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EXT. EARLY MORNING - FORT BRYDON, CAIRO No one listens to him. William grabs his gun from his holster, points it in the air and FIRES several shots. Everyone turns and looks. William brings out a handful of money. William and entourage exit. Two men stand up, look at each other and walk outside. Many others take the cue and follow them. EXT. EARLY MORNING - FORT BRYDON, CAIRO William is talking to a large group of scavengers. O'Connell and Jonathan turn the corner and see William speaking with the motley crew. The Arab guide translates as O'Connell speaks to Jonathan. INT. EARLY MORNING - CAIRO, MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES The curator, O'Connell and Jonathan are walking down a hallway. EXT. EARLY MORNING - CAIRO, MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES O'Connell and Jonathan are exiting the museum. William and his followers walk around the street corner and see them. O'Connell sees William. William speaks to his followers. William and his followers run towards the museum entrance with guns lowered, O'Connell and Jonathan run back inside, slamming the door shut. INT. EARLY MORNING - CAIRO, MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES Jonathan and O'Connell are leaning with their backs against the door. O'Connell draws his gun as he and Jonathan run through the library to the rear entrance. O'Connell opens the door and a handful of William's followers are there with guns aimed at the door. They start SHOOTING, O'Connell FIRES back, slams the door shut and bolts the latch. O'Connell and Jonathan run back through the library. The curator comes out of his office and sees O'Connell and Jonathan running towards him. O'Connell and Jonathan run past him. William and his men enter at the end of the hall and run towards the curator. They start firing at O'Connell and Jonathan. No one pays attention to him as William and his men run past him. The Curator goes into his office. INT. MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITES, CURATOR'S OFFICE The curator walks to his desk, picks up the phone and dials. INT.- CAIRO, MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITIES O'Connell and Jonathan run into a dead end, turn around and make it back to the bottom of the stairs. William and his group run around the corner which forces O'Connell and Jonathan to run upstairs. William FIRES at O'Connell. O'Connell makes it up to the landing and FIRES back at William. William and his group charge up the stairs SHOOTING as they go. Priceless objects are shattered. Jonathan stops at one of the shattered vases. O'Connell runs back to get Jonathan. O'Connell drags Jonathan away just as a bullet whizzes past Jonathan's head. They run down a corridor, through a door and they find themselves on the open roof. EXT. MORNING - MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITES, ROOFTOP O'Connell slams the door, moves a heavy planter in front of it and runs to the edge of the roof. He looks down and sees a market area in the side street with canvas awnings to protect the food from the sun. Jonathan runs up to him. William and his men start SHOOTING the door to break it down. O'Connell looks back at the door, looks at the canvas awning and back to Jonathan. Jonathan looks down at the canvas awning. O'Connell throws his bag of weapons over the edge. O'Connell grabs Jonathan by the neck and the seat of his pants and throws him over the edge. Jonathan bounces off the canvas and onto the street. O'Connell looks back as William breaks through the door. William starts SHOOTING at O'Connell. O'Connell leaps over the edge, bounces off the canvas and onto the street below landing next to Jonathan. William and his men start SHOOTING from the rooftop as O'Connell and Jonathan run through the streets. William and his men run back through the broken door. EXT. MORNING - CAIRO, MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITES O'Connell and Jonathan run around to the front of the museum. As they turn the corner, William's group from the back runs around the other corner, sees them and starts SHOOTING at them. O'Connell and Jonathan race down the street. William and his group come out of the museum and meet up with the others. They all take off after O'Connell and Jonathan. EXT. MORNING - CAIRO, A STREET O'Connell and Jonathan run down the street. William and his group are right behind. O'Connell and Jonathan turn a corner. William and his group turn the corner and run into a large group of officers with their guns lowered. The officer takes away William's gun. The rest of the soldiers take away his groups guns. William looks around and sees O'Connell and Jonathan already in custody. William pulls out his billfold and takes out some money. The officer walks up to him. William hurriedly puts away his money. William glares at O'Connell as they all are taken away. EXT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS Imhotep and Maggie come riding into the Valley of the Kings. Maggie is sitting in front of him, awake, and very pissed off as he holds her in place. She talks to herself. They ride by the ancient tombs. Maggie is desperately trying to figure out what Imhotep means to do. Then she realizes. EXT. AFTERNOON - DESERT Ardeth is leading the Med-jai and diggers across the desert, following a very faint trail left by Imhotep's horse. One WARRIOR speaks with Ardeth. WARRIOR The warrior rides back the way they came. Pemboldt rides up to Ardeth. Pemboldt is speechless as Ardeth leads them on. INT. AFTERNOON - CAIRO PRISON O'Connell, Jonathan, William and his group are all in one cell. O'Connell and Jonathan occupy one corner. William and his group keep a wary distance from them. William walks over towards O'Connell. O'Connell is on his guard. O'Connell stares off into space. EXT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS Imhotep has stopped in front of one of the tomb entrances. He drags Maggie off the horse and ties her to a stone pillar at the entrance. He takes the book of the dead, speaks an incantation to remove the stone that covers the entrance and starts to go in. Imhotep caresses her face and disappears into the tomb. Maggie is in total amazement at the turn of events. INT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TOMB Imhotep is in a small treasure room filled with sarcophagi. He starts speaking the incantations that will awaken the mummies. Multiple priests and guards come awake to his call. EXT. EVENING, DESERT Ardeth and the Med-jai are still riding towards the Valley of the Kings. INT. EVENING - CAIRO PRISON, CELL Everyone in the cell is either dozing off or thinking to themselves. INT. EVENING - CAIRO PRISON, DOOR TO CORRIDOR OF CELLS A CLOAKED FIGURE walks up to the GUARD at the door to the corridor of cells. We cannot see his face. The figure turns to go, then turns back to the guard. The cloaked figure takes from the folds of his cloak a large metal spittoon and hits the guard over the head, knocking him out cold. The figure grabs the keys from the guards belt, opens the door quietly and goes through it. INT. EVENING - CAIRO PRISON, CORRIDOR The cloaked figure walks down the darkened corridor of cells. He peers into various cells, looking for someone. He stops outside of O'Connell's cell. O'Connell gets up and goes to the cell door. The cloaked figure throws back his hood and reveals the curator. By now, everyone in the cell is awake and listening to the conversation. The curator unlocks the door and opens it. O'Connell and Jonathan walk through to the corridor. O'Connell looks at William. The curator looks at O'Connell. They all exit the cell and head down the corridor to freedom. INT. EVENING - CAIRO PRISON, DOOR TO CORRIDOR OF CELLS O'Connell, Jonathan and all exit out through the door. O'Connell stops and looks around. O'Connell finds his bag of weapons behind a chair in the corner. He grabs them and they leave. The guard starts to come to. The curator pulls the spittoon from out of his robes and hits the guard on the head. The guard is once again unconscious. EXT. EARLY MORNING, OUTSIDE THE MUSEUM OF ANTIQUITES O'Connell, Jonathan, William and his men are mounting up to ride out. O'Connell and entourage take off to Hamunaptra. EXT. LATE MORNING - HAMUNAPTRA The lone Med-jai warrior is waiting. He sees a sand storm appearing on the horizon. As he looks closer, he can make out movement. He hears THUNDERING HOOVES and realizes it is O'Connell and his men. O'Connell and his men finally come storming up to the lone Med-jai warrior. O'Connell and William dismount as does the lone Med-jai. Ali and the lone Med-jai exchange words in Arabic. Ali turns back to O'Connell. William starts to leave. O'Connell looks at Jonathan who is still on his horse and gets an idea. He walks up to Jonathan EXT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS Ardeth leads his Med-jai into the valley. Pemboldt is heading up the diggers behind the Med-jai. They go slowly and quietly, constantly looking for signs of Maggie or Imhotep. They ride by many tombs. There is an eerie silence as they go forward. Ardeth suddenly puts up his hand to halt the group. He can see Maggie gagged and tied to a pillar. Maggie sees him. She is frantically shaking her head, trying to get him to stay away. Ardeth dismounts and walks up to Maggie. He removes her gag and caresses her face as he whispers to her. Suddenly, a multitude of mummies emerges from the tomb, from behind rocks and pillars and attack. A fierce battle ensues for however many mummies the warriors cut down, there are more to replace them. When the mummy's weapons cut the warriors, the poison seeps into the wound, killing within 5 seconds. Smoke arises from the blackened wounds on the corpses of the Med-jai. The Med-jai learn to be wary of the poisonous blades which makes killing the mummies more difficult. Pemboldt hides from the battle behind the tomb and witness the action. The Med-jai and diggers numbers dwindle down to a handful. The mummies surround them. Imhotep comes out of the tomb and speaks. Ardeth puts down his scimitar and motions the others to do the same. Imhotep walks up to Ardeth. The mummies herd the prisoners inside. Imhotep unties Maggie and drags her inside along with the others. After they all go inside, Pemboldt comes out from his hiding place, deciding what to do next. INT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TOMB Imhotep brings Maggie to a statue and ties her up. Ardeth is also tied to a statue. The other mummies each hold on to a Med-jai warrior or digger. Imhotep selects one of them and the mummies bring him to the sacrificial table. Imhotep steps up to Ardeth. Imhotep returns to the table. The mummies hold the Med-jai down on the table. Imhotep raises a long knife above his head, speaks an incantation and buries the knife in the body of the Med-jai. As the Med-jai's soul leaves the dead corpse, it's drawn into one of the mummies. The mummy is completely regenerated. Imhotep crosses up to Maggie and cups her face in his hands. Imhotep looks at Ardeth and then kisses Maggie. Ardeth is furious struggles against his bonds. He accidentally cuts his hand on the statue. He finds the sharp edge and begins to saw through the ropes that bind his hands. Imhotep finishes kissing Maggie, walks back to the table and continues making more regenerated guards and priests. EXT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS O'Connell, William and entourage enter the Valley of the Kings. Everything seems quiet. No sign of Maggie, Imhotep, Ardeth or the Med-jai. They dismount from the horses and leave them at the end of the valley. They proceed into the valley on foot. Suddenly they are attacked by mummies, an ambush. As the battle ensues, O'Connell realizes that some of these mummies are actually alive. O'Connell and his group learn the hard way about the poisonous weapons. This wave of mummies is finally defeated. O'Connell, and William investigate one of the regenerated mummies. They look at each other and realize that the Med-jai must be the sacrifices. Someone steps out from behind a tomb. O'Connell and William whip around, guns aimed. Pemboldt steps out. O'Connell walks away from Pemboldt with disgust. William turns away from him without a word. Pemboldt is left standing by himself. EXT. AFTERNOON, HAMUNAPTRA Jonathan is still waiting for the arabian nights to show up. He is talking to himself. The sound of THUNDERING HOOVES cuts short his soliloquy. A band of horsemen ride up to him. It is the promised warriors. They gallop up to Jonathan and the LEADER speaks. The leader takes off with his group in tow. Jonathan gallops along with the leader. INT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TOMB Imhotep has run out of mummies to regenerate. The only two people left alive are Maggie and Ardeth. Imhotep walks up to Ardeth. Imhotep leaves them to go onto another tomb and awaken more mummies. Maggie struggles against the ropes that bind her. He finally breaks through the ropes that bind his wrists. He crosses over to Maggie and kisses her quickly. Ardeth unties her. He grabs her hand and they leave the tomb. EXT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS. Ardeth and Maggie sneak out of the tomb. They walk cautiously past rocks and other tombs and run smack into O'Connell and William. William turns to the two thugs and the rest of his scavengers. EXT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS. Imhotep's mummies have come across Pemboldt and the diggers who still have the coffin that they've been carrying around with them. The mummies subdue the diggers and bring them and the coffin inside the tomb to Imhotep. EXT. AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS. O'Connell, Ardeth, Maggie, and William are slowly walking up to the tomb that Imhotep is now using. Suddenly they are attacked by mummies. Everyone is once again pitched into battle. O'Connell, Maggie and Ardeth are backed into the entrance of the tomb. They kill their attackers. They duck inside to find Imhotep and the book of the dead. INT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TOMB Imhotep is fascinated with the corpse in the coffin and reanimates it. Pemboldt watches in horror as the walking, burned corpse of Richard Sands joins the mummies. INT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TOMB O'Connell, Maggie and Ardeth walk through the catacombs to where Imhotep is reanimating the mummies. They discuss what to do next. O'Connell pulls a stick of dynamite out of his pocket. O'Connell takes a match and goes to strike it on Ardeth's face. Ardeth gives him a look, O'Connell changes his mind and uses a rock to light it. O'Connell throws the dynamite to the far side of the room. They duck down, Ardeth covering Maggie. The dynamite hits the far side of the room and explodes. A few mummies are destroyed by the blast. O'Connell and Ardeth ready their weapons and run into the main room killing mummies. Imhotep is distracted away from the book. Imhotep sets the knife down on the table and goes towards the melee. Maggie runs to the book. EXT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS. William and his scavengers are fighting desperately but slowly losing their fight. The sound of THUNDERING HOOVES is heard. William looks up and sees Jonathan leading the arabian nights riding towards him. Jonathan is brandishing a scimitar. The arabian nights dismount and start killing the mummies. William sees that they have a fighting chance now. He dispatches his attacker and decides to go inside the tomb. William leads his two thugs inside. INT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TOMB Imhotep is now battling with Ardeth. O'Connell is still battling with his attackers. Maggie is unable to open the book. Pemboldt is standing helplessly by. Maggie struggles with the book as O'Connell wrestles with his attacker. With a free hand, he tosses his last stick of dynamite over to her. Maggie catches it in mid-air. Maggie realizes it's their only hope. She takes the book and the stick of dynamite to the far side of the tomb. She places the dynamite under the hinges of the book, gets a match out of her pocket and lights the dynamite. She runs for cover. The dynamite explodes. Everyone is knocked around a bit. Maggie runs back to the book. The book is torn apart but the pages are mostly intact. She frantically looks for the separation spell. As Ardeth battles with Imhotep, making sure not to kill him, Imhotep realizes what's happened and is furious. Imhotep turns to the corpse of Richard Sands. The corpse attacks Maggie from behind. Maggie doesn't know who is behind her, shakes him off and turns around. She looks at the burned corpse with recognition. The corpse renews its attack on her, trying to contain her. William and his scavengers enter. The thugs start towards Maggie but a couple of mummies start attacking them. Maggie breaks free from her father and realizes she needs a weapon to save her father from the thugs. She sees the sacrificial knife on the table and runs to it. One THUG finally catches up to her. Maggie punches the thug. The thug is knocked back a step, Maggie turns around and grabs the knife. The corpse has come up behind Maggie with a sword raised over his head to kill her. Imhotep, who is battling with Ardeth, sees the corpse trying to kill her. Maggie turns back to the thug and plunges the knife into his chest just as the corpse is about to strike her down. The soul from the thug floats up and goes to the first available undead person, the corpse. The corpse starts to regenerate. The corpse is fully regenerated and Dr. Richard Sands is alive. He drops his sword and hugs his daughter. Pemboldt comes up behind Dr. Sands, a knife in his hand. Pemboldt lunges towards Dr. Sands. Dr. Sands avoids Pemboldt's clumsy lunge, picks up the fallen sword and battles with Pemboldt. Maggie turns away and sees that Imhotep has grabbed Ardeth from behind and is holding him while a mummy in front of them is ready to run a sword through Ardeth. As the mummy strikes, Ardeth twists out of Imhotep's grasp. The sword goes through Imhotep's chest. Ardeth punches the mummy, turns and pulls the sword out of Imhotep. Imhotep is bleeding heavily as he drops to the ground. Maggie clutches her chest as blood starts pouring out of an identical wound. She collapses to the ground. Ardeth runs over to Maggie. William is furious that Dr. Sands is alive and points his gun at him. The thug also points his gun at the others. Everyone is surprised by this turn of events. Ardeth, who is on the ground with Maggie, whispers to her. Ardeth and O'Connell stand. The thug sets some dynamite at either side of the entrance to the room. He leaves a goodly length of fuse. Pemboldt starts walking towards William. Pemboldt stops. William shoots Pemboldt. William looks at Maggie, then back to Dr. Sands. Maggie slowly starts crawling to the book of the dead. O'Connell can see out of the corner of his eye what she's doing. He starts to walk slowly toward William to distract him. William aims his gun at O'Connell. Maggie is still crawling towards the book of the dead. Imhotep also starts crawling towards the book. Maggie reaches the broken pages before Imhotep and quickly finds the spell she needs. Imhotep looks towards her. She glances at him. She starts to speak the separation spell. Another terrible wrenching brings cries of pain from the impaled victims. They are no longer bonded but still dying from the wounds. William is distracted, O'Connell grabs his gun. As they struggle over the gun, Ardeth and Dr. Sands battle with the last few regenerated guards. Imhotep reaches Maggie and begins to strangle her. Ardeth knocks his attacker to the ground and pulls Imhotep off of Maggie. Maggie is slowly losing consciousness. Ardeth shakes her to keep her awake. O'Connell grabs William's wrist and squeezes until he lets go of the gun. O'Connell kicks the gun away from them. William punches O'Connell then turns to the thug. The thug lights the fuses and runs out. William starts to follow the thug out. O'Connell tackles William and beats the hell out of him. William falls to the ground in a daze. O'Connell tries to remove the fuses from the dynamite but can't. He tries stomping out the flame but it keeps going. Ardeth picks up Maggie and heads for the tunnel. O'Connell and Dr. Sands start for the tunnel. O'Connell looks back and sees Imhotep rising to his feet clutching his bleeding wound. O'Connell races out of the tunnel. Imhotep has reached the sacrificial knife and walks towards William. William comes to, gets to his feet, turns and sees Imhotep upon him. Imhotep plunges the knife into William's chest. William's black soul floats up and over to Imhotep. This does not stop Imhotep from dying but gives him a few more minutes to live, a second wind. EXT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS Jonathan and the arabian nights are defeating the mummies and guards. They hear an EXPLOSION. INT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS, TUNNEL Everyone falls as the first charge blows. They get up, Ardeth picks Maggie up again and they continue out as the tunnel starts to collapse. EXT. LATE AFTERNOON - VALLEY OF THE KINGS O'Connell, Dr. Sands and Ardeth carrying Maggie come out of the tomb as the last charge blows. They run smack into a battle. Jonathan and the arabian knights are still battling with some mummies and scavengers. O'Connell and Dr. Sands run to help Jonathan. Ardeth sets Maggie down in preparation to help them. Imhotep, a bloody mess, sword in hand, comes out from the tunnel. O'Connell happens to turn to look behind him and sees Imhotep come up behind Ardeth. Ardeth turns around and Imhotep knocks him aside. With the last of his strength, Imhotep raises the sword over his head to finish off Maggie. Maggie opens her eyes. Maggie, with her last breath, speaks the death incantation. Imhotep freezes as if struck by lightening. The mummies freeze. Imhotep dissolves into dust, which blows away on the wind. The mummies also dissolve and blow away. Everyone is knocked to the ground as the earth shakes, the wind howls and all of the stones roll themselves back in front of the entrances to the various tombs. Maggie cries out in terrible pain. The wind dies down and the earth is then still. The men slowly pick themselves up off of the ground. Ardeth crawls over to Maggie's still form and turns her over, frightened of what he might find. Her eyes are closed and she doesn't appear to be breathing. He holds her to him and speaks to her still form. She stirs. He looks down at her as she opens her eyes. Ardeth looks down to where the wound was and sees that it has healed itself. Maggie smiles up at him. Ardeth smiles and brings her face up to his. They kiss. O'Connell looks on in envy. O'Connell gives him a look. O'Connell smiles in comprehension at Jonathan. Ardeth helps Maggie stand up. Maggie goes to her father and they hug. EXT. SUNSET - VALLEY OF THE KINGS. The horses are loaded up. Everyone is standing around not knowing what to say. Ali steps up to O'Connell and Jonathan. Ali gets on his horse and the arabian knights ride back to where they came from. O'Connell turns to watch Maggie and Dr. Sands. They hug. Maggie goes over to O'Connell and Jonathan. She gives Jonathan a hug. She kisses him lightly on the lips. Maggie mounts her horse. Ardeth steps up to O'Connell. Ardeth mounts up behind Maggie. Dr. Sands comes up to O'Connell. Ardeth and Maggie kiss as they start to ride off, with a few surviving members of the Med-jai in tow. O'Connell smiles. O'Connell, Jonathan and Dr. Sands mount their horses. O'Connell gives one last look at the Valley of the Kings then turns to the others. They ride off into the sunset
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