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SMILLA: Do you know what it feels like

to be pulled by something you can't see?

To follow a path that was set long before you took your first breath?

It's in my blood.

In the ice, in the air.

The world I'm moving towards feels both foreign...

YOUNG SMILLA: Look, Mama. Isn't that a nice picture?

..and close, as if I've walked it before.

An equation I don't understand, but I know it's important.

An algorithm waiting for the right moment to reveal itself.

"Where the hand meets the rock."

And the spirits meet nature.

That's...that's where you'll find your path.

What's wrong?

Nothing.

Don't be afraid, Smilla.

Fear will kill your instincts.

(GASPS SOFTLY)

(ALARM RINGS)

MAN: (OVER PA) Lights and power will now be lowered

to energy-saving mode.

(ALARM RESUMES)

MAN: (OVER PA) Lights and power will now be lowered

to energy-saving mode.

(GRUNTS, GROANS)

Smilla. Stop. Smilla.

Smilla!

It's me.

This is crazy. You can't be here.

Why? You are.

These people are dangerous. You mean your friends?!

The people you've been working for all this time?!

Quiet! Stop touching me!

They're not my friends.

That makes me feel so much better.

You lied to me. Win my trust and then screw me over.

For what? Not even people you like?

I didn't have a choice. To say no?

Exactly.

You don't get that because... I have principles!

You have choice!

You never had to survive anything.

Not a thing without your daddy and a system to bail you out.

That's a low blow, right? Is it?

You've barely spent one night with me...

..and now you think you know me.

I didn't mean it like that.

When your whole world collapses, you do what you have to to survive.

Even if it means hurting the people you love.

Trust me.

You can't despise me more than I despise myself right now.

Here.

I kept what I could.

Why did they bring you?

They needed an engineer.

It was either that or they hand me to the authorities.

I just wish you hadn't have come here.

I don't know what you can do here, Smilla. What you want.

Answers.

Isaiah didn't die just because of a map.

He died because of what they are chasing.

What do you mean?

Him.

What's underneath the ice.

There's something deeper... a deeper connection.

Tork's cabin. I want to get inside.

(MUFFLED SMILLA AND RAHID CONVERSATION)

Shh.

You have to be careful.

If they catch you, they'll kill you.

Don't do this alone, please.

(COMPUTER BEEPS)

We were beginning to think you'd never leave the cabin.

Sea sickness.

Always takes me a few days.

I think it was a wise decision joining us.

But, uh, you know how this works.

That I won't wait forever.

We had a deal.

I let you on the ship, you tell me what you know.

I'm working on the inventory for the testing, sampling.

Brings home that we don't even know where the hell we're going.

Just a hope and a prayer and a recorded map.

If we're crazy, then so's the entire thinking world.

It feels so blind.

But if we crack it...

I know.

Don't underestimate the recording.

Inuit hunters were excellent navigators, even if we aren't.

We follow the recording, we get to where we're going.

(SNORTS GENTLY) Ignore me.

Take it easy, Madderson.

Nothing to be unnerved about.

We are protected.

I made sure.

A little fear is human.

Especially given the scope and magnitude of the mission.

We could be about to reshape the world,

change the course of human history.

There is something terrifying about that.

(MORITZ LAUGHS)

What's so funny?

No, please share.

I'm sure we're all dying to know.

It's, um...

..more irony than amusement.

At what? You.

You're naivety.

Naivety?

I just think you're all a little naive, that's all.

Ha! Whoa.

Mm, this mission.

What if it's based on a misconception?

There is mythology and there is science.

We can't...we shouldn't confuse the two.

Who says we are?

You are.

This place under the ice,

it has a reputation for killing people,

and we don't know why.

The Inuits believe it's sacred and should be left alone.

The Vikings decided it was a power that could heal.

The Nazis thought it might be the basis for a new super weapon.

Believing you can use it to solve the world's most urgent problem,

energy deficiency...

..so YOU can change the planet's future.

Your expedition is the epitome of cultural projection.

(CLEARS THROAT)

I disagree.

I think what we're doing is the epitome of scientific inquiry.

There is something under there,

and as scientists, it's our job to... to find it and know what it is.

Actually, it's our responsibility.

Even if it kills you and your crew? Regardless of if it does.

If there's the slightest chance that what we find benefits the world

in the way that I think this will,

we have a moral obligation to risk our lives, don't we?

How very selfless.

How very noble of you.

What are you here for, Moritz?

An interest.

Why come?

I want to know what's down there as much as you do.

I just hope we will all survive.

I like it.

Differing perspectives.

Fuels progress. I'm all about progress.

I think I'll take a nap.

Not sure if my stomach has quite adjusted yet.

Mm-hm.

We have a stowaway.

The girl - Smilla.

Have you seen her? Not yet.

She's here. She's on this boat.

I'll get Jakkelsen and Dimitri. No.

You alone.

I'm gonna keep this under the radar.

(ICE CRACKS)

(ALARM RINGS)

MAN: (OVER PA) Attention. Leif Carstensen,

please report to the bridge.

I'm trying to get by.

(DISTANT THUDDING)

(THUDDING CONTINUES)

ANE: One day you'll understand.

Is this how nature can hear me?

You came to me...

..to us in your own unique way.

I don't understand.

Those who enter this realm the way you did

carry a special gift.

You're not just my child...

..you also belong to the spirits, the gods.

You are angakoq.

What does that mean?

You're a shaman.

A messenger.

A bridge between worlds.

(KNOCK AT DOOR)

(GASPS)

I took what I could.

There isn't much to choose from.

I feel like I'm being watched.

Leif, the man who promised me papers for the map.

You did it for papers?

They've been lying to you all along.

He senses something, I'm certain.

We just need to be careful.

Can I have your phone?

(PHONE CHIMES)

It's unlocked.

(PHONE ALERT)

INTELLIGENT ASSISTANT: New message from Captain Sigmund Lukas.

(PHONE BEEPS)

WOMAN: (OVER PA) Welcome to the headquarters of

the Danish Democratic Party.

Please check in at reception for your electronic pass.

Thank you, Prime Minister, for meeting me on such short notice.

Karsten Tork's unannounced expedition has thrown us into a major crisis.

We know he's currently on his way to Greenland

with an icebreaker, the Kronos.

They do not respond to me, nor any other Prospectus board members

in our attempts to contact them.

Neither can they be tracked via radar.

We suspect he wants to complete David Hansen's mission,

and he's obviously willing to go to any strengths, use any means.

Hijacking the company's infrastructure,

using its funds and equipment,

risking not only his own life, but also his crew's.

A kamikaze mission.

This is a total disaster.

(SIGHS)

Katja...

Tork came to me.

He had pinpointed an area in Greenland

of acute magnetic energy deep within the ice plains.

He wanted our blessing, our partnership.

I advised the Prime Minister we should go ahead.

He shafted us.

It wasn't supposed to happen like this.

Not this quickly. Not until after the election.

Prospectus was going to be a part of that.

Two nights ago, I was able to make contact with a party member,

also the captain of the Kronos.

And?

There are about 20 people on board,

amongst them Professor Ida Lutyens,

director of the Institute of Arctic Medicine.

There are two geoscientists,

Caleb Madderson and Christian Bjerg,

as well as Moritz Jaspersen.

Jaspersen?

Jaspersen has deep ties to Greenland.

We can make an educated guess that all four will accompany Tork

on the expedition towards the energy source.

Is there any way that we can stop them?

I don't think we have time.

We don't know where they'll dock yet,

and we don't know where they'll be going.

We do know that Hansen never shared the exact whereabouts of the source.

My understanding is that he destroyed all geographical

and sensitive information before his...death.

My understanding is that any sensitive information

that might have been left over,

he made sure was destroyed before his death.

If Tork was telling the truth...

..he is the only person who has a way in.

Some sense of how to get there.

And how to survive.

This is an extremely dangerous situation.

Let's say he is successful and finds a way how to use the energy source.

What if he sells this knowledge to the wrong people?

Yes, but I don't believe this is the first stage.

He can't be doing it with such a small team.

He has to have a plan of more people to join once they arrive.

More scientists, more equipment.

All we have to do is keep contact with the captain.

I hope you're right.

I spent years building this government,

and you've thrown it all away.

Henrik, the files Tork looked through in Hansen's office...

..do you have access?

Aarggh! (COUGHS, BREATHES HEAVILY)

(GROANS)

(ALARM BLARES)

MAN: What happened?!

MAN 2: I don't fucking know what happened.

Who's on duty in the engine room? No idea.

(ALARM CONTINUES)

(DOOR CLATTERS)

(DOORS CLOSE IN DISTANCE) Check upstairs! Check upstairs!

Come on, come on!

(SHUTTER CLICKS)

(TABLET CHIMES) COMPUTERISED VOICE: DNA match.

(RUNNING FOOTSTEPS IN DISTANCE)

(GASPS)

That's all that's left?

If it's the private things.

Olesen said you can go through

the same server files as Tork went through,

whenever you're ready.

(TABLET BEEPS)

No chance.

Get Sokolov on the phone.

Alexander.

The Tintin media man?

Lukas. Sir?

Any issues? No, sir.

We're still some way away from the ice.

What happened earlier with the electrics?

Just a minor issue. All dealt with now, sir.

That's your destination. Where we'll dock.

I won't expect any further problems. Neither do I, sir.

(BEEP!) COMPUTERISED VOICE: Maintain speed.

Set radar range to 12 nautical miles.

(BEEPING)

The Prime Minister, please. It's Katja.

Asbjorn? Yes.

I know where they'll be docking.

(DOOR OPENS)

Smilla. (DOOR CLOSES)

What is this?

Her name was Laura.

This was long before you were born.

We met when I was going to school in Switzerland.

She got pregnant.

Just when we graduated.

I didn't want the child.

She did, so...

..we split up.

Why didn't you tell me?

I didn't consider it...

You didn't consider the fact that you had a child important?

When Tork was five or six...

..Laura didn't want me to be in contact with him anymore.

And you agreed to that?

That was what she wanted.

I continued to pay alimony.

Yeah, you paid her off.

I respected her decision.

Did my mom know?

You never told her.

Smilla...look at me.

He cannot know you're here.

I know what he is.

He's a dangerous man.

(SOFT RATTLING)

(GASPS)

(PANTS)

(ALARM BLARES)

Smilla, what's wrong?

(STATIC, ALARM BLARES)

What the hell? What's going on?

Something's interfering with the instruments.

(ALARM CONTINUES)

(GROANS)

Where is she?

Who?

Tell me where she is.

I don't know what you're talking about.

You do.

And when I find her

I'm gonna kill her myself because you lied to me.

Take it slowly.

Just breathe.

That's good.

Stop! No! Wait!

Have you noticed any side effects?

No.

Nausea? Dizziness?

Good.

You're responding well.

I think we should up the dose slightly in the next few days.

OK.

(KNOCK AT DOOR) Yeah?

She bites.

You can let her go.

Thank you.

So...

..this is awkward.

Meeting the stowaway on your ship.

I hadn't planned on a family reunion.

He told you.

I found out.

Tork...

That's the thing about Moritz, you know, he likes secrets.

It's his way of controlling the world.

So, how does it feel, huh? To wield that kind of power?

To get to decide who exists and who doesn't?

I played this out endlessly as a boy.

Meeting you.

It's not how I imagined it would be.

It's not what I hoped for.

Leif! Don't. Tork, don't.

You had no intention of sharing what you know about the ice.

You came here to protect her.

Take him. Don't touch him!

This is why I could never let you into our lives.

You didn't lose your soul, you threw it away.

You know I love you.

(DOOR CLOSES)

It was you.

You were the child.

Moritz tested you 20 years ago.

You're like the boy.

Oh!

He cherished you.

He tore me from my home.

Bent me to fit his life,

and tucked me away when I tried to bend back.

He never cherished me.

He couldn't even reinvent himself.

He just kept repeating the same story.

We have more in common than you think, you know?

No.

How old were you when you lost her?

None of your business.

You're not the only person to have lost someone, Smilla.

I was seven when my mother died.

So were you.

From what I've learned.

So much in common.

Too much.

It changes you, you know?

To lose a mother at such a fragile age.

Did you take Moritz to the cave as a child?

Did you protect him?

Why would I tell you?

Because he must have tested you for a reason.

With no-one to protect you,

you're not curious about what it all meant?

You had a power.

It's not a power. It's an instinct.

I didn't know. I didn't understand.

No-one told you.

Stop.

We could do this together.

We could understand this together.

Science and instinct.

It's the next frontier. We'd be formidable.

You're asking me to join your expedition?

Us being here like this, it's no accident.

Oh, you believe what he said?

Yeah?

I think you've had no-one to love since your mother died.

And no-one to love you.

Don't act like you care.

You're walking a well-trodden path.

Taking from others for profits and ego,

making your lives easier at the cost of someone else's.

I'm not going anywhere with you.

Do you know how much I've invested in trying to find out

what was special about that little boy?

How much testing and researching

and trying to delve into a world that didn't want me to find it?

And you are a mirror of that boy's DNA.

So, whatever possibilities he held, you hold.

This was not an invitation...

..a request,

it's a statement.

You're coming.

Whether as a sister, a scientist, or a hostage...

..that's your choice.

ANE: You're not just my child...

..you also belong to the spirits.

A bridge between worlds. The gods listen to you.

You can appeal to them.

And if they're angry,

you have the power to calm them through your spirit guides.

Guides that will show you the way in your task.

But why are they angry?

They're not. Not always.

Mostly they're frightened.

Frightened by those here in Earth Realm who have forgotten...

..that there was once a synergy, a harmony between the people,

the animals, the land.

(DOOR OPENS)

Ane...

..stop filling her head with nonsense.

It isn't nonsense.

We need you on the bridge. Send her back.

(ALARMS BLARE)

All the navigational instruments are dead.

The radar is showing ghost echoes,

saying that we're surrounded by ships, which aren't even there.

It's impossible. We'd see them if they were this close.

Are the engines still working?

All engines are registering full power.

It's something else. What?

Navigation and radar is down, everything else is operational.

We're still moving...

..but we can't get any read on our exact location.

Which means that... We don't know where we are.

MAN: Switching to manual navigation.

We don't know where we're going.

Maintaining current course and speed.

Smilla?

You know.

You've always known.

From the second you were born.

I struggled. I didn't want to believe it.

So, you did the scans?

The same scans Isaiah had.

Then...

..you took me away from everything I knew...

..and sent me off to boarding school.

I know what the world does to children like you.

Isaiah.

I know there are more of you around the world.

You hold the key to the future.

If we have one.

I didn't want the world to use you, or...

..to destroy you

because of its own hope.

(INSTRUMENTS BEEP)

LUKAS: This is outside anything I've ever known.

We are on a collision course if we don't get some help right now.

I'm putting out an emergency call to the coastguard.

No!

You get this under control. Sir, I can't.

There is no logical explanation for any of this.

Then you find one.

Sir?!

(GASPS, GROANS)

Leif. We need her up here.

Get her up here.

If she was what this was about...

..you think I would risk my neck for her?

Come.

Can you see it?

It's a pathway, isn't it?

It's a pathway, and only you can see it fully.

You can get us there.

No.

Gun.

He said he wouldn't throw his life away for you.

Maybe he's going to have to.

Not here.

I need the wind.

Maybe we could all talk to the gods once.

Until we chose machine over instinct.

Instead of gaining more understanding, we lost what we had.

Now you and others like you are the ambassadors...

..the representatives that remained connected to spirits,

to land, to people.

Eight degrees north.

MAN: Eight degrees north.

TORK: We need to get the team ready.

It's time.

I have to get there first.

What?

The ice.

I have to get there before Tork.

How do we do this?

You get Moritz from his cabin.

Moritz.

Come on, let's go.

SMILLA: Get the spare snow suit from the bigger supply room.

I'll get food and a tent.

We take the dinghy. Meet here in 15 minutes.

Wait. I'll get you once the dinghy's ready.

I'm coming with you. No. It's too risky.

All that for the immigrant?

Now you're leaving?

Get your stuff, get back inside.

No. (MEN GRUNT)

Rahid!

(GROWLS)

No! (GUNSHOT ECHOES)

Look at me.

Look at me!

(GRUNTS SOFTLY) Rahid?

I will find help, OK?

I'm gonna...

(GULLS CRY)

Rahid?

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