Iceman

Could be a bear, huh?

All right, pull the cable in this way.

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

Today?

You know, Whitman's in from Houston.

Better get cleaned up.

Jesus, what is that smell?

Me.

Hey, you been eating walrus again?

Hey, Shephard. Those Eskimos still lend you their wives?

Yeah, sure, yeah.

Jesus. Eskimo lend their wives?

I'll see you. Have to check on the bear here.

Mr. Whitman, Brady. Where the hell have you been?

What the hell is that smell? What's going on?

When did he get here?

What is going on?

You're gonna tell us.

Well, give me a hint.

It's something we found in the glaciers.

The glaciers? Why wasn't I called?

You were. Before you moved it.

Look, there was no time. I mean, they could have shipped 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?

Uh, yeah, the one the Russians found?

In 1898. It was a perfect specimen, the mammoth mastodonus, 400,000 years old.

Tissue is 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, I heard it was quite tasty, too.

Sort of like buffalo.

It's flashing. Okay.

Temperature 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 and they try to revivify them.

What do you mean by revivify?

Life. Bring them back to life.

They insert them into the egg of a living elephant.

What does that get you?

Maybe a baby prehistoric.

Or a melephant.

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.

we'll find just a few cells intact.

And 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 till we try.

Well, what about me?

You.

I thought you might wanna 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 have gone another two inches, gotten a better look at it.

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 exactly which angle to come in on.

This is how we expect to find you one day, Shephard.

Brady!

Oh, my God!

That's amazing. Jesus!

Will you look at that? It must have been frozen instantly.

What in God's name is he?

Looks like an Indian.

Well, what kind of Indian, I wonder.

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

Jesus.

Come on, 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. Uh...

Look at those teeth! He's a hunter. Um...

Sloping forehead...

How old?

Hard to tell. Adult, 20, 30...

Thirty years?

Give or take 20,000?

20,000?

20,000, maybe 40,000.

You found a goddamn Neanderthal!

Dr. Brady, we're going to have 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"?

but we're probably going to have to send his brain to Cambridge,

his spinal ganglia to Berkeley.

Where's his heart go, San Francisco? Houston.

Then there's Sloan-Kettering,

there's McGill, King's College,

but most of the stuff stays right here.

Why can't you just wait, huh?

I mean, what's the big... Call in more experts!

Okay, ready to start the thaw.

Dr. Brady!

Dr. Brady, what about the site? What about others?

It was alone. How do you know?

My men searched the area. They set up probes.

Well, keep searching!

He came from somewhere! We could find it.

I mean, this could be very important to us.

There could be another Troy buried underneath there.

Well, where did he come from? Which direction?

How far? How long has he been in that ice? How far has that ice traveled?

Do you know what you're talking about?

Yeah, thousands of square miles.

That's right.

Minus six degrees Celsius.

Five point five.

Minus five.

Minus four point five.

Everyone ready? Minus four.

All systems go? Yes.

Coming up together.

What's going on?

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.

Maynard, 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!

- Scalpel. - Scalpel.

Prepare for incision. Yes, Doctor.

Plus two point five. Plus two point seven.

Clamp. Right.

Plus three degrees Celsius.

Suture? Suture.

Okay, let's get these things off quickly.

Plus three point six.

Plus four degrees Celsius.

Four point four.

Plus four point six.

- EKG tabs in place? - Yes, sir.

- EEG ready? - Affirmative.

Tape. Tape.

Bypass complete.

Temperature's shooting up.

Don't let it. Start the pumps.

Hold it right there. Up maybe a half.

Twenty degrees. Kill that alarm.

Pressure?

Potassium level, 50 milliequivalents, pH, six point three.

EKG? That's a $6,000 circuit board. Flatline.

EEG? Flatline.

Is it working? I think so.

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

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

Does that make you happy? Yes.

Exchange transfusion complete?

The artificial blood? No reaction.

Flatline.

Start your skin biopsies.

That stiff ain't stiff!

At least he's relaxed, which is more than I can say for some of us around here.

Is my stuff in your way, Shephard?

I'm sorry.

EKG, flatline, EEG, continues...

Status reports?

- EKG, flatline. - Flatline.

- Oxygenation? - PO two, 120.

Four point six.

Increase the flow rate,

five liters per minute.

Serum electrolytes?

Uh, rising pH. Six point nine.

Coming up fast. Fifteen degrees.

Now it's dropping. Six point three.

Nineteen degrees Celsius.