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ARCHIBALD TINGLEY
ARCHIBALD MATTINGLEY (45) is climbing on an immense snowy mountain with another climber SHERPA TOR-TOR. The pair hug and congratulate one another after they reach the top. After they take a picture, a heavy wind and fog sweeps Tor-Tor away from the top of the mountain. Mattingley slips down into an ice cavern and he sees mountains of animal bones. As he steps further inside the cavern, Mattingley sees a monstrous white creature.

Twenty years later in Shanghai, December 30th 1899. In Shanghai train station, a short, Chinese porter named TWEEDY is carrying cases into the train. While the driver CLAUS is getting ready to depart, the two COAL MEN are shoveling. While BAXTER is lining up in the railway station entrance, a young Chinese girl PING
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Inside the bar, Wilhelm asks Baxter what’s the time and Baxter takes out his pocket watch to tell the time. Wilhelm accuses him as a thief since everyone’s valuables were stolen but not his. Baxter indicates a broken glass of the watch that was cracked while he was fighting with Fagin, and tells him that no thief wants to take a broken watch. Then, Tweedy suggests a way to escape from here, but Baxter does not want to leave without Anastasia. Suddenly, an old man dressed in rags enters the bar without giving anyone a glance. He is Mattingley who was lost in the icy cavern twenty years ago. Mattingley murmurs a word ‘Yeti’ repeatedly. Dr. Poh gets a hint from the word and tells the gang a legendary story about greedy and Rich Ye Tai, who was cursed and turned into a monster. The legend also tells that the monster often gets mesmerized by jewelries. After Dr. Poh’s explanation, Mattingley carries a bucket of liquid and rings a bell outside to call Yeti. The Yeti comes and drinks the whole bucket of liquor.While running away, Sergei gets eaten by the Yeti. Furious Dmitry tries to kill Yeti but he is incompetent in front of the monster. Baxter and Dr. Poh shoots right up into the Yeti’s mouth for several times, and it dies. Dr. Poh examines the dead monster is not a fully grown animal, but more of like a teenage with milk tooth which means there must be a lot more Yetis in the mountain. A MOTHER YETI roars up in the mountain, and the group run for their lives as Mother yeti stomps after

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