(flute music playing)
(birds chirping)
(eagle cries)
(heart beating)
(panting)
Man: We're all gonna die. We're all gonna die!
Man #2: Quiet!
Man: It's your fault. You killed us all!
Man #2: Yeah, well,
I intend spending Christmas with my daughter this year.
- I don't know about you. - (groans)
We're gonna make it out of here. We're gonna live!
- (groaning) - What is it?
- Hold still. - (shouts)
Now let's go.
Wait. I can't breathe.
(grunts)
(groans)
(gunshots)
(grunting)
(creature growls)
(growling)
(men whimpering)
(low growling)
(screams)
(screaming)
(creature hisses, chomps)
(growling, screaming)
(bird cries)
(man cheering)
Ms. Jordan! Ms. Jordan!
I got something. I got something.
There's tons of them over there.
I didn't realize coal crackers were indigenous to this area.
What's a coal cracker?
This area was mined for coal up until about 10 years ago.
A miner must have left it behind. You can get it out of a Sears Catalogue.
Don't worry. I'm sure in another 2,000 years
it will be just as valuable as the treasures of Egypt.
- Dr. Thain? - Yes, Ms. Jordan?
Any word on my father?
Nothing, I'm afraid.
And the Smithsonian... are they sending someone after him?
They do not share your concern.
He's been missing for a month.
You father abandoned his work here to go off on his own.
They're not happy.
But they will take credit for his discoveries.
Your father's theory that the Egyptians set foot in North America
is highly improbable to say the least.
- You think he's a liar. - No, I think he's old.
People still studied alchemy when he got his doctorate.
Dr. Thain! Dr. Thain!
Uh, excuse me.
Another beheading.
Doesn't seem like the Hopi, does it?
Perhaps a rival tribe.
See here, the occipital bone?
It's very good work, Dr. Langford.
See the separation right here
as if a blunt object repetitively hacked...
Yes, excellent. Why don't you catalogue it and place it with the other one?
- Are you all right? - Yes.
Of course.
Very good work here. Very good.
That was horrible.
That was for his own good. Perhaps if he picked a shovel up once in a while
he'd actually get something accomplished.
- (hisses) - (laughs)
(sighs)
Ms. Jordan, it's not that I don't respect your father. It's...
What a lovely blouse.
Ms. Jordan, have you ever seen the Aztec codices?
Wonderful works of art, rivaling anything in the Western world.
I have a copy if you'd like...
to see them. Wow.
No, I didn't think so.
(horse nickers)
Yeah, boy.
Whoa.
I'm looking for Professor Jordan.
Dr. Jordan hasn't returned. I'm his assistant Dr. Wainwright.
I'm a friend of Dr. Jordan's... Isaac Preston.
I work for "The Phoenix Gazette" in Phoenix.
That's aptly named, isn't it?
I did a story with Dr. Jordan last month and we're preparing a follow-up.
- I wasn't told of any press interview. - An honest mistake, I'm sure.
I forget to mention things to my secretary all the time.
I'm a tenured professor and Dr. Jordan's right hand on this project.
Well, let's hope he's a lefty. (laughs)
Susan!
- Still hanging around, I see. - Isaac.
Have you seen my father?
Not since our interview, no. But he told me to meet him here today
so I could get some photographs of the pieces he discovered.
You've seen them then?
Yeah, I last saw him and his men in a cantina near Morelia
just before he set out.
Found these in a cave.
- He gave them to you? - I've known him for years.
He wanted me to photograph them. Here.
The Hopi say...
they come from a great pyramid hidden behind the canyon wall.
- Pyramid? - Built by men
who preserve the dead in shrouds.
Something's wrong. If he said he was going to be here,
he should be here. He never breaks his word.
She's right to worry.
He wouldn't be the first person to get lost in the canyons.
- The Indians took him there? - Ha! No. No no no.
They won't go near the place. They say it's cursed.
No, he found some Mexicans willing to take him.
- That is where I last saw him. - Wainwright: And that was a month ago?
Yes yes.
I've been waiting for his return. My readers are less patient than I.
- This is remarkable. - Yeah, this one is my favorite too.
It's like a finger puppet if you get it on there just right.
Are these really Egyptian?
Well, they were magnificent seamen.
I mean, only a few years ago they found
some Egyptian hieroglyphics on a rock cliff in Australian, so surely...
Dr. Jordan's Egyptian discovery.
Matter of fact it is. See, while you're in your tent scribbling,
some of us are actually putting our time here to some good use.
Indulging in fantasy is hardly a good use of time.
You don't believe it's real?
It's real, but not Egyptian.
I'm sure if you would have studied it longer,
you would have identified it as a labret.
It was worn here, through a hole in the lower lip.
That's disgusting. There's a lady present.
Thain: It was a mark of beauty throughout the primitive world:
Africa, the Indus Valley, South America, but not, however, Egypt.
Wainwright: So where's it from?
Thain: My guess would be Mexico, the Aztecs.
That looks like the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl.
Or any of 100 serpent gods from any culture.
Who cares where it came from? My father is out there lost.
- Isn't anybody going to do something? - The Smithsonian will not allow it.
- Their budget is already allocated. - I'm not talking about the Smithsonian.
- I'm talking about us. - Thain: Don't be foolish.
The desert kills people, even the Indians.
You wouldn't last a day out there.
Don't attribute your own cowardice to the rest of us.
Cowardice, is that...
Isaac? Where was the cantina?
Morelia.
- I leave tomorrow. - Okay.
We should cover the pits. It's going to rain soon.
There isn't a cloud in the sky.
(thunder crashes)
Looks like rain, everyone. Let's cover the pits.
- Let's go! - Man: Let's go, let's go!
- What's wrong with you? - I was just thinking.
Quetzalcoatl was the Aztec god of rain.
Among other things.
(snoring)
(coyote howling)
- (chuckles) - Oh!
What do you think you're doing? You should be ashamed of yourself.
(stammers) But... but...
- But what? - But you're in my tent.
- It's the middle of the night. - And that would make you think
that I would want to with you?
Well, what else should I think?
You should think like a gentleman.
You don't think a gentleman would want to have sex?
You're disgusting.
Oh, well, if you're not here to sleep with me,
what are you doing here?
Well, this is Dr. Jordan's tent.
And I was just looking for some files.
And... and so I didn't want to disturb you. And...
There's no filing cabinet in here.
Good night, Mr. Preston.
Ms. Wainwright.
(exhales)
Whoa.
(man whistling)
I'm fine, thank you.
- This way. - (grunts)
He was just trying to be friendly.
They may be friendly and charming,
but when they look at you, you're not an equal.
If you want a career, you've got to be ruthless and uncompromising.
- That's how men get ahead. - Not all of them.
- If you're thinking of Dr. Langford... - I'm thinking of my father.
- Consider Dr. Thain. - I'd prefer not.
He doesn't let personal relationships get in the way of his work.
- He has no personal relationships. - That's a choice.
He knows that there are more important things.
Then why are you here looking for my father?
Dr. Jordan was looking for treasure. I'm doing the same.
Do you think Dr. Jordan really found something big?
Jordan can exaggerate, but if the truth is 1/10th of the claim,
we're headed toward the find of the century.
- Dr. Jordan's find. - If he's still around.
That's a hell of a thing to say about a friend.
A friend is one thing. A discovery like that...
Like your friends in the Amazon.
If there's one rule I try to follow it's leave no man behind.
- What happened in the Amazon? - Nobody knows.
Because the team never made it back... that is except Dr. Langford.
Yes, well, Jordan wasn't there, so whatever he told you...
He told me nothing... except that you made quite a name for yourself
and seemed to forget the names of the men that died.
I shared the credit with them all.
The next time you make an accusation like that, you should check your facts.
Are you offering me an exclusive?
Well, this is it.
Buenos dнas, amigo. (speaking Spanish)
- What did he look like? - You speak English.
He's an elderly gentleman. He arrived here a few months ago.
I say what he look like?
This is him. He came here with several men.
No sй. (speaks Spanish)
Back to Spanish, hmm? Listen, if you know something,
- you're obliged to... - Isaac: Excuse me!
I was with Dr. Jordan two months ago when he came here.
He was looking for some Mexican gentlemen.
I say no sй, cowboy.
- Of course. I remember now. - It's a friendly place.
Thank you very much for your help. We'll be leaving.
Don Pedro know nothing, but I do.
Who are you?
Hugo... Hugo San Martin.
I'm Dr. Langford.
These are my colleagues from the Smithsonian.
Have you seen him?
He went into the canyons. He don't come back.
- Are you sure it's him? - Of course. I take him there.
- Susan: What happened to him? - I don't know.
I don't go inside. No one goes inside.
Can you show us where you took him?
Is three days' drive from here.
Once you get there, you are on your own. I no go to the another side.
- Why not? - No one does.
If they do, they don't come back.
How do we get there?
You pay me, we go.
- How much? - 50 is good.
Not until after you take us there.
25 now and 25 later.
Deal.
You wait here, I'll be back.
I don't trust him.
Neither do I, but I trust he wants his money.
What if he did something to Dr. Jordan?
You're an idiot.
What did I say?
I'll show you, but I need another 25.
No, we already discussed this. Not until you take us there.
Not for me. For Javier.
I hired you.
You need horses. They belong to him.
- What do I need you for then? - I know Javier and you don't.
Oh, that's a good point.
We leave in the morning.
(grunting)
(drums beating)
(crowd murmuring)
(screaming)
Langford: How much further?
San Martin: Other side of the mountain.
- What mountains? - See, up ahead? Three days.
Whoa whoa.
Isaac: It's Dr. Jordan's horse.
It was my father's.
The last entry was three weeks ago.
Where's Dr. Jordan?
"The precipice stands 100 feet straight up.
Our first attempt to scale the wall ended in failure.
We will try again in the morning.
I remit this book to you, Susan my daughter,
in the event that we are again unsuccessful."
That sounds like he was planning on mailing it.
Oh!
(gasps)
Who is it?
It was Joe Ford.
Jordan hired him to carry equipment.
- We have to bury him. - Coyotes'll get him by morning.
- Better coyotes than vultures. - Wainwright: What's the difference?
We'll bury him.
(whispering)
Hey, where are you going?
We go so far enough. This land is cursed.
- But how are we supposed to get back? - Leave the horses.
Vaya con Dios.
- Yah! - Yippee!
Come on, let's go.
Let's go!
Man: That horse doesn't look so good.
It's fine. It just needs a little encouragement.
- Come on! - (horse wheezes)
I'm not going to die out here because you can't handle a little heat. Come on!
- It's so awful. - I'm sure it didn't suffer much.
Who cares about the horse? What are we going to do?
- We'll all walk. - Langford: Let's go.
What is that?
- Susan: One of those men? - It doesn't look like a man.
Langford: Where is he going?
Man: He's found water.
Langford: Let's quickly fill the canteens and keep moving.
What is it?
I don't know, but there's one of them and five of us.
- Stuck... I'm stuck. - What's happening?
- What's happening?! - Here, take my hand.
No no no, Susan, relax.
You guys, try not to move.
Okay, Susan, it's quicksand.
You have to help them.
Susan...
Isaac, reach for the stick.
Reach.
(grunting)
- Grab this. - Langford: Hildy.
I can't reach it. I can't reach it.
Langford: Isaac, Isaac, grab hold.
Be careful. Be careful.
Pull, Isaac.
- I'm getting the gun. - What? No!
- Dr. Thain? - What?
(all grunt)
Don't move, don't move, don't move. Stay still.
(mule brays)
No, they'll just pull you in.
(panting)
Stop moving, Isaac. Stay still.
(whistles)
(mule brays)
Leave no man behind?
What about us?
We should thank you, actually. You found our water source.
I hate to tell you, but that stuff doesn't taste very good.
Well, there's a well of groundwater beneath us.
The soil here is too porous.
But over there, all we need to do is dig.
Why did you come? I thought it was too dangerous.
Academic curiosity.
(creature snarling, crunching)
- We're close. - How do you know?
Well, if anyone lives around here,
they'd need a water source.
(water trickling)
Is that real?
That's real.
(men laughing)
Come on, Isaac.
Isaac: I'm coming. I'm coming.
How did you find us?
Uh...
the bartender in that cantina told me of a shortcut.
- The bartender? - Yes.
I took a train two towns up and cut you off from the north.
I came across your tracks about a mile back.
I'm glad you're here.
Normally you're in your tent with your head in a book.
Quetzalcoatl...
Aztecs.
Bravo, Dr. Thain.
How do we get around it?
We don't. We go over it.
- (gunshot) - (gasps)
Spread out. Get down!
(gunshots)
Get back! Get back or I'll kill you all!
Susan, Susan!
Susan, where are you going?
Where is she going?
To get shot, from the looks of it.
(grunts)
Dr. Gilmore, is that you?
Oh, you found us.
Thank heaven.
Thank heaven you found us.
Gilmore: Your father and the others went over days ago...
or maybe weeks. I don't even know anymore.
But he's inside, sweetheart, and I don't think he's coming out.
There was noise that first night... loud...
drums beating, screaming, shouting.
Something bad happens when they beat those drums.
I don't know what it is, but it's something bad.
How did they get inside?
Climbed over the rocks... the ones that made it.
- What about you? - I didn't make it, did I?
- The other ones weren't so lucky. - Susan: Here.
Have some more water.
Before they went over, they sent a man
back to town to send your father's book to you.
Yeah, we found it.
We've got to get over that wall.
Are you blind?
Look at him.
Her father could be dying in there.
- Climbing is too dangerous. - Gilmore: That's right.
You don't have the right equipment.
We've gotta get back to town and get some help.
No, he could be dead by then. We have to get inside.
We'll just have to follow the same path they do.
- Who? - Whoever beats those drums.
They must have a way of getting in and out.
Why don't you find out then?
Because I'm going over that wall.
(stream flowing)
Oh...
no no, I wasn't...
I was... I was sketching.
Not-not-not you.
The cliffside and the bird flew over and...
and, uh...
I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
I'm so... I'm sorry.
This is different.
What? What is it?
Look, look at the original.
There's no hammer in the original.
So someone else painted it.
The hammer's been repainted and more than once from the looks of it.
They must have worn it out.
Worn out, but how?
Why is a doorknob shiny?
(rocks grating)
- What's going on? - Dr. Thain's found a way in.
Where do you find the time for it all?
I really wasn't spying.
Langford: Pervert.
Well, we should get moving.
God help us.
Man: Dr. Thain, what is that book?
The Aztec codices. They contain just about everything known about the Aztecs.
- Who's the guy with the hammer? - Quetzalcoatl, a major Aztec god.
- Does it really eat people? - That is just mythology.
Susan: What are Aztecs doing in North America?
Their capital was in Mexico, but many of them were nomadic.
It possible they made it this far north. Driven out by the Spanish, perhaps.
How come we've never heard of them?
Well, no one has ever produced a complete map of this territory.
It's possible we're the first humans to stumble upon this cave
- in hundreds of years. - Second. My father was first.
Of course.
Langford: It's a dead end.
Not an end, another doorway.
Don't just stand there.
I wouldn't do that.
The eye... symbol of knowledge.
- (Langford grunts) - Thain: Stop it!
Why? I think it's working.
Even if we get through that door, how do we find Dr. Jordan?
You leave that to me. We decided if we got separated...
- Stop that! - Yeah, really really stop it.
- What is that noise? - We should not be
drawing attention to ourselves.
(Susan screams)
(groans)
Excellent work, Dr. Langford. Help me move him.
How can you be so cold?
Say a prayer, if you like. It won't help.
We still need to find our way through this doorway.
What is wrong with you?
Don't you see?
It's all written here.
We must balance these stones to open the doorway.
Wha... what happens if we don't balance them?
Let's not make any more mistakes.
Should we just stand here and be your guinea pigs?
- Why not? Dr. Gilmore was yours. - Stop it.
Just let him finish.
- For your sake. - No, for everybody's sake.
We need to work together.
What do we do?
We must place them all at the same time.
How do we know this will work?
Trial and error. How many more blades do you think there are?
At the same time now.
Three, two,
one.
(rumbling)
Everyone down!
(stones rumbling)
Hey hey hey!
(groaning)
How are we supposed to get back?
- What is that? - That is a miracle.
(drums beating)
I wouldn't call it that exactly.
(crowd hooting)
That's Dr. Wilson.
What's happening? Give me that.
(grunting)
They're putting him on a table.
- Is there a knife? - Not that I can see.
Wait... the big one has a knife.
I think we've seen enough. You should put those away.
Here, let me see.
- Susan, don't! - Why is he...
(screaming)
(squishing)
(thunder rumbling)
(creature growls)
What are we going to do? We're all going to die.
Just calm down. We will be all right.
Are you crazy? That thing
- just tore him apart. - Wainwright: What was it?
I believe it was supposed to be Quetzalcoatl.
Langford: The Aztec god?
I said supposed to be. Quetzalcoatl was a benevolent god.
- He only accepted animal sacrifices. - That was not benevolent.
Who cares what it's supposed to be? It killed Dr. Wilson.
A man with a knife killed him. It was a sacrifice.
Oh, well, that makes it okay.
I'm just saying let's not abandon logic completely
because we saw something we do not understand.
I don't understand you.
(footsteps approach)
- Susan, is that you? - Samuel!
Dad?
- Dad, Dad. - Susan, it is you.
Are you all right?
Never better.
We have to kill them to find the circle stone.
- What stone? - It's the only way out.
- The beast is out there. - He's gone off his tree.
- No. - Professor Jordan.
- Just a taste now, sir. - Oh.
Tell us what happened.
We came for the treasure.
Everyone said it was here.
Did you find it?
All we found was death.
It's okay, Dad. We're gonna get you home.
Susan.
You look just like your mother.
There must be another way out or a way to open this door.
It's the stone... they use it like a key.
I saw them. Wilson went after it.
Wilson's dead.
- Then it's over. - No. Where is this circle stone?
What are you doing out of your tent?
Dad. Dad, where is the stone?
The circle stone is in there?
I think I could take them from here.
Yes, and what will we do when the rest come running?
There's another way.
Let's go, let's go, let's go.
- Man: That was great. - Thain: Great?
- Now they know we're here. - Jordan: They already know.
That's not a barbecue. That's a war party.
- We'll deal with them. - Oh yeah? What about the beast?
- I'm not afraid of monsters. - You will be... soon enough.
(roars)
No guards?
Those are the guards...
protecting the entrance to the temple.
I'll take these over the ones out there any day.
(all scream)
(grunts, coughing)
I'm sorry.
I'll get you out.
Uh...
- Here, get up. - (grunting)
Reach.
Reach!
I'm almost there.
Almost. That's it.
(panting, sighs)
It doesn't matter.
We're all gonna die.
(whimpers)
All: Huh?
Help! Help me!
Help me, help me!
(screams)
(crunches)
(all shudder)
(Quetzalcoatl pants)
That is the end of mythology.
What the hell was that thing up there?
That's the beast.
It killed Isaac. It just cut him in half.
- It killed all of them. - Quetzalcoatl.
Susan: Where is he?
He's taken his sacrifice.
- Let's see if there's a way out. - Don't!
Thanks.
You can let me go now.
Yes, of course.
Why are we trading our lives for his?
I didn't ask you to come. You think I wanted my daughter here?
We're all here for our own reasons.
Why are you here again?
We can argue or we can try and find a way out of here.
Uh, can't we just balance some rocks again?
- We'll climb out. - What about the Aztecs?
I'll take my chances with them.
Oh no, that thing is up there.
- Langford: You'd rather stay down here? - This rock...
we might be able to break through.
Langford: With what?
Give me a hand.
(men grunting)
- Who's first? - I'm not going in there.
Would you rather die now or later?
Please?
Are you all right?
I'm all right. There's a tunnel here.
Wonderful. I'm sure no harm will come to us there.
Where did you get that knife?
Oh, this.
It's something my father gave me.
I would have thought you had dug it up in Tenochtitlan.
Ah, no, I've never been.
An Aztec expert who's never been to the Aztec's capital.
Well, I've never even been to Mexico.
How do you become an Aztec scholar without going to Mexico?
Walk and talk as if, even though things are not.
- What? - Something my father used to say.
You see, I was sick as a boy.
My father worked a shipping boat in the Pacific.
Always brought me something back.
He said that this knife belonged to the Spanish explorer Hernбn Cortйs.
That makes a lot of sense.
Yes, well, he probably made the whole thing up,
but that is how I became interested in the Aztecs.
With the knife of the man who conquered them?
I'm afraid knives had nothing to do with it.
See, as one myth goes,
the god Quetzalcoatl was defeated by a great warrior.
He was so ashamed that he built
a great fire, dressed in his finest armor
and set himself on fire.
Vanished.
When Cortйs arrived, the Aztecs thought it was the return of Quetzalcoatl.
By the time they realized how wrong they were,
it was too late. The Spanish had destroyed their civilization.
- Man: Not entirely. - (chuckles)
(growling)
(roars)
Wainwright: Anything in that book of yours say how to kill a prehistoric god?
We're not killing anything. We're not going to disturb anything.
We've stumbled onto a living civilization and we must respect it.
We must get out of here and if that means blowing some holes
in an Aztec god, I'm going to do it.
Yes, well,
isn't that the spirit that has caused two deaths now?
Was that your hardest punch?
Enough!
This beast is coming back. I'm not going to stand here
and watch you knock each other's teeth out.
Finish it later.
Tell me there's a way through.
There's always a way.
How long are you going to be, Thain?
Yes, of course. It couldn't be simpler. Put the stick in the right hole.
Langford: Well, figure it out.
- The bird. - Yes, of course, the symbol of freedom.
(clanking)
- (arrows whizz) - (groaning)
Actually the Aztecs viewed birds as deliverers of death.
Langford: Get your mythology straight.
There is no God.
Langford: Evidence suggests otherwise, just not the one we've been praying to.
Don't do that again.
Hold still.
(groans)
Curare poison... he's going to suffocate.
- I'm gonna what? - We've got bigger problems!
- (choking) - What's wrong with him?
- Just keep him breathing. - How?
- He's dying. - Is it contagious?
(clicks)
That's not the door to freedom.
That's the door to Quetzalcoatl's room.
(rumbling)
- Get up! - Well done.
Look out.
(shouting)
Breathe, Dunbar, breathe!
(gasps, coughs)
Susan: You're fine now. You're fine.
What is this place?
This is where we lost everyone.
The beast is in here.
It's an observatory.
The Aztecs were able to predict the movements of the planets
as far back as the 13th century.
Far more advanced than Europe at the time.
If they are so advanced, why are they cutting people's hearts out?
- (rock rumbling) - Shh!
The stone... it's gotta be in there.
And the treasure.
We've got to take him out.
Dunbar, you stay here with the women.
- Excuse me? - That's fine with me.
No, I'm coming with you.
Hildy, this is no time for your damn women's suffrage.
It's bad enough that I have to go in there with Dr. Parasol.
We can use all the help we can get.
But you should stay here...
to protect your father.
(woman screaming)
- (growling) - (choking)
- Thank you. - Yes, well...
- that was refreshing. - Very good.
(tool thunks)
Let's go, Dunbar.
(moaning)
Wainwright: Whoa. Amazing.
Thain: Do not disturb anything.
I think we've paid our way.
This treasure belongs to them. Do not disturb anything.
We're looking for the key... a round, circular stone
with pictographs on it, large enough to fit in the recess of that doorway...
- and that is all. - Suit yourself.
Susan.
Can I tell you something?
I used to follow you at night...
you know, when you thought you were sneaking off.
I'd watch you for hours...
cataloguing your artifacts
and making your lists. (chuckles)
It was the best part of my day.
Why didn't you tell me?
You were having too much fun.
Yes, but at least then we could've been together.
I wanted you to make your own discoveries.
I wanted you to be your own person.
I didn't want you to just follow after me.
Dad, don't you know that that's all I ever wanted?
Was to follow you, to be just like you.
Yeah, but you're so much better than I am.
Besides, look what happened when you followed me here.
You shouldn't have come.
How could I not come after you?
(sighs)
I don't think that I'm ever meant to leave this place.
You always make it out. You always come home.
Not this time.
You promise me something:
no matter what happens, you'll get out of this place as quickly as you can.
I can't promise you that... not if it means leaving you behind.
(metal clinking)
I found it.
Dr. Jordan.
- Are you sure that's it? - Jordan: Looks like it to me.
I thought you said you saw them use it.
I was shot in the leg. I was in shock.
I was fighting for my life.
Professor, we've almost gotten ourselves killed getting here.
- You have to be sure. - Well, I'm as sure as I can be.
- That's not good enough. - It's gonna have to be.
We can stand here and argue or we can try and find a way out.
What is he doing?
- Did you hear? - Ooh, yeah. Yes.
- Hildy found the stone. - Yes.
I thought that you would be more excited.
I am.
I've never really seen you at a loss for words before.
Uh, yes, well,
- Umm... - Did you forget why we were here?
I mean, we found my father, we found the stone.
I did not come for your father, Susan. I came for you.
What?
(sighs)
I know I'm not the best person at expressing myself
and perhaps that is why I've chosen to surround myself
with artifacts and relics rather than
things of flesh and blood.
But I do understand one thing and that is that I have loved you
the moment I laid eyes upon you.
And my one regret is that I have waited
until this moment to tell you.
Now that we're facing death.
Perhaps.
That must have taken a lot of courage to say.
Oh yes.
Well...
maybe that same courage will help find us a way out of here.
Perhaps.
(thunder rumbling)
No, it can't be.
(muffled yelling)
- Langford: What are you doing? - He's as frightened as we are
and he'll know a way out of here.
(yelling)
(Quetzalcoatl growling)
- Hildy! - (grunts)
- Hildy! - Susan: Hildy, open the door.
- Langford: What is she doing? - All: Hildy?
Susan: Hildy, open the door.
- Dad? - (snarls)
Come on, big fella, come on. Take me.
- Dad, no. No! - Susan!
Come on!
- Dad, no! - Go go! I'm fine.
Dad, no.
- Dad... - Take care of her.
Open the door!
Langford?
- No, stop! - Susan, we have to go.
- I'm not leaving him. - Get as far away from here as possible.
- I'll find Hildy. - I'm not leaving him!
Susan, he's gone.
Do not make this a meaningless sacrifice. Now go!
Get going.
(shudders)
Get up, come on.
(moaning)
I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.
No! No, please.
Come back. Don't leave me.
(Aztecs shouting)
(gasps)
Where's Dunbar?
- They killed him. - How...?
There's no time.
We gotta go. Let's go.
(low grunting)
You stay here. I'm gonna go check it out, okay?
Just stay here.
(gasps)
(crowd hooting)
(hooting continues)
Well, it's been nice knowing you, Hildy.
You're all right for a woman.
(screams)
He's coming.
Susan: They have Hildy.
- Susan... - I thought you said they killed Dunbar?
I didn't think that I could carry him all the way.
- We have to go back for them. - There are 500 Aztecs.
- We can't help them. - Like you couldn't help in the sand?
- Or your team in the Amazon? - Where are you going?
- To help our friends. - No, Susan.
Your father sacrificed himself so I could get you out of here.
I am trying to get you out of here. Everything I do,
- every choice that I've made... - We have to help them.
Susan, please. Please!
(groans, panting)
Somebody do something.
(speaking Aztec)
(knife thuds)
(yells)
No!
(groans)
Look out!
(soft murmuring)
- How the hell did you do that? - Shhh.
You still have the stone?
- Where's Langford? - Dead.
He's figured it out, it won't be long before the others do.
So when I say run, we run.
- Dad? - It can't be.
But we saw him die.
He sacrificed himself and was allowed to live.
- Why? - Because that's something
- Quetzalcoatl understands. - Dad.
- No, we're leaving. - What's the matter with you?
- It's Dr. Jordan! - I don't care who it is.
- I'm getting out of here. - Stop it!
Don't fight. It isn't godlike.
(Hildy screams)
- Dunbar: What's he doing? - He's desecrating the temple.
For the love of God, why?
(snarling)
(roaring)
(crowd screaming)
(claws slice)
(hisses)
(screams)
(grunts)
- Open! - (rock crumbling)
(screams)
(hissing)
You've seen this before, haven't you?
(creaking)
(snarls)
(moaning)
(panting)
(shrieks)
(bird cawing)
Let them go.
What are you doing?
I don't know.
(speaks Aztec)
Susan: Let him go.
It's all right, just go.
- What are you doing? - Go now, while you can.
I'm not leaving you here.
You don't have a choice and neither do I.
They think I'm their god now.
How long do you think that's gonna work for you?
Walk and talk as if,
even though things are not.
Please. Go.
I can't.
Please.
Come on, dear.
- Dr. Thain? - Yes, Ms. Jordan?
Any word on my father?
Um, excuse me.
I'm not talking about the Smithsonian. I'm talking about us.
Don't be foolish. The desert kills people... even the Indians.
You wouldn't last a day out there.
Don't attribute your own cowardice to the rest of us.
Cowardice, is that...
Dr. Thain?
Isaac: Why did you come? I thought it was too dangerous.
Academic curiosity.
I'm glad you're here.
Normally you're in your tent with your head in a book.
Oh... no no, I wasn't...
I was... I was sketching.
Not-not-not you.
The cliffside and the bird flew over and...
and, uh...
I'm sorry.
The same time now.
Three, two, one.
Everyone down!
Don't!
Thanks.
You can let me go now.
Yes, of course.
I did not come for your father, Susan. I came for you.
What?
I have loved you the moment I laid eyes upon you.
And my one regret is that I have waited until this moment
to tell you.
That must have taken a lot of courage to say.
(birds chirping)
Jordan: He'll be fine.
You keep on saying that, but I know you don't believe it.
Of course I do. I stayed alive for days in there.
Hiding... and you had us to help. He's all alone.
And what about us? We're gonna die out here in the desert.
- Run! - Go.
(Thain grunting)
I decided not to stay.
- How did you get out? - Well, I lit a huge bonfire,
found the best armor I could and then...
- set myself on fire. - What?
Well, actually I set the armor on fire
and ran like hell while they were watching it burn.
But how did you get through the wall?
I believe this is yours.
Mine?
It was your discovery.
(whistles)
(mule brays)
(Susan laughs)
Let's go home.
(flute music playing)
(tribal music playing)