The Mummy Quotes

Evelyn: Look, I... I may not be an explorer or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am.

Rick: And what is that?

Evelyn: I... am a librarian.

Beni: [after a shipwreck] O'Connell! Hey, O'Connell! It looks to me like I've got all the horses!

Rick: Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the *river*!

Hangman: [Rick is about to be hanged] Any last requests, pig?

Rick: Yeah. Loosen the knot and let me go.

[the hangman says something to the warden in Arabic]

Warden Gad Hassan: [angrily] Of course we don't let him go!

[the hangman smacks Rick on the back of the head]

Evelyn: You were actually at Hamunaptra?

Rick: Yeah, I was there.

Evelyn: You swear?

Rick: Every damn day.

Winston: So, what's your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps?

Rick: Not a damn thing.

Winston: Is it dangerous?

Rick: Well, you probably won't live through it.

Winston: By Jove, do you really think so?

Jonathan: Well, everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you?

Evelyn: You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance.

Beni: [laughing] Really? They do?

Evelyn: Oh, yes. Always.

Evelyn: Have you got any bright ideas?

Rick: I'm thinking, I'm thinking...

Evelyn: You better think of something fast, because if he turns me into a mummy, you're the first one I'm coming after.

Evelyn: You lied to me.

Jonathan: I lie to everybody. What makes you so special?

Evelyn: I am your sister.

Jonathan: Yes, well, that just makes you more gullible.

Rick: Can you swim?

Evelyn: Well, of course I can swim, if the occasion calls for it.

Rick: [throwing her overboard] Trust me. It calls for it.

Rick: And unlike your brother, Miss, you, I just don't get.

Evelyn: [a little drunk] Ah. I know. You're wondering... what is a place like me doing in a girl like this?

Rick: Yeah, something like that.

Rick: You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you, Beni?

Beni: What friend? You are my only friend.

Evelyn: [preparing to open the sarcophagus] Oh, I've dreamt about this since I was a little girl.

Rick: You dream about dead guys?

Winston: What's the, uh, What's the challenge, then?

Rick: Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, and save the world.

Mr. Daniels: I'm going downstairs, get me a drink. You want something?

Mr. Henderson: Yeah. Yeah, get me a glass of bourbon.

Mr. Daniels: Alright.

Mr. Henderson: A-And a shot of bourbon.

Mr. Daniels: Yeah, okay, okay.

Mr. Henderson: And a bourbon chaser!

Mr. Daniels: Yeah, yeah, I'll get your damn bourbon.

Evelyn: Um... by the way... why did you kiss me?

Rick: I was about to be hanged. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

Evelyn: Ooh!

[gets up and walks away in a huff]

Rick: [Calling after her] What? What'd I say?

Rick: Well if it ain't my little buddy Beni. I think I'll kill you.

Beni: Think of my children.

Rick: You don't have any children.

Beni: Someday I might.

Rick: So, what's the scam, Beni? You take them out into the middle of the desert and then you leave 'em to rot?

Beni: Unfortunately, no. These Americans are smart. They pay me only half now, half when I get them back to Cairo. So this time I must go all the way.

Rick: Them's the breaks, huh?

Rick: That's called stealing, you know.

Evelyn: According to you and my brother, it's called borrowing.

Dr. Bey: We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years, we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.

Ardeth Bay: And now, because of you, we have failed.

Evelyn: And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?

Dr. Bey: To stop this creature? Let me think...

Dr. Bey, Ardeth Bay: *Yes*!

Rick: You're gonna get yours, Beni! You hear me? You're gonna get yours!

Beni: Oh, like I've never heard *that* before!

Rick: Sorry. Didn't mean to scare you.

Evelyn: The only thing that scares me, Mr. O'Connell, are your manners.

Evelyn: [singsong] Patience is a virtue.

Rick: Not right now, it isn't.

Beni: Mr. Burns, Prince Imhotep thanks you for your hospitality.

Mr. Burns: No.

Beni: And for your eyes, and for your tongue.

Mr. Burns: Wha...

Beni: But I'm afraid more is needed. The prince must finish the job... and consummate the curse, which you and your friends have brought down upon yourselves.

Beni: As long as I serve him, I am immune.

Rick: Immune from what?

Beni: [in Hungarian] Filthy animal.

Rick: What did you say?

Beni: I don't wanna tell you. You'll just hurt me some more.

Rick: Let me get this straight. They ripped out your guts and they stuffed them in jars?

Evelyn: And then they take out your heart as well. Oh, and you know how they took out your brains?

Jonathan: Evy, I don't think we need to know this.

Evelyn: They take a sharp, red-hot poker, stick it up your nose, scramble things about a bit, and then rip it all out through your nostrils.

Rick: Ooh, that's gotta hurt.

Evelyn: It's called mummification. You'll be dead when they do this.

Rick: For the record, if I don't make it out of here, don't put me down for mummification.

Jonathan: Likewise.

Dr. Bey: [stutters in disbelief] What... How... Oh, look at this! Sons of the pharaohs! Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but *you*! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!

Evelyn: I am so very sorry. It was an accident.

Dr. Bey: My girl, when Rameses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You are a *catastrophe*!

[first lines]

Ardeth Bay: [narrating] Thebes, City of the Living, crown jewel of Pharaoh Seti the First. Home of Imhotep, Pharaoh's high priest, keeper of the dead. Birthplace of Anck Su Namun, Pharaoh's mistress. No other man was allowed to touch her. But for their love, they were willing to risk life itself.

Evelyn: [In a darkened room] Abdul?

[no answer]

Evelyn: Mohammed?

[no answer]

Evelyn: ... Bob?

Evelyn: [upon opening Imhotep's sarcophagus and he falls forward] Oh, my God, I *hate* it when these things do that.

Rick: Is he supposed to look like that?

Evelyn: No, I've never seen a mummy look like this before. He-He's still... still...

Rick, Jonathan: ...juicy.

Evelyn: We must stop him from regenerating. Who opened that chest?

Mr. Henderson: Well, there was me, and Daniels here. Oh, and Burns, of course.

Mr. Daniels: And that Egyptologist feller.

Rick: What about my buddy, Beni?

Mr. Daniels: Nah, he scrammed out of there 'fore we opened the damn thing.

Mr. Henderson: Yeah. He was the smart one.

Rick: Well, yeah, that sounds like Beni.

Evelyn: The map! The map! I forgot the map!

Rick: Relax. I'm the map. It's all up here.

[points to his head]

Evelyn: Oh, that's comforting.

Jonathan: [Jonathan hands Evy a strange box] My whole life, I've never found anything, Evy. *Please* tell me I've found something.

Jonathan: [Evelyn opens the strange box, inside lies an ancient map] Jonathan?

Jonathan: Yes?

Evelyn: I think you found something.

Rick: The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you want to be playing around with this thing?

Evelyn: It's just a book. No harm ever came from... reading a book.

Evelyn: [about O'Connell to Jonathan] Well, personally, I think he's filthy, rude, a complete scoundrel. I don't like him one bit.

Rick: [walking up from behind] Anyone I know?

Warden Gad Hassan: O'Connell! O'Connell! What are we going to do? What are we going to do?

Rick: Wait here! I'll go get help!

Warden Gad Hassan: Right!

[Rick jumps overboard]

Jonathan: [entering Sah-Netjer] Whew! What is that god-awful stench?

[smells the Warden climbing down right behind him]

Jonathan: Oh.

Jonathan: Let's see what our friend the warden believed in.

[starts looking through the warden's pouch. Suddenly he cuts himself on something]

Rick: What?

Evelyn: My God, what is it?

Jonathan: A broken bottle. Glenlivet, twelve years old! Well, he may have been a stinky fellow, but he had good taste.

Mr. Henderson: Do they know something we don't?

Dr. Allen Chamberlain: They are led by a woman. What does a woman know?

Evelyn: So, what exactly is this man in prison for?

Warden Gad Hassan: Well, this I did not know. But when I heard you were coming, I asked him that myself.

Warden Gad Hassan: [to workers in Arabic] Hurry up!

Evelyn: And what did he say?

Warden Gad Hassan: He said he was just looking for a good time.

Rick: [trying to pack Evelyn's things into a suitcase, but, as he's packing, she's taking her things back out again] I thought you said you didn't believe in all this fairy tales and hokum stuff!

Evelyn: Well, having an encounter with a three thousand-year-old walking, talking corpse does tend to convert one.

Rick: Forget it! We're out the door, we're down the hall, and we're gone.

Evelyn: Oh, no, we are not!

Rick: Oh, yes, we are!

Evelyn: Oh, no, we are not! We woke him up, and we are going stop him!

Rick: We? What 'we'? We didn't read that book. I told you not to play around with that thing, didn't I tell you not to play around with that thing?

Evelyn: Yes, that's right, me, me, me, me, I, I, I woke him up and I intend to stop him.

Rick: Oh yeah? How? You heard the man, no mortal weapons can kill this guy.

Evelyn: Then we're just going to have to find some immortal ones!

Rick: There goes that 'we' again, y'know I wonder if-

[Evelyn slams the suitcase shut on Rick's fingers]

Rick: Ah!

Evelyn: Listen we've got to do something! Once the creature's been reborn, his curse is going to spread until the whole of the earth is destroyed!

Rick: And is that my problem?

Evelyn: Well, it is everybody's problem!

Rick: Evelyn, I appreciate you saving my life and all, but when I signed on, I agreed to take you out there and bring you back, end of job, end of story, contract terminated!

Evelyn: Oh, that's all I am to you, a contract?

Rick: Ok look, you can either tag along with me or stay here... and try to save the world! What's it gonna be?

Evelyn: I'm staying.

Rick: Fine!

Evelyn: Fine!

Rick: Fine.

Evelyn: Fine.

Rick: Fine.

[leaves and slams the door]

Evelyn: Ooh...

[after seeing their commander turn and flee]

Beni: You just got promoted.

Rick: [shouting to troops] Prenez vos positions! Steady!

Rick: [to Beni] You're with me on this one, right?

Beni: Oh, your strength gives me strength.

[as the enemy continues to advance, Beni runs away]

Evelyn: Keep him busy.

Rick: [being thrown against a pillar by Imhotep] No problem.

Rick: [to Evelyn] You all right?

Jonathan: [standing behind Rick] Well, I'm not sure.

Evelyn: Have you no respect for the dead?

Jonathan: Of course I do. But sometimes... I'd rather like to join them.

Evelyn: Well, I wish you would do it sooner rather than later before you ruin my career the way you've ruined yours.

Evelyn: Where are they taking him?

Warden Gad Hassan: To be hanged. Apparently, he had a *very* good time.

Evelyn: There's only one person I know that can possibly give us any answers.

[sees Ardeth Bay with Dr. Bey]

Evelyn: You!

[the men draw their guns and point them at Ardeth]

Dr. Bey: Miss Carnahan. Gentlemen.

Evelyn: [about Ardeth] What is *he* doing here?

Dr. Bey: Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just... shoot us?

Rick: After what I just saw, I'm willing to go on a little faith here.

[last lines]

Jonathan: Well, I guess we go home empty-handed... again.

Rick: I wouldn't say that.

[looks at Evelyn]

Jonathan: Oh, please.

[Rick kisses Evelyn]

Jonathan: [to his camel] How about you, darling? Would you like a little kissy-wissy?

[the camel breathes on him]

Jonathan: Whew!

[Imhotep, fully regenerated, and Beni walk through the possessed crowd towards Rick, Evelyn, Jonathan, Dr. Bey, and Ardeth]

Dr. Bey: It's the creature. He's fully regenerated.

[Imhotep speaks in ancient Arabic]

Beni: [translating for Imhotep] Come with me, my princess. It is time to make you mine, forever.

Evelyn: For all eternity, idiot.

[Imhotep speaks in ancient Arabic]

Beni: [translating for Imhotep] Take my hand and I will spare your friends.

[Rick scoffs]

[a scarab has just crawled under Jonathan's skin and he starts screaming]

Rick: What?

Jonathan: It's my arm! My arm!

Rick: [to Ardeth Bay] Hold him!

Jonathan: Do something! Do something!

[Rick flicks a knife out]

Jonathan: Not that! Not that!

Beni: You never believed in Hamunaptra, O'Connell. Why are you going back?

Rick: You see that girl?

[points to Evelyn]

Rick: She saved my neck.

Beni: You always did have more balls than brains.

Winston: You know, O'Connell, ever since the end of the Great War, there hasn't been a-a single challenge worthy of a man like me.

Rick: Yeah? We all got our little problems today. Don't we, Winston?

Jonathan: [about a noise] What was that?

Rick: Sounds like... bugs.

Evelyn: [to the warden] He said bugs.

Warden Gad Hassan: What do you mean, bugs? I hate bugs!

Jonathan: Never did like camels. Filthy buggers. They smell, they bite, they spit.

[the warden spits]

Jonathan: Disgusting.

Jonathan: [they have just walked into a large room full of gold] Can you see...

Rick: Yeah.

Jonathan: Can you believe...

Rick: Yeah.

Jonathan: Can we just...

Rick: No.

Evelyn: [to Imhotep about his sand storm] Stop it! You'll kill them!

Beni: That's the idea.

Evelyn: [after the warden has died] What do you suppose killed him?

Jonathan: Did you ever see him eat?

Jonathan: [Trying to buy some camels from a Bedouin] I only want four! Four! I only want four, not a whole bloody herd! O'Connell! Can you believe the cheek?

Rick: Will you just pay the man!

Jonathan: Oh, for heaven's sake! Can't believe the price of these fleabags! Yes, happy. Very good.

Rick: You probably could've got 'em for free. All we had to do was give him your sister.

Jonathan: Yes. Awfully tempting, wasn't it?

Rick: [as Evelyn walks up looking beautiful in her new black clothes with a veil hiding her face except the eyes] Awfully...

Rick: [to Imhotep] Look what I got.

[holds up the cat, Imhotep gasps, cat hisses, and Imhotep shrieks and flees in a dust storm]

Rick: [to Mr. Henderson] This door doesn't open. She doesn't come out, and no one goes in, right?

Mr. Henderson: Right.

Rick: [to Mr. Daniels] Right?

Mr. Daniels: Right.

Evelyn: [locked in the bedroom] O'Connell! Jonathan!

Rick: Let's go, Jonathan.

Jonathan: Oh, uh, I thought I could just stay at the fort and, uh, reconnoiter.

Rick: Now!

Jonathan: Yeah. Right. We're just gonna rescue the... Egyptologist.

Rick: [a bunch of mummies start coming out of the ground] Who the hell are these guys?

Ardeth Bay: Priests. *Imhotep's* priests.

Rick: All right then.

[Starts shooting]

Beni: [from deleted scene] It is three days down the Nile, then two days by camel, Barat'm.

Mr. Daniels: All the money we're payin' you, there better be something under that sand.

Mr. Henderson: Hamunaptra, Daniels. That's all you gotta keep telling yourself. Hamunaptra.

Mr. Burns: We're gonna find it, boys, and we're gonna make history.

Mr. Henderson: And get rich doin' it.

Dr. Allen Chamberlain: [to native workers loading equipment into the riverboat] Let's load it up! Let's load it up! Everything's in order, gentlemen.

Mr. Burns: Thank you, Doctor.

[Imhotep, not fully regenerated yet, walks toward Beni. Beni fearfully speaks incantations in three languages, at last speaking one in Hebrew as he is backed against a wall, waving a Star of David]

Beni: Al tastir panech mimeni...

[= Do not fail to protect me]

Imhotep: [speaking Ancient Egyptian] The language of the slaves...

Imhotep: [speaking Hebrew] Ulai uchal lehishtamesh bach. Vehaprasim...

[= I may have use for you. And the rewards...]

Imhotep: [Imhotep holds out a handful of gold to Beni]

Imhotep: [speaking Hebrew] ... ihyu gdolim.

[= will be great]

Beni: [relieved] My prince.

Imhotep: [speaking Hebrew] Eifo havasot hakdoshot haacherot?

[= Where are the other sacred jars?]

Jonathan: [from deleted scene]

[as they are riding on camels, Jonathan accuses the Warden of things]

Jonathan: ... and you snore.

Warden Gad Hassan: I do not snore.

Jonathan: All night you snored.

Warden Gad Hassan: Break wind, maybe, but snore? *Never*!

Jonathan: And then there was the drooling. Anyway, how would you know? You were asleep.

Evelyn: I will give you one hundred pounds to save this man's life.

Warden Gad Hassan: Madame, I would *pay* one hundred pounds just to see him hang.

Evelyn: Two! Two hundred pounds!

Warden Gad Hassan: [to hangman] Proceed.

Evelyn: Three hundred pounds!

[cut to scenes between Rick, the hangman, and the warden, then come back]

Evelyn: Five hundred pounds!

Warden Gad Hassan: [looks at her] And what else?

[puts his hand on her thigh]

Warden Gad Hassan: I'm a very lonely man.

Warden Gad Hassan: [Rick is hanging from the noose] Ha, ha! His neck did not break! Oh, I'm so sorry. Now, we must watch him strangle to death.

Evelyn: [after a pause] He knows the location to Hamunaptra.

Warden Gad Hassan: You lie.

Evelyn: I would never!

Warden Gad Hassan: Are you telling me this filthy, godless son of a pig knows where to find the City of the Dead?

Evelyn: Yes.

Warden Gad Hassan: Truly?

Evelyn: Yes! And if you cut him down, we will give you... ten percent.

Warden Gad Hassan: Fifty percent.

Evelyn: Twenty!

Warden Gad Hassan: Forty!

Evelyn: Thirty!

Warden Gad Hassan: Twenty-five!

Evelyn: Ah! Deal!

Warden Gad Hassan: [giving in] Agh! Cut him down!

Mr. Henderson: [when Hamunaptra is revealed in the morning] Will you look at that?

Mr. Daniels: Can you believe it?

Mr. Burns: Hamunaptra.

Rick: Here we go again.

Rick: [inspecting Imhotep's sarcophagus] This looks like some sort of a lock.

Jonathan: Well, whoever's in here sure wasn't getting out.

Evelyn: [to Dr. Bey about the map to Hamunaptra] You see the cartouche there? It's the official royal seal of Seti the First, I'm sure of it.

Dr. Bey: Perhaps.

Jonathan: Two questions. Who the hell was Seti the First, *and* was he rich?

Evelyn: He was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty, said to be the wealthiest pharaoh of them all.

Jonathan: Good. That's good. I like this fellow. I like him very much.

Mr. Henderson: [after finding the sacred jars] Say, O'Connell, what do you think these babies'll fetch back home?

Mr. Burns: We hear you boys found yourselves a nice, gooey mummy. Well, congratulations.

Mr. Daniels: You know, if you dry that fellow out, you might be able to sell him for firewood.

Rick: [while brandishing a sword] Yaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!

Mummy Soldiers: [Mouths opening wide] Rhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Rick: [Scared] Uh-uh.

[runs away]

Rick O'Connell: [re: Evelyn] Has your sister always been, uh...?

Jonathan Carnahan: Oh, yes. Always.

Pharaoh Seti I: [speaking in Ancient Eygyptian] What are you doing here?

Pharaoh Seti I: [approaches Anck Su Namun, staring, then points at her] Who has touched you?

[She looks at her arm then looks at him in front of Imhotep, who has unsheathed his sword]

Pharaoh Seti I: [speaking Ancient Egyptian] Imhotep? My Priest!

[Anck Su Namun stabs Pharaoh in the back. Imhotep swings and stabs Seti in the body. His priests look at the now-dead Pharaoh. A bang is heard on the door]

Imhotep: [speaking Ancient Egyptian] Pharaoh's bodyguards.

[the soldiers were banging on the door when they retreated inside]

Anck Su Namun: [speaking Ancient Egyptian] You must go! Save Yourself!

Imhotep: [serious in Ancient Egyptian] No!

Anck Su Namun: [continues speaking Ancient Egyptian] Only you can resurrect me.

[Pharaoh's soldiers break into the temple]

Imhotep: [speaks to Imhotep in Ancient Egyptian] I won't leave you!

[to Pharaoh's soldiers]

Imhotep: Get away from me!

Imhotep: [his High Priest takes him away, and Imhotep continues speaking in Ancient Egyptian] You shall live again!

Imhotep: [shouting in Ancient Egyptian] I will resurrect you!

Anck Su Namun: [sees Pharaoh's bodyguards and warns them in Ancient Egyptian] My body is no longer his temple.

[she begins to stab herself while Imhotep watches her]

Ardeth Bay: [they begin riding into the desert at night] To resurrect Anck Su Namun, Imhotep and his priest broke into her crypt and stole her body. They raced deep into the desert, taking Anck Su Namun's corpse to Hamunaptra, City of the Dead, ancient burial site for the sons of pharaohs and resting place for the wealthy of Egypt.

Ardeth Bay: For his love, Imhotep dared the gods' anger by going deep into the city, where he took the black Book of the Dead from its holy resting place.

High Priest: [chanting with all the priests in Ancient Egyptian]

Ardeth Bay: Anck Su Namun's soul had been sent to the dark underworld, her vital organs removed and placed in five sacred Canopic Jars.

[Imhotep holds the Book of the Dead, and a dark, mysterious soul flies into his body]

Anck Su Namun: [gasping and wheezing]

Ardeth Bay: Anck Su Namun's soul had come back from the dead.

[Imhotep shouting in Ancient Egyptian to stab]

Ardeth Bay: , but Pharaoh's bodyguards had followed Imhotep and stopped him before the ritual could be completed.

Imhotep: [Imhotep watches Anck Su Namun's soul dying, flying off, diving into the water, and he shouts out]

Ardeth Bay: Imhotep's priests were condemned to be mummified alive.

High Priest: [groaning when he heard the priests screaming]

Ardeth Bay: As for Imhotep, he was condemned to endure the Hom-Dai, the worst of all ancient curses. One so horrible, it had never before been bestowed.

Imhotep: [screaming when his tongue was cut out]

Imhotep: [breathing heavily]

Imhotep: [grunting while Pharaoh's bodyguards put Imhotep in his sarcophagus after being mummified alive]

Ardeth Bay: [Imhotep watches, screaming, as Pharaoh's bodyguard pours a bucket of skittering scarab beetles over his body]

Ardeth Bay: [when Pharaoh's bodyguard locks Imhotep inside his sarcophagus] He was to remain sealed inside his sarcophagus, undead for all of eternity. The Maji would never allow him to be released, for he would arise a walking disease, a plague upon mankind, an unholy flesh eater with a strength of ages, power over the sand, and the glory of invincibility.

Ardeth Bay: [speaking Arabian] The Creature remains undiscovered.

Arabian Soldier: [speaking Arabian] And what of this one?

Rick: [runs up the hill and sees some strange Arabian Soldiers, then runs away]

Arabian Soldier: [speaking Arabian] Should we kill him?

Ardeth Bay: [speaking Arabian] No. The desert will kill him.

Dr. Bey: LOOK AT MY LIBRARY!

[sighs in frustration]

Dr. Bey: WHY do I PUT UP WITH YOU?

Evelyn: W-Well you put up with me because I can... I can read and write Ancient Egyptian, and I can... I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic, and, well, I am the only person within 1,000 miles who knows how to properly code and-and catalog this library, that's why.

Dr. Bey: I put up with you because your father and mother were our finest patrons. That's why! Allah rest their souls.

[pause]

Dr. Bey: Now I don't care how you do it, I don't care how long it takes, STRAIGHTEN UP THIS MESHIVER!

Evelyn: I've already dated the map. It's almost 3,000 years old. And if you look at the hieratic just here, well, it's Hamunaptra.

Dr. Bey: Dear God, don't be ridiculous. We're scholars, not treasure hunters. Hamunaptra's a myth told by ancient Arab storytellers to amuse Greek and Roman tourists.

Evelyn: Yes! Yes! I know all the silly blather about the city being protected by the curse of a mummy nonsense, but my research has led me to believe that the city itself may have actually existed.

Jonathan: Are we talking about the Hamunaptra?

Evelyn: Yes. The City of the Dead. Where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden the wealth of Egypt.

Jonathan: Yes, yes, in-in-in-in a big, underground treasure chamber.

Dr. Bey: Heh!

Jonathan: Oh, come on. Everybody knows the story. The entire necropolis was rigged to sink into the sand on Pharaoh's command. A flick of a switch, and the whole place would disappear beneath the sand dunes, taking the treasure with it.

Dr. Bey: As the Americans would say, it's all fairy tales and hokum.

Dr. Bey: [lets the map on fire that made him shocked] Oh, my goodness! Look at that!

Jonathan: [they got rid of the fire and looks at the map] You've burnt it! You've burned off the part with the lost city.

Dr. Bey: It's for the best, I'm sure. Many men have wasted their lives in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra. No one's ever found it. Most have never returned.