- No, thanks.
Good night.
Good evening.
DAY EIGHT
(autumn again)
Perhaps it was the most
important day in their lives.
It's quarter to nine,
I got to go.
Are they going to postpone
the test again?
Why are they dragging out?
I'll drop by and find out.
Do it.
- Lyolya.
- Yes?
We must call up Ilya.
Send him a telegram.
No, never mind. Go.
- Lyolya.
- Yes?
Perhaps they've already run a series?
All right, go.
- Good morning.
- Good morning.
Good morning.
Look at these.
It's more accurate.
When did you come?
The day before yesterday.
Who called you?
I did.
How many tests have you run?
Six series.
Give me the photos.
What? And you didn't tell me.
Trying to be delicate?
You pitied me, didn't you?
We're getting a very interesting effect.
I can see. I can see.
Mitya! Mitya!
Please, forgive me.
Stop it. Stop it, Lyolya!
Do you hear? Lyolya!
Come on, stop it.
I wanted to, but I couldn't.
I'll have to start all over again.
Remember what day it is?
Do you remember?
A year ago we had that
conversation at the telephone station.
We've lived a whole year.
And we've lived it well.
- I'm pleased.
- Really?
Really.
The experiment failed.
It's normal.
But one of a hundred possible ways
to the truth's been tested and dropped.
So only 99 are left.
I love you.
I love you so much!
- Tomorrow I'm flying to Moscow.
- I'm going with you.
No, don't.
I must cope alone with
what I'll have to go through.
What about me?
You'll meet me in the hospital's
hall, like a year ago.
So all over again?
Yes, all over again, 99 times so.
DAY NINE
Here comes the ninth day
of our story.
You proved a prophet.
I'm here again.
I see.
What can I say?
I've warned you.
We'll accept you, of course,
and do what's necessary.
I didn't come here to die.
I need an operation.
We don't do operations.
- Why this table then?
- It's for the dogs.
I agree to the dogs' table.
I'm not proud, I can live with it.
You can live with it?
And if not?
If not, no one will blame you.
There's such thing as a court of
justice.
- How is it?
- Normal.
Incidentally, half of the dogs dies.
I'm from the other half.
I have no right
to experiment on humans.
You must start sometime.
Start with me.
I can't.
You can.
If there's a slightest chance,
I'm ready for it.
There is no chance!
Almost no chance.
I must live.
Hello.
It's me.
My name is Mitya, too.
What a rare coincidence.
What are you ill with, Mitya II?
Who, me?
I'm absolutely well.
So don't worry.
Why should I worry?
I'm your donor.
My bone marrow will be
transplanted to you.
- Don't you grudge it?
- What?
Your bone marrow.
You see...
I have an ulterior motive.
You're the theme of my dissertation.
- You have a visitor.
- Me? Bring him in.
A simultaneous fractional irradiation
and particle-beam shock is very rare.
- It's just great!
- Yes, wonderful.
But as a scientist, you are
to give us detailed information.
- Ilya?
- You didn't expect me?
No, I didn't.
Lyola and I just decided to come.
Thank you.
We'll talk later.
I'll go out for a smoke.
Don't be long,
we got a very important conversation.
- Are you talking to me?
- Yes.
I got an important conversation, too.
Go, Mitya II, we'll have plenty of
time to talk after the operation.
How are you?
So the operation is tomorrow?
Yes, at 8 a.m.
You look great.
Mitya, I think I understood
the nature of that phenomenon.
I understood it, too.
It's not thermonuclear.
But, nevertheless,
it's the greatest discovery.
Perhaps for the astrophysicists.
I even thought of the title of
an article for The Youth's Technology.
"The Mystery of Magnetic Storms
and Northern Lights Solved".
I think you're underestimating
the enormity, so to speak...
Where's Lyolya?
What?
She's downstairs.
I think she'd better
not look at me today.
Yes, I think so too.
Why did you get scared?
Mitya, the institute
is preparing a report.
We want to call it
the Goosev effect.