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Immortality.

- Aw, come on.

- Well, extended life, greatly extended.

- Do you know what we're looking for?

- Cryoprotectant.

Do you know why?

You're going to freeze everyone with cancer

and bring them back when there's a cure.

- Yes.

- And then what're you going to do with them?

- I don't think that's the main issue, Shepherd.

- Yeah, they won't know a living soul.

The relatives wanna spend all their money.

Maybe we have waves of freeze-dried

old folks living in Miami Beach?

Ya know, I mean, who are you kidding,

there are too many people in the world right now.

Death is Nature's way of

making room for someone else.

Einstein, Bertram Russell,

Einstein could have finished his theory.

- Aheela could've finished HIS.

- Mozart, Young, Stravinsky.

- Genghis Khan, Charlie Parker, 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.

I mean, they eat better food,

they drive better cars, and now

they're going to live longer, too?

Shepherd, someday paramedics are going to

carry cryo tanks... someone's dying, you freeze him,

you stop everything until you've got the blood,

or the surgeons, or the spare parts you need.

This is worth much more

than any one man, even him.

- If we were going to hurt him, which we're not...

- He's a man, not a specimen.

A forty thousand year old man who can teach us

about ourselves, tell us how we evolved.

Now 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 the media gets hold of this

they'll be up here by the plane-load.

Yeah, run it by the Johnny Carson Show,

selling Eskimo Pies.

Now, you can't keep him sedated forever,

he's got to wake up, then what?

- What are you suggesting?

- What... you want to find a chemical...

find-out about the man.

I mean, we've... we've got the facilities right here.

- What?

- The Vivarium?

- Yes.

- Ah, you're crazy, what about sterility?

- Wait, it's atmosphere controlled.

- What about the bears?

Screw the bears! What... you said it, Singe,

we have study him and save him.

- And all sorts of animals have been living in there.

- That's their home.

- Just give me two weeks.

- We need the space.

Get him back there!

Get back! Ah!

Who the hell was it that said

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