The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon Page #3

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?

Iook, 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?

- 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.

Iangford:
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.

Iangford:

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.

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.

Excellent work, Dr. Iangford.

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

though 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?

Iet'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.

Everyone down!

Hey hey hey!

How are we supposed

to get back?

- What is that?

- That is a miracle.

I wouldn't call it that exactly.

That's Dr. Wilson.

What's happening?

Give me that.

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--

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.

Iangford:

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.

- 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.

Iet'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.

No guards?

Those are the guards--

protecting the entrance to the temple.

I'll take these over

the ones out there any day.

I'm sorry.

I'll get you out.

Uh...

Here, get up.

Reach.

Reach!

I'm almost there.

Almost. That's it.

It doesn't matter.

We're all gonna die.

We're all gonna die.

All:
Huh?

Help! Help me!

Help me, help me!

That is the end of mythology.

What the hell

was that thing up there?

That's the beast.

It killed lsaac.

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.

Iangford:

With what?

Give me a hand.

- 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 Hernan Cortes.

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

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