Iceman

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Damn it, Shepherd,

close the door please.

Hey, Shepherd, you been out

with the natives again?

Hey! Even Eskimos don't dress like that anymore.

C'mon! C'mon! Let's go!

They're waiting for you! Today, Shepherd!

Today?

You know, Whitman's in from Houston,

you better get cleaned-up.

Jesus! What is that smell?

It's me.

Hey! Hey! You been eating walrus again?

- Hey, Shepherd, those Eskimos still lend you their wives?

- Yeah, sure, yeah.

Jesus! "Eskimos lend their wives."?

I'll see ya...

half that sh*t from the bear's here.

- Mr. Whitman, Brady.

- Where the hell have you been?

- Shepherd.

- What the hell is that?

- What the hell's that smell.

- What's goin' on? When did HE get here?

- What is going on?

- You're going to tell us.

- Well, give me a hint!

- Well, it's something we found in the glacier.

The Glacier!

Well, why wasn't I called?

- You were.

- Before you moved it! What... don't you know regulations?

There was no time. I mean, it could have

shifted, we could have lost it.

We got pictures of the site,

and we got ice samples, all right?

- Well, what is it?

- We're not sure... remember the mammoth?

- Yeah, the ones the Russians found.

- The Russians? When did they find a mammoth?

In 1898, it was a perfect specimen of the

mammoth mastodonis, 400 thousand years old.

Tissue was perfectly preserved,

some of the cells still viable.

So you found another mammoth?

Not exactly.

Viable? What did they do with this mammoth?

They ate it.

Yeah, and I heard it was quite

tasty, too, sorta like buffalo.

Joe, this is Dima, a baby mammoth,

One of thirty-nine 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 re-vivify them.

- What do you mean by re-vivify.

- Life, 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 "malaphant".

Excuse me.

What are your plans here?

It looks like a pretty important find.

How far can you go?

Can you re-vivify 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 just a few cells intact.

Can you put those in an egg?

We're going to look for low level

cell activity, the beginnings of life.

Is that likely?

We don't know 'til we try.

- Wha... what about me?

- You?

I thought you might want to get

a look at it before we take it apart.

- Before what!?

- Before we take it apart.

Take it apart!?

Wait!

What do you think?

Could've gone another two

inches, gotten a better look at it.

- What do you think it is?

- Mammoth.

We think it's a mammoth.

Nothing, I can see nothing so far.

- Shepherd?

- Yeah.

Damn! It's not close enough.

If we cut on the other side we'll know

exactly which angle to come in on.

This is how we expect

to find you one day, Shepherd.

Brady.

- Oh, my God.

- That's it, that's amazing!

Jesus!

Look at that, it must

have been frozen instantly.

- What in God's name is he?

- Looks like an Indian.

- Yeah, what kind of Indian, I wonder.

- Cleveland Indian, what do I know, you're the anthropologist.

Is this...?

C'mon, c'mon, Shep, you're the expert.

I don't know, I mean, all we had was pieces of rock,

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

Well, take a wild guess.

Moderate frontal ridge, look at

those teeth, he's a hunter.

- Sloping forehead.

- How old?

- Hard to tell, adult, twenty, thirty.

- Thirty years?

- Give or take twenty thous...

- Twenty thousand?

Twenty thousand, maybe forty thousand.

You found a god damned Neanderthal.

Dr. Brady, we've got to be very careful...

What do you mean you're going to take him apart?

- We're taping everything, you'll have pictures...

- I don't want pictures, I want him!

- You'll have him... most of him.

- What do you mean most of him?

Well, we'd like to keep all of him here, but we're

probably gonna have to send his brain to Cambridge,

- his spinal ganglia to Berkeley...

- Where does his heart go, San Francisco?

Houston, then there's Sloan-Kettering, there's McGill, King's College,

but most of this stuff stays right here.

Why can't you just wait, huh?

I mean, what... what... who...

Okay, ready to start the thaw.

Dr. Brady.

Dr. Brady, what about the site?

What about others?

- He was alone.

- How do you know?

- My men searched the area, they sent-out probes.

- Well, keep searching.

Fine.

He came from somewhere, we could find

it, there could be a settlement, a camp.

I mean, this could be very important to us,

there could be another Troy buried underneath it.

Well, 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.

Makes five point five.

Minus five.

These are by P which is Greek to me.

- Minus four point five.

- Okay, thoracic, pumpers are pumping.

- Everyone ready.

- Minus four.

- All systems go?

- Yes.

- 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. Maynard, is nothing working?

- Not yet.

- What's the problem?

Knowing where to bang it.

Minus two point five.

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