[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]
[CRICKETS CHIRPING]
[FATHER SIGHS]
[EXCLAIMING IN ANNOYANCE]
[UTENSILS CLATTERING]
Honey, it's family hour,
there must be something on.
DAUGHTER: Oh, wow, Candy Critters!
[FATHER EXCLAIMS]
Oh, great. It's Monsters, our favorite show!
Shh, it's starting.
[MONSTROUS LAUGH]
[FATHER CHUCKLES]
[GENTLE FOLK MUSIC PLAYING]
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
Here, careful.
Tom.
I'm leaving.
Take me to the airport.
I saw a lizard today.
A Gila monster tried to get in.
He was probably just looking for water.
Like everyone else around here.
Oh, honey.
To the great drought of '89.
Thank you.
I mean it, Tom.
I won't take another minute of this desert air.
Honey, we're going.
We're going, first thing in the morning.
As soon as the shippers come for this stuff.
You are not gonna believe it.
You know, the lost tribe,
the vanished ones?
Well, I found them.
I walked straight into the mother load.
This stuff is prehistoric.
Everything you sell is pre-historic.
No, I mean, pre-historic.
Honey these people lived hundreds, thousands of years ago.
And then the whole tribe just disappeared,
without a trace.
What they left behind were
incredibly advanced stone cities.
Empty.
Except for this stuff.
Hey, you see the pattern here?
Huh? You see what's chipped and worn?
That's not my work this time, Vanessa.
This is the genuine article.
Honey, this is just the loose change.
This...
[COUGHING] Tom...
Tom, my skin.
You aren't paying any attention to my needs.
Look at this, baby.
Nobody wears turquoise anymore.
Honey, do you have any idea
what my dealers will pay me for a piece like this?
They'll kill each other to give me ten grand.
I paid those Indians 16 bucks
for the whole basket-full.
Sixteen bucks.
This piece,
belonged to an ancient Indian princess.
I want you to have it.
Has it ever occurred to you,
that once in a while, just once,
I might like something that hasn't been used?
Bill bought Claudia,
a ruby brooch from the House of Babylon last week.
All right, okay. So a ruby brooch isn't the same
as your tourist trinkets,
and your old coffee cups, and your...
And your Halloween masks.
Halloween mask?
Vanessa.
I'll have you know that this is the only one of its kind in existence.
So, maybe not the only one.
Bill and Claudia vacationed in the Hamptons.
The got a condo in the south of France.
They travel.
Where do we go?
Oh, oh.
Go out to the desert,
or some other tragedy torn place.
If there's a hurricane,
if there's a flood, a famine or a fire,
Tom and Vanessa Solo are there.
Why can't you do something respectable like Bill?
Like Bill?
Vanessa, he's on trial for insider trading.
He's a criminal.
He's a white-collar criminal.
Oh, great!
This is...
It's so tasteless. [STOMPING]
So maybe life hasn't been all that glamorous.
Maybe I have missed the gold ring now and again.
And you're right,
we are here in the middle of the desert.
But I want you to listen, Vanessa.
Listen close.
I think I hear our ship coming in.
[KNOCKING ON DOOR]
[HOARSELY] I got something for you.
Hey, what'd I tell you?
Even granny wants to cash in on the gravy train.
Didn't hear you drive up.
Let me give you a hand with this.
[WHEELS SQUEAKING]
[RASPINGLY] It is Massau, God of Death.
It is Massau, God of Death.
Oh, I don't know. There's not much of a market
for Gods of Death these days.
I don't think I can use it.
All right, all right. I...
You look hungry. I'll tell you what. I'll...
I'll give you 20 bucks for it.
I can probably sell it for...
I don't know, 25. Take it or leave it.
It is from the Kachinas.
Pueblos tribe.
The Kachinas
danced to bring the rain.
But there was a price to pay.
For when the rains came, there had to also be a death.
It was Massau's bargain.
Death for life.
A necessary balance.
Going once.
Buy a lot of nachos for 20 bucks.
Thousands of years ago,
on this very ground,
my people lived
and prospered, from horizon to horizon.
A sea of grass.
Trees, with fruit.
And then this,
greed, property.
And then, the rain stopped coming.
For 23 years,
it did not rain.
We all became Kachinas.
Thousands dancing for the rain.
Yeah. And everybody lived happily ever after like you.
Look, I'd offer you a ride, but...
Historians, they tell, of our sudden disappearance.
They scratch their heads and say,
"Where did they all go?
"All that is left, is stone...
"and sand."
[LAUGHING]
Massau knows.
Wherever Massau walks,
nothing remains
but stone
and dust.
[MURMURING]
Yes, perhaps.
Perhaps the rains will come.
When the night is full
and shadows of our dead walk the earth.
Yes.
Perhaps.
Massau...
will come again.
Yes.
[LAUGHING EVILLY]
TOM: First thing I'm gonna buy
is an Olympic size hot tub with a fountain.
You'd like that? I'd love that.
And then we'll settle in Jamaica or some tropical island
where the economy's collapsing.
Laying in the sun, soaking up the tan, huh?
Hmm. Hmm?
Listening to the waves.
Being waited on hand and foot by the natives.
And buying up all their heirlooms.
Isn't nature incredible?
When crops fail,
people get hungry.
And sooner or later they're as happy pigs in mud
just to sell their family treasures for a song.
I think it's God's way of making them
share their past with the rest of the world.
Fifteen grand guaranteed,
the mask alone.
And jewelry, six figures.
The God of Death...
priceless.
Mm. You're all greedy.
[CHUCKLES]
Come on, Tommy.
Let's go to the airport and get a hotel.
Come on, one with the hot tub
and a vibrating bed.
Hmm, and room service.
Champagne, roast beef,
chocolate cream cake.
I can't, honey.
I can't leave this stuff.
You're not gonna be happy till I look like that shriveled old hag.
Hey.
Tomorrow night, at this time,
we will be eating the rarest, bloodiest roast beef,
and drinking the best champagne,
the most expensive in the city.
And then, you can call Claudia from the restaurant.
Tear her heart out. [LAUGHING]
Tomorrow.
But tonight...
That woman gave me the creeps.
That's her job.
[RUSTLING]
What was that?
That's granny...
giving you the creeps.
[LAUGHS]
[GLASS BREAKING]
Tom.
[SIGHING]
All right, all right. I'll go have a look.
TOM: The mask!
Oh! oh!
[WHISPERING] Robbers.
Hold these.
Bathroom.
Tom... Shh.
Tom, look. What you doing?
Look. Honey, don't do that.
Don't do that. We can glue it.
Then glue it.
Those dirty, conniving crooks.
I'm going after them.
Tom, stop.
[LOUD THUD]
That was good.
Fifteen thousand.
Fifteen thousand bucks, honey
Fifteen thousand bucks, I can't believe it.
Oh, yeah!
The lost tribe, the vanished ones.
And I fell for it.
Like yesterdays biggest fool.
I'll have the whole lot of them arrested.
Every last one of them.
Okay, honey.
I know what I'll do.
I'll sue them.
I'll sue the whole Indian nation.
I'll sue the Federal government for allowing them to live in this country.
They have not heard the last from Tom Solo.
All right, honey. Why don't you go to bed.
All right, all right.
All right. Calm down, calm down.
Calm down.
We still have the Death God here.
We still have the jewelry.
I will see those bastards in court.
I swear it.
You homely looking thing
I'll be glad when you're not here
to watch every move I make.
Oh.
[SIGHS]
[FLUTE MUSIC PLAYING]
[MAN CHANTING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
[SCREAMING]
Tom.
Tom, wake up.
It moved.
Damn it, Tom. Wake up. That thing is alive.
You're dreaming.
Tom, the Death God.
It grabbed my hand.
And the floor beneath it, it's all rotting.
And my face Tom, my face.
You had a nightmare. Go on back to sleep.
Sleep, I'm leaving.
Oh, oh, my face.
It's all drying up.
Oh, my God!
My face!
Oh!
[CHANTING CONTINUES]
[THUDDING]
I'm up.
[EXHALES]
Vanessa?
Honey?
Who the hell moved the Death God?
Vanessa?
Vanessa, open the door.
Open the door, honey.
What the...
What the hell's that?
[CREAKING] [GASPS]
[VOICES WHISPERING INDISTINCTLY]
My turquoise.
Somebody's gonna pay for this.
[GASPING]
What the...
What are you doing?
You're not supposed to move, you're a statue.
You want me to leave?
No problem. No problem. I'm out of here.
[SNAPPING]
[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]
Priceless...
[GASPING]
[WIND HOWLING]
OLD WOMAN: Perhaps,
now the rain will come.
For wherever Massau walks,
nothing remains,
but stone and dust.
[THUNDER RUMBLING]
[THEME MUSIC PLAYING]