Evelyn and Jonathan are pacing the foyer.

"We must stop him from regenerating." She turns to Daniels and Henderson,"Who opened that chest?"

"Well, there was me and Daniels here and then poor Burns of course, oh yeah, and that Egyptologist fella."

O'Connell turns from the window,"What about my buddy, Beni?"

"Naw, he scrammed outta there."

"We must find the Egyptologist and bring him back here to the safety of the fort, before the creature can get to him." O'Connell looks at Evelyn, Rose, Daniels and Henderson.

"Okay,...Evelyn, you and Rose wait here, you two come with me."

All three of them pounce on him at once,"The hell with that! I'm not goin' nowhere! We're safe here." Rose nods agreeing that this is the safest place for them."Yeah, I'm not leavin, this fort for nothin'."

"Who put you in charge? You can't just leave me behind like some old suitcase. I'm the one responsible for this mess and I intend to be the one to clean it up."

O'Connell just shakes his head and sighs. Totally put-upon. Then he takes Evelyn, points for Rose to go into the room then he shoves Evy into the bedroom, slams the door and locks it with a skeleton key. From inside her room we can hear Evelyn pounding on the door and yelling while Rose tries to calm her.

O'Connell throws the skeleton key to Daniels."Keep an eye on her. If you leave her door, I'll rip your spleen out. C'mon, Jonathan."

Jonathan swallows hard and points to himself."Me?"

The Egyptologist stumbles through the dark alleys, looking haunted. He clutches the Book of The Dead in one hand and his sacred canopic jar in the other. Imhotep is stalking him. A street vendor turns and sees Imhotep's horribly decayed face. He reacts and scurries away. Imhotep lifts his robe, covers his face, and moves in on the Egyptologist, who is heading into the bazaar.

Beni is ransacking the Egyptologist joint, pulling out drawers and files and throwing them on the floor. He finds a silver pocket watch, shakes it, then throws it into his pocket, then he starts tipping over bookcases and clearing shelves.

"Well, well, well." Beni spins around. O'Connell and Jonathan stand in the door.

"Lemme guess, spring cleaning?"Beni turns and runs for an open window. O'Connell grabs a chair, flings it into his path. Beni trips and crashes into a wall. O'Connell strides over, grabs him and lifts him up the wall.

Beni's feet dangle off the floor."Where's your new friend?"

"What friend? You're my only friend." O'Connell quickly slides his knife up under Beni's chin.

"Then you got no excuse for living. What the hell you doin, being buddies with this creep, Beni? What's in it for you?"

"It is better to be the right hand of the Devil,...than in his path. As long as I serve him, I am immune."

"Immune from what?"

"You shall see." Beni says cryptically.

"What are you looking for? Lie, and I'll slit your throat."

O'Connell shoves the knife deeper into Beni's skin."The book! The black book they found at Hamunaptra! Imhotep wants it back. Said to me it would be worth it's weight in diamonds."

"What does he want the book for?"

"Something about bringing his dead wife back to life. He needs the book..." he looks at Jonathan,"And your sister."

O'Connell looks at Jonathan. Beni seizes the moment and knees Rick in the balls. O'Connell doubles over and collapses. Beni leaps out the window. Jonathan cringes."That looked rather painful."

"Ya know, ever since I met you, my luck has been for crap."

"Yes, I know, I do that to people."And that's when they hear a blood curdling scream coming from down in the bazaar. Rick and Jonathan scramble to the window and look out.

Down in the bazaar, people are screaming and quickly backing away from the shrivelled corpse of the Egyptologist. A partially decayed hand reaches down and takes the sacred canopic jar out of the Egyptologist's shrivelled hand. It's Imhotep, having regenerated even further. He looks up and catches eyes with O'Connell. Imhotep grins, then unhinges; his jaw, his mouth stretches to an inhuman size, and then a huge swarm of flies comes out of his mouth and races straight up at Rick and Jonathan. They both slam the shutters. The flies slam into the closed window and immediately spread throughout the bazaar. Sending people screaming and running.

O'Connell and Jonathan look at each other, panicked,"Damn-it! That's two down and only two to go."

"And then he'll be coming after Rose." They turn and race out of the office.

Daniels stares out a window, watching the British Guards at the front gate. More Soldiers march the encircling parapet. "Ten O'clock! All is well!" The lights and music from the Casbah can be heard from below.

Daniels turns from the window. Henderson sits in a chair next to Rose and Evelyn's door, chain smoking. Both look wired with fear."The hell with this. I'm goin, downstairs to get me a drink. You want somethin'?"

"Yeah, get me a glass of bourbon, a shot of bourbon and a bourbon chaser."

Daniels nods and heads out. Henderson just sits there, alone, smoking. He reaches into his jacket pocket, pulls out his sacred canopic jar and fondles it. A breeze suddenly comes in through the open window. The curtains flutter. Henderson gets up and goes over to shut it. He looks out the window. The sand races over the compound, into the window and hits Henderson square in the face just as he's about to scream. Henderson is lifted into the air by a mass of swirling sand. His body twists and turns and slowly shrivels as the life is sucked out of him. Then he collapses to the floor. On the wall above him, the shadow of the swirling sand condenses, forming a shadow of a human body. The shadow convulses as the body regenerates. And then it's over. Imhotep steps into out. He's regenerated even further and looks almost normal now, his face no longer decayed. He steps over Henderson's shriveled body and up to Rose and Evelyn's door, rattles the knob. It's locked. Imhotep grins.

Evelyn and Rose are asleep in their beds as sand begins streaming in through the keyhole, pouring onto the floor, forming a large mound. Evelyn starts to toss and turn, while Rose lays motionless. The mound of sand is gone and in it's place is Imhotep.

O'Connell and Jonathan race into the foyer and skid to a stop as they see Henderson's shrivelled body on the floor. O'Connell runs up to Evelyn and Rose's door and rattles the knob, still locked. He bends down and looks in through the keyhole.

Imhotep leans down towards Rose, about to kiss her as she sleeps. The door starts to crash and bang from O'Connell. Imhotep ignores it. And kisses Rose. His lips and mouth instantly start to degenerates and decay. Right down to the bone. The door bursts open. Rose wakes-up. Seeing Imhotep's rotted mouth kissing her. She screams and shoves him away. Imhotep's putrid mouth grimaces in sadness.

"Get your hands off the girl, pal." Imhotep's sadness turns to anger as he spins around and faces O'Connell. Imhotep licks his fetid lips.

O'Connell smirks."Nice lips." Imhotep starts to move for O'Connell. "I figured you might be here, so I brought a friend."

He throws the white cat at Imhotep. Imhotep instinctively catches it. He shrieks, drops the cat and stumbles back towards the window, which suddenly blows open. Imhotep spins like a dervish and bursts into a whirlwind of sand. Everybody covers their eyes. The Imhotep/sand-devil explodes out the window and vanishes over the compound. Jonathan aims his gun at the window, his hand shaking badly. Jonathan hugs Rose as she wipes her mouth in disgust. Daniels walks in, looks at Henderson's shrivelled body on the floor... and drops the martini glasses.

Jonathan races his big convertible through the streets, honking constantly. Evelyn sits between Rose and O'Connell, looking scared and nervous, then she gives O'Connell a look. Daniels leans forward from the back seat, filled with fear,"Shut-up! JUST SHUT-up! We gotta do somethin'! We gotta do somethin. NOW! Before it's too late!" They race into the driveway of the museum of Antiquities.

A full moon now shines down on the bazaar, still bustling with activity. Suddenly, a breeze kicks-in. Green mist begins to swirl down the street and through the stalls. The people begin to choke and cough and retch, as if being hit by a severe sickness. It's already too late. Imhotep strolls through the sickened mob, his face half rotted off, his deformed mouth grinning happily. Beni is at his side, looking very nervous. And then, one-by-one', the people silently begin to follow Imhotep, their skin now covered in disgustingly hideous boils and sores.

O'Connell, Jonathan, Rose, Daniels, the Curator and Ardeth Bay follow Evelyn as she strides through the museum."Last month I came across an inscription that mentioned The Book Of The Dead."

"That book we found at Hamunaptra?" Daniel's say quickly.

"Yes. I dismissed it, because it talked about bringing people back from the dead. A notion I was unwilling to believe."

"Believe it, sister. That's what brought our buddy back to life."

"And now he's going to use it to bring his wife back."

"And if he succeeds, the two of them together will bring about the apocalypse."The Curator joins Evelyn at her side as she heads up the stairs, everyone else in hot pursuit.

"The plagues we have seen so far, are merely Imhotep flexing his muscles. only at the moment of Nefertari's resurrection will he be truly invincible."

They reach the display cases. Evelyn quickly opens them."I'm thinking that if the black Book Of The Dead can bring people back to life.."

"...then perhaps, the golden Book Of The Living can return them to the underworld." The Curator finishes for Evy.

"Exactly..."

"So your sayin', if we find the book made outta gold..."

"...And read the sacred incantations contained inside it."

"You think it'll send this guy back to hell?"

"Correct," Rick and the Curator finish. And that's when loud chanting is heard coming from outside They all rush over to the upper windows and look down outside: A large, crazed mob covered in hideous boils and sores comes chanting up the driveway: 'Nefertari! Nefertari!'

"It has begun. The beginning of the end."

"Not quite yet it hasn't. C'mon," Evelyn dashes back to the display cases. Everyone follows.

The crazed mob crashes into the huge front doors, which are locked. They pound furiously, throwing themselves at it while chanting consistently. Imhotep solemnly comes up the driveway. The banging on the doors can be heard as Evelyn and the Curator quickly sort through broken pieces of stone tablets. The others watch. Evelyn pulls out a large piece. "Got it!"

"Got what?" The banging gets louder. Multiple windows shatter. Evelyn talks while quickly translating the tablet:"Since the black Book of The Dead was found inside the statue of Anubis, then according to this, the golden Book of The Living should be inside..."

Evelyn finds the translation in the tablet and smiles."what?"

"What?"

"WHAT!?"

"The golden Book Of The Living, is inside the statue of Horus."

"Which would be located not far to the east of the Anubis statue."

"Don't tell me we gotta go back out there?" Rick sighs.

"If we want to kill the creature, yes." Two hideous boil and sore covered men charge out of a doorway, screaming. O'Connell and Ardeth Bay grab them and chuck them over the railing. The men fly through the air and crash into the lower display cases. The front doors suddenly bursts open, the crazed mob pours into the museum. Everyone haul-ass across the balcony and down the staircase.

Jonathan sneaks out of some bushes and quickly heads for his convertible. Suddenly, a splinter group of the diseased mob comes around the side of the museum. Jonathan instantly bugs his eyes out, starts drooling, and begins chanting "Nefertari! Nefertari!"

The crazed group runs past him and heads into the front doors of the museum. Jonathan leaps into the convertible, fires it up and 180's it back over to the bushes. O'Connell, Evelyn, Daniels, Rose, Ardeth Bay and the Curator jump inside the car. Beni steps out of the museum and sees them."Imhotep! IMHOTEP!"

Imhotep looks out of the museum from the shattered upper windows just as the convertible peels out. O'Connell points a finger at Beni as they race past him."You're gonna get yours, pal!"

Imhotep unhinges his jaw, his mouth stretches to an inhuman size, he lets out one of his horrific, primordial shrieks. His disease-ridden disciples immediately begin pouring out of the front doors of the museum and chasing after the car.

The convertible speeds down the narrow bazaar street. The infected start jumping out of stalls and leaping onto the car. O'Connell and the others fight them off, throwing them overboard. More people jump on. Jonathan swerves the car, crashes through some stalls, knocking them off, but not before they manage to open the back door and yank Daniels out. He tumbles across the pavement. Gets up shooting. Backs into a corner, firing his pistol into the hideous rabble, killing several, keeping them at bay. Until his gun goes empty, CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! But the mob stays back, looking at him like rabid vultures. Daniels eyes them, filled with fear. The mob parts like the red sea as Imhotep walks through them and up to Daniels. Daniels whimpers in fear, tears pour down his cheeks. Then he gets an idea, reaches into his pocket, and pulls out his jewel encrusted sacred canopic jar. He holds it out for Imhotep. Imhotep takes it and grins. Through his tears, Daniels grins back, hopeful that he'll be spared. Somewhere in the middle of the crazed, diseased mob, everyone can hear Daniels give out a blood curdling scream...

The convertible slowly motors down the narrow alleys. Across the hood of the car from Jonathan to Evelyn to Rose to O'Connell. Ardeth Bay and the Curator are still in the back. All of them staring out the front windshield. Freaked-out. Then suddenly one of the hideous ghouls crashes through the windshield! Everybody screams. Jonathan hits the gas, losing control, the car slams into a wall. O'Connell grabs Evelyn. Jonathan grabs Rose.

"C'mon! C'mon! Let's go! Let's go!"

They all leap out of the car. But the angry, festering mob quickly surrounds them. O'Connell quickly reaches into his gunny-sack, pulls out a stick of dynamite, then reaches into his pocket and pulls out a match. He looks around for a way to light it, then reaches over and strikes it across Ardeth Bay's stubbly face. Ardeth Bay yelps. O'Connell holds the lit match near the fuse. The crazed, chanting mob gives Rick a wide berth, staring at him and the others with insane, bloodshot eyes. And then Imhotep steps through, having fully regenerated, he now looks as young, handsome and muscular as he did the day he was buried alive. Rose and Evelyn stares at him."He's gorgeous."

O'Connell gives Evy a look, the match burns his fingers. He yelps and throws it down, grabs another match and strikes it across Ardeth Bay's face again. Ardeth Bay yelps and gives Rick a look to kill. The Curator shakes his head."He has consummated the curse, now all he need do is raise Nefertari from the dead, then it will be the end of us, and the beginning for them."

Imhotep moves forward, heading right for them. O'Connell lights the fuse. Imhotep steps up to O'Connell and stops, watching the fuse burn down. It's a game of chicken. The tension mounts. The lit fuse is about to vanish inside the stick of dynamite, blowing it up, when Evelyn leans forward and blows it out. O'Connell exhales, but keeps his eyes on Imhotep, who extends his hand to Rose.

"Koontash dai na." Beni steps through the swarming mass, translating. "Take his hand and he will spare the others."

Rose hesitates, looks around at the huge, bloodthirsty crowd surrounding them, holding axes, picks and scimitars, waiting to pounce, then she looks at Imhotep, confident, powerful, invincible. She looks to Evelyn and O'Connell. "Any bright ideas?"

O'Connell talks through angry, grit teeth."Sorry, fresh out."

Rose looks back at Imhotep, then starts to reach out to take his hand. Both Evelyn and Jonathan move to stop her, but Ardeth Bay grabs them and holds them tight.

"Don't do it, Rose." Jonathan pleads.

"I have no choice." Rose's trembling hand touches Imhotep's: His hand closes around hers. Nothing happens. Imhotep smiles.

"Keetah mi pharos, aja nilo, isirlan."

"Come with me my princess. It is time to make you mine, forever." Evelyn gives Beni a nasty look, correcting him,"All eternity, idiot."

Then Rose looks at Evelyn, Jonathan and Rick and puts on her best face. "You better think of something because if he turns me into a mummy, your the first ones I'm coming after."

O'Connell almost smiles,"Got guts, lady."

"Yes, I know, and I'd like to keep them."

Imhotep suddenly notices something. He reaches forward and rips the key out from Jonathan's upper jacket pocket."Hey that's mine!"

Ardeth Bay holds Jonathan back. Imhotep pulls Rose away. Jonathan can't take it anymore, he tries to break free of Ardeth Bay's grip."Rose!"

The huge, powerful man holds him tight."Be calm. There is still time. we can stop him yet." The crowd parts for Imhotep and Rose. And then Imhotep stops and looks back at O'Connell.

"Pared oos." Rose screams."NOOO!"

Beni smiles."Kill them."

Imhotep pulls her away. They breaks free of Ardeth Bay's grip and stumbles forward."Rose!"

But the rabid vultures are already moving in for the kill. O'Connell quickly bends down, pulls open a manhole cover and shoves Jonathan down inside it, then jumps in after him. The Curator pushes Ardeth Bay towards the cistern hole.

"Go! Find a way! Kill the creature!" The Curator turns and throws himself at the mob as Ardeth Bay crawls down into the hole. The mob tears the Curator apart.

O'Connell, Jonathan, Evy and Ardeth Bay slosh their way down the watery catacomb, the infected pouring in behind them. Up ahead, a light suddenly shines in from another cistern hole, and then more of the infected crowd drop down, screeching like rats. Rick jags right, pushing Jonathan and Ardeth Bay ahead of him, he strikes a match off the wall, lights the nubby fuse on a stick of dynamite, throws it, and runs like hell. Fire blast incinerating a bunch of infected.

The explosion blows a cistern cover fifty feet into the air, followed by a mass of flames... A sewer grate is kicked out of a wall. O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay climb out of the hole and into an alley. "We gotta get her back."

"I'm with you, old man. No one touches one of my sisters like that and gets away with it.

O'Connell looks at Ardeth Bay,"You know where he's taking her?"

"Yes. To Hamunaptra. To perform the ritual."

Jonathan looks worried."And what ritual would that be?"

"The ritual to bring the body of Nefertari's back to life."

"And how does one do that?"

"By reading the Book Of The Dead." Ardeth states plainly.

"Oh yes, of course."

"And then killing your sister." Evelyn's eyes grow huge in fright.

"Excuse me?"

Ardeth Bay looks at O'Connell,"Imhotep is now able to cross the desert with great haste."

Jonathan taps him in the shoulder,"Begging your pardon, but I wasn't quite clear on that last part."

Ardeth Bay ignores him,"If he arrives before us, it will be too late."

"Did you say 'kill' my sister?"

O'Connell smiles,"I know how to beat him to it."

Jonathan's bashed-in convertible steams it's way up to a set of semi-abandoned Quonset huts. A single WWI biplane with R.A.F. insignias sits in the sand beside them. A sign reads: HIS MAJESTY'S ROYAL AIR CORP QUONSET HUT

O'Connell, Jonathan, Evelyn and Ardeth Bay stand before Winston Havlock, the massive dunes of Erfoud as our background.

"So what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corp?"

"Not a god-damned thing." States O'Connell.

Winston looks intrigued."Is it dangerous?"

"You probably won't live through it."

This really interests him."By Jove, do you really think so?"

"Everybody else we've bumped into has died, why not you?" Jonathan and Evy say.

Winston nods his head, he's hooked."So what's the challenge, then?"

"To save the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy and steal his treasure."

A slow grin spreads across Winston's face, then he gives them a snappy salute."Winston Havlock at your service, sir!"

Way off across the desert, a large sand-devil races over the dunes. The sandy whirlwind comes to a stop and starts to dissipate. Rose and Beni are suddenly ejected out of it, they land in a dune. The swirling sand condenses and forms into Imhotep. He looks up into the sky, listening carefully.

Rose shakes the sand out of her hair and looks at Beni."What just happened?"

"All I remember is him turning into a blast of sand,...and then I remember nothing." Then they hear a plane in the sky and look up.

The wind whips at Winston in the cockpit. O'Connell sits in the gunner's compartment with Evy half on his lap, half on the seat. Jonathan is strapped spread-eagle across the left wing, Ardeth Bay is tied tight to the right. Both men are scared out of their wits and screaming in fear.

Imhotep's jaw unhinges, his mouth opens to an inhuman size, he lets fly with another one of his horrible shrieks. And a massive wall of sand rises up out of the desert.

O'Connell watches the desert below him come alive and rise up towards the plane. Winston looks over the side and sees what's coming. He laughs, throws the throttle, and puts the plane into a dive."Hang on, men!"

The sandstorm chases the diving, twisting biplane. Getting closer and closer, about to engulf it. O'Connell looks back into the blinding sand and sees a giant face forming inside the sandstorm. It's Imhotep. Grinning. O'Connell grabs the Lewis machine-gun, cocks the bracket and fires, blasting away at Imhotep's giant face inside the sandstorm. Evelyn grips Rick tightly. Imhotep's face begins to laugh, then his jaw unhinges, his mouth opens wide, and he engulfs the plane.

Winston blindly fights for control, elated."We're going down!" The biplane spins inside the blowing sand. Engines roaring. Wind howling. Jonathan, Evelyn and Ardeth Bay screaming. Winston Havlock laughing."Here I come, laddies!" O'Connell braces himself for impact.

Rose leaps to her feet and runs over to Imhotep."Stop it! You'll kill them!"

Imhotep grabs her, pulls her close, her beautiful eyes stare into his shockingly intense ones. Then he kisses her, hard. Rose's eyes widen, stunned and mesmerized, she relaxes for a moment then she pushes herself away and falls back into the sand. Imhotep laughs.

The biplane smashes over a dune, rolls over and crashes upside-down into another dune. The sand swirls as O'Connell falls out of the gunner's compartment along with Evy.

The left wing is jammed into the dune, Jonathan hangs upside down."Excuse me...A little help would be useful...IF IT'S NOT TOO MUCH TROUBLE!" Jonathan snaps.

O'Connell goes to help Jonathan. Ardeth Bay stumbles over to the gunner's compartment and tears the Lewis gun off it's mount. He throws the machine-gun over one shoulder, a cartridge belt over the other and staggers away. O'Connell and Jonathan look into the cockpit. Winston Havlock is dead with a smile on his face. The plane suddenly starts to move, the sand sinks under their feet, they quickly high-tail-it away. O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay make it to some rocks and look back. The biplane, with Winston Havlock inside, slides away over a dune. O'Connell gives it a salute. The plane vanishes over the dune and into the swirling sand...

O'Connell, Jonathan, Evelyn and Ardeth Bay come down a ravine in the volcano and look out over the ruins of Hamunaptra."Okay, now what the hell does this Horus guy look like?"

"He's a big fellow with pointy ears and a face like a falcon." Jonathan states before Evy can give an overly detailed description.

"Got it" Carrying torches, Rick, Evy, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay make their way down a long, winding, narrow staircase. Heading into the bowels of the necropolis. A true passageway to hell.

Rose follows Imhotep into the underground cemetery. She stops at the sight of all the big hairy rats scurrying through the mausoleums and over the gravestones. Beni shoves his rifle into her back and pushes her forward. "Keep moving."

Rose gives him a look."You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself, always get their comeuppance."

Beni suddenly looks worried."Yeah?"

"Oh yes, always," Beni looks even more worried, he nervously starts chewing on his lip. All three of them walk over the bridge crossing the disgusting detritus moat. Rose looks down at it, horrified.

O'Connell and Ardeth Bay are busy digging out a collapsed doorway. Evelyn is being the look out. Jonathan notices an amethyst scarab on the far wall.

"I say, look at that." He walks over and tries to jiggle it free. It comes loose in his hand. He looks at the scarab in his palm. It starts to glow. And then something inside it starts to wiggle. "Say, gents! You should come have a look at this."

The wiggling continues; long, agonizing slow until a scarab breaks out of it's cocoon and instantly burrows into Jonathan's palm. Jonathan starts to freak out and screams. Evelyn stares at Jonathan with worried eyes. O'Connell runs up and rips the arm off Jonathan's shirt. The scarab is now burrowing up Jonathan's arm. O'Connell whips out his butterfly-knife, snaps it open and grabs Jonathan's arm. Jonathan's eyes widen in terror as the knife passes in front of his face. Jonathan screams louder, obviously being cut open. O'Connell's hand flicks something away. The scarab hits the floor and immediately starts scurrying back towards Jonathan, wanting to finish the job. O'Connell pulls out his gun and blows it away, BLAM!

The gunshot echoes into the cemetery as Imhotep, Rose and Beni step up to the strange altar, where four thousand years ago Imhotep tried to bring Nefertari back to life. Imhotep scowls at the sound and angrily reaches into a canopic jar. He pulls out the crusted remains of Anck-su-namun's heart, crushes it to dust in his hand and starts reading from The Book Of The Dead. Then he blows the dust against a mausoleum wall, the wall starts to come alive. Rose and Beni stare at the wall, both of them wide-eyed. Two forms emerge from the mausoleum's wall. Horrific-looking mummified corpses. Two of Imhotep's long dead Priest. They bow to Imhotep, then turn and move off down a passageway.

O'Connell helps Ardeth Bay mend Jonathan's wound, while Evy scolds him."From now on, don't touch anything. Not a damn thing. Keep your hands off the furniture, got it?" Jonathan swallows hard and nods vigorously.

Imhotep prepares the altar while speaking in Hebrew. Beni holds his gun on Rose, translating:"Prince Imhotep wants your heart."

Rose blushes, feeling complimented by the handsome prince."Tell him, I'm truly flattered... but I like having it be in my chest."

Imhotep continues speaking while laying the four jewel encrusted canopic jars next to the shattered one."He wants your heart and your brain, your liver, your kidneys..." Rose's eyes widen,"... and how do you say? Those slimy things, in your stomach?"

"Intestines."

"Yeah! Them."

Rose can't believe it, she furiously turns to Imhotep."You only want me for my organs?!"

Imhotep looks at her and grins! Imhotep stares at her, intensely. He sends Beni away with a dark look. Rose closes her eyes waiting, when Imhotep kisses her, Rose's eye snap open. She is no longer tied to a stone table and all around her is alight with the flickers of torches. "My love come to bed it is still our wedding night." Nefertari coos to Imhotep, while her silken over robe hangs open showing that is all that she is wearing. Imhotep's eyes rake lustfully over her body before walking over, laying her down on their bed and embracing her. (I don't write sex scenes or rape so sorry, not sorry.) Rose passes out as Imhotep finishes he throws his cloak on Rose's bare body before continuing the prep for the ritual.

O'Connell squeezes through a small crevice in a wall and drops to the floor of a dark chamber. He picks up his gunny- sack and scans the darkness. Something glitters. Jonathan, Evelyn and Ardeth Bay crawl in behind him. Rick notices a shaft of light, high above him, shooting through a small hole in the ceiling and stopping against a wall next to one of those mirror disks. O'Connell aims his gun, and fires. The bullet strikes the disk's pedestal, spinning the mirror into the shaft of light, And WHAM! The shaft of light hits the disk and quickly bounces around the room from one disk to another until the whole chamber is lit up. It's an enormous treasure chamber. Filled to overflowing. Everything sparkles and shines. The wealth of Egypt. O'Connell, Jonathan, Evelyn and Ardeth Bay are speechless.

That's when the two mummified Priest-mummies walk in."Who the hell are these guys?"

"..Priests. Imhotep's Priests."

O'Connell pulls the elephant gun out of his gunny-sack."I never killed a priest before."

"They are evil, cursed, they matter not."

"Well, okay then." O'Connell fires the elephant gun, smoke and flame shoot out and blasts one of the mummies blowing it's upper torso clean off. O'Connell pumps the gun, the huge spent cartridge flips through the air. He fires again and blasts the other mummy, blows this one's torso clean off as well. The smoke clears. The two sets of legs keep walking forward, unaffected by the loss of their upper torsos.

O'Connell can't believe it."Oh come on, gimme a break here." And then the disemboweled upper torsos start to move, turning over and crawling towards them, who start to back away.

Imhotep turns from the altar as he hears more gunshots echoing out of the passageways. He angrily reaches into another of Anck-su-namun's canopic jars, pulls out her crusty liver and crushes it to dust, then quickly starts reading a passage from the Book and blows the dust down a passageway. "Kill them! Kill them all! And bring me the Book Of The Living!"

A dusty breeze blows into the chamber as O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan and Ardeth Bay back away from the mummy pieces. The floor where they were just standing suddenly starts to move. Two more mummies slowly dig their way up out of the floor. More mummies start coming out of the walls and crawling out of the piles of gold. All the mummies head for them. O'Connell lifts the elephant gun.

Ardeth Bay stops him. "My turn."

Ardeth Bay opens up with the Lewis gun. Blasting the hell out of the mummies. They keep on coming. Even more now. O'Connell opens fire with the elephant gun, pumping and firing as all four people back away and haul-ass. The mummies and mummy pieces follow them into the passageway. Then Beni creeps into the chamber. He stares in wonder at all the treasure. Then falls backwards into a pile of jewels and rolls about.

Rose-wakes up, naked with only Imhotep's cloak over her and lying chained to the top of the altar. She blink!, then turns her head, and looks right into the rotted face of Nefertari's corpse. Rose screams.

The elephant gun fires, blasting flame and smoke right into the lens. O'Connell, Jonathan, Evelyn and Ardeth Bay race down a passageway, a dozen mummies striding after them."This whole place is comin, alive!"

They race around a corner. More mummies. They race around another corner. More mummies. Onward they come. Methodical. Relentless. Boxing them in. O'Connell and Ardeth Bay firing as they go. Ardeth Bay goes empty."

"I'm out." He throws the machine-gun down and they all race into a small chamber. The lower half of the giant statue of Horus stands in the middle of the chamber.

"There he is!" They run up to the base of the statue,"Hello Horus old boy."

O'Connell looks back at the mummies coming down the passageway. He reaches into his gunny-sack and pulls out a stick of dynamite. Ardeth Bay taps him on the shoulder."Allow me."

O'Connell hands him the dynamite and a match, then turns to look at the statue. Ardeth Bay reaches forward and strikes the match off O'Connell's stubbly face. Rick yelps. Ardeth Bay lights the dynamite and throws it down the passageway. They all hit the deck as the dynamite explodes. Ripping apart the creatures, causing a cave-in and sealing the passageway with rock and dirt. Now there's only one way out, another dark, creepy passageway.

Chained tight to the top of the altar, Rose hopelessly struggles to free herself. She stops as the Priest mummies start surrounding the altar. Rose is horrified as the hideous mummies kneel down and begin to chant, which now sounds even more horrific due to the lack of tongues, jaws and mouths in the room. Imhotep steps up carrying the black Book Of The Dead. His hand reaches out and lovingly caresses Nefertari's decayed cheek.

O'Connell, Evy and Jonathan are digging away at the seams of the secret compartment, it starts to give. And that's when Ardeth Bay spots another group of rotting mummies coming down the dark passageway, heading right for them. O'Connell looks up."These guys just don't quit."

Ardeth Bay grabs the elephant gun and a handful of shells and runs off towards the mummies."Keep digging!"

O'Connell, Jonathan and Evelyn redouble their efforts, pulling harder on the seam. The compartment starts to loosen. About to give. The last time this happened, salt acid sprayed out, Evy remembers. Though they keep tugging as the tension mounts... And that's when a skeletal hand bursts up out of the ground and grabs O'Connell's ankle. Several more moldy hands burst up out of the ground. Rick, Evy and Jonathan struggle with the mummies as they crawl up out of the dirt floor. One of the mummies violently shoves Evelyn and O'Connell away. Another grabs Jonathan by the throat and starts to strangle him. A third mummy grabs at the secret compartment and pulls hard. An intense burst of acid sprays out of the seam and hits all three of the mummies. The one strangling Jonathan gets it in the back and drops him. All three mummies melt horribly.

Imhotep begins to read from The Book Of The Dead. A large swirling hole starts to open in the detritus bog. Rose's eyes widen in amazement and horror.

Ardeth Bay blasts away at the oncoming mummies. Over at the base of the statue, O'Connell, Evelyn and Jonathan pull an ornate chest out of the secret compartment. O'Connell rips off the lid, reaches inside and pulls out a heavy burlap bag. He, Evy and Jonathan exchange nervous, excited looks. Then he reaches into the bag and slowly pulls out the solid gold Book Of The Living- golden light reflects off their faces as they stare at it in wonder. The elephant gun goes empty. Ardeth Bay takes it by the barrel and wades into the remaining mummies swinging."Save the girl! Kill the creature!"

The mummies quickly overwhelm and start to tear him apart. Rick lights the last stick of dynamite and throws it against the far wall. He, Jonathan and Evelyn hit the deck."That's the last one, we better get lucky." The wall blows. Debris collapses, but now here's a hole for them to get out. Rick, Evy and Jonathan race out through the hole just as the remaining mummies enter the chamber.

Outside, Beni staggers across the sand with a saddlebag filled with treasure. He throws it over the rear of a camel. Starts to climb up but hesitates. Looking back at the temple door he licks his lips. And then his greed gets the better of him and he quickly climbs down and scurries back towards the door.

Imhotep reads from the Book. The rotten Priest-mummies rock back and forth, chanting. Rose struggles. Then suddenly, the strange mist wafts up out of the swirling hole and over to the sacred jars, it passes through them and into Rose. Rose jerks as though she's been electrified. The mist passes through her and into Nefertari's body. The chanting Priest, swirling hole, wafting mist and Imhotep's readings reach a crescendo. Nefertari's crusty eyelids suddenly pop open. Rose stares at her in disbelief. Nefertari's rotted head turns and looks at Rose with empty sockets. Rose freaks out and struggles wildly, then she notices Imhotep holding the ancient sacrificial knife."With your death, my love and I will be invincible!"

He raises it up over Rose's chest, about to plunge it down. Rose's eyes widen in horror and that's when O'Connell, Evy and Jonathan burst in. Imhotep spins around and faces them. Jonathan beams as he holds up the golden Book Of The Living."I found it, Rose! I found it."

"Please. Shut-up and get me off of here!"

O'Connell grabs an ancient sword out of a statue's hand, jumps up onto a gravestone and leaps out over the Priest. The Priest-mummies stop chanting and the mist vanishes as Imhotep steps forward. O'Connell strikes the sacrificial knife out of his hand; Imhotep bellows a command. The Priest stand up, swords and knives in hand, they attack O'Connell."We must open the book, Jonathan! open the book! That's the only way to kill him!" Evelyn bellows to Jonathan.

O'Connell racks and chops at the attacking Priest-mummies, fighting his way to Rose. The skeletal creatures wildly swing their swords, trying to stab O'Connell. Evelyn and Jonathan fumbles with the book, struggling to open it, they can't."I can't open it! It's locked or something!"

O'Connell cuts two of the mummies in half, then swings his sword down at Rose, CLANG! One chain breaks free. Jonathan spots a series of solid gold, four-sided locks along the binder. It hits him like lightning, as he turns to Evy beside him,"We need the key!"

Imhotep grins, then grabs the key hanging from a chain around his neck, rips it off and shoves it into his pocket. He picks up the sacrificial sword and heads for Jonathan."What do I do, Evy!? What do I do!?"

"We read the inscription on the cover!"

O'Connell swings his sword down again, CLANG! Rose now has one hand and one leg free. More mummies attack O'Connell force him back. Jonathan quickly starts translating the cover inscription, but his Ancient Egyptian is clearly awful.

"Keetash-something, naraba-something." Jonathan starts to backpedal through the cemetery, with Evelyn close beside him, clutching the golden book; wide-eyed, as Imhotep moves in on him."Ebarra im hatu Kashka ummmmm." Evelyn struggles as Jonathan trips and falls on his ass as Imhotep charges foreword. O'Connell slashes another chain there is only one more left holding Rose.

Jonathan sits up and Evy quickly looks back at the cover."Rasheem Aaaaa ANUBIS!"

Imhotep raises the sacrificial sword, about to kill Evy and Jonathan. And that's when the giant statue of Anubis suddenly crashes through the wall, shades of Ray Harryhausen. Only better. The god of Deaths, horrible, decrepit stone face stares angrily down.

Jonathan stares back."Oh boy!" O'Connell decapitates a mummy and looks up at Anubis."This just keeps gettin, better and better."

Imhotep leaves Jonathan and Evelyn and heads for the giant statue. O'Connell leaps over and with one last swing of the sword, frees Rose from her chains. More Priest-mummies attack, forcing him away. Evy rushes over to Rose as she jumps off the altar, wrapping Imhoteps robe around her and they start to head for O'Connell, a skeletal hand grabs her! She spins around. It's Nefertari's rotted corpse; Rose and Evelyn react. Imhotep looks up at Anubis, points to O'Connell, and in Ancient Egyptian commands him to attack. Anubis moves for O'Connell, stomping over mausoleums and through the detritus moat on his way.

O'Connell quickly backs away."Do something, Jonathan! Kill it!"

"You have got to be joking?" He look at him wide eyed.

Evy and Rose are backing away from Nefertari. "Finish the inscription, idiot!" Evelyn snaps. "Oh."

Nefertari grabs at Rose. She fends her off as best she can with Evelyns help. Jonathan quickly looks back at the hieroglyphs on the book cover, fumbling badly under the pressure.

"Ummm, Hootash im ... Hootash im now what is this last symbol here?"

Evelyn says,"What's it look like!?"

Nefertari grabs Rose by the throat, Evy tries to pull her strong skeletal hands off Roses neck. The statue of Anubis corners O'Connell, reaches down and grabs him with it's massive talons. O'Connell hacks away at it. Jonathan stares at the inscription, slightly oblivious.

"It's an Anck symbol, with two little squiggly lines above it, and a bird, a stork! on either side," Evy struggles to remember while trying to help Rose.

As Rose is being strangled by Nefertari, Evy smiles as she suddenly remembers "Ah! Ah! Ahmenophus!"

"Yes,...I see." The talons lift O'Connell up and start to crush him.

"Hootash im Ahmenophus!"

The giant statue of Anubis instantly freezes in it's tracks and petrifies. It's off balance and it starts to fall as O'Connell slides free of it's talons. Evelyn and Rose shoves Nefertari away, Nefertari looks up and opens her fetid mouth to scream just as Anubis crashes down on top of her, smashing her to powder and driving her into the ground. Imhotep shrieks in rage and horror, then turns and angrily heads for Jonathan. Jonathan, sitting on his ass, quickly backpedals on his hands and heels. Rick leaps to his feet, sword in hand and runs for Imhotep. Imhotep grabs Jonathan, lifts him up, rips the golden Book Of The Living out of his hand and pins him to a wall. O'Connell runs up and swings his sword at Imhotep, WAP! And slices Imhotep's 'right arm off. It drops to the ground, still clutching The Book Of The Living. Imhotep drops Jonathan and spins around, facing O'Connell.

Rick grins."Okay pal, let's see how tough you are without your right arm."

Imhotep grabs O'Connell with his left arm and throws him half way across the cemetery. O'Connell slams into a gravestone, bounces off and crashes to the ground. He shakes it off."Alright,...so he's left handed"

Imhotep is already striding towards him. Jonathan lifts up his hand, he has the key back! He smiles at Evelyn and Rose.

"I got it!" Evelyn and Rose run for Jonathan. O'Connell swings his sword and cleaves a big chunk of molten flesh right out of Imhotep's stomach. On the outside, Imhotep looks human, but on the inside he is still a rotten old mummy. Imhotep backhands O'Connell. Knocking him twenty feet back. Rick staggers to his feet. Imhotep is right there, clubbing him hard with his left arm. O'Connell spins through the air, slams into the side of a mausoleum. Imhotep approaches, rage in his eyes. Rick gets up, quickly pivots and hacks into Imhotep's head. Imhotep grins and punches Rick in the face. O'Connell is thrown back, pulling his sword with him. He bounces hard off the mausoleum and lands on his feet, totally beat-to-shit. Knees buckling, he can barely stand. Jonathan lifts up the heavy gold book, Imhotep's severed hand still clings to it. Jonathan and Rose cringe in disgust. Evelyn yanks it off, throws it away, then start furiously working the key into the series of locks, unlocking each of them.

Imhotep strides forward. O'Connell backs into the mausoleum, swings the sword, Imhotep tries to catch it, it cleaves through his palm and deeply imbeds itself into his forearm. No matter, Imhotep rips the sword away from O'Connell and casually flings it away. The golden Book Of The Living opens with a hiss. Jonathan holds it tight as Evelyn quickly turns the heavy gold pages looking for something. Rose huddles behind Jonathan, holding his shirt tightly in her hands. Rick turns to run, but Imhotep grabs him by the throat and lifts him off his feet. O'Connell hangs there, a dazed mess. Imhotep grins, says something in Ancient Egyptian, then starts to strangle O'Connell. Rick starts to chokes, he seems to be about to die when Evelyn turns and faces Imhotep and reads an inscription:"Kadeesh mal! Kadeesh mal! Pared oos! PARED OOS!

Imhotep pivots and looks at Evelyn, a look of sheer terror on his face. Then he looks over at the detritus bog. Which starts to bubble and shift. The swirling hole begins to open. And then suddenly the spirits of the Egyptian gods waft out of the black bog and swirl around the Priest-mummies. The mummies all collapse and turn to dust. And then the spirits attack Imhotep. Lifting him and O'Connell up into the air.

Imhotep let's go of Rick, who falls to the ground. Evelyn, Rose and Jonathan fearfully stumble away from the spirits, Jonathan trips over Roses feet and falls accidentally throwing The Book of The Living into the detritus bog. Evelyn watches as the golden book sinks into the black putrescence. Jonathan looks like he's about to cry. Rose has tear streaks going down her face. Ten feet off the ground, the spirits swirl around Imhotep's body, twisting it and turning it and slowly shrivelling it.

Accompanied by strange flashing lights, after one last huge flash, accompanied by a blast of wind, Imhotep is spit out and thrown to the floor. He staggers to his feet, he looks perfectly normal. His body is completely intact.

O'Connell swings his sword. Imhotep jerks back. The sword scrapes Imhotep's chest, a swath of blood appears across Imhotep's chest where the sword hit him. Imhotep touches the blood on his chest, amazed and horrified. He's mortal. O'Connell runs Imhotep through with the sword and shoves him backwards. Imhotep stumbles back and falls into the detritus bog. The sword still in his stomach. Evelyn, Rose and Jonathan run up next to O'Connell. They watch as Imhotep gently sinks into the fetid swamp, slowly dying. And then, just before his head goes under, Imhotep looks up at them, grins broadly, and says something in Ancient Egyptian. Evelyn translates:"Death is only the beginning." Imhotep's grinning face vanishes under the black bile Beni staggers across a chamber, straining under the weight of another saddlebag filled with treasure. He spots a large, ornate staff sticking out of a wall. He throws the saddlebag over the staff and collapses against the wall. Exhausted. And then the weight of the treasure pulls the staff down. Which starts a massive aural chain-reaction. Beni backs away from the wall, wide-eyed, filled with fear. All the walls start to sink into the ground. Driven by tons of pouring sand. Beni turns and hauls-ass out of the chamber.

O'Connell, Evelyn, Rose and Jonathan look around as all the walls start to descend. Rick grabs Evelyn's hand."C'mon!" He pulls her forward and all four of them race past sinking pillars. They duck as they run into a descending doorway.

Beni scampers down a passageway, the ceiling getting lower and lower until he has to crouch. And then he has to stick the torch between his teeth and crawl on his hands and knees.

O'Connell, Rose, Evelyn and Jonathan crouch-run into the treasure chamber. Rose skids to a stop. Looks in wonder at all the treasure. As sand rains down on them. Jonathan grabs her again and quickly pulls her through the mounds of treasure towards a sinking doorway on the far side of the room. The sound of the sinking walls is deafening.

Beni crouch-runs into the treasure chamber. O'Connell, Evelyn, Jonathan and Rose race past him. He joins them as they run up a staircase. heading for a descending doorway, which is already half gone, it's now only four feet high, now three feet high, now two feet. Jonathan and Rose dive through the narrow gap. Then Rick dives through, he spins around. Evelyn dives, but gets stuck in the middle, about to get cut in half. O'Connell grabs her arm and yanks her through in the nick of time. Beni reaches through the narrowing gap with his hand,"O'CONNELL!"

O'Connell grabs it, but it's too late. Beni yanks his hand back just as the top of the door crashes to the floor. Sealing him in. Beni quickly crawls back down the stairs as the ceiling slams down behind him. He stands up and looks around with his diminishing torch. All the doorways finish closing. There's no way out. He's trapped. And then he hears something, and turns around. Over in the corner, a scarab-beetle stares at him, chittering. Beni waves his flickering torch at the scarab and backs away."Go away!"

He stands in the middle of the treasure chamber as dozens upon dozens of scarabs boil up out of the floor around him. Beni is absolutely terrified. The scarabs start to move in. And that's when Beni's torch goes out. Pitch black. And then they hear Beni start screaming in horror and pain. And the scarabs chittering hungrily.

The temple collapses as Rick, Evelyn, Jonathan, Rose and a pack of stray camels race through the ruins. A sinking crevice drops out right behind them. Chasing them out through the front gates. The whole place rumbles ominously. They make it down the ramp as more ruins crash down behind them. A massive cloud of sand and dust billows out over the wall and into the air. Everyone and all the stray camels race out into the desert...

Rick, Evelyn, Rose and Jonathan stand in the middle of the plateau, surrounded by stray camels. They stare off at the sandy, dusty, volcano as it continues to rumble-ominously.

"Well,...I guess we go home empty handed." Jonathan states sorely.

"Guess I won that bet, huh. Jonathan." Rose gives Jonathan a small smile, as she sees the looks that Evelyn and Rick are sharing.

O'Connell looks at Evelyn,"Wouldn't say that."

Evelyn returns the look, and then she wraps-her arms around his neck and kisses him. O'Connell returns it. Jonathan just rolls his eyes, snorts in disgust and climbs up onto a camel. Rose gently lays a hand on her abdomen, with tears falling from her cheeks, she gets onto the same camel as Jonathan. When the kiss is-over, Rick and Evelyn share a smile, then O'Connell leaps up into the saddle, reaches down, grabs Evelyn's hand and pulls her up behind him. Evelyn wraps her arms around his waist. O'Connell and Jonathan slap the reins.

"TUK-TUK-TUK!" The camels start to move out. In the saddlebag behind Evelyn, hidden under the closed back flap, we can see that it's filled with Beni's stolen treasure. O'Connell, Evelyn, Rose and Jonathan ride off into the sunset.