Original subtitles

Arsenic?

Strychnine?

What?

Both.

Why not?

That's a rotten way to kill a starving animal.

Taneha is a killer.

ELLIOT: What do you expect?

The ranchers have crowded out all of his game...

fouled up his waterholes...

peppered his hide with bullets.

I told all of you I want that cat left alive.

Mr. Elliott, that cat killed my dad.

I know why your dad was killed...

because he got careless tracking.

(RUSTLING)

(GROWLING)

(GROWLING)

Taneha's here!

All he wants is food.

You fool! Don't you know you'll never take Taneha alive!

Bob?

Bob!

ELLIOT: Please, E.J... get the doctor.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

FLIGHT COM: It looks good at NASA One.

B- 52 >PILOT: Roger.

BCS Arm switch is on.

FLIGHT COM: Okay, Victor.

B-52 PILOT: Landing Rocket Arm switch is on. Here comes the throttle.

Circuit breakers in.

STEVE: We have separation.

B-52 PILOT: Inboard and outboards are on.

I'm comin' forward with the side stick.

FLIGHT COM: Looks good.

PILOT: Ah, Roger.

STEVE: I've got a blowout in damper three.

SR-71 PILOT: Get your pitch to zero.

STEVE: Pitch is out. I can't hold altitude!

B-52 PILOT: Correction. Alpha Hold is off. Threat selector is emergency.

STEVE: Flight Com. I can't hold it! She's breaking up! She's breaking...

ANNOUNCER: Steve Austin. Astronaut.

A man barely alive.

Gentlemen, we can rebuild him.

We have the technology.

We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man.

Steve Austin will be that man.

Better than he was before.

Better, stronger, faster.

(MAIN TITLE THEME)

Anybody ever tell you you're too old to be wrassling cougars?

Hey, good to see you, Steve.

How you feeling, Bob?

Old and sore all over.

Well, you probably needed the rest.

Steve, I wouldn't've bothered you except you're the only person I know...

who has connections in Washington.

What do you need, Bob?

I need you to get the Wildlife Commission...

or the Governor of the state...

or somebody important to protect the life of that cougar.

To capture him.

You mean, the one that ripped you up?

That's right.

You sure are a more forgiving man than I would be, Bob.

I don't think so.

He's a golden cougar.

I've been trying to catch him for over a year.

Steve, as far as I know...

he's the last surviving male of the species.

I want to get him on a game preserve with the two surviving females.

I hate to ask others to do my job.

Now I know who it was, pounded that idea into my head.

If they let me out of here this minute...

I couldn't protect that cougar by myself, Steve.

The fact is, I'm...

I'm just too tired to keep on chasing him.

Hey, this is a special occasion.

You know, this is the first time you've asked me to do something for you?

Ever since I've known you.

Look, I'd be pleased to be able to help you, Bob.

But it's gonna have to be fast.

Ranchers in Leggitt Valley put up money for a hunter...

from Colorado to kill the cougar.

The cougar has killed a lot of livestock...

but there's no other way for him to stay alive.

Maybe you could get a court order...

or something like that.

I'll do it right away.

Hey, I knew I could count on you.

I have talked to everybody from the district Congressman...

to the Secretary of Interior...

and there just isn't enough time to get through the red tape!

What about the State Wildlife Commission?

Can't they get a restraining order against the ranchers?

Well, first of all, they have to have a public hearing.

Look, Oscar. I told you this was an emergency.

Look, pal, I'm not a politician.

Well, when it comes to other matters, you have problem with red tape.

Well, this time I just don't have the contacts.

Okay, Oscar. I'll find another way.

Well, what does that mean?

Steve, don't be a fool.

You don't know anything about hunting cougars.

Bob Elliott will tell me what I have to know.

Steve, it's too risky.

Thanks for trying, Oscar.

Steve!

(DIAL TONE)

Morning.

I'm looking for a guide to pack me into the high country.

Can you recommend one?

High country's a good place to stay away from right now.

The ranchers are getting ready to hunt down a cougar.

Won't be safe up there.

I figured I'd be safe if! have a guide.

E.J. Haskell might be a good one for you. Knows the high country like a book.

Well, where can I find this Haskell?

Over by the courthouse probably.

Thanks.

I mean, I don't understand it.

You have no reason to hire a professional man.

I know more about Taneha's ways than any hunter.

Your Pa taught you plenty.

We know that.

But you're too young.

You don't have the experience.

My dad was younger than lam when he first came here...

and the ranchers hired him.

Now with a man, it's different.

(CROWD MUMBLES IN AGREEMENT)

We've gotta get Taneha quick...

before Bob Elliott gets somebody up here to stop us.

That's why we hired a professional hunter.

No reflection on you at all.

Well, you are wasting your good money on your professional...

because I'm gonna kill Taneha.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

Hot-headed kid.

Excuse me. Good morning.

I'm looking for E.J. Haskell.

Whatcha' want with Haskell?

Well, I'm looking for a guide to pack me up into the high country.

I'm here to get me a cougar.

(ALL LAUGH)

About the only cougar around here worth gettin' is Taneha.

But I doubt if a dude like you can even come within shootin' distance of him.

Well, I'm not gonna shoot him.

I'm going to capture him.

Bob Elliott must've sent you up here?

That's right.

Why don't you go back to where you came from, Mister?

We don't want anymore government interference in this.

We've lost enough stock!

I'm still looking for Haskell.

LONG: Well, that's Haskell in the blue denim shirt.

Much obliged.

Are you the head of the Ranchers Association?

That's right.

I'm Bleeker.

Well, glad to see you.

We were afraid you wouldn't show.

I'm ready, as soon as you get me 20 pounds of venison...

and a box of magnum rifle shells.

Yeah, sure. Whatever you say.

Come on.

Hey, Haskell?

Yes?

E.J. Haskell?

Yes, why?

For a minute there, I thought they were putting me on.

About what?

Telling me you were a mountain guide that could help me locate a cougar.

You've never heard of a woman guide before?

Well...

Look, it is a little unusual, you know?

Yes, like a dude trying to kill a cougar.

Yeah, but I'm not trying to kill it, I want to capture it.

Will you take the job?

I'm expensive.

How's $300 to start?

$300 is fine.

Since I'm taking your money I guess I should know your name.

That's Austin, Steve Austin.

Tell me, Steve, how do you intend to capture Taneha?

With a tranquilizer gun?

Yeah, I brought one...

and dose is half-strength.

And a net and some ropes.

(SIGHS)

Look, all you have to do is help me find him.

I'll capture him.

All right.

I'll meet you at Big Rock Fork at 3:00.

How do I get there?

Turn right at the first dirt road on the far side of town...

10 miles up the mountain.

Can I drive? Too narrow.

Do you have an extra horse?

No, and there's none that you can buy or rent around here...

at least not today.

By tomorrow, it'll be too late.

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Cream, sugar?

Just strong.

Been brewing over ten minutes.

Ten minutes? How...

(SIGHS)

Look, I don't know how you got a horse...

and I don't know how you got up here so fast...

but I've gonna level with you.

I don't want to be burdened with you.

I've got work to do.

Now do you understand?

Of course.

We're even?

You bet.

Okay.

Heeyah!

It is physically impossible for you to have gotten here before me.

(COUGAR GROWLS)

(GROWLS)

(COUGAR GROWLS)

Rafe's got trouble.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Go, go, go!

(COUGAR GROWLING)

(GUN FIRES)

What did you do that for? He could've killed you!

You could've killed him!

I wasn't aiming to kill, just to scare him off.

You don't have to aim at all to do that.

You expect me to let him attack you?

He looked like he was more ready to run than attack.

Yeah, well, he was running when he mauled Bob Elliott.

(GROANS)

Look, from now on, don't protect me.

Just guide me, all right?

I sure am much obliged to you, Austin.

I'd sure hate to lose any of them sheep.

I raised 'em since they was lambs, you know?

I'm glad I could help.

Rafe, it looks like you're gonna need some stitches.

We'll take you into town and have a doctor look at you.

Yeah, well, I'm goin' to town all right, but I got no time for a doctor.

You'd probably do better with a rest.

I got no time for that either.

I've gotta go tell Will Long that Taneha's on the prowl again.

And E.J... I'm gonna have to tell him...

that you're guidin' Austin to capture Taneha.

That's fine, Rafe.

Thanks again for the sheep, Austin.

And I'm sorry to be against you on this...

but I want that cat dead.

What do you say, do we have a deal?

I'll guide you...

but I don't want your money.

(E.J. BREATHING HARD)

Ohh.

Need a breather.

Takes awhile to get accustomed to this altitude.

Doesn't seem to bother you much.

Well, I'm used to altitude changes. I do a lot of flying.

Seem to do a lot of running, too.

Are you gonna tell me how you managed to outrun my horse?

Yeah, when you tell me why you don't take my money.

You all right?

Yeah, thanks.

Where do we go from here?

There's a deer trail just past those trees.

This is Taneha's territory.

At least that's what my dad always used to say.

Taneha?

Yes. It's fresh.

A few minutes old.

He's all over this meadow.

I can feel him.

You make him sound like some kind of demon.

Yeah, well, in Payute, Taneha means golden demon.

Cougars are evil spirits.

They make themselves invisible and that's how they destroy their enemies.

That's the Indian legend.

You believe in legends?

An old tracker once claimed he saw Taneha vanish into a cliff of solid rock.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

E.J, is guiding Austin right straight for Taneha country.

I figured she'd either turn him down or head him in the wrong direction.

No, she's too riled up about Mr. Bleeker, here.

How far ahead are they?

Well, they probably left my place about the same time I did.

Right after anyway, I'd say two hours.

The cat, did it get one of your sheep?

RAFE: No, but he sure wanted one.

Well, I gotta get to town and get this thing looked after.

Take some men and pick up their trail.

I'll cross your trail and head up the mountain.

All right.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(COUGAR GROWLS)

Taneha knows we're here.

You sure it's him?

I know his voice.

Anyway, there's not another cat that would come within miles of his territory.

(COUGAR GROWLS)

Yeah, he's up in the cliffs.

I'm gonna scout him before he scouts us.

What, in the dark?

You'll be lucky if you only break a leg.

The moon'll be out soon. That'll cut the dark.

You might have half a chance if you have an infrared scope.

Well, I'll just have to depend on my night vision.

You're serious.

Yeah, I eat a lot of carrots.

Really.

Hey, I'll be all right.

Well, don't forget to bring your tranquilizer gun in case you meet Taneha coming down.

I think I'll just try and sweet talk him.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

(COUGAR GROWLS)

(TRAP SNAPS)

(SCREAMS)

Oh, my God.

(GUN SHOT)

(GUN FIRING)

Think they got it?

Not likely in the dark.

They might've spotted it.

First thing in the morning we'll get going.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

(DISTANT GUNFIRE)

(MISFIRE CLICKS)

(COUGAR GROWLS)

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

He thought he had me.

But he didn't kill you.

Ow!

He was right here.

He was stalking me.

He didn't kill you.

I saw him.

I saw his yellow eyes. They weren't ten feet away.

Now take it easy, he's gone now.

The Indians cut his picture in stone a hundred years ago.

I saw it in the cave.

It was the same size.

It was the same look in his eyes.

(GROANS)

It's all right, calm down.

I stumbled on the cave during a storm.

It was Payute.

I recognized their demon sign beside his picture.

I'd like to see it.

I never found it again.

(MOANS)

I don't even know how! got out of the cave, I just ran and ran...

A drawing frightened you that much?

A drawing didn't do this!

I can understand why you think Taneha's a demon.

Why he haunts you.

Is it gonna leave a scar?

Oh, I don't think so.

It'll be sore for a few days, that's about all.

My father always said a man wasn't full grown till he had a few scars on his hide.

Guess I wasn't a very good daughter to him.

I was trying too hard to be his son.

I learned to hike and track just like a boy.

I was trying so hard to make him proud of me.

When you got that scar on your neck...

trying to make your dad proud of you?

Yeah, I was trying to be brave.

As brave as his son would've been.

What's your initials stand for?

Edward John, that was his name.

No, but what's your name?

Ellen Jane.

Ellen Jane.

I guess I didn't measure up too well.

I had a lot of trouble killing animals.

But Dad said it was the law of nature.

So I got used to it.

Killing was something I never could get used to, either.

It was a good thing that wasn't a saw tooth trap.

That would've gone right through your ankle.

Oh, Dad never used saw tooth traps.

I know, it's stupid, isn't it? I step in my own father's trap.

(SIGHS)

Your dad set traps for Taneha?

Well, he had to get him someway!

I wish Taneha had got killed in a trap...

instead of causing my father's death.

No wonder the ranchers wanted me to use you to help capture Taneha.

They knew you had the best reason in the world for wanting to kill him.

In the morning, we'll go our own separate ways.

We have a deal, Ellen.

E.J.!

Do you understand? It's E.J.!

Yes, I understand.

But E.J. doesn't stand for Edward John...

that was your father's name and he's dead.

E.J. doesn't stand for your father's son...

because he never had a son.

Ellen Jane.

That's who you are, do you understand?

Okay, I guess we both feel a little better now.

The truth is, you tried your best to discourage me from coming with you.

But I needed you.

And I still need you to help me track Taneha.

What do you say tomorrow we give it another try, huh?

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

Do you see him?

Just his shadow moving across the rocks.

Shadow?

There's a fissure halfway up the cliff.

He must've been heading towards it with the sun behind him.

You can't see it now.

The sun has to be just at the right angle.

You know, years ago, my father mapped out a trail...

down the south slope.

I think I could find it.

What about your ankle?

Oh, I've tracked on worse than a sore ankle.

(DRAMATIC MUSIC)

Take a look at the side of that cliff.

That's where the cougar is.

As long as we cover both sides of that cliff, the cougar's dead.

Let's go!

Here's the cave!

This place isn't even on my father's map!

STEVE: Taneha?

Yep.

Cougars usually lay up this time of day.

That's what I'm counting on.

The firing pin's broken.

(PIN CLICKS)

Well, I must've hit it on something.

No.

That's not how it happened.

I did it.

My father had a job to do.

I'm finishing it for him.

Steve, that cat is a vicious killer!

He's a hungry animal fighting for survive.

It's his natural right.

I owe it to my father. I'm sorry, I owe it.

You don't owe anyone but yourself!

Look, wiping out a species is not gonna destroy your demon.

It'll destroy you.

You can't go in there! You have no protection!

Neither has Taneha.

Please...

I don't want you hurt.

I'll be all right.

But...

Trust me, please.

(OMINOUS MUSIC)

E.J.: It's the Indian cave.

STEVE: Just like you described it.

I can't see him, but I know he's here.

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

He's over there, he's on a ledge.

Are you sure?

Take my word for it.

Oh, you don't expect that to hold him?

Well, it's a special kind of fiber.

It's stronger than it looks.

I'm gonna try and hang it.

I'll need a climbers' chisel. It's in my pack? Would you get it?

Sure. Here.

(COUGAR GROWLS)

So this is Taneha's cave.

I wouldn't have spotted it in a million years.

Your pa would be proud of you, E.J.

Who are you?

Bleeker.

I've come for the cougar.

Taneha's not here.

(COUGAR GROWLS)

Nobody! Nobody kills that cougar!

E.J... you gone crazy?

You heard me.

I don't want to hurt you, but...

(GUN FIRES)

Now all of you...

get down off this mountain!

(BIONIC EYE SOUND EFFECT)

Easy, easy...

Easy, fella.

Easy, fella. Hey.

Come on now, it's just you and me, boy.

Easy does it.

Come on now, easy does it.

Easy, now, easy.

Easy.

Easy.

Get the other rope...

slip it over his head on the other side.

Easy, boy.

Easy, boy. Easy.

Here we go.

Easy, boy.

Easy.

Don't be afraid, he needs us now.

Easy.

Come on.

Come on, boy. Come on.

Come on.

I'm gonna stay here a while.

Yeah, it's great.

Oh, a couple of weeks or so.

Keep in touch, Oscar.

The Carsons have a new dent in the front of their camper.

Lady with the baby needs new heels on her shoes.

County bus is late again.

Mmm.

You know, I really miss life in a small town.

I hate to spoil your fun...

but the Indians say that any man that can outrun a horse...

and overpower a beast, is a demon.

I know what the Indians say.

Trouble is, I don't know why they keep on saying it.

Yeah, really. It makes me mad.

You know what I'd really like to know is which of them Indians is saying it?

Are you ever going to tell me how you were able to do those things?

Oh, probably not.

Oh.

Am I ever gonna see you again?

What, are you kiddin'?

They're gonna have to force me to leave here.

That'll be Saturday, when they hose down the courthouse steps.

Okay, Saturday.

And what then?

Well, when the steps dry we'll just come right back here and continue.

Steve?

Why are you really staying here?

Because I like the sky...

and because I think you have a beautiful life ahead of you here.

That's the truth.

I'm gonna stay here until you see that.

Would you look at that?

What's Freddy Owens doing on Cliff Harding's motorbike?

I thought they were enemies when Norma Dell started dating Freddy' s brother.

I'll be darned.

If you really like the sky around here...

I know where there's a place...

where the sky is so incredibly beautiful.

I could show it to you.

You're my guide.

(END THEME MUSIC)