Journey To The Center Of The Earth Page #3

professor.

- This is life or death here.

- Yeah, thanks.

You owe me one.

What does this say?

That means keep out.

- Maybe that's decent advice.

- No, no. This is great news.

This might lead us to an old mine shaft

and that could be our way out.

- How deep do you think it is?

- Can you give me one of those flares?

Thank you. Sean, look at your watch.

I'm gonna light this

and drop it over the edge...

...and I want you to tell me

how many seconds pass before it stops.

Okay.

Here we go. Three, two...

Oh, God!

What?

What was that?

Yup, magnesium.

Must run in veins

all through these walls.

Magnesium is kind of flammable,

isn't it, professor?

Yeah, used in flares,

used in gun powder, matchsticks.

Right, well, maybe gun powders and flares

aren't such a good idea down here.

Thank you.

It's the same principle.

- You ready, Sean?

- Yeah, go ahead.

Three, two...

One.

Two.

Almost three.

Thirty-two squared by... It's 200 feet.

That's no problem.

It's about your basic 20-story high-rise.

- You got enough rope?

- I always have enough rope.

Well, no problem for what?

Rappelling down in there.

We're gonna rappel down

that deep, dark hole?

What, you got a problem with that?

- Pfft.

- What's the matter?

There's no way

we should be rappelling down.

What are you talking about? You're

man enough to call dibs on the guide.

- But not enough to climb down a rope.

- Guys.

- Calling dibs on the mountain guide...

- No one gets dibs on the mountain guide.

We're going down there.

Steady, steady.

Remember, we're all connected.

It's okay.

Looking good.

It's all good down here.

Way down here.

You guys are coming down, right?

All right, Sean, I'm gonna start

lowering you down really, really slowly.

So just lean back

and keep your feet up high.

You're okay, Sean.

We're tethered together,

so nothing bad is gonna happen.

Yeah, sure.

Good.

Sean, keep walking.

You have to keep walking.

Good.

Hey, you're looking pretty good there.

- Sure you haven't done this before?

- Shut up.

Hey, you mind?

Watch your step, will you?

I'm hanging on for my life here.

Okay, Sean,

just make conversation with me.

So, Hannah, do you come here often?

Oh, give me a break.

That can't be the best line

you can come up with.

- I'm making conversation with her.

- No, Sean, I do not come here very often.

Ready?

Hey.

Look at all this schist.

- What?

- It's a metamorphic rock.

Green schist, garnet schist,

mica-garnet schist.

- Oh. Schist.

- It's everywhere, look at it. I guess...

Trevor.

Get to the wall, Trevor.

- I can't.

- I can't, the walls widen out down here.

- Your rope is caught on mine.

You're gonna take us down.

I gotta cut you loose.

What?

- Hannah, no.

Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait.

- Don't.

- Don't, don't, don't.

- Uncle Trevor.

- Ah!

Hey, guys, found it.

The bottom's right here.

Hey, Hannah, you knew that, right?

Right?

Hannah?

Guys, what's this?

Looks like

an abandoned mine tunnel to me.

That's Old Bla'gils Mine.

It was shut down 60 years ago

after the big disaster.

Disaster?

How big?

Eighty-one dead.

That's pretty big.

Come on.

Cowboy up.

Hey, Trevor,

was there a mine like this in the book?

No, don't think so.

- Hannah?

- Yup?

Can I ask you something?

Do you wonder if your father

and my brother weren't wrong?

Let me make something very clear

to you.

I am not my father.

And the world that he belonged to

has nothing to do with me.

I understand, of course.

I didn't mean to say that it was

or that it would be...

- You know I'm still on the clock, right?

- You're still billing me?

I bill you until I'm safe in my house.

- Huh.

- Hannah?

What's that?

- This is the old generator for the mine.

- Hey, you don't want to touch that.

What are you doing?

There might be some

volatile compounds there, you know.

- Serious generator.

- Hannah, that thing could blow up.

Stop throwing switches.

Don't do that. No, wait.

Get away from that thing.

Okay, I take it back.

This is it, right? I mean, the miners,

they had to get their stuff out somewhere.

Yeah.

- These tracks could lead us out.

Hey, Hannah, how many miners got out?

One.

That's a start. I call front.

What? No, no, no.

Come on, don't get in there.

We don't even know

if these things work.

They're not safe.

The tracks might not be safe.

Track ahead looks good. Get in.

Hey, Sean, it doesn't look safe.

I wouldn't do that.

I think I see something. It's...

Please tell me it's daylight.

Otherwise, I don't wanna know.

Uh...

No, it's not daylight.

Oh, we're in deep schist.

I wish there were seat belts

on this thing.

You're worried about seat belts?

- Whoa!

- Ah!

Watch it.

- Hannah.

- I know.

- Pull the brake, pull the brake.

- No, don't.

We won't make it.

Yeah.

Hey, great job. Thanks.

Guys.

- Stay put, Sean.

Trevor, you okay?

Hannah, your track ends.

Jump in my car.

What?

Quick, you have to do it.

- Just jump.

- I know that.

Ready? Ah!

Trevor, your track ends too.

- Okay.

- What are you doing?

Showing the proper way

to save someone's life. Come on.

- Can I help?

- Okay.

Ready?

- Are you all right?

- Yeah.

Luckily, I had a soft landing.

That's two you owe me now.

- Who's keeping count?

- I am.

That was awesome.

- What happened to you guys?

- Don't ask.

What's that?

Where are you going? Don't go in there.

What are you guys talking about?

This could be our way out.

There's a hole in the wall.

Guys, check it out.

Rubies.

Emeralds.

Feldspar.

Uh, guys, there's more.

Diamonds.

Bling.

Crystals are frequently formed

and found...

...in volcanic tubes.

This tube could take us back up, right?

- Uh-huh.

- We're not far from the surface.

- Uh-uh.

- When we get out, I'm getting a Maserati.

Money is not the only thing that matters,

Sean. People matter too, you know.

- Something like that.

- Not if you have a Maserati.

Did you guys hear that?

Nobody move.

Tell me that's not what I think it is.

Muscovite.

Muscovite.

What's muscovite?

- Muscovite is a thin type of rock formation.

- How thin?

Well, so thin that the slightest change

in weight and pressure...

...can cause it to shatter.

And we're standing on a lot of it.

Just stop. Stop.

Okay, they're stopped.

I need you to walk back

exactly the way we came from.

Very, very calmly, okay?

Tread lightly.

Heel, toe. Doing good.

Doing great. Very slowly.

Good. Come on.

That's it.

That's great.

- Really careful.

- Keep going.

No!

It's actually thicker than I thought.

We're still falling!

Trevor, what's at the bottom?

Well, if what Verne wrote was right...

...these tunnels could go for hundreds,

thousands of miles.

Verne was not right.

Trevor, finish. What's at the bottom?

Most likely theory is that it just ends.

Ends? Got any other theories?

Well, the walls of this tunnel

could have gently eroded...

...by water which still runs through it...

...providing a gradual break to our fall.

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