트레버!

 

형

 

베게너는 과학계의
비웃음을 샀지만

 

결과적으론 그가 옳았다

 

육지는 본래
'판게아'란 초대륙이었지

 

그래

 

맥셀 앤더슨
판구조론 연구소

 

아빠한테 가야지?

 

안녕, 레너드

 

안녕

 

- 근데 안녕 못하실 걸요
- 왜?

 

- 키친스가 왔어요
- 그렇군

 

- 어이
- 반가워, 친구

 

- 여전하지?
- 그럼

 

- 대륙이동설 강의는 어때?
- 좋아

 

수강생 없어서
휑하진 않고?

 

용건이 뭐야?
좀 바쁜데

 

꽤나 바빠 보이는군

 

그럼 간단히 말할게

 

대학측이 자네 형
연구실을 폐쇄한대

 

폐쇄라니?

 

그래, 대신 나를
지원해주겠대

 

무슨 소리야
여긴 맥셀 앤더슨의

 

지각 이론 연구에
헌정된 연구소야

 

그건 가설일 뿐이야

 

감지기는 작동해?
한두 개 남았나?

 

- 세 개야
- 29개였는데

 

포기하긴 일러

 

볼리비아와 몽골에서도
지각 변동이 포착됐어

 

안 돼, 앨런
연구는 계속돼야 해

 

- 형의 유산이라고
- 10년도 넘었어

 

정말 유감이군

 

집에 없나?
형수거든요?

 

전화 좀 받아요

 

지금 그리
가는 중인데

 

션, 트레버 삼촌한테
인사해야지?

 

싫어요

 

- 인사하라니깐!
- 안 돼!

 

- 싫다니까요
- 맙소사

 

다시 형수인데요

 

들어오면 연락줘요

 

우린 여섯시쯤
도착할 듯?

 

전화 기다릴게요

 

- 이런
- 션이 보고 싶대요

 

- 그렇지, 션?
- 전혀

 

전화 엇갈리는 거
아닌가 모르겠네

 

연락줘요

 

부재중입니다
메시지 남겨주세요

 

삼촌, 도착했어요

 

삼촌, 계세요?

 

안녕

 

- 안녕
- 안녕하세요, 형수

 

- 계셨네요
- 반가워요

 

그래요

 

- 방금 메시지 들었어요
- 아

 

- 까먹었군요?
- 설마요

 

까먹을 리가?

 

- 정말요?
- 그게..

 

깜박했네요
그렇다고

 

조카 봐주기
싫은 건 아녜요

 

아홉살 뒤로 못 봤던가?

 

- 일곱살요
- 아하

 

얼마나 머문댔죠?

 

- 열흘이요
- 그랬나요?

 

션, 안녕?

 

훤해졌구나

 

- 겜보이냐?
- PSP요

 

- 멋지네
- 션, 삼촌한테 인사해

 

안녕, 삼촌

 

마지막 봤을 땐
요만했는데

 

재밌네요

 

됐지?
연락처도 적어놨고

 

여권과 항공권은
가방에 들었어

 

오타와에서 보자

 

집 장만해서
새출발하자꾸나

 

- 신나지?
- 스릴 넘치네요

 

캐나다 사람이 되다니

 

들어가라

 

- 삼촌과 있으면 션도 좋겠죠
- 네

 

어쩌면 삼촌께도 득이고

 

받아요

 

뭐죠?
션 물건?

 

아뇨, 맥스요

 

- 형 물건?
- 네

 

그럼 잘 지내보자

 

남자끼리 동거네

 

닷새나 일주일쯤

 

사내답게 보내자꾸나

 

야구 좋아해?
뭐할까?

 

배팅 연습도 좋고

 

글쎄요, 전 별로라

 

그냥 삼촌 평소처럼

 

대충 사세요
그럼 이만

 

- 그래
- 와

 

- 동전 굉장하네요
- 음

 

내 애장품이지

 

- 재밌네요
- 고맙다

 

배고프냐?
아무거나 시켜

 

피자, 중국집
태국요리?

 

아님 다른 거라도?

 

- 와
- 뭔데요?

 

위대한 인물의 유품이지

 

네 아빠

 

낡은 글러브

 

엄만 아빠
얘길 꺼렸어요

 

그럼 내가 해주마

 

아빠는 정말..

 

보기 드문
비범한 분이셨다

 

뭔지 아니?
아빠의 PSP

 

- 겨우 요요가?
- 무시하지 마라

 

일종의 물리학이야
원심력과 중력

 

위치에너지를 이용하지

 

고대엔 요요가

 

사냥 도구였거든?

 

봐라

 

- 저도 해볼게요
- 이젠 네거야

 

이건 뭔지 모르겠다

 

션

 

아빠가 좋아하던 책이야

 

쥘 베른의
'지구 속 여행'

 

그거 여름방학
독서 과제였는데

 

- 안 읽었지만
- 저런, 얼마나 재밌다고

 

아빠에겐 단순 소설이 아닌
영감을 줬어

 

내게도 자주 읽어줬다

 

이 낙서는 뭐지?

 

'몽골 마그마 온도가
1150도?'

 

'볼리비아'

 

'하와이'

 

조심!

 

션, 연구실로 가자

 

아빠는 늘 말했어

 

'구조지질학은 미래 아닌
닥친 현실이다'

 

지진은 언제든
생겨나니깐

 

이거 봐라

 

하와이, 볼리비아, 몽골

 

지금 데이터가
97년 7월과 흡사해

 

97년 7월에
무슨 일이라도?

 

그때 아빠가 실종됐어

 

여기 숫자 보이지?

 

지금은 753인데 752였어

 

완전 똑같네

 

깜박이는 건 뭐죠?

 

만지지 마라
평생 걸린 연구야

 

평생 걸려서
점 4개?

 

3개야

 

하나, 둘, 셋, 넷

 

아이슬란드?

 

이제 알겠다

 

이런 징후를 본
아빤 탐사를 떠났지

 

지금 상황이
당시와 똑같으니

 

미스터리를 밝힐
절호의 기회야

 

- 여권 좀 다오
- 왜요?

 

미안한데 계획보다
빨리 가줘야겠다

 

무슨 말씀이세요?

 

'지구 속 여행' 때문이야

 

아이슬란드가 열쇠야
분명 거기서 실종됐어

 

이걸 아빠가?

 

들어봐

 

아빠와 난..

 

맨틀을 지나
지구 중심으로 통하는

 

일종의 '화산 튜브'가
존재한다고 믿었다

 

아빤 그걸
찾으러 떠났어

 

넌 내일
오타와로 떠나렴

 

- 삼촌은 아이슬란드로
- 아뇨

 

- 션
- 이제 막 왔잖아요?

 

근데 돌아가라뇨?

 

네 번째 점도
찾아드렸는데

 

- 형 덕분이지
- 제겐 아빠예요

 

열흘 내론 안 가요
삼촌 따라갈래요

 

아이슬란드행 티켓이
얼만줄 아니?

 

방법이 있겠죠

 

'용감한 여행자여
7월 직전 스카태리스의'

 

'그림자가 닿은
스네플스 분화구로 들어가라'

 

'그럼 지구 중심에 이르리라'

 

미안

 

뭐하세요?

 

아빠 기록을
해독하는 거야

 

문자 두 단위마다
암호가 담겼어

 

원소 주기율표와
관련된 듯싶다

 

이렇게 말야
S-A, l-S, G-G

 

P-B는 주기율표상에서
'플럼범'이지

 

- 플럼범은 납이야
- 'Sigurbjon Asgeirsson'은 뭐죠?

 

뭐?

 

이거요, 아래로 읽으면
'Sigurbjon Asgeirsson'

 

아..

 

Sigurbjon Asgeirsson..

 

아마 힌트겠지
지명일 거야

 

물건이거나

 

- 뭐하니?
- 웹 검색이요

 

- 여기서 가능해?
- 21세기잖아요

 

- 나왔어요
- 사람 이름이네

 

'시거번 애스겔손
애스겔손 연구소장'

 

'진보 화산학회'

 

아빠랑 친분이 있나봐

 

널 데려오길 잘했지
일단 그리 가보자

 

답답해도 참아봐

 

- 너무 느려요
- 안전을 위해서야

 

방금 염소도 지나갔어요

 

화끈한 모험은
언제 시작하죠?

 

재미거릴 주마

 

길 안내해

 

여기가 어디지?

 

'하반슈레흐'를 지났어요

 

- 하반슈레흐?
- 네

 

모르겠다

 

'엥가슈타디어'는 지났어요?

 

- 글쎄다
- '레이니비어'는?

 

- 몰라
- '허사빅'은요?

 

- 모르겠어
- '그룬더홀'은?

 

- 몰라
- '스티플라슈타더'?

 

스티플라슈타더?

 

- '콜두카다스키노쿠에'?
- 뭐?

 

- 길을 잃었어요
- 아냐

 

연구소만 찾으면 돼

 

- 어떻게 생겼죠?
- 연구소처럼 생겼겠지

 

이 부근일 거야

 

판잣집이 보이는데
가서 물어보죠

 

- 길 안 잃었다니깐
- 그러시겠죠

 

뭐지?
스키 대여점인가?

 

'애스겔손..'

 

 

'진보 화산학 연구소'

 

찾을 거랬잖아

 

거봐

 

- 그럴싸하네
- 그러게요

 

실례지만
아이슬란드어 몰라서요

 

- 누구세요?
- 안녕하세요

 

- 한나예요
- 아, 반가워요

 

전 앤더슨 교수인데
미국에서 왔죠

 

- 이쪽은 조카 션
- 션이에요

 

안녕, 션

 

누굴 좀
뵈러 왔는데

 

시거번 애스겔손 씨라고?

 

음..

 

벌써 돌아가셨어요

 

- 정말요?
- 그래, 3년 전에

 

저런

 

그럼 댁이
연구소 운영을?

 

아뇨
연구소는 없어요

 

- 그치만 표지판에는..
- 진보 화산학은 몰락했죠

 

베를린 장벽과
카세트 테잎처럼

 

그렇군요

 

그분과 일하셨나요?

 

아뇨, 제 아빠세요

 

뭐죠?
읽어본 책인데

 

형이 남긴 거예요

 

맥스 앤더슨

 

형과 부친께선
친분이 있는 듯해서

 

- 형님도 '버니언'인가요?
- 버니언이 뭐죠?

 

쥘 베른 소설을
진짜로 믿는 부류요

 

베른은 단지
과학소설가였지만

 

그들은 베른을
몽상가라 믿어요

 

아빠는 열렬한
버니언이셨죠

 

형은 아녜요

 

아빠 소장본이에요

 

보세요

 

표시가 일치하죠?
형님도 버니언이에요

 

아빠도 괴짜였다니

 

- 넌 몰라
- 삼촌도 몰랐잖아요

 

비밀모임 따윈 없었어

 

- 대체 왜 오셨죠?
- 교수이자 과학자로서

 

여기서 북쪽 30킬로
위치의 지진계를

 

조사하러 왔어요

 

간단명료한 이유죠

 

좋아요

 

근데 북쪽으론
길이 없거든요?

 

그럼..

 

제가 산행가이드라
안내해드릴 순 있죠

 

- 다행이군요
- 등산 좋죠

 

- 그래주심 감사하죠
- 좋아요

 

- 트레버라고 불러요
- 전 션이요

 

대신 가이드비는
5천 크로나예요

 

하루에 5천?
그럽시다

 

시간당이요

 

동전도 받나요?

 

힘내요
해넘이까진 돌아가야죠

 

좀 천천히 갈래요?

 

- 결심했어요
- 뭘?

 

산행가이드가 될래요

 

- 넌 열셋이야
- 이미 정했어요

 

- 열셋은 가이드 못해
- 노력해야죠

 

다 와가네요

 

네, 발 조심해요
스네플스는 기복이 심하니

 

- '스네플스'라뇨?
- 교수님께서 설명해주시죠?

 

베른 소설에서
리덴브록 교수가 발견한

 

지구 속으로 가는 통로야

 

지진계를 찾아볼까요

 

여깄네요

 

그렇지

 

열어볼게요
블랙박스 비슷해서..

 

 

지난 10년간 기록이

 

전부 담겨 있죠

 

형과 관련된 것도

 

실종될 때
상황을 말해주겠죠

 

트레버, 유감이지만
돌아가야겠어요

 

녹이 슬었나

 

트레버, 그만..

 

일단 피해야겠다
션, 가자

 

곧 따라갈게요

 

- 나중에 해요
- 거의 됐어요

 

빨리요, 트레버

 

- 삼촌
- 이리 와요

 

- 성공!
- 조심해요

 

빨리요, 빨리

 

지진계를 버려요

 

- 버리라고요!
- 그럴 순 없어요

 

어서요!
그러다 벼락 맞아요!

 

트레버?

 

- 트레버?
- 전 괜찮아요

 

션?

 

- 션, 괜찮니?
- 네

 

- 다들 침착해요
- 함께 입구를 뚫어보죠

 

어서요

 

- 포기해요, 소용없어요
- 포기라뇨?

 

맞아

 

돌더미가 적어도
6-70톤은 될 걸

 

파내려면 한달은 걸려

 

- 다른 출구를 찾아보자
- 없으면요?

 

분명히 존재해

 

뭘 챙겨오셨죠?

 

신호탄, 구급약, 로프
담요, 비상식량

 

근데 하루치예요

 

- 얼마나 갇혀 지낼는지
- 갇혀요? 현실은 그거군요

 

그런 뜻이 아냐

 

- 션, 뭐하려고?
- 신호가 안 잡혀요

 

이런 데선
당연히 안 돼

 

놔두고
걱정하지 마라

 

- 다른 출구가 있다니깐?
- 자

 

이중 하나는
밖으로 통할 거야

 

어디로 가죠?

 

내 느낌엔 오른쪽이야

 

가자

 

확실하다니깐

 

그냥 걷기만 해
곧 나갈 테니

 

감이 좋아

 

길 찾기엔 일가견 있지

 

집중해, 션
야외수업이라고 생각해

 

나도 야외수업 즐겼는데

 

- 조심해요
- 으악!

 

암반엔 문외한이군요?

 

- 생사가 달렸어요
- 고마워요

 

크게 빚졌어요

 

뭐라고 적혔죠?

 

출입금지요

 

- 이쪽은 틀렸나
- 희소식인지도 몰라

 

옛 광산쪽으로 가면
나갈 수 있어

 

- 얼마나 깊을까요?
- 신호탄 하나 줘봐요

 

고마워요
션, 시간을 재

 

불 붙여서
떨어뜨릴 테니

 

바닥까지 얼마
걸렸나 말해다오

 

네

 

간다
하나, 둘..

 

으아!

 

뭐였죠?

 

마그네슘이요

 

벽 전체가
마그네슘 광맥이군요

 

마그네슘이 인화성인가요?

 

조명탄에 쓰이죠
화약이나 성냥에도

 

그렇담 불꽃은
삼가해야겠군요

 

고마워요

 

방법은 똑같아

 

- 준비?
- 네, 됐어요

 

셋, 둘

 

1초

 

2초

 

거의 3초?

 

그러면 200피트네

 

그쯤이야 쉽죠

 

20층 건물 높인데

 

- 로프 충분해요?
- 늘 넉넉히 챙겨요

 

뭐가 쉽단 거죠?

 

아래로 내려가기

 

시커먼 저 아래로
내려간다고요?

 

무슨 문제라도?

 

왜 그러는데?

 

이걸 어떻게 내려가요?

 

겁나니?
산행가이드 한다며?

 

- 로프 없어도 가겠다
- 이봐요

 

- 산행가이드 얘긴..
- 가이드 누가 시켜준대요?

 

내려갑시다

 

천천히

 

명심해요
전부 연결됐어요

 

좋아요

 

괜찮네요

 

별탈 없어요

 

내려와요

 

내려오고 있나요?

 

자, 션
천천히 내려줄게

 

뒤로 기대고
다리를 들어봐

 

그렇지

 

다 연결됐으니
두려워 말고

 

알았어요

 

발을 디뎌야지

 

계속 디뎌야 돼

 

옳지

 

폼 멋진데?

 

- 프로 아냐?
- 놀리지 마요

 

조심해야지?
발 조심해

 

목숨이 걸렸다고요

 

션, 나랑 얘기하자

 

이런 거
자주 하세요?

 

어디 보자

 

아무래도 잘못
골랐다 싶지?

 

- 끼어들지 마세요
- 자주는 아냐

 

갈까?

 

션

 

편암이다

 

- 네?
- 일종의 변성암이지

 

녹색편암, 가넷편암
운모가넷편암

 

- 아, 편암
- 사방에 널렸어

 

트레버

 

- 벽에 붙어요
- 안 돼요

 

- 너무 멀어요
- 우린 같은 로프라

 

나까지 끌려가요
끊어버릴게요

 

- 뭐요?
- 안 돼요

 

잠깐만, 잠깐

 

- 안 돼요
- 안 돼

 

- 삼촌!
- 아!

 

도착했어요

 

여기가 바닥이네요

 

알고 있었군요?

 

그쵸?

 

한나?

 

이게 뭐죠?

 

폐광 입구 같은데

 

오래된 광산이죠

 

60년 전 사고 이후
폐광 됐어요

 

사고요?

 

어떤?

 

81명이 죽었어

 

끔찍했군요

 

가자

 

모험의 세계로!

 

책에도 이런
광산이 나와요?

 

그렇진 않아

 

- 한나?
- 네?

 

하나 물어봐도?

 

형과 당신 선친께서
옳았던 거라면?

 

분명히 말씀드리죠

 

전 아빠가 아녜요

 

아빠가 믿던 세상은
저와 무관해요

 

그야 그렇죠

 

사실일 거란
뜻은 아니지만..

 

- 지금도 시간 재거든요?
- 가이드비를?

 

집에 도착할 때까지
계산할 거예요

 

- 허
- 한나?

 

뭐죠?

 

- 광산에서 쓰던 발전기
- 손대지 말아요

 

뭐하게요?

 

휘발유라도 샜으면 어쩌려고

 

- 살벌한 발전기군요
- 그러다 폭발해요

 

스위치 꺼요

 

그러지 말아요
제발

 

물러나요

 

방금 얘긴 취소요

 

그럼 광부들이
나가는 통로가 있겠죠?

 

- 그래
- 선로만 따라가면 되겠네요

 

사고 땐 몇이나
살았대요?

 

한 명요

 

가요
앞장설게요

 

뭐?
안 돼

 

서두르지 마라

 

고장인지도 몰라

 

멀쩡할 리 없지

 

선로도 불안하고

 

선로는 괜찮아요
갑시다

 

어째 불안한데
실수한 거 같다

 

저도 감은 있어요

 

바깥 빛인가?
그렇다고 말해줘

 

그게..

 

바깥이 아녜요

 

더 깊이 들어가요

 

벨트라도 있음 좋으련만

 

안전벨트 말이냐?

 

조심해요

 

- 한나
- 그래

 

- 브레이크, 브레이크!
- 안 돼요

 

작동이 안 돼

 

그렇지!

 

대단했어요!
고마워요

 

꽉 잡아, 션

 

트레버, 괜찮아요?

 

선로가 끊겼어요!

 

여기로 뛰어요

 

네?

 

빨리!
급해요

 

- 뛰어요
- 알았어요

 

가요!

 

이쪽도 끊기네요

 

- 좋아요
- 어쩌려고?

 

인명구조가 뭔지
보여드리죠

 

- 도와드려요?
- 좋죠

 

준비?

 

- 괜찮아요?
- 네

 

착지가 좋았어요

 

두 번 빚졌군요

 

- 셈이 꼼꼼하군요?
- 당연하죠

 

끝내줬어요

 

- 어쨌는데 그래요?
- 묻지 마

 

저건 뭐죠?

 

어디 가?
위험해

 

무슨 말씀이세요?
길이 났는데

 

벽에 구멍이 뚫렸네

 

좀 와보세요

 

루비예요

 

에머랄드도 있어

 

장석이군

 

엄청 많아요

 

다이아몬드까지

 

굉장해요

 

이런 보석류는 대개..

 

'화산 튜브'에서 생성되지

 

밖으로 이어지겠죠?

 

표면까진 멀지 않아요

 

나가면 스포츠카 사야지

 

돈이 다가 아냐
사람이 먼저지

 

- 소중한 건 많아
- 삼촌은 그렇겠죠

 

소리 들었어요?

 

다들 꼼작 말아요

 

설마 아니겠죠?

 

백운모?

 

맞아요

 

백운모가 뭔데요?

 

- 얇은 판상 암석이지
- 얼마나 얇기에?

 

아주 작은
무게 변화에도

 

산산조각 나

 

우리가 그 위에 있어

 

가만 있어

 

진정 됐어요

 

걸어간 그대로 돌아와

 

아주 조금씩

 

사뿐하게

 

뒤꿈치 들고
그렇지

 

좋아

 

그래

 

잘했다

 

- 침착하게
- 계속

 

안 돼!

 

생각보다 두껍네

 

자꾸 떨어진다!

 

바닥엔 언제쯤?

 

베른 소설이 맞다면

 

이 터널은 족히
수천 마일이야

 

그건 허구예요

 

대체 바닥은 어디죠?

 

유력한 학설에 따르면
그냥 끝장이지

 

끝장?
다른 학설은요?

 

벽 뒤로 흐르는 물이

 

터널벽을 깎고 샌다면

 

추락을 막아줄 수도 있어

 

- '물미끄럼'처럼
- 물미끄럼?

 

그거 괜찮네요

 

물이 종유석을
형성했다면 어떡해요?

 

- 퍽 찔릴 텐데
- 가능한 얘기죠

 

이거 물이죠?

 

그래, 물이야

 

물미끄럼, 제발!

 

내려간다
각오해!

 

션!

 

션, 괜찮니?

 

찔리진 않았네요

 

바위로 가자

 

한나는?

 

한나!

 

배낭이 너무 무거웠어요

 

고마워요

 

그럼 빚은 얼마죠?

 

다시 하나요

 

여기가 어디려나?

 

저거 별인가요?

 

아뇨

 

동굴 천장이죠

 

저만 그런가?
천장이..

 

움직이는데요?

 

그래

 

그런 거 같구나

 

그렇죠?

 

새들이군요

 

로봇인가?

 

'사이아니스 로소프테릭스'처럼
보이는구나

 

개똥벌레처럼
발광 가능한 새지

 

이럴 수가

 

빛이 나요

 

빛나는 새

 

전에도 본 적 있어요?

 

네, 박물관
화석으로 봤죠

 

1억 5천만년 전에
멸종했대요

 

- 어디로 가는 거죠?
- 터널이에요

 

가보죠

 

급하긴

 

바로 여기가
지구 중심이구나

 

형이 옳았어

 

옳았다고

 

형이 옳았어!

 

아빠가 맞았어

 

맞았다고

 

한나 아버님도요

 

모두가 부정했지만

 

그들만큼은 믿었어

 

형이 옳았어!

 

- 저 불빛은 뭐죠?
- 글쎄

 

아마 발광성
가스쯤 되겠지

 

잘 모르겠다

 

테라륨 같아요

 

땅속 수천 마일의
테라륨이지

 

또 하나의 세상

 

'장구한 세월
거대한 폭포수는'

 

'높다란 협곡에서 떨어지며'

 

'바위 틈으로
끝없이 흘러간다'

 

리덴브록의 묘사와 똑같아요

 

리덴브록이 실존했단 건가요?

 

실제 인물?

 

누구든 여기 와서
직접 봤겠죠

 

그리곤 베른에게
들려줬을 테고

 

어쨌든 탈출했군요?

 

듣던 중 반갑네

 

정말 기막히죠?

 

혹하긴 하네요

 

화석화 된
거대 버섯이야

 

곰팡이가 이렇게?

 

- 소설과 똑같나요?
- 그래요

 

- 위험한 대목은 없나요?
- 저도 생각중이에요

 

그래요

 

삼촌, 여기요

 

- 션?
- 션?

 

- 올라가볼게요
- 그래

 

조심해

 

누가 다녀갔네요?

 

아마도..

 

리덴브록이겠지

 

소지품을 봐

 

이런 도구들..

 

백년은 됐어

 

삼촌

 

리덴브록의 노트예요

 

보세요

 

저쪽 나무들과 비슷해요

 

그래

 

헌데 리덴브록의
필체가 아냐

 

아빠로군요

 

트레버?

 

트레버?

 

얘기 좀 할래요?

 

여기서요

 

잠깐 기다려봐

 

맥스를 찾았어요

 

아빠에 대해선 몰라요

 

모르길 바랐죠

 

아빠가 남긴
글을 읽어주마

 

'1997년 8월 14일'

 

'오늘은 션의
세 번째 생일이다'

 

'6주 전
야구 글러브 사서'

 

'돌아가마 약속했건만'

 

'과연 그럴..'

 

'기회가 있을는지'

 

'세상이 놀랄
발견을 했지만'

 

'결국 아버지로서'

 

'네가 자라는 모습을'

 

'지켜볼 권리와
맞바꾼 셈이구나'

 

'멋진 어른이 되겠지'

 

'생일 축하한다'

 

'사랑해'

 

'아빠가'

 

안녕, 형

 

가자

 

형의 기록에 따르면

 

여긴 용암에 둘러싸인
거대한 에어포켓이라

 

강한 지진에도
끄떡없어요

 

- 지금처럼요
- 그래요

 

둘레의 마그마는

 

이곳을 오븐처럼 만들죠

 

아빠는 왜 돌아가셨죠?

 

어떡해서든 꼭
밝혀내고 싶어요

 

앉으렴

 

아빤 탈출을 계획했어

 

여긴 온도가
90도까지 올라간대

 

사람은 57도 이상
못 견뎌

 

- 벌써 35도예요
- 처음엔 28도였어

 

- 상승폭이 가파르지
- 그럼 어쩌죠?

 

아빠 계획대로 해야지

 

어떤 거냐면

'베른의 기록을
분석한 결과'

 

'북쪽 바다를 건너면'

 

'지상으로 통하는
간헐천에 이르게 된다'

 

그러니 우린
바다 건너

 

간헐천을 찾아
탈출해야 돼

 

듣기 좋네요

 

쉽진 않을 거다

 

물이 증발할 만큼
뜨거울 테니

 

여유가 얼마나 있죠?

 

적게는 48시간
최대 72시간

 

더 적을 수도

 

자, 관건은

 

바다를 최단시간에
건너야 되는데?

 

돌아갈 길도 없고..

 

우회할 순 없죠

 

시간이 없어요

 

훌륭한 책이군요

 

자요

 

현재 기온은?

 

38도요

 

삼엽충이야
먹어야 산다

 

그렇지

 

근데

 

가운데 돛대는요?

 

음, 필요없어

 

우리한테 필요한
바람은 저거야

 

더운 공기
바닥 공기보다 훨씬 빨라

 

잘했다
그만하면 됐어

 

선물 하나 줄게

 

- 뭔데요?
- 나침반이야

 

아빠가 쓰던 거

 

원래 엄마가
아빠한테 준 건데

 

언제든 집
잘 찾아오라고 말야

 

이젠 널 엄마에게
인도해줄 거다

 

- 고마워요
- 그래

 

- 아주 뜻깊네요
- 삼촌도

 

참, 이거 알아둬
여기선 극성이 반대야

 

북쪽은 남쪽
남쪽은 북쪽이지

 

우린 북쪽으로 간다

 

그럼 남쪽이군요

 

맞아

 

자, 올려봅시다

 

그대로 잡고 있어요

 

아주 좋아

 

- 준비?
- 네

 

셋, 둘, 하나
놔!

 

- 그렇지
- 좋았어

 

성공이에요

 

간다, 가

 

자꾸 뻗네요

 

그대로 출발인가?

 

좀 기다려주지?

 

빨리 타요
얼른

 

그 새예요

 

안녕, 꼬마야

 

구름 보이죠?

 

그래요

 

해류가 우릴 인도해주니
돛은 내려야겠어요

 

아뇨
벌써 43도예요

 

점점 더워지니

 

최고속도로 갑시다
놔둬요

 

폭풍우야

 

대단친 않구나

 

아래 뭐가 있어요

 

플랑크톤 따위겠죠

 

해변에서 봤잖아요

 

플랑크톤치곤
꽤 큰데요

 

여긴 수족관 아냐
뒤로 물러나

 

- 알겠니?
- 물고기 같아요

 

맙소사

 

안 돼

 

쫙 깔렸어요

 

배팅연습 좀 하랬더니

 

해봐!

 

좋아
어디 덤벼봐!

 

직선 타구!

 

- 션!
- 벨소리 아냐?

 

- 여보세요?
- 션

 

- 엄마?
- 감이 너무 멀다

 

잘 안 들려요

 

어디니?

 

삼촌하고 그게..

 

낚시하러 왔어요

 

재밌어?

 

어딜 감히!

 

- 삼촌이 월척을 잡았어요!
- 션?

 

- 내 전화!
- 스위치히터 알아?

 

- 준비?
- 그럼요

 

장외 홈런!

 

- 션
- 조심해

 

알아요, 알아

 

- 션!
- 안 돼

 

안으로 피해

 

저거 봐

 

우리가 아니라
고기를 노려

 

자, 션은 키를 맡고
우린 여기

 

한나, 당겨요

 

션, 키 우현으로!

 

네?

 

저쪽으로!

 

제발

 

- 됐어요
- 수고했다

 

이젠 놔요
부드럽게

 

천천히

 

좋아요

 

고비는 넘겼다

 

화끈했어요, 삼촌

 

과학계도 그래야 되는데!

 

한나

 

괜찮아요?

 

로프!

 

- 잡았다
- 션

 

션, 그러지 마

 

션!

 

- 안 돼!
- 삼촌!

 

- 션!
- 꽉 잡아!

 

버텨!

 

안 돼

 

삼촌?

 

삼촌?

 

누구?

 

누구야?

 

안녕, 꼬마
여긴 어디지?

 

혹시 마실 물
좀 없을까?

 

새랑 얘기하다니

 

정신이상인가

 

션!

 

션!

 

잠깐

 

이쪽으로 날아갔는데

 

북쪽 맞아요?

 

네, 그래요

 

똑똑하니 계획대로
움직이겠죠

 

아마 강가에서
기다릴 걸요

 

강으로 갑시다

 

이봐, 기다려

 

어딨니?

 

고맙다

 

좋았어

 

어느 쪽이더라?

 

남쪽

 

됐어

 

강은 북쪽이랬지

 

좋아

 

내가 들게요

 

- 아뇨, 괜찮아요
- 이리 줘요

 

- 괜찮다니깐
- 내가 들게요

 

잠시 쉬죠

 

션은 무사할 거예요

 

마셔요

 

- 마지막 물인가요?
- 네

 

만약을 대비해
아껴 두죠

 

그냥 마셔요

 

얼른

 

엎드려!

 

- 도대체?
- 뭐죠?

 

거대 식충식물?

 

한나

 

한나?

 

한나

 

한나

 

한나

 

으윽

 

조금만 참아요

 

이젠 쌤쌤이죠?

 

그래요

 

셈이 꼼꼼하군요?

 

알겠다

 

자석이군

 

이런

 

자석바위인가?

 

안 돼, 안 돼

 

안 돼

 

너도 날개 없어봐

 

강이에요

 

간헐천은 저 동굴에 있겠죠

 

션!

 

어딨지?

 

어딨을까요?

 

삼촌?

 

삼촌?

 

책 좀 봐둘 걸

 

안 보이네요

 

트레버?
트레버

 

기다려요
어쩌려고요?

 

조카를 찾아야죠

 

한나

 

내 실수였어요

 

먼저 가요

 

집으로 가요

 

강에서 기다릴게요

 

최대한 버텨 보죠

 

무슨 뜻이죠?

 

혹시 모르니깐

 

션!

 

션!

 

션!

 

션?!

 

션!

 

션!

 

션! 션!

 

자!

 

진짜 반갑다!

 

저도요

 

- 괜찮니?
- 네

 

가자

 

잠깐만요

 

- 저게 간헐천?
- 그래, 우리 목적지야

 

가요

 

- 공룡은 처음이세요?
- 뼈다귀만 봤어

 

너무 빨라요
잡히겠는데요

 

- 어쩌시게요?
- 백운모야

 

전에 우리가 떨어졌던

 

삼촌이 밟아도 깨져요

 

저 녀석도 마찬가지야
뛰어

 

안 돼요, 삼촌

 

안 깨지는데요?

 

계속 뛰어!

 

- 잡히겠어요
- 알아

 

계속 가!

 

우와!

 

금이 가요!

 

조심하세요!

 

삼촌!

 

생각났다
난 야외수업 질색이야

 

삼촌, 여기요

 

정말이지, 진짜..

 

그래, 천만다행이지

 

어디 보자

 

여긴 아니고
저기도 아니고

 

가자

 

강이에요
간헐천엔 어떻게 가죠?

 

- 끓는 물인데
- 뜨는 거 없을까?

 

아무거나
통나무도 좋고..

 

보트가 딱이겠지만

 

요금은 누가?

 

빨리 타요

 

- 최고의 가이드예요
- 그러게

 

은근히 내가
기다리길 바랐죠?

 

티 좀 내지 말던가

 

수당까지 따로 쳐줘요

 

계산서 좀 볼까요?

 

뭐였죠?

 

강바닥이 드러났어

 

물이 줄어드네

 

이런!
꽉 잡아

 

아무래도 배가..

 

좀 덜컹거렸네

 

- 다들 무사한가?
- 그래요

 

어디죠?

 

밑에 불빛은 뭘까요?

 

용암이죠

 

마그마가 올라오네요

 

물이 있어야 정상인데
증발했나봐요

 

간헐천은 틀렸다
시기를 놓쳤어

 

- 그럼 어떡해요?
- 방도가 없을까요?

 

물도, 증기도 없으니
도리가 없죠

 

물이 마른지
한참인가봐요

 

- 벽은 아직 축축해요
- 이런 온도엔 불가능해

 

- 트레버, 뒤를 봐요
- 왜요?

 

진짜네

 

차가워
뒤로 물이 흘러

 

고인 물이거나
지하수겠지

 

자꾸 올라와요

 

이건 마그네슘이야

 

- 넘어지겠어요
- 신호탄 얼마나 남았죠?

 

셋이요
뭐하려고요?

 

마그네슘을 이용해야죠

 

꽉 잡아요

 

제발
너무 축축해

 

좀 더 내려가볼까요
신호탄 줘요

 

다리 잡아요

 

제발

 

로프로 묶어요
더 내려가게

 

점점 가까워져요

 

다 됐어요

 

이게 마지막이에요

 

조심하세요

 

- 괜찮아요?
- 조금 더

 

빨리요

 

- 더요?
- 조금만

 

됐어요

 

- 제발
- 부디!

 

- 붙어라
- 제발

 

힘내요

 

아직 축축해
반대쪽에 해보죠

 

뭐지?

 

이런

 

안 돼!

 

트레버, 올라와요

 

- 어서요, 삼촌
- 붙었어요

 

당겨!

 

- 끌어올려!
- 빨리

 

당겨요, 당겨

 

- 얼른 당겨
- 빨리

 

이빨 조심!

 

션! 어서!

 

엎드려
폭발한다!

 

뜨거워지는데요?

 

알아!

 

- 꽉 잡아!
- 당연하죠!

 

저거 하늘인가요?

 

또 꽉 잡아!

 

- 그만 떠들어요!
- 자꾸 이러니 그러죠!

 

베수비오산이야

 

션, 나중에
엄마가 물어보면

 

- 이태리 다녀왔다고 해
- 이태리요?

 

알았지?

 

션?

 

션?

 

어때서요?
지질학 표본인데

 

지질학 표본?

 

샘플 좀 모았죠
명색이 과학자 아들인데?

 

저기요

 

이거 받으세요

 

사과드릴게요

 

미끄럼 더 탈래?

 

좋을대로 하렴

 

뭐든 맘대로!

 

무슨 뜻이죠?

 

이래야 비기죠

 

취업정보
'연구 보조원'

 

레너드, 나다
그러지 마

 

뭐를요?

 

일자리 구하지?

 

그럴 필요없어
이제부턴..

 

애스겔손 앤더슨 지질학
연구소 직원이니깐

 

애스겔 앤더.. 뭐요?

 

정상영업해

 

돈도 넘치는데
보트 띄워야지?

 

놀랍네요

 

그럼 제가 보트?

 

- 음, 잘해보자
- 좋아요

 

뭐야
웬일로 흥겨워?

 

- 앨런, 안녕?
- 그래

 

- 뭐해?
- 나?

 

연구실 옮기는 중인데?

 

그나저나 어딨었어?

 

월요일 강의 빼먹었다고
학생들 원성이 자자해

 

아!

 

휴가 좀 다녀왔지
끝내줬어

 

즐거웠겠군

 

언제 한번 들려줘

 

글쎄, 바빠서
'사이언티픽 아메리칸'을 읽던가

 

사이언티픽 아메리칸?

 

언짢게 생각진 마

 

연구실 이전
문제는 말인데

 

아예 내 건물을
지을까 해

 

대체 무슨 꿍꿍이지?

 

그냥, 재수가 좀
붙었다랄까?

 

내일이면 너도
캐나다 사람이구나

 

네, 그렇겠죠

 

잠깐 사이에
남자끼리 끈끈해졌어

 

다음에도 2주쯤 어때?

 

2주요?

 

- 크리스마스엔 뭐해?
- 계획 없어요

 

아빠 물건 틈에 있더라

 

읽어봐

 

'잃어버린 도시 아틀란티스'

 

흥미롭지?

 

그건 뭐냐?

 

- 애완동물이요
- 무슨?

 

션

 

- 엄마가 키우게 놔둘까요?
- 글쎄다

 

여기 살면 곤란한데

 

- 저거 봐
- 돌아와

 

- 큰일이구나
- 어디 가?

 

먹이 줄게
돌아오라니깐

 

어서!

 

Trevor!

 

Max.

 

Whoa, whoa.

 

Although Wegener was ridiculed
by the scientific community...

 

...he was eventually found
to be correct...

 

...in his theory of an original
supercontinent called Pangaea.

 

Yeah. Okay.

 

Ah. Come to papa.

 

TREVOR:
Hey, Leonard.

 

LEONARD:
Hey, man.

 

-Dude, you ain't gonna be happy.
-Why?

 

-It's Kitzens.
-I see.

 

-Hello.
-Trevor, there's my favorite colleague.

 

-How are you, Alan?
-I'm good.

 

-How's that Con Drift class of yours going?
-Fine.

 

Does it get echoey in there
with so few students?

 

[TREVOR CHUCKLES]

 

So, what do you got on the books?
I'm busy.

 

No, no, I can 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 gonna 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
theories predicting the volcanic fissures--

 

Which have never been proven.

 

I mean, how many of your late brother's
sensors are even still active? One, two--?

 

-Three.
-lt used to be 29.

 

This is the wrong time to shut us down.

 

I have got seismic activity in Bolivia.
I got a 1 3 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 1 0 years since Max, Trevor.

 

I am sorry about all this. I really am.

 

[MACHlNE BEEPlNG]

 

WOMAN [ON RECORDlNG] :
Trevor, are you there? It's Elizabeth.

 

Pick up, please.

 

Okay. Well, uh, we are on the 95,
and we're heading your way.

 

You wanna say hi
to your Uncle Trevor, Sean?

 

BOY:
No.

 

WOMAN: Just say hello.
-No.

 

BOY: I don 't want to.
-Oh, no.

 

WOMAN:
Hey, it's your sister-in-law again.

 

Just wanted to make sure
what time you 'd be home...

 

...because we 'll be there around 6.

 

Okay. Well, we 'll be on my cell.

 

-Oh, boy.
-Sean 's looking forward to seeing you.

 

-Right, Sean?
BOY: Negatory.

 

WOMAN: I'm getting worried that
we might've gotten our signals crossed.

 

Please call me.

 

[PHONE RlNGS]

 

TREVOR [ON RECORDlNG] :
I'm not home. Leave me a message.

 

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

 

[DOORBELL BUZZES]

 

Trevor, you in there?

 

TREVOR:
Hi.

 

-Hey.
-How are you, Elizabeth?

 

-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?
-l....

 

I forgot.
It doesn't mean I haven't been...

 

...Iooking forward
to time with my nephew.

 

I haven't seen him since he was 9?

 

-Seven.
-Wow. Ha-ha.

 

So how long
is he gonna be staying again?

 

-Ten days.
-ls that what we said?

 

Hey, Sean. How are you?

 

Looking good.

 

-ls 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.

 

-Oh! Ha-ha.
-Yeah, good one.

 

You got that?
Okay, you've got all my numbers.

 

You've got your ticket
and passport in your bag.

 

I will be there to pick you up in Ottawa.

 

And by then I'll have found us a house
and we can start on this big new adventure.

 

-Pretty exciting stuff, huh?
SEAN: Yeah, it's great.

 

We get to be Canadians. Thrilling, eh?

 

Just let yourself in.

 

-lt will be good for him, being with you.
-Yeah.

 

Who knows?
Maybe it will be good for you too.

 

This is for you.

 

What--? Is this Sean's?

 

No, it's Max's.

 

-Max's?
-Yeah.

 

So, hey, dude. This is gonna be fun.

 

A couple of dudes hanging out.

 

Five days, maybe a week.

 

You know, doing dude stuff,
what dudes do.

 

You like baseball?
You know what we should do?

 

We should go get in a batting cage.

 

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

 

As long as you keep stocked
with Mountain Dew...

 

...and TiVo Family Guy,
we'll get along fine.

 

-Sure.
-Oh, wow.

 

-That's an awesome coin collection.
-Oh.

 

Well, 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?

 

Well, 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. You see this?
This was your old man's PSP.

 

-A yo-yo?
-Don't be dissing the yo-yo.

 

This is physics at work.
You got your centrifugal force.

 

Your gravitational pull,
you got your potential energy.

 

And in ancient times, did you know...

 

...that this was actually used
as a hunting implement?

 

Watch.

 

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

 

I have no idea what this is.

 

Hello.

 

This was his favorite book.

 

Jules Verne's
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 inspiration.

 

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

 

Hello. What are these notes?

 

"Magma temperatures reach 1 1 50
in Mongolia"?

 

"Bolivia."

 

"Hawaii."

 

Look out!

 

Hey, Sean, let's go check out my lab.

 

SEAN:
So it couldn't wait for tomorrow?

 

TREVOR:
Your dad used to say:

 

"Tectonophysics is the science of now,
not tomorrow."

 

It's about seismic events
that occur in an 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?

 

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,
then it 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.

 

One, two, three, four.

 

Iceland.

 

This makes sense.

 

Max saw the readings 1 0 years ago,
and he took off to investigate.

 

Now, if the readings are the same today
as they were then...

 

...this may be my only chance
to find out what happened.

 

-I'm gonna need your passport.
-For what?

 

I'm sorry, I have to get you to Canada
a little earlier than 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 lceland,
which is where he must've gone.

 

These are all my dad's notes?

 

Look...

 

...Max and l--

 

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.

 

Sorry, I gotta put you on a flight
to Ottawa in the morning.

 

-And I'm calling lcelandair.
-No, no, look.

 

-Hey.
-I just got here, okay?

 

You're not gonna go and ditch me.

 

I was the person who found your life's work
fourth little blip thingy in the first place.

 

-This is my brother we're talking about.
-It's my dad.

 

Now, I don't have to be in Ottawa
for 1 0 days. I'm going with you.

 

Know how much to book
a last-minute flight to Reykjavik?

 

Something tells me you got it covered.

 

[WOMAN SPEAKlNG lN lCELANDlC
OVER SPEAKERS]

 

TREVOR: " Descend, bold traveler,
into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels...

 

...which the shadow of Scartaris touches
before the kalends of July...

 

...and you will attain
the center of the Earth."

 

Ooh.

 

Sorry.

 

What are you doing?

 

I'm deciphering these notations
that your father made in this book.

 

I think there's a code
behind the pairing of letters.

 

It might have something to do
with the periodic table.

 

For instance, I've got S-A, l-S, G-G.

 

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

 

-Plumbum means lead.
-What's "Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson"?

 

What?

 

Well, it's right here. Read it down.
Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson.

 

Oh. Uh....

 

Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson, that's....

 

That's a clue. Maybe that's a place.

 

It could be a thing.

 

-What are you doing?
-I am Googling at 30,000 feet.

 

-Are you supposed to be doing that?
-Welcome to the 21 st century.

 

-Okay. Here.
-It's a person.

 

"Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson,
executive director...

 

...of Asgeirsson lnstitute
for Progressive Volcanology."

 

Max would've known this guy.

 

I knew it was a good thing to bring you.
His institute has gotta be our first stop.

 

SEAN:
Are we there yet?

 

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

 

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

 

I just saw a goat in the passing lane.

 

When's the whole adventure thing
gonna begin?

 

Let me give you something fun to do.

 

Navigate.

 

Where are we?

 

Have we passed Havanschlicht?

 

-Havanschlicht?
-Yeah.

 

I don't know.

 

Have we passed Eingarsstadir?

 

-I don't know.
-Reynivir?

 

-I don't know.
-Husavik?

 

TREVOR: No.
SEAN: Grundarhol?

 

TREVOR: No.
SEAN: Stifflarschtarder?

 

TREVOR:
Stifflardschtarder?

 

SEAN: How about Koldukardarskinoquue?
TREVOR: What?

 

SEAN: We're definitely lost.
TREVOR: We're not lost.

 

Just look for an institution.

 

SEAN: What's an institution look like?
-I don't know, it looks big and institutional.

 

It's gotta be around here somewhere.

 

Hey, look, there's a little shack up there.
We can stop there and ask for directions.

 

-We're not lost.
-Oh, no, definitely not.

 

What's this? A ski shack?

 

"Asgeirsson...

 

[TREVOR MUMBLlNG]

 

...Institute for Progressive Volcanology."

 

I told you I'd find it.

 

Alrighty.

 

-Not too shabby.
-All right.

 

[KNOCKlNG ON DOOR]

 

[WOMAN SPEAKlNG lN lCELANDlC]

 

Oh, I'm sorry, I don't speak lcelandic.

 

-Hi, can I help you?
-Hello.

 

-I'm Hannah.
-Oh, how do you do? Hi.

 

I'm Trev-- Professor Anderson.
I'm visiting from America. Um....

 

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

 

Hi, Sean.

 

I was wondering if I could
possibly speak with, forgive me here...

 

...Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson?

 

Um....

 

Well, Sigurbjorn Asgeirsson is dead.

 

-Dead?
-Yeah, he died three winters ago.

 

Oh. Uh....

 

So do you run the institute?

 

Nobody does. There is no institute.

 

-There's a sign down the road that says--
-Progressive volcanology was a failed idea.

 

Like, you know, the Berlin Wall
and eight-track tapes.

 

I see.

 

Well, did you work with him?

 

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.

 

Wow, 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 klicks 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.
-That's great, I love hiking.

 

-I would appreciate that. That'd be great.
-Good.

 

-Call me Trevor.
-You can call me Sean.

 

So it will be 5000 kronur to go up there.

 

Five grand a day? No problem.

 

An hour.

 

Do you accept rolls of quarters?

 

Come on, boys.
I wanna be home by sundown.

 

TREVOR: Hey, you think you can slow down
a little bit, please?

 

-Dibs.
-What?

 

I got dibs on the mountain guide.

 

-You're 1 3.
-Sorry, called it.

 

-Thirteen-year-olds don't get dibs.
-Get over it.

 

We're getting closer.

 

All right, just watch your step there.
Mount Sneffels is deceptively treacherous.

 

-What's Sneffels?
-Well, why don't you tell him, professor?

 

Sneffels is the name of the mountain
where this character Liedenbrock...

 

...apparently found a portal
to the center of the Earth.

 

Let's just find that sensor of yours,
professor.

 

TREVOR:
There it is.

 

Yes.

 

HANNAH:
Well, what do you need to do with it?

 

I gotta unlock it.
It's got, like, a black box...

 

[THUNDER RUMBLlNG]

 

...that has recorded
all of the seismic activity...

 

...that's transpired in the last 1 0 years.

 

Could tell me a lot about Max.

 

And what he was doing
when he went missing.

 

Trevor, I'm really sorry,
we're gonna have to go now.

 

Must be corroded.

 

Trevor, we need to-- Whoa.

 

Okay, we need to take cover.
Come on, Sean. Right now.

 

I'll be right there.

 

-Trevor, just leave it for now.
TREVOR: I've almost got it.

 

HANNAH:
We need to take cover now.

 

Come on. Trevor.

 

-Uncle Trevor.
-Get in here.

 

-Yes. Oh!
HANNAH: Watch out.

 

Hurry up. Come on.

 

Trevor,
the sensor's attracting the lightning.

 

-Drop it. Drop the sensor.
TREVOR: What? I'm not gonna drop it.

 

SEAN: Hurry!
HANNAH: It's attracting the lightning!

 

[TREVOR SCREAMlNG]

 

[COUGHlNG]

 

Trevor?

 

-Trevor?
TREVOR: I'm all right.

 

[TREVOR GROANlNG]

 

HANNAH:
Sean?

 

-Sean, you all right?
-I'm good.

 

-Okay, everybody, just stay calm.
SEAN: Guys, come on, you gotta help me dig.

 

Come on.

 

-Forget it, it's no use.
-Forget it?

 

TREVOR:
She's right.

 

There must be about 60 or 70 tons
of boulders on top of us.

 

Take us 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?

 

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

 

But they're on a ration.

 

-Don't know how long we'll be trapped for.
-Trapped? Is that what we are?

 

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

 

-Sean, hey, what are you doing?
-God, I'm not getting any service.

 

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

 

Put this away.
Okay, don't worry about it.

 

-We'll find another way out, all right?
HANNAH: Okay.

 

One of these
might snake back to the surface.

 

How do we know which one to take?

 

My gut says we go right.

 

Come on.

 

Looks promising.

 

Just 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, Sean.
It's just like doing field work.

 

I used to love doing field work.

 

[GASPS]

 

-Watch out.
-Ah!

 

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?

 

[SPEAKS lN lCELANDlC]

 

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!

 

HANNAH:
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?
SEAN: Yeah, go ahead.

 

Three, two....

 

One.

 

Two.

 

[THUDS]

 

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.
HANNAH: Guys.

 

-Calling dibs on the mountain guide--
-No one gets dibs on the mountain guide.

 

We're going down there.

 

HANNAH:
Steady, steady.

 

Remember, we're all connected.

 

It's okay.

 

TREVOR:
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.

 

SEAN:
Yeah, sure.

 

HANNAH:
Good.

 

Sean, keep walking.

 

You have to keep walking.

 

Good.

 

TREVOR:
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?

 

TREVOR:
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 SCREAMlNG]

 

Trevor.

 

[HANNAH SCREAMS]

 

HANNAH: Get to the wall, Trevor.
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.

 

TREVOR: What?
-Hannah, no.

 

Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait.

 

-Don't.
TREVOR: Don't, don't, don't.

 

-Uncle Trevor.
-Ah!

 

[GRUNTS]

 

Hey, guys, found it.

 

The bottom's right here.

 

Hey, Hannah, you knew that, right?

 

Right?

 

Hannah?

 

Guys, what's this?

 

TREVOR: 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.

 

SEAN: Hey, Trevor,
was there a mine like this in the book?

 

TREVOR:
No, don't think so.

 

-Hannah?
HANNAH: Yup?

 

TREVOR:
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.
SEAN: Hannah?

 

What's that?

 

-This is the old generator for the mine.
-Hey, you don't want to touch that.

 

[MACHlNE WHlRRlNG]

 

What are you doing?

 

There might be some
volatile compounds there, you know.

 

-Serious generator.
TREVOR: Hannah, that thing could blow up.

 

Stop throwing switches.

 

Don't do that. No, wait.

 

Get away from that thing.

 

[TREVOR LAUGHS]

 

Okay, I take it back.

 

This is it, right? I mean, the miners,
they had to get their stuff out somewhere.

 

TREVOR: Yeah.
SEAN: 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.

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

I wish there were seat belts
on this thing.

 

You're worried about seat belts?

 

[ALL YELLlNG]

 

-Whoa!
HANNAH: Ah!

 

Watch it.

 

-Hannah.
-I know.

 

-Pull the brake, pull the brake.
-No, don't.

 

We won't make it.

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

Yeah.

 

Hey, great job. Thanks.

 

SEAN: Guys.
TREVOR: 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?

 

[YELLlNG]

 

[HANNAH & TREVOR COUGHlNG]

 

-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?

 

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

 

SEAN: 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.
SEAN: Not if you have a Maserati.

 

[CRACKlNG]

 

Did you guys hear that?

 

Nobody move.

 

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

 

Muscovite.

 

Muscovite.

 

What's muscovite?

 

[CRACKlNG CONTlNUES]

 

-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.

 

[CRACKlNG STOPS]

 

Okay, they're stopped.

 

I need you to walk back
exactly the way we came from.

 

Very, very calmly, okay?

 

[CRACKlNG]

 

TREVOR:
Tread lightly.

 

Heel, toe. Doing good.

 

HANNAH:
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.

 

[ALL SCREAMlNG]

 

[SCREAMlNG STOPS]

 

We're still falling!

 

[ALL SCREAMlNG]

 

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.

 

-Kind of like a water slide.
-Water slide.

 

Okay, that's a theory.

 

But wouldn't the water have formed
stalagmites pointing straight up at us?

 

-We'll be skewered.
-That is also possible.

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

Is that water?

 

Yes. Water.

 

Water slide, water slide.

 

Here it comes. Hang on.

 

Sean! Sean!

 

Sean, Sean, you all right?

 

We didn't get skewered.

 

Make for the rocks.

 

Where's Hannah?

 

Hannah! Hannah!

 

My backpack was too heavy.

 

Thank you.

 

So where does that put us now?

 

Back to one.

 

Guys, where are we?

 

Are those stars?

 

TREVOR:
No.

 

That's just the ceiling of the cave.

 

Is it just me, or is the cave ceiling...

 

...moving?

 

Yeah.

 

It does look like it...

 

...doesn't it?

 

They're birds.

 

Electric birds?

 

TREVOR:
They look like Cyanis rosopteryx.

 

Only they're bioluminescent,
like fireflies or glowworms.

 

It's incredible.

 

[CHlRPlNG]

 

SEAN:
Cool.

 

Glow...birds.

 

Have you seen
these creatures before?

 

Yeah, in the museum,
but they were fossilized.

 

These things have been extinct
for over 1 50 million years.

 

HANNAH: Where are they going?
TREVOR: Hey, a tunnel.

 

SEAN:
Guys, come on.

 

HANNAH:
Sean, wait. Wait for me.

 

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

 

Max was right.

 

He was right.

 

Max was right!

 

[TREVOR LAUGHS]

 

Your dad was right.

 

He was right.

 

Hannah, your dad was right too.

 

TREVOR:
They both believed...

 

...in something
that everyone told them was impossible.

 

He was right.

 

-What's that light up there?
TREVOR: I can't tell.

 

It must be some sort
of luminescent gas combination.

 

I don't know.

 

It's like 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 Liedenbrock wrote.

 

Are we saying that Liedenbrock
the character was real?

 

That he existed?

 

Someone came down here.
Someone saw all this.

 

Someone got out
and someone told Verne.

 

Somebody got out?

 

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

 

Doesn't this
just completely blow your mind?

 

My mind is blown, yes.

 

TREVOR:
Enormous fossilized mushrooms.

 

SEAN:
Sort of like humongous fungus.

 

-Everything in the book is real?
-Probably.

 

-And the really dangerous parts?
-I was thinking about that too.

 

Right.

 

[RUMBLlNG]

 

SEAN:
Trevor, come quick.

 

-Sean?
-Sean?

 

-I'm going in.
-Yeah, wait up.

 

Hey, slow down.

 

HANNAH:
I'll be right there.

 

SEAN:
Someone actually lived here?

 

That somebody...

 

...was Liedenbrock.

 

Look at all his gear.

 

All this, state of the art...

 

...a century ago.

 

Hey, Trevor.

 

I think I found Liedenbrock'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 Liedenbrock's handwriting.

 

It's my dad's.

 

[RUMBLlNG]

 

HANNAH:
Trevor?

 

Trevor?

 

Can I talk to you for a minute?

 

Out here.

 

TREVOR:
Can you wait here for a minute?

 

HANNAH:
Hey, I think I found Max.

 

I never really got a chance to know him.

 

I mean, I wish I did.

 

He wrote something
and I want you to hear it.

 

"August 1 4, 1 997.

 

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 the brave and caring man...

 

...I am certain you will become.

 

Happy birthday, Sean.

 

I love you.

 

Daddy."

 

Goodbye, Max.

 

Come on.

 

TREVOR:
According to Max's journal...

 

...we're here in this giant air pocket
that's surrounded by lava.

 

And during periods
of intense seismic activity--

 

[RUMBLlNG]

 

-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.

 

Was that what happened to my dad?

 

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

 

Sit down.

 

Max was planning an escape.

 

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

 

TREVOR: A human being can't survive
beyond 1 35.

 

-It's already 95 degrees.
-lt was 82 when we got here.

 

-Temperature's rising quickly.
-So, what do we do?

 

I say that we follow Max's plan.

 

HANNAH:
Here's what he wrote:

 

"My analysis of the original Verne text...

 

...Ieads 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."

 

TREVOR: 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
that the water'll evaporate.

 

How much time do we have?

 

Forty-eight hours. Seventy-two, tops.

 

Probably less.

 

Okay, so the question is:

 

What is the fastest way
to get across the ocean?

 

There's no way we can get around it,
because if we hike--

 

HANNAH:
Oh, we don't have time.

 

There's no time to do that.

 

SEAN:
It's all in the book.

 

TREVOR:
Hey, you all right?

 

What's the temperature doing?

 

HANNAH:
It is a hundred degrees.

 

TREVOR: Eat your trilobite, Sean.
We gotta keep our strength up.

 

Attaboy.

 

SEAN:
Hey.

 

Don't we need a center mast?

 

No. We don't need it.

 

The wind that we want is way up there.

 

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

 

Good job. That should just about do it.

 

Hey, I got something for you.

 

SEAN: What is this?
TREVOR: 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 will help you
find a way back to her.

 

-Thanks, Trevor.
-You got it.

 

-lt means a lot to me.
-Me too.

 

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

 

I mean, north is south, south is north...

 

...and we need to bear due north
across the sea.

 

You mean, south.

 

Exactly.

 

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

 

Okay, hold it. Hold it really steady.

 

Good, good, good.

 

-Good. Ready?
SEAN: Yeah.

 

Three, two, one, go!

 

-Yeah.
SEAN: All right.

 

Yeah. All right.

 

TREVOR:
Yeah.

 

Go, go, go.

 

Yeah. Keep going.

 

Whoa, we're going, we're going.

 

Hey, well, can you wait for me?

 

HANNAH: Well, get on.
SEAN: Come on, come on, let's go.

 

[CHlRPlNG]

 

He's back.

 

Hey, little guy.

 

Seen those clouds?

 

Yeah.

 

The current's pulling us in the direction
we wanna go. We should lower the kite.

 

Can't do that.
It's a hundred and nine degrees.

 

It's getting hotter.

 

We need all the speed we can get.
Leave it up.

 

It's just a little storm.

 

Ain't no big deal.

 

Something moving down there.

 

TREVOR:
Phosphorous and plankton.

 

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

 

I don't know.
It looks kind of big for plankton.

 

Sean, we're not at SeaWorld,
so back off a little bit.

 

-All right?
-I think it's some sort of fish.

 

[YELLlNG]

 

SEAN:
No.

 

[SPLASHES]

 

They're everywhere.

 

Sean, I told you
we'd get to the batting cage.

 

Batter up.

 

SEAN:
Okay. Let's see what you've got.

 

Yeah. Line drive.

 

[PHONE CHlMlNG]

 

-Sean!
-Do you hear something?

 

-Hello?
ELlZABETH: Sean.

 

-Mom?
-I think we have a bad connection.

 

Mom, I can't hear you.

 

Where are you?

 

Uncle Trevor and l, uh...

 

...we're sort of on a fishing trip and....

 

Are you having fun?

 

Whoa, no, you don't.

 

-Uncle Trevor just caught a really big one.
-Sean?

 

-My phone.
-Sean, do you know how to switch hit?

 

-Ready?
SEAN: Yeah.

 

Out of the ball park.

 

-Sean.
-Look out.

 

I got it, I got it.

 

[GROWLS]

 

HANNAH: Sean.
TREVOR: No, no, don't.

 

Get away from the sides.

 

Look what they're doing.

 

They don't want us. They want the fish.

 

Listen up.
Sean, you take the tiller, we'll get the line.

 

Hannah, hold the slack.

 

Sean, you wanna take us hard starboard?

 

What?

 

That way.

 

SEAN:
Come on.

 

-Okay.
TREVOR: Doing good.

 

Now just let it out gently.
Let it out gently.

 

Let it out slowly.

 

SEAN:
It's working.

 

We're pulling clear of them.

 

You're the man, Uncle Trev.

 

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

 

[YELLS AND GRUNTS]

 

TREVOR:
Hannah.

 

Let me see.

 

The lines.

 

SEAN: Got it.
TREVOR: Sean.

 

Sean, don't do that. No, Sean.

 

Sean!

 

-No, Sean!
-Trevor!

 

-Sean!
TREVOR: Hang on!

 

Don't let go!

 

No.

 

[GASPS]

 

Trevor?

 

Trevor?

 

Hello?

 

[CHlRPlNG]

 

Hello?

 

Hey, little guy. Where are we?

 

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

 

I'm talking to a bird.

 

I must be losing it.

 

TREVOR:
Sean!

 

Sean!

 

Wait.

 

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?

 

[CHlRPlNG]

 

Good job.

 

Okay.

 

Now which way?

 

South.

 

That's good.

 

The river's north.

 

Okay.

 

Here, let me take that.

 

-No, no, I'm fine.
-Come on, let me take it.

 

-Trevor, I'm fine.
-Hannah, Hannah, I got it.

 

Let's just stop for a second.

 

Hey, we're gonna find him.

 

Drink that.

 

-ls that the last of the water?
-Yeah.

 

We're gonna need that. Keep it.

 

Hannah, drink it.

 

Come on.

 

Duck!

 

-What the--?
HANNAH: What was that?

 

Large carnivorous plant?

 

Hannah.

 

Hannah?

 

Hannah.

 

Hannah.

 

[GASPS]

 

Hannah.

 

Ugh.

 

Hang in there.

 

That's one point for me, right?

 

Right.

 

Who's keeping track, right?

 

I get it.

 

It's a magnetic field.

 

No way.

 

Magnetic rocks?

 

No, no. No, no, no.

 

No. No.

 

You try that without wings.

 

That's the river.

 

Geyser must be inside that cave.

 

Sean!

 

Where is he?

 

Where is he?

 

Trevor?

 

Trevor?

 

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

 

[GROWLlNG lN DlSTANCE]

 

[THUMPlNG]

 

I don't see him anywhere.

 

Trevor? Trevor.

 

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?

 

Just in case.

 

[SEAN YELLlNG]

 

TREVOR:
Sean!

 

Sean!

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

Sean!

 

Sean?!

 

Sean!

 

Sean!

 

Sean! Sean!

 

Come on!

 

Oh, God, I'm glad to see you.

 

Yeah, you too.

 

-Are you all right?
-Yeah.

 

We should go.

 

SEAN:
Wait, wait, wait.

 

-ls that the geyser?
-Yeah, that's where we're going.

 

Come on.

 

-Haven't you ever seen a dinosaur before?
-Not with skin on it.

 

He's too fast. We're not gonna make it.

 

-Trevor, what are you doing?
-That's muscovite.

 

Same thing that we fell through before.

 

SEAN:
There's no way it's gonna hold you.

 

It can't hold him either. Now you run.

 

Trevor, no.

 

It's not breaking, Trevor.

 

Keep running!

 

-He's gaining on you.
-I know.

 

Keep going.

 

Ah! Whoa.

 

SEAN:
Trevor, it's working.

 

Look out!

 

Trevor!

 

I just remembered something.
I hate field work.

 

Trevor, come on.

 

That was like-- And then you were like--

 

Yeah, I know. I'm really lucky.

 

Okay, that way.

 

That, no good. That, worse.

 

Let's go.

 

The river.
How are we gonna get to the geyser?

 

-Water's boiling.
-We need something that floats.

 

Anything. I could use a log or--

 

What we really need is a boat.

 

Who had dibs again?

 

Come on, jump in.

 

-The best mountain guide on the planet.
-Got that right.

 

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

 

You'll have to work harder than that.

 

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

 

TREVOR:
Can I open a tab? Whoa.

 

[RUMBLlNG]

 

What was that?

 

It's not good. That's the river bed.

 

We're running out of water.

 

Well, guys,
you might wanna hang on to something.

 

This ride is about to get a little bit....

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

Bumpy.

 

-ls everybody all right?
HANNAH: Yeah.

 

SEAN:
Where are we?

 

What's that light down there?

 

TREVOR:
That's lava.

 

It's magma, and it's rising.

 

There's supposed to be water in this tunnel.
Steam, water shooting up.

 

We're too late for the geyser,
we missed it.

 

-What do we do?
-Do you have any suggestions, professor?

 

Without water, no steam.
Without steam, we're not going anywhere.

 

This place looks like there hasn't been
water here in two, three hours now.

 

-But the walls are still wet.
-That's impossible, it's 1 30 degrees.

 

-Trevor. Behind you.
-What?

 

It is wet.

 

It's cold. There's water behind here.

 

There's gotta be water behind some pocket
or underground river.

 

Trevor, it's getting closer.

 

Hey, that's magnesium.

 

-We're slipping.
-How many flares you got left?

 

Three.
What do you wanna do with them?

 

Gonna light the magnesium. On purpose.

 

Hang on.

 

Oh, come on. It's too wet.

 

Got to get further down.
Give me another one.

 

Hold my legs.

 

Come on.

 

You're gonna have to tie me off.
I gotta get down lower.

 

Trevor, it's getting closer.

 

That's good. All right, ready.

 

It's the last one.

 

Trevor, be careful.

 

HANNAH: How's that?
TREVOR: Little more.

 

SEAN:
Hurry.

 

HANNAH: Lower?
TREVOR: Little more.

 

Okay, hold off.

 

-Come on.
SEAN: Come on.

 

TREVOR: Come on, light.
SEAN: Come on.

 

Come on, Trevor.

 

Still wet. Gonna have to
throw it to the other side.

 

What?

 

No.

 

No!

 

HANNAH:
Trevor, come on.

 

-Trevor, come on.
-It's lit, it's lit.

 

Pull!

 

-Pull me up.
-Hurry.

 

Pull me up. Pull me up.

 

HANNAH: Come on, pull it. Pull it.
TREVOR: Pull.

 

Watch the teeth. Watch the teeth.

 

HANNAH:
Sean! Come on!

 

Get down, it's gonna blow.

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

This thing's heating up.

 

I know!

 

-Hang on!
-Trust me, I'm hanging on!

 

Is that sky?

 

[SCREAMlNG]

 

Hang on, everybody!

 

-Stop saying that!
-lt just keeps coming up!

 

[GRUNTlNG]

 

[LAUGHS]

 

[CHlCKENS SQUAWKlNG]

 

That's Mount Vesuvius.

 

Hey, Sean, if your mom asks you
what you did this weekend...

 

-...you tell her Uncle Trevor took you to ltaly.
-ltaly?

 

[SPEAKS lN lTALlAN]

 

[SPEAKlNG lN lTALlAN]

 

Sean?

 

Sean?

 

What? I just took
a few geological samples.

 

A few geological samples?

 

A few pounds of samples, but what
do you expect? I'm a scientist's son.

 

Look. Look.

 

You take this.

 

You take. We are sorry.

 

You want slide again?

 

Slide is okay. It's fine.

 

Anything what you want.

 

What was that for?

 

Now we're even.

 

Leonard, I'm back.
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 Asgeirsson-Anderson lnstitute
for Tectonophysical Exploration.

 

The Asgeirsson-Anderson-- What?

 

Still working on the name.

 

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, well.
What's all the excitement about?

 

-Oh, hey, Alan. How are you?
ALAN: Good.

 

-What you doing?
-Oh, me?

 

I'm moving into my new lab.

 

More importantly, where have you been?

 

I heard you missed your Monday lecture
and both of your students complained.

 

Oh!

 

[BOTH CHUCKLlNG]

 

I took a quick vacation.
Best thing I could've done.

 

ALAN:
That is exciting.

 

You'll have to promise
to tell me about it, okay?

 

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 laboratory moving
and expansion thing.

 

So 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.

 

HANNAH: So tomorrow
you're gonna be a Canadian.

 

Yep. Looks that way.

 

[SlNGlNG "O CANADA"]

 

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 just found this in your dad's stuff.

 

Give it a read.

 

- "Lost City of Atlantis. "
TREVOR: Mm-hm.

 

We'll talk.

 

Sean, what is that?

 

-I'm just feeding my pet.
-What pet?

 

Sean.

 

-You think my mom will let me keep him?
-I don't know.

 

Might not even stay here.

 

-Look at it.
-Hey, come on.

 

-This is your problem.
-Where are you going?

 

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

 

Come on.