant
14:36sergeant trench cuts close to the forest about a thousand yards along the tree should be safe for
14:47cover oh good all this sun is ruining my complexion rutherford your turn unless you'd rather give it
14:55a try on the spot research for whatever you're writing i'd never have fired a gun lucky you yank
15:02private rutherford uh right you are sergeant let me just uh down
15:09rutherford
15:16rutherford
15:26lad he took my place
15:40the enemy knows we're here their mortars have our range
15:46we must move on we must move on
15:53we must move on
15:57lad
16:03please let this be all right
16:20that's it my love
16:28what did you just say marguerite
16:37nothing nothing you must have been dreaming
16:42oh
16:43bloodhuds
16:49too definitely poisonous
16:52well you must have been paying attention when i told you about the early dog
16:57well
16:59occasionally you do say something worth listening to
17:01i could say the same thing about you
17:03john
17:04what if challenger and malone were hit by those darts
17:07then we don't have much time
17:09here
17:10artillery stop that's a good sign unless it means a place is crawling with enemy soldiers and they don't want to hit their own
17:24you
17:26you go to school to become a journalist
17:28columbia
17:30new york
17:31so what would your finally educated mind suggest we do
17:34should we take our chances in the trenches or
17:37would that forest be a safer bet
17:39well in the trenches we can't see you coming for us
17:43at least with the trees for cover we could see in all directions
17:47exactly right
17:48good to have you on the team lad
17:50i'll take the advance
17:52what was rutherford's first name
18:04don't know
18:06don't know your name either yank
18:10don't intend to find out
18:11makes it easy to forget when you're gone
18:13maybe that's why i'm here
18:15so people won't forget
18:17people always forget war
18:19that's why we have so many of them
18:21i won't let them forget this one
18:23who are you to tell people what to remember
18:26you've never even fired a gun
18:28never looked a man in the eye after you've just killed your best friend in a foxhole right beside you
18:32all this war is to you is just research for some book you're going to write some day
18:37i don't need to know your name yank
18:40because i already know exactly who you are
18:50finally got one
18:51get out of here yank
18:52my knee shots is as far as i go
18:53so leave
18:54now
18:55if you're so keen to die yank i can save the enemy the trouble
18:59my name is ned malone
19:02do my job yank
19:04this whole bloody war is my job
19:06so go
19:07tell haskell to send the medics for me when you get to command
19:10and get to command
19:12and get to command
19:13and get to command
19:17I don't know.
19:47I don't know.
20:17And you're going to give those soldiers the respect that they are due?
20:21How?
20:22By living your life as if it means something.
20:28Now we are going deep into that forest.
20:31We're going to find a safe place to wait until our lads drive off that enemy patrol.
20:36Step lively.
20:38And take the safety off.
20:40Watch your step, lad.
20:55Seems we've got company.
20:59Looks like a courier.
21:00His plane must have been shot down and his parachute failed.
21:06Bad luck for him.
21:09Good news for us.
21:10I can't make out much of it, but these are troop movement orders dated for three days from now.
21:22They're planning a new offensive, and these orders tell us when and where.
21:25Looks like we won't be finding a place to wait after all.
21:28These documents could save hundreds of lives.
21:30Possibly thousands.
21:31Or Rutherford and Jones would like that.
21:36You hear something?
21:38No.
21:43Pascal!
21:44Get down, man.
21:45Get down.
21:46Get in the cover, man.
21:48What do I do?
21:52I need to get back from here.
21:56What do I do?
22:01Sharpshooter?
22:02He's moving closer.
22:04You've never fired a gun before, have you?
22:07How's your arm?
22:10Mills bomb.
22:13Wait for him to reload again.
22:15Pull the igniter pin.
22:16Four seconds.
22:19Four seconds.
22:19Four seconds.
22:46Outstanding pitch.
22:54England could have made a damn fine cricket player out of you.
22:56USA beat you to it.
22:58Marty, a damn fine baseball player.
23:01You can circle past them.
23:04I'm not leaving you here for them to find.
23:08You're only endangering yourself.
23:10Yeah, but I'm saving you.
23:11Get up.
23:11It's all right, Sergeant.
23:37We'll be safe in here.
23:38Boston.
23:39Oh, wow.
23:40Challenger, no one made it this far.
23:54Yeah, at least Challenger did.
23:57Marguerite.
23:58You're still breathing.
24:04Careful, careful.
24:06Two darts.
24:09Same as yours.
24:11If we're in time, you should be all right.
24:12Come on.
24:17Come on, old boy.
24:18If so, facto, Somerly, you...
24:22Somerly?
24:24Somerly's not here, George.
24:25You know where you are?
24:28The plateau.
24:29We're all roads laid.
24:30I was having this most vivid dream.
24:34I was debating the existence of dinosaurs with Somerly at the London Zoological Society.
24:39The ignorant buggers.
24:40It wasn't a blazing experience.
24:41That debate was years ago, my friend.
24:43This morning, you were with Malone.
24:44Do you remember that?
24:47Yes.
24:48We were looking for Veronica.
24:50On our way back to the treehouse, we were attacked.
24:53Poisoned ducks.
24:54So join the club.
24:55Fortunately, Florence Nightingale here mixed up the antidote.
24:58So quickly.
25:00Courtesy of our attackers.
25:01Oh, yes, of course.
25:03Those who hunt with poison would have an antidote.
25:05Have you administered some to Malone?
25:08Malone was hit?
25:10Oh, yes.
25:12In the chest, very close to the heart.
25:15Oh, Hal.
25:16Without the antidote, even the smallest amount of poison will surely kill him by sunset.
25:26He won't stop the bleeding, man.
25:29You need a doctor.
25:33Too few, too far.
25:37Those soldiers you saw in the woods.
25:40Now find this bunker sooner than you think.
25:42What you need to do is to take these papers back to command so our lads are ready for the enemy advance.
25:51Take them back to command together.
25:53I gave you an order, soldier.
25:55I'm a civilian, remember?
25:59That's right.
26:01I'm supposed to protect you.
26:02And you're the one who nullified that sharpshooter.
26:04I didn't nullify anything.
26:09I killed another human being.
26:12It wasn't human, lad.
26:13That was the enemy.
26:13Don't confuse the two.
26:14Maybe if we kept reminding ourselves that the enemy are people just as we are, there would be no more war.
26:20That's a fine and noble sentiment.
26:22And the only reason you can think that is because Jones and Rutherford and thousands of young men just like them died to give you that freedom.
26:28I appreciate their sacrifice.
26:31I know they did what they had to do, but this is the 20th century.
26:34The time for war has passed.
26:37Not for you, it seems.
26:39You took that grenade and deliberately killed that sniper before he could kill you.
26:43Well, that's different.
26:46You killed to save yourself and me.
26:50That's war, lad.
26:51That's not different at all.
26:58Well, Malone has definitely passed through this way.
27:05Any idea who's been attacking his challenger?
27:08They're nomadic raiders who steal from one tribe to trade with another.
27:12The Curran, I believe they're called.
27:14Veronica mentioned them once, but I don't remember any details.
27:17Veronica would more than likely know everything about them.
27:20Yes, it's quite revealing how much we've come to rely on her for information about this place.
27:25I miss her, too.
27:28Someone's there.
27:46Listen.
27:46Listen carefully.
27:48Now, if it's the enemy, they'll come at us from all sides,
27:52forming lines of a bleak fire from there and over there.
27:56Take a look.
28:12It is the enemy.
28:13Where do we hide?
28:15We don't.
28:16We're on the front lines now.
28:19You cover that side.
28:21We'll form a crossfire.
28:22This will be our killing ground.
28:27Not the terms you're used to, is it?
28:30You'll do fine.
28:32Whatever happens, this has to get to command.
28:37Tell me you understand.
28:39I understand.
28:47Tell me you'll leave me behind.
28:52How can I be worth your life?
28:55The lives of Rutherford and Jones?
28:57That's up to you, Malone.
29:01We've done our job.
29:03Now you do yours.
29:04You call me Malone.
29:09I don't plan on forgetting you.
29:11You call me Malone.
29:37You call me Malone.
29:38The roof, the roof!
29:53Damn it!
30:08The roof, the roof, the roof!
30:38That's what I don't understand. Those two darts knocked me right out.
30:42I knew too, George.
30:44Malone's exposure to it was briefer.
30:46If the poison made you dream about an old debate in London, what if it's had the same effect on Malone?
30:52Dreaming about the past, and yet capable of moving about in the present?
30:58What you're proposing is that he's in the throes of a hypnopalmic hallucination,
31:02one that takes place between a state of wakefulness and sleep.
31:05By all reports, such hypnotic drug reactions are indistinguishable from reality.
31:11It's a very unique theory you're proposing, Marguerite.
31:14What's Malone got to relive, I wonder?
31:16A racy Christmas party in Chicago, or the thrill of a college fraternity scavenger hunt, perhaps?
31:22Oh, as a matter of fact, he and I were talking about our experiences during the Great War this morning.
31:29Oh, come on, George.
31:30From what I understand, he's a wet-behind-the-ears reporter, Greenaz,
31:34who rode around in observation balloons well out of harm's way.
31:37No.
31:38From what he said, something else happened to him.
31:44Oh, yes, I'm sure of it.
31:45Oh, yes, I'm sure of it.
32:15Was that a...
32:22A gunshot.
32:23Yeah, a long way off.
32:23From over there.
32:24Oh, yes.
32:26Johnny, I don't want to let him.
32:28Okay, now.
32:30Oh, yes.
32:30Oh, yes.
32:31Oh, yes.
32:33Oh, yes.
32:35Oh, yes.
32:36Oh, yes.
32:36Oh, yes.
32:37Oh, yes.
32:38Oh, yes.
32:39Oh, yes.
32:40Oh, yes.
32:41Oh, yes.
32:42Oh, yes.
32:43Oh, yes.
32:44Oh, yes.
32:44Oh, yes.
32:45Oh.
32:47I won't forget you either.
32:51Any of you.
32:54Oh, yes.
32:54Oh, yes.
33:11It's time to do my job.
33:12Hey, Bob!
33:40Now, you're gonna help me.
33:42Where's that coming from?
33:48Over there.
33:49We better hurry.
33:50Alone can't last much longer without the antidote.
33:56I didn't start this war, but I swear I'm gonna finish it.
34:00I don't know.
34:07Hello!
34:08Hello!
34:08Where are you?
34:08Only one of us gets out of here.
34:10Hello, hello, where are you only one of us gets out of here
34:23It's always gonna be you
34:40Malone, Malone, I hear something in those rocks
34:58Malone, want more raiders?
35:04When there's one, there's always more
35:07Maybe you're holding me patrol
35:10But this time, I'm ready for you
35:19We found you in time
35:20You led us on a merry old chase indeed
35:24I bet you could use a drink about now
35:30You lousy murderers!
35:32I'll make you pay!
35:34I'll make you all pay!
35:37They were only trying to help me!
35:46You were right, he is hallucinating
35:48Malone?
35:52Roxton, be careful!
35:53He doesn't know where he is or what he's doing!
36:05I'll kill you too!
36:06Where are you Malone?
36:07Do you know where you are Ned?
36:20Where are you right now?
36:22Where are you right now?
36:24I don't know
36:25I don't know
36:30I'm lost
36:31I have to get back to command
36:40I'm with command
36:44I'm Major Lord John Roxton
36:46I'm Major Lord John Roxton
36:49Do you know me?
36:51No
36:53No, I'm just a correspondent
36:55But I have to report
36:57The enemy's planning a major offensive in three days
36:59I found these papers
37:02I found these papers
37:04And then Rutherford died
37:06And then Jones
37:08And Sergeant Haskell he died too
37:12Everybody died Major
37:14They all died for me
37:18Do you know what that feels like?
37:21Do you know what that feels like?
37:24Yes
37:29Too well
37:33But I'm not worth it
37:36Those brave men thought you were
37:41And let no man see you're not
37:48How to reach?
38:01It all seemed so real
38:03The poisoning of those darts did have a very powerful effect
38:06As did those events you went through six long years ago
38:09It was powerful I tried to suppress them
38:12When I think about it now
38:15That's why I started reporting for the Balloon Observer Corps
38:18To rise above the war
38:20Above the bullets and the stink
38:22The terrible useless waste of it all
38:26That war is over
38:28And the documents you found
38:29Did enable the British to stop the new offensive?
38:33A single battle averted
38:35A war that continued for two more years
38:37And cost hundreds of thousands more lives
38:42And I survived
38:45We all played a part in that war Malone
38:49We all survived
38:58Well you're just sitting there like a lump
39:00What's your story?
39:05Malone
39:07May we have a word please on the balcony?
39:09I think we should talk
39:14I'd like to tell you
39:16What I did in the war
39:18To end our wars
39:26It's long past the time those two had this talk
39:30I believe they have a lot more in common
39:32Than they think
39:33So you were there too
39:35They're not the only ones
39:47Malone, how about some coffee?
39:51Round the beans myself, especially for you
39:55Malone?
39:57He's probably still sleeping off the effects of that dark
40:00Or the port
40:02Ned?
40:03No
40:08I knew this was coming
40:10What was coming?
40:11What does it say?
40:12He's left us hasn't he?
40:14What?
40:16Left us to go where?
40:17Why?
40:18To find what he's looking for
40:20Our way home?
40:21That's all any of us have been looking for
40:22For the past two and a half years
40:24No, not Malone
40:27I swear
40:28If this exodus doesn't stop him
40:29I'd be the only one here
40:31Marguerite, this isn't gonna last forever
40:33When the time is right he'll come back
40:35My friends
40:37Don't want to upset you
40:39Get to the point Malone
40:41Treasure your friendship
40:42Blah blah blah
40:44Veronica
40:46Here we go
40:47All my life I've looked for answers in
40:52Other people's stories
40:54Their experiences
40:56Their thoughts
40:57What they've learned
40:59Somehow I
41:03Never
41:05Looked for those answers in myself
41:08But the soldiers I met in the war
41:11They knew what I didn't
41:13That we can only face death if we know what it means to be alive
41:19The strangest thing is
41:23I think the plateau is like our lives
41:26The plateau is like our lives
41:28We've been spending all our time trying to get home
41:31Without realising that no matter where we find ourselves
41:34The point of our lives might just be the journey
41:38Not the destination
41:39Whatever the answers that wait me
41:42Whatever the answers that wait me
41:44Today is the day that my journey
41:46My story
41:48Truly begins
41:49A very long story begins
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