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THE BABOON MOB: EPISODE 4
CARNIVORES
Timecoded Script – 2013
for NHU Africa/ Triosphere
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Video
DISCLAIMER CAPTION:
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WARNING TO
SENSITIVE VIEWERS
In the program that follows,
DOCUMENTARY
IMAGES of REAL
CONFLICT, INJURIES and
DEATH have been
assembled into a
FICTICIOUS STORY.
No animal was harmed or
stressed by the documentary
filmmaking process itself.
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However, SENSITIVE
VIEWERS may find certain
images DISTURBING
Reel to Reel tape recorder
and random impressions of
the contents of Holly’s
folder.
HOLLY: This tape is bequeathed to the
Federal Investigations Bureau. If you are
not a qualified investigator, do not listen –
you risk psychological damage.
Baboons running on the
river bank. Baboons on the
dumpsite. Microscopic view
of diseases
CU Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview. Microscopic
view of diseases
HOLLY DIARY: I’m supposed to be doing
a spin-piece for the Sheriff’s Department.
But it’s going “viral”.
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CU Vito’s face – Interview.
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Baboon walking on the
bridge. Crocodiles in the
river
VITO: Who sent the virus? I ain’t namin’
no names…
HOLLY: Sonny Boy has a counter
accusation…
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SONNY BOY: Some of my best friends are
human. You are, if you’ll permit me a little
joke, “contagious”.
SONNY BOY: Vito often used crocodiles
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Crocodile eating baboon’s
(Rambobo) arm in the river.
Oprah Oliphant at her desk.
Dead Baboon (Scarlett) on
the bridge
Baby baboon (Charleston)
approaches dead baboon
(Charleston) on the bridge
and tries to nurse.
Holly’s folder with
postcards, news paper
clipping and comic book
intercut with a tape
recorder. View of the land
from the bridge
TITLE SEQUENCE:
as assassins.
VITO: Last we saw, Rambobo’s hand was
kinda flappin’ goodbye.
HOLLY DIARY: When Limpopia’s good
angel squares up to Sonny Boy… tragedy
conveniently strikes.
SONNY BOY VO: When Charleston
reappeared, he tried, he tried to nurse…
HOLLY DIARY: My psychiatrist’s telling
me, “Get out while you still can.”
Shot of the weir leading to
the River leading to the
bridge. Baboons running
through a fence, up a wall
and walking on the bridge.
Parked trucks and buses.
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A Tape with the Main Title
“ The Baboon Mob,
Cassette 4: Carnivores”
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Baboons running around a
dumpsite and stealing
tomatoes. Baboons raiding
trucks. Baboons on the
bridge. Dip to black
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Baboons walking and eating
on the burning dumpsite
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MCU Vito. CU Vito’s
injured leg.
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CU Vito’s injured leg. CU
Vito’s face – Interview.
Baboons on the bridge.
Baboon amongst/raiding
HOLLY: Cigarette smuggling’s over.
Gone up in smoke. That’s the story I’ve
been told to write. It’s a lie.
VITO: Patience, doll. It’s gonna come to
ya.
HOLLY: My story?
VITO: No, my story. We’ll get to your
propaganda. But first, you gotta
“comprende”…Sonny Boy serves the Boss
of Bosses. Else, somebody’d discharge
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parked vehicles
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Baboon raiding vehicles,
eating and walking amongst
people and vehicles whilts
people watch, intercut with
CU Sonny Boy’s face Interview
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CU Sonny boy’s face –
Interview. POV of inside of
shotgun being aimed. Shots
fired and baboon hanging
dead in tree.
Text: Claudio Papio: shot
dead
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CU baboon’s face and hand
in the sand.
Text: Gino “Twinkie”
Papio: killed by snare
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Crocodile walks to the river
with an animal in its mouth
Text: Jenny Asinus Burrito
(donkey) killed by crocodile
Text: John W Rambobo
poisoned/killed by crocodile
Baby baboon cuddling up to
dead baboon. CU of Sonny
Boy’s face – Interview.
Baby Baboon in parent’s
arms
Text: Scarlett O’Chacma
Papio: poisoned
CU of Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview. Mother and baby
baboon statue. Holly’s file
and tape recorder
somethin’ up his tailless ass…namely, a
shotgun.
SONNY BOY: I’m a manager; I’m also an
entertainer. We’re not quite Hollywood, but
I have my own trailer. Tired of watching
human celebrities? Watch us! We’re
providing entertainment as a public service
– doing it for bananas. Truth be told, I am
campaigning for public office. During my
preliminary campaign tour, I’ve met only
human warmth and appreciation. People
seem to like my free-market philosophy…
and my personal style.
HOLLY: Humans aside, what’s your
baboon constituency saying about the bodycount?
SONNY BOY: “Body count”? What,
exactly, are you referring to?
HOLLY: According to Game Control
records, a high number of “unusual
deaths”…have coincided with your
executive tenure.
SONNY BOY: I’m surprised by your
insensitivity… You know, of course, that I
myself suffered the deepest imaginable
loss.
SONNY BOY : But – good things: I’m
honored to reveal… that Papio Holdings
has commissioned a statue, in bronze, to
commemorate my late wife Scarlett, and to
honor all mother baboons, everywhere.
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CU of cigarette being
smoked. Holly smoking as
she works. Baboon walking
with bread in it mouth.
Baboon skeleton head.
Bridge Baboons around the
bridge.
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VITO: For us baboons, adoption’s no
problem. No paperwork. No prowlin’ social
worker. Charleston got himself a new
mommy… the lovely Virginia. She’s a
better deal than Scarlett, I’d say.
HOLLY DIARY :Having not told me about
Timelapse of clouds moving the adoption, Sonny Boy started to gush the
over the river. Baboons
moment I mentioned it…
sitting on rocks
Baboons and baby baboons
moving around. Baboon and
baby baboon hug, baby
baboons play
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CU Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview, baby baboon and
baboons climbing the weir.
Baboons walking
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SONNY BOY: Baby baboons need
cuddling – just like your baby human
beings. My son, Charleston…is everything
I live for. One of the many things I adore
about Charleston is, he’s such a little
striver…
SONNY BOY: I guess you could call me a
hands-on kind of dad.
Birds flying
HOLLY DIARY: But Sonny Boy’s real
focus is on Oprah Oliphant.
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HOLLY DIARY: It wasn’t a total fantasy.
The statue existed – in the Cape Peninsula,
two-thousand kilometers away…In the
statue’s text, it says… “To feed a baboon is
to sign its death warrant, as sooner or later
it will become a problem, and have to be
destroyed.”
HOLLY DIARY: It was Vito who told me
what happened to Scarlett’s baby.
CU Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview. Baboons on
dumpsite. News paper cut
out s with tape recorder on
the side, headline reads:
‘CLEAN UP THE DMZ’
TRUMPETS OLIPHANT.
Head line reads: Oliphant’s
super tax for nonbiodegradables.
Headline reads: BABOONPROOF BINS TO
BECOME MANDATORY.
Headline reads: BABOONFEEDERS WILL FACE
FINES.
SONNY BOY: She was pushing legislation
to punish our fast food industry. A fortyfive percent tax on non-biodegradable food
cartons – that would be a death-blow to
local industry. Imagine the job losses.
Imagine the humiliated breadwinners…
and the hunger inflicted on both our
species. To survive, we have to diversify.
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Headline reads: NEW LAW
TO CRUSH
LITTERBUGS.
Headline: RAMPAGING
OLIPHANT
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Baboons, birds and
bulldozer on dumpsite
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Car driving on the roads and
stops to let people out to
jump over a fence.
CU Vito’s face – Interview.
Man with a cigarette box
standing against a wall with
graffiti
Man against the wall
exchanges cigarette box for
money.
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VITO: Sonny Boy likes big words. He’s
talkin’ about smurfin’.
HOLLY: “Smurf”? What is smurf?
VITO: Not the little blue guys in
prophylactic hats. Smurfin’s shippin’
tobacco across state borders…
VITO: … Over in Limpopia City, coupla
tons’ll make you a dollar millionaire.
Course, the soldiers is street bums. Sheriff’s
Department fights the racket with a stupid
video… don’t do no real police work…
Man smoking with stocking
over his head.
VITO: … Sheriff takes payola on the side.
The rest goes to the Boss of Bosses.
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Banner Text: Buying taxevaded tobacco makes YOU
the delinquent!, educational
video, Limpopia Sheriff’s
Dept.
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Pan from the river to rocks.
Baboons in a tree
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Baboons, donkeys, dogs and VITO: Anyways, Sonny-Boy plans to
a man walking on and
“offer protection” to the Smurf mules.
around the rocks and
baboons on trees. Baboons
on dumpsite. Dogs chase
baboons
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VITO: Mules’s been bad luck for baboons
lately; guess what’s comin’ round the
corner? …Sonny-Boy’s plan is: baboons
protect bipeds on “dangerous” journey;
bipeds hand over edibles. But these bipeds
– they already got protection… them lowslung canines… grrrr! Stupidest of stupids
is – these bipeds ain’t got no edibles.
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Sonny-Boy ain’t even overseein’ the
operation – he’s too busy dinin’ on trash.
He’s left it to his new punks. You ever see
a situation where bipeds was tougher than
baboons? It’s embarrassing.
Baboon Harbard cigarette
SONNY BOY: The notion that we might
ads. Baboons swinging on
take an interest in tobacco – let alone its
trees and fences
illegal underbelly – is, frankly, ridiculous.
Tobacco used to signify lifestyle. Today,
lifestyle is simply lifestyle…
Baboons swinging on fences SONNY BOY: At Papio’s, I’m instituting a
and trees.
new culture of fun and freedom. It’s a
culture that says, we love the leisure
industry, and everybody gets participate!
All work, no play, turns Johnny and Jill into
dull baboons.
Baboons copulating under a
tree. Baboon running
around, playing and sliding SONNY BOY: It’s a win-win for humans
in the covered pool
and baboons – we’re bringing a doubleText: Sewage Facility,
dose of fun to your excellent public
Limpopia Demilitarized
facilities.
Zone (DMZ)
Baboons continue to run,
VITO: Sick – it’s sick, what Sonny-Boy’s
slide and play in the covered doin’ to our family. Them kids spends all
pool. Baboon drinking water day drugged up on biped-sugar… slidin’ in
from a hose pipe
a pit of warm excrement. Our youngsters is
so soft these days – no surprise they got
pissed on by a buncha biped Smurfers.
Baboon playing in the
covered pool. Young
baboon steals blanket from
tree
Young baboon gets the
blanket off the tree and runs
off and continues to slide
with it with the other
baboons.
Baboon in the covered pool.
Cu Vito’s face – Interview.
Baboon sitting and running
around on the riverbank and
around the rocks
SONNY BOY: I tell our employees,
“Remember – zoo style is the new style!”
So relax – humankind is your new best
friend.
VITO: Charleston, snatchin’
blankets…Sonny Boy’s corruptin’ the kid
like he corrupted Twinkie. Sure, it looks
like a good time… till somebody winds up
as beetle-food.
VITO: You bipeds will put anythin’ on the
idiot-box…I told ya before – them Disney
cartoons got it wrong. Nobody don’t play
no friendly manager…And nobody don’t
play “dad” in no nice little picket-fence
family. Any baboon with cohunes could be
some baby’s daddy-o. So we look out for
all the babies … make discipline… stop the
strong killin’ the weak... That’s all. The
“daddyhood” don’t go no further.
SONNY BOY: I’ve been combating the…
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CU Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview. Baboons on the
rocks and by the river.
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Baboon drinking water.
Baby baboon walking
around. Baboon snatches
baby baboon and is chased
on the rocks. Baby baboon
is snatched back and runs
off.
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SONNY BOYVirginia and her friends gave
chase…
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Baboon baboon shaking on
the rocks and running away
whilst the other baboons run
after each other. Baboon
latches on baboons back on
the rocks. Bridge.
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Bridge. Birds flying. Buck
eating by the riverbank
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CU of Vito’s face –
Interview. Bucks walking
under the Bridge and eating.
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“culture of bullying”… that once haunted
Papio’s. It’s a culture that has affected me
very personally. Somebody was jealous of
Virginia – jealous of her successful
adoption of my son…
SONNY BOY: Unbeknown to us,
Charleston was being watched – and
followed. The baboon in question was a
big, childless female. Let’s call her Ms. B.
Virginia was getting her hair groomed.
Next thing – Ms. B turns baby-snatcher!
Lion walking in the bush.
buck and baboon by the
river bank and crocodile
moving in the background.
Buck walking along a fence
and along the riverbank.
Baboons on the riverbank.
SONNY BOY: Charleston was shaken,
but… still with us, thank goodness. There
was some confusion…innocent bystanders
were chased by security .Ms. B took the
opportunity to disappear. We didn’t see her
again. Charleston – poor little fellow –
we’re still sending him to counseling.
HOLLY: How widespread was the
bullying?
SONNY BOY: It went deeper than bullying
.Ms. B’s baby-snatching behavior was
primeval…a hangover, I’m sorry to say,
from Vito’s old regime, with its cavebaboon attitudes.
VITO: Hunting. I don’t like it. I love it. I’ll
take you on a huntin’-date, sometime. You
ever tasted bushbuck venison?
VITO: Lemme tell ya some bush-craft.
Them big bushbuck ears…big wet noses…
They can smell, maybe hear, your riflehunter… even lion… sneakin’ in from two
miles off. When the bushbucks moves
out… us baboons moves out also. But,
bushbucks’ peepers ain’t so sharp as ours.
There’s times, we’re first to go visual on
the predator. Then them bushbucks follows
our evacuation. Mixed groups, baboons
with bushbucks, you can’t take by
surprise… But if you’re inside the group –
bushbucks is easy…Bushbuck caballeros –
they use the stiletto horns to impress each
other. They don’t never use them to defend
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Long shot of the bridge.
Children crossing the bridge
whilst baboons are around
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Cu of Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview. Baboon in the
town, children in town, cars
and on the road. Baboon
walking through the people.
Long shot of the bridge
Long shot of the bridge. CU
of Vito’s face – Interview.
School children crossing the
bridge. Baboon walks on the
side walk and runs up a
fence as he’s being chased
away and the kids laugh.
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CU f Vito’s face –
Interview. Cars moving on
the road. Baboon around
people and parked vehicles,
kids and adults walking
around. Baboons watch
them, baboons cross the
road
Baboon and baby baboon
sitting on a fence, Baboons
crossing the road. Kids
walking through dumpsite.
Kids throw stones/rocks at
the baboons in the road who
then run away
Baboons running into the
bushes. Dead baboon on the
road. CU of Vito’s face –
Interview. People walking
in the township and cars
driving by.
Picture of little boy
throwing a rock. Picture of
baboons climbing over
fence. News paper cut outs,
their babies. Yeah, bushbucks ain’t too big
on baby protection. It’s all single-mothers,
doin’ their best… but very, er… vulnerable.
VITO: Baby – infant meat…It’s real tender
flesh. Whadda you bipeds call it again?
You call it “veal”, don’tcha?
SONNY BOY: Adoration for babies – it’s a
blessing bestowed on all mammals. Big
eyes… chubby cheeks…tiny limbs…
babies tug at the heartstrings of baboon and
human alike.
VITO: Biped brats is always crossin’ that
border to get to school. Sonny Boy can’t
help himself; he gets designs on ’em. “So
many kids, so little time” – is what he was
sayin’… Time to ask for their lunchboxes, I
guess. The catapult cowboys – the kiddycops. They humiliate Sonny-Boy. That’s
when he says, okay, I’m gonna do it now.
HOLLY: Do what, exactly?
VITO: I don’t like to talk about it. I mean,
what kinda schmuck invades the ghetto…
or “tours the township”… to make war on
the children? You bipeds is the only species
to do that – till Sonny Boy sends his
soldiers in.
VITO: You ever hear what happened to
Sonny-Boy’s heroes? Them ghetto-kids is
more tough than ten battalions of your
marines.
VITO: Fact is, the only casualties is on
Sonny Boy’s side. Some paramilitary punk
gets pancaked. Sonny Boy’s the main brain,
but he ain’t there – he’s too clued-in to the
consequences. But… it still don’t look
dandy for Sonny Boy. If you think gettin’
rocked by the smurfin’ mob don’t impress
your goons… try gettin’ rocked by the local
kindergarten.
HOLLY DIARY: Vito was telling me that
Sonny Boy almost lost his grip on the
troop…The question I should have asked
was, how far would Sonny Boy go, to get
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headline reads ‘BATTLE
AT FREEDOM PARK”,
“Kids send baboons
packing”, OLIPHANT TO
SQUASH BABOON
INVASIONS”.
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Oprah Oliphant walks into
her office
Oprah Oliphant in her
office, CU of her shoes.
Newspaper cut outs heading
reads: KIDS CALL THEIR
FAVOURITE
CONGRESSWOMAN
‘ANGEL SHOES’. CU of
tape reel
CU of Sonny Boy’s face –
Interview. People walking
on the bridge. Buck and
baboons on the riverbank
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HOLLY DIARY : Oliphant… “funky
shoes”… kids… what’s the link?
SONNY BOY: These allegations, that I
would attempt to intimidate the young of
any species – they’re beneath contempt. We
live in peace with all our neighbors.
HOLLY: The bushbuck – do you live in
peace with them?
SONNY BOY: I and my employees
certainly do. But I cannot speak for the
remnants of Vito’s regime – those brutes
who cling to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.
They gather, beside unsuspecting
bushbuck… Then hunt.
Screen distorts. Baboons
attacking and eating a
bushbuck fawn
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his power back? Sonny Boy’s grip on
power… was also threatened by Oprah
Oliphant.
Baboon feeding alone on
bushbuck
Text: Limpopia Wildlife
Society: Members’ Video of
The Month
Screen distorts
Screen distorts. Hippo
walking in the river.
Baboons on the riverbank
Baboons on the rocks.
Baboons copulating
Baboons running around on
the rocks. Newspaper cut
outs headlines read:
“MYSTERY OF MISSING
VITO: You gotta muscle in, scrum down –
it’s a contact sport…
VITO:I got the grand prize… Yeah, I was
on video-of-the-month…
VITO: … Limpopia Wildlife Society –
publicity don’t get no better than that.
HOLLY DIARY: … Vito’s status was
rising again…
HOLLY DIARY : … But, whatever glory
Vito enjoyed among his fellow carnivorous
baboons… his “video of the month” was
soon overshadowed.
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CONGRESSWOMAN”,
OLIPHANT ‘HAD MADE
ENEMIES’ EXCLUSIVE”
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Newspaper cut outs
headlines read:
“OLPIPHANT CULL NOT
JUST A TASTELESS
THREAT”,
“CANCELLED! All
Baboon-feeding fines”,
“CARTON INDUSTRY
CAN BREATHE AGAIN”,
“BUSHMAFIA LINK in
Oliphant disappearance
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Baboon walking along a
house, baboons on a car
The bridge. Bird by the river
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Crocodile in the river
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Baboons and camera man
on the rocks and riverbank.
Birds flying over the river.
Crocodile moving in the
water
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Crocodile eating in the
river. Birds fly over the
river
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CU of Oliphant’s shoes.
Baboons walking. Evidence
photo’s –body bagged shoes
Tape distorts and blurs out.
Banner with the Text:
Baboons tampering with
transmission: DO NOT
ADJUST YOUR SET
SONNY BOY: Of course, when a
prominent local personality disappears like
this, it’s deeply affecting to us all. Papio
Holdings issued a statement of regret…
and, later, our executive committee paid a
private visit to the home of her bereaved
family.
VITO: My little bird tells me, there was
talk…
HOLLY: What kind of talk?
VITO: Oh, the Missus Oliphant had, er,
investments – y’know, in that
biodegradable baloney she was pushin’.
HOLLY: Do you believe that?
VITO: Nope. Best way to make enemies…
is to be too honest.
VITO : After video-of-the-month, all the
paparazzi was tailin’ me. So, I kinda took
them to the river. Soon, we was all watchin’
the crocodiles. Biped foot, biped footpiece
– it’s all candy to crocodiles. I believe it
made the evenin’ news… Also the Federal
investigation files.
VITO : … That crocodile was holdin’ the
footpiece… like it was a baby.
VITO : The Missus Oliphant’s foot – that’s
what all you media monkeys wants to
believe. But, I told ya – us baboons got
good peepers… The footpiece is more your
kinda thing, doll. Y’know – “sensible”.
End Credits
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