Iceman Page #2

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- Flatline.

- Oxygenation?

- P-O-2 one twenty.

- Twelve point six.

Increase the flow rate 5 liters per minute.

Serum electrolytes?

Rising P.H. six point nine.

Coming-up fast, 15 degrees.

- Now it's dropping, at six point three.

- Nineteen degrees Celsius.

P.E.T. scanner ready?

Ready to go!

Put it up.

What's that funny smell?

Probably Shepherd.

- Cells metabolizing.

- What?

Holy sh*t, his cells are synthesizing D.N.A.

This is incredible, all his cells are good.

Brady, that funny smell,

sulfur and oxygen... I think.

- Dimethyl sulfoxide.

- Well, could be.

Dimethyl what?

Sulfoxide, DMSO, it's

a universal solvent.

You put it on your finger, it zips right through

your body, you taste it in your mouth.

It tastes like garlic.

It carries other molecules with it.

What other molecules?

- A cryoprotectant.

- A cryoprotectant?

It's a peptide, it's glycoprotein, it's like a... an antifreeze,

it's some substance that prevents crystallization.

It's why his cells are good, he was loaded with this stuff.

Where did it come from?

- Buttercups.

- Buttercups?

That Russian mammoth they found,

his stomach was full of buttercups.

This iceman, maybe it

was something he ate.

Son of a b*tch!

What have you got?

Same old thing.

What?

Naw, it's probably a malfunction.

- What's what?

- Wait, wait, wait, wait.

I'm reading something.

Shepherd, please.

- What does it look like, Maynard?

- It's sorta like slow wave activity.

God damn it, that's brain activity.

Cold call.

- E.K.G.?

- Flatline.

Okay, give me an amp of calcium, an amp

of epinephrine, 2 amps of bicarb.

If you think of a tube, let's get a ventilator in here.

- What that mean?

- Probably nothing.

Where's the god damned cart?

- E.E.G.

- E.K.G.

- Four G clear.

- Slow wave, deep cortical activity.

Mid-brain function.

- Who?

- Him.

- Him?

- Him.

These are by P which is Greek to me.

- I have some calcium and epinephrine standing by.

- Twenty watts.

- Stand clear.

- All clear.

- E.K.G.?

- Still force fib.

Another amp, calcium and I have

to have some lidocain standing by.

- What's happening?

- Brain activity.

- Ready and clear.

- All clear.

- V-tach, rate's one-seventy.

- Are you sure about that?

Yeah.

- One hundred lidocaine.

- I got one mil per minute.

- Give me 50 watts.

- 50 watts.

- Charge.

- Stand clear.

- All clear.

- Functional rhythm.

He's alive.

Amazing.

You know, I thought he's have more hair.

- But he looks strong.

- Yeah, I'm sure he had to be.

Can I have a look?

- How does he look?

- Compared to what?

Temp's normal, urine output

100 c.c.'s an hour, B.U.N. normal.

Cardiac output six liters, blood gasses

are good, 12 hours off the ventilator.

Higher cortical activity,

but not like ours.

No, more like Shepherd's.

- Or a premature baby.

- What do you think?

I think he might be conscious,

but I DON'T think he's going to make the Super Bowl.

- Trach.

- Clear his throat.

- I got it.

- Valium, 10 milligrams.

Put it in, put it in now.

Where's the respirator?

Don't panic, everybody just take it easy.

Hands off, hands off.

Heartbeat's okay.

Another valium.

- What is that?

- Kill that band.

Shepherd, what the hell are you doing?

You're not sterile!

Do not touch him!

The electrolytes are still normal,

blood sugar is 80.

Might want to start him on hyper-alimentation,

avoid any chance of hypoglycemia.

No sign of sepsis, the blood

cultures are negative.

Will he live, will he be okay?

- Heart rate hit 200, his blood pressure peaked.

- A massive at adrenergic discharge.

- What does that mean?

- Means we scared the sh*t out of him.

Now...

just what does this mean to us?

- Well, maybe a Nobel prize.

- Maybe as big as Genentech.

- Maybe bigger.

- Bigger than gene splicing?

Immortality.

- Aw, come on.

- Well, extended life, greatly extended.

- Do you know what we're looking for?

- Cryoprotectant.

Do you know why?

You're going to freeze everyone with cancer

and bring them back when there's a cure.

- Yes.

- And then what're you going to do with them?

- I don't think that's the main issue, Shepherd.

- Yeah, they won't know a living soul.

The relatives wanna spend all their money.

Maybe we have waves of freeze-dried

old folks living in Miami Beach?

Ya know, I mean, who are you kidding,

there are too many people in the world right now.

Death is Nature's way of

making room for someone else.

Einstein, Bertram Russell,

Einstein could have finished his theory.

- Aheela could've finished HIS.

- Mozart, Young, Stravinsky.

- Genghis Khan, Charlie Parker, Gandhi, Fatty Arbuckle.

- All right, so who's to live?

Everyone? And who's to decide?

The guys with the money and the power?

They'll stay and keep everything.

I mean, they eat better food,

they drive better cars, and now

they're going to live longer, too?

Shepherd, someday paramedics are going to

carry cryo tanks... someone's dying, you freeze him,

you stop everything until you've got the blood,

or the surgeons, or the spare parts you need.

This is worth much more

than any one man, even him.

- If we were going to hurt him, which we're not...

- He's a man, not a specimen.

A forty thousand year old man who can teach us

about ourselves, tell us how we evolved.

Now that is much more important than

trying to figure-out how to preserve people.

I mean, he's alive,

you're forgetting that.

You can't take him apart, punch him

full of holes and drain all his fluids.

That's our best chance of keeping him alive,

we have to study him in order to save him.

- Can he be moved?

- No.

- Why not?

- It's not just infection, there's psychic trauma.

I don't want a lot of people up here.

If the media gets hold of this...

If the media gets hold of this

they'll be up here by the plane-load.

Yeah, run it by the Johnny Carson Show,

selling Eskimo Pies.

Now, you can't keep him sedated forever,

he's got to wake up, then what?

- What are you suggesting?

- What... you want to find a chemical...

find-out about the man.

I mean, we've... we've got the facilities right here.

- What?

- The Vivarium?

- Yes.

- Ah, you're crazy, what about sterility?

- Wait, it's atmosphere controlled.

- What about the bears?

Screw the bears! What... you said it, Singe,

we have study him and save him.

- And all sorts of animals have been living in there.

- That's their home.

- Just give me two weeks.

- We need the space.

Get him back there!

Get back! Ah!

Who the hell was it that said

my box was locked in this situation?

- What happened?

- He found us.

He's out of control.

He hurts himself, I'm responsible.

No! Don't shoot him!

Don't shoot.

- What's going on?

- He found us.

Get a stretcher!

Hey, Maynard, call the infirmary, get a stretcher down here!

- Oh, God, I had to tranc him.

- You what!?

- I had to tranc him.

- Get him to the infirmary right away.

Just don't stand there, let's help him.

- Not exactly a raving success is it?

- What do you think you're taking him?

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