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Just run the cable from the block over to...

Get some ropes to steady it with.

Could be a bear, huh?

All right, pull the cable in this way.

Take up the slack.

Okay, let's go!

Damn it, Shephard, close the door, please.

Hey, Shephard. You been out with the natives again?

Hey, even Eskimos don't dress like that anymore.

Come on. Let's go. They're waiting for you. Today, Shephard! Today?

Whitman's in from Houston. You better get cleaned up. Ahhh!

Jesus! What is that smell?

Ahhh! Me!

Hey, hey, you been eatin' walrus again?

Shephard, those Eskimos still lend you their wives? Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Jesus! Eskimo lend their wives?

I'll see ya...

After I check on the bears here.

- Mr. Whitman? Brady? - Where have you been?

Shephard. What the hell's that smell?

When did he get here?

What is going on? You're gonna tell us.

Give me a hint. Something we found in the glacier.

The glacier? Why wasn't I called? You were.

Before you moved it. Don't you know regulations?

There was no time. It could've shifted. We could've lost it.

- We got pictures of the site and we got ice samples. - What is it?

We're not sure. Remember the mammoth?

Yeah, the one the Russians found? When did they find a mammoth?

In 1898. It was a perfect specimen. Mammoth mastodonis.

400,000 years old. Tissues perfectly preserved. Some of the cells still viable.

You found another mammoth?

Not exactly.

Viable? What did they do with this mammoth?

They ate it. Yeah, I heard it was quite tasty too.

Sort of like buffalo.

We're getting too much light...

I got... okay. My thermo-probe indicates a laser shift...

Two centimeters right.

Richter monitors will be inoperative for two minutes.

Joe, this is Dima, a baby mammoth. One of 39 recent finds.

The Russians have been working on this for the last seven years.

They take the cells out of the mammoth, they try to revivify them.

What do you mean by "revivify"? Bring 'em back to life.

They insert them into the egg of a living elephant.

What does that get you? Maybe a baby prehistoric.

Or a mal-ephant.

Excuse me.

What are your plans here?

This looks like a pretty important find.

How far can you go? Can you revivify the whole thing?

That's not possible.

When you freeze, crystals form. They destroy the cell walls.

If we're lucky, out of the whole carcass we'll find a few cells intact.

And you put those in an egg?

We're gonna look for low-level cell activity... the beginnings of life.

Is that likely? We don't know 'til we try.

Wh-what about me?

You?

I thought you might want to look at it before we take it apart.

What? Before we take it apart.

Take it apart? Wait!

- What do you think? - Could've gone another two inches, gotten a better look.

What do you think it is? A man.

We think it's a man.

Nothing. I can see nothing so far.

Shephard? Yeah.

Oh, damn! It's not close enough.

If we cut on the other side, we'll know which angle to come in on.

This is how we'll find you one day, Shephard.

Brady.

Oh, my god! Singe. That's amazing!

- Jesus! - It must've been frozen instantly.

What in god's name is he?

Looks like an Indian. What kind of Indian?

Cleveland Indian. What do I know? You're the anthropologist.

Jesus. Come on, Shep. You're the expert.

I don't know. All we had was pieces of rock,

uh, bone, conjecture, wild guesses... nothing in the flesh.

Well, take a wild guess. Uh...

Moderate frontal Ridge. Uh...

Look at those teeth. He's a hunter.

Um, sloping forehead.

How old? Hard to tell. Adult.

Twenty, uh, thirty... Thirty years?

Give or take 20,000. Twenty thousand?

Twenty thousand.

Maybe 40,000.

We found a goddamn Neanderthal.

Dr. Brady, we're gonna have to be very careful.

What do you mean you're gonna take him apart?

We're taping everything. You'll have pictures to study for years.

I don't want pictures! I want him! You'll have most of him.

Most of him?

We'd like to keep all of him here,

but we'll probably have to send his brain to Cambridge,

his spinal ganglia to Berkeley.

Does his heart go to San Francisco? Houston.

Then there's Sloan-Kettering, Mcgill, King's college,

but most of the stuff stays right here.

Why can't you wait? Call in more experts.

Okay, ready to start the thaw.

- All right. - Heat on.

Dr. Brady.

What about the site? What about others?

It was alone. How do you know?

My men searched the area. They set out probes.

Well, keep searching!

He came from somewhere. We could find it.

There could be a settlement, a camp.

This could be very important to us.

There could be another Troy buried underneath there. Where did he come from?

Which direction? How far? How long has he been in that ice?

How far has that ice traveled? You know what you're talking about?

Yeah, thousands of square miles. Right.

Minus six degrees Celsius.

Minus five point five.

Minus five.

Minus four point five. Within parameters. Positive function.

Everyone ready. Minus four.

All systems go. Coming up together.

What's going on? The iceman warmeth.

Why am I always the last to know?

Didn't your mother tell you not to be an anthropologist?

Yeah. Now you know why. Is that thing working?

Not yet. What's the problem?

Knowing where to bang it. Minus two point five.

Is it going to work? I don't know.

You wanna abort? This is it. Minus two.

No, it's not important. We go on.

Threshold. Threshold. Minus one point five.

Stand by. There go the crystals.

- We have thaw. - All right.

- Scalpel. - Scalpel.

- Prepare for incision. - Yes, doctor.

- Clamp. - Clamp.

- Suture. - Suture.

Let's get the skins off quickly.

Plus four degrees Celsius.

Four point four. Four point five.

Plus four point seven.

- Clamp on. - Place everything over here.

We'll catalog it later.

- E.K.G. tabs in place? - Yes.

- E.E.G. Ready? - Affirmative.

Run me a cable over here.

Which junction do I go in?

- Five and six. - Flat line.

- Tape. - Tape.

- Bypass complete. - Temperature's shooting up.

Don't let it.

Start the pumps.

Hold it right there. Up maybe a half.

Blood gases, electrolytes, read them.

Kill that alarm. Pressure? Ninety.

- 50 milli-equivalents. - Six point three.

Shephard, that's a $6,000 circuit board. E.K.G.?

Flat line. Flat line. E.E.G.?

Is it working? I think so.

I can't see his chest. Can I get a close-up on that?

Oh, sure, Shephard. I got nothing better to do.

- Ahhh! - Make you happy?

- Yes. - Exchange transfusions complete?

- No reaction. - Flat line.

Start your skin biopsies.

Whoa!

That stiff ain't stiff.

At least he's relaxed,

which is more than I can say for some of us.

Is my stuff in your way, Shephard? Oh, I'm sorry.

Flat line. Ready to turn...

- Status reports. - Flat line.

- Flat line. - Oxygenation?

Uh, PO2 120.

Twelve point six. Increase the flow rate. Five liters per minute.

- Serum electrolytes? - Rising pH.

Six point nine. Coming up fast. Fifteen degrees.

Now it's dropping. Six point three. Nineteen degrees Celsius.

Pet scanner ready? Put it up. Ready to go.

What's that funny smell? Probably Shephard.

Cells metabolizing.

What?

Holy shit! His cells are synthesizing DNA.

This is incredible.

All his cells are good.

Brady? That funny smell.

What is it? Sulphur and oxygen, I think.

Dimethyl sulfoxide. Could be.

Dimethyl what? Sulfoxide.

DMSO. It's a universal solvent.

Put it on your finger, it zips through your body, you taste it in your mouth.

It tastes like garlic. It carries other molecules with it.

- What other molecules? - The cryoprotectant.

- The cryoprotectant? - It's a peptide. A glycoprotein.

It's like an antifreeze.

It's some substance that prevents crystallization.

That's why his cells are good. He was loaded with the stuff.

Where'd it come from?

Buttercups.

- Buttercups? - That Russian mammoth's stomach was full of buttercups.

This iceman... maybe it was something he ate.

Son of a bitch!

What have you got? Same old thing.

What? It's probably a malfunction.

But what?

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I'm reading something. Shephard, please.

What does it look like?

It's sort of like slow wave activity.

Goddamn it! That's brain activity.

- Code call! - What?

E.K.G.?

Flat line. Move this monitor.

Clear the way. Okay. Give him an amp of calcium,

an amp of epinephrine, two amps of bicarb.

Give Singe a tube. Let's get a ventilator in here.

What's that mean? Probably nothing.

Where's the goddamn cart?

Be sure that tube's clear.

Intubate him.

Calcium in.

Hold that steady. Got it.

Peridium.

Okay, keep at it.

E.E.G.?

Coarse fib. Slow wave. Deep cortical activity.

Midbrain function.

- Who? - Him.

- Him? - Him.

Give me 200 watts. Have some calcium and epinephrine standing by.

200 watts. Stand clear.

All clear.

E.K.G. still coarse fib.

Another amp, calcium and EPI. Have some Lidocaine standing by.

What's happening? Brain activity.

Two hundred watts. Two hundred watts. Charge.

- Stand clear. - All clear.

- V tach. - 170.

- Are you sure about that? - Yeah.

Jesus.

One hundred Lidocaine. Then one mil per minute.

Give me 50 watts.

Fifty watts. Charge. Stand clear.

All clear.

Junctional rhythm.

He's alive.

Alive!

Amazing.

I thought he'd have more hair.

But he looks strong. Yeah. I'm sure he had to be.

Can I have a look?

How does he look?

Compared to what?

- Temp's normal. - 100 cc's an hour.

B.U.N. normal.

Six liters. Blood gases are good.

Twelve hours off the ventilator. Higher cortical activity.

But not like ours. No, more like Shephard's.

Or a premature baby.

What do you think? I think he might be conscious,

but I don't think he's gonna make the super bowl.

It can't be.

Clear his throat.

Valium! Ten milligrams!

Quickly! Back outta the way.

Put it in now!

Get the respirator ready!

Don't panic. Everybody take it easy.

Hands off. Hands off.

Heartbeat's okay.

Another Valium.

What is that? Kill that fan!

Okay, I got him! You got him?

I got him here. Why don't you...

Move that outta the way!

He might be frightened.

Sorry.

Shephard, what the hell are you doing?

Shephard, please! Do not touch him! You're not sterile!

The electrolytes are still normal. Blood sugar is 80.

Might want to start him on hyperalimentation.

Avoid any chance of hypoglycemia. No sign of sepsis.

- The blood cultures are negative. - Will he live?

Heart rate hit 200. His blood pressure peaked.

No, a massive adrenergic discharge. What does that mean?

Means we scared the shit out of him.

Now... just what does this mean to us?

Well, maybe a Nobel prize.

Maybe as big as Genetek. Maybe bigger.

Bigger than gene splicing?

Immortality.

Oh, now, come on! Well, extended life. Greatly extended.

You know what we're looking for? Cryoprotectant.

You know why? You're gonna freeze everyone with cancer...

And bring them back when there's a cure.

Yes. Then what are you gonna do with them?

I don't think that's the main issue.

They won't know a living soul.

Their relatives will have spent all their money.

We gonna have waves of freeze-dried old folks living in Miami beach?

There are too many people in the world now.

Death is nature's way of making room for someone else.

Einstein, Bertrand Russell. Einstein could've finished his theory.

Hitler could've finished his. Mozart, Jung, Stravinsky.

Genghis Khan. Charlie Parker.

Mao. Shakespeare. Gandhi.

Fatty Arbuckle. All right. So who's to live?

Everyone? And who's to decide?

The guys with the money and the power?

They'll stay and keep everything.

They eat better food, they drive better cars. Now they'll live longer too?

Shephard, someday paramedics are gonna carry cryo tanks.

Someone's dying, you freeze him.

You stop everything until you've got the blood or surgeons or spare parts you need.

This is worth much more than any one man, even him.

If we were gonna hurt him, which we're not... he's a man, not a specimen!

A 40,000-year-old man who can teach us about ourselves,

tell us how we evolved.

That is much more important than trying to figure out how to preserve people.

I mean, he's alive! You're forgetting that.

You can't take him apart, punch him full of holes and drain all his fluids.

That's our best chance of keeping him alive.

We have to study him in order to save him.

Can he be moved?

No. Why not?

It's not just infection. There's psychic trauma.

I don't want a lot of people up here. If the media gets hold of this...

If they do, they'll come by the planeload.

He'll end up on Johnny Carson selling Eskimo pies.

Now you can't keep him sedated forever.

He's got to wake up. Then what?

What are you suggesting? You want to find a chemical.

Find out about the man.

We've got the facilities right here.

What? The vivarium? Yes.

You're crazy. What about sterility?

- It's atmosphere-controlled. - What about the bears?

Screw the bears! You said it. We have to study him to save him.

Animals have been living in there. That's their home!

Give me two weeks. They need the space.

Haaah!

Haaah.

Ahhh!

Haaah!

Aa-baah!

Swee!

Aa-baah!

Huh?

Something's happening. He's gonna get out! Call Brady!

Get him away from those bars! Get him back there!

Get back! Aaah!

We gotta get Brady!

Where's Shephard? I thought he was watching the situation!

What happened? He found us!

He's out of control! He hurts himself, I'm responsible!

Loomis, wait!

No! Don't shoot him! Don't shoot!

What's going on? He found us.

Get a stretcher!

Hey, Maynard! Call the infirmary! Get a stretcher down here!

I had to tranq him! I had to tranq him! You what?

Get me the infirmary. Don't stand there! Let's help him!

Hurry up!

Shephard? We got a stretcher coming.

Not exactly a raging success, is it?

- Where you taking him? - To the O.R.

Where he'll be safe from people like you.

It's too soon to take him out. That's the deal.

You study him whole, they study pieces of him. It hasn't been two weeks yet.

Just moving up the schedule.

We need more time. We're just getting started with him!

Don't argue. It's the way things are.

What's the matter with your game?

After what happened upstairs today, who can concentrate? Right, Shephard?

Vermeil? Get us a beer. Yo.

Yeah, if you don't buy, you're a schlemiel, Vermeil.

Dr. Brady. Dr. Shephard, what do you want?

I wanted to buy you a drink.

- Not now, Shephard. - Huh?

I wanted to see if I could unfreeze you.

Check your vital signs. Bring you back to life.

Shephard, look, it's late.

You wanna unfreeze me?

Get me to a beach somewhere. Get me someplace warm.

- What is that? - Exhibit "A."

No, thanks. I've already seen Debbie does Dallas.

Oh, that's nothing. This is much hotter than that.

How does he do that? It's easily explained.

It's a nerve block. Beta-endorphins.

Organic morphines produced in the brain.

It's more than that. Their flesh doesn't burn. They're impervious to fire.

There's no blistering, no charring.

I'll show you something else.

- Look. - Oh, Christ, Shephard!

See, look, there's no blood.

These people are producing some chemical that protects their tissue,

prevents charring, stops bleeding.

So you're saying our man produced his own chemical.

Yeah. Yeah, right.

Other life-forms have done it. Your fish, the arctic char.

Hibernating animals. Maybe he did it too.

- How? - I don't know how.

But for whatever reason, his body stopped producing it.

Maybe his spirit can teach us more than his flesh.

I'd sure like the chance to find out.

I've got men all around the catwalk. We can get to you in a second.

- Yeah, no guns, though. - Wait, man, but, Shephard...

No. No matter what, no guns.

Okay, no guns. Yeah. Okay?

Ah-yee!

- Ah-yee! - How complete are these precautions?

Loomis can get down to him in seconds.

Ahhh!

Ohhh-eee!

Uh!

Shephard!

- Shephard! - Shut up for chrissake!

You're makin' him nervous!

Huh!

Oh!

Ahhh!

Uh! Ar-Ru!

Ar-Ru!

Uh! Ar-Ru!

Char-Ru.

Ar-Ru.

Ch... that's your name.

Ch-Charlie!

Ehhh. Charlie.

Ar-Ru! Shephard!

Shephard.

Seh...

Shep...

She... Shep...

Sep. Sep.

Sh-Shep-hard.

Sep-pah.

Shephard. Sep-pah!

Ha, ha! Right!

That's a bird.

Be-tah.

- Be-tah. - Be-tah.

Be-tah. Eh.

Eh!

Bird.

Bird.

Bird. Be...

Be... deh.

Be...

Uh, God.

Be...

Ha!

Bee-Dee.

Dee. Dee.

Eh?

Izar.

Izar.

Heh?

Ar-Ru. Charlie.

Shephard. Baaah. Heh? Heh?

Ar-Ru. Heh?

Heh?

Izar!

If we want to communicate with him, if we want to get a clue to his language.

So what do you need? We have to identify the parameters of the language.

We need a linguist... like professor Chapman. She's the best there is.

The osmotic movement of the cryoprotectant through the body...

And, more importantly, what occurs that prohibits the crystallization in the cell.

But the first time we get any hint of it in human...

It evaporates right in front of our eyes.

Chapman? Who's that? From M.I.T.

What? The linguist.

Oh, professor Chapman.

Hello, Mabel!

Hey, what's that? Zarkl. The dung god of the Zabaala tribe.

Dung is very important to them. I put him on the head of every file, for good luck,

and I don't lose half of what I used to.

We're gonna lose this picture if we're not careful. Couple of twists and a tap...

There we go. All right.

- What do you think? - Quite the little chatterbox.

What's he saying? What would you ask if you were him?

Ah. "Where am I?"

Who are you? What's goin' on?"

That's a fair assumption. It's the same things you always ask, Shephard.

Of course, we'll be more certain as you two get better acquainted.

Rock.

Rah. Rah. Rock.

Se-Se.

Se-Se. Se-Se.

Se-Se. Ha!

Ho!

Ah!

Oo-pah.

Oo-pah.

Whoa!

- Button. - Buh.

Button.

Buh. Ah. Ha.

Ha. Button.

Buh... tah.

Buh... ton.

Tah. Bu...

That's... that's two... buh-tah.

Yeah. Two... Two buttons.

De. Bone.

De. De-e-e-e...

De-e-e-e.

De-e-e-e. De-e-e-e.

De? De.

De-e-e-e-e-e-e.

De-e-e.

De. De. Eat.

De. De.

Eh? De-e-e-e. Yeah. De-e-e.

- De-e-e-e. - He's as basic and direct as you, Maynard.

Only he seems to have quite a vocabulary.

I've been in my mind

here's such a fine line

keep me

searchin' for a heart of gold

gold

and I'm gettin'...

I've been to Hollywood

I've been to Redwood

crossed the ocean with a heart of gold

I've been in my mind

such a fine line

keep me searchin' for a heart of gold

mah.

Mah.

Eh.

Keep me searchin' for a heart of gold

ah.

Eh.

Ah mah

ah mah

Ah.

Eh I've been a miner with a heart of gold

eh it's these expressions

eh.

Hey keep me searchin' for a heart of gold

eh and I'm gettin' old

ha!

Ah I wanna live

eh I wanna give

- I've been a miner with a heart of gold - Meh

- It's these expressions I never give - Mah, Meh

- Keep me searchin' for a heart of gold - Mah

And I'm gettin' old

Eh keep me searchin' for a

heart of gold mah, mah

and I'm gettin' old mah, Meh.

- Scalpel. - Scalpel.

- Are our legs secure? - Prepare for liver biopsy.

- Specimen bottle ready? - Ready.

- Fissure punch. - Fissure punch.

- Get me the specimen bottle. - Ready.

Check all pressure gauges. Hypothermia blanket in place?

- Ready. - Okay, get ready to drop the temperature.

Circulate the coolant. Let's see if we can't find some of this elusive cryoprotectant.

Why don't you cut his balls off?

You've done everything else. Get out of my cryo.

Door.

It's not your cryo. It's not yours. He's not yours.

- Shephard! - Monitor's gone down.

We're trying to correct it. Quick as you can.

Punch it in on channel "C," will you?

- What's the reading on the temperature sensor? - E.K.G. slowing.

- Body temperature. - Thirty-six Celsius.

Cryoprotectant? There's nothing in his blood.

- Diastolic pressure dropping. - I don't believe you're doing this.

Thirty-three. Thirty-one.

It's too long. It should be colder.

How much further can we go? Not much.

Not if you wanna keep him alive.

Cryo negative.

You're killing him! How's his heart?

- It's cold. - Hold it there.

There are no signs, Brady. Twenty-five!

Not exactly a raging success, is it?

Heart rate still decreasing rapidly.

Sep-pah!

Assah!

Sep-pah.

Assah.

Assah!

Sah! I didn't do it!

He-spuh.

Eeeeeeee. Charlie!

Sep-pah.

- Be. - No!

Be. No!

Sep-pah.

Be. No!

Sep-pah. Be.

Be! No!

Be!

Sep-pah!

Sep-pah!

Brady.

Need to talk to you. Can I come in? Right now?

Not a good time? Shephard, not more tapes.

I need your help... With Charlie.

You're the anthropologist, not me.

You're human, aren't you? Aren't you curious?

It's not exactly my field. He's a primitive. It's your job.

It's your job too. This isn't just a medical experiment.

You're alienating him. We're losing contact.

You're making it impossible for me to deal with him.

Every time you poke something into him, you take the life right out of him!

Excuse me, Dr. Stanley Shephard, wunderkind anthropologist...

Who did a year of field work with the Malaasy tribe to study their natural state.

Two months later, they're showing up in Pittsburgh Steeler t-shirts...

And playing with butane lighters.

That Stanley Shephard? All right, all right. It was my first assignment.

I'm young. Screwed up once. I won't let it happen again.

Yes, you will. So will I. We all do.

I'm probably making every mistake there is.

I've never done this before. Nobody has.

I can't stop the medical research. I wouldn't if I could.

You've got everything you need. But I need you.

Well, you can't have me. I'm dead tired.

I need you to come in there with me... to see him, to be with him.

What do you want me to do, play Jane to your Tarzan?

I've got enough trouble coping with everything as it is.

Do you realize if Singe really wanted to, he could get this whole thing stopped dead?

That's my problem. Charlie's inner life, for the moment, is yours.

He's not a problem. He's a man. Maybe that's what you're having trouble with.

I think maybe you better go.

Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean that.

I-I don't know what I mean.

I mean, he's not like you or me, but he is a man,

and contact with a woman might bring him out of himself,

might lead to somethin'... somethin' new.

Meh

eh.

Eh, meh

Shephard.

Shephard! What? What?

The door, Shephard.

You know, Shephard, I got stepped on by a pony when I was six.

I promise I won't let him step on ya.

- Is it all right? - Yeah, it's okay.

Well, it smells terrible.

All right.

Yeah. Okay. Don't worry.

Gonna be fine. Just in the cave. What?

What is it? There he is.

Okay. Slowly. Take it easy.

Stand right in front of the fire.

It's okay. Come on.

Relax, relax, relax, relax.

Relax. It's all right.

Put your hand up where he can see it. Just show him you care.

- Eh. - Eh.

It's all right. It's all right.

Turn this way. It's okay! It's all right!

It's all right. It's all right.

Let him look at you. Let him look at you.

He's gonna want to touch you. It's all right.

He smells fear. He smells fear.

Stay easy. Stay easy.

All right. He smells you.

- What's that? - That's, uh, lunch.

De. What do we do now?

Eat it. That's what I was afraid of.

De. It's kind of like popcorn. You get used to it.

Oh, my god. It's all right.

It's all right. It's all right.

What was it? It was a beetle. What'd it taste like?

A beetle. I think I'm gonna throw up.

Don't throw up. He'll take it as a bad omen.

Just let him look.

Let him look at you. Let him look at you.

Let him look at you. It's okay.

Let him look. Just go with it. Go with it.

Relax. He's never seen anything like this.

Let him touch you.

Don't. It's okay. It's all right.

- It's okay. - - Ohh.

He can smell the fear. It's all right.

Ef-fu.

Yeah. It's all right. It's okay.

No, no, no, no, no!

Sa. No. Py-ee.

Py-ee. Py-ee! Sa!

Py-ee. Mine! Mine.

It's all right. Relax. Everything's... everything's under control here.

It's very encouraging. You all right?

You okay?

What is that? I think he made me an offer.

For what? For you.

Tell him it's not enough. No. No!

Ee-pa-pa. Py-ee.

Mine. Py-ee.

No. Mine. No...

No, Charlie.

Ee-fa-pa.

Fe-fa-pa.

Ee.

Fa-pa.

Ee-fa-pa.

That looks like a match. Mabel, what is that?

"Woman"? Something like it.

Sounds the same. Yeah, it all sounds funny.

- Ee-fa-pa. - But it has a different pitch.

We'd better grasp the things if only we could ascertain sentences.

That's easy for you to say.

Fe-fa-pa.

That's quite a woman.

She's in very good shape.

Eh.

Fe-fa-pa.

Py-ee.

Tee-tee. Tee-tee.

Tee-tee.

- Children? - Yeah.

He's talkin' about his family. That's a likely guess.

Tee-tee.

Fe-fa-pa.

Py-ee.

Ha!

Agula-vah. Agula-vah. Agula-vah.

Agula-vah. Agula-vah.

- Where's he goin'? - Tee-tee!

Inuzee tee-tee. Agula-vah.

Tee-tee! Tee-tee!

Tee-tee. Tee-tee.

Tee-tee. Tee-tee.

Tee-tee.

Sep-pah.

Ah.

Tee-tee. Eh?

Hmm? He wants to know where his children are.

Mmm?

How could anybody be so stupid?

Be-tah.

Be-tah! Charlie, no!

- Be-tah! - He'll go berserk. - It'll drive him crazy.

Be-tah.

Be-tah!

- Get that chopper out of here! - Get that helicopter out of here!

Be-tah!

- Get it out of here now! - Be-tah!

Be-tah!

Be-tah!

Ke-tah.

Be-tah!

Se-tah!

Be-tah! Be-tah!

Be-tah!

Ah!

Seka.

- Seka. - Sedna.

Sedna.

That word with the chopper... it's two words. "Be-tah" is his word; "Seka" is the translation.

But it's not "Seka." It's "Sedna."

That's why he was so mad. There's an Eskimo myth close to one of his.

You're telling me that the helicopter...

Is the bird, the messenger of the gods, but also a trickster.

Supposed to take you to heaven, but if you've done wrong,

takes you someplace else where you're judged for your sins.

What sins? He let his people die.

He what? I know Charlie.

What was he doing out there? Maybe the magnetic pole flipped. Food ran low.

No food, no game, people faced with starvation.

If the animals left them to starve, it was because they offended their gods in some way.

This guy was on a dream walk.

A what? A dream walk.

He went out to find the spirit to offer himself...

For the return of the animals.

And that's the bird. The messenger, the trickster.

Now that he's seen it, he won't think of anything else. That's his god.

How long has it been?

Thirty-four hours.

Twelve hours of that weird chanting and...

Now this.

I don't know what to do.

Shephard, we've got to be able to do something for him.

Shephard, isn't there anything we can do for him?

Shephard, there's got to be somethin' we can do for him. Shephard!

Fe.

Fe!

Feep.

Feep!

Ah!

Maintenance, report to loading dock.

Maintenance, report to loading dock.

Be-tah.

Be-tah?

Up. Up. Come on, Maynard. Let's go.

Oh, come on. Our break's over.

I like it when he gets mad at me.

What's the problem? What's the problem? This is my problem.

With this machine, I told you before...

That's all it takes. Right.

Any other problems? All right. Just one other thing.

Okay, I'll be right back. I have to go to observation.

Don't you ever do anything now, Maynard?

Don't I ever do anything now, Maynard.

Holy shit. Shephard!

Sep-pah.

Jesus.

Vin-da!

He-tah!

Seka!

Ble-dah!

Get that thing outta here!

No broken bones.

No apparent head injuries. Oh, good.

- So, at least our iceman's okay. - What about Maynard?

The company's got its lease, you medicals got a live body...

And you... you got your monkey.

He's not a monkey. Shut up!

If you think I'm gonna call it an "industrial accident," you're crazy.

He's not a monkey. He's a human being, like us.

Well, not quite like us.

We've undergone a few changes in 40,000 years.

Not exactly for the better. For once we agree on something.

What's that? Our opinion of modern civilization.

But what I would like to know is how you expect him to survive in it,

which he will have to do eventually.

You think we're gonna set him out on the street tomorrow?

What are you gonna do? How are you gonna protect him?

What's happened here is nothing compared to what's gonna happen out there.

Okay, that's it. Not another word!

It's over.

Nice try.

But it's over.

What the hell is he doing back in the vivarium? It's not secure.

It's been taken care of. He's under constant surveillance... now.

We'll stabilize him. We'll get him on a plane.

We were greedy.

I was an idiot.

Think someone else could have done better?

There's nothing more I can do, Shephard.

This guy was on a dream walk when we found him.

Let him finish it.

All he can teach us, you want to waste it.

You can't keep him in a cage the rest of his life.

It's life.

It's not for him.

He'll die.

None of us want that, believe me, Shephard.

What the hell are you doin', Shephard?

What do you want? He wants your help.

Right?

I can't help you.

Loomis, you're the only one who can help me.

How?

The door.

Charlie!

Charlie!

Sep-pah.

Let's go, Charlie.

Let's go.

Control? Powell. I've stopped at the south face.

Do you see anything? We found tracks.

Do you see Johnson above you?

Charlie!

Charlie! Charlie!

Charlie! Char...

Charlie!

Charlie! Charlie! Charlie!

Charlie!

Charlie! Charlie!

Be-tah!

Se-tah!

Be-tah!

Be-tah!

Seka!

Ahh.

Be-tah.

Ve-doh-mah-ka.

Be-tah.

Charlie!

Charlie!