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Although Wegner was ridiculed by the scientific community, he was eventually

found to be correct in his theory of an original supercontinent called Pangaea.

Come, Papa.

Hey, Leonard.

Hey, man.

Dude, I ain't gonna be happy.

Why?

It's Kitson's.

I see.

Hello. Trevor.

There's my favorite colleague.

How are y'all? I'm good.

How's that con drip class of yours going?

Fine. Does it get echoey in there with so few students?

So, what do you got in the books today? I'm kind of busy around here. No, no, I

can, uh...

See how busy you are.

So I'll try to be as quick as possible here.

The university is pulling the plug on your brother's lab.

Pulling the plug?

Yeah, it's going to finally give us all the storage space we need. Let's get

something straight here. This facility is dedicated to the research of Maxwell

Anderson's seminal theories predicting the volcanic fissures in the mantle of

the... Which have never been proven. I mean, how many of your late brother's

sensors are even still active? One, two... Three!

You used to be 29.

This is the wrong time to shut us down. I have got seismic activity in Bolivia.

I got a 13 millimeter shift in Mongolia.

Alan, you can't shut us down. Keep the lab open. It's all I've got left of Max.

It's been 10 years since Max, Trevor.

I am sorry about all this. I really am.

Oh boy.

I'm getting a little worried that we might have gotten our signals crossed or

something. Please call me.

I'm not home. Leave me a message.

Trevor, we're pulling up in front of your building.

Trevor,

are you in there?

Hi.

Oh, you're home. It's so good to see you. You too.

How are you?

I just got your messages.

Uh-huh. You forgot, didn't you?

I didn't forget?

How could I forget?

You didn't forget?

I... I forgot.

That doesn't mean that I haven't been looking forward to spending a little

time with my nephew. I mean, I haven't seen him since he was nine?

Seven. Wow.

So, um, how long is he going to be staying again?

Ten days.

Is that what we said?

Hey, Sean.

How are you?

Looking good.

Is that one of those game boys?

It's a PSP.

Cool. Sean, get up. Say hi to your uncle.

Hi to your uncle.

Last time I saw you, you were about this high.

Not a good one.

Okay, so you've got all my numbers. You've got your ticket and your passport

in your bag.

I will be there to pick you up at the airport in Ottawa. By then, I'll have

found us a house, and we can start on this big new adventure.

Pretty exciting stuff, huh? Yeah, it's great. We get to be Canadians.

Thrilling, Nate.

Just let yourself in.

It'll be good for him being with you.

Who knows? Maybe it'll be good for you, too.

It is for you. What is this? Is this Sean's? No.

It's Max's.

Max's? Yeah.

So, hey, dude.

This is gonna be fun, you know? Just a couple dudes hanging out. Five days.

Maybe a week, you know?

Doing dude stuff, dudes do.

You like baseball?

Hey, you know what we should do? We should go get in the batting cage.

Yeah, okay, listen. I don't like this any more than you do, so as long as you

keep the fridge stocked with Mountain Dew and TiVo Family Guy, we'll get along

fine.

Here. Oh, wow.

That's an awesome coin collection. Thanks.

Kind of a pet project of mine. Yeah, it's really nifty.

Thanks.

You hungry? We could order in, you know, maybe some pizza, Chinese, Thai food,

subs, or something like that.

Wow. What's that?

It's a box of possessions of a really great guy. Your dad.

His old ball glove.

Mom doesn't talk about him very much.

Well, you can take my word for it. He was one of those few people who are just

exceptional at everything they do.

Ooh, see this?

This was your old man's PSP.

A yo-yo? Don't beat this and the yo-yo. This is physics at work right here. You

got your centrifugal force, your gravitational pull, got your potential

energy, and in ancient times, did you know... that this was actually used as a

hunting implement.

What?

Hey, let me try. Yeah, you should probably take it.

I have no idea what this is.

Can I look?

Oh, wow.

This is his favorite book.

Jules Burns, A Journey to the Center of the Earth.

You know, I think that was on my summer reading list once.

I never got to it.

That's too bad.

It's a good read.

To him, it wasn't just science fiction.

It was... It was inspiration.

He used to read this to me when I was a really little kid.

Hello. What are these notes?

Magnet temperatures reach... No, 1150 M.

Mongolia?

Bolivia?

Hawaii?

Look out!

Hey, Sean.

Let's go check out my lab.

So, it couldn't wait for tomorrow?

Your dad used to say that your ton of physics is the science of now, not

tomorrow. It's about the seismic event into current and instant.

Here, look at this.

You got Hawaii, Bolivia, Mongolia.

And the conditions today are almost exactly what they were in July 97.

What's the big deal about July 97?

Well, Sean, that was the year that your dad went missing.

Now, look. You see this column of numbers here?

If the 753 right here was a 752, than they would be.

Exactly the same.

What do these little blips mean?

Don't touch anything. Those little blips are my life's work.

These four little blips are your entire life's work?

Three. Three little blips.

Um... One, two, three.

Four. This makes sense.

Max saw the readings ten years ago and he took off to investigate.

Now, if the readings are the same today as they were then, this might be my only

chance to find out what happened.

I'm going to need your passport.

For what?

I'm sorry, but I have to get you canned a little early and we planned.

What are you talking about?

I'm talking about this.

A journey to the center of the Earth.

It's all set in Iceland, which is where he must have gone.

These were on my dad's notes?

Look.

Max and I... Your dad and I were talking about the possibility of volcanic tubes

existing that went down past the mantle towards the center of the Earth. And

that's what I think he went looking for.

I'm sorry, but I gotta put you on a flight to Ottawa in the morning, and I'm

calling isolated air. No, no, look.

Hey. I just got here, okay? You're not gonna go and ditch me.

Besides, I was the person who found your life's work fourth little blip thingy in

the first place. Oh, it's my brother we're talking about here. Well, it's my

dad. Now I don't have to be in Ottawa for ten days.

I'm going with you.

Do you know how much it costs to book a last-minute flight to Reykjavik?

Something tells me you got it covered.

Descend, bold traveler, into the crater of the yokel of snifles, which the

shadow of Scarders touches before the calends of July, and you will attain the

center of the earth.

What are you doing?

I am deciphering these notations that your father made in this book. I think

there's a code behind the pairing of letters.

I think it might have something to do with the periodic table. For instance,

I've got S-A-I-S-G-G.

I believe that, um, P-B is on the periodic table, and that's plumbum, and

plumbum means let. S-I-G-U-R-B-U-R-N-A-S-G-E-R-S-O-N.

What?

It's right here. Read it down.

S-I-G-U-R-B-U-R-N-A-S-G-E-R-S-O-N.

Oh. Uh, S-I-G-U-R-B-U-R-N-A-S-G-E-R-S-O-N.

That's, um... That's a clue.

Maybe that's a place. It could be a thing.

What are you doing?

I'm Googling at 30,000 feet.

You're supposed to be doing that?

Welcome to the 21st century.

Okay. There.

It's a person.

Sigurd Bruin Ask Yersin, executive director of the Ask Yersin Institute for

Progressive Volcanology. Max would have known this guy.

I knew it was a good thing to bring you, kid.

His institute has got to be our first stop.

Are we there yet?

If you mean annoying, yeah, we're there.

You know, you're going kind of slow. You're going kind of safe.

I just saw a goat in the passing lane.

When's the whole adventure thing going to begin?

Let me give you something fun to do.

Navigate.

Where are we?

Have we passed... Havansvej?

Havansvej? Yeah.

I don't know.

Ugh.

Have we passed Ingolstadtir? No, no.

Reynivir? I don't know.

Hasbik? No.

Gondor Hall?

No.

Stiflar Starter? Stiflar Starter? How about Koldukavarskino Kill?

What?

We're definitely lost.

Not lost. Just look for an institution.

What's an institution, though? I don't know. It looks big and institutional.

It's got to be around here somewhere.

Hey, look, there's a little shack up there. Maybe we can stop there and ask

for directions.

We're not lost.

Oh, no. Definitely not.

What's this?

Ski Shack?

Ask Kirsten.

Institute for Progressive Volcanology. I told you I'd find it.

Alrighty.

Not too shabby.

Right.

I'm sorry, I don't speak Icelandic.

Hi, can I help you?

Hello.

I'm Hannah. Oh, how do you do? Hi, I'm Professor Anderson. I'm visiting from

America.

This is... I'm Sean. Sean, my nephew.

Hi, Sean.

I was wondering if I could possibly speak with... Forgive me.

Is Sigurdbjorn Oskarsson?

Well,

Sigurdbjorn Oskarsson is dead.

Dead? Yeah, he died three winters ago.

Oh.

So do you run the Institute?

Well, nobody does. There is no Institute.

There's a sign down the road that says that... Progressive Volcanology was a

failed idea, like, you know, the Berlin Wall and 8-track tapes.

I see.

Well, did you work with him?

No, no, no, he was my father.

Yeah, I know it. What about it?

Well, this book belonged to my late brother, Max.

Max Anderson.

We believe that he may have been in contact with your father.

Your brother was a Vernian.

What's a Vernian?

Someone that believes that the writings of Jules Verne were actual fact.

I mean, the guy was a science fiction writer.

And yet this society of believers regarded Verne like a visionary. My

father was the biggest Vernian of them all.

My brother was no Vernian.

This was my father's copy.

Take a look.

See, the markings are exactly the same.

Your brother was a Vernian.

Well, my dad was kind of...

out there. You didn't know him, Sean.

I'm starting to think you didn't either.

He was no member of some secret society.

What are you guys doing here? I'm a scientist.

I'm a professor.

I'm here because there are seismic sensors going off 30 clicks north of

here that we think that we should check into, and that's the reason that we're

here, plain and simple.

Okay.

You know there are no roads to the north.

Well... I'm a mountain guide. I can take you there.

Professor?

Great. It's great. I love hiking. I would appreciate that. That'd be great.

Call me Trevor.

You can call me Sean.

So it'll be 5,000 kroner to go up there.

Five grand a day? No problem.

An hour.

Do you accept rolls of quarters?

Come on, boys.

I want to be home by sundown.

Do you think you can slow down a little bit, please?

Dibs. What?

I got dibs on the mountain guide.

Get 13.

Sorry, I called it. 13-year-olds don't get dibs. Get over it.

Getting closer.

Just watch your step there.

Snifles is deceptively treacherous. What's Snifles?

Why don't you tell them, Professor?

Snifles is the name of the mountain where this character, Lighted Brock,

apparently found a portal to the center of the Earth.

Let's just find that center of yours, Professor.

There it is!

Yes!

What do you need to do with it?

I got to unlock it. It's got a black box that has recorded all of the

seismic activity that has transpired in the last 10 years.

It told me a lot about Max and what he was doing.

He went missing.

Trevor, I'm really sorry. We're going to have to go now.

Must be corroded.

Trevor, we need to go.

Okay.

We need to take cover. Come on. Right now.

I'll be right there.

Trevor, just leave it for now.

Look at it. It's no use.

Forget it!

It's right.

Must be about 60 or 70 times the boulders on top of us. Takes about a

month to dig out of here.

We have to find another way.

What if there is no other way? There's always another way, Sean.

What else have you got in there?

Signal flares, first aid, some rope, blankets, and a... A couple of protein

bars. But they're on a ration now. We don't know how long we'll be trapped

for. Trapped?

Is that where we are?

She... No, she didn't mean that.

Sean, hey, what are you doing?

I'm not getting any service.

Sean, you're not going to get any signal down here, okay?

What is this all about?

Okay, don't worry about it.

Find another way out, all right?

Okay.

One of these might snake back to the surface.

How do we know which one to take?

My gut says we go right.

Looks promising.

Put one foot in front of the other.

We'll be out of here in no time.

Looking good.

Don't worry.

Direction is my sixth sense.

Pay attention, shall I?

It's just like doing fieldwork.

I used to love doing fieldwork.

Watch out!

You're not studying rocks in a lab, Professor.

This is life or death here.

Yeah, thanks.

You owe me one.

What does this say?

That means,

uh, keep out.

Maybe that's decent advice.

This is great news, because this might lead us down to an old mine shaft, and

that could be our way out of here. How deep do you think it is?

Can you give me one of those flares?

A few.

Sean, look at your watch.

I'm going to light this, drop it over the edge, and will you tell me how many

seconds pass before it stops?

Okay.

Here we go.

Three, two...

Yep. Magnesium.

Must run in veins all through these walls.

Magnesium is kind of flammable, isn't it, Professor?

Yeah.

Use some flares, use some gunpowder and matchsticks.

Right. Well, maybe gunpowder 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...

Two. Almost three.

32 square miles.

200 feet.

That's no problem.

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

You got enough rope?

We always have enough rope.

No problem for what?

Repelling down in there.

We're gonna rappel down into that deep, dark hole.

What? You have a problem with that?

What's the matter?

There's no way we should be rappelling down into that hole. What are you

talking about?

What, you're man enough to call dibs on the mountain kite, but you're not man

enough to climb down a little piece of rope? Guys, guys, who won't get dibs on

the mountain kite?

We're going down there.

Steady, steady.

Remember, we're all connected.

Okay.

Looking good.

It's all good down here.

Way down here.

You guys are coming down, right?

All right, Sean. I'm going to start lowering you down really, really slowly.

So just lean back and keep your feet up high.

Okay, Sean.

We'll tell it together so nothing bad is going to happen.

Yes, sir.

Good.

Don't just keep walking keep walking Good

Hey, you're looking pretty good there Sean sure you haven't done this before

oh Hey my life here

Sean's make conversation with me So how'd you

do you come here often?

So 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 in pretty 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 it's...

Get to the walls, Trevor!

I can't! I can't! The walls widen out down here!

Trevor, your rope is caught on mine. You're gonna take us all down. I'm gonna

have to cut you loose.

What?!

Hannah? Guys, what's this?

That looks like an abandoned mine tunnel to me.

That's what Blaug is mine.

It was shut down 60 years ago after the big disaster.

Disaster?

How big?

81 dead.

That's pretty big.

Huh.

Yeah, boy, yeah.

Hey, Trevor.

Was there a mine like this in the book?

Uh, no. Don't think so.

Hannah? Yeah?

Can I ask you something?

Do you ever 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, you know,

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.

Anna?

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 in there, you know.

Serious generator.

Anna, that thing could blow up. Can you please stop throwing switches?

Well, 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?

Uh, one.

That's a start I call front.

What? No, no, no. Come on, Sean. Don't get in there. We don't even know if

these things work. They're not safe.

Tracks might not be safe.

Track ahead looks good.

Get in.

They should.

It doesn't look safe. I wouldn't do that.

I think I see something.

Please tell me it's daylight otherwise I don't want to know.

No, it's not daylight.

Well, we're in deep chest.

Save someone's life. Come on. Can I help?

OK.

Ready?

Are

you

all right? Yeah.

Luckily I had a soft landing.

That's two you owe me now.

Let's keep it 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.

Feltabar.

Uh, guys, there's more.

Diamonds.

Wait.

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, we'll get into Maserati.

Yeah, money is not the only thing that matters, Sean. People matter too, you

know?

Something like that.

Not if you have 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 very 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, there it stops.

Okay, so we need to walk back exactly the way we came from.

Very, very calmly, okay?

Try to hug me.

Feel the toe.

Doing good. Doing great.

Very slowly.

Good. Come on.

That's it.

That's great.

Really careful. Keep going.

It's actually thicker than I thought.

Sean! John!

John!

The light! We didn't get to kill her!

Take the rocks!

Where's Hannah?

So where does that put us now?

Back to one.

Guys, where are we?

Are those stars?

Huh?

That's just the ceiling of the cave.

Is it just me, or is the...

Cave ceiling moving.

It does look like it, doesn't it?

They're... birds.

Electric birds?

They look like cyanus rosopteryx. Only they're bioluminescent.

Like... like fireflies or glowworms. It's incredible.

Cool.

Glow...

Birds. Have you seen these creatures before?

Yeah, in the museum. They were fossilized. These things have been

extinct for over 150 million years.

Whoa. Where are they going? Hey, the tunnel.

Guys, come on.

Stone, wait. Wait for me.

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the center of the earth.

Max was right.

He was right.

Max was right.

Your dad was right.

He was right.

Hannah, your dad was right too.

They both believed in something that everyone told them was impossible.

He was right!

What's that light up there?

I can't tell. It must be some sort of... luminescent gas combination.

I... I don't know.

It's like a... a terrarium. A terrarium thousands of miles beneath the crust of

the Earth.

A world within the world.

The waterfalls, which for a long time could be heard flowing from afar, now

cascaded along the towering canyon walls, streaming along the rock with no

end. I mean, it's the same thing Leidenbrock wrote.

Are we saying that Leidenbrock's character was real? That he existed?

Someone came down here. Someone saw all this.

Someone got out and someone told Vern.

Somebody get out?

It's the best thing I've heard all day.

I mean, doesn't this just completely blow your mind?

My mind is blown, yes.

Enormous fossilized mushrooms.

Sort of like humongous fungus.

Does this mean that everything in the book is real? Probably.

All the really dangerous parts?

I was just thinking about that, too.

Right.

Sean? Sean?

I'm going in.

Yeah, wait up.

Slow down.

I'll be right there.

Someone actually lived here?

That somebody was Leidenbrock

Look at all his gear all this state

-of-the-art a century ago

Hey, Trevor.

I think I found Lyne Brock's notebook.

Look.

Looks like on the other side of those trees there's some sort of underground

ocean.

Yeah.

I don't think that's Lyne Brock's handwriting.

It's my dad's.

Can I talk to you for a minute?

Out here.

Can you wait here for a minute?

I think I found Max.

I never really got a chance to know him.

I mean, I wish I did.

You wrote something, and I want you to hear it.

August 14, 1997.

Today was Sean's third birthday.

Six weeks ago, I promised myself I would be home in time to give him his first

baseball glove.

Now, I'm worried that I'll never get the chance.

I set out to make an incredible discovery to share with Trevor and the

world.

But now, I would trade it all.

Just to be able to watch you grow up, to be that brave and caring man,

I am certain you will become.

Happy birthday, Sean.

I love you.

Daddy.

Goodbye, Max.

According to Max's journal, we're here in this giant air pocket that's

surrounded by lava during periods of intense seismic activity.

Like the one we're in now. That's right.

The magma that surrounds us turns this place into pretty much just a big oven.

Is that what happened to my dad?

Look, I know I'm just a kid, but I can handle this, really.

Sir.

Max was planning an escape.

His notes say that temperatures down here can easily hit 200 degrees.

A human being can't survive beyond 135.

It's already 95 degrees.

It was 82 when we got here. Temperature's rising quickly.

So what do we do?

I say that we follow Max's plan.

Here's what he wrote.

My analysis of the original Verne text leads me to believe that across the

ocean, due north of my current position, is a geyser-like river which could be

used to return to the surface.

So what we have to do is get across this ocean and find the geyser and just hitch

a ride topside.

Topside sounds good.

It's a little trickier than that.

It could get so hot down here that all the water will evaporate. How much time

do we have?

48 hours, 72 tops.

Probably less.

Okay, so the question is, what is the fastest way to get across the ocean?

There's no way that we get around it, because if we hike... Well, we don't

have time.

There's no time to do that.

It's all in the book.

Are you all right?

What's the temperature doing?

It's 100 degrees.

Each a trilobite, Sean.

We gotta keep our strength up.

Atta boy.

Hey.

Don't... Don't we need to set our mast?

No, we don't need it.

The wind that we want's way up there.

Thermal. It's a lot faster than what we got down here.

Good job. That shit's just about to do it. Hey, I got something for you.

What is this?

It's a compass.

It was your dad's.

I remember the Christmas that your mom gave it to him.

She wanted to make sure that he could always find a way back home.

And maybe it'll help you find a way back to her.

It means a lot to me.

Me too.

Oh, there's one thing you should know. Down here, the polarity is reversed.

So I mean, north is south, south is north, and we need to bear due north

across the sea.

You mean so.

Exactly.

All right, it's done to pick up now.

Okay, hold it. Hold it really steady.

Good, good, good.

Good. Ready?

Yeah. Three, two, one, go!

Yeah! All right!

Yeah!

Go,

go,

go, go, go!

Well, can you wait for me?

He's

back.

Hey, little guy.

See those clouds?

Yeah.

The current's pulling us in the direction we want to go. Maybe we should

lower the kite.

Can't do that. It's 109 degrees.

It's getting hotter.

We need all the speed we can get.

Leave it up.

It's the same thing we saw back at the beach.

I don't know. It looks kind of big, but blank dead. Sean, we're not a sea world.

Let's see what you've got!

Let it out gently.

Let it out slowly.

It's working.

We're pulling clear of them.

You're the man of the trap.

That's what I've been telling the scientific community.

No.

Trevor? Trevor?

Hello?

Hello?

Hey, little guy.

Where are we?

Hey, do you know where I can get some water?

Talking to a bird.

I must be losing it.

The wind blew him this way.

We still heading north?

Yeah, still north.

He's a smart kid. He knows the plan.

I'm sure he'll be waiting by the river.

Let's find that river.

Hey, come on, wait up.

Where'd you go?

Good job.

Now which way?

South. That's good.

The river's north.

Let me take that.

No, no, I'm fine. Come on.

Trevor, I'm fine.

Let's just stop for a second.

Hey.

We're gonna find him.

Drink that.

Is that the last of the water?

Yeah. Joe, we're gonna need that. Why don't you keep it? Hannah, drink it.

A large carnivorous plant.

That's one point for me, right?

Who's keeping track, right?

I get it.

It's a magnetic field.

No way... magnetic rocks?

No, no, no, no, no!

You try that without wings.

That's the river.

Geyser must be inside that cave.

Sean!

Where is he?

Trevor?

Man, I really wish I'd read that book.

I don't see him anywhere.

Trevor?

Trevor? Hang on, hang on a minute. What are you doing?

I'm going to get my nephew.

Hannah, this is all my fault.

Save yourself.

Just go home.

I'll wait for you at the river.

For as long as I can.

What did you do that for?

I remembered something.

I hate field work.

Jeff, come on.

That was like... And you were like... Yeah, I know.

Really lucky.

Okay. That way. No, go ahead.

That. Worse.

Let's go.

Whoa.

The river. I think this...

How are we going to get to the geyser? The water's boiling.

I don't know. We need somebody that floats anything. I could use a log or...

I could really use a boat.

You got dips again?

Come on, jump in.

She's the best ball guy on the planet. You got that right.

Didn't really think you were gonna scare me away, did you?

I have to work harder than that.

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to charge you extra for this bit.

Can I open a tab?

Whoa.

What was that?

It's not good.

That's the riverbed.

What's that light down there?

That's lava.

Magma.

And it's rising.

There's supposed to be water in this tunnel. You know, steam and water

shooting up the tunnel. We're too late for the guys, and we missed it.

Well, what do we do, Trevor?

Do you have any suggestions, Professor?

I mean, without any water, there's no steam. Without any steam, we're not

going anywhere. This place looks like there hasn't been any water here in two

or three hours now. But the walls are still wet.

That's impossible. It's 130 degrees.

Trevor? What?

It is wet.

Cold.

There's water behind here.

There's got to be water behind some pocket or an underground river or

something like that.

Trevor, it's getting closer.

Hey.

That's magnesium.

Guys,

we're slipping.

Flares. How many flares you got left?

Three.

What do you want to do with it?

I'm going to light the magnesium.

This time on purpose.

Gotta get further down.

Give me another one.

Hold my legs.

Come on!

Gonna have to tie me off. I gotta get down lower.

Trevor, it's getting faster.

It's the last one.

Ugh!

Yes, Mavisuvius.

Hey, Sean, if your mom asks you what you did this weekend, you tell her Uncle

Trevor took you to Italy.

Italy? Si.

a few geological samples.

A few geological samples?

Okay, maybe a few pounds of samples, but what do you expect? I'm a scientist's

son.

Look, look, you take this.

You take it. We are sorry.

Damn it.

You want slide again?

Slide is okay. It's fine.

Anything or what you want.

Oh, gracias.

What was that for?

Now we're even.

Leonard!

Stop doing what you're doing.

What am I doing?

Oh, look, you're looking for work. You don't need to, because you have a job

with the Alex Gerson Anderson Institute for Tectonophysical Exploration.

B. Alex Gerson and Anderson. What? Still working on the name. We haven't figured

it out yet. But the point is, rising tide lifts all boats.

Man, that's awesome.

I think, am I a boat?

You're a boat. We're back in business.

All right, dude.

Well, well, what's all the excitement about?

Hey, Alan, how are you?

Good. What you doing?

Oh, me?

I'm, uh, moving into my new lab.

More importantly, where have you been? I heard you missed your Monday lecture

and, uh, both of your students complained.

Oh!

I took a quick vacation.

It was the best thing I could have done. That is, uh, exciting. You'll have to

promise to tell me about it one of these days, okay? I'm not sure if I'll have

time, but you can read about it in Scientific American.

Scientific American?

Look, I just want to say, no hard feelings, okay? About the whole

laboratory moving and expansion thing. So, you know, I'm actually looking for

my own building anyway.

How exactly are you going to do that, Trevor?

Well, let's just say I fell into a small fortune.

So tomorrow you're going to be a Canadian.

Yep.

Looks that way.

I'd say that was a lot of male bonding packed into very little time. What do

you say we take a couple weeks next time?

A couple weeks?

What are you doing over Christmas break?

Nothing. I'm free. I found this in your dad's stuff.

Give it a read.

Lost City of Atlantis?

Mm-hmm.

We'll talk.

Sean, what is that?

I'm just feeding my pet. What pet?

Sean.

Aw. Think my mom would let me keep him? I don't know.

Why not even stay here?

Hey,

come on.

Where are you going?

Come on.

I got some food for you. Come on. Come back down here.