Well you don't get fruit like this back...
in jolly old London, Iâll say that.
Yes, a veritable Garden of Eden complete...
with an enticing Eve.
Care for a bite?
What was that?
It's too early for the others to be back...
- Hello anybody here? - Shhh.
Oh! a monkey!
- Shoot it! - What?
That necklace belongs to me!
Why you little thief!
Come back here!
Marguerite wait up!
At the dawn of the last century
A band of explorers searched for a prehistoric world
Driven by ambition
Secret desires
A thirst for adventure
And seeking the ultimate story
They are befriended by an untamed beauty
Stranded in a strange and savage land
Each day is a desperate search for a way out...
of the Lost World.
You've eaten your last banana, you little wretch.
No Marguerite! Don't shoot!
Don't shoot? Do you know how much that necklace is worth.
Do you know the bad luck...
that will follow you around if you kill a monkey.
Well itâs still got my necklace and itâs not getting away.
Here it is.
- What the... - Oh!
Huh, monkey business has been good.
Oh youâre a pretty one.
Well he got away.
Strange looking piece.
In your hand the origin of all humanity.
It worked.
Oh yes it worked!
Yahooooooo! Oh,
Oh. Yes, I feel good!
Someone sounds happy.
Or crazy.
And I will never have to eat another termite...
as long as I live.
Oh Billy.
Yes of course Billy.
It must be too late for you, Iâm sorry Billy.
Who are you?
Who me?
What she means to say is we heard you shouting. Are you all right?
Oh yeah, Iâm fine. Why shouldnât I be? Never better.
Were you chasing that thieving little monkey too?
Monkey? What monkey? I wasnât chasing any monkey.
Oh you mean, I was chasing my pet parrot Billy,
beautiful precious Billy. Anyhow I gotta go. Adios.
Hey wait, who are you? Howâd you get on the plateau?
Iâve had enough running around the jungle for one day.
Umm, what an odd little man.
Looks like weâve been robbed.
Yeah, a monkey did it.
- A monkey? - Yeah.
Anything else missing besides Margueriteâs priceless necklace?
Not so far as I can tell, but he sure made a hell of a mess.
When I catch that pilfering primate...
Iâll have his guts for garters.
Charming.
This was the Moriarty of all monkeys.
He had a stack of trinkets like youâve never seen.
All of which you, reclaimed Iâm sure?
Donât be cheeky.
Most of it was junk, except for this.
Is that a real emerald?
Yes but it doesnât even come close to the...
value of the diamonds he stole from me.
Still itâs striking.
Whatâs this inscription say?
Something about someoneâs hand and origin of all humanity.
From dinosaurs we come.
I sure had a few in my family.
I wonder where it came from.
Who cares? Itâs mine now.
What if it belongs to one of the tribes...
who share this small piece of paradise with us?
Would you look at that, it stained my hand.
- Did the same to me. - I wonder...
what could have caused that, maybe an oil or chemical in the rock?
Branded?
Will you look at that, just as I left it,
a sight for sore eyes.
trouble... trouble
Terrific, what the hell do you guys want?
You know what we want Jack Keller.
What have you done with it?
Okay, I lost it. Well somebody stole it.
Itâs, it's gone.
Just as your friend stole it from us?
Yes, well Billy didnât know it belonged to you,
how was anyone supposed to know?
It was stolen from the spirit hut,
you knew it didnât belong to you.
Okay, okay. Yeah well maybe we,
maybe we never should have taken it but what can you do?
You live and you learn.
Anyhow it was very nice to see you again Eba.
Youâre looking very good by the way. Come on Billy lets go.
Right behind ya.
You will take us to whoever has...
the stone or I will bury you in that little hole youâve dug.
Donât be silly. I would never fit in there.
You will if I slice you into tiny little pieces.
Okay well yes that would definitely solve that...
problem but I still donât know who took the stone.
Okay let me rephrase that...
I donât know their names.
But sure I can show you which way they went.
In fact I can point you in the right direction from here.
You will take us to them now.
Isnât that what I just said?
The origin of all humanity.
I wonder what that could mean.
What it means, is a stain I canât get off my hand. Neither can Malone.
Marguerite you might have warned me about this.
Iâm sorry George Iâm a little preoccupied with the loss of...
my necklace, my exceedingly valuable diamond necklace.
Yes, yes as youâve said, repeatedly.
It is a fascinating effect though.
The mark seems to be the result of ink or dye.
But the etching on the stone, it's colorless and dry to the touch.
Someoneâs idea of a practical joke.
Iâm sure thereâs something in the lab I can get this off with.
Preferably something that will leave the skin intact.
- Do you find it cold in here? - No!
Not at all.
Perhaps youâre coming down with something.
Wonderful.
Nothing, itâs either here to stay or wear itself off.
That could take forever.
Itâs not that unattractive, is it?
If you donât mind looking like a jungle savage.
Are those mice you have in there?
Technically speaking theyâre a dwarf...
species of the indigenous South American Hydrochoerus.
But as Shakespeare might say a Rodentia by any other name...
Yes, well,
I was planning to test a vaccine based on a Zanga remedy...
a cure for the common cold I hope.
Theyâre very glossy looking.
They should be, I found them in our food supply.
Tsk tsk tsk, those naughty little rodents...
so round and plump.
You sure youâre okay Marguerite?
Yeah, Iâm still a little chilly.
Whereâs the stone that marked Maloneâs hand?
I just saw him down by the river trying to wash it off.
Got me.
Care to join the club?
- Where is it? - Upstairs. Why?
Whatâs bothering her today?
I'd better go and find out.
Do you know where this came from?
Yes, we found that in the monkeyâs cave...
part of its ill-gotten gains.
This isnât a joke Roxton.
I think you should put it back where you found it.
No argument from me.
Marguerite has claimed it for her own though...
in that certain way she does.
Listen to me, this stone is cursed.
I beg you pardon?
Cursed, in what way?
Iâm not sure...
but I remember my parents warning me about a stone like this.
That when you touched it, it left a permanent stain on you hand.
And it made you very sick.
Itâs nothing, Iâm just a little chilled is all.
Malone doesnât feel well either.
What about you, how do you feel?
I feel fine, perhaps just a little light-headed.
Donât tell me weâre all going to get sick because of a little stain.
It is possible there are toxic substances in the stone.
This is one of those things Science cannot explain, put it back.
- Oh, alright! - Iâll take it back.
- Iâll come with you. - Iâll come too.
I want to see exactly where that came from.
Then Iâll stay here, I could use a nap.
Well isnât that nice.
Looks like Iâm part of the club now too.
Iâm sorry old fellow.
So do you remember anything else your...
parents said about this sort of thing?
Iâm trying to think.
I remember them meeting a woman with a...
mark on her hand but I canât remember what happened to her.
Very encouraging.
What did I tell you...
there go your thievesâ right there.
Take them.
Maybe we should go to the Zanga village.
Assai might know more about this.
Thatâs not a bad idea. The Zanga legends have often proven true.
This way.
- Where the hell did that come from? - I donât know.
I donât see anyone.
They're all around us.
Take cover!
- What do they want with us? - Certainly not a peaceful dialog.
There!
- Thatâs the man with the parrot. - What parrot?
Follow me!
Who are these savages?
Well, Iâve got a train to catch.
Hey, hey, hey easy guys put me down...
Iâm not going anywhere.
You will stay with us until we recover the stone.
Pray that we do.
Thatâs using your head Challenger.
I must try and remember that one.
- I believe theyâre after this. - How can you tell that?
Because thatâs the man Marguerite and I saw at the cave.
He obviously has something to do with this.
What man at the cave.
Well after we found the stone that man was...
screaming like an idiot and babbling to his parrot.
- You didnât tell us about that. - Sorry...
- other things to think about. - Babbling to his parrot?
Right, after he saw us he just took off.
- Well he may have some answers. - We can talk about this later.
- Weâre not safe here. - Right.
Whoa!
Thanks.
It seems Iâm beginning to suffer the same ill effects from this...
cursed stain as Marguerite and Malone.
I must be lucky Iâve never felt better.
- How are you feeling? - Mmmmm, weird...
but warm, you?
Well I was feeling...
dizzy and light headed but now...
I just have this energy surging through me like...
the urge to run and jump.
Sounds like cabin fever.
What on earth are you doing?
There! Itâs a parrot.
I donât see anything.
Itâs right there.
Well your eyes are much better than mine.
Marguerite what are you doing?
Hanging on to you so you donât fall.
Iâm all right.
Oh, your heartâs beating a mile a minute.
It is? I wonder why?
Isnât it obvious?
Marguerite I think this fever is really starting to affect you.
Thatâs funny, Iâve never felt so normal in my life.
Okay well why donât you sit down...
and when Roxton comes home you can tell him all about it.
Roxton oh yes I hope heâs soon.
Iâm famished.
Iâm feeling a bit peckish myself.
Isnât this fun?
Fun?
What are you doing Challenger?
Just taking a moment to smell the roses,
well the clover actually. Smell it grrr sweet aroma.
I donât smell such a sweet aroma.
I think your senses are playing tricks on you.
Oh nonsense, my faculties have never been keener.
- Which faculties are those? - Iâve got...
such boundless energy I could leap up that hill...
just for the sheer hell of it.
In case youâve forgotten were headed for the Zanga village...
and we have some very unfriendly creatures tracking us.
We do?
Canât you hear them?
Theyâre only a few hundred yards behind us.
- I donât hear anything. - Nor I.
- Itâs just your imagination John. - Itâs not my bloody imagination.
Oh you are mine.
- What are you doing? - Stop it!
What are you doing? John!
Iâm tired of being hunted like an animal.
I say we kill them all.
No, the feverâs obviously got a grip of you.
Keep your hands off me.
Now letâs get these wretched cowards.
Hey, hey,
snap out of it! The Zanga village is that way.
Fine by me Goldilocks.
Now letâs get going.
Iâve never seen him like this.
Itâs baaad baaad behavior.
So, you silly little rodents...
how would you like to come out and play?
Marguerite where are you?
Jack. Trouble... trouble.
Now where did you come from my fine feathered friend?
Pretty.
Oh very pretty,
very pretty indeed.
Trouble, trouble, Jack, trouble.
Donât be a stranger.
Nothing to be afraid of.
We all have our place in the food chain.
Marguerite?
Delicious.
Would you like one?
Well now that you mention it...
they do look rather juicy.
Very juicy.
Not unlike you in fact.
Now Marguerite lets not start that again.
You have nothing to be afraid of my sweet...
little journalist.
Youâre so very warm and cozy.
Maybe we could curl up together some place.
Youâre really starting to scare me Marguerite.
You smell so succulent and savory.
Marguerite!
I donât know what has gotten into you...
but stay away from me. Stay away.
But youâre just so irresistible.
Will you stop picking berries and try to keep up.
Not berries, leaves.
You know it really is incredible how much of this environment is edible.
Thatâs a thistle youâre eating.
The more we eat the better prepared we are to fight our enemies.
Fight them? Why not eat them.
Blood soup and leg of savage would certainly cure my hunger pangs.
Listen to yourselves...
can you hear what youâre saying?
You two sound like animals.
Oh Veronica donât be ridiculous.
In my mind thatâs a very tasty arm you have.
Oh no donât put me on your menu.
Letâs just get to the Zanga village okay.
Those savages are on our trail again.
Take this, Iâll hold them off.
Letâs go!
Move it!
This is maaaagnificent.
This is no time to stop and admire the scenery.
But the view is incredible.
Forget the view! Run!
Challenger.
Get them.
What do you want?
Where are you taking us?, ah.
Let me go.
Canât you see sheâs wounded?
Where is it?
I donât know. What is âitâ?
The sacred stone belongs to us.
- Who are you? - We are the Kanu...
the origin of all humanity.
In that case madam on the evolutionary scale youâre about...
one step ahead of pond scum.
- Search him. - We donât have the stone!
Jack Keller...
you have deceived me for the last...
Where did he go? Find him.
Look Marguerite Iâm sorry I ran away from you before.
I know youâre not feeling so well.
Iâm not feeling so great myself.
What the hellâs wrong with me?
Feathers.
Stay away!
Marguerite?
Is that you?
Whoa, whoa.
You canât hide with a stink like that.
- Billy, - Jack.
oh Billy I thought I lost you.
Look out... look out.
You should have listened to the bird.
No please, donât hurt me. Okay.
I never did anything. Iâm innocent.
Where are my friends?
Thatâs what Iâve been trying to tell you. Eba has them.
- Keep talking. - Well, like I said...
I was trying to warn you but Eba and her savages kidnapped me.
Tried to kill me, in fact.
One more lie and Iâll rip your throat out.
Of course, youâre angry. I mean...
who wouldnât be. But believe me...
you gotta try to calm yourself because getting all...
upset is only gonna speed things up.
Speed what up?
This is very baaad.
Very baaad indeed.
Challenger...
do you realize whatâs happening to you?
Iâm transforming into some kind of animal, arenât I?
Weâll find a way to stop it.
If this is the result of a curse...
then we have to give the stone back to these people.
It is getting so difficult to think straight but...
that inscription...
âThe origins of all humanityâ
it must meeeean something.
These people are evolving...
while I am going back to the beginning, back to the beginning.
Back...
to where we all began.
Marguerite? Are you in here?
ready our not?
We all have our place in the food chain.
Whereâd you get this?
Billy found it,
I mean stole it, from the Kanu and gave it to me.
I didnât know it was cursed. How could I?
How does it work?
Everyone who touches the damn thing turns into an animal.
Then why doesnât it work on the Kanu?
I donât know, maybe theyâre savage enough already...
maybe theyâre immune to it. All I know is...
Billy turned into a parrot, I turned into a...
I turned into a monkey.
Ah yes,
the monkey that robbed the treehouse.
Exactly, you see I thought if I...
could get someone dumb,
I mean someone else,
to take back the cursed rock Billy and me would be cured.
So you turned into the miscreant you are...
when we took the stone.
Yeah right.
I mean I do have some redeeming qualities...
but yes that is the gist of it.
Then why didnât the bird turn back?
I donât know, it doesnât make sense.
Except that well maybe...
- Maybe what? - Well like I said,
Billy stole it but your friend stole it from me.
So maybe only one of us could be saved...
the last to touch it.
Shut up! Shut up!
Sorry Billy, I didnât know you were listening.
Yeah... yeah.
So if I give this back to you I can save myself.
Whoa... whoa... hey... hey... hey.
I didnât make these rules okay?
Me and Billy were just prospectors.
We came here looking for gold and couldnât find our way home again.
I mean, now look at me, I got no treasure,
I got a parrot for a mate What am I? some kind of pirate?
Then take back your treasure.
This emerald must be worth something?
Well thanks but what about your friends.
You give it back to me and your friends will still be animals.
Just like Billy.
Mayday.
If I lose them because of you.
Now... now remember what I said.
Getting angry only makes it worse.
Challenger youâre a man of science.
You have to fight this.
I canât think.
Your friend is almost gone.
You have to stop this.
You stole our stone.
This is the price you pay.
The pain.
Where did you people come from?
and where did you get that stone?
From the hand who stole it from the Gods...
we killed him for his efforts.
And all who tried to put it back must die as well.
Challenger whatâs happening to you?
I... canât... help... myself.
Challenger?
Challenger ...
do you understand me?
I didnât think so.
Great Spirit of the water hear our cries.
We are your creatures.
We have to find out where these savages came from.
The origin of all humanity,
lead us from the mire of oblivion.
to the apex of enlightenment.
Before the caves of darkness ...
as the light spreads across the savage waters.
- guide ...souls - Caves of darkness,
savage waters I know where that is.
Return it to our hands.
Now you do exactly as I told you.
Go!
Hey Eba look what Iâve got.
- Get him! - Now I wish I was a monkey.
Roxton thank God. I thought I'd lost all of you.
Whereâs Challenger?
Youâre looking at him.
I havenât eaten in so long.
Listen! I know what we have to do. Do you have the stone?
- Yes! - Oh! Good!
Come on, we have to hurry. Hey!
Thatâs Challenger youâre looking at. Remember?
The man you swore to protect with your life.
- That was before. - No! No! No!
Stop it! Do you hear me?
- Challenger no! - The Kanu are coming back...
- time for them to die. - Listen no!
Youâre going to help me save our friends Roxton.
Come on.
What is it?
Blood.
Your arm.
Oh you are so beautiful.
Skin so smooth.
Flesh so tender.
You stay away from me, you understand?
Veronica Iâm sorry,
Iâm losing the fight to understand. I can only feel like a...
and it feels wonderful.
Roxton No! John!
No! Come on!
Theyâre headed for the savage waters, for our birth place.
Get them!
There it is.
- The place where it all began. - These savages came from a swamp?
That evil stone should have never been taken from here.
That must be the place.
Crocodiles.
I wonder what else is in there.
Drive them into the savage waters.
I guess Iâm gonna find out.
Iâll entertain our friends.
Ah!
No!
Roxton!
What, toads?
The Kanu all turned into toads.
It must have been what they were to begin with.
The power of the stone worked in both ways.
Your arm?
What about it?
Nothing. I just...it looks as if itâs hurt thatâs all.
Iâll be fine.
- Hi ho! - Itâs you again.
Well allâs well that ends... Oh.
I hope that wasnât Eba.
What, so now all the dangers past I guess youâre on your way, is that it?
Who wants to leave? Iâve got my jewels back.
Iâd say thereâs quite a ot more up there too.
What about your parrot?
Funny you should ask.
Hey Billy come on out. I want you to meet my friends.
Say hello to Billy guys.
Oh whoâs my pretty baby? Grrrr.
Malone, Marguerite?
Challenger, when did you get back?
Iâm not quite sure.
I remember being captured by the Kanu. The next thing I remember...
I was waking up down in our compost heap with the most...
disturbing taste in my mouth and slivers.
Ned?
Itâs a long story. I could use a rope.
And you might want to check on Marguerite, sheâs in the lab.
Good heavens my Hydrochoerus.
Excuse me?
Well donât just stand there! Get me out!
Well letâs not be too hasty.
After all itâs not often one sees such a...
rare species in captivity.
Roxton!
- Sorry, canât hear you. - Get me out!
Itâs not funny!