The Cove (2009) Soundboard Edit

About half an hour into the session,

About the tenth day, I passed out,

All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

All the fish that we love most to eat...

And bring them into captivity.

And eat a dolphin at the same time

And go down the end of the dock

And hold them and hug them and love them to death,

And I cut the branch on a night when there's no dolphins.

And I get in their way...

And I think they have a real fear that they will run out of food

And I wanted to be active

And I went to a hospital there,

And in the center they have these rocks

And it actually made it over a couple of the nets,

And it kept me up at night.

And it was just... it was so surreal

And it would sell for far, far less if it was properly labeled.

And it's this anthropomorphic

And people use their hands to give messages to dolphins.

And she sank straight down on her belly to the bottom of the tank.

And T bones this shark

And that's hard to explain,

And that's their downfall in Taiji.

And the government's covering this up.

And then Charles said..

And there's not a lot of people out there

And they followed her down the beach

And they just bang on these poles with hammers,

And they might be getting a bottlenose dolphin

And we have a species here

And we know exactly what we're looking at.

And we were immediately met by Ric O'Barry,

And you have whales and dolphins come by you,

Are poisoning themselves,

As a human being,

As thousands of demonstrators

At the National Aquarium in Baltimore,

At this point in time, but there are whales

Because the dolphin meat is heavily laced with mercury

Can learn to talk to each other.

Communicating with each other,

Do we have any concern, any sympathy

Do you understand?

Does he want to know if he's poisoning the bodies

Dominica would like to compliment the Japanese delegation.

Eight world championships in her lifetime

For the Japanese position at the IWC

For trying to free a dolphin at the Lerner Marine Laboratory.

From getting that vantage point on the killing

God damn it.

He's trying to rectify this huge problem,

Hit them or do something to get you out of here.

Holy Christ.

How to relate to people,

Human beings have ever faced.

I didn't think about that for a long time later.

I don't enter. No, no.

I don't know.

I grew to love the oceans partly because of Flipper.

I have seen only...

I have to see this end in my lifetime

I mean, he just egged me on,

I spend most of my time

I think the most horrifying thing about the whole dive that night

I thought, you know, what am I doing?

I wanted to stop this

I went to a marine mammal conference down in San Diego.

I'm trained to recognize intelligence through objective measures..

I've watched them give birth

If we could just get in there, we can stop this.

If we wanted to partake in a secret ops mission

In one of the most beautiful places

It gets magnified about ten times..

It really wanted to be with us

It simply has to do with the fact that You voted for us,

It's about pest control.

It's very sad to see the beautiful islands in the Caribbean

Just by going anywhere near Japan

Just so we know where we're not supposed to be?

Like I did on the Flipper TV show day and night,

Mandy Rae Cruickshank and Kirk Krack

My phone will ring.

Nice work.

No photos, okay?

Nobody has really looked into the hospitals,

Not a moment can be lost.

Of the whales that pass through Antigua

Okay, we're going to paddle out.

One of these devices that was very important to Louis and I

People in Osaka, Kyoto, and Tokyo...

Put in underwater housing

Ric somehow enlisted the military forces of Nicaragua.

She did that.

She was really depressed. I could feel it.

Shit.

Simon Hutchins,

So bad that the whole thing could collapse.

So Hayden Panettiere, Isabel Lucas,

So Jenny became a target,

So let's give you something that you people can see

So the hydrophone was sort of a trial run

So we don't want them to pick up underwater cameras

So we knew that we were being followed by these people.

Somebody's behind me

Sometimes referred to as Minamata disease.

Started giving the dolphin meat away free

Surrounded by a stadium full of screaming people.

Swimmer, you're within a government authorized test area

That it was worth your while to sell your vote to us..

That question has kept me awake for a long time

That the only language

That this isn't true

That this was going to be a much longer process,

That to us it certainly amounts

That you need to get through to get there

That's the most obvious demonstration of the connection in my life.

That's what they want you to do..

The dolphin is captured and put in a concrete tank

The dolphins can see right through you

The first guy I called was my buddy Charles Hambleton.

The first one was to get the auditory experience

The Japanese government and their agencies

The other one was Jenny May.

The sponsor of the program pulled him from the ticket.

The story that Ric showed me at the beginning

There has to be a new generation that takes over from here.

There was two parts to the mission.

There's a human response that makes it undeniable

There's a lot of money in it.

There's no hope.

There's no... There's no democracy here

These dolphins are symbolic of a new day for the environment.

They actually told us that.

They can anticipate what's going to happen to them.

They can wake you up in the middle of the night,

They don't like me.

They got into the water and cut the nets

They normally go up there

They took a baby dolphin up and cut its throat.

They're catching their fish from an ever depleting supply,

They're doing a circle.

They're out of the game

They're straining the bottom of that bay,

They're totally freaked out, stressed out to the max

They've already told us that..

This dolphin comes out of right field

This has not got to do with economics.

This is a classic drive,

This is a major source of mercury,

This is our culture.

This thing was literally 2 meters away from me,

To hide Hi Def cameras and hydrophones.

To me, you're either an activist or an inactivist,

To see if we could get away with it.

Today it's become a multi billion dollar industry.

Very complicated subject to get around.

Was on a trip down to Nicaragua

We called him Private Space.

We can do all of them brown if you want,

We could plant hydrophones on the side of the lagoon

We helped create the largest slaughter of dolphins on the planet.

We without hesitation said, Absolutely. Sign us up.

We would plant all the rocks,

We'll try to regroup.

Well, I went back to Iki about three years ago,

Well, in Minamata, the government said

When do we want it?

When I started out, there were only three dolphinariums.

When they're in that killing cove

When we first got to Japan,

When we very discreetly leave the hotel room

When you're in the water,

Where once they had thousands of them streaming by the coast.

Where the monks rake these rocks,

Which became infamous

Which have a flange on the bottom,

Who helped start the whole Save the Whale movement

You are holding up a government project.

You could see a bunch of the babies

You could see these dolphin boats going by in the window,

You guys go in with two cameras, right?

You know, he's a mad genius

You never heard of it?

You realize after a while they don't really belong in captivity.

Bye bye. Bye bye

It's 766. It's the cop. Is it?

...their basic request for them to engage in whaling.

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