- [first lines]
- Matt Cutter: Okay, that officially *hurt*.
- Mendelsohn: [treating a wound on Cutter's back] Gotta tell you - you are one lucky dog, you are.
- Matt Cutter: Jeez! What the heck are you doing back there?
- Mendelsohn: Making it okay. What are you going to tell the Frenchman? He's going to want to know where his shipment is.
- Matt Cutter: Not a problem. I know exactly where it is. He paid me to pick the crates up; he said nothing about getting them back here. Besides he didn't tell me some idiot with an old German .88 would be shooting at me.
- Mendelsohn: He's going to want his money back. That partnership of ours...
- Matt Cutter: Yeah?
- Mendelsohn: When the Frenchman shows up - we don't have one.
- Norliss: If you're not Matt Cutter, I don't want to talk to you.
- Mendelsohn: Hey, you're not Claudia Schiffer, but I make an effort.
- Norliss: My name is Norliss. We represent a company called Agmis.
- Matt Cutter: Agmis? That's a big mineral company, isn't it?
- Norliss: Well, Agmis is also involved in environmental preservation. We sent a scientist into the La Mista last week and, ah, he's missing.
- Matt Cutter: Oh, a rescue mission? That sounds good, but I can tell you the La Mista is completely uncharted.
- Norliss: Well, he has a locating beacon.
- Matt Cutter: Still, that'll be at the end of my range. If something were to happen...
- Norliss: Fifteen thousand in American dollars.
- Matt Cutter: Well, let me button my shirt.
- Matt Cutter: Mr. Norliss, what's in those crates?
- [Norliss pulls money from his wallet and sets the bills on fire]
- Norliss: That was $500 of your payment. Is there anything else you'd like to ask?
- [one of Norliss' henchman shoots at a herd of zebras]
- Matt Cutter: What's his problem? Did a zebra beat up his mom when he was little?
- Kali: Did he see you change?
- Sheena: He might have.
- Kali: There was a time when the Kaya's ability to change into animals wasn't a secret, but my tribe has been gone for a long time now. It is only the two of us. We have to protect that.
- Sheena: He got hit on the head. Maybe he won't remember.
- Kali: I see... Don't worry about him. He's going to be okay.
- Sheena: I don't care. I didn't ask.
- [Sheena stalks away]
- Kali: [to herself] Yes, you did. By bringing him here, you cared for something. That's a beginning.
- Matt Cutter: So, what do I owe you for patching me up?
- Kali: It made me happy to help. That feeling is not for sale.
- Kali: [to Matt] There was a story once of a young white girl. Her parents killed, she wandered in the jungle. She lived with the animals; became one with them... became savage and kind, knowing and innocent - and she declared herself the enemy of those who would invade her world. The Darakna of this legend isn't so much a monster as a protector. Makes a good story for the tourists, doesn't it?
- Matt Cutter: [to himself after Sheena blows up his floatplane] I have never lost a plane. I've been in firefights, medivacs, set down in a hot LZ and I've never lost a plane... I lost my damned plane.
- [inviting Sheena to sit next to him by the fire]
- Matt Cutter: I don't bite.
- Sheena: Then how do you eat?
- Matt Cutter: [talking to himself] What am I talking about? Nothing makes sense. I am sitting here talking to a beautiful blonde knockout darakna who can change into animals...
- Matt Cutter: [to Sheena] How?
- Sheena: Cali taught me how to feel the animal spirit inside me. We call it the Manta. I connect through the eyes and then I'm fur and fangs.
- Matt Cutter: Ooo-kay.
- Sheena: I can't stay that way for long. If I do, I'll carry part of it with me when I change back. So if I'm a lion, give me some time before you say hello.
- Matt Cutter: You can talk to animals?
- Sheena: Of course not - at least, not the way we do.
- Matt Cutter: But you get the message across.
- Sheena: They're my friends.
- Matt Cutter: Are they all animals your friends?
- Sheena: All except for the rogues - they kill for pleasure, like the silver-back gorilla on the other side of the river. Not all gorillas are rogues, you understand.
- Matt Cutter: Of course.
- Matt Cutter: Remember the next time you see a brand spanking new plane coming in for a landing, it might be me.
- Sheena: The next time you see a leopard creeping towards you... it might *not* be me.
- [last lines]
- Kali: [voiceover] She lived with the animals; became one with them... became savage and kind, knowing and innocent. The Darakna of this legend isn't so much a monster as a protector.