- Don Stober: Well, let me tell you a little story, boy. A long time ago, there was a tribe of Indians up here in these woods. They were all laying down in these parts... or something, I can't remember. Anyway, this herd of grizzlies smelt them out. They came in an' they ate them. They tore them all up. Little children, sick ones, everybody! There were few braves to go out on the hunt. They came back and them grizzlies turned on them! So there you got yourself a little situation. A whole herd of man-eating grizzlies. Just running around tearing up them Indians!
- Arthur Scott: That's kind of hard to believe, Don.
- Don Stober: Unless, of course, you happen to be one of them Indians!
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Well, let me tell you something, Kittridge, while you've been sitting around here on your fat ass, I've made this forest part of me!
- Charley: You listen here...
- Ranger Michael Kelly: No, you listen. Those campers are in my jurisdiction, now I'm going to deal with it the way I see fit. Now you just try and stop me!
- Ranger Michael Kelly: [frustrated] But there's something I'm not doing!
- Allison Corwin: [lighthearted] Sure, you're not killing the bear.
- Don Stober: If ya feel a wet snout in yer face, whatever you do, don't move. And don't kiss it back, 'cause it ain't me.
- [Scott has almost been shot by Kelly after being mistaken for the grizzly]
- Arthur Scott: Hold it Kelly, are you crazy?
- Ranger Michael Kelly: What the hell are you doing up here?
- Arthur Scott: Trying to find your bear.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Well, you're supposed to be down at camp. Kittridge has been all over me.
- Arthur Scott: You better tell that man that bear is not one of ours.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Are you sure?
- Arthur Scott: Positive.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Well, you still shoulda come on down.
- Arthur Scott: Why? I can do better on my own.
- Don Stober: You almost got your tail shot off.
- Arthur Scott: [chuckling] Yeah, almost.
- Don Stober: Boy, if you ain't a big bag of grits. What the hell would you have done if you'd caught that big brown?
- Arthur Scott: It isn't a big brown, it's a grizzly.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Grizzly.
- Arthur Scott: Mm-hmm.
- Don Stober: Ain't no grizzlies up here. I used to hunt these woods for years, it can't be a grizzly.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Come on Scotty, they were killed off years ago. Big bounty hunt, remember?
- Arthur Scott: This one survived.
- Don Stober: I'm telling you, it can't be.
- Arthur Scott: I'm telling you, we got a grizzly and then some. Guys, I'm a little bushed. Can I hitch a ride back with you?
- Don Stober: Yeah, come on.
- Arthur Scott: You know that the average grizzly, he's about seven feet tall.
- Don Stober: Some of them shorter.
- Arthur Scott: Mm-hmm. This one here is at least 15 feet.
- Don Stober: Oh no, maybe in Alaska, just maybe, but not down here.
- Arthur Scott: Right here, I just checked the claw marks on a tree.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Well, that means he's established his territory, the whole damn forest?
- Don Stober: But you're talking about is unreal.
- Arthur Scott: Wait, I got a little more. According to the depth of his paw prints, he weighs over 2000 pounds.
- [Pulls out sandwich]
- Arthur Scott: Boys want a bite?
- Don Stober: Look Scotty, you may be some kind of authority on all this, but what you talking about a science fiction, as a fairy tale?
- Arthur Scott: Science yeah, fiction no. See, the only known grizzlies that large were called arctos ursus horribilis. And they was the mightiest carnivores in the Pleistocene era.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Now well, when was that?
- Arthur Scott: About a million years ago.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Ah, he's a mere baby then.
- Arthur Scott: Well, he was a hardy ancestor that managed to hang in there.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: What in the hell's a million year old grizzly doing here?
- Arthur Scott: He's looking for food. See, they are strictly carnivores, those things. They sure do love meat.
- Don Stober: In that case let's get the hell outta here.
- Ranger Michael Kelly: Good enough.
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