Ice Quake Page #2

I will go for one hour.

Okay?

I'll drop you and the kids off downtown.

You can finish your Christmas shopping

and then I will pick you up

and we'll go get that tree.

I promise.

One hour means one hour.

Yes.

- Hey.

- Merry Christmas.

Go on in, Mr. Webster.

- Oh!

- Whoa!

- Sorry, Jamie.

- Merry Christmas to you, too, Michael.

Oh, what's the visibility like

up on Mount Phaeton?

I want to take the family

up there for a hike.

It's mixed. Just be sure to be back

before nightfall.

There's a storm

coming in tonight.

Hey, merry Christmas.

Man with Russian accent:

Please send help!

That was a communication

intercepted

from a Russian outpost

in their arctic region

as it broke apart

at 0900 yesterday.

Just a few hours before

the ice shelf broke.

Exactly. So our orders are to determine

if this was a natural disaster

or if the Russians

intentionally detonated something

to bolster their claims

to new arctic regions.

So the tremors we've been feeling

are shock waves.

What time did the first one

hit us yesterday?

- That's odd.

- What?

Well, the timing of the first shock wave.

That Russian outpost

is only a few thousand miles from here.

We should have felt that sooner.

What do we have on today's tremor?

It just so happens

that Reed and Wallace

were on the mountain

this morning collecting data.

As soon as they check in,

we'll know more.

Okay, good.

Well, contact me when we have that

and then we'll get this thing sorted out.

- Thank you, sir.

- Right.

- Merry Christmas, Tommy.

- Tommy:
Merry Christmas, Michael.

Carolers:

Joy to the world...

So how'd the shopping go?

It was a disaster.

They didn't have Tia's shoes.

They didn't have any shoes.

So wait a minute...

since when do we shop

for our own Christmas presents?

Since that dress

you bought me last year

that I'm too embarrassed to wear.

- So where are we going?

- Mount Phaeton.

- Isn't that a little far?

- It's government land;

they've got a bunch of firs up there.

I thought it'd be nice to take a long drive.

- Cool.

- I don't want to take a long drive.

It'll be fun. We'll have

the whole mountain to ourselves.

Tia, honey, make sure

you zip up your jacket.

I did.

Hey, Yeti, do you want treats?

No, don't give Yeti any more treats.

He's fine.

He needs to sit down.

He needs to stay still.

I thought you said

we had the mountain to ourselves.

A couple engineers

came up this morning.

I'm just surprised they're still here.

All right, let's go find the tree.

Come on, boy, let's go.

Let's go, come on.

Good boy.

What's that building, Dad?

That's our outpost.

It's where we work out of when

we come up here to study the ground.

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