TEXT: Scene: The apartment. Leonard is working on a whiteboard. Sheldon: Oh, boy. Leonard: What? Sheldon: I can't comment without violating our agreement that I don't criticize your work. Leonard: Then what was oh, boy? Sheldon: Great restraint on my part. Leonard: There's nothing wrong with the science here. Sheldon: Perhaps you mean a different thing than I do when you say science. Leonard (making a change): Okay, how's that? Sheldon: You actually had it right in the first place. Once again, you've fallen for one of my classic pranks. Bazinga! Well, now here's a peculiar e-mail. The president of the university wants me to meet him at his office tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Leonard: Why? Sheldon: It doesn't say. It must be an emergency. Everyone at the university knows I eat breakfast at eight and move my bowels at 8:20. Leonard: Yes, how did we live before Twitter? I guess you'll find out what it is in the morning. Sheldon: That's 14 hours away. For the next 840 minutes, I'm effectively one of Heisenberg's particles, I know where I am or I know how fast I'm going, but I can't know both. Yet how am I supposed to carry on with this huge annoying thing hovering over my head? Leonard: Yeah, I know the feeling. Credits sequence. Scene: Outside Leonard's bedroom. Sheldon: (Knock, knock, knock) Leonard. (Knock, knock, knock) Leonard. (Knock, knock, knock) Leonard. Leonard: Sheldon, it's two o'clock in the morning. Sheldon: Why is everybody keep telling me what time it is? Leonard: Everybody? Sheldon: You, the president of the university, his wife, their sullen teenage daughter. That entire family is fascinated by what time it is and whether people know it. Leonard: You went to President Seibert's house in the middle of the night? Sheldon: He didn't respond to my e-mail, his
SUMMARY:
Sheldon wins a National Science Foundation grant to go on a three-month expedition to the Magnetic North Pole to detect magnetic monopoles and prove the validity of string theory. After some hesitation, he decides to go and wants Leonard, Howard and Raj to join him; they too initially hesitate as it would mean being locked in a cabin with Sheldon for three months, but finally agree. To prepare, Sheldon and the guys practise in the freezer room at the Cheesecake Factory, which however later proves unnecessary as they discover they will actually be spending their time in a warm cabin. On the night before the expedition, Leonard expresses doubts on going as it will mean not seeing Penny for the whole summer. He also believes Penny will miss him too, after she gives him a blanket with sleeves and a long hug. The next morning, when Leonard meets Penny again, she claims to have simply wished him a safe trip, but after he closes the door she sadly whispers "It means I wish you weren't going". The guys arrive in the Arctic and agree to abide by the same rules as in the apartment.