Snow Dogs/Transcript

==Transcript==
Mrs. Yepremian
 
 
I wouId Iike
you to meet
 
 
my new associate, Dr. Brooks.
 
 
He's here for Career Day.
 
 
Aw.
 
 
He's adorabIe.
 
 
He wants to be
a dentist
 
 
just Iike his dad.
 
 
All right, Iet's see
what's going on in there.
 
 
Oh, boy.
 
 
Aah... Dr. Brooks,
is this gonna hurt?
 
 
I'm afraid just a IittIe.
 
 
More than a tickIe
 
 
but way Iess than
paying your taxes.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
That's right.
 
 
All right,
Iet's see.
 
 
Dr. Brooks!
 
 
I think I need a second opinion.
 
 
--Me?
--Mm-hmm.
 
 
Son, if you want
to be a great dentist
 
 
never forget
the personaI touch.
 
 
Here.
 
 
Ah...
 
 
( gags )
 
 
( vomits )
 
 
Ah!
 
 
( up-tempo Latin music plays )
 
 
 Oh! 
 
 
 Mmm 
 
 
 La-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia, Ia-Ia-Ia 
 
 
 WaIking down the bouIevard 
 
 
 I don't need
no Iucky charm today 
 
 
 Not today 
 
 
 'Cause I got rhythm
in my feet 
 
 
 I got my pockets
full of green today... 
 
 
Hello, Iadies!
 
 
--Oh.
--Hi.
 
 
BeautifuI day in Miami.
 
 
 I'm gonna see my IittIe girI
before the sun goes down 
 
 
 And there's nothin' Ieft to do
but to do the town today 
 
 
 What a day 
 
 
 I'm gonna meet her at the
station at a quarter to three 
 
 
 'Cause she's
finally comin' back
 
 
 Comin' back to me today 
 
 
 La-da-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia 
 
 
( engine revs )
 
 
 La-da-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia 
 
 
 La-da-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia 
 
 
Whoo!
 
 
 Just to have her to myseIf 
 
 
 Just to feeI
the way I feIt again 
 
 
 Once again 
 
 
 To you, my friend,
I must confess 
 
 
 To me she stands
above the rest, you see 
 
 
( tires screeching )
 
 
 
 
 
 Gonna see my IittIe girI
before the sun goes down 
 
 
 And there's nothin' Ieft to do
but to do the town today 
 
 
 What a day 
 
 
 I'm gonna meet her at the
station at a quarter to three 
 
 
 'Cause she's finally comin'
back, comin' back to me 
 
 
 Today 
 
 
 La-da-Ia-Ia-Ia-
Ia-Ia-Ia-Ia... 
 
 
Good morning, fine Iadies.
 
 
--Good morning.
--Good morning.
 
 
Busy day, Doctor.
 
 
Yeah, they all are.
 
 
We will be with you all
in a whiIe
 
 
and we promise
to make you smiIe.
 
 
Now, if your jaw still hurts
tonight
 
 
take two pills.
 
 
If it still hurts
tomorrow, then...
 
 
you shouId probabIy find
a new dentist.
 
 
Huh?
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Find a...
 
 
It's a IittIe joke.
 
 
--Oh.
--Anyway
 
 
just call us tomorrow,
Iet us know how you feeI.
 
 
--Sugar cookies.
--Hello, IittIe darIing.
 
 
Hello, you.
 
 
Mom... hi.
 
 
Teddy Bear!
 
 
Hi. How are you?
 
 
Can I...?
 
 
Excuse us for a second.
 
 
--Uh, enjoy them.
--Come on, Mom.
 
 
Mom...
 
 
I Iove that you're
invoIved in my practice
 
 
but you can't be giving
out sugar cookies
 
 
in a dentaI office.
 
 
Your father aIways beIieved
 
 
in the personaI touch.
 
 
And repeat business.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
Hey, T, got a surprise.
 
 
This guy says
he's an oId buddy of yours.
 
 
I don't know this man.
 
 
( Latin accent ):
Well, I'm Ernesto
JuIio RaphaeI Santisto.
 
 
Oh.
 
 
( no Latin accent ):
And you've been served.
 
 
Do you vaIidate?
 
 
Oh, no, you got to go.
 
 
Hey, hey, stamp
my ticket, man.
 
 
Sure, I'm gonna
stamp your head.
 
 
Stamp my ticket!
 
 
MOTHER:
Ted?
 
 
Are you being sued?
 
 
Oh, hey, if this is
about that Freeman kid...
 
 
He's Iying.
 
 
I mean, okay, maybe I shouIdn't
have been drilling Ieft-handed
 
 
but he dared me...
 
 
WouId you shut up.
 
 
It's about a will.
 
 
Whew.
 
 
But I definiteIy think they have
the wrong Theodore Brooks.
 
 
It's about some Iady in AIaska,
a pIace called ToIketna.
 
 
( coughs )
 
 
AIaska?!
 
 
They definiteIy got
the wrong Ted Brooks.
 
 
See, they're Iooking
for the white Ted Brooks.
 
 
Well, her name is
Lucy Watkins...
 
 
( coughing )
 
 
Mom!
 
 
Rupert, get her
something to drink!
 
 
Wait a minute,
reIax, reIax.
 
 
Sit down.
Breathe, breathe.
 
 
Here. Rinse and spit.
 
 
Oh, Teddy Bear...
 
 
How can I...?
 
 
How do I...?
 
 
How do you what?!
 
 
Ted...
 
 
Teddy...
 
 
You're adopted.
 
 
( thud )
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
MOTHER:
We always meant to tell you
 
 
and then your father died...
 
 
This doesn't change anything.
 
 
You will always be
my Teddy Bear...
 
 
my Teddy Bear...
 
 
my Teddy Bear...
 
 
Ted!
 
 
Ted!
 
 
Hey, Ted, come on.
 
 
Don't trip on this.
 
 
All right?
 
 
A Iot of peopIe are adopted.
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
Famous peopIe.
 
 
You know, you got Webster
 
 
and Soon-Yi.
 
 
And those kids
from Different Strokes
 
 
they turned out okay.
 
 
I shouId've known.
 
 
PIease.
 
 
There were so many signs.
 
 
Really?
 
 
Yeah, I...
 
 
Like what?
 
 
Well...
 
 
Like bIue cheese!
 
 
I love bIue cheese,
and they hate it.
 
 
Ooh!
 
 
Uncanny.
 
 
So how was it Iiving
with strangers?
 
 
( cracking neck )
 
 
( plane buzzing )
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
Why am I a dentist,
Rupert?
 
 
Duh! 'Cause your
daddy's a dentist.
 
 
Maybe I was meant
to do something different...
 
 
be someone eIse.
 
 
( wind howling )
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
( ice cracks )
 
 
( baby crying )
 
 
Aah!
 
 
( gasps )
 
 
I'm an Eskimo?!
 
 
( dog barking )
 
 
( whistling )
 
 
--( door opening )
--All right, cuz.
 
 
I got you everything you need
 
 
for your trip
to AIaska.
 
 
I'm onIy going
for a coupIe of days!
 
 
Yeah, well, I know you
just wanted a parka
 
 
but your credit card
wanted more.
 
 
Oh, I got these
shoes for myseIf.
 
 
( squeaking )
 
 
Whoo!
 
 
Yeah, fIy, right?
 
 
What is
all of this, Rupert?
 
 
Okay.
 
 
For those coId AIaskan
nights-- you know
 
 
other than getting
a IittIe Na-nooky--
 
 
I got you a personaI,
wearabIe
 
 
warm and coId system.
 
 
It's the uItimate cIimate
controI accessory.
 
 
But wait, there's more.
 
 
There better not be more.
 
 
Well...
 
 
You're gonna receive a bill
for a massage chair.
 
 
( dog barking )
 
 
Out!
 
 
I Iike that co...
 
 
( dog barking )
 
 
 Dance with me,
dance with me 
 
 
 Oh, baby, dance with me,
dance with me... 
 
 
Shut up, Chester!
 
 
I hate you!
 
 
When I bought this condo
 
 
no one toId me a IittIe rat
Iike you Iived next door!
 
 
I'm so sick
of your barking!
 
 
( music continuing )
 
 
( barking continuing )
 
 
( whimpering )
 
 
( engine roaring )
 
 
PILOT:
Welcome to Anchorage.
 
 
We got a real scorcher today-
 
 
expecting a high
ofthree degrees.
 
 
WOMAN:
As reigning champion,
what have you Iearned?
 
 
MAN:
I know that nothing can
be Ieft to chance.
 
 
In this race
 
 
man and beast
must move as one.
 
 
And when I cross the finish Iine
 
 
nothing refreshes
Iike Powerade--
 
 
the onIy drink on my sIed.
 
 
( reporters shouting questions )
 
 
MAN ( overP.A. ):
Attention, pIease.
 
 
FinaI boarding call
for fIight to ToIketna...
 
 
Oh! That's me!
 
 
...to ToIketna this month.
 
 
Wait! HoId that pIane!
 
 
Wait! Wait!
 
 
Sir, pIease!
 
 
You can't go beyond...
 
 
Wait! Wait!
 
 
HaIt! No!
 
 
( whistles )
 
 
FIight !
 
 
Nonstop
 
 
to ToIketna!
 
 
That's okay, I'll waIk!
 
 
MAN ( overradio ):
George Murphy,
you're clear for takeoff
 
 
so quit dawdling and move it!
 
 
George Murphy? You're the one
that sent me the summons?
 
 
Why, yes. At your service.
 
 
But if you're
the executor of the estate
 
 
then why are you, uh...?
 
 
I'm an attorney,
the justice of the peace
 
 
and the bush piIot.
 
 
A cIassic tripIe threat.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
 - - - - - -Queen, move it!
 
 
Or you're going to be
the hood ornament on a !
 
 
( propellerbuzzing )
 
 
( screams )
 
 
( engine roaring )
 
 
( Ted screaming )
 
 
( screaming continuing )
 
 
MURPHY:
The captain has turned off
the seat belt sign.
 
 
You're free to move
about the cabin.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
( kids shouting )
 
 
Right over here!
 
 
All right, all right,
over here!
 
 
Who's that?
 
 
PIane! It's George!
 
 
Come on!
 
 
( tires screeching )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( tires screeching )
 
 
( Ted screaming )
 
 
( Ted screaming )
 
 
Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh!
 
 
WeIcome to ToIketna
internationaI airport.
 
 
The white zone is
for the Ioading and unIoading
 
 
of passengers onIy.
 
 
CarefuI! Gets a IittIe
gusty up here!
 
 
Oh! Aah! Oh!
 
 
Ooh! Ooh!
 
 
( Flight ofthe Bumblebee
plays )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
( yelling )
 
 
HeIp me!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( short gasps )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
There it is.
 
 
Downtown.
 
 
Huh.
 
 
( country music playing )
 
 
Hey, you guys,
I know you're starving.
 
 
Here's your sandwich.
 
 
All right, you roughnecks.
 
 
Give me back those knives.
 
 
These are for eating.
 
 
Nobody's going to order dinner
if the siIverware's
 
 
been in the walls.
 
 
MAN:
Come on, Barb
 
 
we've all seen
your food.
 
 
Nobody's going
to order it anyway.
 
 
( crowd laughing )
 
 
( gasping )
 
 
AIways a little high.
 
 
MAN:
CIose the door!
 
 
Whoo!
 
 
Hey, sIick.
 
 
To your heaIth, son.
 
 
Enjoy.
 
 
( music and talking stops )
 
 
( quietly ):
He Iooks just Iike her.
 
 
( music and talking resumes )
 
 
Ah, excuse me.
 
 
Can I get a cup of decaf Iatte,
pIease?
 
 
Honey, you can get anything
your IittIe heart desires.
 
 
Except a decaf Iatte.
 
 
How about a cup
of reguIar?
 
 
Fresh brewed yesterday.
 
 
Sure, as Iong as it's hot.
 
 
( chuckling )
 
 
Coffee...
 
 
Here you go.
 
 
A hot cup ofjava.
 
 
So, how are you enjoying
ToIketna?
 
 
Just trying to keep up
with the hustIe and bustIe.
 
 
Hey, mister
 
 
we got to taIk.
 
 
I've been waiting
a Iong time
 
 
for a dentist
to come to town.
 
 
Yeah, I got a canker sore
in the back of my mouth.
 
 
And isn't that
stench unbearabIe?
 
 
All right, quiet!
 
 
Now, pipe down!
 
 
Time to get started!
 
 
We got a will
to read here!
 
 
( gunshot )
 
 
( music and talking stop )
 
 
George!
 
 
Knock it off!
 
 
I just patched
the last hoIe!
 
 
GEORGE:
All right.
 
 
Now, we're here to read
the Iast will and testament
 
 
of Lucy Watkins.
 
 
So, here goes.
 
 
Oh, first off, I'd Iike
to thank you all for coming.
 
 
though if there was a bIizzard,
I understand.
 
 
Now, I don't want
any crying.
 
 
PeopIe shouId
enjoy themseIves.
 
 
So, Barb, why don't you pour
a round of WiId Turkey on me.''
 
 
( cheering )
 
 
Pass it around.
 
 
Here ya go.
 
 
( wind blowing )
 
 
( whining )
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
What's with Sasquatch?
 
 
( quietly ):
Zip your Iip.
 
 
That's Thunder Jack.
 
 
They call him that
 
 
'cause he got
hit by thunder.
 
 
Twice!
 
 
You can't get hit by thunder.
 
 
GEORGE:
Now, pay attention.
 
 
Now, I Ied a simpIe Iife
 
 
so don't expect too many
goodies to be bequeathed.
 
 
First, to Peter Yellowbear
 
 
my neighbor and
fellow snow goIfer
 
 
I Ieave my Iucky putter.''
 
 
Yeah!
 
 
( cheering )
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
But don't expect it
to improve your game.''
 
 
( crowd laughing )
 
 
Next...
 
 
to Barb
 
 
my dear friend
and boss
 
 
I give my shearIing coat...
 
 
( crowd oohs )
 
 
which kept me warmer
 
 
than any man ever did.''
 
 
You don't have to taIk to it
in the morning.
 
 
( crowd chuckling )
 
 
And
 
 
to my son
 
 
Ted Brooks
 
 
I'm sorry you never
knew me
 
 
but to you I Ieave the rest
of my worIdIy possessions.
 
 
I wish it were more.''
 
 
Oh...
 
 
and to Thunder Jack
 
 
I Ieave my outhouse
 
 
and all its contents.''
 
 
( quiet snickering )
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
( crowd laughing )
 
 
( laughing stops )
 
 
( door opens, wind blowing )
 
 
( doorslams shut )
 
 
Now, in concIusion,
I just want to say thanks
 
 
to all you misfits
 
 
outcasts
 
 
and just pIain weirdos.
 
 
You made Iiving
In this icebox fun.
 
 
If I end up in heaven
 
 
I'll put in
a good word for you.
 
 
And if I end up
down beIow
 
 
well, at Ieast it's warm.''
 
 
To Lucy!
 
 
ALL:
To Lucy!
 
 
WOMAN:
Great gaI.
 
 
To Lucy.
 
 
( panting )
 
 
It's hard to breathe
at this aItitude, huh?
 
 
Eh, you'll get used to it
after a week or so.
 
 
Oh, no, I'm not pIanning
on being here that Iong.
 
 
( panting ):
I'm just going
to poke around
 
 
get a feeI
for this Lucy
 
 
maybe inventory
her vaIuabIes.
 
 
VaIuabIes?
 
 
You obviousIy
didn't know her.
 
 
So, is that
all you want...
 
 
is to pawn off
all her stuff?
 
 
Well, do I owe her more
than that?
 
 
Huh! She pawned off
her kid.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
Don't taIk about
Lucy Iike that.
 
 
You don't know
anything about her.
 
 
Is that my fauIt?
 
 
Never mind.
 
 
Forget it.
 
 
( breathlessly ):
Wow.
 
 
Come on, I'll
show you around.
 
 
Oh, uh, no, thanks.
 
 
I think I want to go aIone.
 
 
--'Kay.
--Okay.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
One ceramic Iamp.
 
 
With a tacky shade.
 
 
( camera whirring )
 
 
One very dirty throw rug.
 
 
Yeah... and...
 
 
Arctic Challenge
 
 
third pIace.''
 
 
( paws clicking on floor)
 
 
Hey!
 
 
( whining )
 
 
Where did you come from?
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Nobody said anything
about Lucy having a dog.
 
 
Of course, no one said anything
about her having a son, either.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
( dog whining )
 
 
Oh, you're hungry, huh?
 
 
Well, go tell whoever it is
that feeds you.
 
 
( snorts )
 
 
( groans )
 
 
( scoffs ):
All right.
 
 
Let's go see if we can find you
some chow.
 
 
( dog panting )
 
 
Nope.
 
 
In here?
 
 
Where's the dog food?
 
 
Not in here.
 
 
No dog food.
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( scratching and growling )
 
 
( whining )
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( scratching continues )
 
 
( barks )
 
 
Oh!
 
 
( growling )
 
 
Oh...
 
 
Oh, oh! Oh, oh!
 
 
Oh, oh!
 
 
Oh, oh...
 
 
Oh!
 
 
Oh, oh!
 
 
Oh!
 
 
Get back!
 
 
Back!
 
 
Back!
 
 
Ha, ha!
 
 
Back!
 
 
Aah!
 
 
Uh-oh.
 
 
( snarling )
 
 
Oh, ho!
 
 
( snarling )
 
 
( whining )
 
 
Nice doggy.
 
 
( whimpering )
 
 
( laughs nervously )
 
 
Nice doggy.
 
 
( snarling )
 
 
Aah! TroubIe. Aah!
Stop it!
 
 
--Let go! Let go!
--( material ripping )
 
 
Aah! No, not the jacket!
 
 
No, doggies!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( yelling )
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
Hey, I come in peace!
 
 
( material ripping )
 
 
Stop it!
 
 
Ha, ha, wait, that tickIes.
 
 
Aah! Oh, no!
 
 
Okay, wait! Aah, get off!
 
 
Let me go!
 
 
Stop that!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( yelling )
 
 
G-Give me the door!
 
 
--Aah!
--( barking continues )
 
 
( panting )
 
 
Any more surprises?
 
 
--Huh?
--( snorts )
 
 
( snarling )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( yelling )
 
 
( whines softly )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Whoa! Whoa!
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
( door creaks )
 
 
( snoring )
 
 
( whines )
 
 
( screams )
 
 
Where's those dogs?
 
 
What?
 
 
The dogs, where are they?
 
 
They're eating the house.
 
 
Wait!
 
 
Wait a minute!
 
 
Oh, you can't go in there!
 
 
This one dog is possessed.
He's dangerous.
 
 
( chuckling ):
Demon.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Wait!
 
 
Mr. Thunder?
 
 
Look out.
 
 
( barking continues )
 
 
Hey, whoa!
 
 
( barking stops )
 
 
( dogs panting )
 
 
How you doing, Demon, huh?
 
 
How's my boy?
 
 
( whines )
 
 
Oh... Iooking good, kid.
 
 
How much you want
for these mutts?
 
 
Oh, uh... well, I haven't
checked the Blue Book yet.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
I'll give you $ .
 
 
Each?
 
 
No, for the whoIe Iot.
 
 
Well, that seems
 
 
a IittIe Iow.
 
 
I mean, even
the puppies
 
 
in the mall cost...
 
 
You think I'm trying
to chiseI you?
 
 
--No.
--You think I'm
that kind of a man?
 
 
Why don't we just
 
 
step outside and
settIe this thing
 
 
Eskimo styIe.
 
 
--Hey!
--Just you
 
 
and me, a rope
and a knife.
 
 
And the Iast man
breathing gets the dogs.
 
 
$ is great.
 
 
No, it's not.
 
 
You just stay out
of this, missy.
 
 
( growls )
 
 
You cheap chiseIer.
You and I both know
 
 
that any of those dogs
is worth $ 
 
 
and Demon's probabIy
worth $ , .
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Really?
 
 
I'm not going to Iet you
take advantage of him
 
 
just because he's
 
 
some dumb
city sIicker.
 
 
You want to sell those
dogs, you Iook me up.
 
 
( dog whimpering )
 
 
( groans )
 
 
Oh, what is this stuff?
 
 
SIump.
 
 
SIump?
 
 
--Mm-hmm.
--Ugh!
 
 
MostIy the stuff
the butcher can't sell.
 
 
Hooves, Iips, organs...
 
 
sIump.
 
 
In Miami, we call
them hot dogs.
 
 
( whistles )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Ooh!
 
 
So, why did GrizzIy Adams want
these dogs, anyway?
 
 
Because the Arctic Challenge
is in two weeks.
 
 
These dogs are champions.
 
 
Except for Nana, of course.
 
 
Lucy just Iiked
her company.
 
 
( belches )
 
 
Arctic Challenge.
 
 
What is that?
 
 
Well, next to the Iditarod, it's
the biggest dog race around.
 
 
Five days across
 miIes
 
 
of the most beautifuI and
rugged terrain in the worId.
 
 
( snorts )
 
 
Who'd be crazy enough
to do that?
 
 
Your mother.
 
 
Oh.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
I'm not being frisky.
 
 
I-I'm stuck.
 
 
That's what
all the guys say.
 
 
( crackling )
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
Oh!
 
 
Happens to everyone.
 
 
Up and at 'em.
 
 
You're all chapped.
 
 
Here.
 
 
So, Iet me ask
you something.
 
 
What?
 
 
Did Lucy ever mention
about who my father was?
 
 
Sorry.
 
 
No one even knew
you existed.
 
 
Oh, right.
 
 
( barking in distance )
 
 
Well, there can't be
too many suspects.
 
 
How many bIack guys
are there around here?
 
 
IncIuding you?
 
 
Let me see...
 
 
Two.
 
 
Arthur?
 
 
You must be Ted.
 
 
I've been waiting
so Iong for this.
 
 
WouId you Iike to come in?
 
 
Of course.
 
 
Thank you.
 
 
I was so worried
 
 
that you wouIdn't
have the time
 
 
to see me
before you Ieft.
 
 
I have feIt this
terribIe pain for so Iong.
 
 
Me, too.
 
 
So, shouId I sit
on a chair
 
 
or wouId you prefer me
to Iie down?
 
 
Uh, chair's fine.
 
 
So, it's my Ieft rear moIar.
 
 
Filling fell out
a coupIe of years ago.
 
 
And now it's purpIe.
 
 
And there's
this reaI rotten odor.
 
 
Maybe it's infected.
 
 
And you're telling me
this because...?
 
 
Aren't you a dentist?
 
 
Aren't you my father?
 
 
If I say yes,
do I get a discount?
 
 
Doesn't even look Iike me.
 
 
( birds squawking )
 
 
I, uh... categorized
all of Lucy's possessions.
 
 
These are the
recommended prices.
 
 
This is what
I'll settIe for.
 
 
And you can keep ten
percent for yourseIf.
 
 
Oh, what about
the dogs?
 
 
Give them to
Johnny Lightning.
 
 
You mean Thunder Jack?
 
 
Sure, why not?
He wants them.
 
 
I haven't got
Any use for them.
 
 
( whining )
 
 
( engine revving )
 
 
( whining continues )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Thanks. This'll
onIy take a second.
 
 
Yeah, sure.
 
 
You're Ieaving?
 
 
I don't know
what I was Iooking for.
 
 
But I sure didn't find it.
 
 
Well, what were
you expecting?
 
 
Maybe a IittIe truth.
 
 
Find out about myseIf,
Iearn why she gave me up...
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
Hey, why don't you stick
around for a bit?
 
 
The Arctic Challenge
is in two weeks.
 
 
There's hundreds of peopIe.
TV crews come around.
 
 
It's going to be fun.
 
 
Look, I Iike you.
 
 
If you're ever in Miami,
Iook me up.
 
 
My number's on all the buses.
 
 
( engine revving )
 
 
Wait! Stop!
 
 
I know who your father is.
 
 
HoId it, hoId it.
 
 
What now?
 
 
His name is
 
 
James Johnson.
 
 
Whoa-whoa!
 
 
( to himself):
ReIax, reIax...
 
 
You can do this.
Good...
 
 
( yells )
 
 
Ow!
 
 
I hate the snow.
 
 
Well, well
 
 
Iookie here.
 
 
Come to sell me
them dogs?
 
 
You?
 
 
You're James Johnson?
 
 
I don't much Iike
peopIe calling me James.
 
 
What...
 
 
( gasps )
 
 
You're white.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
( gasps )
 
 
Will you Iook at that!
 
 
Do you know who I am?
 
 
Yeah.
 
 
You're the fella that's going
to sell me those dogs.
 
 
No.
 
 
I'm your son.
 
 
Well, so, how much
you want for them?
 
 
You knew?
 
 
You knew the whoIe time,
and you didn't say anything?
 
 
I don't see any good coming
 
 
from dredging up
ancient history.
 
 
Is that what I am?
 
 
Ancient history?
 
 
I tell you
what I'm going to do.
 
 
I can go up to $ for the Iot.
 
 
The dogs?
 
 
Don't you think
of anything eIse?
 
 
You got no business with them.
 
 
I mean, they're speciaI animaIs.
They need to be taken care of.
 
 
You're a reaI piece of work.
 
 
--( chuckles )
--You know
 
 
I don't beIieve
We're reIated.
 
 
There must be some mistake
 
 
because you are definitely not
my father!
 
 
( cracking )
 
 
Well, tell you
the truth
 
 
I don't much give a hoot
one way or the other.
 
 
All I'm saying is that
you don't beIong here.
 
 
I'm sure you've got
 
 
a nice, IittIe
condominium somepIace
 
 
with a remote controI
coIor TV
 
 
and a nice eIectric bIanket.
 
 
So, why don't you pack up
your big city butt
 
 
and go back there.
 
 
No.
 
 
I'm not going anywhere.
 
 
You are a stubborn fooI.
 
 
No, you're the stubborn fooI!
 
 
You must have something wrong
with that head.
 
 
No, you got something
wrong with your head!
 
 
No, you got something wrong
with your head!
 
 
No, you got
something wrong in your head!
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
No, you got something wrong
with your head.
 
 
Oh, well,
you know what they say.
 
 
The appIe doesn't fall far
from the tree, Jack.
 
 
Or shouId I call you Father?
 
 
Or how about papa?
 
 
Or maybe even Daddy-o.
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
( yells )
 
 
( moans )
 
 
( whimpers )
 
 
TED:
l don't belong here?
 
 
I'll show him.
 
 
I'll be a mush master.
 
 
A reguIar SIed Doggy Dogg!
 
 
( growls )
 
 
--( phone rings )
--Just watch me, man.
 
 
( musical ring tone )
 
 
Dr. Brooks speaking.
 
 
MOTHER:
Ted...
 
 
I promised myseIf
I wasn't going to bother you
 
 
but we thought
you'd be home by now.
 
 
Is everything all right?
 
 
Everything's fine.
 
 
( moans )
 
 
So, how's AIaska?
 
 
Basically, everything's white...
 
 
incIuding my father!
 
 
Ma? Are you still there?
 
 
Are you sure?
 
 
Sure, I'm sure.
 
 
Well, that expIains
 
 
why you were aIways so crazy
about that MichaeI BoIton.
 
 
This has gone on
Iong enough, Teddy.
 
 
I am coming up there.
 
 
TED:
You're terrified of fIying...
 
 
Rupert!
 
 
Get off the phone!
 
 
I'm not on the phone!
 
 
When are you coming home?
 
 
You know, your mother's
worried sick about you.
 
 
( with Ted ):
Rupert, off!.
 
 
Teddy, I'll be right there.
 
 
No, I don't need your heIp.
 
 
I'll handIe this by myseIf.
 
 
I got to go. SIump's done.
 
 
( beep )
 
 
( barking and growling )
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( loud neighing )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Never, ever underestimate
Theodore Brooks
 
 
D.D.S.!
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
( screams )
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( Ted screaming )
 
 
Bad dog! Bad dog!
 
 
Get back!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Bad doggy!
 
 
Bad dog! Bad doggy!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Whoo!
 
 
Who made it in the tree, dog?!
 
 
Who made it
 
 
in the tree?!
 
 
That's right! That's right!
 
 
You can't cIimb!
 
 
You don't know
what time it is!
 
 
Get over here!
 
 
How you Iike that?
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Oh, that's coId.
 
 
I hope your pee-pee freeze up.
 
 
Yeah, that's right, go inside!
 
 
TED ( laughing ):
This ain't over!
 
 
This is onIy
round one!
 
 
You're going to wish
you never met me! You might....
 
 
( screams )
 
 
Ooh! Ooh!
 
 
You having fun
with that doggy?
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
( gasping )
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
You know what
your probIem is?
 
 
See, Demon's got it in his head
that he's the aIpha dog.
 
 
You've got to show him
who's boss!
 
 
Bite him in the ear!
 
 
I am not putting any part
of that dog in my mouth.
 
 
Suit yourseIf.
 
 
Any musher
will tell you the same.
 
 
Oh, you're a musher?
 
 
Are you kidding?
 
 
I'm the onIy man ever
to win the Arctic FIame
 
 
three years running.
 
 
CongratuIations.
 
 
Yeah, well, it is kind of
a strange award.
 
 
It goes to the person
who comes in Iast.
 
 
In Miami, three-time
Iosers go to prison.
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
BARB:
Forget it--
rest rooms are for customers
 
 
onIy!
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
Out of my way, girIie!
 
 
Yah!
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
Hi.
 
 
James Johnson.
 
 
Were you being coy, or is that
some sick AIaskan mind game?
 
 
I'm sorry.
 
 
I swore to Lucy I wouIdn't tell
a souI about Thunder Jack.
 
 
I just
didn't want
 
 
to see you Ieave Iike that.
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
( dogs barking )
 
 
Bring it home!
 
 
Whoa, there.
 
 
Come on, whoa!
 
 
Good boy.
 
 
Excuse me.
 
 
It's time
for round two.
 
 
All right, Nana, if there's
any troubIe, you back me up.
 
 
( barks )
 
 
( exhales )
 
 
( thud )
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Oh, Jack!
 
 
I got something for you.
 
 
Mr. Thunder?
 
 
Look, maybe we started off
on the wrong foot.
 
 
Huh.
 
 
Listen, I know this
can't be easy for you.
 
 
It's not for me.
I had to show up
 
 
on your doorstep
after so many years
 
 
and I got so many questions...
 
 
I can go to four.
 
 
Excuse me?
 
 
I can go to $ but that's it.
 
 
See, it's mainIy Demon
that I want.
 
 
This is not
about the dogs!
 
 
MAN:
Look, Jack!
 
 
Got in your new shipment
of bIue cheese.
 
 
Oh...
 
 
Danish, right?
 
 
Oh, yeah.
 
 
Nothing crumbIes Iike Danish.
 
 
I never seen a man
who couId eat
 
 
as much cheese as you do.
 
 
They ought to call you
Monterey Jack.
 
 
Nobody can eat as much cheese
as l can.
 
 
Hey.
 
 
Hey, no, hey.
 
 
--Mmm...
--Hey, give me that cheese.
 
 
I'll show you
eating cheese!
 
 
Give me that cheese.
 
 
Come on,
give me that cheese
 
 
or somebody's going
to get hurt.
 
 
All right.
 
 
Let's get down to business.
 
 
You are not equipped
to keep those dogs.
 
 
They're not city dogs.
 
 
They're athIetes--
they have to run
 
 
They have to get
those hearts pounding
 
 
otherwise, they go Ioco.
 
 
( muffled ):
Loco?
 
 
So...
 
 
show me how to run them.
 
 
--( scoffs )
--Yeah, we couId
teach each other.
 
 
I need to Iearn to mush,
and you need to Iearn to fIoss.
 
 
Come on, Jack.
 
 
We need a father-
and-son activity.
 
 
( gasps )
 
 
Father and what?
 
 
Sure-- can't you see
the resembIance?
 
 
Oh, yeah.
 
 
( sniffing )
 
 
( buzzing )
 
 
( barks )
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( sniffing )
 
 
Yoo-hoo... Demon.
 
 
( growling )
 
 
Ha... Oh!
 
 
( barks and growls )
 
 
You want a piece of me?
 
 
Huh? You want some
of that?
 
 
What? What's my name?
 
 
You want a piece of me?
Come get it!
 
 
Come get it...
 
 
( screams )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
This was not a good idea!
 
 
Oh!
 
 
( barks )
 
 
( laughs loudly )
 
 
Who's the aIpha dog now?!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Whoa!
 
 
Okay, PIace your feet
on runners
 
 
keeping your weight centered...''
 
 
BIah, bIah, bIah, all right.
 
 
Okay, just Iike a jet-ski
with fur.
 
 
Hey!
 
 
( growling )
 
 
Stop that. Hey!
 
 
Hey, knock it off.
Stop it.
 
 
Hey, how are you going to pull
if you're this way?
 
 
You got to Iook that...
Come on, buddy.
 
 
Hey.
 
 
Hi.
 
 
I thought
we couId go
 
 
for a picnic up on the mountain.
 
 
Sorry. Can't.
I'm mushing today.
 
 
See you.
 
 
( revving engine )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( turns motor off)
 
 
You now, it's not something
you just Iearn overnight.
 
 
Hey, it's in my bIood.
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
( dogs barking )
 
 
First off... you have to
step on the gang Iine
 
 
before you cross over.
 
 
all right.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
okay, this is all wrong.
 
 
You have Mack
 
 
next to Scoop--
that's a definite no-no.
 
 
Mack aIways runs best
when he's next to DieseI.
 
 
( growls )
 
 
Okay.
 
 
See, I got your probIem now.
 
 
I know what your probIem is.
 
 
Can you hoId that?
 
 
Yeah. Hi, sweetie.
 
 
All right, that's good.
 
 
And YodeI and Sniff over there
 
 
are fine where you got them--
they're your wheeI dogs.
 
 
They're not exactIy
the sharpest tooIs in the shed
 
 
but they'll push or pull
anything you give them.
 
 
Look-- twins.
 
 
--All right.
--Okay.
 
 
What do we do
with this guy?
 
 
GirI.
 
 
This is Duchess.
 
 
Scoop over there has got
 
 
the biggest crush
on her.
 
 
The onIy way
to caIm him down is to...
 
 
put him with Duchess!
Good girI.
 
 
You two make
a IoveIy coupIe.
 
 
Okay, and that just Ieaves
 
 
my eviI haIf brother...
 
 
Demon.
 
 
( growls )
 
 
Oh.
 
 
No, he's an
incredibIe animaI.
 
 
He was Lucy's pride.
 
 
Yeah, with a Iousy
 
 
personaIity.
 
 
Nice doggy.
 
 
--( growls )
--Nice doggy, nice...
 
 
doggy.
 
 
Maybe you shouId try
biting him on the ear.
 
 
What is it
with you peopIe?
 
 
( Demon growls )
 
 
( whimpers )
 
 
I'm cooI. You cooI?
 
 
( whining )
 
 
( whimpers )
 
 
Sorry, Nana
 
 
but, uh... big doggies onIy.
 
 
( whimpers )
 
 
TED:
Okay, just got to program
my GPS here...
 
 
TED:
Okay!
 
 
Ready, set, move!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( screams )
 
 
Oh!
 
 
( gasping )
 
 
( dogs barking )
 
 
BARB:
Well, at Ieast
 
 
I don't have to worry
 
 
about you getting Iost.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Let's see you try
to throw me this time.
 
 
( growls )
 
 
( Ted screaming )
 
 
No! No! Oh, stop!
 
 
( Jack laughing )
 
 
Hey, Teddy!
 
 
Want to drag?!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( laughing)
 
 
Oh! Ooh! Bad dog! Bad dog!
 
 
( thud )
 
 
Fore!
 
 
Huh?
 
 
( screams )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
Whoa!
 
 
( laughs ):
Sorry about that.
 
 
You know...
 
 
I never wouId
have thought of it.
 
 
Thunder Jack. Wow.
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Oh, I'm gIad everybody's
having a great big Iaugh.
 
 
They are-- the way you drive
that sIed of yours...
 
 
that's pretty funny.
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Whoa.
 
 
( bird screeching )
 
 
( screeching )
 
 
Hm.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
( carhorn honking )
 
 
 Riding aIong
in my automobiIe 
 
 
 My baby beside me
at the wheeI 
 
 
( carhorn honking )
 
 
( truck horn honking )
 
 
 I stoIe a kiss
at the turn of a miIe 
 
 
 My curiosity running wiId 
 
 
Mush! Mush!
 
 
 Cruisin' and pIayin'
the radio... 
 
 
Nice day for a drive,
huh, Nana?
 
 
 With no particuIar pIace
to go. 
 
 
Hi.
 
 
Eat your heart out.
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Oh.
 
 
Nana
 
 
I finally understand sIedding.
 
 
( whining )
 
 
( whining )
 
 
Hmm. What got into her?
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
( sniffing )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
No.
 
 
Oh, no. No.
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
My eyes! My eyes!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
( groaning hysterically )
 
 
Ah, no. Oh!
 
 
Ooh.
 
 
Oh, got yourseIf a skunk, huh?
 
 
Good eating.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
You know, you're getting to be
an embarrassment to me.
 
 
Why didn't you just
tell them to stop?
 
 
Don't taIk to me
Iike I'm four.
 
 
You're not the boss of me.
 
 
Of course I shouted, Stop.
 
 
They wouIdn't stop
 
 
if you shout, stop.
 
 
You have to shout,
Break and hook.
 
 
Break and hook. Got it.
 
 
I want to go, I say, Mush.
 
 
OnIy in the movies
do they say, Mush.
 
 
Here you say, Hike.
 
 
If you want to
go to the Ieft
 
 
you shout, Haw.
 
 
And if you want
to go to the right
 
 
you shout, Gee.
 
 
Why not just say right and Ieft?
 
 
Why do they got to make things
so compIicated?
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
Whew!
 
 
Man, you really stink.
 
 
Whew!
 
 
( brush rustling,
twig snapping )
 
 
What's that?
 
 
Don't worry, mountain man.
 
 
It's just me.
 
 
What are you doing here?
 
 
I thought it'd be
nice to waIk the hill.
 
 
And it wouId be nicer
 
 
if you give me
a ride back down.
 
 
Sure.
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
This is where I was going to
take you for that picnic.
 
 
How did you know
about it?
 
 
I found Lucy's diary.
 
 
It's quiet and perfect.
 
 
The one pIace
I feeI peacefuI
 
 
and can think
about the big questions.''
 
 
This is the pIace all the foIks
around here come for answers.
 
 
Oh, nothing but time
and pIaces to think around here.
 
 
Great pIaces, sure,
but, uh, no Starbucks.
 
 
No indoor pIumbing.
 
 
Oh, yeah?
 
 
You know what eIse they don't
have in this town?
 
 
Crime, traffic, buses
to put your face on.
 
 
I...
 
 
If I couId just
get that oId man
 
 
to sit down with me
for an hour.
 
 
Just to find out
what happened.
 
 
It isn't Iike I want
anything from him.
 
 
I don't need a father.
 
 
I had a father
 
 
and he's nothing
Iike my father was.
 
 
My dad was a great person.
 
 
Everyone Iooked up to him.
 
 
And your mom?
 
 
My mom?
 
 
She's amazing.
 
 
She does everything for me.
 
 
For everybody.
 
 
And her sugar cookies.
 
 
Oh! You haven't Iived
 
 
till you had one of my mom's
sugar cookies.
 
 
( laughter)
 
 
Yeah, I miss her.
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
Maybe the answers for me aren't
even up here at all.
 
 
Maybe the answers for me are
hopping on the next pIane
 
 
back to civiIization.
 
 
You know, the
thing about Lucy
 
 
is she didn't aIways
win the race
 
 
but she never quit.
 
 
Maybe you need
 
 
to finish what you started...
mountain man.
 
 
( distant howling )
 
 
( howling )
 
 
( distant howling )
 
 
Oh, that's cooI.
 
 
( howling )
 
 
( distant howling )
 
 
( nearby howling )
 
 
That's scary.
 
 
You are such a city boy.
 
 
( howling )
 
 
( laughter)
 
 
( distant howling )
 
 
So...
 
 
how did you sIeep?
 
 
( whines )
 
 
Oh. Oh.
 
 
( gasps )
 
 
That's beautifuI.
 
 
Oh, wow.
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( barks )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( panting )
 
 
( whining )
 
 
Let's go.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Whoo-hoo!
 
 
( hollering )
 
 
( laughter)
 
 
Run, dogs, run!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Whoo...
 
 
hoo!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( sniffing )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Oh. Oh. Oh, oh.
 
 
Oh, what are the words?
 
 
Duck and cover! Uh...
 
 
Cap and gown!
 
 
Stop!
 
 
Stop!
 
 
Stop!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
Ooh!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
Oh. Oh, ow.
 
 
Aah!
 
 
Ooh. Oh.
 
 
Oh!
 
 
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh.
 
 
Oh.
 
 
( catching breath )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
BIink and hook.
 
 
Oh, stupid dogs.
 
 
I hate dogs.
 
 
I hate 'em.
 
 
I hate 'em.
 
 
I hate 'em, I hate 'em.
 
 
( roaring )
 
 
Oh.
 
 
Oh, my goodness gracious!
 
 
( roaring )
 
 
Hey, wait, Iet's all be cooI.
 
 
( grunts )
 
 
Yeah, now, if we all
 
 
stay caIm, there'll be
no probIems here today.
 
 
( roaring )
 
 
You know, I'm a big bear fan.
 
 
Sure. Uh, my man--
Smoky the Bear. Yogi.
 
 
WaIter Payton.
 
 
( roaring )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
I can see the headIines:
 
 
Miami Dentist Eaten...
 
 
By Bear.''
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( thudding )
 
 
Hmm.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
I'm aIive!
 
 
I'm aIive!
 
 
( rumbling )
 
 
I'm dead.
 
 
I'm dead!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
Mama!
 
 
Oh, heIp me, Iord!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
This is insane!
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( screaming )
 
 
( whimpering )
 
 
I'm okay.
 
 
Got to get heIp.
 
 
Got to get heIp.
 
 
( cracking )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
Move it, keep moving.
 
 
( sighing )
 
 
( cracking )
 
 
Uh-oh.
 
 
( gurgling )
 
 
Oh.
 
 
 - - .
 
 
( phone ringing )
 
 
WOMAN:
You are outside
your coverage area.
 
 
ShouId you Iike to expand
your service pIan
 
 
pIease call back during
our business hours.
 
 
( garbled ):
This is a recording.
 
 
( shivering )
 
 
CoId.
 
 
( wind whistles )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
( groaning )
 
 
( male voice ):
Ted, my main man
 
 
you really
stepped in it this time.
 
 
We tried
 
 
to tell you
you didn't beIong here.
 
 
I don't speak dog.
 
 
Tell me about it.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
I Iike him.
 
 
Oh, sure, you'll
roll over for anyone
 
 
who'll pour you
a bowI of sIump.
 
 
Hmph.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Scooper, you kill me.
 
 
AMELIA:
Teddy.
 
 
I made you a speciaI treat.
 
 
Mama?
 
 
It's your favorite.
 
 
BIue cheese cookies.
 
 
MICHAEL BOLTON:
 When a man 
 
 
 Loves a woman... 
 
 
Ted, remember, no matter
what coIor you are
 
 
you can still have souI.
 
 
I mean...
 
 
Iook at me.
 
 
Can I have one
 
 
of those
bIue cheese cookies, pIease?
 
 
Yeah.
 
 
BARB:
Hey, city boy.
 
 
You've got to Iearn to reIax.
 
 
Just sit back
 
 
and Iisten
to the sounds of nature.
 
 
ReIax.
 
 
ReIax.
 
 
ReIax. ReIax.
 
 
ReIax.
 
 
( groaning )
 
 
Where am I?
 
 
My, my, my.
 
 
SIeeping Beauty's
finally awake.
 
 
Where are Lucy's dogs?
 
 
They're back home
 
 
where they beIong.
 
 
I saw them coming through town
without you
 
 
What do you think you were doing
coming all the way out here?
 
 
I was mushing.
 
 
You shouId have seen me.
 
 
You silly greenhorn.
 
 
You couId have been killed.
 
 
Don't you know that?
 
 
Well, if you wouId have toId me
what I wanted to know
 
 
I wouIdn't be out here
in the first pIace.
 
 
Oh.
 
 
Ain't nothing
to taIk about.
 
 
It's not nothing.
 
 
It's nothing.
 
 
It's not nothing.
 
 
It's nothing.
 
 
It's not nothing.
 
 
Ted.
 
 
What?
 
 
I'll make you a deaI.
 
 
I tell you what I know,
I get the dogs?
 
 
( whimpers )
 
 
Yeah.
 
 
Hmm.
 
 
Well...
 
 
it all happened
right here in this cave.
 
 
It was my second race.
 
 
I was out
about three days
 
 
and this storm bIew in.
 
 
And I shouId've, you know,
bunked down
 
 
but I kept going
 
 
thinking I couId sneak up
a coupIe of spots, you know?
 
 
That's when it
turned ugIy.
 
 
The onIy thing
 
 
that saved me
was finding this cave.
 
 
And Lucy was aIready here,
hunkered down with her dogs.
 
 
Now, I'd met her
a coupIe of times in town
 
 
but we weren't what you'd call
friends, you know?
 
 
But coId weather brings peopIe
together in a strange way.
 
 
Well, you can
guess the rest.
 
 
When I woke up in the morning
 
 
Lucy and the dogs
were aIready gone.
 
 
She finished ninth
that year.
 
 
I came in th.
 
 
After the race, I...
 
 
I tried to find her
 
 
but she'd aIready gone.
 
 
That's it?
 
 
Afraid so.
 
 
It's all I know.
 
 
Well, a bargain's a bargain.
 
 
I guess the dogs are yours.
 
 
Oh, well, I'll take
good care of them.
 
 
I guess I'd better be
getting on home.
 
 
Here you go.
 
 
Here, have some soup.
 
 
( coughing )
 
 
I thought you said
this was soup!
 
 
Well, there's soup in it.
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
( footsteps approaching )
 
 
Kid, come on.
 
 
I want to get airborne
before the winds pick up.
 
 
FinaI boarding call.
 
 
( distant sirens )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Hi, Chester.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Hi, buddy.
 
 
( dogs barking )
 
 
WOMAN:
For the mushers and their dogs
 
 
nothing can match this moment.
 
 
We're here at the starting Iine
awaiting the signaI
 
 
to begin the th
 
 
Arctic Challenge
sIed dog races.
 
 
And we'll be here bringing you
 
 
a word's eye view of all
the coIor and excitement.
 
 
Back to you, Pete.
 
 
( shouting )
 
 
( cheering )
 
 
My peopIe, I Iove you.
 
 
Will you
Iook at that?
 
 
Now, Demon, Iook at me.
 
 
My hands are shot.
 
 
This is going to be
my Iast go-round.
 
 
And probabIy yours, too.
 
 
So, what do you say we just
give them something
 
 
to remember us by, huh?
 
 
( barks )
 
 
Ah, that's my boy.
 
 
( bell ringing )
 
 
ANNOUNCER:
There he goes
 
 
the MichaeI Jordan
of dogsIedding
 
 
OIivier Trajean.
 
 
WOMAN:
Teddy?
 
 
Ooh, my Lord,
it's freezing in here.
 
 
You see that dog out front?
 
 
That's the Iead dog.
 
 
Those two in back,
they're the wheeI dogs
 
 
but it's the Iead dog that
drives the team.
 
 
He's finished dead Iast
three years in a row...
 
 
Why am I a dentist?
 
 
You aIways wanted
 
 
to be a dentist.
 
 
Except for that one year
you wanted to be
 
 
the Six-Million-Dollar Man.
 
 
You were aIways
 
 
running in sIow motion.
 
 
We had to take ten extra
minutes just to get anywhere.
 
 
Oh, Teddy.
 
 
Is this ToIketna?
 
 
Who's this?
 
 
Oh, that's Barb.
 
 
She's just a friend.
 
 
Mm-hmm.
 
 
So this is...
 
 
She's pretty.
 
 
She Iooks just Iike you.
 
 
( gasping )
 
 
Oh, Teddy, I'm so sorry.
 
 
I'll get it cIeaned up
right now.
 
 
Don't bother, I'll get a broom.
 
 
So, is this the father?
 
 
Who?
 
 
This white man with
her and the baby.
 
 
Oh, Iook how cute
you are, Teddy.
 
 
He Iied to me.
 
 
( tires screeching )
 
 
Hello?
 
 
Yes, I need your next fIight
to AIaska.
 
 
( horns honking )
 
 
TV REPORTER:
A test ofspeed
and agility today
 
 
at the Arctic Challenge.
Here at the finish line
 
 
the weatheris fine,
but out on the course
 
 
a massive Arctic storm
is blowing in tonight.
 
 
The Iead teams are bunking
at the Rusty Knife checkpoint
 
 
hoping that morning
will bring reIief.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Hey, girI. Good girI.
 
 
How they Iook?
 
 
Feet Iook good.
 
 
( growls, barks )
 
 
Oh!
 
 
OId Demon never changes,
huh, Jack?
 
 
Been kind of ornery
ever since Victoria passed.
 
 
What kind of a man eats
before he feeds his dogs?
 
 
Don't worry, they
aIready docked him
 
 
 minutes for that one.
 
 
Uh, Jack, there's a storm
brewing out there.
 
 
Everybody's bunking in.
 
 
Come on.
 
 
I saved you a spot
by the heater.
 
 
Thanks, Ernie.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
JACK:
Hey!
 
 
Come on, Demon!
Pick it up.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Pick it up.
 
 
Pick it up, Demon.
 
 
Whoa.
 
 
Hey, hoId up, there.
 
 
The oId fooI.
 
 
Hi.
 
 
George.
 
 
All right, Iet's go.
 
 
I got to find Jack.
 
 
Ted, there's something
you need to know.
 
 
Later. He Iied to me.
Come on.
 
 
Ted?
 
 
--Wait.
--What?
 
 
Jack's missing.
 
 
What?
 
 
He made the check-in
at Rusty Knife.
 
 
Then the oId fooI headed
straight into a storm.
 
 
That's the Iast
anybody saw of him.
 
 
And the weather's
gotten so bad
 
 
the rescue crews
had to turn back.
 
 
I know where he is.
 
 
You think you know
where he is.
 
 
He couId be anywhere
within a hundred square miIes.
 
 
Come on.
 
 
BARB:
You can't do this.
 
 
When I was Iost
 
 
he came Iooking for me.
 
 
I'm not going to Iet
him die out there.
 
 
Ted, you don't even have
a Iead dog.
 
 
Sure, I do.
 
 
( whistles )
 
 
( barks )
 
 
There's my Iead dog.
 
 
Hi, Nana.
 
 
--( barks )
--Nana?!
 
 
Nana's not a Iead dog.
 
 
Sure, she is.
 
 
If I can be
a musher
 
 
she can be a Iead dog.
 
 
That a girI, Nana.
 
 
( cracking )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( cracking )
 
 
( laughs )
 
 
Whoo!
 
 
Ted...
 
 
pIease be carefuI.
 
 
Ready up!
 
 
( trilling )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Mush! Mush!
 
 
Get up there! Ha!
 
 
Ha! Mush!
 
 
Hey! Hey!
 
 
( cheering )
 
 
TV REPORTER:
And it Iooks Iike our winner is
going to be, once again...
 
 
Hey!
 
 
Isn't that guy going
the wrong way?
 
 
Hey, check out Ted.
 
 
( cheering )
 
 
--Go!
--Yeah, go!
 
 
Get up there!
 
 
OIivier!
 
 
Did you see him?
 
 
Whoo-hoo!
 
 
Whoo-hoo!
No more sIump, boys!
 
 
It's MiIk Bone for everyone!
 
 
Whoo-hoo!
 
 
( cheering )
 
 
( applause )
 
 
( chuckling )
 
 
OIivier, you've won
the Arctic Challenge.
 
 
What are you
going to do next?
 
 
I'm going to DisneyIand, Paris.
 
 
( groans )
 
 
OIivier!
 
 
Look what you've done.
 
 
We must run away.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
I am so sorry
 
 
but all I've got is
American money.
 
 
Paging Dr. Te...
 
 
Whoa!
 
 
( groans )
 
 
( groans )
 
 
--Here, Iet me heIp you.
--Ah.
 
 
Oh, thank you.
 
 
You must be Ted's mother.
 
 
Well, you must be Barb.
 
 
So, what did he tell
you about me?
 
 
He says you make
amazing cookies.
 
 
Oh!
 
 
Aw, that is just Iike Ted.
 
 
He wouIdn't say a bad thing
about anyone.
 
 
Where is he?
 
 
That's it! That's it!
Come on, guys.
 
 
Come on, come on.
 
 
Right, right, Ieft, Ieft, right!
Come on, come on!
 
 
Come on!
 
 
( Ted growls )
 
 
( trilling )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( yelping )
 
 
Okay, okay.
 
 
Two-minute break.
 
 
Two-minute break.
 
 
Scooper, what have you got now?
 
 
Sure, you can dig,
but you can't pull?
 
 
( growling )
 
 
But wait a minute.
 
 
Just wait.
 
 
Now, this is my son.
 
 
Aren't you supposed to send
 
 
a search party or a posse
or something?
 
 
Look, ma'am...
 
 
we're sorry, but there's simpIy
no way to go through the pass.
 
 
And it's too windy
to send up a chopper.
 
 
I'm sorry.
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
Excuse me.
 
 
I couIdn't heIp
overhearing.
 
 
Did you say your
son is out there?
 
 
Mm-hmm.
 
 
TV REPORTER:
To the men and women
ofthe Arctic Challenge
 
 
the Arctic fIame is
a symboI of hope.
 
 
It can't be extinguished
untiI the Iast musher has found
 
 
his way out of the wiIderness
and crossed the finish Iine.
 
 
This year, that fIame fIickers
for one man
 
 
Iost out on the traiI
 
 
oId-time sIedding Iegend,
Thunder Jack Johnson.
 
 
But we've now Iearned
of a startIing unofficiaI
 
 
rescue effort that's underway.
 
 
--Ted Brooks...
--Yeah!
 
 
get this, a dentist
from Miami, FIorida
 
 
Ah!
 
 
is braveIy facing the storm
with his own team of dogs.
 
 
You go, Ted.
 
 
Tonight, somewhere
in the darkness
 
 
a story as old
as time itselfunfolds
 
 
as man and animal work
together, braving the elements
 
 
in what has become not a race
ofwinners and losers
 
 
but simply a race forsurvival.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Whoa, whoa, brake it off.
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
Jack?
 
 
Jack?
 
 
( growling )
 
 
Easy, Demon, easy.
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( yelping )
 
 
Jack?
 
 
Okay. Good job, boys.
 
 
Okay, good, good boy.
Good dog.
 
 
All right, good boy.
 
 
Good job.
 
 
Oh, Jack. Jack.
 
 
Jack.
 
 
( moans softly )
 
 
Okay.
 
 
( moans softly )
 
 
( pained yell )
 
 
What are you doing here?
 
 
Your Ieg's broke.
I'm spIinting it.
 
 
Yeah. Well, how'd you get here?
 
 
Same way you did.
 
 
Not bad for
 
 
a greenhorn, huh?
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
Not bad at all.
 
 
( chortles )
 
 
So, what kind of crazy stunt
 
 
were you trying
to pull out there?
 
 
Oh, I thought I couId win
if I rode off into that storm.
 
 
But if I'd bunked in
Iike I shouId've
 
 
I wouIdn't have run
into that tree, and...
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
What...?
 
 
( choking )
 
 
Ah-ah-ah!
 
 
It's the Iatest
in personaI cIimate controI.
 
 
I guess I ought to thank you
for coming after me.
 
 
Because you didn't...
 
 
you didn't have to, you know.
 
 
It's payback.
 
 
Now we're even.
 
 
No, we're not even.
 
 
You know, I've aIways beIieved
 
 
that a man who don't tell it
Iike it is is a Iiar.
 
 
And I hate Iiars.
 
 
Well, I Iied to you, son.
 
 
I was at that hospitaI.
 
 
The night you were born, well...
 
 
why, you were no bigger
than a Ioaf of bread.
 
 
I waIked into that room,
and the doctor just
 
 
pIaced you right in my hands,
just Iike that.
 
 
And in all my Iife
I'd never seen anything Iike it.
 
 
But me and Lucy knew
 
 
that we-we had no business
trying to raise you.
 
 
You know, we were no good
for each other
 
 
and we... we race dogs.
 
 
But, uh, kids...
 
 
( chuckles )
 
 
But Lucy... wanted to bring you
into this worId.
 
 
But she knew
that it wouId be better
 
 
if somebody eIse
raised you.
 
 
So, now, you can't bIame
everything on Lucy.
 
 
I was nowhere near
ready to be a father.
 
 
See...
 
 
we were independent spirits,
Lucy and me.
 
 
Oh, we'd see each other
from time to time
 
 
and, you know...
 
 
But I did Iove her.
 
 
Oh... oh, I Ioved that woman.
 
 
I miss her.
 
 
Did she Iove you?
 
 
Well, she said so once.
 
 
And then she poked me
right in the face.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Yeah, but you turned out okay.
 
 
Look...
 
 
I bet Lucy wouId be proud
of you.
 
 
I know I am.
 
 
Mrs. Brooks
 
 
why don't you
come inside?
 
 
They'll sound off the siren
when one of them comes in.
 
 
I'm not going to Ieave him.
 
 
I can't.
 
 
TED:
All right, guys, Iet's go.
 
 
--( barking )
--Come on, Iet's go.
 
 
Okay, Demon,
Iet's get that harness on.
 
 
( barking viciously )
 
 
Oh, that dog's
not going anywhere.
 
 
Well, what's wrong with him?
 
 
( barking )
 
 
He's, uh, gnawing at his harness
 
 
won't eat.
 
 
He's just one unhappy dog.
 
 
Gnawing at his harness, huh?
 
 
Yeah.
 
 
All right, Demon, Iet's take
a Iook at your chompers.
 
 
--( barking viciously )
--Oh...!
 
 
--( growling )
--Okay, Demon.
 
 
--( growling )
--You Ieave me no choice.
 
 
Good, good boy.
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( Ted growling )
 
 
Come.
 
 
I can't beIieve
 
 
you actually
 
 
bit that dog on the ear.
 
 
But that's what everyone says
you're supposed to do.
 
 
Well, sure, but...
 
 
I never met a man dumb enough
to do it.
 
 
Okay.
 
 
Okay.
 
 
All right.
 
 
Good boy. Open wide.
 
 
There we go.
 
 
Let's see what you got there.
 
 
--( Demon yelps )
--Here's the probIem.
 
 
Oh, okay, all right.
 
 
All right, Demon.
 
 
Trust me,
I'm not going to hurt you.
 
 
Okay?
 
 
( Demon barks )
 
 
My, my, my.
 
 
Well, if you want
 
 
to bite me now, go ahead.
 
 
( Demon whining )
 
 
( chuckling )
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Mush!
 
 
( dogs barking )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
There's a medic down
at Caribou Falls.
 
 
What do you want to do?
 
 
I have never not finished
a race.
 
 
Well, I'm not going
to Iet you start now.
 
 
Hah!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Go ahead, Demon!
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( yelling )
 
 
( dogs yelping )
 
 
( yelling )
 
 
( dogs barking and yelping )
 
 
Teddy, I'm sIipping out.
 
 
--Whoa!
--Hang on, Jack!
 
 
--Whoa!
--Hang on!
 
 
( yelping )
 
 
Aah!
 
 
( groaning )
 
 
Oh...
 
 
( dogs barking )
 
 
( grunting )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Oh. Oh, yeah.
 
 
( barking )
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Demon, get it, baby!
 
 
Way to go, Demon!
 
 
Barb, I have a
confession to make.
 
 
Are you Barb?
 
 
I never toId Ted
he was adopted.
 
 
I know.
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
There were so many times
when I couId have toId him.
 
 
It wouId have been
 
 
the right thing to do.
 
 
I know that now.
 
 
But from the first moment
I heId him in my arms
 
 
I couIdn't have
Ioved him more.
 
 
But I was afraid.
 
 
I was afraid if I
toId him the truth
 
 
he wouIdn't Iove us--
not in the same way.
 
 
Barb, tell me he's going
to cross that finish Iine.
 
 
He's going to cross
the finish Iine.
 
 
( siren blaring )
 
 
AmeIia, he's going to cross
the finish Iine.
 
 
Oh, I know, dear
 
 
it's just a
mother's worry.
 
 
I keep thinking...
 
 
It's the siren.
He's coming in.
 
 
( gasps )
 
 
Oh...
 
 
That's it!
 
 
Let's go!
 
 
What's going on?
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
( barking )
 
 
Oh...
 
 
( yells )
 
 
( cheers )
 
 
Yeah!
 
 
Oh, Barb!
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Oh... oh, wait!
 
 
( cheering continues )
 
 
Get me a cIose-up.
 
 
Oh, wow!
 
 
Let me heIp you, Jack.
 
 
Not bad for a dentist
from Miami, huh?
 
 
Not bad.
 
 
Not bad at all.
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
Ted!
 
 
Ted!
 
 
Let me through, pIease.
 
 
Ted!
 
 
You're here.
 
 
You came all
the way here
 
 
to AIaska.
 
 
I got on a pIane
 
 
and hours of prayer Iater,
here I am.
 
 
Come here... there's someone I
want you to meet.
 
 
Jack... this...
 
 
this here's my mama.
 
 
Oh, baby. Oh, baby.
 
 
JACK:
Well, it, uh...
 
 
it certainIy is a pIeasure
to meet you, ma'am.
 
 
You and your husband
 
 
certainIy did a fine job
with this guy.
 
 
Oh, Barb.
 
 
TED:
He's an amazing guy.
He really is.
 
 
I'm so happy for you.
 
 
( whispers )
 
 
Dr. Brooks, the honor is yours.
 
 
Jack, I beIieve
you earned this.
 
 
Oh, no, no, no.
 
 
I think we both shouId
bIow it out together.
 
 
 When Iove puts you
through the fire 
 
 
 When Iove puts you
to the test 
 
 
 Nothing cures a broken heart 
 
 
 Like time,
Iove and tenderness 
 
 
 You think
your worId is over 
 
 
 Baby, just remember this 
 
 
 Nothing heaIs a broken heart 
 
 
 Like time,
Iove and tenderness 
 
 
 Time, Iove and tenderness 
 
 
( growling )
 
 
( whining )
 
 
 I understand
how you're feeIing now 
 
 
 And what you've been through 
 
 
 But your worId's going
to turn around 
 
 
 So, baby, don't you be bIue 
 
 
 All it takes is
a IittIe time 
 
 
 To make it better 
 
 
 The hurt won't Iast forever 
 
 
 Oh... 
 
 
 When Iove puts you
through the fire 
 
 
 When Iove puts you
to the test 
 
 
 Nothing cures
a broken heart 
 
 
 Like time, Iove
and tenderness 
 
 
 You think your worId is over 
 
 
 Baby, just remember this 
 
 
 Nothing heaIs a broken heart 
 
 
 Like time, Iove
and tenderness 
 
 
 Time, Iove and tenderness 
 
 
 When love puts you
through the fire 
 
 
 When love puts you
to the test
 
 
 Nothing cures a broken heart 
 
 
 Like time, Iove
and tenderness 
 
 
 You think your worId is over 
 
 
 Baby, just remember this... 
 
 
( sighs )
 
 
Okay, Ernie.
 
 
Dr. Brooks is ready
to see you now.
 
 
I haven't finished
 
 
reading about the crown
and the bridge yet.
 
 
Come on.
 
 
Oh, well...
 
 
( whines )
 
 
Oh, here they are.
 
 
AvaIanche.
 
 
LittIe AIeutia.
 
 
And there's Chinook.
 
 
And my favorite,
Demon junior.
 
 
( puppies barking )
 
 
Good to see you, Ernie.
 
 
Doctor, is this
going to hurt?
 
 
Oh, just a IittIe.
 
 
More than a tickIe
 
 
and Iess than
paying your taxes.
 
 
( laughter)
 
 
 Do-do-do-do-do, do-do 
 
 
Okay, open wide.
 
 
 As around the sun 
 
 
 The earth knows
she's revoIving 
 
 
 And the rosebuds know
to bIoom in earIy may 
 
 
 Just as hate knows
Iove's the cure 
 
 
 You can rest
your mind assured 
 
 
( cracking )
 
 
( laughing )
 
 
 I'll be Ioving you
aIways 
 
 
 Until the rainbow burns
the stars out in the sky
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until the ocean covers
every mountain high 
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until the dolphin flies
andparrots live at sea 
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until we dream oflife
and life becomes a dream 
 
 
 Just as time knew to move on
since the beginning 
 
 
 And the seasons know
exactIy when to change 
 
 
 Just as kindness
knows no shame 
 
 
 Know through all
your joy and pain 
 
 
 I'll be Ioving you aIways 
 
 
 Until the rainbow burns
the stars out in the sky
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until the ocean covers
every mountain high 
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until the dolphin flies
andparrots live at sea 
 
 
 I'll be Ioving you 
 
 
 Until we dream oflife
and life becomes a dream 
 
 
 Did you know
true Iove asks for nothing? 
 
 
 True love 
 
 
 Her acceptance is
the way we pay 
 
 
 The way we pay
 
 
 Did you know that Iife
has given Iove a guarantee? 
 
 
 To Iast forever
and another day 
 
 
 Today I know I'm Iiving
for tomorrow 
 
 
 CouId make me the past
but then I mustn't fear 
 
 
 For I'll know
deep in my mind 
 
 
 The Iove of me
I've Ieft behind 
 
 
 I'll be Ioving you aIways 
 
 
 Until the rainbow burns
the stars out in the sky
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until the ocean covers
every mountain high 
 
 
 I'll be Ioving you 
 
 
 Until the dolphin flies
andparrots live at sea 
 
 
 AIways 
 
 
 Until we dream oflife
and life becomes a dream 
 
 
 We don't know 
 
 
 Until the rainbow burns
the stars out in the sky
 
 
 Until the ocean covers
every mountain high 
 
 
 Until the dolphin flies
andparrots live at sea 
 
 
 Until we dream oflife
and life becomes a dream 
 
 
 Until the rainbow burns
the stars out in the sky
 
 
 Until the ocean covers
every mountain high 
 
 
 Until the dolphin flies
andparrots live at sea 
 
 
 Until we dream oflife
and life becomes a dream 
 
 
 Until the rainbow burns
the stars out in the sky
 
 
 Until the ocean covers
every mountain high 
 
 
 AIways, aIways 
 
 
 Until the dolphin flies
andparrots live at sea 
 
 
 Until we dream oflife
and life becomes a dream.
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