The Ice Road

Yeah. Yeah.

Right up there. Right up in here.

There we go.

Aim for the rock!

- Mankins! - Yeah?

You want to tell me why your methane sensors are off?

I don't know.

Maybe the batteries are dead.

Why don't you get us a canary.

This is no joke.

These are to alert you to concentrations of methane.

They must stay on.

Where'd that come from?

Sounds like the open pit.

We hit a methane pocket.

That's impossible.

Everybody, out! Everybody, out!

- Come on! - Go!

Go, go.

No!

- -

Help me!

- Go, go, go! -

What you got, Gurty?

Come on, you can say it. You can say it.

We will sort right here,

and they will save their hands right there.

The coffee saved with water for me.

For him. For them.

Is it coffee, Gurty?

This how you guys still get your kicks, huh?

Walk away, Gurty. They're idiots.

Hey...

how's it feel to be best friends with a retard?

He's my brother, Johansson.

And I told you never to call him that.

Retard.

McCann, get in here!

I know what you get, but I talk with a lot

of hands for hands sometimes.

Gurty.

We're fired.

But tires to a point rotated go.

Let someone else rotate them. We're fired.

Pack your shit up. Skeeter too. Come on.

I don't want.

Me never been in, and then today we don't.

Gurty, I don't care. You're going in.

They're going to look after you.

We've been together a long time,

but he can't hold a job, and I can't carry him anymore.

I don't have a lot of tire left on my own treads.

- - Will this help

make him self-sufficient, doctor?

I can't promise anything

with language cognition scores like these,

but we'll see what we can do.

Hi, John, I'm Dr. Talbot. Pleased to meet you.

Thank you, I appreciate it and hope the world lasts for you.

He's saying hello.

How long to go with them?

With them for the time over.

For them. For me.

He's asking what all this entails, doctor.

Well, just a few tests.

If he qualifies for rehabilitation,

we arrange housing.

Should take no more than an hour.

Skeeter.

You can't bring Skeeter in here.

Let them poke and prod you. It's no big deal.

I'll see you in an hour.

Hey, don't be a big baby.

- Thanks, Doctor. - You're welcome.

John, the examination room is just down the hall.

Psych evaluator Hackman,

dial 617.

Psych evaluator Hackman dial 617.

No readings indicated a methane gas pocket?

So you're saying,

as general manager of this facility,

that this was out of the blue?

Completely out of the blue, sir.

We think the gas built up behind the stoping shields

where our PDM sensors couldn't pick it up.

I'm briefing the prime minister in 20 minutes.

Listen carefully.

No one goes in any of the tunnels

until that gas is drilled and capped.

Understood, sir. Understood.

Let me ask you, how do we drill and cap

a methane pocket without a wellhead?

I'll get back to you.

Get me the air force base in Winnipeg,

officer in charge of civilian emergencies.

Airlift a 30-ton gas wellhead? Impossible.

And there's no runway up at Katka to land a C-130 on,

and our largest choppers are Chinooks,

which can't carry a 30-ton wellhead.

Payloads of that nature have to go by truck.

Jill, that young field officer in Winnipeg is supposed

to know everything about ice road transports

up to the northern mines?

- Max Tully? - Yes, him.

The prime minister will see you now.

Just a sec.

Max Tully?

Mr. Goldenrod!

What?

I'm Max Tully with Mining Safety.

Could I have a word with you? It's about Katka Mine.

What about Katka?

This morning, tunnel six collapsed.

I need an 18-foot gas wellhead,

300 feet of pipe delivered up there in under 30 hours.

Eighteen-foot gas wellhead and 300 feet of pipe?

Goddamn, that's a hell of a lot of weight, son.

- Can you make it happen? - What do I look like, God?

We're three weeks into April.

All my drivers are on their way to Hawaii,

or wherever the hell it is that they go during the off-season.

Say, for conversation's sake, you have replacements.

We'll say for conversation's sake that these rigs have wings.

What have you been smoking?

March 10th, the season ended. That's five weeks ago.

Didn't old-timers back in the '60s drive the lake into April?

Yeah, and most of them died doing it.

So it's really that dangerous.

Yeah. It's that dangerous.

Okay, okay. It's a stupid idea.

Sorry for asking.

Hey, hey, kid. Come here.

I know all the miners up there in Katka.

I know their families.

So it's personal with me.

If I can get drivers and a mechanic...

let's say 3:00 this afternoon,

and if you can get the provincial government

to open up the ice road,

two very big ifs...

we'll do it.

Thank you.

Shit.

Hi. Um...

- Excuse me. - Yes?

I brought my brother in this morning.

Vocational rehab?

McCann, 813.

He's still being evaluated, sir.

The doctor said an hour. It's been two and a half.

We're a little short-staffed today,

so please take a seat.

Hey! Sir?

Sir!

Get Security on 2-East, please.

Hey, bro.

What's happening?

What is all this?

Oh, geez.

What is going on here?

Xanax and Lexapro, right?

Probably some Oxy for good measure?

You know, to take the edge off?

- They're for PTSD. - I know what they're for.

Did you ask for these, Gurty?

He has insomnia, hypertension, makes inappropriate outbursts.

Oh, kiss my Irish ass.

Post-traumatic stress disorder is real.

I can Section 502 him.

Do it.

The press'll love another story

about how the VA overprescribes opioids

to America's heroes.

You are making a grave mistake.

You try and stop us from leaving here, so are you.

Wait, wait, wait, wait.

Here, put this on.

It's cold.

Wait, here. Here.

Come on, your pants.

Ken-- Kenworth.

More Ken.

Take us great that owned we.

- We. - Sure, sure.

It would be great if we owned our own rig.