Ice Sharks

Ho. Ho. Ho. Ho.

I caught up to him on the flats.

Be careful out there.

Male: Yeah. Out.

Okay, okay.

Hai! Hup!

Hai!

Okay.

So if the R.O.V. follows the ridge here,

it should be able to take a sample

and show us exactly how long

the mineral deposits were exposed to the atmosphere.

Nice work, Lex. Now all we have to do

is plot a course and load it into the R.O.V.

Okay.

You know, I've been through some real crazy storms up here.

This baby's built for it.

Thank you.

You know, I'll keep an eye on you if things get rough.

Uh, you know, I remember this one time when--

Yeah, well, this is built to go hundreds of feet down,

Bet the station can't do that.

I'm gonna bring this upstairs.

Here you go, Sammy.

Thanks, Val.

What you got going on, Sammy?

All right, I just keep getting

this erroneous data from area 12.

That, or that ice is melting way faster than we thought.

Could be a new warm current under the ice doing that.

Whatever the data is,

we need to make sure it's correct.

Mm-hmm. Can't let it skew our research

on how fast things are melting.

We're not getting funded to do sloppy work.

Yeah, I mean, come on. These numbers have to be wrong,

unless there's a new warm current under there.

Let me take a look.

Yeah, those numbers do seem high, don't they?

Yeah.

All right, let's work the problem.

See if you can't do a hard system reboot.

Yeah.

Just give it a few seconds.

Here we go.

No, that's the same readings.

All right, we gotta confirm this.

M.E. wants to know how fast humans are warming the melt.

Yeah, I just tried flashing the sensor's memory

That didn't work either. Look, I think I should just head out there and see

if I can't figure out what's going on.

Tracy, what's the weather looking like today?

Actually, it looks great for once.

Next storm shouldn't roll through

for another 12 hours.

Perfect.

All right, but you call in every 30 minutes, okay?

Let us know you're all right.

Will do, boss. Promise I won't forget.

Oh, and, Sammy.

Yeah?

You're the man.

Heh. I do what I can.

All right, guys, I'm headed out.

I will radio back if I find anything,

and, hey...

behave yourselves.

Go.

Okay.

All right. Hey, I'll see you later.

What's going on with you, little buddy?

You know, I kinda hope that sensor isn't faulty.

We'd finally have some hard evidence to show M.E.

Yeah.

Yeah.

T-3-A...

Samuel.

Yeah?

Hold up, man.

Where you going?

Uh, I just gotta head out

and check out a sensor.

Okay. Just do me a favor

and be really careful around that thin ice.

It's pretty bad this year.

And mainly because I don't wanna have to call in

a rescue team to save your ass when you get hurt.

What, me get hurt?

Yeah.

Hey, you remember Cabo?

I've tried to forget.

I jumped off the balcony into the pool.

I hit my head on the edge.

Yeah, I lost consciousness

and still outdrank you that night.

I know. Hey, that reminds me.

Uh, Dad sent those single-malts with Ozzy on the last chopper run.

Be back in an hour and a half. Let's open 'em up.

Sounds good.

All right, man.

All right, buddy.

Hey, uh, I forgot to tell you.

You remind me of Mom.

Nag, nag, nag. Yeah.

Hey, next time, close the inner door

before you open the outer door.

Thank you.

Radio check, too!

Hey, man. Yeah?

Female : Oasis to Sammy.

Checking your radio status.

Sammy : Radio status, check. I don't see any county mounties around, bandit.

Female: I'm sure you don't. Check back every 20 minutes.

Sammy : Okay. No problem. Snowman out.

Female: Very funny. Now take care of your [unintelligible dialogue].

"Behave"?

When was the last time we, uh, behaved?

MAN, ON RADIO: Oasis Station.

Oasis Station, are you there?

Hey, Aput. What's happening?

Another hunter from our town has gone missing.

He last radioed his wife not too far from you.

Any idea what's going on?

Hard to believe there's a serial killer out there.

The leading theory is them falling through the ice,

but no one really buys that.

What was the last location?

72 degrees. 55 minutes, North. 108 degrees 25 minutes, West.

That's 5 miles from us.

Yeah, that's what I figured.

Any chance you could take a look out there?

What do you think?

They're at least a day away by sled dog,

and the next storm's gonna cover any trails.

We can be there in 30 minutes.

Let's go see if we can help.

No problem, Aput. We'll check it out.

Thanks, Tracy.

That's the fifth hunter missing in a month, David.

What the hell is going on out there?

I don't know, but there may be a cold, wet hunter

still alive out there.

All right. Let's go.

Alex, we got a call about a missing hunter.

We're gonna go check it out, all right?

It's near us? Yeah.

Hey, uh, if you want,

Sammy's still out there. I could just radio in--

Nah, nah. He's in the other direction.

Besides, with the storm coming in,

gives us a chance to get some fresh air while we still can, you know?

Copy that.

You guys should take a look at this.

We are seeing a lot of under-ice melting from these warm currents.

That makes sense, with the readings

Sammy's getting from the sensor arrays.

If this storm gets any worse,

we might have to call in

the icebreaker, come pick us up,

move us to a different location.

It's either that or call the season early.

M.E.'s not gonna like that,

but so what? We can get government grants next year, yeah?

Exactly.

We've done this before.

We'll be fine. I know.

Okay, we've got it. We'll be careful.

Thanks for the info. Okay.

Be safe.

Bye. Okay, bye.

Don't air that in public.

Yeah. You're right.

All right.

You ready?

Male: We should get there in just a few minutes.

Female: Gotcha.

Female: Hey! Keep up slow poke.

Male: Slow poke? We'll see about that.

Female: Yeah, we'll see!

Ha! Ha! -Woo!

Yeah!

Woo!

Female: Hurry up, slow poke.

Male: See! Now who's the slow one? Woo!

Just over to the west a little bit.

Female: Got it. I'm on your tail.

Male: Keep a close eye on them. So we don't miss them.

Female: They shouldn't be that hard to spot.

Male: Hopefully.

Female: I think I see something up ahead.

They gotta be our hunter's, right?

Double-check those coordinates.

Yeah, we're spot-on,

and triangulation puts this

as the position of his last radio call.