Even after Kong disappeared into the jungle with Ann, Gary could not stop winding the crank on Carl's camera due to fear and shock.
"Gary, he's gone, you can stop filming now," Carl gently told Gary, but the traumatized camera man would not stop filming.
"Gary. Gary?" Carl said very firmly.
"GARY!" Carl snapped, stomping a foot.
"WAAH!" Gary screamed, flinching and falling backward with the camera.
"Doggone it, Gary, what are you trying to do, break my camera?!" Carl yelled.
"Leave the poor man alone, Denham!" Jack rebuked him, having been let go by Faraji. With concern, Jack then asked Gary, "Gary, are you okay?"
"I saw… I saw… I saw… Kong," Gary gasped. The camera man then rolled his eyes back into his head and fainted.
"Get him back to the ship," Englehorn ordered. A group of sailors lifted Carl's camera off Gary's unconscious body, lifted the man himself and carried him off to the ship.
"Guys, come on, he's my camera man, I need him!" Carl protested.
Jack glared at Carl and interrogated him, "For the love of Pete, Carl, what on Earth was that thing?!"
"It was Kong," Faraji interjected.
"Doggone it, Faraji, I KNOW it was Kong!" Jack snapped.
"Jack, calm down," Englehorn soothed.
"Calm down? When the only woman on our ship… the LOVE of my LIFE… WAS JUST TAKEN OFF INTO THE JUNGLE BY A FRICKIN' MUTANT?!" Jack screamed.
"Jack, there was nothing you could have done for her, Kong is too strong," Faraji said.
"YOU MORON, I COULD HAVE SAVED HER BEFORE KONG CAME, BUT YOU HELD ME BACK!" Jack exploded.
"I was trying to protect you!" Faraji argued.
"I'VE RISKED MY LIFE BEFORE, I DON'T NEED YOU TO BE MY HERO!" Jack insulted the native.
"YOU FOOL, YOU WOULD HAVE DIED!" Faraji screamed.
"Yeah, and then you would have been a tragic hero," Nigel added.
"YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT KONG, JACK, YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT THIS ISLAND!" Faraji continued. "WHY DID YOU COME TO THIS ISLAND!? OF ALL THE PLACES THAT YOU COULD HAVE GONE, YOU COME TO A PLACE OF DEATH!"
"It was DENHAM'S FAULT! DIDN'T HE FRICKIN' TELL YOU?! ALL HE CARES ABOUT IS A DOGGONE BLOODY FILM!" Jack burst out. He then turned and glared at Carl, who removed his hand from the camera crank after filming entire altercation. "AND WOULD YOU PUT THAT STUPID CAMERA AWAY!"
Carl backed away from his camera as Jack approached him, knocked the camera down, pulled him up close by the shirt and interrogated him, "Now tell me before I beat the living crap out of you, what on EARTH was this KONG thing?! And what was so special about him that you had to film? Even at the risk of your own camera man, huh?"
"He was a giant ape, Jack, a HUGE, MONSTROUS gorilla, I told ya, monsters belong in THE movies, ha, ha," Carl nervously laughed.
SMACK! Jack punched Carl across the face and sent him sprawling to the ground. The angry first mate approached the fallen film director with another fist raised, but Englehorn stopped him, saying, "THAT'S ENOUGH, JACK! Listen, Ann's dead. If we stay here any longer, we'll end up dead too. We're going back to the ship, come on, everyone, let's go."
"No!" Jack protested. "That ape only JUST took Ann. I didn't even hear any sounds of her bones cracking. He COULDN'T have killed her yet."
"Jack, where are you going with this?" Briggs nervously asked.
"I say we should 'GO' and RESCUE her!" Jack insisted.
"You're mad, Jack, that ape would kill us all!" Englehorn argued.
"A silverback gorilla's got the strength of ten to twenty men, so just imagine what Kong could do," Helstrom commented.
"I don't care about silverback gorillas, and I'm not afraid of Kong!" Jack argued. "Captain Englehorn, don't you remember what happened to Carnahan in Kenya? Your first mate before me? You thought Carnahan was dead when he got separated during our mission to capture lions for Barnum & Bailey. On our last day in Kenya, he was running from a rhino to get back to our camp, and then the darn thing caught up and killed him. His death could have been avoided if we went out and looked for him."
"The rhino slashed him in the back with his horn, Jack, Carnahan died AFTER I shot the rhino," Englehorn corrected him.
"Carnahan still died, captain, doesn't make a difference," Jack reminded him. "And I want to get Ann back before she dies too."
As Englehorn paused and thought for a moment, Faraji interjected, "Alright, Jack, I will take you to look for Ann. But if we find any evidence that she is dead, which she probably will be, we will come right back."
"I can do with that," Jack replied.
"Count me in," Stu volunteered.
"And me," Harold added.
"I guess I'll come along," Briggs proposed.
"I say we approach this matter with cautious optimism, Jack, but I'd say I'll come along too," Long John told him.
"Greater love hath no one than this, that a man lay his life down for his friends," Manny recited. "I am willing to lay my life down to help mine."
"I helped rescue Halden earlier, so I guess I'll help with this," Joe said.
Nine other sailors volunteered. Perrault, a muscular man with short brown hair and a goatee. Peek, a lean man with a black mullet and glasses. Pierre, an athletic young man with a crew cut. Russell, a bald British man. Thomas, a husky African-American man. Meeko, a man of Native American descent. Gomez, a slender, Hispanic young man with an underdeveloped beard. Hobbs, a tall, baldheaded older man with circular glasses. And finally, Chuck, a heavyset man with slicked back black hair. No one else volunteered after him.
"That settles it Jack, you've got the native and fifteen others," Englehorn declared.
"I'm coming along, too," Carl announced, holding his camera.
"I'm staying behind," Theodore frantically declared.
"Theodore, come on, you're my leading man, I NEED you," Carl pleaded.
"Sorry, Mr. Denham, if there's a giant monkey monster living behind that wall, I don't want to know what else is there," Theodore argued.
"Leave him be, Denham, we don't need him," Jack told Carl. "Not that you really care much about the personal safety of your actors anyway."
"I'm staying behind, too," Nigel decided.
"Right behind you, Nigel," Penn said. "I like the jungles of the Bengal and Congo, but giant ape territory is where I DRAW the line."
"Come on, boys!" Carl complained.
"I'll go with ya, Carl," Halden offered.
"You know, at least I've got my assistant, better than nothing," Carl responded.
"Listen Carl, we're rescuing Ann, not making a movie," Jack sternly told him.
"Jack, he's a headstrong film director, you're not going to win," Englehorn commented.
Jack glared at Carl, and warned him, "If you slow us down"-
"I won't slow ya down, I promise, now let's go save your girl," Carl interrupted.
"Alright men, let's go!" Jack ordered.
"Jack," Gustavo stopped him, placing a chubby hand on his shoulder. "Before you go, I must-a tell you that I am staying behind because the Venture crew needs a-my meals, so I cannot afford to die. If that were not the case, I would-a go with you in a heartbeat. I hope you understand. I loved Miss-a Darrow when she was a little girl, and I hope you can bring her back alive."
"Thank you, Gustavo," Jack smiled.
"And we are-a staying here with our father, Giuseppe and I," Gustavo's husky elder son, Stefano, told Englehorn's first mate.
"He is the only immediate family we have-a left after our mother died, and we don't-a want to be separated," Gustavo's lean younger son, Giuseppe, added.
Gustavo locked Jack in a tight embrace, weeping. Jack himself wanted to cry at that moment, but he didn't want his crew to see it as a sign of weakness. Once Gustavo released him, he wiped away tears and said, "In bucca al lupo. It means-a good luck in Italian."
Freddy also appeared behind Gustavo and told Jack, "I knew right from the start that we weren't going to Indonesia, and I knew somethin' bad like this would happen. I would come with you Jack, cause I love and respect Miss Darrow, but Englehorn won't let me. I'm just a year under age for stuff like this. Hope you find her."
"Hurry now, there is no time to lose!" Faraji enjoined.
"Alright fellas, let's go!" Jack ordered. He and Faraji led their sixteen men out of the village gates. As Jack departed, he called back to Englehorn, "Englehorn, do us a favor, guard the gate while we're gone and keep it open! Don't let the natives close it!"
"Sure thing Jack!" the captain answered. He then gave an order to his watchman, "Mr. Suzuki, keep a vigil atop the wall! If anyone comes back, let us know immediately!"
"Aye, captain!" Mr. Suzuki complied. The Japanese watchman found a stony stairway that led to the top of the wall and climbed his way up. Once at the top, he looked down and watched as Jack, Faraji, and their men carefully made their way down the 25-foot cliff and into the jungle where Kong took Ann. This marking the beginning of a tragic adventure.
