A Cold Night's Death (1973 TV Movie)

Vic Perrin: Ryan Horner, Project Director

Quotes 

• Ryan Horner : [Narrate the beginning of the story]  January 17, Base Research Center, Ryan Horner, Project Director. Today is our 5th-day without radio contact with Dr. Vogel. Previous attempts to reach Summit Laboratory of failed because of continuing snowstorms. I fear for Vogel's well-being. Before we lost transmission, his radio contacts were becoming increasingly sporadic and irrational. To the point, that he reported having conversations with such figures as Napoleon and Alexander the Great. I'm deeply concerned that he may not be feeding the monkeys and chimps, nor recording the results of our altitude experiments on them. If this is the case, before years of research for the space program will have been wasted. Our promise delivery date is less than 3 months away and we must salvage the project. Doctors Robert Jones and Frank Enari arrived from the University this morning to relieve Vogel and continue the experiments. I am much relieved that this particular team was made available to finish the project. As it was their research in stress situations man might encounter in space exploration that is the basis of our program. The storm has calmed enough for Val Adams to fly them in along with a new chimp for experiment control. I must confess my deep concern as to what they will find.

• Val Adams : Say, we're on an open channel; you want all this?

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's Voice on the Radio]  Where'd you find him?

  Val Adams : In the electronics room. It looks like a heart attack to me. He must have assumed he was locked in, he wasn't, he had his keys, the door was open. But he'd open the storm window, God knows he knew better than that. I was supposed to strang it out. Let that snow on a coal in. I guess he must have got hit when he tries to close it.

  Dr. Frank Enari : Coffee?

  Dr. Robert Jones : Yeah, thanks.

  Val Adams : He's just sitting there, frozen at the tape recorder and holding out of the microphone. You ran off about 300 feet of a tape, I might tell you what he was thinking at the time. Look, I got about 15 minutes to get out of here starting to come in pretty good.

  Dr. Robert Jones : [Offering the coffee at the table for Robert]  Thanks.

• Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  Let me talk to Enari.

  [That's for Enari] 

  Dr. Frank Enari : Enari.

  Ryan Horner : How are the monkeys?

  Dr. Frank Enari : Oh, uh, I haven't check them. They're all right, I guess, but there's no sign of starvation and dehydration, they're just called. You got a lucky break when the generator stayed on. There's a 1,000 watts of light in here and that provided some of the heat.

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  What about Geronimo?

  Dr. Frank Enari : He's just coming out of this drunk.

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  I'd like that tape recorder.

  Dr. Robert Jones : No. We need the recorder.

  Dr. Frank Enari : We need the recorder, we transcribe all our work.

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  Can you remote the tape? Send it out with Val.

  Dr. Robert Jones : Not if he wants to hear what's on it. It was 20 below in there, it'll shatter.

  Dr. Frank Enari : It was 20 below, the tape will shattered.

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  Do it right then, okay? Let me know what a thought. Val?

  Val Adams : Yo.

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  Give them what orientation you can and get out of there.

  Val Adams : Summit out.

  Ryan Horner : [Horner's voice on the radio]  Base out.