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(RUMBLING)

Ice mass dead ahead.

Hard left, rudder.

Close collision screens.

Close collision screens, aye, sir.

(CRASHING)

Sonar.

Clear water. Approximately 100-yard radius.

Fathometer indicates subsurface 200 feet.

There may be an air pocket under the ice. Let's try it.

All stop. Low ballast to numbers four and six.

Stand by to surface. MAN 1: Aye, sir.

Maintain your trim.

One hundred and seventy-five.

One-five-o.

Fire detail on the double.

Hey, Patterson.

Put him in this chair.

Damage Control, report.

OPERATOR: Hull sections 67 and 93, there's some minor damage.

Overall, we're intact but the sensors seem to show increasing pressure

against all areas of the hull.

Get me a reading as quickly as possible.

Report any further damage.

Aye, aye, sir.

Doc.

The Earth ship has broken into the exhaust area.

We may be in danger.

Activate heat transfer.

Intensify to maximum.

(NARRATOR READING)

NARRATOR: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Damage?

We seem to be building up ice pressure against the hull.

What's our position?

Four hundred feet beneath the polar cap.

That's interesting.

Or hadn't you noticed, it's getting a little bit hot in here?

Chief? Sir?

Give me an exterior temperature reading.

Aye, sir.

It's now 100 degrees and rising.

Do you mind repeating that, Chief?

It's 145 degrees.

One hundred and forty-seven degrees.

It's 149 degrees, sir.

That is surprising, isn't it?

If we are 400 feet under the Arctic Cap.

You'd better take a look at this.

Oh, it had to be something like this.

You expected that? Fire where there should be ice.

Well, I wasn't exactly sure what it was,

but my orders left no doubt that it was something like this.

I don't know about your orders, Admiral, but if that fire continues,

Seaview and everybody aboard will be burnt to a crisp.

We have reached maximum on our heat output.

That will be sufficient.

Return to normal procedures.

Fire's gone.

You sure? Take a look.

Chief, what's the exterior temperature now?

One sixty-five, sir.

It's starting to fall.

One fifty-eight.

One forty-seven. Dropping rapidly.

The fire could come back.

Not if we can help it.

Chief, break out the foul weather gear. We're going topside.

Aye, sir.

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

Radiation is still continuing.

The source is definitely aboard the alien ship.

A reactor of such strength

would supply the power we need to return to our ice planet.

Send out security patrols to check the enemy ship.

If the humans prove hostile, destroy them.

Acknowledged.

Looks like this was a small air pocket at one time,

but the fires must have carved out the rest of it.

Well, I wonder if the flames were responsible for that tunnel,

or if something else cut it out of the ice.

Chief and I will take a look.

You men check out the damage.

Aye, sir.

What do you think they'll find, Ski?

Your guess is as good as mine.

This could be just a natural opening, sir.

No, I don't think so. There's another one over there.

Somebody made these tunnels.

Like who? What could be down here?

Well, we're here. Aren't we?

(BOTH CHUCKLE)

We better split up.

You go this way and we'll meet back here in five minutes, right?

Aye, sir. Okay.

Patterson?

Look over there.

I don't see anything.

There were two of them. I saw them. They...

They looked... (GRUNTS)

Ski?

(GROANING)

Easy, Ski.

Now, you just lie still.

I've gotta get the doc and some men.

We've gotta take you to Sick Bay.

Ahoy, below!

We've got a casualty topside! Alert Sick Bay!

(GUN FIRING)

He melted.

What are those things?

Important thing is not what they are, but what they are doing here.

Look out.

He's half frozen, he's much colder than he should be.

How long were you out on that ice?

It was only a few minutes, Doc.

He's reacting very strangely.

The fall couldn't have hurt him that much.

(SHIVERING) Patterson.

You saw them too, didn't you...

Standing there?

Sure, I did, Ski.

Now, you just take it easy.

This should act very quickly.

Little sleep might be all that he needs.

You better get back to duty.

Yes, sure.

Thanks, Doc.

Okay if I keep posted on his condition?

Yes, of course, Patterson.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

No, I...

I can't sleep. Not now.

There's too much to do.

Admiral Nelson, he...

He...

Two of them...

I... I think I ever saw...

Frozen.

Ice...

Ice... Cold...

GELID: Negative.

Negative.

Count, 1,000.

Twelve.

Ten.

Seven hundred.

Four.

One.

Negative.

Skin.

Facial area.

Hair. Negative.

Lungs.

Negative.

Mmm-hmm.

He's pure.

Proceed.

(MACHINE VIBRATING)

Respiration?

Zero.

Heart starting to activate.

Increasing.

Thirty.

Thirty-five.

Respiration reactivated.

Normal.

Heart, normal.

Retract.

(GRUNTS)

You cannot move. Not until I say so.

Who are you?

I'm Gelid. Leader of these Frost Men.

My assistants are, as you can see, unlike you and your fellow Earthmen.

You are deadly to us.

Deadly? Why?

Your warmth, your nearness would be fatal to my...

To our composition.

Yes, I am what you think. I am of ice.

In my world, my planet, there is no heat.

It is our enemy.

What...

What happened to the man who was with me?

What have you done to him?

He is not harmed.

He is in a state of suspended animation, as were you.

He will be revived at your will.

(CHUCKLES) My will, huh?

Then revive him now.

At your will, not command.

I will show you something.

You are now able to move.

Please examine this monitor screen.

(WAVES CRASHING)

This is part of what is happening to your world.

That is more of the damage that is being wrought.

Your cities are flooded, destroyed, as the waters of the world rise.

But I know all this.

That's why I was ordered to bring my ship to the polar cap.

To find the cause.

The cause is very simple.

It is our heat transfer which is melting the ice.

Heat transfer?

Exactly.

Even at freezing temperatures, there is enough heat in your ice

to be dangerous to us.

We are extracting that heat from our immediate area

and venting it out on the polar cap.

I see.

Meantime, you are melting the polar cap and destroying our world.

Now, what do you hope to gain by this?

In the snows above us, lies our disabled spaceship.

We need but one thing to leave your world and return to our own planet.

And what's that?

Nuclear power.

Oh.

Well, what would that have to do with us?

We intend to take the reactor from your ship.

That's impossible.

We wouldn't be able to move. We'd be frozen here.

As an intelligent man, you must know that that is no argument.

What choice do you have?

Your ship or your world?

I should think that you would be most cooperative.

You said that heat was your enemy.

You mean, even slight heat, like the temperature of my body?

That is correct.

Well, prove it.

Don't be alarmed, Admiral, he will not harm you.

The reverse is what will be true.

Are you satisfied, now, how dangerous you are to us?

I'm satisfied, how dangerous you are.

You deliberately made your man kill himself.

The point had to be made. He was expendable.

So are you.

(BEEPING)

The danger here is represented solely by your kind.

Freeze him.

Yes, you are helpless now.

As your ship and crew will be, frozen for all eternity.

Place this one with the other.

I'm going to take care of the invading ship.

Activate.

(WHOOSHING)

Secure the repair detail and the engine room.

I want a complete inspection of everything.

Sir?

The cold you are feeling now is nothing compared to that

which you will experience if you do not listen to my words of warning.

Who are you? What are you doing here?

I'm Gelid, leader of the Frost Men.

I'm here to obtain your nuclear reactor.

You are not making much sense.

But the cold makes sense, does it not?

If you will not cooperate with me, within two hours,

temperature here will be 50 degrees below zero.

Patterson?

Aye, sir.

Twenty-three degrees, sir, and falling.

We have no intention of letting you destroy us.

Neither did your Admiral.

What's happened to him?

Observe for yourselves.

What have you done to him?

He is in a state of suspended animation.

When you agree to give us your reactor unit,

he will be returned to you along with the other one.

We don't even know if we can trust you.

True.

But you do know it's getting colder in here.

Patterson?

Twenty-one degrees now, sir, and dropping.

How much time do you give us?

That's up to you.

But rest assured, the temperature will be down to 50 degrees below zero

within two hours.

(PANTING)

What do you make of it, sir?

Whoever he is, he can do what he says.

Then what do we do, sir?

Patterson, all I know right now is that what he said is coming true.

It is getting colder in here.

It's hot.

Too hot... (BREATHING HEAVILY)

I can't breathe.

Easy, Kowalski, easy.

Keep covered up.

Admiral... That's better.

That's better.

LEE: Control Room to Sick Bay.

Doc, we need you here for an important conference.

Lee, I've got a very sick man here,

I'd rather not leave right now.

He's not half as sick as the Admiral is right now.

And if we don't get some important answers soon

there'll be 125 more of us in urgent need of medical care.

I'll be right there.

(SIGHS)

Admiral

is in trouble.

(BREATHING HEAVILY)

Gotta help.

Somebody's... Somebody's...

Somebody's gotta help the Admiral.

Admiral.

Get that shore party ready on the double.

Aye, sir.

No way of stalling these ice creatures you're talking about?

(SIGHS) We've got less than two hours, Doc.

Now, check with the monitor readings for yourself

if you think he doesn't mean what he says.

I don't need to. I don't know what I can do to help.

Just tell me how long the crew can survive

if the temperature keeps dropping.

Who knows?

A day, half a day.

Maybe hours if it drops too far below zero.

Is there anything you can do to help them?

A few of them, superficially.

But 125 men?

No.

All the gear is ready for the shore party, sir.

Be ready to shove off in five minutes.

Aye, sir.

Sir, look.

Watch it. He's delirious.

Ski, give him the gun.

Go ahead. Give him the gun.

Hold it! We'll get a crewman to go after him.

Chief. Gotta find him and the Admiral...

The Admiral...

(ALARM BEEPING)

Heat! Heat is approaching us.

The fools.

They had their chance to cooperate.

And now they try to attack us.

Activate heat transfer.

What about the reactor?

It will survive. The humans will not.

Intensify, intensify! Destroy them all!

Intensify, intensify!

Fire detail, fire detail!

What is it, sir? What's happening?

I don't know. The heat! The ice might melt to free us.

Dive! All dive! Down maximum bubble.

Fill all ballast tanks! Fill all ballast tanks!

(EXPLOSION)

Extinguish.

Normal transfer.

Transfer normal.

Maintain.

Now check on the results of the humans' foolish opposition

and report back to me.

Admiral! Gotta get...

Gotta get the Admiral.

We're cooling off, sir. Our depth is 600 fathoms.

OPERATOR 1: Engine Room to Control.

Captain here.

Sir, the ice pressure against the hull broke down our emergency repairs.

We're shipping water.

Stand by. Aye, sir.

Patterson, check the temperature.

See what's happening topside.

Yes, sir.

Temperature reading, 36, normal phase.

There's no heat topside now, sir.

Mmm.

OPERATOR 2: Missile Room to Control.

We're shipping water in here, sir.

Acknowledged.

All stations, stand by to surface.

We're going back up into it, sir?

No choice, Pat. Surface!

Report.

The submarine escaped from our heat vent by submerging.

Why did you not report sooner?

If it has gone, our last chance of escape has gone with it.

No, after submerging they brought the submarine back to the surface,

in its original position.

Oh, the minds of these humans are sometimes incomprehensible.

Why would they do that? They must have some plot in mind.

Shall we try to burn them again?

No, no, not burn.

Come.

We shall reverse the situation this time.

Instead of venting the heat into the grotto, we shall withdraw it from them.

But that will bring heat into here. We will all die.

Not if we are aboard the submarine when the cold attacks.

Position zero minus 15.

Excellent.

Within minutes the enemy ship will be completely frozen.

After its crew is dead, we shall be able to remove its reactor at our leisure.

Captain, would you look at this, sir?

Do you read it like I do, sir?

Yeah, the heating system's fouled up.

Look up there, sir!

Well, that looks like ice crystals, sir.

Engine Room, what's going wrong with our temperature controls?

OPERATOR: I don't know, sir. Our heating units are operating at maximum

but everything's starting to freeze down here.

Throw them on full emergency status. Get some heat in this ship.

Patterson, check the thermal controls.

They may be short-circuiting somewhere.

Aye, sir.

Skipper!

It's 20 below, sir. It's still dropping.

What's going on, sir? You think it's the Frost Man?

He's not waiting for his time limit. He's freezing us now.

OPERATOR: Control Room, Control Room.

Captain here.

(PANTING) Engine Room, we're freezing down here.

We can't... We can't...

Engine Room, answer me.

What about the heating units?

Answer me!

Engine room! Answer me!

Come on! Come on!

Come on! Come on! Move!

Move! Come on!

(GROANING)

It is done. The alien ship is frozen, helpless.

Yes, it is destroyed as you warned them it would be.

We must make certain the nuclear power we seek is still available.

Test for it.

We are receiving a radiation indication.

You have a fix on its position?

It is emanating from that direction.

Good. Let us proceed with our plan.

(SHIVERING)

Oh, man!

Where am I?

Where's the sea?

The Admiral...

The Admiral's in trouble...

Gotta get to the Admiral.

(STUTTERING)

I was going that way.

Yeah, that's right. I was going that way.

Anybody here?

Is there anybody here?

Admiral?

Admiral?

It's a door.

That's a door of some kind.

Admiral?

Admiral, are you in there?

Admiral, you and the Chief, are you in there?

(CHUCKLES) Oh!

Admiral! Chief!

Oh, man, am I glad I found you!

I've been looking...

Admiral.

What happened, sir?

What's wrong?

Frozen, both of you.

Oh, no.

Those things froze you.

Why those dirty...

Why did you have to do it to them?

Why?

I'll fix it so you never freeze anybody again.

Good. Very good.

Perfect.

The Earthmen are more advanced than I anticipated.

(MACHINE WHIRRING)

The reactor is normal.

There's a megaton phase seven. Perfect.

Then it is not necessary to remove it.

Exactly.

I can send the radiation impulses directly to our spaceship.

Stand by.

Megaton variation increasing.

Maximum.

Minus six-three.

Six-one.

Five-eight.

NELSON: Kowalski. Kowalski, wake up.

Come on! Wake up.

(BOTH GRUNTING)

On your feet. Come on.

(STAMMERS) You were frozen. What happened?

I don't know. Something happened to their instrumentation

and activated the device that released us.

Oh, yeah. Yeah, the stun-gun, I fired it.

Admiral, the Seaview, it's gonna be frozen over.

I know.

These people wanna take our reactor

and it looks like they've already begun.

You mean our reactor is causing all that?

They have some way of extracting the heat from this area

and venting it into the grotto.

If we can find out what it is,

we might be able to use that heat to free Seaview.

Ah! This might be it.

What is that?

Looks like the heart of their control system.

Sir, if we do like you said, send the fires out there,

we'll burn the crew to death instead of freezing them.

Not if we adjust the temperature.

Sir, how can you tell the adjustment's right?

I can't.

Sir, it's working.

Well, at least, something is.

Mmm-hmm.

I'll take it to maximum.

Stand...

Stand by for anything.

Nothing seems to be happening, sir.

Something's happening. It's getting colder.

It's working.

Let's get back to Seaview.

Megaton frequency reducing here.

Four-two.

Three-nine.

It is working.

The power impulses are feeding directly to our spaceship.

When the temperature here reaches 50 degrees below zero,

our spaceship will be ready to take off.

And we can return to our planet.

Something is going wrong.

Not here. Everything functions as ordered.

Then it is happening at our base.

The humans we had imprisoned there, they must have been released.

Then we have failed.

No, we shall increase the power output here.

(WHIRRING)

Let the reactor go to critical.

It will destroy itself and the ship.

Yes, by then we shall have all the power that we need.

That will do it.

Now to our spaceship.

We'll leave this world half ice, half flame.

The whole area out there's in flames.

There's too much heat.

I don't know why. I tried to correct it but there it is.

Seaview is...

I'm afraid so.

As you said, Chief, if the freeze didn't destroy it,

the flames certainly will.

They don't stand a chance aboard Seaview.

They'll be burned alive.

Something must've happened to the reactor

to make the heat flare up like that.

Sir, we've gotta do something to help them.

Maybe I can break through.

Hold it. That won't do any good.

Maybe this will.

SHARKEY: Sir!

Admiral, where are you going?

You could be trapped back there. Admiral!

Out of my way.

You are too late to save your ship, Admiral.

You're wrong.

Freeze him!

He is helpless.

What about the others?

If he was able to escape our forces,

perhaps another from the submarine can do the same.

Don't be a fool. Look.

Do you think humans could survive that?

No, we have nothing further to fear from them.

They are being destroyed.

Let us go to our spaceship and leave this planet.

(GROANS)

Fires are out now, sir. We can get back to Seaview.

What are we waiting for?

What do you think we'll find inside, sir?

We'll see when we get there.

Sir?

There's a spaceship out there.

It's about ready to take off.

If they leave that polar cap flaming like that...

That's right. Half the world will be flooded. Come on.

LEE: Patterson.

Admiral, what happened?

Well, looks like you're all right here, Lee.

(EXPLOSION)

It's the reactor, sir.

Check it out, will you?

Come on, Kowalski.

What's going on?

The last thing I remember, we were freezing to death in here.

We've got to stop Gelid.

Hit the sail camera, will you?

This laser better work. We won't get another chance.

You got it. A direct hit.

(SIGHS) That does it. No more flaming ice in the Arctic.

Mmm-hmm. No more flooding of the world.

Sharkey reporting to Control Room.

The reactor's back to normal, sir, everything under control.

You heard what Sharkey said, Lee. Everything's back to normal.

What are you waiting for?

Not a thing, Admiral. Not a thing.

Prepare to get underway.

Ten degrees down bubble.

Dive.

All dive.

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