The Pyramid

What's going on? Are you getting this?

What's he doing? What's he doing?

- Do you think they'll let us pass?

- It doesn't look like it.

- Are you good to go?

- Yeah, rolling.

Hidden within this sprawling desert,

250 Miles South of Cairo,

the public will soon lay their eyes

on the Holdens' groundbreaking research,

and the father-daughter team

could rewrite history as we know it.

As you can see, the pyramid behind me

has only three sides,

not four like the giza pyramids.

This architectural feat singles it out

as an exception in this region.

You're gonna have to start over. The barking

is covering everything you're saying.

Damn it. What's wrong with those dogs?

Whose are they, anyway?

They're just feral dogs running around.

Can someone get a shotgun or something

and get rid of these dogs, please?

Driving me crazy.

All right, let's go again.

Okay, Sunni. Whenever you're ready,

we're good to go.

Okay. The way this works is,

I'll ask you a question,

you try to incorporate the question

into your response.

Like if I ask you your name,

you would say...

- Dr. Miles Holden.

- Wrong.

- Right. My name is Dr. Miles Holden.

- That's what I'm talking about.

Could you tell us

what exactly you're looking for?

Yeah. There are certain ancient texts

which refer to this geographic area

as the possible site of the lost pyramid

of Akhenaten which may be related

to the particular and unusual

three-sided architecture of our pyramid.

- I just need to quickly check your mic.

- Yeah. It's a little windy out here.

It's a great shot.

Just don't step backwards.

Yeah, okay. You tell me when.

Pyramids. Hit me with it.

Action.

Whatever we're looking at, this is not

the pyramid of king Akhenaten.

The structure that we're dealing with

is buried below the surface.

It takes millennia

for sand to build up that high.

Which means that this structure predates

the reign of Akhenaten by generations.

Why are so many people

against the satellites?

Most archaeologists are trapped in time

when it comes to reworking methodologies,

and assimilating new evidence

into existing historical frameworks.

Proving an older genealogy

for Egyptian history basically means

throwing everything they have been

working on their entire lives into question.

Isn't that what you're trying to do?

No, not exactly.

See, I respect the work

that they have done,

but we just need to know

when it's time to innovate.

Most of our pyramid is buried deep

beneath the desert. Here is a scan.

Look at the size of that thing!

That's got to be 600 feet on each side.

See this tunnel here?

This is our way in.

It leads directly

to the apex of the pyramid.

- The apex?

- It's the tip of the pyramid.

Pyramids don't normally have

apexes at the entrance.

- But this one does.

- Who dug the tunnel?

We don't know yet.

That's also part of our discovery.

Nora, tell me about the satellites.

Well, I'm not the first archaeologist

to break ground using satellite technology.

But I was inspired to apply it

after an article that I read about SETI

- out of new Mexico.

- SETI?

"Search for extraterrestrial intelligence."

They were using the satellites

to search for traces of water

underneath the surface of Mars.

I thought we were here

to talk about Egypt, not aliens.

What do you think about all those theories?

About aliens coming to earth?

And that the pyramids

are just giant transmitters?

Well, come on. Even I have my limits.

Do you see these... how these ridges form

a barrier around the pyramid? You just...

Dad. Dad. Could you please stop touching

buttons that you don't understand?

So... where was that taken?

- It doesn't matter when it was taken.

- I said where.

This technology, the satellite stuff

is such a small part of what we're doing.

We should be talking about archaeology,

about the pyramid, about Akhenaten, and...

Actually, the whole satellite angle is what

interested the network in the first place.

It's the dawn of a new age in archaeology.

Using the future to understand the past.

Anything else I'm not supposed to see?

Would you just mind your own business?

Thank you very much.

I'm sorry. You are my business, all right?

You are my business.

Archaeology used to be

about digs and dirt.

But we've lost the raw sensation

with all this technological mediation.

Great.

- How was that, Fitz?

- It was award-winning.

Okay. Let's wrap up.

We're done for the day.

Sorry.

Hey.

No, I'm fine, mom.

I'm fine. Don't worry. Okay.

Cairo is far, far away. And we're supposed

to break through tomorrow.

So if we get far enough, we'll be safer

underground than we will be in a war bunker.

No, I'm not taking it lightly.

I'm just trying to focus on my work.

Could you please not worry?

You know dad is enough to handle as it is.

Okay. I love you, too. I do.

All right, tell...

You know what? Mom, I have to go.

I'll call you tomorrow. I love you. Bye.

Zahir, get your metallic junk

out of here.

Jesus! What the hell is that?

Allow me to introduce you to Shorty.

He's gonna be our first

set of eyes and ears inside

after we make initial breakthrough.

He stands just over one foot tall

with six wheels

on a rocker-bogie suspension system

which was originally designed by NASA

for their Mars rovers

to allow them to travel

over the rough martian terrain.

I bet this thing is a real babe magnet.

Some of the missions Shorty

has been on are...

Michael Zahir, our robotics engineer.

But it seems he wasn't briefed

on which million-dollar territories

he would be exploring.

Don't you worry, Nora.

I've got two primary camera feeds

sending back real-time footage

to our command center. So...

everything Shorty sees is permanently

recorded. Right, partner?

- Look out.

- Yeah. Cute.

Look out.

We're not shooting Days Of Our Lives.

Stop wasting your memory space.

Come on. People would love to see

these two nerds get freaky.

- Dr. Holden! Dr. Holden!

- Wait, what's he saying?

- We break through! We break through!

- What? Come on! Come on!

Are you all right? Give me your hand.

- You got it?

- Yeah.

- Slow down, slow down.

- You coming?

Tell them not to open it up yet.

Tell them to hold off.

- Yeah, hold off!

- Zahir, I need you to translate.

You got it? You got it?

Here it comes.

Jesus!

Get him out of here!

We have to get him to medical!

Oh, my God. We have to do something!

- He's alive.

- Thank God.

- So what happened to him?

- Aspergillus.

- What's aspergillus?

- Inhalation of toxic air.

It's actually not as uncommon

as it sounds.

- What causes it?

- A fungi usually found in caves and tombs,

structures that have been sealed off.

This pyramid could be way older

than even I had originally thought.

Nora, please. Stop spinning out

your wild theories.

I'm trying to reassure the university that

we're going to be doing things on schedule.

And that has to be turned off.

Nobody goes near that pyramid

without my permission, all right?

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