:13:01
It looks like a letter
or notches.
:13:03
Three notches made
by the hand of man.
:13:07
But how could
a rock from Iceland
:13:10
possibly pop out of
a volcano across the world?
:13:15
What's your conclusion?
:13:16
Science does not
jump to conclusions.
:13:19
Science is not
a guessing game.
:13:21
We'll melt off
the crust of lava.
:13:24
Mr. Paisley.
:13:29
Add 10 cc of aqua regia.
:13:32
Not too fast now.
:13:34
I shall write to Professor
Goetaborg of Stockholm on this.
:13:38
He's the world's leading
authority on volcanoes.
:13:40
How long
will this take?
:13:43
A typically
female question.
:13:45
Melting lava takes
maybe two hours,
:13:47
maybe four hours.
:13:49
Two hours?
Four hours?
:13:51
Maybe
the whole night.
:13:52
Who cares?
:13:59
Jenny.
:14:01
Are you all right?
:14:17
That was entirely
my fault.
:14:19
I don't know how it
could have happened.
:14:22
Mr. Paisley, by your slip
you've rendered
:14:26
an inestimable service
to science.
:14:32
Alec!
:14:33
See this?
:14:34
What would
you call it?
:14:36
As you said,
it's a manmade object.
:14:39
It looks like a top,
:14:40
a surveyor's instrument,
a plumb bob.
:14:43
It is
a plumb bob.
:14:45
There are letters
on it.
:14:48
It's an inscription,
a message, perhaps.
:14:50
Can you make out
what it says, Professor?
:14:54
It's in some
Nordic tongue.
:14:57
The hand that
wrote this trembled.
:14:59
Perhaps it was
a dying hand.