" Ah!" "Jeez." "Oh, man." "Idiot." "You big, dumb..." "That's not too bad." "Holy Mary, Mother of God!" "Ah!" "Ahhh!" " Good morning, Beaver Mills." "It's 8:37 a.m. and I'm proud to say we are all short-timers at this point." "We made it without completely losing what marbles we had left to begin with." "Yes, you're hearing me right." "Less than two days left of the midnight sun." "For all of you sleep-deprived insomniacs out there, try a cup of fireweed tea before you go to bed tonight." "And here's a little reminder to all you B. Mills townies:" "tomorrow is the annual Solstice Festival, a char-broiled two days of tasty carcass, games of chance, and tests of skill to count down the hours before that glorious time we call the "magic hour." So today, remember," "keep sane and don't lose your cool." "For all those registered for the barbecue, it starts at 12:00 noon." "Farley, that includes you." "12:00 noon, no earlier." "2:00 p.m. is the chainsaw rally and you have to be at least 10 years old or four feet tall to enter." "¶ Sun rises on another day ¶" "¶ It's the same as the days before ¶" "¶ There's torn pictures and there's pale grey ¶" "¶ Pieces of me and you ¶" "¶ Strewn across the floor ¶" " Hey, Farley, who's winning?" " Me." " All right, here we go." "We got two Denver omelets, one over-easy;" "three orange juice, and two coffee." "Would you like cream?" " Uh-huh." "He could put cream in my coffee any day." " Come on, Susie, the sheriff's waiting." "Don't let the food get cold." " But we only ordered two coffees." "You have three." " Oh, this one's for Jake." " Oh, I'll take it to him." " No, I, um, I..." "I think I can handle it." " Oh, the new guy's getting the royal treatment" " Be easy on him, Susie." "He lost his brother a few months back." " I'm sure that's why you're being extra-nice to him." "What a Good Samaritan you are." "Well," "I do what I can." " Ah..." "Isn't he a breath of fresh air around here" " Okay, come on, Suse, get out." " Okay, okay, okay." " Here you go." "Tell the sheriff I said hi." " Yeah." " All right, ladies..." " Watch your step." " I was hoping you would." " Hand still bothering you?" " Nah, hand's fine, Doc." " You're too young for arthritis, Jake." "Hey, you wanna know what I think?" " No." " I think you messed your hand up real good in that accident." "Hairline fracture of the metacarpal, maybe even carpal." "Dunno why you won't come in, let me take a look at it." " My hand's fine." " You're real lucky you walked away from that accident with a broken hand and a bad ankle." "When your insurance money comes in and you get your truck, get someone to look at that hand." " Like I said, my hand's fine." " Everybody's a tough guy." "Claire." "Thanks, hon." " David." "Didn't you just leave?" " Yeah." "Hey, can I talk to you a second?" " Sure." " Look, I've got a conference in Fairbanks next weekend." "I can bring someone." "It'd be a fun weekend." "I was thinking" " Sorry, I can't." " You told me that last year, Claire." "I'm gonna start to take this personal." " Doc, I gotta go on a hunt, but Thomas wanted you to drop by his place, take a look at our minks." "They've got a skin rash." "Sheddin' off like piggies in a meat market." " Okay, first off, Hass, pigs don't shed." "And secondly, I'm a doctor, not a veterinarian." " What's eatin' him?" "It's only a metaphor!" "Thanks, Claire." "I'll see you at lunch." " Of course, Hass." "Ahem." "Well, you know, I had a coffee for you and..." " Don't worry about it." " Okay." " He's persistent." " Yes, he certainly is." " Mm-hmm." " Yes." " What's wrong with him?" "He seems like he'd be the..." "cream of the crop in this, uh" " Oh, in this backwards town of offbeat sourdoughs?" "You know, we're not all funny in the head." "Mind you, after 80-odd days without night, even the best of us, we get a little of the crazies." " Yeah." "What's Travis's excuse?" " The colonel?" "Oh, you got me there." "Someone took the rhubarb straight out of that man's pie." "Thanks, Claire." " See you." "Why don't you come in and let me fix you up something to eat?" " Uh... no, I really should finish..." " Oh, come on, Jake." "I mean, you're fixing my stairs for free." "It's the least I can do." "Besides, you look like you could use some good old-fashioned northern hospitality." " Hmm." " L.T.?" "L.T.!" "Damn!" "Ah, hot damn!" " Just have a seat." "I'll be right with you." " Thanks." "Coffee refills all around for the ladies?" " Oh, thanks, Claire." "This is our last motion." "Motion passed." "And the Women's League annual solstice meeting is adjourned." "All proceeds from tomorrow's barbecue go to..." "Beaver Pelt Cafe restoration fund." " Thank you, Edna." "And thank you," "Maggie, of course." "I mean, you ladies, you're so generous." "Are you finished?" " Yes, we are." " All right, let me get this out of the way." "And breakfast is on the house." "I don't wanna hear it." " Okay." " Here you are, Farley." "The usual." " I only tolerate her behaviour this time of year because of this." "It gets worse this time of year." " That's funny coming from a guy who plays checkers with himself." " The food's cold." " Food's free, Farley." "You want it hot, you gotta pay for it." "Let's get you some coffee." " Thanks." "Um what exactly is the deal with Edna?" " She's talking to her best friend, Maggie, who passed away last year." "And... she hasn't quite accepted it." "So we're just supporting her until she gets through it." " Thanks again." " See you." "So, Jake, you've been in town for a while." "How long are you... planning on staying here?" " Uh... not sure." "Depends on my insurance claim." " Why wouldn't it go through?" "Wow, that was really nosy!" "Sorry." "You probably don't wanna talk about it." " It's fine." " And I just wanted to say that I'm really sorry about what happened to your brother." " Um..." "I'm gonna keep on working on the steps." " Right." "Sure." "I'll just bring some food out to you, then." " Much appreciated." " Okay." ":" "Claire, you are such an idiot." "Um..." " Could we get some menus, please?" " Ahem." "I'll be right with you guys." "¶ And I've seen you go ¶" "¶ And now I miss you like no one ¶" "¶ Like no one before ¶" "Colonel Travis sends his regards to the goons who dropped off a present in his hot tub." "Not funny, not cool at all." "He only asked that if you took his lovable mutt L.T., please return him." "It looks like this year's festival shenanigans are starting early, with a moose head in a hot tub." "Here's a heartbreaking, soul-searching country tune dedicated to the colonel." " Help you, Doc?" " Well, call it a heart or call it my Hippocratic oath," "I just can't stand to see a man in pain." "I'm gonna take a look at that hand of yours, Jake." " All right." " This hurt?" " A little." " This?" " Oh, more!" " Okay, well, the good news is, it's only dislocated." " Uh-huh." "What's the bad news?" " It's dislocated." "I can reset it, but other than that, a splint or cast isn't gonna do much good." "You need to limit your activity." "And I mean limit your activity." "I'm gonna give it a shot to numb it before I" " No needles." "I..." "I hate needles." "Hmm." " Suit yourself." " You always make house calls, Doc?" "I mean, my hand's got you that concerned?" " Most of my work's house calls, actually." "It's old folks that won't come into town or can't." "So, uh, guess you heard me talking to Claire at the cafe." " Yeah." "Try to mind my own business." "Ah!" "I really like that girl." " Mm-hmm." "How's she feel about that?" " Well, you offer a gal a choice between a New York doctor and an out-of-work ice trucker, the doctor's gonna win every time." " I'm not competing for her, Doc." " So you say." "I see the way you look at her." " She's an attractive woman." " My point exactly." "And in a few weeks or months or whatever, when you get your insurance claim and you take off in your shiny new rig," "I'm still here." "So is she." " Okay." "Um, say, thanks for coming by." "What do I owe you?" " It's on the house." " No, really, you don't have to." "I" " It's okay." "And, uh..." "I thought you liked her." "Sorry about the misunderstanding, all right?" " No problem." ": 23 miles until destination." " No way." "Oh, bingo." "Ooh." "Ah..." "Come on." "No!" " Yee-haw." "The Solstice Festival is less than 24 hours away." "Bring your appetite." "The roasted pork butt is to die for." " Terry!" "Terry!" " Jake, it's crashing!" " Terry!" " To the woman who called in claming to have spotted the great Alaskan cockatoad circling high above Beaver Mills." "The biggest bird you'll ever see in Alaskan skies is a bald eagle." "And, believe me, unless it has the same skin rash as Thomas's or Hass's minks, all eagles have feathers." "But Vinyl Hampton really wants some of whatever you're on." " Nice, huh?" "Gotta love our summer weather." "Early bird catching the worm?" " Yeah, I couldn't sleep." " Ah, most cheechakos can't." "Not in the all-day sun." "Takes some gettin' used to." "Like not having cellphone signals, or not being able to grab a non-fat, no-whip, soy mochaccino frappa-thingy latte on every street corner." "Ah, truth is, most people can't get used to it." "Most of 'em move down to Mexico this time of year." "Yeah, gets kind of desolate out there, with most of the town gone." " You're up early." "Or is it late?" "I.." "Don't know." " Uh, 5:00 a.m." "Festival day is always busy." "Thought Claire'd be here early and have some coffee brewing'." "I hear you." "Knock yourself out." " Argh, that smells like it might." "I think I'd, uh... take one of those mochaccino frappa-thingies about now." "Whew." "That ain't moose nuggets." "Ah-ah-ah-ah!" " Ah, it's started." " What's started?" " Festival of crazies." "People get a little..." "rambunctious." " So I heard." " Susie, shots fired in the south woods." "I'm gonna check it out." " Copy, Chief." " Go for a ride?" " Sure." " Wouldn't get too excited." "Probably just Farley or Hass shooting' at moose pies." "Shoulder your weapon out there!" "It's Chief Dawson!" "All right, whoever's firin' that rifle, you're too close to residential!" " Chief!" "Chief!" " Hass, put that weapon down." "Hass?" " Just..." "I-I saw... something." "Okay, okay, okay." "Calm down." "Let's hear it." " Something at-attacked me." "I never seen anything like it." "A monster." " Hass, you been smoking the dried kelp?" " No!" "It-it's real!" " What's real, Hass?" "Get a grip." "What's real?" " It's... it's... not of this world." " Okay, okay, here we go." "Come on, Hass." " What are you thinking?" " I'm thinking the sun can't set fast enough." "Seems to get crazier every year." " What if something did attack him?" " Well, nothing attacked him, Jake." "He hasn't slept in three days and he's got no mind to be out here hunting at this hour." "No, tired mind does things to a man." " Do you see that?" " Oh." "Oh..." " That's Doc Yates." " How do you know?" " I just saw him a few hours ago." "That's the shirt he was wearing." " Oh, for crying out loud." "I can't believe it." " Where's the rest of him?" " Good question." "Susie?" " Barnes here." " We're two miles south of 64 at the Trillings Road crossing." "Send the car and the clean-up kit." " What happened, Chief?" " Something got to Doc Yates." " Yates?" "I got a call about his car, abandoned about 12 miles east from town, about 150 feet off State Road 34." "Gettin' towed right now." " If his car is there, what's his arm doing here?" " Hass... what was that you said you saw again?" " A monster." "Not of this world." " Yeah, we know, we know." "But where was it?" " Good morning, Edna." "Good morning, Farley." " Hi, Claire." "Happy solstice." "This is the Beaver Pelt Cafe." "Claire speaking..." "Yeah..." "Well, what is it?" "..." "Okay." "Yeah." "Thanks." " What?" " Um, something bad has happened to the doc." "The chief, he's coming." "He called a meeting." " Hass... are you okay?" " No." " Okay, listen up." "I know you're all wonderin' what's goin' on." ":" "Yeah." " And truth is," "I wish I could tell you." "Right now, Doc is missing." "And I'd be lying if I told you that the prospects of finding him alive are good." "We have us a predator out there." "A flying' one." " What kind of flying predator?" " Okay, all right, all right, quiet down." "Hass here says that he saw something in the air." "Which is why we need to take some precautions, till we better know what we're dealing with." "In all likelihood, we're dealing with a grizzly protecting her cubs." " Uh, from the air?" "Up...?" "Chief, bears don't fly." "I know that, Farley." "Only, Hass here says" " I know what I saw, Chief!" " We believe you, Hass." " How can you not know what kind..." "I mean... uh..." "Chief, how can you not know what it is?" "There's not a lot of predators around here that we haven't seen before, right?" " Maybe it was the colonel's flying moose." "Okay, this ain't funny!" " I'm not being funny." " We have got a dangerous, unidentified predator out there and I need you all to take serious precautions." " Cockatoad." " Alaskan... cockatoad." " Oh, my God!" "Oh, my God!" " What in the hell is that?" " Susie, what are you doing?" " Well, you said to bring it to you, Chief." " Have you lost your mind as well, Susie?" "Get this out of here and into the cooler at the station." "Okay, okay, calm down." "Okay, you know the drill." "Kids, pets, livestock - lock 'em away." "Everybody stay indoors." "And I don't wanna see anybody running into the woods in a half-baked goose chase, or I'll lock them up too." "Got it, Farley?" " What?" "!" " Now, I put a call in to Hunting and Fishing." "They're gonna send some of their boys down." " Okay." " What about the festival?" " Chief, if you cancel the one thing that keeps this town sane, the one thing that reminds us that the sun is finally gonna set in a few days..." " Look, this is the only thing we got going this time of year." "Besides, Doc would want us to have it." " Chief, you can't cancel." " I'm not cancelling anything." "Yet." " I think maybe a postponement... might be the best idea, just to be safe." " You know, I-I'm with Jake." " Look, can't postpone." "Solstice is gonna be over tonight." " All right, well, I think you're making a mistake." "I just want that..." "to be known." "But I'm here to help out however needed." " I appreciate it." " Chief, come back." " Go, Susie." " Just got a call from Thomas, yelling something about his minks?" "Sounded upset." "Then his phone went out." " Copy that, Susie." "I'll head out there." "Thanks, Claire." " Yeah." "You be safe, Chief." "Okay?" "Ah!" "Holy moly!" "Didn't I warn those tin-plated desk jockeys?" "Now we got ourselves a full-blown invasion." " Hour 15 of my round-the-clock broadcast." "And if you haven't heard the news," "Doc is missing." "And if you hear this, Doc, this one goes out to you." " Doc ain't missing, you nit!" "He was breakfast and we're gonna all be lunch!" "Send in the troops." " Colonel's been having beer with his cereal again." " It's an invasion." "Call out the Guard." " What?" " Reptilian aliens!" "One of 'em buzzed my vehicle." " Reptilian aliens." "You need to go home and get some sleep, or you're gonna be tweaked as Hass." " Hass!" "What happened to Hass?" " What, you don't know?" " Listen, missy, get the chief on the blower." "I seen the damn thing that killed Doc." " I can't call anyone until you fill out an incident report." " Incident report?" "!" "You gonna be fillin' out death reports on the whole damn county if you don't get the chief!" "Oh...!" " Hey!" " Watch it." " Chief, come back." "Chief..." " Thomas?" "Thomas." "Ugh!" " Hey, Colonel, how's it going?" "Wanna make a dedication to Doc?" " I need to make an emergency broadcast." " Why?" " It's Roswell, Hampton." "All over again, girl." "And they look like reptilians." "A huge mother of 'em flew right over my vehicle!" " Uh-huh." "You sleeping all right?" " Hell, I'm as awake as a steer with a prod up his rear!" "Now listen to me." "People need to know." " If you're hankering for a thick, juicy steak, or some pork butt, head on down to" " Get the damn cotton out of your ears, girl!" " I answer to the highest authority in the land." "Only state officials can authorize an emergency broadcast." " This whole town's losing it, and I'm the sane one!" " Sorry, Trav, there are rules and regulations." "I can't just blurt out an emergency broadcast!" "Fuckin' nut." " Farley." "He'll believe it." "Farley, they've landed." " What's that?" "Aliens?" " Flying reptilians, like." "Seen it twice." " You sure it's not the same rogue critter that got Doc Yates?" "That's why I'm packin'." "Yeah." "You betcha." " Whew..." "Lambs to the slaughter." "I'm on my own." "Just like in 'Nam." " So, um, what'd the colonel tell you?" " That he saw flying space reptilians." " It's the same thing he told me." "Looks good." " Got any pull with the judges?" " Just you and me, bro." "Emergency broadcast!" "This is an emergency broadcast!" "We need help." "Emer..." " Oh, no." "No." "Barnes!" "What's your 20?" "Barnes!" "Do you read?" "Barnes!" "Barnes!" "Come back!" "Wake up, Barnes!" " Barnes here." "Sorry, Chief." "At the Solstice Festival." "It's all clear here, sir." "Gearing up and it smells great." " Shut it down!" " Say again." " There are multiple victims." "Call in the state troopers!" "Shut it down on my authority!" "Get the whole damn town out of the area!" " Roger." " Seriously, like, whee..." " Attention, please." "The festival is closed." "We have a situation." "The festival is closing down." " You outta your mind?" " Sheriff's orders." "Pack it up." "Don't panic." "It's... it's just a precaution." "Please, stay calm." " Oh, my God." " What are you guys looking at?" "Oh, my God!" " The festival." " Oh!" "Get back!" "Edna, get down!" " Oh, that smell." "My God, what is it?" " Help!" " You okay?" " Yes." " Hey!" "Anyone!" " Okay, is everyone okay?" "Anyone hurt?" " Hurt?" "There's dead people out there!" " I know that, Farley!" "I'm talking about in here!" "Is everybody okay?" "You okay?" " I'm fine." "But what the hell was that?" "!" " I have no idea." " Is it..." "It looked like a dragon." "Right?" " I know." "It makes no sense." " Like a dragon!" " I know." "It's insane." "Where... where's the phone?" " The phones are dead." "That damn thing tore out a bunch of poles, ripped out a bunch of wires, took everything off the roof of my studio." "See that thing?" "!" " Thing's a beast." "Right out of Revelations." "We're all doomed." " Calm down, Edna, okay?" "Listen, are you sure all the lines are down?" " Yeah, my power too." " I'm telling you, it's Revelations." " What are you talking about?" " The Good Book." ""And the great dragon was cast out," ""that old serpent called the devil." ""And Satan, which deceiveth the whole world, was cast out into the earth and his angels were cast out with him."" "Revelations, chapter 12, verse 9?" "It is the end of days!" "I'm telling you, we brought down the wrath of God." " That's the Good Book, huh?" " You got a better explanation?" "You said it was a cockatoad." " I was in shock." "I wasn't thinking clear." " Got anything better now?" " It was..." "It was a wyvern." " That's ridiculous." " H-hold on a second." "Let him speak." "What are you saying, Hass?" " The Nordic people call it the wyvern." "It was a dragon so fierce, so nasty, that it was rumoured that it was birthed by Hel herself." "That's "Hel" with one L, the goddess of the Norse underground." "Its sole purpose was to eat the corpses of evildoers." "Well, it got bored with that and started feasting on men, children, women..." " What does this have to do with the price of wheat in Alaska?" " Everything, Farley!" "When it got tired of the men and women and children, then it went on a feeding frenzy so fierce that it... accidentally bit Odin, the ruler of Valhalla." "Odin didn't take kindly to that." "Banished the wyvern to the frozen tundra, where it would spend eternity... locked in the icecaps." "I guess... now that the icecaps are melting the wyvern's been released to wreak its havoc on the world." " You know what?" "We've got a real problem and Hass is telling mythological allegories like "you bit off more than you can chew."" " Look, an allegory did not bite off Doc's arm!" "I don't know what an allegory looks like, but that damn thing out there is a wyvern!" " How do you know all this?" " My father... was from Norway." "When we'd fish, we'd hear... the echoed roars of... ice breaking off the glaciers and falling into the sea." "He'd always say... it was the wyvern waking up." "Never meant too much to me until that thing tried to take my head off." " I believe you, Hass." " I do too." " Look, tell me, is there anything in this legend that tells us how to stop it?" " When the Vikings would set off into the North Sea they'd have virgin sacrifices." "Any volunteers?" "Farley?" " Um, we can't do that, but we gotta get the state troopers in here, or Chief Dawson." "Where is he?" "Where's Chief Dawson?" " I tried him on his CB, but there's... there's nothing." "There's nothing!" " I think the chief went over to Thomas's." " Right." "Okay, where's Thomas's?" " I know where it is." "I-I-I'll go with you." " Well, you're gonna get yourselves eaten." " If we sit here and do nothing, doesn't seem like we'll fare much better." "Hampton, Hass, you stay here" " Can I go?" "I know a shortcut." " Keep trying that CB." "Someone's gotta be out there!" " I can drive." " Be careful." " Barnes?" "Come in, Barnes!" "Come in, Susie!" "Come in, Barnes!" "Susie!" "Dammit, girl, answer your radio!" " I can't believe so many are gone." "Susie and David" " We just gotta stay calm." " But what do we do, Jake?" " What do you mean?" " We must've done something wrong in order to bring this thing here." " Being a trucker my whole life," "I've seen a lot of wisdom on the road and some of it might apply right here." " Yeah, what's that?" " Stuff happens." " You should've got out of this town when you could've." " Yeah..." "Maybe I didn't want to." " Yeah?" "What about now?" " Still don't." " Well, then you're just as crazy as the rest of us." " Well, then I fit right in." "We're gonna beat this, Claire." "We'll beat it." " Okay." "What are you doing?" " It landed right over there." " Yeah!" " I'm gonna get a closer look." " You're gonna what?" "!" " It knows where we live, I wanna know where it lives." "Level the playing field." " Heck, if they don't wanna listen, they can all go to hell." "I'll go to the authorities on my own." "It's the Krems." "Hello?" "!" "Anyone alive?" "!" "Hello!" "Anyone alive?" "!" "Hello?" "!" "Anyone alive?" "!" "Thing ain't letting' us leave." " Is there anyone out there?" "Please, this is Vinyl Hampton down in Beaver Mills." "We've got a problem." "People are dead." "This is an SOS." "Is anyone out there?" " We have to keep our wits about us." " This can't be happening." "It's the chief!" "Everyone, it's the chief!" "He's here!" " Anyone on this frequency, can you... can you hear me?" " Chief, in here!" "Chief!" " It's coming back!" "Chief!" " Take cover!" "Run!" ":" "Run!" " Run!" "Run!" " Chief, hurry!" " Run!" " Run!" " Oh..." " Edna, come on." " Okay, so now what?" " I think it landed over there." "Now, I'm gonna go get a look if I can." "Stay in the car and use this if so much as a hummingbird scoots by, okay?" " Okay." "Ah..." " Okay?" " Just hurry back quick." "Okay?" " Two seconds." "Jake..." "Jake!" "Jake!" "Jake..." " Oh..." "That was close, huh?" "You okay?" " Yeah." "It's the colonel." " Hey..." "How'd you know we were here?" " Didn't." "Thing's nesting, ain't it?" " Yeah, it's nesting." " It's gonna keep killing us." "We have to get everyone out" " I've tried that." "It ain't letting' anyone leave." " What?" " There's a pile of cars and corpses on the interstate as far as the eye can see." "We're this thing's food supply." "It's corralling us like animals." "We're gonna have to fight this thing!" " No, we're gonna have to kill it." " Finally, somebody talkin' my lingo." "Need a lift I take it." "Let's go." " This is Jake Suttner." "Come in." "Come in, Beaver Mills." "This is Jake Suttner." "Come in." "...Suttner..." " I think I hear voices." " What else is new?" " No, dummy!" "I hear a voice coming from that there CB." " Come back." "Anyone?" " CB's working." " This is Jake Suttner." "Come back." " Hello?" "It's Hampton." "We read." "We read you." " Hampton, are you all okay?" " No, uh... we're as okay as can be." " We haven't made it to the mink farm yet, but we're with the colonel, we're on our way now." "Have you heard from the chief?" "Did you read that?" " He's gone, Jake." " Jake, we've got to get outta here." "One big exodus." " No, listen, do not do that." "You all strap in right where you are and stay there." "Do not move." "We are coming back to you." "Repeat:" "we are coming back to you." "Listen, Hampton, check and see if there are any other survivors." " Copy that, Jake." "Hurry." "Out." " Yeah, out." "Did you get anybody on the radio?" " No, I picked you up when you got close." "Long distance?" "Nothing." "That thing took my antenna out." " Yeah, I know." "It's... making a nest out of all that stuff." " You saw its nest?" "!" " Wouldn't be surprised." " Look, the most important thing right now is that we find a way to communicate with the outside." "I dunno, ham radio, something." "What do you got, Hampton?" " Mine's out." "I need to jerry-rig an antenna." " You mean like an "antenna on the roof" antenna?" " Yeah." "But not this one." "Old Tattoo's got the most powerful one other than mine." " Old Tattoo..." " We'll be exposed." " Yeah." "Great." "Um..." "Okay, I'll go." " I'm going too." " No, you stay." "Um, I gotta move quick." "No offense, but... you know." " Don't look at me." "I ain't offended." "I know how slow I am." " Okay." "Colonel, may I?" " Yeah." " Okay." " We need more arms and ammo." " Chief's got lots of good goods in the back of his truck out there." " Truck's about 100 feet away." " Okay, great." "Know how to use this?" " Of course." "This is Alaska." " All right, let's go." " That's not gonna buy us much." " Buys us something." " Sorry!" "I couldn't just sit back!" "Especially when I saw all that ammo come out." " Here... take this." " That's bear insurance." " Wyvern insurance." " Ha-ha!" " Let's go." " I know the wiring." "I'll go." " No, no, no, no." "I'll go." "It's not a male-female thing." "Okay?" "I just..." "I gotta go do this." " Okay." "Drop it down." " All right." " Okay, let's just wait a few, make sure it left." " No, it just flew off." "This is our best chance." "I'm going." " Okay, I'm heading out to the street." " Okay." " Farley, please." " Here you go, Farley." "I'm gonna need that sharp." "Claire!" "Get away from that door." " All clear!" "How's it going?" "!" " One down, three to go!" "Two down!" " Uh, Jake?" " I got two more!" " Jake, hurry!" " I see him, I see him." "Three down." " Hurry!" "It's coming!" "Move!" " Jake!" " Edna, please, a little bit of space." "Sorry, Edna." "I'm just tired." "Okay, let's give this a try." " Is it gonna work?" "Think so." " You've got it on the emergency channel, right?" " Just gotta hope the signal reaches where we need to, stays strong." "Here we go." " Come back, please." "This is Beaver Mills." "We have an emergency." "Come back, please." "This is Beaver Mills." "We have an emergency." " Alaska Security Bureau." "We read you." "Over." " Uh, yeah, this is Beaver Mills, requesting urgent assistance." " You're breaking up." "Can you boost the power?" "Over." " No, it's all it's got." " This is Chief Dawson," "Beaver Mills, declaring an emergency." "What is the nature..." "What is the nature of your emergency, Chief?" "Over." " Uh, yeah, we've got a fire at the yarding compound." "Gas explosion, um, phone lines are down, power lines are down, uh..." "We've got injuries and fatalities." " Jake, we don't have a yarding compound." " No, we got us a wyvern problem." "You wanna tell 'em that?" "See how that goes." " I'm just sayin'." " Say again?" "What kind of explosion?" "Over." " Gas explosion." "Power lines are down." "Send help immediately." " We're losing it." " You're breaking up, Chief." "We'll call you on a land line." " No, no, the phone lines are down too." "Don't..." "Just send help immediately!" "Argh!" " So... what now?" " Listen up." " If Farley and Hass can get us some gas for the genny," "I think we're in good shape, food-wise." " Oh." " This is Beaver Mills." "We have an SOS." "Over." " Farley and Hass are right behind us and they got fuel." "We've got the medical supplies." " Come on, Farley, move your caboose!" "We're almost there!" "Oh, come on, Farley, don't have an asthma attack now!" ":" "Wait a second." " Come on." "Ahhh!" "Ahhh!" " It got Farley!" "It got him!" " Get inside." "Get inside." "Stay here, Colonel..." " Ah, Jake." " You're all right." "It just got you a little bit." "Come on." "Ahhh..." " Should be anytime now, wouldn't you say, Colonel?" " Should be, God willing." " The propane's running out." "This'll be the last of the coffee for a while." " Give it to someone else." "I'm good." " No, they need their sleep and we all need you awake." " It was my fault, you know." " What was?" " The accident." "My brother." "I guess we all have our reasons for why we think this is happening, some price we're paying for... things we've done wrong in our lives." " No, it's like what you said," "I mean, stuff happens." "Jake, it's out of our hands." " Well, maybe for you." "You didn't kill our own brother." " Neither did you." "You were driving a truck and the ice underneath it gave way." " That's what you heard?" " Yeah, I'm..." "I've only heard, um... you know, the gossip and the rumours and..." "Tell me what really happened that night." " That night..." "Well, nighttime is the worst." "You know... so quiet, dark as coal." "You got these..." "Northern Lights dancing in front of you..." "I was up for a 30-hour stretch." "My brother, Terry, he caught the flu going in, so he was in no condition to drive." "It was all me for four days straight." "You got those... lights and night..." "You think you're hallucinating." "And all you can hear is the sound of the ice... cracking beneath your wheels and all you can hope is that the sound of the cracking doesn't get any louder." "Well, let's just say that... the cracks got louder." "It was a dead man's run." "I should've known better." "Terry didn't wanna take it, but the money was good..." "I dunno." " Well, if the money was good, then" " See, that's what I'm saying." "We didn't need it," "Claire." "We had a good year." "I mean, we did okay." "We didn't need this run." "Not this one." " So then why did you do it?" " Greed, pride..." "I didn't think about those things back then." "All I..." "All I know is that I always had to keep on pushing it." "One more run, one more mile, one more dime." "And, you know, if someone says that I can't do something, that just makes me push that much more." "So anyway Terry's next to me, sick as a dog" " You couldn't stop?" "Turn around?" " Not me, I couldn't." "I had to keep on going, pushing it." "And that's when the ice started to go." "And when it goes, it goes quick." "Truck goes down tail-in first." "Tilts over to Terry's side..." "The ice water starts rushing in like the devil itself, grabbing at you with ice claws and..." "I grabbed Terry, I reach out to him, and the cab comes crashing down." "Broke my hand up real good." "I'm holding on to Terry and the cab's going down and..." "It was so cold in that cab." "I just..." "I couldn't hold on to him anymore, so I let him go." "I killed him." " No, you didn't, Jake." "It was an accident." " Uh-uh." "No, it wasn't an accident." "It was my fault." "It was my greed, my arrogance, my pride, that killed him." " Jake, you made a bad decision, but I got news for you:" "that was nature that killed your brother." "'Cause in the past 48 hours," "I've seen more people I know die..." "And these are good people, these are honest people." "And what was our mistake?" "Hmm?" "What was our accident?" " It's coming." " And it's carrying something." " All right, I'm gonna go get him." " Wait!" " It's on the roof." " What is it doing?" " Help me!" " It's using David as bait." " Please...!" " It's waiting to pick us off one by one as we leave." " Help me...!" " I gotta go get him." "Can't just leave him out there." "Cover me." "Please...!" " Jake!" "Jake, run!" "Jake, hurry up!" "Come on!" " Hurry up, Colonel." " Jake, hurry!" "Jake!" " Incoming!" " Jake, it's coming!" " Not gonna make it!" " Farley!" "Farley!" "Farley!" " It's coming in, Jake!" " Farley!" " It's coming, Jake!" " Hey!" "Here!" " Farley!" "Jake!" " Incoming!" "Run!" " Farley, run!" "No!" " Dammit, Farley." " Hang in there, David!" "Put him down on the table." "It'll be okay, David." "Gentle, gentle." ":" "Beaver Mills do you copy?" "Over." " This is Beaver Mills." "Thank God." " This is Alaska Security on approach." "Over." " Tell them to stay away!" "Do not approach!" " Why?" "!" " Eighty days of day is almost over." " Yeah, this solstice was a real bitch, wasn't it?" " Mm-hmm." " Yeah." "Maybe we should give ourselves something to celebrate." " Eggs." " Hey, David." "David, it's Claire." "Listen, honey, it's past 11:30." "I'm not even serving eggs anymore." " No." "It has eggs." " What'd he say?" " He said that it has eggs." " Tell me exactly what you saw, David." " It has eggs." "Three." " That nest." " Kill it." " David, honey, what was that?" "Kill it." " David, come on, stay with us, David." " Jake, we still got no real plan for sure." " For sure we gotta kill it." "Claire, keep trying the CB every few minutes." " What?" "I'm going with you." " What?" "No, it's too dangerous." " Too dangerous for who?" "Would you look at yourselves?" "A truck driver, a DJ, a retired colonel and hillbilly." " Hey, who you callin' a hillbilly?" " Hass, you made your own fur jacket." " Answer's no." " Jake." "She is a hell of a shot." " Okay, fine, let's go." "Come on." " Edna, you gonna be okay here with Maggie?" " Yes, of course." "Better leave me a gun, though." " Yeah, okay." " Edna, stay quiet, stay away from the doors, and keep on trying that CB." "Let's go, come on." "It's just a little bit farther down here." "Okay, it's right here." "Stay low." " Oh, my God." " It's unreal." " Colonel, you see that?" " There." " That genny making you think what I'm thinking?" "We run a current to electrify the nest." "When that thing comes back, it dies." " Are you sure you can jerry-rig this thing?" " More or less." " Just make sure... it starts with one pull." " It's a Power Supreme 5000." "She'll start." " Oh... hell!" " The cable!" "Hit it!" " Hass?" "!" " Colonel!" "No!" " Why?" " The eggs are bait." " Jake, Jake..." "What is that?" "Jake?" " I dunno." " Jake... what is this?" " Jake, what are we doing here?" " It's my claim." " What?" " It's my replacement rig." "Poor guy drove in to all this." " Great." "So what now?" " Jake!" " We're a bit pressed for time here, son." " Jake, what are you thinking?" " I need two things." "I need the GPS from Doc's car and I need that egg strapped into the truck here." "You guys get back in the truck and hightail it over to Edna." " And then what?" " Wait for me." "GPS set?" " Get you where you wanted." "Don't know what you're gonna do when you get there, but hope to see you again." " You will." " You sure you don't want some company on this one?" " No." "I gotta go do this one alone." ":" "Three miles until destination." "Two miles until destination." "One mile until destination." "Destination." " There he is." "Jake!" " Is it over?" " It's all done, Colonel." "It's over." "Maybe we all can get some sleep now." " Your new rig?" " Yeah, I didn't need it anyway." "I like it just fine here in Beaver Mills." "Come on." "Hey, Edna... got Maggie with you?" " Jake, Maggie passed away a year ago." " Good for you, Edna." "Good for you."