"(shaman:) each year, at the winter sun, we honour woot." "We call him to give life back to our land." "We call on him now." "(chanting)" "The god has answered our prayers." "Praise be to woot, giver of life." "I return woot to his place of honour." "And let any who dares disturb woot" "Until we call him again be cursed." "Where was this one taken?" "Oh, that was at the headwaters Of the nile 2 years ago." "You and ross look rather chummy." "I helped him through a nasty series of pit traps" "That guarded the mortuary temple at aghada." "We didn't smile our way through them as I recall." "(nigel:) aghada, one of the great lost wonders of africa" "Until he found it." "Incredible." "(ross:) as I recall, I saved your life there, sydney." "Ross?" "I need you to return the favour." "(sydney:) what happened to you?" "(ross:) the aging started right after I liberated" "That idol from the temple of woot near kolwezi," "Slowly at first, but then..." "the last couple of days," "It's..." "It's turned into this." "(nigel:) and you believe removing the idol is causing it?" "I'm years old." "I don't look like this." "No, of course." "Every year at the winter solstice," "The kuba shaman and tribal elders" "Perform a ceremony of regeneration" "Where they pray to their god woot." "That's in 2 days." "Well, we'll return the idol for you, ross." "It's not that simple." "You see, the inner chamber" "Where the idol is kept between rituals is..." "Is sealed until the next winter solstice." "I didn't know that when I took it," "Nor did I know about the curse." "If they find that idol missing," "Legend has it that the god woot will be angry." "How angry?" "(ross:) he will destroy them with a plague" "And their land will wither and die." "You really believe this will happen?" "I'm living proof it will." "These are instructions to help you get into the temple." "When you get to zaire, Contact my man in kolwezi." "He'll take you from there." "Get the idol back before they reopen the temple." "Please." "{ Advertisement } they reopen the temple." "Please." "(claudia:) my kind of book." "What part have you been reading?" "Just the part that interests me." "How are the travel plans coming?" "Everything's fine." "Except the borders are closed." "The borders are closed?" "Yeah, due to the war breaking out and all." "Is ross going with you?" "No." "What else?" "The militia's barred all travel" "In and out of kolwezi." "What else?" "I can't get you papers." "Oh, well." "Oh, but I did find a railway" "That you can us to sneak in" "By crossing the border at angola." "A railway?" "That doesn't sound very prudent, does it?" "Good work, claudia." "Thanks." "But it's heavily guarded." "Two belgians without documents" "Were executed there last week." "We'd be sitting ducks on that train." "You're only a sitting duck if you look like one." "(nigel:) you know, when they arrest us," "We're going to be executed" "For spying, treason, and blasphemy." "We are not going to get arrested." "We're going to get off in kolwezi" "And find ross's contact, fritz, as planned." "And if we get separated," "Look for a sign with a red fez." "Are you hungry, father?" "No, thank you, sister regan." "Lent." "Fasting, you know?" "Next." "Something to eat." "Lent is in March." "Militia aside, if these cutthroats knew" "That we have the idol with us," "They'd cut our throats us for sure." "You can count on that." "What are you doing?" "Studying ross's instructions." "They don't make much sense now," "But I'm sure they will when we get to the temple." "Look." "Papers." "Papers." "What are we going to do?" "Act natural, say a prayer." "Papers." "Stop!" "(machine gun firing)" "What!" "Nigel, would you act like a priest?" "Bless you, my son." "The village is over there, I tell you." "Nigel." "Let..." "Let me show you." "I'll show you." "Let's not go this way." "Good idea." "I think we can use that alley" "To get around the checkpoint." "Straight back to the train station?" "Nigel, we're here to find fritz, remember?" "(sydney:) have faith." "(guard:) papers." "Papers?" "Passports, travel permits, papers." "Show him our papers, father." "Our papers?" "Well, as you fully well know," "Sister, we don't have any papers." "We are missionaries doing god's good work." "Papers" "Let's pray." "(praying in latin)" "(praying in hebrew)" "Show me your papers now." "God, deliver these men from evil" "As he hath delivered us." "Take them away." "In the name of the father" "And the power invested in me" "By the state of new york city..." "Nigel, now!" "Amen." "Nigel." "May I be of service to you?" "No, no, just browsing." "(shop keeper:) no browsing." "I think we have time for a quick look around." "(shop keeper:) please." "(guard:) search the area." "How much for this?" "That is 6000 shakars." "6000?" "(shop keeper:) it is a very rare and original piece." "(sydney:) it's made in taiwan." "6000, or you leave now." "It's 4 dollars, sister." "I will not be taken advantage of." "Outside the window." "2000." "For the love of god." "If I give in too easily, he won't respect me." "Who cares?" "(shop keeper:) 4000 is my last offer." "They're moving out." "Where are you going?" "You're much too good for me." "Yes, I kno and that is why" "I'm going to let you have this" "For 3000 chakars." "Two." "Deal." "A red fez, fritz's." "And t a moment too soon." "Hello?" "Fritz?" "(sydney:) fritz?" "(wheels squealing)" "Locked." "(guard:) break it down!" "Go on!" "(guard:) open up!" "I said, open up!" "{ Advertisement }" "(guard:) break it down!" "Please, please." "Who are you?" "I'm abdulla, at your service." "Please." "(guard:) break it down!" "The militia's going to be through" "That door in about 10 seconds." "You have that much time to decide" "Whether I kiss you or kill you." "What kind of nun are you?" "Wrong answer." "You think I did this?" "The only ones killing here are militia." "The man has a point." "I know why you have come." "Let me take you to safety." "I will avenge my partner another day." "Come." "Come, come." "Come!" "(guard:) get in there." "There must be a way out." "Search down there." "I can take you to the temple myself." "That wasn't the deal." "I know you are looking for something valuable" "In the temple of woot, yes?" "Noffence, abdulla," "But ross senus to find fritz." "(guard:) look behind there." "They have to be here." "(guard:) pull those out of the way." "I can take you just as he would," "For the same fee of course." "Overcome with grief as you are." "He was good man." "These are treacherous times." "We'll need travel papers." "Leave it with me." "(guard:) this was the only way out." "They have to be here." "Search more." "Over here." "(nigel:) colonel rodney richardson reeves" "Of the royal household cavalry?" "Are you out of your mind?" "They are the best I could do." "With the roads I am taking and the plan I have," "You will not need them." "Nigel, out of those clothes." "They'll be looking for missionaries." "(cell phone ringing)" "Just in time." "My pants are ringing." "Slow down." "(sydney:) step on it." "We've got 6 hours" "To get woot back into the temple." "Hello?" "Ross has been calling for news." "Is there anything I can tell him?" "Yes, ross' contact fritz is dead." "His partner abdulla is taking us to the temple." "I'll handle it personally." "Claudia, there's something you should know about ross." "(claudia:)nigel?" "Nigel?" "He's mad." "He is?" "No, no, no, no." "Not him." "Sydney, we are approaching a checkpoint." "I've got to go." "Papers." "(guard:) nothing here." "Okay." "I told you I could get you to woot, no problem." "(sydney:) more soldiers." "Quick, back under the truck just in case." "What's the matter?" "It's stuck." "(sydney:) abdulla, stall." "We can't get the door open." "Harder." "I'm trying." "Yes, yes, it would be an honour" "To light a cigar for our fine militia" "Fighting for such a great cause" "To help our people." "Yes." "(snap)" "Out." "(guard:) what is this?" "(nigel:) nothing, just some notes." "(sydney:) help me down." "Here, I'll help you." "(nigel:) my god, ross' book." "Leave it!" "But we need the other half." "Nigel, nigel!" "Nigel, come on." "Jump!" "I'm sorry if I make you uncomfortable." "No, it's just that..." "I know what you were expecting." "(coughing)" "Let me get you a..." "A glass of water." "If sydney fox sent you," "Please deliver your message and get out." "Sydney and nigel called from kalwasi." "They're on their way to the temple." "Oh, thank god." "There was small problem with fritz, though." "He's..." "He's dead." "She'll never make it." "She needs transportation, documents." "She'll make it." "They hooked up with abdulla." "He's taking them as we speak." "(cell phone ringing)" "(claudia:) nigel?" "Nigel, can you hear m" "This breathing thing:" "So not happening." "Nigel, I know it's you." "Listen, about fritz," "He never had a partner." "He always worked alone." "{ Advertisement }" "The temple is close by." "We'll go the rest ofhe way on foot." "Help me cover the truck." "The temple of woot." "(sydney:) how much time do we have, nigel?" "Almost half an hour." "(sydney:) they're already starting to gather for the ceremony." "(nigel:) it looks like the only way to the temple is through the village" "What are we going to do?" "Well, if ross's instructions" "Indicate another entrance," "It's not on the half we've got." "We have to call ross." "I lost my phone." "It must have fallen out at the roadblock." "(nigel:) what now?" "I have no idea." "Wait, I've got it." "(nigel:) what?" "Let's go with the flow." "Go with the flow?" "That's it?" "Go with the flow?" "It's a plan." "Not a fully formed plan, but a plan." "We'll use the huts as cover." "(abdulla:) she is a whirlwind." "A force of nature." "He's drawn a man bent over." "(nigel:) praying maybe?" "No, wait." "That was the first test." "There are more?" "Dozens." "(guard:) empty." "No one." "They cannot be far." "Ross' instructions say that these panels" "Are the way into the temple." "These could be older than the egyptian hieroglyphs." "How do we use them?" "We'll have to ask our militia friends," "They've got the other half." "There is something here, though." "It's a reference to the sun and the moon" "And a word starting with 'l', 4, 5, 6 letters long." "(nigel:) lower." "(sydney:) lover?" "Lever." "Liar?" "Lycanthrope." "(together:) legend." "It's a history of an entire civilization." "What do they say?" "Well, they're not meant" "To be read so much as told." "They were created by the ancient tribal shaman." "It's a sky king... (sydney:) falling to the earth." "(nigel:) yeah, it's a creation myth." "The sky king brings light and life to the earth." "Looks like there's a door here," "An indentation of some sort." "Looks like the stone's been precisely cut." "What do you think fits into it?" "It's a good question." "Abdulla, bring your torch over here." "Yeah, it looks like this one's a door, too," "And there's another indentation." "Sun, moon, on opposites, opposing?" "A lion, a symbol of destruction." "A force opposing creation?" "And a new figure emerges." "Woot." "(sydney:) this doesn't appear to be a door like the other panels," "But there's a place for a key." "(nigel:) which we don't have." "(nigel:) 21 minutes left." ""look to the urn to unlock the mystery."" "Look to the urn to unlock the mystery?" "(nigel:) unlock the mystery." "Unlock with a key." "Brilliant." ""put the keystone..." "Panel where..." "Sun is over..."" "There are words missing where the page is torn." "Maybe there's a clue on the idol." "You have the idol with you?" "Well, we're here to put it back." "Ceremony's starting." "We'd better..." "Nigel?" "Steady on, abdulla." "The idol." "Give it to me." "You killed fritz." "He killed his partner?" "He killed fritz?" "(sydney:) if they ever were partners." "Give me the idol." "{ Advertisement }" "Don't you want to get inside?" "There's enough gold in there to make us all rich." "And be discovered by the priests?" "They'll rip the es from your head" "And feed your bodies to vultures." "Give me the idol." "We have no choice, nigel." "What about ross?" "What about the kuba people." "It's only one idol." "And forget about finding the gold." "Good luck." "We'll never make it." "Plaster." "You need another light?" "Kill him." "Wait." "Wait, wait, wait, wait." "The others, I will show you" "Where they are in return for my life." "Please." "Ross didn't have the instructions when he came here the first time." "He relied on intuition and experience." "We're just going to have to do the same." "Well, I hate to sound negative," "But ross had a lot more than 6 minutes." "All right, now, ross' notes stated" "That the keystone should be placed in the door" "That depicts the sun," "But it also said something about the ocean" "And the moon were traps." "Well, all 3 doors have the sign of the sun." "But only one is correct." "Every myth has seeds of a truth." "In this case, the myth is about woot" "And his creation." "But it looks like that panel depicts the ocean." "Well, then it's got to be this one or that one." "Ancient builders didn't construct their traps" "And then leave it to chance." "More booby traps?" "We're going to have to choose right the first time." "I'm sure they're inside the temple by now." "5 minutes." "Sydney will make it." "Thank you for staying." "Nowhere I'd rather be." "Everything in the myth points to this panel." "It has to be it." "But it has an ocean on it." "You said yourself putting it the would set off a trap." "The instructions were ripped." "I can't be sure it said" "There couldn't be a moon and ocean in the correct panel." "It just indicated that a panel" "Withhose elements could be a trap." "Well, here they come." "Wish us luck." "Sydney!" "You do realize you've just locked us in" "And thrown away the key, don't you?" "I had to." "The worshippers can't get in without it." "That way." "You go first." "(sydney:) looks like ross left a counterweight on the pedestal." "(nigel:) about our idol's weight?" "I'd say so." "Grab my waist." "Why?" "Because I have to lean into the alcove" "And make sure I don't trigger anything inside here." "Tighter." "Tighter!" "Too tight." "Sorry." "The sun." "Steady, nigel." "They are inside." "And treasure befitting a god." "(abdulla:) you will be rich." "Remember our bargain." "(guard:) all right, why you stop?" "(guard:) what's going on?" "What is happening?" "What is happening?" "Stop this." "No." "Oh, no, no, no." "Oh, no." "Oh, no." "Stop it." "We're going to crushed." "(screaming)" "I must have triggered something." "The idol." "Someone has been here." "The key is out of place." "Pray the idol is still here." "Each year, the winter sun reminds us to honour woot," "So he will givlife back to the land." "We call you now." "(chanting)" "The god has answered our prayers." "Praise be to woot, giver of life." "It'll be tight, nigel." "It always is, syd'." "Just go with the flow, right?" "I'm sure they'll call." "I mean, th have to call if they..." "(ross:) what's wrong?" "They made it." "They made it." "{ Advertisement }" "Claudia, where are my lecture notes?" "In your folder." "I digitized the transparencies into an mpeg file." "(ross:) sydney." "Ross." "I don't know if I can ever repay you" "For putting that idol back." "Well, the pre-columbian artifacts" "You agreed to donate to the university" "Were a good start." "For you." "(ross:) what do you get for the girl who has everything?" "I remember you admiring it in aghada." "Persian?" "Yes." "It's 12th century." "You called it a relic hunter's batman belt." "They were very clever, the persians." "(claudia:) you ready?" "Ready." "(together:) ready?" "Well, I'm taking this angel out to dinner." "It's not a problem, is it?" "(together:) no." "Have her back before midnight." "Right." "I didn't know you knew how to fire a crossbow." "I don't." "First time." "Why do I get the feeling it won't be the last."