Iceman Page #2

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- Maynard, is it going to work?

- I don't know.

- Do you wanna abort?

- This is it my student.

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, all right, all right!!

Scalpel.

- Yowza.

- Prepare for incision.

Plus two point five.

Plus two point seven.

- Clamps.

- Right, right.

Let's connect the hoses.

- Sutures.

- Sutures.

Okay, let's get the skins off quickly.

Plus three point six.

Plus four degrees.

Four point four.

Four point five.

Plus four point...

It looks pretty good to me.

- E.K.G. tabs in place?

- Yes.

- E.E.G. ready?

- Affirmative.

- Tape.

- Tape.

- Bypass complete.

- Two fifty, shooting ep.

- Don't let it.

- Start the pumps.

Frank, hold it right there,

Up maybe a half.

Let's get to the

electrolytes. Read them.

Twenty degrees.

Kill that alarm.

Pressure?

Potassium level 50 mill equivalent,

a php 6.3

- E.K.G.?

- These are thousand dollar circuit boards!

Flatline.

- E.E.G.?

- Flatline.

- Is it working?

- I think so.

Hey, can I get a clo... I can't see his chest,

can I get a close-up on that?

Oh, sure, Shepherd, I got nothin' better to do.

- Make you happy?

- Yes.

- The Denys transfusions were good?

- The artificial blood, no reaction.

- Flatline.

- Start your skin biopsy.

That stiff ain't stiff.

He can relax, which is more

than I can say for some of us around here.

- Is my stuff in your way, Shepherd?

- Oh, sorry.

E.K.G. flatline, E.E.G. flatline.

- Status report.

- E.K.G. flatline.

- Flatline.

- Oxygenation?

- P-O-2 one twenty.

- Twelve point six.

Increase the flow rate 5 liters per minute.

Serum electrolytes?

Rising P.H. six point nine.

Coming-up fast, 15 degrees.

- Now it's dropping, at six point three.

- Nineteen degrees Celsius.

P.E.T. scanner ready?

Ready to go!

Put it up.

What's that funny smell?

Probably Shepherd.

- Cells metabolizing.

- What?

Holy sh*t, his cells are synthesizing D.N.A.

This is incredible, all his cells are good.

Brady, that funny smell,

sulfur and oxygen... I think.

- Dimethyl sulfoxide.

- Well, could be.

Dimethyl what?

Sulfoxide, DMSO, it's

a universal solvent.

You put it on your finger, it zips right through

your body, you taste it in your mouth.

It tastes like garlic.

It carries other molecules with it.

What other molecules?

- A cryoprotectant.

- A cryoprotectant?

It's a peptide, it's glycoprotein, it's like a... an antifreeze,

it's some substance that prevents crystallization.

It's why his cells are good, he was loaded with this stuff.

Where did it come from?

- Buttercups.

- Buttercups?

That Russian mammoth they found,

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