- Captain Wanta: [Homolka is eating a cake] Mr Homolka?
- Herkermer Homolka: Yes?
- Captain Wanta: Stop eating my sesame cake.
- [Homolka pauses in confusion]
- Captain Wanta: [shouting angrily] STOP EATING MY SESAME CAKE!
- [Homolka spits out the cake]
- Captain Wanta: What are you doing in my country, bag of shit?
- Herkermer Homolka: Captain, please, I only wish to explore and discover...
- Captain Wanta: This fellow
- Captain Wanta: [pokes Homolka's face with a stick] is a big. Bag. Of. Shit.
- Captain Wanta: [to Monroe] You should shake this RAT from off your neck. He owes money to everyone everywhere he goes. I will ask you to wait outside Mr. Homolka!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Excuse me, we already hired a guide: Robertson...
- Eddie Ventro: Robertson Reynolds, yeah, I fired him.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: You what?
- Eddie Ventro: Robertson Reynolds is a bird-watcher.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I hired Robertson Reynolds!
- Eddie Ventro: You would! You have any idea what's going on in the Congo as of the radio show this morning? The Kigani have had it with Zaire, AND they're eating people. You go in there with Robertson Reynolds, you'll be coming out somebody's bowel movement.
- Monroe: So why'd you quit the CIA?
- Dr. Karen Ross: I never worked for the CIA.
- Monroe: Of course you didn't. But if you HAD worked for the CIA, why would you quit?
- Dr. Karen Ross: 'Cause they're a loveless bunch of sons of bitches.
- Monroe: And you're not?
- Dr. Karen Ross: And I'm not.
- Monroe: Glad to hear it.
- Monroe: And this is your cover?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Yes
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I'm nobody's cover. Cover for what?
- Monroe: ...find yourself in the middle of something.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Cover for what?
- Monroe: I don't know and she won't tell you. But the kind of money her company's throwing around... they don't spend that on any gorilla. Relax. You're in better hands than you *should* be.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Why are they laughing?
- Monroe: They asked who was in charge and I said I was.
- Dr. Karen Ross: What's so funny about that?
- Monroe: I'm black. I should have luggage on my head.
- [Hormolka is poised in the doorway of a crippled DC-3, unable to jump]
- Herkermer Homolka: Push me, please.
- [Kahega shoves him with both hands, but he still doesn't move]
- Herkermer Homolka: Harder, please.
- [Kahega laughs, gets behind Hormolka, grabs an overhead rail and kicks him out with both feet]
- Captain Wanta: Have some, uh, coffee and cake.
- [they all sit, no one partakes of anything]
- Captain Wanta: [angrily] HAVE SOME!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: You're some kind of criminal, aren't you?
- Monroe: Aren't we all?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No. I'm not a criminal, I'm a scientist.
- Monroe: Scientist? I run a few guns. You sons of bitches ruin the world.
- Richard: So, what was your name again?
- Claude: Claude.
- Richard: Oh. Well, that's a very odd name for someone from... uh... where are you from again?
- Claude: Mbasa.
- Richard: Yeah, that's a very odd name for someone from Mbasa.
- Claude: Have you ever been to Mbasa?
- Richard: Um, no.
- Claude: Then what do you know about it?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [as everyone on the plane prepares to jump] Why are they putting on parachutes?
- Dr. Karen Ross: FIGURE IT OUT!
- Richard: [Monroe tosses Richard a parachute] OH NO!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [the crew members begin jumping out of the plane. Monroe hands Peter a parachute] This isn't going to work!
- Monroe: Oh, yes, it is. I'll take Amy.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: She might get hurt. I can't risk it!
- Monroe: Do you know how to fly this plane?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No.
- Monroe: [nods toward the cockpit, where no one is at the controls] Well, the pilot and co-pilot are already gone, so what are you going to do?
- [last lines]
- Monroe: [in hot air balloon] There's a wind.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I hope it blows us some place good.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Me too.
- Monroe: The ghost tribe has several levels of "dead." Someone's not dead until they're completely "dead."
- Dr. Karen Ross: Are you sure there aren't some kind of gorillas that kill.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Please, Dr. Ross. What's your area of expertise? Folk-singing?
- Dr. Karen Ross: [smugly] Communications technology.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: So you're a geek with a cellular phone.
- Dr. Karen Ross: I'm a scientist. But you and your protege, as far as I can see, belong in the circus.
- [looks at Amy eating flowers]
- Captain Wanta: So Dr. Ross, I see you used to work for the C.I.A, and now you're Travi Com. Travi Com pays better than the C.I.A?
- Dr. Karen Ross: You have a BIG mouth.
- Captain Wanta: Everybody says that about me!
- [first lines]
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: [over PA system] Doctor Ross. Doctor Ross. We've got satellite in the Congo.
- Dr. Karen Ross: What did they say, Rudy?
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: I can't repeat anything in here.
- Dr. Karen Ross: It's Charles.
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: It's Charles.
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: [trying her access card] It won't work.
- Dr. Karen Ross: You changed the code already?
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: The old man's got me changing it every 3 hours now.
- [imitating Cary Grant for voice print]
- Rudy, TraviCom Security: Rudy, Rudy, Rudy, Rudy.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Very inventive!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: They are gorillas. They're some kind of gorillas.
- Monroe: Never saw an animal move like that. They just... well, look. They just kill.
- Herkermer Homolka: So that's why Solomon's diamonds were never found. The myth of the killer ape is true!
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I can't believe it.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [after it's all over, setting up re-communication] I have some bad news. Charlie... he, uh... he was... killed.
- Dr. Karen Ross: DID YOU GET THE DIAMOND? DID YOU?
- Dr. Karen Ross: [in shock, after a long pause] ... yes.
- Travis: [a breath of relief] ... Good girl.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [after another pause, growing angry] Do you remember what I told you? That if I ever found out you sent me here for some diamond... and NOT for Charlie... that I would make you sorry?
- Monroe: That region of the Congo's uninhabited.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Well, something inhabits it.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: What exactly did you see on that tape?
- Dr. Karen Ross: A camp destroyed. People dead. A grey gorilla...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: There's no such thing as a grey gorilla.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Well, I saw one.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: It's hard to believe at this late date...
- Monroe: Why are you going in there?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Two men are unaccounted for: Geoffrey Weams, and Charles Travis, my fiance... My FORMER fiance.
- Monroe: Your former?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Well, we better get to him then.
- Eddie Ventro: Wow, a talking gorilla! I can feel the money hairs on the back of my neck going "WOO-WOO-WOO".
- Dr. Karen Ross: Name your price.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I don't have a price! I'm not a pound of sugar, I'm a primatologist!
- Monroe: When these little African countries get into a dispute, they tend to just murder everybody. They live for the opportunity to settle scores... and they have a lot of scores to settle.
- Eddie: [to Karen Ross] Mr. Travis asked me to meet you at the airport, set up your expedition.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: HER expedition? She's just along for the ride!
- Eddie: Whatever, be an asshole.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Who is this guy?
- Eddie: Eddie Ventro, transportation and equipment. But I don't supply assholes with new personalities.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Here's the story. They domesticated gorillas.
- Monroe: You call that domesticated? They're killing a man.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: So they taught them to be this way. They bred them to violence. They looked for the trait, and they encouraged it.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Guard dogs. And they turned on their masters.
- Monroe: What's that smell?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [coming across a pile of bones] These are all the bones of gorillas.
- Monroe: You mean these are the...
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No, these are the bones of normal gorillas.
- [picking a skull up]
- Dr. Peter Elliot: This one's skull was crushed.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [Handing Peter a pistol] Here, Peter, take this.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: I don't like guns.
- Dr. Karen Ross: I didn't ask if you like it - take it.
- Monroe: What the hell?
- Herkermer Homolka: It's the mines.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: "We are watching you." It's the trainers talking. Teacher is watching you.
- Monroe: Dead teachers.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [signing with Amy] Amy, where'd you go? Good gorillas? What good gorillas?
- [the silverback she came across appears nearby]
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Handsome fella.
- Monroe: We've lost two porters.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Where'd they go?
- Monroe: Ran away.
- Richard: And they didn't invite me?
- Monroe: Don't go in there! I'll check it out.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Give me a gun and a flashlight!
- Monroe: Well, don't be so John Wayne. You could get killed. Now that I've said that, I'm not going in there alone, either.
- Herkermer Homolka: I must go.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Let's all take a look.
- Richard: Uh, I-I think I'll just stay out here with Amy.
- Monroe: Not alone, you won't.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: [coming across a crashed plane] Good Lord.
- Monroe: It's that plane we saw burning in the sky.
- Herkermer Homolka: Who were they?
- Dr. Karen Ross: Travis, my boss, he thought I wasn't gonna make it. He sent another expedition.
- Monroe: He tried to push away too far. Looks like a rocket got them. No point going in there.
- Dr. Karen Ross: My God, what a waste of life.
- College President: Who are you, sir?
- Herkermer Homolka: Herkermer Homolka. Formerly of Romania. Free now of the chains of Ceaucescu. Traveling the world, doing good.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Why teach an ape to talk?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: No practical reason.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Then why'd you do it?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: "A lonely impulse of delight."
- Dr. Karen Ross: William Butler Yates.
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Very good.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Did it work?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: What do you mean?
- Dr. Karen Ross: You're not lonely anymore?
- Dr. Peter Elliot: Why are *you* going to Africa?
- Dr. Karen Ross: To find something I lost.
- Dr. Karen Ross: Tell me you love your son!
- Travis: I do!
- Dr. Karen Ross: And that's why you're sending me!
- Travis: It is!
- Dr. Karen Ross: Allright. But if I have one moment, one *moment* when I think otherwise, I will make you sorry. And that's a promise.
- Dr. Karen Ross: [Soldiers with guns run by] Who are they?
- Eddie Ventro: [to soldiers] Hiya fellas!
- [to Karen]
- Eddie Ventro: Fuck if I know, and it don't pay to ask.
- [Elliot, visibly anxious, approaches the door of the DC3 to jump]
- Kahega: [laughing] You want me to push you too?