Time Travelers Page #5

[Sighs]

All right. So now what?

So now, just leave

me alone, all right?

No, Clint!

The Chicago Fire is already started!

[effi we failed. I can't save

Betty, I can't save anybody.

So what do you want to do? Die

before you've even been born?

Come on, Clint. Get up. [Grunts] I'm

gonna get the rest of your clothes on.

In less than two hours, this

hospital is gonna be on fire.

Okay -What'd

you say about a fire?

It's all rightjust take it

easy. -Where is this fire?

[Sniffs] I been

thinkin' I smelled smoke.

You better get back to bed.

Oh. my God!

That's west of here, ain't it?

-From here, about southwest.

What are you doing? -I

want you to see this.

[ Man ] Where them

holdin' pens are.

And me, I got 500 white-faced Herefords

just a-sittin' down there someplace.

My whole life.

Back in New Orleans, you've

got a hundred, or a thousand...

or maybe a million human beings! -What

can we possibly do in a matter of minutes?

That's a question I

never ask myself, Doctor.

If we get back to that railroad station, every

record out of Henderson's office downstairs...

is going with us!

Here, have a pillowcase. You

grab the patients' records.

Maybe computers back home could

find something we couldn't.

Jeff, this whole

thing has gone wrong.

We're supposed to leave

from the North Side, right?

How do you know that station will

even be there at the right time?

I don't know.

I gotta go find my clothes.

[Uncapping Bottle]

[ Scoffs ]

Dr. Henderson?

Nurse Henderson?

Just a moment, Nancy.

-Please? The fire.

Honey, the fire's a long way off.

There's nothing to be

afraid of. -It's so bright.

Well, it's just because of

the reflection from the sky.

Now, you be a good girl.

I'll be back.

Sir? Dr. Henderson?

Uh, I thinkyou'll find him up

in the women's contagious ward.

I was just up there.

What are you doing?

Fire's gettin' worse.

Joe, you lookin' for me?

It's all right. He knows I'm here.

Sir, what is this? I come in, find

this man rifling your whole desk.

Oh, no, no. I told him he could

look at anything he wanted to.

I certainly didn't think he'd

take any of my papers.

Doctor, I-l can explain this.

It's really quite simple.

Doctor, you'd better

look at this, right now.

It's the answer to that telegram you

asked me to send out this morning...

to the surgeon general. -Who?

Who?

Yes, who?

That's a very good question.

Who the devil are you, sir?

I don't understand.

If you'd just let me see that, sir.

I sent him a little thank you for

sending such helpful assistants...

and here he says he's

never even heard...

of anyone named Earnshaw or Adams.

There you are, stealin'

all my patients' records.

Takin' every paper I

own. -Doctor, please.

I asked you a question. Who are you?

Sir, if I were to answer that-

If you were to answer it? [Scoffs]

Joe, d- T-Take that

stuff away from him.

Mister, maybe I don't

care who you are.

After the dumb way I've

trusted you and your friend.

[ Explosion]

- [Joe] My God! What was that?

The first use of

dynamite, I believe.

Fire Marshall Williams is

trying to build a firebreak.

How do you know that? -I

know, Doctor, because...

I know everything that's

gonna happen tonight.

In the next few minutes, the Union

Bank building will be dynamited...

in an effort to

stop the fire.

Doctor, I desperately

need your records!

I've got to have them!

Chicago's burning!

The whole city'll be on

fire. This hospital, too.

[Explosion]

My God! The Union Bank,

about 1 O blocks over.

Yeah. Yeah, over that way. [Grunts]

A few more seconds, another building,

several blocks to the west, was dynamited.

Gas pipes are

rupturing. Gas pockets.

Buildings exploding into flame.

Since you seem to know so much...

uh, but what about me?

Am I maybe gonna catch on fire, too?

I'm sorry, Doctor. I don't

know how it'll happen, but...

sometime tonight,

you're going to die.

[Laughing]

That does itljust like

any two-bit soothsayer.

First you scare the suckers, then-

Dr. Henderson-

-Shut up!

Joe, he's all yours. Tie him

up and put him in a padded cell.

[Explosion]

Clint! -Those explosions! The fire!

Where's Clint? -I just

got back. He's not here.

Where'd he go? -I don't know.

I've got to know where he

is. -I just said I don't know.

Both his clothes and

his medical bag are gone.

Medical bag. The lab! Yea

- The lab?

It's this way. What would

he be doing in the lab?

There you are. You should be

in bed. -What are you doing?

Never mind thatjane, do you

have any more of this wine?

L-I don't know. Uh, there were only a couple

of bottles left in the hospital this afternoon.

I thought you checked

the wine earlier. -I did.

But down at the bottom of this

bottle are traces of- - [j0shua]jane?

Yes, Unclejosh. -jane!

You all right? -Of

course I'm all right.

Dr. Henderson, I need you.

Where does this wine come from?

-Now, why the devil should I tell you-

[Jeff] Please, sir!

Please listen to him.

The wine. Where does it come from?

The wine, well, I make it myself.

From elderberries.

Do you bottle it

yourself, Doctor? -Mm-hmm.

I need more. There were only a

few traces here on the bottom...

and a few more on the cork.

-Traces? Traces of what?

Take a look at this, Doctor.

[ Dr. Henderson] The light!

Where does that light come from?

It's a tiny battery. Sodium.

An electric light bulb.

Here, I'll show you something else.

A centrifuge.

For the sedimentation of

blood and other substances.

Louis Pasteur hasn't even

imagined that yet. -Oh, yeah.

L-I met Pasteur. Koch, too.

Doctor, never mind that. Look in

this thing and tell me what you see.

Turn these until the

image is sharp to your eye.

[Clears Throat]

I Clint] Huh?

Well, I don't know. I-

I have never seen

anything like it before.

Never. [Chuckles]

Waving fronds of... moving bits.

Fungus? Spores? -Maybe

a new antibacterial...

which works on woods fever.

"Antibacterial?

-"Anti-infectant", uh...

a product of fermentation,

like penicillin, like-

[Chuckles] Doctor

- Doctor, I don't have enough there yet to analyze it.

I need at least one more bottle.

Where's the rest of it? -Antiinfection,

the product of fermentation?

Unclejosh has more

bottles at the house.

That's way over on the North Side.

The fire's between here and there.

Clinton, did that Texan take

a bottle with him when he left?

Yes, he did. -Well, he's

headed for the cattle pens.

That's closer. -The sailor refused

to drink the wine, and he's dead.

The Texan drank the

wine, and he's alivejeff?

Do you think we can find him?

Wait here.

- [Joe] Take him! -

[Jeff] Aw, come on-

Wait! Wait, wait, wait! Hold on.

Who are you? What do

you want here, and...

where are you 290m? -Doctor,

you wouldn't believe me if I told you.

We've gotta get that other

bottle, and take it back with us.

Take it back where? Wha-

Clinton? - [Explosion]

Jeff, we're running out of time.

-[ People Screaming]

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