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Arne, are you sleeping? Arne?

Arne.

Hey, man. How are you?

- This is everything? - Yes.

People think these holes were all formed after the last ice age.

The ice melted and left these holes behind.

But what if they are craters?

Meteor craters?

On the moon and on Mars it's so obvious.

Because the craters remain visible.

But on earth, they very quickly disappear.

So I think they're very underestimated.

You know how many known craters there are in the world?

- One hundred and seventy six. I know. - That's not so many.

It's a very small chance. But the impact would be...

These holes are not necessarily shaped by the ice.

Most of them are perfectly round, just like on the moon.

Think about it.

What if I'm right?

- Wouldn't it be... - Yeah, it would make you famous.

So do you have photographs?

Aerials?

- No. Do you have? - No.

But I don't need them.

I'm not looking for craters.

They were supposed to be ready for me at the university in Oslo.

And I went there. But they were gone.

Well, you never know... I mean...

Some of those places have never been visited by anyone. So...

His compass.

I can't believe she kept it.

Is that a real Krantz?

Yeah. My mother... She...

She's probably afraid I get lost.

It's very sweet.

Yeah, it's... Yeah, very sweet.

This is Alfred.

- Per Aage Qvigstad. - Johan Mikkelsen.

So you met some of our flying friends already?

Welcome to Norway.

Did you get some breakfast?

I had some crackers. Shall I get my stuff?

Two, four, six, eight...

Thirty-eight. Thirty-nine. Forty.

One step is 60 cm. That's 1.2 km per hour.

Or is it 2.4?

That's per minute.

So per hour that makes 2.4.

2.4 kilometers.

You know, worms...

They enjoy the corpse of a hyena just as much...

as a bird of paradise. Have you thought about that? Mikkelsen has not.

He just pushes it aside, all those things.

There is another Dutch guy working on the same thing.

- Right? - What do you mean?

No. Just me.

As far as I know, my father was the first one.

The only one.

- So he's a geologist? - He was.

He's... He died when I was very young.

Seven years old.

He had an accident.

He was doing research in Switzerland.

And he fell into this big...

How do you call it? Crevice.

You know him?

Did you talk to Nummedal about that?

About my father?

No. Not really.

I don't think Nummedal approved much...

of your father's work.

So then I maybe thought he would have mentioned it.

No, but...

He used to make jokes.

That someone who'd come from a swamp, Holland...

would try to teach him something.

Really? Oh, my god.

Yeah, silly stuff.

But I mean, he's an old man and you shouldn't care.

Yes, he is. A very strange man.

One little stone is enough.

Here.

- How are you? - Good.

Needs to be a bit tighter when you go down-hill.

You don't...? You just...?

So what's your research about?

My research?

- The movement of the continental plates. - Really? The plates.

Very interesting.

I read that the current thinking is way different from a few years back.

Isn't that true?

That they're trying to locate the fault lines way inland...

because the plates are moving all the time, right?

They're going back and forth all the time. Isn't that true?

So you work alone, or...?

No, it's two South-Africans and one Swiss in Greenland at the moment.

I'm taking care of the Norwegian part.

Yeah? And Mikkelsen? What is he doing?

Mikkelsen? He's searching for the beginning.

It is no wonder that the founders of the great religions...

- usually were fishermen. - Oh, I'm just...

What do you mean?

You know, what takes place below the surface, we do not know that.

But fishermen, they search for its secrets, right?

And water reflects the sky.

So, you know...

I guess it made the waters the most powerful symbol...

of afterlife.

Afterlife?

That's why all the great prophets were fishermen.

And that's why they all died. They drowned.

You know, Mikkelsen believes in a Great Creator.

Nobody can deny it's possible, a Creator.

You know, if this God of yours exists...

don't you realise how terrible that idea is?

He's quite happy to have a generation almost wiped out by a disease...

only to have someone in the next generation find a cure for it.

Ether. You know ether?

It was around for 300 years...

before someone suddenly found out they could use that as an unaesthetic.

Before that, you know what they did?

If someone had their leg blown off in some battle...

they put the remaining stump of that leg into boiling oil.

And do you think this God of yours... What did He do?

Did He smell that smell of burning flesh and enjoyed it?

Because He also had thousands of women burned as witches.

Did He like that smell?

And when He sent down cholera, typhoid fever, black plague...

and after a while, then He had someone invent the microscope...

because He forget to mention the microscope in the Bible.

And now He has sent down a virus punishing people for making love.

And you know what He did?

Just now, He had someone inventing a medicine for that.

A cure for that, that only the rich people can afford.

You know what I think?

I think this whole Creation is some fucking big, sadistic conspiracy.

All this here? You think that's sadistic?

You blame God for what mankind have done to each other?

You know what I blame God for?

Do you know what I blame God for?

Shit.

Damn. Yeah, you like that, don't you?

You enjoy that.

Fuck.

Are you sleeping?

Arne?

Is this sleep?

Can I help you?

Want some help?

It's okay.

It's okay. Go.

Anna Belle Grey.

- Heard of her? - Excuse me?

Anna Belle Grey is an astonishing beauty...

with two heads and three tits.

- Is this a cartoon? - No, it's for real.

- I've seen pictures. - Really?

- Beautiful. - A girl with two heads?

And three tits. That's the most important thing.

- And from the waist down totally normal. - Really?

You should check her out. She's beautiful.

That's the kind of girl I like. Imagine the possibilities.

You can have whatever you like with those two heads.

So if this is...

If this goes on, it goes on behind the hill.

That means we are here.

Somewhere.

You see...

If you look at the compass...

Where's that? It's all flat.

But you have this. There.

So we're there?

Here.

Two, three, four, five, six, seven...

- That's eight. - Eight.

- Eight rivers. - Eight more.

Here we go.

And another one.

Miserable little fuckers.

- You'll be punished for that. - What?

They will burn you in hell for that.

Well...

I think we're punished enough here on earth.

Sucking the blood of other creatures.

How would you come up with that?

Maybe that's why the world was created.

To feed them.

Maybe that's why you're here.

Your only purpose.

You know...

He's dead now for almost twenty years.

And sometimes... I don't know.

It feels like he's...

You know what I mean?

You get along with your father?

Well, my father is a very wealthy man.

And that creates some pressure.

You don't think...

Nummedal would keep those photos...

I don't think so.

I don't know.

Father.

Morning.

Nummedal.

I was...

looking for coffee.

You want a coffee?

Three tits.

Do you hear me?

Are you talking about Scott and Amundsen?

The South Pole expedition?

Very fascinating story. I love that story.

It's funny. I just thought about that story when I was walking.

Very beautiful. And tragic as well.

I find it very tragic for Scott.

I mean, he really wanted to do it.

He was very ambitious.

He had the first plan, actually.

- Have you seen it? - What do you mean?

- Have you seen it? - The TV series from the 80s.

- You're talking about the television... - We all saw it.

We saw it.

We kind of know the stories.

- We know the story, of course. - Yeah, of course.

- We're Norwegians, you know. - Sorry.

But there was the tune... Remember? The tune?

Right. Need to be exact.

Take Stonehenge. 60 stones.

32 kilometers to get them there. On average.

On average.

So you need to move those stones.

Pushing a stone like that...

150 metres per year. That's not a lot.

No, not a lot at all.

It is a lot.

32,000 metres in total.

Divided by 150.

Two hundred years.

How long did those people live for? Thirty, forty years?

They didn't get old.

They never got to see it themselves, I don't think.

Wow.

'How are you doing, sir?' 'I'm fine. '

'Very good. Thank you very much. '

'Just give me the tripod. ' 'No, it's way too heavy.'

'No, it's not too heavy. I can carry it. I'm a soldier. '

Yes, exactly. Stonehenge.

Cathedrals. Same story.

Lugging stones around. And what for?

It took ages.

Stacking stone upon stone, upon stone, upon stone.

And to no purpose whatsoever.

Stone...

Fuck.

Aztecs.

They sacrificed humans.

Every day.

They believed that if they didn't...

then the sun wouldn't come up.

Anymore.

They didn't know the sun would come up...

anyway.

So...

that's...

hundreds of thousands of human sacrifices.

That didn't actually make sense.

But...

Is there a sacrifice that does make sense?

Did you always want to become a geologist?

Kanskje.

Kanskje?

You always say 'kanskje' when you take a picture. What does it mean?

It means 'maybe'.

Maybe? Why do you say it?

I say that?

It's just that when I take a photo...

it goes dark. It's something with the battery.

It shuts off. And so I try to press it down.

And then I tape it.

Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

So I don't know if the pictures actually...

You could buy a new camera.

It's a good camera. It's just something with the battery.

Or you ask your father?

Yeah, my father offers me new things all the time.

I wouldn't even consider giving him the pleasure.

Yeah, look. Now it works.

Again. Suddenly there it is.

I don't like new things.

Fuck.

You almost died today.

Yes, but it's just my leg.

Quite a dive.

Very impressive. You looked like an acrobat.

An acrobat trying to be a clown.

You know, in English they call it 'fall in love'. I think that's quite strange.

Kind of like falling into a pit, or something.

The French, they say 'tomber amoureux.'

Which I find a lot more interesting.

Because then it's like the falling is a kind of state of being.

The falling is the thing.

And the knee?

I think this will be fine.

- When I do this? - Yeah, I can feel that.

Six, eight...

Four, six, eight, ten.

Two, four, six, eight, ten.

Two...

You have aerials.

You have aerials of this area?

Yes. Thankfully.

Where did you get them?

From professor Nummedal.

What is this?

Is this a coincidence?

One, two.

Eight. Why? Nine.

It's like I'm not here. I am here, aren't I?

I see you're training for the triple jump.

He has my aerials. My photos...

- He has my aerials. - What?

- He has my aerials. - Who?

Mikkelsen.

You don't understand. I was in Oslo and Nummedal said they were lost.

Mikkelsen has my aerials.

So you've been talking to professor Nummedal?

He's a very old man.

Almost blind.

He will share. I'm sure.

He has my aerials.

Thirty-two.

Yes, we've already been there. We've seen that.

Thirty-three is nothing. Thirty-six.

Thirty-seven.

Yes.

Where is this? Thirty-one.

Yeah, that's here. Here.

That's where we were yesterday.

That's the one you saw.

Well, they're just pictures.

Finished already?

Finished already.

Thank you.

Where are the others?

- They left. - When?

An hour ago. Or two.

When do we see them?

Oh, no. They went north now. And we're going south. So...

We won't see them.

And why did they... Was there something wrong?

No.

No. What do you mean?

Why did they...

They didn't say goodbye, or...

We thought that you needed some sleep.

- At least give me the tripod. - Yeah. Later.

3122.

3123.

3124.

31... Fuck.

3125.

3126.

3133.

This is easy.

Okay.

Fuck it.

Sorry.

Sorry.

Six, eight... Fifty.

Two, four, six, eight... I can do this.

Eight.

Six, eight...

Six, eight...

Six, eight...

Ten.

What's going on?

It's completely crazy if you think about it.

Everything that happens on this planet.

Eventually everything will disappear.

Wouldn't it be just as strange if everything was saved?

Saved?

In an archive, or something.

Saved in an archive.

You mean everything?

Every sound and every little...

Everything?

Every sound, every thought, every...

You know. The wind, the colours. Everything that's here.

And everywhere else in the universe.

That would be so much information...

that it would create a second universe.

You mean, like a back-up.

A back-up.

But then you need another back-up from that back-up.

So then you have a back-up from a back-up...

from a back-up, from a back-up, from a back-up. And that doesn't...

Where are we going?

That's nice.

- Thank you. - Yes, that's really nice.

I think it's important to do good notes.

Good notes.

Real notes.

If something happens to me, someone can read the notes...

and everything will make sense.

We've got to go south.

No, I got mine, thank you.

South. That's there.

- Yep. - Yeah, you're ready?

You know, I have my moods from time to time

perfection's what I've got to find

No, that can't be.

Come on. That's right.

No. Not again.

Twenty-two.

Twenty-three. Twenty-four.

One point...

One point three.

So.

You're from the Netherlands?

Beautiful country. And the Dutch... Very intelligent people.

No mountains. No highlands, glaciers or waterfalls.

Just swampland, mud and clay.

Very intelligent people. Very clever. I love the Netherlands.

They don't have mountains, highlands or glaciers.

Only swamp.

Every other square meter, there's a geologist with a microscope.

There's a geologist. Ha, ha-ha, isn't that funny?

Every grain of sand is being weighed in the Netherlands.

Bang. Ow.

That's nothing to do with geology.

- Nothing to do with geology, my son. - I'm not your son.

That's bookkeeping.

That is bookkeeping. Oh, fuck off.

Fuck off, professor.

Why don't you go fuck yourself?

- The real problems, my boy... - The great scientific questions.

- The great scientific questions. - The real problems.

Where does our planet come from?

- What will be the future? - What is its future?

Will we be hit by a new ice age?

Will there be another ice age? I have no idea.

But that's what science is about.

Fuck off, professor.

Science.

Science.

Of course. Yes, professor Nummedal.

I get it. Put it right there for you.

- Science. - They're so beautiful.

The titanic effort of the human intellect...

to break free from its cosmic isolation...

- One of these days... - and deepen its understanding.

That's what science is about.

The titanic effort of the human intellect...

to break free from its cosmic isolation by...

understanding. Don't you...

So why don't you pick another course?

Like what? I don't know. Anything.

Economics, law, business administration, management.

Medicine.

Right.

Join the army.

Sure, I could join the army. Why not?

I can always join the army.

Give me twenty. Okay.

You passed it.

Yeah, I got it.

Here.

Lost it. We lost it.

- Mikkelsen, you hear me? - Yes, professor. Of course, professor.

You see the Dutchman? Stay away from the Dutchman.

Okay, professor.

- He wants your stones. - I completely understand.

He wants your aerials. Stay away from him. Stand back.

Oh yeah, of course. He's a very old man.

He's a very old man.

No, I cannot.

I'm very sorry, professor. I cannot.

Okay, now. Seriously.

Some are born to sweet delight

some are born to endless night

some are born to sweet delight

some are born to endless night

Are you hungry?

Me too.

Yes. Exactly.

One.

Two. Okay.

Hang on. So that makes two and a half.

Two and a half.

Two, four, six, eight, sixty.

Two, four, six, eight, seventy.

Four. No, four.

Six, eight, eighty.

Ninety.

Two, four, six, eight. One hundred.

Two, four, six, eight, ten.

Fifty-two. And eight. Fifty-seven.

See?

Spot on. Keep going.

Arne, Arne.

I tell you, it was my compass that was wrong.

And it was yours that was right.

Let's not go into that too much.

My compass was wrong, your compass was right.

It doesn't matter. It's just... It's just a compass.

Is this sleep?

No. This is...

This is not sleep.

And you found this with the body?

How long hadn't you seen Arne before you found him?

A couple of days.

Here you are.

- Do you speak English? - What?

Do you speak English?

Are you waiting for the bus?

Where are you going?

To the Netherlands.

So you have been to North Cape?

No.

I spent some time on a Fjell.

Fishing?

No, doing geological...

I study geology.

I did some research about mountains and rocks.

Did you find anything?

Anything interesting?

Can you help me with this?

Here, this part. It's Norwegian.

It's raining today.

I will take a short trip.

Here, this part.

Alfred is still not back.

I'm worried. But I won't go searching.

I will wait for him here.

A week maybe.

And...

The terrain...

is making it a little bit hard for him. And...

But I really look up to him...

because he's like...

Never saying a bad word.

And still he had some nasty falls.

Amazing man.

He just keeps going.

- And... - It's okay.

Thank you.

Is it you?

Alfred?

- What's your name? - Inger Marie.

- Inger Maria. - Marie.

Inger Marie.

- Where are you going? - Home.

- Where is that? - Honningsvåg.

Oh, really? Wow.

It must get pretty dark in winter.

Very dark.

And nothing to do.

- How old are you? - I'm fifteen.

What are you laughing at?

I don't know.

Meteorite hit in Finmark