PSI Factor: Chronicles of the Paranormal (1996–2000): Season 1, Episode 11 - Curse, The/Angel on a Plane - full transcript
These stories are inspired
by the actual case files of
the Office of Scientific
Investigation and Research.
Horan, I want you and Gina to
deliver this load to the warehouse.
I want the cleaning and
cataloging to start tomorrow.
Got you, boss.
Frederick, sir, any special instructions?
Just one. Drive very carefully.
And hurry back for dinner.
We all deserve to celebrate.
Allergy is acting up again.
Well, tombs and allergy
seem to go hand in hand.
How's the translation coming?
Slowly, but I've almost got it.
What about this part?
That section's going to take a while.
I'm only working with the
top half of the cymbals.
Diana, are you okay?
Yeah, yeah I'm just worn out, I guess.
Well this heat is unbearable, here.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Oh, so, man, can't we go to a party now?
Soon enough, Diane.
Come on.
Revel in the magic of this chamber.
Look around and what do you see?
An ancient culture three millennia old,
all watched over by Anubis, guarding
the treasures of another time.
Not again !
It's great for the sinuses, though.
Fredrick,
the hieroglyphic at the tomb entrance,
it reads,
all those who disturb this tomb will die.
Well, what's a tomb without a curse, eh?
Ha ha ha.
Oh!
Oh!
What's happening?
Oh!
Help, Ranja, let's get them out of here!
Any archaeologist to is about to
unseal and enter an ancient burial site
does so with a degree of caution
and perhaps even trepidation.
For archeologists are especially aware
of the sudden and untimely deaths
which befell most of those who entered
and some say defiled,
Egyptian King Tutankhamun's
final resting place.
These events are the basis for the legend
of the curse of the mummy's tomb.
Could the power of an ancient
curse reach into the present?
In case file 631-136,
the OSIR was compelled to
consider this possibility.
That does it.
Not soon enough for me, thank you very much.
Yes, we are done.
What's with you today, Gina?
You're too quiet.
We have done wrong
removing these artifacts.
What do you mean, done wrong?
We're just doing our job.
The gods will not be happy with
this desecration of the tomb.
Ah, superstitious, are we?
Let's get back to the site.
They're probably celebrating without us, eh?
Uh-huh.
Hello?
Where is everyone?
Well, knowing Frederick,
they're all probably passed out already.
Yo, Frederick!
Rosetta!
Something's wrong.
Oh, no.
Ranja!
Diana!
Are they...
dead?
Dead.
Professor Roberts?
Frederick, are you in there?
Help me, please.
Initial log entry,
case manager Connor Doyle.
We've arrived at a dig site near Alexandria
in lower Egypt to continue investigation of
the mysterious deaths connected with the
excavation of the recently discovered tomb.
The dig leader, Professor Frederick Roberts,
remains in serious condition and is
being monitored by our physicians.
The mobile lab has been
airlifted and is on site.
The fact that all the
deaths happened so suddenly
and violently led me to believe it was
some form of food poisoning,
you know, a pharaoh's revenge.
But the cause of death was
massive parenchymal hemorrhaging,
bleeding inside the brain itself.
The brain tissue had also been ravaged
in each of the victims.
However, my autopsies could
find no evidence of a virus,
nor was there any hemorrhaging
in other areas of the bodies.
The case baffles me and my colleagues.
We really appreciate your assistance
in this investigation, both of you.
Those tests you did, hypnosis and DEP?
Digitally enhanced polygraph
and regressive hypnosis, yes.
What did you learn?
Well, the results are relative.
As we eliminate each possibility
for the cause of the phenomenon,
what we're left with in most cases
should be the responsible factor.
However unlikely that may be.
You're wasting your time.
I'm telling you, it's a curse, a death curse
on all those who violate the tomb.
Well, keep that in mind.
There's Gina for you.
Next you'll be telling me
string garlic around my windows.
You may be skeptical,
but you did mention
that you had a dream,
both of you, actually.
Well, yes, the god Anubis
told me the curse was at work,
and death will come to all those
who disturb the sacred objects within,
but it was only a dream.
Same dream for both of you?
We must return the artifacts to the
rightful place and seal the tomb.
Otherwise, people will keep dying.
His condition is stabilized.
That's good news.
Who's going to keep dying?
The curse must not be taken lightly.
You must convince these investigators
to return the artifacts to the tomb.
Gina, that curse stuff is all in your head.
The world deserves to
marvel at these treasures.
If anything,
but for the loss of our friends.
Professor Doyle,
I do believe I am on the way to recovery.
I'm glad to hear it.
I'd like Dr. Davison to run some more
intensive tests if you feel up to it.
Frederick ?
Frederick !
What is it ?
I don't understand.
It's not possible.
I'm sorry.
Is that... ?
What's going on here ?
You must put a stop to this.
Like with the other victims, Frederick Roberts
suffered intense intracranial hemorrhage.
Massive bleeding inside the skull.
You're talking about something
like yellow fever or even Ebola?
It's possible, but I found no other
evidence of internalized bleeding.
It was all localized in the brain.
If it's a virus,
I've never seen one attack in this way.
Except in Roberts' case,
he managed to live longer
than the other victims.
How did we lose him?
I don't know.
Don't blame yourself.
You don't even know what
we're dealing with yet.
Let me take a team into the tomb.
Not yet. We'll send a probe in.
But the probe can't possibly...
Linda, one step at a time.
Something is killing these people.
I can't risk exposing
any member of the team
to a potential hazard.
Doyle, we're ready when you are.
Let's proceed.
Guide the probe into the tomb.
Activate visuals.
I'm slowing down.
Let's take a look around.
Any evidence of hazardous
materials or toxic gases?
Negative. All levels within a normal range.
The drawings appear to
indicate the Middle Kingdom.
They're consistent with
the 11th or 12th dynasty.
What's the time frame?
Anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 years old.
Probe entering the antechamber.
Prepare to monitor for any
abnormal energy field. Standing by.
That's odd.
Professor Roberts'
report makes no mention of a burial chamber.
Or a sarcophagus.
Perhaps the burial chamber entrance
was filled in by the mudslide.
Activate ground penetrating radar.
The overall area is
anywhere from 3 to 5 meters.
But?
There's no indication of any other hallways,
passageways or chambers.
And specifically, no burial chambers.
So what is this tomb housing?
So like I told you, we brought the
artifacts in here and stored them inside.
They were all standing by for the dig
team to finish the cleaning process
and initiate labeling
and cataloging.
Were either of you ever
exposed to the artifacts?
I don't think so.
Everything is wrapped in protective
plastic for leaving the site.
We've had the storage area sealed
off and guarded since our arrival.
So why did you bring us here?
We need you to walk us through your routine when
you delivered the artifacts to this location.
We want to know if anything
out of the ordinary happened.
Um, I can't go any further.
I understand that you're apprehensive,
but we need as much information
as you and Gina can provide.
We pulled up, dropped objects off and left.
There's nothing else to tell.
Who's there?
No!
No!
No!
Anubis !
No!
He's dead.
The curse speaks the truth.
All those who disturb this tomb will die.
And we would be next.
Case log update.
While performing a routine
walkthrough with two of the experiencers,
this case suffered its eighth casualty,
Ron Jamal.
Dr. Linda Davison is conducting
an autopsy on the victim.
Results will be forwarded immediately.
I'm currently working on the line
under the deciphered death curse,
but because of rock deterioration,
it's been a real guessing game.
Any idea what it might say?
Well, this says shall not,
and this could be within,
and this I'm not certain about.
But I'll keep trying different combinations
and see what turns up.
Can you explain the purpose of the tomb?
Not at this time.
But the fact that there was no
reported mummy or sarcophagus
is not that unusual.
How's Gina holding up?
She's terrified, and understandably so.
Every one of her coworkers has
met with an untimely end, and...
She's absolutely convinced
that she'll be the next to die.
We should continue counseling her,
but I'm concerned.
A curse's essence lies in the
imaginative projection of ill will.
Like the cancer sufferer,
expecting to die is more likely to die
than the one who fights the illness?
So a cursed person can simply will
themselves to die due to lost hope.
Even though Gina never handled
the artifacts directly,
she feels instrumental
in disturbing the tomb.
Yet, she's alive.
According to Hiran Jamal's statement, he never
touched the artifacts either, and he's dead.
What are the results of his autopsy?
Once again, intracranial hemorrhaging.
But his brain cells show none of the tissue
destruction I found in all the other victims.
So a different cause of death?
Same cause of death.
Different extenuating circumstances.
Let's do it.
Let's send a team into the tomb.
At the same time, initiate analysis
of the artifacts at the warehouse.
Full precautions?
Absolutely. Priority one hazmat
and disinfection measures in place.
I want the same group at the end
of this phase that we started with.
Donner, your environmental readings
indicate no hazardous materials.
Do you copy?
Copy that.
I'm going to collect some surface samples
directly from the remaining artifacts.
We'll seal them and deliver
them for disinfection.
Affirmative.
Let's maintain monitoring for another hour
and reconvene at 2200 hours to
begin analysis of the samples.
I copy.
Donner out.
Let's transfer this to the warehouse.
Carefully.
No.
No, Anubis, spare me!
Gina, it's all right. It's me.
You were having that dream again,
weren't you?
It is coming for me.
Why does Anubis frighten you?
He protects the domain of the dead.
How else do you explain why everyone
connected to this place has died?
Gina, if you'll believe that there
may be a rational explanation,
then we can help you get through this.
The round object.
You ever see a dust particle
that looks like that?
I'm going to isolate it on a culture medium.
Then I'll run some tests.
When I get a green light, I'm going to proceed
with chemical examination of the artifacts.
Affirmative.
I'll join you as soon as I'm clean.
It's like a jigsaw puzzle with
only half the picture to work from.
Okay this could only be one of three words.
- If it's released we've got...
- Lies within... shall not... released.
These two symbols are the key.
Wait a minute !
Could it be...
I should have seen this hours ago.
Released ?
Released what?
Connor, I want you to have a look
at an irregular dust sample I collected.
Irregular? How do you mean?
Well, the particle shape
and texture are unique.
What particle?
Now it's bacterial in appearance,
but moving in patterns
I'm not familiar with.
- Is it contained?
- Yes.
How did the bacteria originate?
It's almost inconceivable,
but if the particle was a type of spore...
Germination could be triggered by the heat
and moisture generated by the isolating gel.
But the spore would have
been dormant for centuries.
But now it's gone.
It must have an extremely
short lifespan once activated.
That would explain why we weren't able to
find bacterial residue in any of the victims.
I think we found your curse.
But has it been released?
All disinfection methods completed?
I ran them twice to be sure.
Now let's see if this tells us anything.
What is going on?
We'll explain later.
The main thing is you're okay.
Obviously our disinfection methods failed.
The spores most closely
resemble the clostridium genus,
but of a strain I've never seen before.
And once inhaled, they targeted the brain
and became an active,
extremely deadly form of bacteria.
The tomb wasn't a burial chamber
designed to keep grave robbers out,
but a jail of sorts to
keep the spores inside.
But, Ron, he never entered the tomb.
How did he die of the same thing?
Pure coincidence.
I ran further tests and
discovered he was taking warfarin.
A form of rat poison.
He had a heart condition.
The warfarin acted as an
anticoagulant to ward off strokes.
A side effect is a proneness to
extensive localized bleeding.
Triggered when he fell and hit his head.
What about Frederick?
He had an allergy condition,
meaning his nasal passages were
more resistant to foreign particles.
But that only delayed the inevitable.
There was nothing I could do.
I understand.
Final case log entry.
To date, all disinfection
and eradication techniques
have been unable to
terminate the deadly spores.
To prevent any further
exposure to this unknown
and extremely lethal spore-related bacteria,
I've had all the artifacts
returned to the tomb
and ordered it to be sealed
behind a wall of concrete.
Closing file number 631-136.
Connor Doyle, out.
Some myths, like mushrooms,
grow in darkness.
It is only under the light
of scientific scrutiny
that we are able to separate superstitious
and fantastic causes of fatalities
from ones which are actually
biophysical in nature.
Curse or no curse,
the message seems to be clear.
Leave the dead to rest
in their places of peace.
It's Flight 66 Alpha out of Chicago.
They say they were hit by lightning dead on.
Where are they?
Coming out of the storm
20 miles to the northeast,
7,000 feet and dropping.
I've got an emergency vehicle standing by.
Struck by lightning.
***
I can't touch the controls,
I can't help him, he's got no pulse.
Flight 66 Alpha, come in.
Copy!
This is control tower.
What is your current condition?
Pilot's out cold.
Control's frozen.
Gauge is malfunctioning.
We're going down.
Flight 66 Alpha,
is your landing gear down?
There's no way to tell.
The whole panel's shorted out.
66 Alpha, come in.
66 Alpha, do you read?
Come in.
This is control tower.
Do you read?
They have no landing gear.
Mouth to mouth. Put this on. Make sure his
head stays back in below when I tell you.
Bill?
They're on final.
They must have control back there,
landing gear just came down.
Still no radio contact,
they're coming in pretty fast.
Flight 66 Alpha, come in.
Jarvis?
Jarvis ?
Oh, my God !
Flight 66 Alpha, come in.
66 Alpha, do you copy?
Hello?
Hello?
Who is this?
Mary O'Brien.
I'm the flight attendant.
Is everyone else OK?
The pilot's in bad shape.
Copilot Parks is unconscious.
Who landed the plane?
I don't know.
To some, a miracle may be an act of God.
to others it's ordinary people
performing incredible feats
in extraordinary situations.
When the OSIR was engaged to
investigate mysterious occurrences
during a crisis aboard a private aircraft,
they were confronted with the analysis
of a seemingly miraculous event.
File number 260122.
Don't worry, Jarvis.
You're gonna be all right.
Conner Doyle en route to investigate a
purported miraculous healing of a stricken pilot.
I mean, we saw her right there.
The plane is ***.
We looked everywhere.
There's no one else there.
Hold it. Wait a minute, come here.
She saved the pilot's life.
I watched her do it.
Now, maybe she already left the plane.
The plane was still pressurized
when the emergency crew opened the door.
There's no one else on the plane.
Preliminary interviews beginning with
individuals who claim to have witnessed the event
and to have experienced a technically
impossible aircraft landing.
Passengers suggest they may have been
aided by a mysterious female entity.
So you guys are an FBI or FAA?
No, we're an independent organization.
Tell you what you're gonna find.
The avionics are towed right off.
The damage have occurred after it landed?
The co-pilot said all the systems went dead
right after it got struck by lightning.
***?
Electrical system
definitely looks burnt out.
I saw the landing gear come
down and I saw the plane land.
I'll tell you one thing.
I've been in this business 15 years.
There's no way in hell that baby should
have come out of the sky in one piece.
We received the weather report
and proceeded to an altitude
that should have been
safely by the thunderstorm.
It was a bright flash.
It seemed to come from below, yet I've never
heard of lightning shooting up like that.
I was blinded.
I felt a sharp pain radiate up my left arm,
My chest seized up like
I was caught in a huge ***
Well, then I just blacked out.
Well, you take microchips.
People think they're magic.
But really, they're just capacitors,
transistors, resistors.
Complex web of integrated circuits,
but on a base level.
Quite simple. Rational.
Now, I don't know who she was.
I don't know where she came from.
I don't know where she went.
But I did see her save that pilot's life.
There is a rational explanation.
I'm not a great flyer on a good day.
It's just about the only part
of the job that I don't like.
But you fly all the time.
What is it about flying that you don't like?
I don't like things that I can't understand.
When I look at several tons of metal
and machinery and plastic and rubber,
I wonder how it gets up
there in the first place
never mind how it stays up there.
Yet, you work for one of the
leading computer system developers.
Well, Martin's a genius. I mean, he doesn't
need me to understand his machines.
what does he need you for ?
Communication.
Martin needs help understanding people.
Actually, quite a lot.
Let's discuss the night in question.
Jim, the pilot, just suddenly seized up
like he'd been jolted with electricity.
I was thrown backwards.
Did you ever see anyone
else on the plane?
No, I don't know what Mr. Cole
and Diane are talking about.
When I crawled back over
and listened to Jim's heart,
it was going again.
It was incredible.
How do you explain it ?
I can't really.
You say that you were in the
cockpit when the plane landed,
and the co-pilot was
unconscious the whole time.
Yeah.
Who do you think landed the plane?
I don't know.
It's dark.
Jarvis keeps yelling for help.
I can't find the flashlights.
Help! The pilot's down!
The intercom wasn't working,
so he had to yell out through
the door of the cockpit.
What's happening? I don't hear the engines.
What's wrong
with the pilot?
What's wrong with the plane ?
Why does it feel like
we're dropping so fast?
Because the engines are dead.
Stay calm.
Yeah.
It's gonna crash.
This thing's gonna crash.
- He's not breathing.
- What happened?
Struck by lightning,
systems are all shorted out.
We're going down.
I can't touch the controls.
I help him, he's got no pulse.
We're in real trouble.
Help me!
What can I do?
Put this on. Make sure his head
stays back and below when I tell you.
Blow!
He's not breathing. One, two, three.
We are going down.
Do something. Do something.
I'm trying to help.
Two, three, blow!
I see her.
Who do you see?
A woman.
She disappeared.
I don't know where.
She's kneeling down in front of the pilot.
Blow !
Where did she come from?
What are you doing? Keep going!
It's as if Mary doesn't see her.
I'm awake, I open my eyes and I see her.
Never seen her before.
She smiles.
Everything goes black again.
Case log update.
We're continuing to gather evidence
from the witnesses on the plane.
Co-pilot Jarvis Parks remains in a coma
with severe internal damage,
the result of high voltage electrocution.
Dr. Johnson to station west please.
Parks may well be the key to what
actually happened up there that night.
I'm getting all kinds of conflicting
stories from the witnesses,
but Parks is the only
one we haven't heard from.
Dr. Davison says there's
not much we can do for him.
He probably won't last 48 hours.
Case log update.
Despite the doctor's best efforts,
copilot Jarvis Parks'
condition remains critical.
We're proceeding to the
environmental assessment phase,
hoping it will clarify the
conflicting witness testimony.
Phantom pilots leave fingerprints?
Circuitry in these damn
things is so vulnerable,
you'd think someone would figure
out a better way to protect them.
Don't these planes
have redundant systems?
I suppose they were lucky just
the electrical systems went down.
A direct strike could cause structural
damage or even ignite fuel vapor.
All things considered,
I'd say Lucky's a bit of an understatement.
We've been struck by bright blue light.
I can't see.
Flight 66 Alpha, what happened?
I'm regaining sight. Systems are down.
Uh, gauges not functioning.
It was at that point that the
radio transmission cut out.
And the radio's currently not operational.
But Finn later talked with Mary O'Brien
over the radio after the plane landed.
Yes, can't explain it.
What are we looking at up there?
This is two new class of lightning
phenomena that's recently been documented.
Both happen above cloud
cover and are extremely rare.
On the left is the red sprite,
and on the right, the blue jet.
It's possible that the co-pilot
was describing the latter.
It appears as a cone of blue light
bursting upwards at tremendous speeds.
If the plane was hit by one
of these types of lightning,
could have landed safely ?
Not with the electrical circuitry destroyed.
Landing system...
Well, nothing should have functioned.
What about the reports of
a sixth person on board ?
The witness has described
a fair-haired woman.
Well, the cabin was pressurized
when the plane landed.
The ground crew did a thorough search.
We don't know how she got off the...
Or, for that matter, how she got on the plane.
According to our historical background
check on the area and the witnesses,
this airfield used to be used as a
military landing site during World War II.
Only one plane has ever
crashed here in 1945.
It was a medical evacuation plane.
It was apparently hit by lightning.
- Survivors?
- None.
What? Any experts?
You haven't found anything?
Mr. Cole, all I said was that we hadn't
been able to reach any conclusions yet.
Look, she's real. I just
want to reward her.
Martin, how do you explain what she
did with her hands? You saw it.
I know you did.
The lights were out.
The plane was going down.
We were under stress.
And why would she even have been
on the plane in the first place?
Yes, well, that's something
I'd like to ask her, too.
He refuses to believe that it
could have been something else.
Like what?
I was talking to Jim, the pilot,
and we both think that it could have been...
I don't know.
It sounds so silly to say it out loud.
Don't be shy.
You'd be amazed at the
things I've heard and seen.
Yes, well, she is real and she's
out there somewhere.
Find her.
I don't know.
Maybe she was there
and I just didn't see her.
Jarvis didn't land the plane
it couldn't have just happened
It doesn't make any sense, does it?
I mean,
why save all of us and not Jarvis?
Why does this have to happen to him?
I can't seem to get a hold of myself.
I keep thinking maybe...
Just maybe if it was a miracle
that saved Jim and the rest of us,
then Travis still has a chance,
you know?
Maybe all I have to do is believe.
Case log update.
We're proceeding to
environmental monitoring.
The witnesses have been rigged with
full biofeedback monitoring equipment.
Video and infrared surveillance
will also be implemented.
You see, Mary is searching
for some sort of explanation.
Now in behavioral terms,
that's the survivor syndrome.
Sje's trying to rationalize in her own mind
why the events turned out the way they did,
why she's okay and Parks is not.
And even for someone who doubts that
there was a force capable of intervening,
the desire to believe is extremely
powerful, especially in such dire circumstances.
God ! You scared me.
I didn't hear you come in.
He's doing much better now.
He is?
Her pulse appears to be rising rapidly.
She appears to be talking to someone.
But did the doctor said...
He's gonna be just fine.
It's Parks.
He's waking up.
Oh, God !
Mary?
Jarvis?
See, she's adamant.
She saw a fair-haired
nurse in that room.
Security at the door saw
no one enter or leave.
Dr. Davidson says Parks is making
an unprecedented recovery.
He's healing, for want of a better word,
miraculously.
I want a full psychological and physiological
work-up done on Parks.
Maybe he can help us understand
what really happened.
Do something !
We're going down !
Everywhere, blackness.
I'm on fire, burning, it's so bad,
I'm dying.
I'm warm now,
like the sun.
I open my eyes.
She's flying the plane.
She smiles at me.
We're landing.
We're okay.
She's gone.
Jarvis!
Jarvis!
Parks has now made a full recovery.
However, we've been unable to
determine exactly how this occurred.
Except for Martin Cole.
All the witnesses believe they've been
touched by some sort of divine intervention,
which is a rational reaction considering
that no valid explanation exists.
But why do some people see this
woman sometimes and not others?
Hallucinations are not uncommon
in frightening circumstances.
The fact that they seem to share a single vision
points to one person's power of suggestion.
So one person hallucinates the angel, describes
her, and for lack of a better explanation,
the rest just believe
that they saw her as well?
On a subconscious level.
Especially if that person
is someone like Martin Cole.
Wait a minute. Martin Cole dreams up the angel
and then doesn't believe in his own invention?
No, he dreamed of the image of the angel.
And then he couldn't accept what
that image really represents.
See, he's a very practical, rational man.
He won't accept things that he can't control.
But how did the plane land?
And how did Parks recover?
The fact is we could actually be dealing with
some form of apparition or collective PK energy.
Diane offered another
imaginative explanation.
She wonders if the lightning strike
might not be some sort of cosmic mistake.
And because it was never meant to happen,
it just fixed itself.
That doesn't sound like the sort of thing
Mr. Cole would believe either.
Final case log.
We're wrapping up the investigation
after three months of intensive monitoring.
No evidence to explain the
amazing events was collected.
No further sightings of the
mysterious woman were reported.
What are you working on?
Martin?
Who are they?
The OSIR emailed me a file
with pictures of those people that died in that
medical evac plane that crashed at Richfield.
In 1945 ?
Do angels really exist?
Several national publications
have run cover stories
focused on man's belief in
these celestial beings.
Now officially this file remains unresolved,
but the material contained therein
certainly seems to indicate
that divine forces
occasionally direct messengers
to assist us in a beautiful
and comforting way.
Subtitle made by Adr1an
by the actual case files of
the Office of Scientific
Investigation and Research.
Horan, I want you and Gina to
deliver this load to the warehouse.
I want the cleaning and
cataloging to start tomorrow.
Got you, boss.
Frederick, sir, any special instructions?
Just one. Drive very carefully.
And hurry back for dinner.
We all deserve to celebrate.
Allergy is acting up again.
Well, tombs and allergy
seem to go hand in hand.
How's the translation coming?
Slowly, but I've almost got it.
What about this part?
That section's going to take a while.
I'm only working with the
top half of the cymbals.
Diana, are you okay?
Yeah, yeah I'm just worn out, I guess.
Well this heat is unbearable, here.
Thanks.
Thanks.
Oh, so, man, can't we go to a party now?
Soon enough, Diane.
Come on.
Revel in the magic of this chamber.
Look around and what do you see?
An ancient culture three millennia old,
all watched over by Anubis, guarding
the treasures of another time.
Not again !
It's great for the sinuses, though.
Fredrick,
the hieroglyphic at the tomb entrance,
it reads,
all those who disturb this tomb will die.
Well, what's a tomb without a curse, eh?
Ha ha ha.
Oh!
Oh!
What's happening?
Oh!
Help, Ranja, let's get them out of here!
Any archaeologist to is about to
unseal and enter an ancient burial site
does so with a degree of caution
and perhaps even trepidation.
For archeologists are especially aware
of the sudden and untimely deaths
which befell most of those who entered
and some say defiled,
Egyptian King Tutankhamun's
final resting place.
These events are the basis for the legend
of the curse of the mummy's tomb.
Could the power of an ancient
curse reach into the present?
In case file 631-136,
the OSIR was compelled to
consider this possibility.
That does it.
Not soon enough for me, thank you very much.
Yes, we are done.
What's with you today, Gina?
You're too quiet.
We have done wrong
removing these artifacts.
What do you mean, done wrong?
We're just doing our job.
The gods will not be happy with
this desecration of the tomb.
Ah, superstitious, are we?
Let's get back to the site.
They're probably celebrating without us, eh?
Uh-huh.
Hello?
Where is everyone?
Well, knowing Frederick,
they're all probably passed out already.
Yo, Frederick!
Rosetta!
Something's wrong.
Oh, no.
Ranja!
Diana!
Are they...
dead?
Dead.
Professor Roberts?
Frederick, are you in there?
Help me, please.
Initial log entry,
case manager Connor Doyle.
We've arrived at a dig site near Alexandria
in lower Egypt to continue investigation of
the mysterious deaths connected with the
excavation of the recently discovered tomb.
The dig leader, Professor Frederick Roberts,
remains in serious condition and is
being monitored by our physicians.
The mobile lab has been
airlifted and is on site.
The fact that all the
deaths happened so suddenly
and violently led me to believe it was
some form of food poisoning,
you know, a pharaoh's revenge.
But the cause of death was
massive parenchymal hemorrhaging,
bleeding inside the brain itself.
The brain tissue had also been ravaged
in each of the victims.
However, my autopsies could
find no evidence of a virus,
nor was there any hemorrhaging
in other areas of the bodies.
The case baffles me and my colleagues.
We really appreciate your assistance
in this investigation, both of you.
Those tests you did, hypnosis and DEP?
Digitally enhanced polygraph
and regressive hypnosis, yes.
What did you learn?
Well, the results are relative.
As we eliminate each possibility
for the cause of the phenomenon,
what we're left with in most cases
should be the responsible factor.
However unlikely that may be.
You're wasting your time.
I'm telling you, it's a curse, a death curse
on all those who violate the tomb.
Well, keep that in mind.
There's Gina for you.
Next you'll be telling me
string garlic around my windows.
You may be skeptical,
but you did mention
that you had a dream,
both of you, actually.
Well, yes, the god Anubis
told me the curse was at work,
and death will come to all those
who disturb the sacred objects within,
but it was only a dream.
Same dream for both of you?
We must return the artifacts to the
rightful place and seal the tomb.
Otherwise, people will keep dying.
His condition is stabilized.
That's good news.
Who's going to keep dying?
The curse must not be taken lightly.
You must convince these investigators
to return the artifacts to the tomb.
Gina, that curse stuff is all in your head.
The world deserves to
marvel at these treasures.
If anything,
but for the loss of our friends.
Professor Doyle,
I do believe I am on the way to recovery.
I'm glad to hear it.
I'd like Dr. Davison to run some more
intensive tests if you feel up to it.
Frederick ?
Frederick !
What is it ?
I don't understand.
It's not possible.
I'm sorry.
Is that... ?
What's going on here ?
You must put a stop to this.
Like with the other victims, Frederick Roberts
suffered intense intracranial hemorrhage.
Massive bleeding inside the skull.
You're talking about something
like yellow fever or even Ebola?
It's possible, but I found no other
evidence of internalized bleeding.
It was all localized in the brain.
If it's a virus,
I've never seen one attack in this way.
Except in Roberts' case,
he managed to live longer
than the other victims.
How did we lose him?
I don't know.
Don't blame yourself.
You don't even know what
we're dealing with yet.
Let me take a team into the tomb.
Not yet. We'll send a probe in.
But the probe can't possibly...
Linda, one step at a time.
Something is killing these people.
I can't risk exposing
any member of the team
to a potential hazard.
Doyle, we're ready when you are.
Let's proceed.
Guide the probe into the tomb.
Activate visuals.
I'm slowing down.
Let's take a look around.
Any evidence of hazardous
materials or toxic gases?
Negative. All levels within a normal range.
The drawings appear to
indicate the Middle Kingdom.
They're consistent with
the 11th or 12th dynasty.
What's the time frame?
Anywhere from 3,000 to 4,000 years old.
Probe entering the antechamber.
Prepare to monitor for any
abnormal energy field. Standing by.
That's odd.
Professor Roberts'
report makes no mention of a burial chamber.
Or a sarcophagus.
Perhaps the burial chamber entrance
was filled in by the mudslide.
Activate ground penetrating radar.
The overall area is
anywhere from 3 to 5 meters.
But?
There's no indication of any other hallways,
passageways or chambers.
And specifically, no burial chambers.
So what is this tomb housing?
So like I told you, we brought the
artifacts in here and stored them inside.
They were all standing by for the dig
team to finish the cleaning process
and initiate labeling
and cataloging.
Were either of you ever
exposed to the artifacts?
I don't think so.
Everything is wrapped in protective
plastic for leaving the site.
We've had the storage area sealed
off and guarded since our arrival.
So why did you bring us here?
We need you to walk us through your routine when
you delivered the artifacts to this location.
We want to know if anything
out of the ordinary happened.
Um, I can't go any further.
I understand that you're apprehensive,
but we need as much information
as you and Gina can provide.
We pulled up, dropped objects off and left.
There's nothing else to tell.
Who's there?
No!
No!
No!
Anubis !
No!
He's dead.
The curse speaks the truth.
All those who disturb this tomb will die.
And we would be next.
Case log update.
While performing a routine
walkthrough with two of the experiencers,
this case suffered its eighth casualty,
Ron Jamal.
Dr. Linda Davison is conducting
an autopsy on the victim.
Results will be forwarded immediately.
I'm currently working on the line
under the deciphered death curse,
but because of rock deterioration,
it's been a real guessing game.
Any idea what it might say?
Well, this says shall not,
and this could be within,
and this I'm not certain about.
But I'll keep trying different combinations
and see what turns up.
Can you explain the purpose of the tomb?
Not at this time.
But the fact that there was no
reported mummy or sarcophagus
is not that unusual.
How's Gina holding up?
She's terrified, and understandably so.
Every one of her coworkers has
met with an untimely end, and...
She's absolutely convinced
that she'll be the next to die.
We should continue counseling her,
but I'm concerned.
A curse's essence lies in the
imaginative projection of ill will.
Like the cancer sufferer,
expecting to die is more likely to die
than the one who fights the illness?
So a cursed person can simply will
themselves to die due to lost hope.
Even though Gina never handled
the artifacts directly,
she feels instrumental
in disturbing the tomb.
Yet, she's alive.
According to Hiran Jamal's statement, he never
touched the artifacts either, and he's dead.
What are the results of his autopsy?
Once again, intracranial hemorrhaging.
But his brain cells show none of the tissue
destruction I found in all the other victims.
So a different cause of death?
Same cause of death.
Different extenuating circumstances.
Let's do it.
Let's send a team into the tomb.
At the same time, initiate analysis
of the artifacts at the warehouse.
Full precautions?
Absolutely. Priority one hazmat
and disinfection measures in place.
I want the same group at the end
of this phase that we started with.
Donner, your environmental readings
indicate no hazardous materials.
Do you copy?
Copy that.
I'm going to collect some surface samples
directly from the remaining artifacts.
We'll seal them and deliver
them for disinfection.
Affirmative.
Let's maintain monitoring for another hour
and reconvene at 2200 hours to
begin analysis of the samples.
I copy.
Donner out.
Let's transfer this to the warehouse.
Carefully.
No.
No, Anubis, spare me!
Gina, it's all right. It's me.
You were having that dream again,
weren't you?
It is coming for me.
Why does Anubis frighten you?
He protects the domain of the dead.
How else do you explain why everyone
connected to this place has died?
Gina, if you'll believe that there
may be a rational explanation,
then we can help you get through this.
The round object.
You ever see a dust particle
that looks like that?
I'm going to isolate it on a culture medium.
Then I'll run some tests.
When I get a green light, I'm going to proceed
with chemical examination of the artifacts.
Affirmative.
I'll join you as soon as I'm clean.
It's like a jigsaw puzzle with
only half the picture to work from.
Okay this could only be one of three words.
- If it's released we've got...
- Lies within... shall not... released.
These two symbols are the key.
Wait a minute !
Could it be...
I should have seen this hours ago.
Released ?
Released what?
Connor, I want you to have a look
at an irregular dust sample I collected.
Irregular? How do you mean?
Well, the particle shape
and texture are unique.
What particle?
Now it's bacterial in appearance,
but moving in patterns
I'm not familiar with.
- Is it contained?
- Yes.
How did the bacteria originate?
It's almost inconceivable,
but if the particle was a type of spore...
Germination could be triggered by the heat
and moisture generated by the isolating gel.
But the spore would have
been dormant for centuries.
But now it's gone.
It must have an extremely
short lifespan once activated.
That would explain why we weren't able to
find bacterial residue in any of the victims.
I think we found your curse.
But has it been released?
All disinfection methods completed?
I ran them twice to be sure.
Now let's see if this tells us anything.
What is going on?
We'll explain later.
The main thing is you're okay.
Obviously our disinfection methods failed.
The spores most closely
resemble the clostridium genus,
but of a strain I've never seen before.
And once inhaled, they targeted the brain
and became an active,
extremely deadly form of bacteria.
The tomb wasn't a burial chamber
designed to keep grave robbers out,
but a jail of sorts to
keep the spores inside.
But, Ron, he never entered the tomb.
How did he die of the same thing?
Pure coincidence.
I ran further tests and
discovered he was taking warfarin.
A form of rat poison.
He had a heart condition.
The warfarin acted as an
anticoagulant to ward off strokes.
A side effect is a proneness to
extensive localized bleeding.
Triggered when he fell and hit his head.
What about Frederick?
He had an allergy condition,
meaning his nasal passages were
more resistant to foreign particles.
But that only delayed the inevitable.
There was nothing I could do.
I understand.
Final case log entry.
To date, all disinfection
and eradication techniques
have been unable to
terminate the deadly spores.
To prevent any further
exposure to this unknown
and extremely lethal spore-related bacteria,
I've had all the artifacts
returned to the tomb
and ordered it to be sealed
behind a wall of concrete.
Closing file number 631-136.
Connor Doyle, out.
Some myths, like mushrooms,
grow in darkness.
It is only under the light
of scientific scrutiny
that we are able to separate superstitious
and fantastic causes of fatalities
from ones which are actually
biophysical in nature.
Curse or no curse,
the message seems to be clear.
Leave the dead to rest
in their places of peace.
It's Flight 66 Alpha out of Chicago.
They say they were hit by lightning dead on.
Where are they?
Coming out of the storm
20 miles to the northeast,
7,000 feet and dropping.
I've got an emergency vehicle standing by.
Struck by lightning.
***
I can't touch the controls,
I can't help him, he's got no pulse.
Flight 66 Alpha, come in.
Copy!
This is control tower.
What is your current condition?
Pilot's out cold.
Control's frozen.
Gauge is malfunctioning.
We're going down.
Flight 66 Alpha,
is your landing gear down?
There's no way to tell.
The whole panel's shorted out.
66 Alpha, come in.
66 Alpha, do you read?
Come in.
This is control tower.
Do you read?
They have no landing gear.
Mouth to mouth. Put this on. Make sure his
head stays back in below when I tell you.
Bill?
They're on final.
They must have control back there,
landing gear just came down.
Still no radio contact,
they're coming in pretty fast.
Flight 66 Alpha, come in.
Jarvis?
Jarvis ?
Oh, my God !
Flight 66 Alpha, come in.
66 Alpha, do you copy?
Hello?
Hello?
Who is this?
Mary O'Brien.
I'm the flight attendant.
Is everyone else OK?
The pilot's in bad shape.
Copilot Parks is unconscious.
Who landed the plane?
I don't know.
To some, a miracle may be an act of God.
to others it's ordinary people
performing incredible feats
in extraordinary situations.
When the OSIR was engaged to
investigate mysterious occurrences
during a crisis aboard a private aircraft,
they were confronted with the analysis
of a seemingly miraculous event.
File number 260122.
Don't worry, Jarvis.
You're gonna be all right.
Conner Doyle en route to investigate a
purported miraculous healing of a stricken pilot.
I mean, we saw her right there.
The plane is ***.
We looked everywhere.
There's no one else there.
Hold it. Wait a minute, come here.
She saved the pilot's life.
I watched her do it.
Now, maybe she already left the plane.
The plane was still pressurized
when the emergency crew opened the door.
There's no one else on the plane.
Preliminary interviews beginning with
individuals who claim to have witnessed the event
and to have experienced a technically
impossible aircraft landing.
Passengers suggest they may have been
aided by a mysterious female entity.
So you guys are an FBI or FAA?
No, we're an independent organization.
Tell you what you're gonna find.
The avionics are towed right off.
The damage have occurred after it landed?
The co-pilot said all the systems went dead
right after it got struck by lightning.
***?
Electrical system
definitely looks burnt out.
I saw the landing gear come
down and I saw the plane land.
I'll tell you one thing.
I've been in this business 15 years.
There's no way in hell that baby should
have come out of the sky in one piece.
We received the weather report
and proceeded to an altitude
that should have been
safely by the thunderstorm.
It was a bright flash.
It seemed to come from below, yet I've never
heard of lightning shooting up like that.
I was blinded.
I felt a sharp pain radiate up my left arm,
My chest seized up like
I was caught in a huge ***
Well, then I just blacked out.
Well, you take microchips.
People think they're magic.
But really, they're just capacitors,
transistors, resistors.
Complex web of integrated circuits,
but on a base level.
Quite simple. Rational.
Now, I don't know who she was.
I don't know where she came from.
I don't know where she went.
But I did see her save that pilot's life.
There is a rational explanation.
I'm not a great flyer on a good day.
It's just about the only part
of the job that I don't like.
But you fly all the time.
What is it about flying that you don't like?
I don't like things that I can't understand.
When I look at several tons of metal
and machinery and plastic and rubber,
I wonder how it gets up
there in the first place
never mind how it stays up there.
Yet, you work for one of the
leading computer system developers.
Well, Martin's a genius. I mean, he doesn't
need me to understand his machines.
what does he need you for ?
Communication.
Martin needs help understanding people.
Actually, quite a lot.
Let's discuss the night in question.
Jim, the pilot, just suddenly seized up
like he'd been jolted with electricity.
I was thrown backwards.
Did you ever see anyone
else on the plane?
No, I don't know what Mr. Cole
and Diane are talking about.
When I crawled back over
and listened to Jim's heart,
it was going again.
It was incredible.
How do you explain it ?
I can't really.
You say that you were in the
cockpit when the plane landed,
and the co-pilot was
unconscious the whole time.
Yeah.
Who do you think landed the plane?
I don't know.
It's dark.
Jarvis keeps yelling for help.
I can't find the flashlights.
Help! The pilot's down!
The intercom wasn't working,
so he had to yell out through
the door of the cockpit.
What's happening? I don't hear the engines.
What's wrong
with the pilot?
What's wrong with the plane ?
Why does it feel like
we're dropping so fast?
Because the engines are dead.
Stay calm.
Yeah.
It's gonna crash.
This thing's gonna crash.
- He's not breathing.
- What happened?
Struck by lightning,
systems are all shorted out.
We're going down.
I can't touch the controls.
I help him, he's got no pulse.
We're in real trouble.
Help me!
What can I do?
Put this on. Make sure his head
stays back and below when I tell you.
Blow!
He's not breathing. One, two, three.
We are going down.
Do something. Do something.
I'm trying to help.
Two, three, blow!
I see her.
Who do you see?
A woman.
She disappeared.
I don't know where.
She's kneeling down in front of the pilot.
Blow !
Where did she come from?
What are you doing? Keep going!
It's as if Mary doesn't see her.
I'm awake, I open my eyes and I see her.
Never seen her before.
She smiles.
Everything goes black again.
Case log update.
We're continuing to gather evidence
from the witnesses on the plane.
Co-pilot Jarvis Parks remains in a coma
with severe internal damage,
the result of high voltage electrocution.
Dr. Johnson to station west please.
Parks may well be the key to what
actually happened up there that night.
I'm getting all kinds of conflicting
stories from the witnesses,
but Parks is the only
one we haven't heard from.
Dr. Davison says there's
not much we can do for him.
He probably won't last 48 hours.
Case log update.
Despite the doctor's best efforts,
copilot Jarvis Parks'
condition remains critical.
We're proceeding to the
environmental assessment phase,
hoping it will clarify the
conflicting witness testimony.
Phantom pilots leave fingerprints?
Circuitry in these damn
things is so vulnerable,
you'd think someone would figure
out a better way to protect them.
Don't these planes
have redundant systems?
I suppose they were lucky just
the electrical systems went down.
A direct strike could cause structural
damage or even ignite fuel vapor.
All things considered,
I'd say Lucky's a bit of an understatement.
We've been struck by bright blue light.
I can't see.
Flight 66 Alpha, what happened?
I'm regaining sight. Systems are down.
Uh, gauges not functioning.
It was at that point that the
radio transmission cut out.
And the radio's currently not operational.
But Finn later talked with Mary O'Brien
over the radio after the plane landed.
Yes, can't explain it.
What are we looking at up there?
This is two new class of lightning
phenomena that's recently been documented.
Both happen above cloud
cover and are extremely rare.
On the left is the red sprite,
and on the right, the blue jet.
It's possible that the co-pilot
was describing the latter.
It appears as a cone of blue light
bursting upwards at tremendous speeds.
If the plane was hit by one
of these types of lightning,
could have landed safely ?
Not with the electrical circuitry destroyed.
Landing system...
Well, nothing should have functioned.
What about the reports of
a sixth person on board ?
The witness has described
a fair-haired woman.
Well, the cabin was pressurized
when the plane landed.
The ground crew did a thorough search.
We don't know how she got off the...
Or, for that matter, how she got on the plane.
According to our historical background
check on the area and the witnesses,
this airfield used to be used as a
military landing site during World War II.
Only one plane has ever
crashed here in 1945.
It was a medical evacuation plane.
It was apparently hit by lightning.
- Survivors?
- None.
What? Any experts?
You haven't found anything?
Mr. Cole, all I said was that we hadn't
been able to reach any conclusions yet.
Look, she's real. I just
want to reward her.
Martin, how do you explain what she
did with her hands? You saw it.
I know you did.
The lights were out.
The plane was going down.
We were under stress.
And why would she even have been
on the plane in the first place?
Yes, well, that's something
I'd like to ask her, too.
He refuses to believe that it
could have been something else.
Like what?
I was talking to Jim, the pilot,
and we both think that it could have been...
I don't know.
It sounds so silly to say it out loud.
Don't be shy.
You'd be amazed at the
things I've heard and seen.
Yes, well, she is real and she's
out there somewhere.
Find her.
I don't know.
Maybe she was there
and I just didn't see her.
Jarvis didn't land the plane
it couldn't have just happened
It doesn't make any sense, does it?
I mean,
why save all of us and not Jarvis?
Why does this have to happen to him?
I can't seem to get a hold of myself.
I keep thinking maybe...
Just maybe if it was a miracle
that saved Jim and the rest of us,
then Travis still has a chance,
you know?
Maybe all I have to do is believe.
Case log update.
We're proceeding to
environmental monitoring.
The witnesses have been rigged with
full biofeedback monitoring equipment.
Video and infrared surveillance
will also be implemented.
You see, Mary is searching
for some sort of explanation.
Now in behavioral terms,
that's the survivor syndrome.
Sje's trying to rationalize in her own mind
why the events turned out the way they did,
why she's okay and Parks is not.
And even for someone who doubts that
there was a force capable of intervening,
the desire to believe is extremely
powerful, especially in such dire circumstances.
God ! You scared me.
I didn't hear you come in.
He's doing much better now.
He is?
Her pulse appears to be rising rapidly.
She appears to be talking to someone.
But did the doctor said...
He's gonna be just fine.
It's Parks.
He's waking up.
Oh, God !
Mary?
Jarvis?
See, she's adamant.
She saw a fair-haired
nurse in that room.
Security at the door saw
no one enter or leave.
Dr. Davidson says Parks is making
an unprecedented recovery.
He's healing, for want of a better word,
miraculously.
I want a full psychological and physiological
work-up done on Parks.
Maybe he can help us understand
what really happened.
Do something !
We're going down !
Everywhere, blackness.
I'm on fire, burning, it's so bad,
I'm dying.
I'm warm now,
like the sun.
I open my eyes.
She's flying the plane.
She smiles at me.
We're landing.
We're okay.
She's gone.
Jarvis!
Jarvis!
Parks has now made a full recovery.
However, we've been unable to
determine exactly how this occurred.
Except for Martin Cole.
All the witnesses believe they've been
touched by some sort of divine intervention,
which is a rational reaction considering
that no valid explanation exists.
But why do some people see this
woman sometimes and not others?
Hallucinations are not uncommon
in frightening circumstances.
The fact that they seem to share a single vision
points to one person's power of suggestion.
So one person hallucinates the angel, describes
her, and for lack of a better explanation,
the rest just believe
that they saw her as well?
On a subconscious level.
Especially if that person
is someone like Martin Cole.
Wait a minute. Martin Cole dreams up the angel
and then doesn't believe in his own invention?
No, he dreamed of the image of the angel.
And then he couldn't accept what
that image really represents.
See, he's a very practical, rational man.
He won't accept things that he can't control.
But how did the plane land?
And how did Parks recover?
The fact is we could actually be dealing with
some form of apparition or collective PK energy.
Diane offered another
imaginative explanation.
She wonders if the lightning strike
might not be some sort of cosmic mistake.
And because it was never meant to happen,
it just fixed itself.
That doesn't sound like the sort of thing
Mr. Cole would believe either.
Final case log.
We're wrapping up the investigation
after three months of intensive monitoring.
No evidence to explain the
amazing events was collected.
No further sightings of the
mysterious woman were reported.
What are you working on?
Martin?
Who are they?
The OSIR emailed me a file
with pictures of those people that died in that
medical evac plane that crashed at Richfield.
In 1945 ?
Do angels really exist?
Several national publications
have run cover stories
focused on man's belief in
these celestial beings.
Now officially this file remains unresolved,
but the material contained therein
certainly seems to indicate
that divine forces
occasionally direct messengers
to assist us in a beautiful
and comforting way.
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