Iceman Page #4

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I've never done this before, and nobody has.

I can't stop the medical research, I wouldn't if I could.

You've got everything you need.

But I... I need you.

You can't have me, I'm dead tired.

No, I need you to come in there

with me, to see him, to be with him.

What do you want me to do, play Jane to your Tarzan?

I've got enough trouble coping with everything as it is.

Shepherd, do you realize...

if Singe really wanted to, he could get this

whole thing stopped dead, that's my problem.

Charlie's inner life, for the moment, is yours.

He's not a problem, he's a man,

maybe that's what you're having trouble with.

I think maybe you better go.

Look, I did... I'm sorry, I didn't mean that.

I... I... I don't know what I mean.

I mean he's not like you or me, but he IS a man.

And contact with a woman, it just might bring him

out of himself, might lead to something, something NEW.

Shepherd.

Shepherd.

What, what.

The door, Shepherd.

You know, Shepherd, I got stepped-on

by a pony when I was six.

I promise I won't let him step on ya.

- Is it all right?

- Yeah, it's okay.

Well, it smells terrible.

All right.

It's okay, don't worry.

You're gonna be fine.

- Just in the cave, you'll find...

- What!?

The he is.

Steady.

Take it easy.

Relax, relax, relax,

it's all right.

Put your hand up where he can see it.

- You sure?

- Yeah.

Shep-ehr?

It's okay, all right, all right, all right.

Let him look at you,

let him look at you.

It's all right, it's all right,

he smells fear.

He smells you.

- What's that.?

- That's lunch.

- What do we do now?

- Eat it.

That's what I was afraid of.

- It's kinda like popcorn, you get used to it.

- Oh, my God.

It's all right, it's all right, it's all right.

- What was it?

- It was a beetle.

- What did it taste like?

- A beetle.

- I think I'm going to throw-up.

- No, don't throw-up, he'll take it as a bad omen.

Let him look at you.

Let him look at you, it's okay.

Let him look, let him look,

just go with it, go with it.

Relax, he's never seen anything like this.

He can smell the fear, it's all right.

It's all right, it's okay.

No, no, no, no, no, no!

Pah-eee!

- Pah-eee.

- Pah-eee!

Pah-eee.

Mine! Mine!

Sorry, he left, everything...

everything's under control here.

- Very encouraging.

- You're okay.

- What is that?

- I think he made me an offer.

- For what?

- For you.

- Tell him it's not enough.

- No, no.

Pah-eee, mine, no, mine, no.

No, Charlie.

- That looks like a match.

- Yeah, but what is that? Woman?

- Something like it, sounds the same.

- Yeah, it all sounds the same.

But it is a different pitch.

Thought he had a certain grasp of things,

if only he could ascertain sentences.

That's easy for you to say.

That's quite a woman.

She's in very good shape.

- Children?

- Yeah.

- He's talkin' about his family.

- Well, that's a likely guess.

He wants to know where his children are.

How could anybody be so stupid?

- Bieh-Tah.

- Charlie, no!

Bieh-Tah.

Bieh-Tah.

Bieh-Tah.

Get that chopper out of here.

Get that helicopter out of here.

Bieh-Tah.

Bieh-Tah.

Get it out of here...

now!

Bieh-Tah!

Bieh-Tah.

Bieh-Tah.

Bieh-Tah.

Seih-Kah.

Seih-Kah.

Bieh-Tah.

Bieh-Tah.

- Saeh-Kah.

- Saeh-Nah?

Saeh-Kah.

Seht-Nah!

Seht-Nah.

That word with the chopper, it's two words.

Bieh-Tah is his word, Saeh-Kah's the translation.

But it's not Saeh-Kah, it's Seht-Nah,

and that's why he was so mad.

There's an Eskimo myth,

close to one of his.

Wait a minute, Shepherd, you're

telling me that the helicopter...

...is the Bird, the Messenger of the Gods,

but also a trickster.

It's supposed to take you to

heaven, but if you've done wrong,

it takes you someplace else where

you're judged for your sins.

- What sins?

- He let his people die.

- He what?

- I know Charlie, I know him.

I mean, what was he doing out there,

maybe even a magnetic pole flip,

food ran low, no food, no game,

people faced with starvation?

The animals left them to starve, it was because

they offended their Gods in some way.

- This guy was on a dreamwalk.

- A what!?

A dreamwalk. He went out to find this spirit,

to offer himself for return of the animals.

- And that's the Bird?

- The Messenger, the Trickster.

And now that he's seen it, he won't think

of anything else, that's his God.

How long has it been?

Thirty-four hours.

Twelve hours of that weird chanting, and...

now this.

I don't know what to do.

Shepherd, we've got

to be able do something for him.

Shepherd, isn't there

anything we can do for him?

Shepherd, there's got to

be something we can do for him.

Shepherd!!

Maintenance, report to loading dock.

Maintenance, report to loading dock.

- What's the problem?

- What's the problem? This is my problem.

It's this machine, I told you before but...

All right, that's all it takes.

Any other problems?

Just one other thing.

All right.

- Okay, I'll be right back.

- Good observation.

Don't you ever do anything NOW, Maynard?

Don't I ever do anything now, MAYNARD?

Oh, sh*t!

Shepherd!

Sheh-ehr.

Bieh-Tah!

Bieh-Tah!

Seih-Kah.

Bieh-Tah.

Get that thing out of here!

No broken bones.

No apparent head injuries.

Oh, good.

- So, at least our iceman's okay.

- What about Maynard?

Well, the Company's got its lease, you medicos got

a live body, and you... you've got your monkey.

Shut-up!! If you think I'm gonna call it

an industrial accident, you're crazy.

He's not a monkey, he's a human being... like us.

Well, not QUITE like us, we've undergone

a few changes in forty thousand years.

- Not exactly for the better.

- For once we agree on something.

Well, what's that?

Our opinion of modern civilization.

But what I would like to know

is how you expect him to survive in it,

which he will have to do eventually.

What, you think we're going to set him

out on the street tomorrow?

What ARE you going to do?

I mean, how are you going to protect him?

Shepherd, what's happened here is nothing

compared to what's going to happen to him out there.

Okay! That's it! Not another word!

It's over.

Nice try.

But it's over.

What the HELL is he doing back in the Vivarium?

It's not secure!

It's been taken care of,

he's under constant surveillance... now.

We'll stabilize him.

We'll get him on a plane.

We were greedy.

I was an idiot.

Think someone else coulda done better?

There's nothing more I can do, Shepherd.

This guy was on a dreamwalk when we found him.

Let him finish it.

All he can teach us,

you want to waste it.

You can't keep him in the cage the rest of his life.

It's life.

It's not, for him.

He'll die.

None of us want that,

believe me, Shepherd.

What the hell are YOU doing, Shepherd?

What do you want?

He wants your HELP.

Right?

Can't help ya.

Maybe we should go and we CAN help him.

How?

The door.

Charlie!

Charlie!

Sheh-ehr.

Let's go... Charlie.

Let's go.

Powell, I stopped at the south face.

Do you see anything?

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