01x23 - Ice Will Burn

[bunniefuu]

[theme music]

[music continues]

[orchestral music]

[wind howling]

[rumbling]

You son of a g*n.

I never thought I'd have
to deal with you again.

Wow. Hey, at your age
you should be thankful

you still got a job.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Listen, where'd you want
this strip anyway?

Right here. I need it sliker
than a seal in an oil spill.

- It's for a special delivery.
- How so?

My daughter Jessie is flying in.

[computer whirring]

[Jessie]
'How's it going, Dr. Quest?'

To be honest, Jessie,
quite frustrating.

'I spend more time trying to
communicate than on research.'

'I really need
the language translator.'

[Jessie]
'You'll have it,
as soon as we land.'

I really appreciate you
bringing it to me personally.

No sweat.

Besides, I've never been
to Northern Siberia.

It'll be fun.
I hope you don't mind.

I did a little extra work
on the phonetic drives.

'But I haven't
had time to test it.'

Well, the best test for the
translator is in the field.

Don't worry, Jessie.

'I have the utmost
confidence in your work.'

Thanks, Dr. Quest.

Will see you in a couple
of hours. Over and out.

Come on up front.
We begin our descent.

[electrical chirping]

[dramatic music]

Flame out, both engines.

'Strap in, Jessie.'

- But I'm your copilot.
- Not when it isn't landing.

Do it. Please.

Mayday, mayday.
Quest Jet 4765. Alpha Yankee.

Go ahead, Quest Jet.
We read you.

The fuel lines are frozen,
flame outs in both engines.

[Hadji]
'What's your position,
Quest Jet? Over.'

[static]

Quest Jet, do you copy?

[static]

Quest Jet initiating
emergency restart procedure.

Emergency restart, now.

[electrical chirping]

[pilot]
'No emergency restart.
Repeat, no emergency restart.'

What's your position?

Gustavo?

Repeat, what is your position?

I'm over flying
Rainbow Island at 71 degrees

two minutes north.


'Four hundred and three
nautical miles out of Faroe.'

[Race]
'Damn it, Quest Jet.
Can you set her down anywhere?'

No landing area in sight.
We're going down on the ice.

'Mayday, mayday, mayday.'

Ah!

A-a-ah!

[sighing]

[ice cracking]

[intense music]

[screaming]

Ah!

[Jessie screaming]

[dramatic music]

Come in, Quest Jet?
Gustavo? Gustavo!

[static]

[Race]
'Dang.'

We have lost
their signal. Nothing.

- Race.
- No!

Don't even say it.
Jessie is alive.

She's out there
and I'll find her.

Race, we'll find her.

[engine revving]

[dramatic music]

[birds chirping]

[coughing]

thud

Gustavo?

[door creaking]

Gustavo.

[engine revving]

[Hadji screaming]

Oh!

[dramatic music]

[Hadji]
'A-a-ah!
Look out.'

[tracks screeching]

I knew that I should have
ridden with Doctor Quest.

Ah.

I hate to state the obvious
but getting yourself k*lled

will not help Jessie.

Don't have time
to argue, Benton.

Help me get this thing
back on track, will you?

Adios, Gustavo.

Thank you for saving my life.

[snarling]

Get away.

[intense music]

Who are you?

You like my bracelet?

This?

No, wait, wait don't go.

Here. It's for you.

'Go on, take it.'

Okay.
Stay right there.

Please, please, please,
let the translator work.

Go on, put them on.

[speaking in foreign language]

I dreamed of it.
I told everyone

'that someone from the outer
world would save the fire'

'and our way of life.'

But they did not believe me.

Wait, wait.
What do you mean outer world?

- Where are we?
- Why, here, of course.

But where is here?

If you heard of
fire bringer sent to save us

you are not
very clever, are you?

Fire bringer?

Here is the inner world.

'Up there and all around us
is the outer world.'

We cannot go
from here to there.

But you can go
from there to here.

'Just as we did
in the beginning.'

In the beginning?
What are you talking about?

Perhaps, you have knocked
your head, Fire Bringer.

'You seem to know
so very little.'

Well, maybe, you could
refresh my memory.

Alright.

Long ago, our people came
to the inner world

'from a terrible place.'

'From the stories of my father,
there was much strife'

'and hunger where they lived.'

'A woman, my ancestor,
had been blessed'

'with the gift of sight
in her dreams...as I have.'

'But even she did not see
the coming bloodshed.'

[intense music]

[howling]

[glass shattering]

[all clamoring]

[screaming]

[whistling]

[music continues]

[screaming]

[neighing]

[all cheering]

Sacrifice.
Give everything you have.

Everything you have.
We must rebuild our lives.

Our beloved town.

We have nothing left to give.

And whatever we give,
whatever we build

they will destroy again
and again until we are dead.

Don't listen to that witch.
Without our town we are nothing.

We cannot survive.

I can take you
to a better place.

[girl #1]
'Their village
was burned to the ground.'

'But my ancestor had dreamt
of the inner world.'

'And promised to lead
the people to it.'

'She led them for days
across the wasteland'

'of the outer world.'

[dramatic music]

[groaning]

Enough!

There is no paradise
in this wasteland.

There's nothing but ice.

Enough!

[ground trembling]

[all screaming]

[barking]

[girl #1]
'The ice swallowed them up
and brought them'

'to the inner world,
where we have lived ever since.'

When I saw your
fiery sled in my dreams

I knew you would come to the
inner world and save us.

- Save you from what?
- Hurry, come with me.

You must breath life back
into the river of fire.

You mean, that's
the river of fire?

[girl #1]
'Of course.'

[dramatic music]

Now, I get it. The geothermal
energy from that volcano

is creating
its own eco system.

You've been farming
the arable land

between the lava flow
and the ice cliffs.

Yes, and every year
there is less and less fire.

'Our fields
are slowly freezing.'

We will all surely die.

But now that you are here.

You can return the river of fire
to its rightful power.

[dramatic music]

We must sacrifice
to appease the fire.

- 'Bring me the child.'
- No!

[male #1]
'Bring that child!'

[baby screaming]

No, no, take me instead.

Wait, the fire bringer has come
to save us, just as I dreamed.

She will revive the fire,
the inner world will survive.

What trickery is this?

What apparition have you created
to beguile us all?

She is a witch!

Just as her ancestors
were witches.

You, you are the fire bringer?
You can control its power!

Wow, time out.

I don't think
I'm who you think I am.

[indistinct chattering]

[Jessie]
'I don't really know
what you're talking about.'

'I...my plane crashed.'

I need to know if you have
some sort of communication

with the outside world.

Are you or are you not
the fire bringer?

Not unless you're
the Tzar of Russia.

See, I have the power
to make demons speak the truth.

She herself tells me
that she is not the one.

Then there must be a sacrifice.

The fire demands the death
of the witch girl.

Why are you doing this?
Tell them who you are.

But I'm not who you think I am.

You came from the sky,
I saw it.

'Why won't you tell
them the truth?'

My forefathers exiled
the witch women generations ago.

Now, I save you from this last
descendent of that evil family.

'Death to the witch girl!'

A-a-ah.

[intense music]

Death to the witch girl.

[g*nsh*t]

[grunting]

[dramatic music]

I am the fire bringer.

I told you,
she has come to save us.

You've got to get
some sleep, Race.

I feel so helpless, Jonny.
And what if Jessie does too?

Helpless isn't exactly
a word I would use

to describe the Bannon family.

[seagulls squawking]

- Jessie.
- Hm-mm.

Kazrina, we've got to split
before this place freezes over.

- Split?
- Leave. Get out.

No. You must save us.

We cannot leave.
There is no way out.

[Jessie]
'But there has to be a way.'

No one has
ever left here?

It is said, that the woman,
my ancestor was exiled to a cave

of ice away from her family.
She grew tired of this

'and using sharp rocks
tied to her feet and hands'

'climbed up to the heavens.'

She left this, so we might
know her in paradise.

There's no way
we can scale those walls.

[Kazrina]
'It is said the cliffs
were straight'

'not as you see them now.'

But those birds
are riding thermals.

The warm air coming off
the lava it rises.

The birds are riding
thermals from the lava.

Gather everyone together.

I need to talk to them.

[engine revving]

- 'Look out!'
- A-ah!

You drive as badly
as Race does, Jonny.

Hey, cut me some slack,
Hadji. What's the big deal?

[bear growling]

thud

[g*nsh*t]

Oh, man, that was too close.
Thanks, pop.

Don't thank us, son.

You must listen to me.

If you stay here,
you will all die.

Then bring us fire.

It's not that simple,
I can't do it.

I am your only salvation.

You must rescue us
from the ice.

[male #2]
'Tell us what we
should do, Yegor?'

Come on, Kazrina.
I've got my team.

Look at all this junk.

Propane, oxygen...tents.

Just, maybe..

- What is your plan?
- Give me a hand and you'll see.

I have made my decision.

We will survive.

Only if we
purge them from our world.

So go find these witches.
Carry them to me.

We will sacrifice both
to the river of fire.

[crowd screaming]

[intense music]

[crowd screaming]

[mumbling]

You're gold, girlfriend.

Wait, listen.

[crowd screaming]

Bring them to me, and we will
save our ray of life.

We gotta buy
ourselves some time.

Come on.

If you believe
in anything, Kazrina.

Anything at all.

Pray that the fuel lines
aren't still frozen.

[yelling]

Master systems on.

Wing tanker off,
auxiliary tanks on.

Here goes.

[blades whirring]

[crowd screaming]

No.

[mumbling]

You see, they must be stopped.

bam

Stop them.
After me.

Stop.
They must not escape.

A-ah!

[Kzarina]
'We did it.'

You can't escape.

[expl*si*n]

[Race]
'Hold on,
I got something.'

'Well, what do you know?'

[male #3]
'What is that?'

[rumbling]

[orchestral music]

[male #4]
'Grab the rope.'

Many generations ago,
the woman my ancestor

came out of the snow
to be a great hero.

She spoke of her two families,
the one she had left behind

and the one that she made
with my people.

She prophesied that one day
the two should be rejoined.

That day has come.

Jeez, Jess, I guess
all that band and hot air

finally came in handy.

Man, am I glad
you're alright.

[female #1]
'Welcome to Quest World.
Warning! Warning!'

'Virus detected.
Warning.'

'Warning.'

'Acknowledged,
running anti-virus program.'

'Searching...searching.'

'Virus imported
by Jeremiah Surd.'

'Terminating virus.'

[crackling]

'Surd virus destroyed.'

'Thank you for accessing
Quest World utility.'

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