1:36:02
This would be a voyage
of discovery.
1:36:05
You're in a position to contribute
as much to our knowledge...
1:36:09
as any man or woman
who's come before you.
1:36:14
And if you were to wait,
and, uh, do this operation...
1:36:17
after I'm done with my brain,
what would, uh--
1:36:20
If that's what you want, yes,
an autopsy. That's all we'll do.
1:36:23
But that wouldn't be
as useful.
1:36:25
The study of a living,
active brain would tell us volumes.
1:36:30
All right, so, if you were
to do this operation, wouldn't
it most likely kill me...
1:36:33
or at least shorten my life?
1:36:35
George, I-- I'm asking you to try
and see the larger picture.
1:36:40
- Mm-hmm.
- To realize what you have...
1:36:42
to offer to us, the ones
you're leaving behind.
1:36:46
You could be our
greatest teacher, George.
1:36:49
Hmm?
1:36:51
I can be your biographer,
in a sense.
1:36:54
I can present you to the world.
1:36:57
But that's not me.
That's just my brain.
1:37:00
Do you understand?
Look, Doctor.
1:37:03
You know, I just might have something
to say in my last few hours.
1:37:06
I just might have
something to say.
1:37:09
What you're saying is that
I have something to teach.
1:37:12
And yet you're willing to end me
to study my brain under a microscope.
1:37:15
- N-Now, is that all I'm here for?
- What else?
1:37:17
- You're not a scholar or a--
- I'll tell you what I am, okay?
1:37:19
I-I'll tell you what I think I am.
I think I'm what everybody can be.
1:37:23
- Everyone with a malignant, tentacled--
- Oh, no, no, no, no.
1:37:26
I-It's-- It's-- Th-Th-That just
helped me get here, okay?
1:37:29
I mean, anybody can get here. It's--
I'm-- I'm the possibility, all right?
1:37:33
I mean, I think you've got this
desperate grasp on, uh, technology...
1:37:38
and this grasp on science,
and, uh, you don't have a--
1:37:41
a hand left to--
to grasp what's important.
1:37:43
- George, now, George--
- If I had to choose between
a tumor that got me here...
1:37:45
and some flash of light
from an alien craft,
1:37:48
I'd choose the tumor; I would,
because it's here within us.
1:37:51
What I'm talking about
is the human spirit.
1:37:53
That's the challenge.
That's the voyage.
That's the expedition.