(thunder crashing)
(phonograph powers up)
(slow ragtime jazz playing)
(mechanical creaking)
(chimes tinkling)
(thunder crashes)
(ragtime jazz playing)
(bell tolling in distance)
(clock ticking)
Ryan: What are we getting all dressed up for?
I've been up since 7:00, I haven't eaten all day.
I'm-I'm just tired.
Micki: I know, I know.
Just go along with it.
It's only for a little while.
Try to be gracious.
Ooh, la, la, jack, terrific.
A surprise party.
Jack, I'm, uh, really bushed.
Could we do this some other time?
Jack: We deserve something special, ryan.
Come on, relax.
We've been hammering ourselves into the ground for a long time.
Yeah, and if anybody deserves a little...
Don't do it...
(shrieks) (laughs): Whoa!
(giggles)
Deserves a little party,
I think that it's us, don't you?
Oh, to celebrate our good luck, if you like.
Luck? I feel as though I've been through a blender.
Good, then a little champagne
Will do wonders for you, won't it?
Champagne's gonna wipe me out.
I want to give a little toast.
To the most successful hunters of cursed objects
In the whole wide... Neighborhood.
(door chimes jingling)
Uh, sorry, uh... We're closed.
I've come to return something...
That belongs to you.
Take it.
(wind whistling)
Ryan: Hey, come back here. What is this?
(door closes, door bells jangle)
He sure knows how to make an exit.
Let's take a look at this.
Jack: Some kind of urn.
Jack...
Old kingdom egyptian canopic jar.
Is that what this could be?
That's exactly what it is.
They used these to preserve
The internal organs of the mummies.
All right, that's the easiest we've ever got anything back.
Hand delivered, no less.
I'll go put it in the vault.
Micki, want to give me a hand?
It's getting crowded down there.
Yeah, but you carry it.
That's funny.
I don't remember this entry.
Micki: There must be hundreds of strange things in there, jack.
You can't remember everything.
And no customer's name.
(wood snaps) ooh!
You all right?
What happened? The stair broke.
I guess I know what I'm doing tomorrow afternoon.
Tomorrow morning.
Let's just get this thing in the vault.
See what I mean? The place is a mess.
Well, let's start by putting the lighter things on top.
Light? Are you kidding?
These things are deadweight.
What's wrong?
What the...?
(rumbling, whooshing)
Oh, my god!
No! No!
(micki and ryan shouting)
Micki, ryan, get out!
(coughing)
(grunting): No! No!
(micki's shouts echoing from distance)
Damn it!
(coughing)
No!
(coughing)
Rashid! Thank god you're in town.
How fast can you get over here?
Ryan, what's happening?!
I don't know!
Little girl's voice: Go away.
Get out of my house.
(whispering): You know what to do, mary.
(hissing)
Oh... Oh!
Oh, I don't know
...If this is such a great idea.
You saw what that doll did last time.
We sold it to this family; it's our responsibility.
(shrieking)
No!
Stop!
(giggling)
(hissing)
(growling)
(hissing)
(roaring)
(wild animal noises)
(hissing)
(screaming)
(muffled screams)
Open up!
Help me!
Help me! Don't go, mary!
(screaming)
Oh, mary! Mary, don't go!
(gasping)
(crashing, clattering)
Check over there.
Ryan, down here!
Oh, my god!
(moaning)
Micki: Oh, my god.
Are you okay?
What happened?
(crying, moaning)
I don't see the doll anywhere.
Where's the pho...?
Yes, we need an ambulance.
Uh, 33 nottingham way.
Look, there she is!
No, wait!
Uh, yeah, sorry, uh...
(swing creaking)
Mary.
Do you remember me?
I was at your house last night.
You know why I'm here, don't you?
You want to take vita away.
No.
I don't want to take vita.
I have to.
You better go away.
Not until you give her to me.
(hissing)
(screaming)
(giggling)
(hissing)
(gasps)
(hissing)
(gasps, whimpers)
Mary.
Listen to me.
Please, give me that doll!
Mary, this isn't a game!
Give it here!
Mary, it's not funny!
(grunts)
(thunder crashes)
Mary, the doll's not your friend!
(grunting)
Give it!
Micki, don't let go!
(thunder crashes) mary, give it!
Listen to me!
Ryan: Give me the doll!
Micki, hang on!
Give me the doll!
No!
It's mine!
No! Micki!
(screaming)
(whispering indistinctly)
Hello, old friend.
Oh, rashid.
Now tell me, exactly what has happened?
I'm not even sure.
Someone delivered a canopic funerary jar.
It was wrapped in this.
And then, somehow, the jar came open
While micki and ryan were putting it down in the vault.
Then all hell broke loose.
They're sealed in there with that thing.
Jack, this is old kingdom, perhaps 5,000 years old.
What did the jar look like?
Well, it-it-it was, uh, green,
Uh, the stopper was the anubis-headed god.
What can we do?
Anubis?
It may be too late to do anything.
(thunder crashing)
What the hell is that?
Ultraviolet light.
I thought you were gonna use magic.
You use what you've got.
Please.
Rashid: Yes, there, there--
Amon...
Ptah.
Hotep.
Horus, the hawk-headed god.
Horus, the soul's escort through the halls of the dead.
Yes.
The jar-- it was open?
Yeah, there was some kind of green gas coming out of it.
I thought so.
Natron-- the salt solution used
To preserve the bodies and the organs of the mummies.
Are you certain you cannot open the vault?
Of course I'm sure.
I did everything possible, rashid.
Jack, there is a legend--
A translation, really--
Of the glyphs from the temple of amon-ra
Which describes the fate
Of those who breathe the fumes from a canopic jar.
They are condemned
To experience an epic death dream
In which they relive the most horrifying experiences
Of their lives.
And then?
This nightmare continues over and over and over
Until the terror causes their hearts...
To burst.
How long have they got?
Well, let me see.
(mumbles)
From the time they breathed the fumes--
Four hours.
It was about an hour ago.
Got until midnight.
(gasping, groaning)
(micki whimpering)
(phone line clicks)
Hi.
I couldn't get to a phone until now.
Man: I was worried.
I didn't know what happened to you.
I had to go with them,
Or else they would have gotten suspicious.
Ah. Why don't you come over?
Now? But it's almost morning already.
So?
We can still spend the rest of the night together.
All right.
Did you get back the cupid?
Yeah.
I'm so glad.
See you soon.
I love you.
(phone line clicks)
¶ ¶
I've waited so long for this.
Tonight... It'll be just the three of us.
You...?!
Sorry.
We overheard your little phone call with laurie.
Where is she?
Safe-- where you can't get at her.
Now give me the cupid.
You tricked me.
Ryan: Micki, let me in!
No! Open up!
I can't.
This was for me and laurie.
Why? So you could kill her?
I don't want to.
I have to.
It might as well be you.
Just like that other girl tonight.
She made fun of me!
No more.
She finally said she loved me.
They all will.
Even you.
(whimpering)
Ryan: Micki?!
Micki, you all right?
Micki: I'm fine.
(zapping)
No, don't hurt him.
Micki, get away from him.
I love him.
Hear that? Now why don't you be a good fella
And just run along...
And let the little lady and I have some fun.
You leave her alone!
What are you gonna do about it?
Eddie... Eddie, put down the ax.
You want it?
Come and get it!
(screaming)
(grunts)
¶ ¶
(metallic clinking)
(screaming)
(gasps)
(guttural shrieking)
Rashid: Jack, we are invoking some very powerful beings here.
If the mixtures are not perfect,
Or the spells go wrong...
Yes, rashid.
All right, it's ready.
Within the mountains of the earth,
Beyond the ken of man,
Entombed in chambers of stone,
Let the antiquities awake
In the name of potek,
Allideck, mindanoor,
Let the walls tremble and all spells sunder.
Keepers of the seventh gate, I command you,
Open!
(sizzling)
Damn!
Less than three hours before the curse kills them.
What else can we try?
There is one thing you can do.
Send me into their nightmare.
You have to. They're dying.
You, of all people, should understand the danger.
You have never traveled in this dimension.
It could be...
Rashid...
It's their only hope.
Perhaps.
But for you to go into their death dream...
God only knows what will happen if you do.
I know what will happen if I don't.
(gasping)
(grunting)
(air whipping)
(gasps)
(screams)
(wind whistling)
(quiet gasps)
(muffled groaning)
(micki screaming)
Marge, I really appreciate what you're doing...
Yes, yes, you just relax.
That's something
You city folks never seem to learn.
That's it.
You just lay back.
I'll take care of everything.
(door closes, locks)
(shouting): Marge, you locked the door!
(gasps)
(panting)
(screaming)
Oh! Oh!
(grunting)
(panting)
(screams)
(grunting)
(screams)
(micki screaming) ryan: Micki!
Man: All right, you two stay back.
(micki shrieks)
(micki panting)
(micki shrieks and pants)
(whimpering)
(panting)
Get back!
I swear I'll kill him!
Ryan!
Oh. No, you're not gonna...!
Jordy, run!
(screaming)
(grunting)
(grunts)
(gasps)
(whimpering)
(gasps)
Who the hell are you?
What are you doing here?
There-there's a dead girl back there.
What'd you do?
I didn't do anything.
You plan to steal the secret of the lock,
And you killed her to keep her quiet.
(grunts) oh!
(groans)
(grunts) oh!
(grunts)
(grunting)
Oh!
(grunts and pants)
No!
Say good-bye.
(gagging)
(screaming)
(groans, cries)
(clock chimes) jack: We should hurry.
Rashid: Yes, yes, sir.
(bottles clinking)
Now the pyrumble.
Add it slowly. Yeah.
Slower! The mandrake root is sensitive.
All right, all right.
The conjunction is coming.
Now, the athame.
Now, drink it and hang on.
(rumbling)
Something is trying to get through.
(glass breaking)
(laughs)
Hello, jack.
I wish I could say it was good to see you.
Lewis!
(laughs)
What have you done with them?
My niece and nephew are paying a price
For interfering, and it will keep on until they die.
Then, the forces of darkness
Will take over this store,
And, once again, satan's toys
Will flow across this world like an unholy tide,
Sweeping everything before it.
Not while I'm alive.
You won't be alive, jack.
Don't you understand?
You'll be in hell, taking my place,
And I'll be back behind the counter.
I sent you to hell before, lewis,
And I can do it again.
I'm not going back.
You fools!
Do you think you can stop me?
I'm sure as hell going to try.
We have work to do.
Pro nomis belphegeor,
Foul spirit, I adjure thee begone!
Well, that won't keep him away for long.
(micki and ryan screaming)
Hurry, damn it. We haven't got much more time.
Rashid: The natron gas provided them
A bridge to the netherworld.
But we... We must find another way in.
(ryan shouts)
(grunts)
Ryan!
Ryan: Micki! I'm in here!
Ryan? Micki!
(grunts)
(groans)
(screams)
They couldn't have gone far.
Shh, keep your ears open.
Look out!
(grunts)
(groans)
(pants)
(crackling)
Ryan, look!
Ryan: We're trapped.
(clattering)
Did you really think you could stop me?
Don't you know who I am?
He with the power to give life,
And take it away.
(micki screams)
Ryan: Come on, let's get out of here1
Run, micki, run!
Micki: Oh...
We need a weapon. Ryan: Tell me about it.
It's better than nothing.
Hide behind there.
Micki, hide behind it!
Howlett!
(screams)
(grunts)
(blow lands)
Micki: You forget,
There's two of us! Forget?
No.
How could I forget you?
I'm just saving the best for last.
(deep moaning)
(screams)
Excuse me for a minute, kid.
Come here, take a look at this, huh?
There it is. What do you think?
Ryan: I don't believe it.
March, 1947.
Volume one, issue one.
Tales of the undead, the first introduction
Of ferrus the invincible.
You know that's my favorite.
What do you think I'm showing it to you for?
(chuckles)
I got it at an estate sale.
They had no idea what they had.
But that's not the most important thing.
Take a look at who signed it.
Jay star! Is that for real?
Yeah, sure it is.
How much you want for it?
Hey, I'm selling it at auction.
You know, the big one that briggs is holding day after tomorrow.
Stay right here.
I'm going to go home and bust open my piggy bank.
You got that much in your piggy bank?
Man, I'm in the wrong business.
See you later.
Charlie: Hey!
What the hell do you think you're doing?
Damn it, punk!
You leave that alone.
Let go of me!
I've got to have it!
You just bought yourself a lot of trouble, punk.
(grunts)
All right. You want it hard?
I'm calling the cops.
(rumbling)
(choking)
(groans)
(screams)
(gasping)
(clock chimes)
Rashid: Finished.
Now you are entering your enemies' territory.
This is where satan holds sway.
Well, I've faced him before with less to lose.
Without you.
Remember, he will do everything in his power
To turn you from your task.
He will attack you where you are most vulnerable,
Through your love.
If he succeeds, and micki and ryan die
While you are still in their dream...
I die with them.
When you are in there, you will find a barrier.
If you can cause them to disbelieve, to turn away
From the dream, perhaps you can
Break down the barrier and get them free.
This is the only chance you've got.
But satan will try to tempt you,
To turn you, to twist you.
Remember, jack,
Satan will not fight fair.
When did he ever?
(thunder crashing)
Well, it's time.
Old friend.
(chanting)
(thunder crashes)
(child shrieking in distance)
(eerie, indistinct whispering)
(echoing): Micki!
Ryan!
Where are you?!
(child's shrieking continues)
Answer me if you can!
(loud crash)
(beeping)
Peter!
Dad...
You can save his soul, jack.
You can't save micki or ryan.
They're already dead.
But you can save your son.
Peter will burn forever unless you save him now.
Think of it, jack.
Your only son, at my mercy
For eternity.
Daddy, is it really you?
I can make him whole again, jack--
Radiant with life, as he was before.
All you have to do is abandon the search.
No! Peter is dead!
Just reach out,
And you can take him back with you.
Dad...
Peter,
Do you want to go home with your father?
Help me, dad.
I just want to come home.
Micki (in distance): Marshak, help us!
You don't have peter.
You're lying!
Jack, you can't leave your only son in hell.
Daddy!
(quietly speaking incantation)
(panting)
Be ready for anything.
If she's got it,
I'm sure she won't want to part with it.
(knocking)
But first,
You must become one of us.
(screaming)
Vampire!
(gasps)
(growls)
(growling)
(micki shrieks)
(grunts)
(growling)
Micki!
(growls)
Jack: Micki!
Ryan!
(growling)
(growls)
Micki!
(growling)
(thud)
(groaning)
(thunder crashes)
The cape! Get the cape!
(grunting)
No!
Hang onto the cape. Don't let it go.
Ryan: Get away from him!
Micki!
(screaming)
(chanting softly)
Rashid, jack is dying.
He just took a wrong turn.
Demons are tormenting his soul.
You're next.
The psychic link between you and jack
Is going to kill you, rashid.
Hell must have made you slow and stupid
If you think I believe that, lewis.
(rashid resumes chanting)
Just step outside the pentacle and I can save you both.
No!
(distant voices screaming)
Micki! Ryan!
(zapping)
(hooves clomping)
Micki: What is this?
Jack: Nothing, it's a dream. It's only a dream!
Man: Herald! Best of the press!
Lewis: Listen to me, jack.
You were right. That wasn't your son.
And I didn't want to do that to you, jack.
Micki! Ryan!
If you want to save my niece and nephew,
Then change places with me, jack.
I can end all this in a moment.
No deal, lewis! Now or ever!
Jack!
(chanting louder)
(yelps)
Rashid!
(chanting frantically)
And with this clasp, we can travel through time.
Just a drop...
Of your precious blood...
Mixed with mine...
Ryan: No!
I've had more than enough of you!
(gasping)
(grunting)
Whatever that fair maiden was to you,
She is no longer yours.
She is mine!
Mine!
Say your prayers, my young friend,
For it will be the last thing you will ever say!
(grunts)
(screaming)
Jack: Ryan!
Micki!
Over here!
Jack?!
(thunder crashing)
Micki, look at me!
Is it jack?
(horn blasting in distance)
Ryan: Jack!
Where are you?!
I'm over here!
For god's sake...
(coyote howling)
Jack!
(rashid chanting faintly)
(chanting grows louder)
No!
(bell tolling)
Micki: Jack...
Damn it!
(chanting)
(yelling)
Rashid! Get us out of here, now!
(chanting)
(bell tolling, chanting stops)
Where are they?
(groans)
(bell tolling)
Oh, jack...
Jack!
Oh, thank god you're safe.
(door thuds)
I hope lewis burns for eternity.
Or longer.
Jack, are you all right?
I saw peter in there.
Who?
My son.
No, he needs to be alone.
(thunder crashes in distance)
I didn't know he had a son.
Yes.
What happened to him?
Peter?
Peter was a gifted psychic child,
With an infinite capacity to love.
He tried to help a young friend,
A girl, who the doctors said was insane,
But peter was intuitive.
He knew that in reality, she was possessed.
So he decided to help her.
While reading one of jack's books,
He discovered the existence of the "dream plane."
That's how jack knew where to find us.
Rashid: Yes.
But peter was only 12.
Can you imagine-- only 12--
And all alone, he penetrated the barrier
And entered into the mind of this tormented girl.
But he was not prepared.
He had no psychic anchor,
And so... He died there.
He never told us.
No, he wouldn't.
Well, at least we know it's over.
Rashid: Over?
Your uncle vendredi still wanders the netherworld.
You may have to deal with him yet.
No matter what we have to do,
We're never going to let lewis come back.
(thunder rumbling)
(thunder crashing)