(ALL CHANTING IN LATIN)
(CHANTING CONTINUES)
(DRILL WHIRRING)
MAN 1: What the hell is this?
MAN 2: I don't know.
MAN 1: Whoa.
Bloody hell.
The Crossrail is the biggest construction project in Europe,
carving 26 miles of new commuter train tunnels beneath the surface of London.
But today, an ancient tomb filled with the coffins of Crusader knights...
ARCHAEOLOGIST: People don't realize that London is a giant graveyard.
A modern city built on centuries of death.
FEMALE REPORTER: Because of the tomb's proximity to the Thames,
half the space is flooded, is that right?
ARCHAEOLOGIST: There are even more coffins submerged underwater.
The tomb appears to have been built during the Second Crusade,
which means it's filled with the bodies
of Crusader knights who invaded Egypt before returning to England.
MALE REPORTER: It has also revealed a treasure trove
of secrets about London's history.
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(INDISTINCT CONVERSATIONS)
HENRY: Clear them out, please.
MALIK: Ladies and gentlemen, please stop what you're doing.
The train tunnel has been rerouted north of here.
We are now taking control of this site.
Please collect your tools and gear and exit immediately.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: Oi!
Excuse me. Excuse me!
This is my site. What do you think you're doing?
Evacuate your men.
We'll take it from here.
CONSTRUCTION MANAGER: Who the hell are you people?
MALIK: This way, sir. Thank you very much.
HENRY: The past cannot remain buried forever.
In my lifetime, I have unearthed many ancient mysteries.
At last, this tomb reveals antiquity's darkest secret.
A secret erased from history and forgotten to time.
Princess Ahmanet.
Beautiful,
cunning,
and ruthless.
Sole heir to the throne of Egypt.
The pharaoh's kingdom would one day be hers to rule
without mercy or fear.
And Ahmanet would be worshipped as a living god.
(SCREAMING)
(BABY CRYING)
But Pharaoh had a son.
The boy, now, would inherit her destiny.
And Ahmanet understood power was not given.
It had to be taken.
Vowing revenge, she made a choice to embrace evil.
Set. The god of death.
(AHMANET CHANTING IN ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
HENRY: They made a pact.
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
A pact that would unleash darkness itself.
(RAVENS SQUAWKING)
(MUMMY GROWLING)
(SIZZLING)
(SEARING)
Ahmanet was reborn
- a monster. - (GASPS)
(BLADE SWISHING)
(BABY CRYING)
(BLADE SWISHING)
Yet the pact was not complete.
She vowed to bring the demon into our world in the body of a mortal man.
Together, they would take their vengeance upon humanity.
(GROANING)
(SCREAMING)
(STRAINING)
(SCREAMING)
For her sins, Ahmanet was mummified alive,
(SCREAMING)
her body carried far from Egypt.
(THUNDER RUMBLING)
There she would remain, condemned to eternal darkness.
But death is a doorway, and the past cannot remain buried forever.
(GUNFIRE)
(MEN SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
VAIL: Out of luck, huh, Sarge?
The civilians are gone.
It's filled with insurgents down there.
I guess we're too late.
We can do this.
VAIL: Oh, no, no, no! We are too late!
Command thinks we're doing advanced recon 100 miles from here.
Sarge, you're not going down there.
You're right, I'm not.
We are.
At least call in an airstrike.
"Airstrike"?
Bad idea.
A little one. Just... Maybe they'll run off.
And then command will know where we are...
And we'll do 20 years in Leavenworth for looting.
Hey. What'd I tell you? We are not looters.
We are liberators of precious antiquities.
Liberators of precious antiquities.
- Right. - Right.
But we don't even know what's down there.
Haram. Haram is what's down there. Treasure.
No, the translator said "haram" means "forbidden knowledge."
Like a curse.
Around here, that's just another word for "treasure,"
and this guy, this Henry guy, he seems to want it pretty bad.
Well, now he's gonna have to pay double.
- Mount up. - No, sir, I ain't going on this one.
- What? - I'm not going.
Vail.
What are you gonna do, stab me with that?
Oh, no, no, no!
You crazy bastard.
It's a full day's ride to the nearest water!
The nearest water is right down in that village.
Come on, Vail.
Where's your sense of adventure?
Well, that's just great, Nick. That's just great!
Come on, slip in, slip out, just like we always do.
(GUNFIRE)
VAIL: You son of a bitch!
NICK: Oh, my God!
VAIL: We're gonna die! We're gonna die!
(BOTH GASPING)
NICK: Move! Move!
- Just run! Run, run! - (VAIL YELLING)
(MEN SHOUTING)
- (GUNFIRE) - NICK: Go, go, go!
VAIL: You kidding me?
(BOTH GRUNT)
"Slip in, slip out"?
(NICK YELPS)
VAIL: This is not like we always do!
NICK: Stairs! Just run! Run!
Run, run, run!
(MEN SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
(MAN SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
Grenade!
VAIL: I hate you! I hate you so much!
I never even wanted to come to this country!
NICK: Let me think. Just let me think.
If anyone is listening, this is L-26, urgent, hot!
Request dynamic precision strike at our mark!
You did not just call in an airstrike!
Oh, yes, I did!
(EXPLOSION)
Where are you going? Don't leave me!
Where do they keep coming from?
(VAIL YELLING)
There's nowhere to go!
Oh, man! We're gonna die!
Just, please, Vail! Let me think!
- We're gonna die because of you! - Just let me think!
VAIL: Think about what? Think about what?
I'm thinking...
(GROANS)
What?
I'm thinking...
What are you thinking?
I'm thinking we're probably gonna die here.
I knew it!
I knew it!
(MEN SHOUTING IN ARABIC)
(TRUCKS RETREATING)
(LAUGHING)
Huh?
I am still alive!
- (VAIL WHOOPS) - (RUMBLING)
(VAIL SCREAMING)
VAIL: No!
(BOTH GROANING)
(GRUNTING)
Nick! Nick!
(PANTING)
(VAIL GROANING)
Haram.
Sir!
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
I was told you boys were supposed to be 100 klicks from here!
Yes, sir!
But based on intelligence,
we had reason to believe the insurgents
were holding civilian hostages.
We had to make a call, wait for Delta to respond or go in alone!
It was Sergeant Morton's idea to go in, actually!
Uh-huh.
Only to find out that the villagers had long since evacuated.
Yeah, lucky for them, not for us.
Delta, south-side perimeter.
Sir, when we realized we were in the center of the insurgent stronghold,
it was too late.
We were discovered, we started taking on heavy fire.
Well, sir, Corporal Vail, here, is too humble to admit it,
but he risked his life to save mine.
He's a hero. In fact, I'd like to recommend him for a citation.
Let me run another scenario by you.
Sir?
One in which two assholes from long-range reconnaissance,
that would be you, run all over northern Iraq just one step ahead of the enemy.
Except, instead of hunting for the enemy, you hunt for antiquities,
stealing whatever isn't nailed down and selling it on the black market.
Meanwhile, these fanatical insurgents trying to erase 5,000 years of history
unwittingly cover your tracks. It's a pretty good scam.
Sergeant Morton!
Where is it?
What? Where's what?
The letter, the map you stole from me.
- (SIGHS) - NICK: Map?
I don't know what you're talking about.
How would I have even had an opportunity to steal anything from you, Miss...
Miss...
(CHUCKLES) Okay. Sergeant Morton, here, thinks that I'll be too embarrassed
to tell you that I had him in my hotel room three nights ago in Baghdad.
And whilst I was sleeping, he went through my things.
I'm not embarrassed, Nick.
Disgusted, yes.
Regretful? Certainly.
But mainly, just amazed at your ability
to mimic all the qualities of genuine human intimacy
if only for 15 seconds.
- (LAUGHS) - Where's the map, Morton?
(SIGHS) Okay. Sir, I admit that Miss Halsey and I did spend
a delightful evening in Baghdad.
A very long and satisfying evening,
if her reactions are to be considered sincere.
But, sir, I left with nothing more than fond memories.
Now, perhaps I may have neglected to say goodbye to her the next morning,
only because she was exhausted
- and I didn't wanna wake her. - Okay.
And the reward for my gracious consideration?
Well, sir, as you can see, hell hath no fury.
- NICK: Sir. - JENNY: Oh, my God!
It's Egyptian.
VAIL: Oh, is that unusual?
We're in the Persian Gulf, Vail.
Right, Egypt's 1,000 miles away, so it's unusual.
Put those down, hurry. Go get the rest.
MAN: Got it.
Colonel, this is a significant find.
I need your men to secure this village.
We're not even supposed to be here.
It is my job to make sure that anything of value stays out of enemy hands.
We have no idea what could be down there.
The contents of Tutankhamun's tomb alone
were valued at 650 million pounds sterling.
Understand?
Oh. Um...
Colonel? If I may.
With a couple of shaped charges, we could just close this hole right up
and Miss Halsey can come back another day.
- Shut up. - Okay.
You got two hours, then we're moving out.
- You're getting in the hole with her. - Him?
- Me? - Yep.
Sir...
You gear up. That's an order.
I'll be right here holding the rope, Sarge.
Get in the damn hole, Vail!
Oh, man!
(EXHALES)
(GASPS)
(TAPE RECORDER BEEPS)
I'm in a large antechamber of some kind.
There is an inscription on the northern wall,
- the Litany of Ra. - (RUMBLING)
VAIL: Are you kidding me?
Your fault, Nick. Your fault.
(WHISPERS) Do you see any treasure in here, Nick? 'Cause I don't.
You know what I see? I see statues that I can't carry out.
- Just keep it down. - You keep it down.
What are you doing?
It is definitely a tomb.
(LIQUID DRIPPING)
VAIL: What is that? Mercury?
Yeah.
The ancient Egyptians believed it weakened evil spirits.
Well, now we know better. Stuff will kill you.
Yeah, after it makes you crazy.
JENNY: There is mercury dripping from the ceiling into holes in the ground.
Possibly interconnected.
It's a canal system leading all the way to...
Get the lights!
Oh, my God.
Get everything out of the bags.
(WHISPERS) What did I tell you?
(WHISPERS) That's a lot of gold, Nick.
I'm in a large, man-made cavern adjoining the antechamber.
There are chiseled stairs descending from the ledge.
There is a canal at the center of them
that feeds a ritual well at the base, filled with mercury.
Pleated skirts, scarab signet rings.
This is a High Priest of Amun from the temple in Thebes.
There is a ritual barrier chain that surrounds the well
as a warning to intruders.
To keep people out.
There isn't a single provision
made for someone's journey into the underworld.
No canopic jars, no shabtis.
To be buried in a place like this
would have been a fate worse than death.
Nick!
Don't even think about it.
There are six watchers around the well
facing inward instead of out.
Whatever's in there, those chains aren't for bringing it up.
They're for holding it down.
(CLINKING)
(GASPS)
This is not a tomb.
It's a prison.
COLONEL GREENWAY: (ON RADIO) Lima 2-6, come in.
Copy, sir.
Get out now. We got reports of bogeys inbound.
We gotta take off.
Tell Greenway we have to notify DTRA.
- For what? - I need specialists
- from Cairo... - VAIL: Cairo?
...CBRN suits, and shielding casks.
VAIL: Jenny, we are out of time.
You better grab what you can now!
JENNY: I am not leaving until I see what's in that pool.
VAIL: You're leaving. We're leaving right now.
JENNY: I did not come this far just to leave with...
(YELPS)
(GASPS)
- (CREAKING) - (GASPS)
(GASPS)
(CAMEL SPIDERS CHITTERING)
Oh! (WHIMPERING)
Ahh! Ow! (GROANING)
Hey! Hey!
- (VAIL YELLING) - (NICK SHOUTING)
Cease fire! Vail!
Vail, cease fire! Cease fire!
They're just camel spiders! They're not even poisonous!
Can we please leave?
- Are you out of your mind, Vail? - Please!
- What is wrong with you? - The thing bit me, Nick!
- Okay, okay. - It bit me!
Enough of this! I don't care!
I'm leaving! With or without you, I'm leaving!
It bit me! Please, Nick!
(CREAKING)
(WIND WHOOSHING)
(AHMANET SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
JENNY: Nick!
Nick!
Nick!
Tell Greenway he's gonna send a team to get this thing out of here,
or he's gonna have to explain why he left me behind.
Do it!
Okay.
JENNY: Guidelines are manned!
PILOT: (ON RADIO) Guideline is steady.
Move more to your 9 o'clock!
Holding at 30 feet.
JENNY: A little more.
(BOTH CAWING)
(RAVENS SQUAWKING)
(SQUAWKING CONTINUES)
PILOT 1: Three-eight-Sierra- four-two-seven-niner-point-six-six-nine.
(SHUDDERING)
Go to the MSR, grid two-five-seven- seven-eight-eight-four.
PILOT 2: Bishop to Echo,
we have visual on a severe sandstorm heading west at angels 12.
(SOLDIERS SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY)
Hey!
Hey!
Wait, wait, please be careful.
This is 5,000 years old.
Sixty seconds! In the air! Let's go!
Carefully. Very, very carefully.
COLONEL GREENWAY: Get us off the ground now!
Halsey, take a seat!
(INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER)
(GROANS)
(GROANS)
(EXHALES)
Need some help?
No.
- You're welcome, by the way. - How's that?
Because I saved your whatever-it-is.
That was safely hidden for 5,000 years before you dropped a Hellfire missile on it.
And you might never have found it otherwise.
Again, you're welcome.
(SCOFFS)
Do you have any idea what this is?
The significance of it?
An Egyptian sarcophagus in a tomb in Mesopotamia.
Why'd you say 15 seconds?
Why'd I what?
You told Greenway that I could mimic all the qualities of human intimacy
for 15 seconds.
I mean, let me tell you, it was not 15 seconds.
Well, however long it lasted, it wasn't real.
I never lied to you about my feelings.
You stole from me.
But I didn't lie.
Do you ever think of anyone but yourself?
This means something.
Something bigger than you can imagine.
My life's work.
And you were going to steal it.
How much do you figure that's worth on the black market?
(WHEEZING)
This is Dr. Jennifer Halsey conducting a preliminary analysis
of an Egyptian sarcophagus
discovered in the Nineveh province, northern Iraq.
The hieroglyphs are definitely New Kingdom.
It appears that the wife of King Menehptre
died in childbirth,
leaving a sole heir to the throne,
a girl
called Ahmanet.
(AHMANET GRUNTS)
(AHMANET EXHALING DEEPLY)
(SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(GASPS)
COLONEL GREENWAY: Corporal, what in the living hell are you doing, son?
Vail?
COLONEL GREENWAY: Corporal Vail?
Damn it.
Corporal Vail, do you hear me talking to you? I said what...
- (GROANS) - (GASPS)
- (VAIL HISSING) - Vail, just...
Vail! Whoa, whoa!
- Vail! - Oh, my God. Vail!
- SOLDIER 1: Drop your weapon! - SOLDIER 2: Put it down!
- Drop it now! - Please! No, don't!
Drop it, now!
- Put the gun down! - SOLDIER 1: Drop it!
- Put down the weapon! Put it down! Back off! - JENNY: Wait, wait.
Stop! Do not shoot!
This is a pressurized aircraft! Nick.
What...
- JENNY: Vail. - (HISSING)
- Vail, put the knife down. - Vail. Vail. Vail.
- Vail, no. No, no! - NICK: Vail! Vail! Vail!
Vail! Vail!
(HISSING)
Okay, Vail, stop. Stop! Vail, Vail, Vail!
(PANTING)
I'm sorry.
- (RUMBLING) - (ALL GASP)
(ENGINE SPUTTERING)
CO-PILOT: Pan, Pan, Pan!
This is November four-zero-niner-niner,
United States C-130 Hercules inbound 6 miles off the coast...
- What's happening? - Take your seat and strap in.
- ...of Dover, England. - England?
Ma'am, I don't know what's happening.
Take a seat!
(JENNY GASPS)
CO-PILOT: We lost thrust in both engines.
No radar contact.
Dropping to 12,000, 280 on the heading.
What the hell is that?
Go, go, go!
(PILOTS SCREAMING)
- (JENNY GRUNTS) - (SOLDIERS YELPING)
Parachute!
Parachute!
I don't know how to do this!
Jenny, Jenny, you can do this. You can do this.
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(JENNY SCREAMING)
(BOTH STRAINING)
(JENNY YELPING)
Give me your hand! Give me your hand!
(SOLDIER SCREAMING)
(BOTH SCREAMING)
(JENNY SCREAMING)
(SCREAMING)
(SCREAM ECHOING)
HELEN: It's an awful thing to have to ask, I know.
DR. WHEMPLE: It's most irregular.
Noted, Doctor. Thank you.
We'll let Miss Halsey decide.
Miss Halsey?
Miss Halsey, do you think you're up to it?
I'm sorry, what?
We need your help identifying the bodies.
(PANTING)
Whoa!
Vail!
VAIL: Hey, buddy.
You scared the shit out of me.
We need to talk, Nick.
What's... What's happening?
You know what's happening.
Am I dead?
Dead?
No, but you're gonna wish you were.
Right this way, please.
- Oh, my God! Nick. - HELEN: Oh!
Jen... Oh!
What's happening? Where am I?
Who's in charge here?
DR. WHEMPLE: Uh...
MR. BROOKE: (ON RADIO) Base, this is Search Team One.
Looks like the trail of wreckage
spread across two, two and a half miles through the forest.
Coming up on Aylesford Pier now.
Stand by.
Pier's a wreck.
Looks like part of the wing. A turbine.
Miles away from the primary crash site. Over.
FEMALE DISPATCHER: Copy, Search Team One.
Message received.
One body found, no obvious signs of life. Stand by.
Casualty confirmed, deceased.
Request attendance of ambulance personnel. Over.
FEMALE DISPATCHER: Copy, Search Team One.
Ambulance personnel en route. Over.
MR. BROOKE: We got aircraft debris scattered across the north side of the banks,
still alight, but no immediate danger or threat. Over.
(WATER TRICKLING)
- (RAVENS SCREECHING) - (GASPING)
(RAVENS SQUAWKING)
What?
What the hell?
Hey! You better come and look at... (GROANS)
Allen?
Allen?
You all right?
Allen!
(HISSING)
- Jesus! (GROANING) - (RAVENS SQUAWKING)
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
(HISSES)
(GROANING)
(AHMANET SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(BOTH SNARLING)
FEMALE REPORTER: (ON TV) A United States military plane
crash-landed in Surrey this evening, just missing Waverley Abbey.
How did you get out of that plane?
There's not a single scratch on your body.
Yeah. (CHUCKLES)
Thank you.
For what?
You saved my life.
You'd have done the same for me.
VAIL: Nick.
Nick.
JENNY: Listen, Nick.
I... (SIGHS)
I think you should know something.
You know I work with a group of archeologists.
- Yeah. - Well, we've developed this theory
that an Egyptian princess had been erased from the history books
deliberately.
We've been searching for something called the Dagger of Set.
A ceremonial knife with a large jewel at the hilt.
Set is the Egyptian god of death.
And legend has it that the dagger and the stone, together,
had the power to give Set physical form.
I'm convinced it was hidden here in Europe.
Stolen by Crusaders centuries ago.
I found reference to it in a manuscript written by a Crusader knight
that suggested the dagger was broken apart.
That the stone was buried with this knight somewhere here in England.
A massive Crusader tomb was recently discovered under London.
We believe that the stone is in there somewhere.
That tomb is what led us to Ahmanet.
I think she's the princess in the legend.
The hieroglyphs said she murdered her father.
- Murdered? - Along with his child.
She made some sort of pact with the god of death.
And then, when I saw those birds,
and that sandstorm... You know, I mean... something is happening.
You're alive and I don't know how.
(MOUTHING) You. Me. Go.
I'm sorry, Nick. I think we've angered the gods.
Would you excuse me?
I'll be right back.
MAN: (ON PHONE) Identify, please.
This is Jenny. Get me Henry.
Jennifer.
This is a far more significant problem than we had ever imagined.
Something is happening, Henry. I'm worried about him.
Bring your soldier to London.
Do not discuss anything further with him.
- Understand? - (SIGHS)
What are you doing here?
Jenny looks good.
- Okay, this isn't happening. - I mean, really great.
Okay, really. Stop.
You know, I always thought I had a chance with her.
- What? - How do you squander that?
There was mercury in that tomb. The vapors were toxic.
I mean, how do you mess that up?
It's just in my head, it's in my head.
No, it's not.
You shot me.
Wait, wait. Wait, wait, wait. You... You...
You
stabbed Greenway.
- I saved you... - You murdered him.
...and you shot me.
You tried to kill me. You even went after Jenny.
You shot me. Three times.
- Yes. - Three times, Nick.
Okay, the third one was unnecessary.
You freaked me out, I panicked.
- I'm sorry. Okay? - Not okay.
Look at me. Look at my face.
I'm cursed, Nick. And you're cursed.
And there's only one way to break it.
You are going to do exactly what she wants,
or this is gonna get a lot worse for both of us.
What do you mean, I'm cursed?
(WOMEN CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY)
I'm sorry.
Just give me a minute. Thank you.
You walked into the chicks' bathroom, by the way.
WOMAN: Go to your own sodding loo!
- VAIL: Yeah, it's a ladies' room. - WOMAN: We just want to pee!
- What do you mean, I'm cursed? - (KNOCK ON DOOR)
How do you think you survived the crash?
Setepa-i.
- WOMAN: Bloody Yanks. Unbelievable. - WOMAN 2: Yeah!
VAIL: You know what it means.
She's got plans for you, Nick.
- Plans? - You can't run.
You can't escape.
(SHUDDERS)
(BREATHING HEAVILY)
(SQUEAKING)
(RATS SQUEAKING)
- (GRUNTS) - (SNARLING)
(SQUEAKING)
(YELPING)
Help me!
Help me!
- Setepa-i! - (SCREAMING)
- (HORN HONKING) - (BRAKES SCREECHING)
- (SCREAMS) - DRIVER: Out of the road, wanker!
Nick! What the hell are you doing?
Okay, you were right.
- We've angered the gods. - Wait, what?
I saw her. The chick in the box.
- Ahmanet? - That one.
- Nick... - He said I'm cursed.
- Who said? - Vail.
- Vail? - The coffin we found.
- Sarcophagus. - Whatever.
- There was writing on it. - Hieroglyphics.
Jenny, respectfully, I'm not interested in archeological jargon right now.
The writing on the box that we took out of the hole.
Yes, sorry.
There was something about a curse on there, wasn't there?
Nick, you've had a concussion.
- Yes. - Toxic exposure.
How does that explain that I know that Setepa-i means "my chosen"?
- That's ancient Egyptian. - Ancient Egyptian.
How do I know that?
You've been in the Middle East for years.
- What? No! - You heard it, you forgot it.
Why are you backing off from this? I'm telling you.
She is real.
JENNY: Nick.
Nick, what is it?
I think you're right. I... (LAUGHS)
I think this is all in my head.
We should find the box, look inside, and when I see a 3,000-year-old prune in there...
- Nick. - ...no more curse.
You don't need a sarcophagus, you need a doctor.
I know someone.
A specialist in London.
Don't tell me that you don't wanna see it, too.
Your life's work.
Come on, Jenny.
I think I know where it is.
PILOT: (ON RADIO) Charlie 8-1. Charlie 8-1 to Base.
We are at the main crash site, 400 meters north of Waverley Abbey.
Firefighters are containing the wreckage, but the site is still hot.
(MUMMIES GROANING)
(CHOKING)
(GASPING)
(COWS MOOING)
(HELICOPTER HOVERING)
JENNY: Nick.
Nick! Where are you going?
The crash site is up that way. Where are you going?
No. We're in the right place.
Nick.
Nick!
I don't know what we're doing here.
This isn't the right place.
Yes, it is.
No, it isn't.
The main crash site is up that way, and so is my artifact.
And that's where we're going.
(WHISPERING VOICES)
(CREAKING)
Setepa-i.
What the hell?
How did I...
Jenny?
Okay.
(YELPS)
Nick?
(GRUNTS)
- (SNARLING) - (GASPS)
- (SNARLING) - (GASPS)
- (SCREECHING) - (GASPS)
(EXHALES)
Ah...
(GASPS) Okay.
Okay.
(NICK LAUGHING)
(MOANING)
No, seriously...
- (SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE) - What?
NICK: I'm sorry, what?
(CONTINUES SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
Oh, God.
No, no, no.
(SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
No, please.
(FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING)
(WHIMPERS)
Jenny!
(SOFTLY) Yeah?
Run! Run!
- (MUMMY SNARLING) - (GROANING)
(GRUNTS)
(GRUNTING)
(GROANING)
Ugh! (GRUNTING)
(CHOKING)
(GROANING)
JENNY: Come on! Come on!
Nick! Nick!
Nick!
Hey! Hey!
- No, no, no! Hey! - (ENGINE STARTS)
Hey! Nick! Stop!
Nick!
Were you just gonna leave me?
- You saw that, right? - You were gonna leave me!
- You saw it, right? - I can't unsee it!
(TIRES SCREECHING)
Where are we going?
Away from here. There's a highway up ahead.
- How do you know? - I know.
Oh, my God. Do you realize what this is?
NICK: It's the Dagger of Set.
She was gonna drive that thing right through me.
The stone, it is missing.
Yeah, that seemed to really piss her off.
It's real.
NICK: How was it in a statue?
That statue was a reliquary.
Crusaders would use them to hide holy relics.
But she knew it was there.
What... You're saying that she brought the plane down there?
On purpose?
That's why she wanted you to come to the church.
She wanted me to go to the church?
I told you that I wanted to go to the church.
I told you, I said I wanted to see...
- I wanted to see her corpse. - See her corpse.
Nick, she's in your head.
What are you talking about? That is ridiculous. Because I...
- (BRAKES SCREECHING) - (JENNY GASPING)
NICK: I drove right back to her.
Oh, my God, she's in my head.
(TIRES SCREECHING)
- Go, go, go! - (MUMMY SNARLING)
(GRUNTING)
Get it off me!
Son of a bitch!
(GRUNTING)
- (SNARLING) - (JENNY SCREAMS)
(NICK YELPING)
That's my face! That's my face! That's my face!
Sorry!
(GRUNTS)
(JENNY YELPING)
Nick!
(SNARLING)
(SCREAMS)
(BOTH SCREAMING)
Nick!
- (AMBULANCE CRASHING) - (PANTING)
Jenny?
(JENNY GRUNTING)
(SEAT BELT CLICKS)
Jenny. Jenny.
Nick! Nick!
NICK: Okay.
All right.
Get her, Nick!
Get her! Get her!
Kick her ass!
- (NICK YELPS) - (BRANCHES SNAPPING)
(GROANS)
(GASPS)
AGENT 1: Route is clear. Come on!
(GROANS)
(AHMANET SCREAMING)
- AGENT 2: That's it, pull her back tight! - (AHMANET CONTINUES SCREAMING)
- AGENT 3: Delta Team, move! - AGENT 1: Bring target down!
Clear!
Who are you...
Where are you taking me?
What's happening?
(DOOR BUZZING)
- (BEEPING) - (DOOR BUZZING)
(DOOR LOCKING)
Stay.
HENRY: Make yourself comfortable.
Who the hell are you?
Who am I?
(CHUCKLING)
The more relevant question, Mr. Morton,
is who exactly are you?
In theory, I know all about you.
Army reconnaissance, decorated soldier,
and page after page indicating a deep and troubling moral turpitude.
But, you see, this file contains nothing of any real value to me.
That's why I wanted to see you face-to-face.
Who are you?
I'm a doctor.
A doctor.
Chemical pathology, neurosurgery.
Fellow of the Royal Society.
I'm also a lawyer.
My name is Jekyll.
Dr. Henry Jekyll.
(SIGHS)
There you are.
These days, I specialize in immunology, perhaps.
(CHUCKLES)
Infectious disease, perhaps.
I would like, if I may, Mr. Morton,
to tell you a story.
A story about a patient of mine.
A man of promise.
A man who believed he was beyond reproach
until he got ill.
The disease manifested itself in subtle ways, at first.
And then it grew
into an overwhelming desire, an unquenchable thirst...
(GRUNTS)
(IN COCKNEY ACCENT) ...for chaos.
For the suffering of others.
(GROANING SOFTLY)
He was quite fortunate.
He himself was a physician.
And if evil were a pathogen, he reasoned,
then there must surely be a cure.
I would like, if I may, Mr. Morton,
to show you something.
(AHMANET SHIVERING)
Welcome to Prodigium, Mr. Morton.
From the Latin, monstrum vel prodigium.
"A warning of monsters."
Forgive the state of things.
We had very little time to prepare for our guest
and only the information Jennifer provided to go on.
In truth, she works for us.
It's not an exact science, this business.
What?
And the business being?
Evil, Mr. Morton.
Recognize, contain, examine, destroy.
She is by far the most ancient we've ever encountered.
What are you doing to her?
HENRY: Embalming her with mercury.
At minus 38 degrees
the mercury in her veins will solidify, and she should be safe for dissection then.
Dissection? You said that we'd study her.
Yes, by dissection.
But she's a living witness to a history that we barely know.
HENRY: She's a threat, Jennifer.
Hold on, hold on. So, where does that leave me?
Cursed, Mr. Morton.
This is not some common cold you have.
Some chicken soup and a good night's sleep will not make it go away.
You have been selected as the vessel for the ultimate evil.
And we are the only ones who can rectify that.
(AHMANET SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
No.
AHMANET: (IN ENGLISH) I was going to give him eternal life.
Make him a living god.
You murdered your father.
AHMANET: I loved my father
with all my heart.
I only wanted his love in return.
You killed his wife.
Their child.
- (BABY CRYING) - (BLADE SWISHING)
They were different times.
The Day of Awakening will soon be upon us.
You will become Set.
The world will fall to your desire.
You will have power of life over death.
And you will have me.
I will be your queen.
Just give in.
JENNY: Nick.
Nick. Wake up.
Wake up.
They will kill you, just as they killed my chosen before you.
It burns.
What?
It burns! (SCREAMING)
Stop it!
Stop it! Stop!
Stop!
- (GROANING) - Stop it!
Stop!
Fascinating.
What was I supposed to tell you?
Would you even have believed me
if I'd said this place was real?
When Henry came to me,
I took the job because we had a common interest.
So, you're using each other.
Now she's using you.
(AHMANET SHIVERING)
Look.
Despite what you might think,
despite my...
My better judgment,
I care about you.
Somewhere in there, fighting to get out,
is a good man.
You don't know that.
I do.
How?
You saved my life on that plane.
You gave me the only parachute without hesitation.
I thought there was another one.
HENRY: Mr. Morton.
Drink?
(CAMERA CLICKING)
(INDISTINCT CHATTER)
I think I've found something.
(GRUNTS)
(GASPS)
(CAMERA CLICKING)
(JENNY SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(IN ENGLISH) The "old" gods?
Your language is simple.
What you truly wish to know is
what lies beyond the veil of death.
To know what I have seen?
Yes.
And you will,
when I
kill you.
They have found the stone.
You brought my chosen here.
What do you think they will do with him now?
Huh.
Welcome to a new world of gods and monsters.
- Evil has many names, Mr. Morton. - Mmm.
Take Set, for example.
Known to Egyptians as the god of death.
- Mmm. - In the Old Testament, Satan, Lucifer.
- The devil. - Quite so.
Yeah. Bad... Badness. Got it.
So, you see, evil is the shadow
- that exists just outside our world... - Uh-huh.
...continuously searching for a way to come in.
For a way to become flesh and blood.
(CHANTING IN ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(CLEARS THROAT)
Either we wait for that day to arrive,
or we can fight it on our own terms.
Which brings me to you.
Me? Yeah, great. Yes, Doc.
You said you could cure me of this curse. Get rid of it.
So, let's do it, Doc.
What's your plan?
Mr. Morton, these things are complex.
Yeah. I bet, I bet.
When one is dealing with the salvation of humanity,
certain sacrifices must be made.
MALIK: Excuse me, sir.
They found it.
Found what?
JENNY: Henry.
Are you planning on killing him?
NICK: Kill?
- Jennifer... - Kill who?
Mr. Morton, here, essentially killed himself
when he severed the barrier chain
that had kept Ahmanet's power imprisoned for 5,000 years.
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
He was chosen as her ideal candidate.
A thief, physically capable, compulsively devious,
and utterly devoid of soul.
- What? - What?
That's insane.
You want to put the stone in the dagger and stab him with it?
Well, the dagger will allow Set to enter his body,
and then, we obliterate it.
Wait, wait, wait.
You wanna stab me with that thing?
Intentionally?
Precisely what the Egyptians should have done.
(CONTINUES CHANTING)
HENRY: You see, they interrupted a ritual in process,
and that is a mistake we cannot...
(HENRY CLEARS THROAT)
...afford to repeat.
What?
That's the plan?
Henry, you can't possibly do this.
(HENRY GRUNTS)
That's your plan?
HENRY: The dominoes are already falling.
We haven't much time.
Unfortunately, it is a risk we must take.
That's really your plan?
You heard Ahmanet.
Your curse cannot be broken.
I am truly sorry, Mr. Morton.
No matter what I do, you are going to die.
Yes, evil is a disease.
A pestilent, pustulant infection
burrowing its way into our souls.
The world needs a cure.
- You can be that cure. - Stop.
- A sacrifice for the greater good! - Just stop.
I'm not interested in that at all.
- (GROANING) - Okay.
- Don't! - Give me the injector.
Okay, we're just gonna take a minute, and we're all gonna come up with a new plan.
- We have to go. - You don't know what you're doing.
Really? I know exactly what I'm doing.
(GROWLING)
(IN COCKNEY ACCENT) Oh, my dear Henry Jekyll,
if ever I've seen Satan's signature upon a face,
it is on that of your new friend.
(GROANING)
Okay, hey, hey, hey! Take it!
MALIK: Now!
- Run, Mr. Morton. - What?
Run! (GROANING)
Nick! Open the door!
You don't want that.
Stop! Jenny!
Stop!
(GROWLING)
(CHUCKLES)
(SCANNER ALARM BEEPING)
They won't let me out, Nicholas.
They never do.
(GROANS)
(CHUCKLING)
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
What's happening?
Did you just shut down the mercury?
Pete?
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
You are a younger man,
but you'd best learn to be wary of a man like me.
(YELLS)
(CART CLATTERING)
(SNARLS)
- (CHUCKLING EVILLY) - (BOTH GRUNTING)
It's not me that wants to kill you, it's Henry.
I have something more collaborative in mind. (GROANS)
Oh, nice.
(SNARLS)
- (YELPING) - (TECHNICIANS CLAMORING)
- (GROWLING) - (NICK GRUNTS)
I'm offering you a partnership.
You, Evil Incarnate.
Me, your good friend, Eddie Hyde.
Think about it.
MALIK: Jenny!
HYDE: Oh, come on.
(HYDE LAUGHS)
(COUGHING)
(GROANS)
Jenny, stop!
(HYDE YELLING)
Come on, son. Think about it.
Mayhem, chaos, destruction.
The ladies will love us.
Come here.
- (BONE CRACKING) - (SCREAMING)
I do enjoy the countenance of pain.
(HYDE LAUGHING EVILLY)
(GROANING)
(IN NORMAL ACCENT) Well done, Mr. Morton. Well done.
(BOTH PANTING)
(HENRY GROANS)
(CONTINUES PANTING)
Come on. We have to destroy the stone.
- What? - No stone, no ritual.
No ritual...
- No curse. - Yes.
I know where it is.
(PANICKED SCREAMING)
(GASPS)
Nick! Nick!
(SCREAMING)
(GRUNTING)
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
(INHALES DEEPLY)
Just wait, wait. Which way out?
I don't know.
(AHMANET CHANTING IN ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(CHANTING ECHOING)
(YELLING)
(PANICKED SCREAMING)
(CELL PHONE RINGING)
Hello?
She's out! She has the dagger.
We think she's coming to you. So are we.
Lock your doors and secure that stone.
(PEOPLE SCREAMING)
(JENNY SCREAMING)
(SCREECHING)
(ROARING)
VAIL: Nick! Nick!
Let's go!
I know where the stone is!
Let's go!
(JENNY YELPING)
(GRUNTING)
- (GASPS) - (CHUCKLING)
Wow, that was intense!
Okay, follow me.
AGENT: (ON RADIO) We're heading to the Crusader burial chamber.
We'll make our entry through the northwest train tunnels. Over.
This is the moment, Nick.
This is the moment!
Yeah, you're damn right.
I'm gonna take you to that stone, deliver you to Ahmanet,
then my work here is done.
What?
Nick?
Jenny?
VAIL: Hey, buddy.
Ahmanet is never going to let her live.
You can't save her.
(AHMANET SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE)
(RUMBLING)
TECHNICIAN: Oh, no! Move!
(ALL GASP)
(MUMMIES SNARLING)
(PANICKED SCREAMING)
(SCREECHING)
(PEOPLE SCREAMING ON RADIO)
(BOTH SCREAMING)
Nick?
Nick?
Nick?
(NICK GRUNTING)
(JENNY GRUNTING)
(BOTH PANTING)
(SCREECHING)
- (ROARS) - (SCREAMS)
(GRUNTING)
- You shouldn't be here. - I followed you!
(MUMMIES SNARLING)
NICK: Go, go, go!
- (BOTH GASP) - (ALL SNARLING)
(EXHALES)
- (SNARLING) - (NICK GRUNTS)
(BOTH GASPING)
Are you okay? Are you okay?
- Where are we? - I don't know.
I don't know.
Are you okay?
- I'm scared. - Just look at me.
We're gonna figure this out. Just...
You just stay with me, please.
We're gonna figure this out. Okay? You just stay with me.
Just stay with me. We'll figure this out.
Okay, it's gonna be okay...
(NICK GASPS)
Ah! No! Jenny!
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
(COUGHING)
(GASPS)
(GRUNTS)
Jenny! No! No!
Don't!
Let go! (YELLING)
Jenny!
(GRUNTING)
Jenny! Jenny!
No! (COUGHING)
(PANTING)
AHMANET: Don't blame yourself.
She was always doomed.
There are worse fates than death.
Come to me.
(GROANS)
It hurts.
I know.
Let me take the pain away.
(GROANING)
Give in to me.
Oh. Uh...
(SCREAMS)
(GROANING)
(CHOKING)
Give in.
Give in.
When it's over,
you will thank me.
I promise.
I'm sorry.
We're just never gonna happen.
And it's not me.
It's you.
(GROANS)
Thief.
- (GRUNTS) - (GASPS)
Wait!
Destroy the stone and all is lost.
You will be a living god.
You will have power of life over death.
Give it to me,
my chosen.
Give it to me,
my love.
- (GRUNTS) - (GASPS)
(GROANING)
(EXHALES)
(BREATHING SHAKILY)
(SPEAKING ANCIENT LANGUAGE) Setepa-i.
(AHMANET SIGHS LONGINGLY)
Somewhere in there, I know you're a good man.
HENRY: The world needs a cure.
You can be that cure.
A sacrifice for the greater good!
(BOTH GRUNTING)
(YELLS)
(YELLS DEFIANTLY)
(MUFFLED SCREAMING)
(GASPS)
(PANTING)
(GROANS)
Jenny.
Wake up, wake up.
Wake up. Wake up.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, Jenny.
Jenny.
Jenny, please, wake up.
I'm sorry.
I don't know what I'm doing.
Just, please, wake up.
(GROANING)
Jenny.
Wake up, please.
(CONTINUES GROANING)
Just...
(GROANING DEMONICALLY)
Jenny, please, just wake up!
(SCREAMING)
(COUGHING)
(SHIVERING) Nick? Nick.
Nick. Nick.
- Nick... - (RUSTLING)
(GASPS)
Nick.
Nick. Nick?
- NICK: Stop! - (GASPS)
Stop. Please.
I don't know what I am.
I don't want to hurt you, Jenny.
You're alive.
You're alive.
I'm so glad you're alive.
Oh, Nick.
You did this for me?
Yes.
I have made so many, many mistakes.
But not this time.
Not you.
I don't want to hurt you.
I never wanted to hurt you.
You won't.
Didn't see this coming, did we?
(SNARLS)
(GASPS)
They're coming for me.
I wish we had more time.
I'll find you.
Goodbye, Jenny.
(MEN SHOUTING)
JENNY: You were wrong about Nick.
He gave his life to save me.
To bring me back.
Yes, Jennifer.
He found his redemption, but at great cost.
He is a monster now.
JENNY: He is also still a man.
A good man.
HENRY: Perhaps.
Yet he has only begun to discover his power.
And we cannot know which side will win out.
Between darkness and light,
good or evil.
VAIL: Hey, Nick? Nick.
I'm really glad to be here.
I mean, thank you for bringing me back to life and everything, Nick.
But what are we even doing here?
Where are we going?
NICK: Come on, my friend.
Where's your sense of adventure?
Oh, no.
HENRY: Whatever human part of him remains
will search the world over for a way to break the curse.
To find a cure.
Yet evil never rests.
And it will call to him
always.
JENNY: Henry, he used his power to stop Ahmanet.
You know more than anyone he could be our greatest ally.
HENRY: Perhaps.
Sometimes, it does take a monster to fight a monster.
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