Sleeper

- Everything's on for tonight? - Yes.

I still think it's too soon to bring him up.

We have no choice. They're onto us.

I've programmed the CLC for two hours.

There's no telling when it'll be free again.

We'll have to move him if he comes up,

or be ready to dispose of him the usual way.

Please state registration code.

Check.

Where was the subject found?

We came across it the last day of our field trip

into the woods a week ago.

The capsule was perfectly intact.

- Is there any date on the capsule? - Yes. The subject was frozen in 1973.

He's been under for 200 years.

- Blood pressure? - 140/50.

- Encephalo-activity? - Just under normal.

General life functions: Acceptable.

- He should come out of it any moment. - Do we have any information on him?

Just the usual data card inside the capsule

- and the personal artifacts kit. - Hm.

Subject was 35 years old at time of initial cryogenic immersion.

His name: Miles Monroe.

He was part-owner of the Happy Carrot Health-Food Restaurant

on Bleecker Street, wherever that was.

Also a clarinet player with something called the Ragtime Rascals.

Was his immersion voluntary?

"Subject entered hospital for routine exploration of minor peptic ulcer,

and complications set in. Patient never regained consciousness."

"He was admitted for immersion by his cousin, a Mrs. Joan Needlebaum."

- The physical damage was repaired? - Totally. Routine.

We're getting an initial motor response.

This is the critical stage.

If his regaining consciousness isn't handled carefully,

there could be damage.

We're dealing with an involuntary subject who expects to be waking up in.

St. Vincent's Hospital in Greenwich Village in 1973.

Swallow reflex is almost there.

- We've got to get him out of here. - He's not ready.

We've got to get him ambulatory, ready or not.

Careful. Careful.

Careful!

Now, just keep him on his feet.

We've gotta dispose of this capsule. Get him to the farm.

- We'll meet there tonight. - Yes.

Now, let's try to take a step. Like this. One...

- Bend the knee. Up, down. - Take a step. That's it.

There you are. Good. Very good, Mr. Monroe.

Up, down...

Oh, no. He's got it in reverse.

- You're going wrong. - Mr. Monroe.

Security's coming.

Mr. Monroe? Please, Mr. Monroe. Wake up.

We've gotta get him dressed, quickly. Stand, right there. Stand.

That's it.

Mr. Monroe, there we are.

Sorry to bother you, Doctor. Is everything OK?

Yes, we, uh... We ought to be through here shortly.

It's funny. We're getting a misread on the power function.

Really? Well, I'll order a check first thing in the morning.

Any reason why anyone else would be consuming power?

No, it's just Dr. Orva, Dr. Monroe and myself.

We definitely did register a power increase here.

Uh... Don't mind Dr. Monroe. He... he...

He's not over the effects of a new ray we've been experimenting with.

- What's this? - Oh, that? Uh...

- I think you two'd better come with us. - Why? We haven't done anything.

I think I can explain. You've heard of the Venus Project, haven't you?

Yes.

Uh... we had to come in this evening to finish up some very important work.

When we asked for clearance,

we were given no reason to believe we couldn't...

- You have authorization? - We had clearance given.

Fully, a week ago. Don't you believe...?

Dr. Monroe, I... Gentlemen...

- This really is getting difficult. - He could be dangerous.

Please leave us alone so that we can complete our work.

He's going to get dizzy. This is going to be worse than ever.

- Don't you see what a difficult... - This is getting a little out of hand.

If we hadn't had this interruption, we'd have had it under control.

- Now, please, gentlemen. - Are you sure you have authorization?

He's fully recovered... except for a few minor kinks.

- Has he asked for anything special? - Yes. This morning for breakfast.

He requested something called wheat germ, organic honey and tiger's milk.

Life-preserving properties.

You mean there was no deep fat?

No steak or cream pies or hot fudge?

Those were thought to be unhealthy...

the opposite of what we now know to be true.

Incredible.

Well, he wants to know where he is and what's going on.

I think it's time to tell him.

I can't believe this.

My doctor said I'd be up and on my feet in five days.

He was off by 199 years.

I know it's hard, Miles, but try to think of this

as a miracle of science.

To me, a miracle is I go in for a minor operation,

I come out the next day, my rent isn't 2,000 months overdue.

That's a miracle of science. This is what I call a cosmic screwing.

And where am I, anyhow?

What happened to everybody? Where are all my friends?

Understand that everyone you knew in the past

has been dead nearly 200 years.

But they all ate organic rice.

You are now in the year 2173.

This is the central parallel of the American Federation.

This district is what you'd probably call the southwestern United States.

That was before it was destroyed by the war.

- War? - Yes. Over a hundred years ago,

a man named Albert Shanker got a hold of a nuclear warhead.

You will remain in hiding here for two weeks while we run tests on you.

Then, when you've recovered your strength, we'll discuss the plan.

I still can't believe this.

What do you mean "hiding"? Who am I hiding from? What does she mean?

You might as well know, Miles, that reviving you as we did

was in strict opposition to government policy.

What we've done is illegal.

If we get caught, we'll be destroyed... along with you.

What do you mean "destroyed"?

Your brain will be electronically simplified.

My brain? It's my second-favorite organ.

Resisters to mind-reprogramming will be exterminated

for the good of the state.

What kind of government you guys got?! This is worse than California.

There is a growing underground, Miles.

Someday the revolution will come and we can overthrow our leader.

You gotta be kidding. I wanna go back to sleep.

If I don't get at least 600 years, I'm grouchy all day.

We're taking him along too fast. He's still emotionally unstable.

I go in for a lousy ulcer operation,

I lay in a Birds Eye wrapper for 200 years,

I wake up, suddenly I'm on the ten-most-wanted list!

We'd better tranquillize him.

It was too good to be true. I parked right near the hospital.

Here. Smoke this. Be sure you get the smoke deep into your lungs.

- I don't smoke. - It's tobacco.

It's one of the healthiest things for you. Now, go ahead.

You need all the strength you can get.

I bought Polaroid at seven. It's probably up millions by now.

Now, we have certain artifacts here

which we date from 1950 to 2000.

We'd like any information you can give us on them. Very little exists.

For instance...

Joseph Stalin. He was a communist. I was not too crazy about him.

He had a bad moustache, a lot of bad habits.

This is Bela Lugosi. He was the mayor of New York for a while.

You can see what it did to him there.

This is, um... This is, uh...

Charles de Gaulle. He was a very famous French chef.

Had his own television show.

Showed you how to make souffles and omelets.

This is Scott Fitzgerald over here. A very romantic writer.

Big with English majors, college girls, nymphomaniacs. Very, well...

This is Chiang Kai-shek, who I was not too crazy about either.

This is Billy Graham. Uh...

Very big in the religion business. He knew God personally.

Got him his complete wardrobe.

Used to go out on double dates together.

It was a big thing. They were romantically linked.

This is some girls burning a brassiere. You notice it's a very small fire.

Um... This, I don't know what that is.

That's a photograph of Norman Mailer, who was a great writer.

He donated his ego to the Harvard Medical School for study.

And this, uh... this I can tell you already,

this is a centerfold from a magazine we used to call Playboy, which...

These girls didn't exist in actual life.

They were rubberized. You had to blow 'em up.

And you could spread ointment on them, or anything else that you...

I'll just take this and study it later and give you a full report on it.

And would you tell me exactly...

what this is?

Yes. This is... You see, this is the chattering teeth.

This, you would buy at a store

and take it to a party if you wanted to get big laughs.

You'd put it down on the coffee table

and you'd set it off and then, uh...

See how funny it is? The teeth chatter. They're plastic.

I am going, at this time,

to give to this television and radio audience...

Some of us have a theory that he might have been

a president of the United States,

but that he did something horrendous,

so that all records, everything was wiped out about him.

There is nothing in history books, there are no pictures on stamps.

Yes, he was president.

But whenever he left the White House,

the Secret Service counted the silverware.

Thank you very much, Jimmy.

From the beginning, Muhammad Ali's career was marred by controversy

and, who knows, it may have ended last Saturday in the very same way.

From the...

At first we didn't know what this was, but we've developed a theory.

We feel that when citizens in your society

were guilty of a crime against the state,

they were forced to watch this.

The way it began, March of 1964. That's where...

Yes, that's exactly what that was.

- Would you like some more? - This tastes awful.

I could have made a fortune selling it.