Crystal Skulls Page #4

I've just received breaking news

that the military units

have now been moved into the city

to assist with evacuation.

Now reports say

that a lightening storm

has tripled in size

over the last 24 hours,

and that the giant vortex

is now engulfing the city.

But as the vortex drifts

farther across Europe,

I think the question

on everybody's lips is

where do we evacuate to?

What is this?

If I'm right,

it's the beginning of the end.

Don't take this the wrong way,

but I hope to God you're wrong.

Mr. Hadden, we have no choice.

We have to contain

the lab and destroy the skulls.

That is impossible, Colonel.

We can't just sit here and do nothing!

Daddy!

I thought I had lost you!

Professor John Winston,

I'd like you to meet William Hadden.

My father.

Mr. Hadden.

Professor, I was a great

admirer of your father's,

as I am of you yourself.

This is Colonel Bailey.

Bailey.

Professor.

I appreciate the kind words,

I don't meet many fans of my father's

except for fringe groups and lunatics.

Well, I hope I'm neither.

Before I lost my ability to walk,

it was where I did my best thinking.

So, if you don't mind,

shall we walk together?

I don't mind at all,

if you don't mind explaining to me

what exactly it is that I'm doing here.

I'm a very wealthy man,

Doctor Winston.

I have been for most of my life.

But, I fear my hubris has

gotten the better of me

in the light of what is now happening.

I'll put this as simply as I can.

You're here, Doctor Winston,

because I am dying.

I have been fighting cancer for ten years.

In my pursuit of a cure,

I became aware of the crystal skulls

and began to acquire them.

All of them but the thirteenth.

Yes.

The first were found in South America,

followed by three others-

Forgive me for interrupting, sir,

I understand the history

but all the skulls have

proven to be a fraud,

carbon dating has tested

them to be no older

than 200 or 300 years.

Trust me, we have had our failures.

No one's perfect.

Let's just say the tests were

somewhat suspect.

Suspect?

What are you saying?

The carbon dating was altered somehow?

You got the twelve different skulls

from all different pans of the world?

Hadden Industries owns

six of the largest

carbon dating facilities.

So the tests were fake?

Let's just say we have a higher

standard of proof.

Ah, right, right.

You duped the whole

scientific community.

What we did was soften

the purchase price

to take them off the museum displays.

Mr. Hadden may be a billionaire,

but everyone has their price.

Right, right.

So it's about money.

We're talking about putting together

twelve of the most

precious objects in the world.

Something that would not

happen if the truth

became common knowledge.

Mr. Hadden, I don't know

what the implications are

of you altering these tests,

but I imagine it involves prison.

I am dying, Colonel.

Yeah, well, you're not dead yet.

Ok, hold on, hold on, hold on.

None of this really matters now.

The skulls are real.

So how old are they?

Most of them were dated

about 500,000 years ago.

Others cannot be dated.

500,000 years?

That pre-dates man.

Which implies some other origin.

Perhaps extraterrestrials?

Mr. Hadden, I don't know if your

carbon dating shenanigans

have lead to this disaster,

but I do know that

I have another problem.

Preventing the end of the world.

You and I have the same goal,

Colonel.

Colonel!

Enough!

Now if you and Professor Winston

can come up with a solution,

I'm all ears.

But now I must confer with NATO

and come up with our own method.

Brute force will not work!

You saw what happened

when your men attempted

to attack the skulls!

They have an impregnable

field around them!

That was four men.

I'm talking about some

stronger medicine.

We know force won't work.

What Will?

The thirteenth skull.

But the dilemma is

I have no idea

where to begin to look for it.

I want you to follow

your father's footsteps

and find it.

Fulfill your destiny.

Mr. Hadden-

Every single one of my resources

will be at your disposal.

God knows I created this disaster.

If I have to use

every bit of my fortune to stop it,

so be it.

There's one thing

that neither one of us has much of.

And what would that be?

Time.

So am I to assume this chopper

is safer than the last one?

It's Cold War technology.

It's built to withstand

a nuclear explosion.

So why didn't you tell me

that Hadden was your father?

And spoil the surprise?

You know,

we have a lot in common, Professor.

Really?

What's that?

We've both spent our lives

trying to get out of the shadow

of our fathers.

Is that what Mallory is?

It was my mother's maiden name.

She died when I was a little girl.

Would it have made a difference

if you had known who I was?

In what, how seriously I took you?

Or how attractive I thought

you were when we first met?

Seriously?

So, do you uh...

always wait until you get a girl

alone in a helicopter

before you bust a line like that out?

No, I usually wait to find out

if the girl I'm hitting on

is the daughter of the billionaire.

Oh, sure.

Well then I guess it's a shame

that my inheritance is

being held in a living trust.

Ahh.

So where are we going?

Your father told me to follow

in my father's footsteps.

That is what I'm doing.

The thirteenth skull is down there?

No, this is the last place my father came

before he disappeared.

And this is the only way down?

I'm afraid so.

Ready?

We're here.

Easy, easy.

I've got ya.

That's interesting.

What?

Since I was here with Terry,

I find that this cave has collapsed.

That's good?

Not if we need another way out.

Or we could have avoided

this entire extreme sports routine.

Yeah, fat chance.

Come on.

How did you get your father's notebook

if they never found his body?

It was sent to me at a college

where I was teaching

before your father had me fired.

Ok, well that doesn't explain

who sent it to you.

You don't know?

It was your father.

He sent a note along with it.

He said that one of his

researchers had found it

on an expedition and

he thought perhaps one day

I would find it useful.

So this was the last place

your father was?

This is where they found the notebook?

I'd be inclined to agree with you.

But if my father's research

team had already been here

and they didn't find

the thirteenth skull,

why are we here?

Hold this, please.

This is the last place

that my father came.

Where my brother lost his life.

And I'm betting that

the answer is still here.

We just have to know

where to look for it.

Excuse me, gentlemen.

What is it?

The skulls are generating a very

focused magnetic field

which begins in the isolation chamber

and extends out beyond the common line.

That's the line that separates

the Earth's atmosphere

from outer space.

I know what it is.

It seems that it now

extends back to the Earth's core.

What the hell does all that mean,

Mr. Hadden?

It means that there's now a new field

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