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Mongols.

Go.

The Jade Emperor will protect us.

The dam is complete.

The floodgates closed.

Soon the valley shall be flooded.

Beijing will be pleased that there have been no delays.

Li Feng!

Who is this?

A fanatic. No one of concern.

All religious relics in the valley have been relocated.

You must give up this fantasy that your statue can be found.

We cannot leave without the Jade Emperor.

Open the dam and release the water.

Do not flood our valley.

I beg you. This is foolish.

The statue has been missing 700 years.

There is no chance it can be found. Absolutely not. Let's take my reputation

it. We will not leave the valley.

You will drown.

Brother, the army will not allow you to stay.

Thanks for

studying.

Yeah. Yeah.

There's an urgent call for you.

From China.

Hello?

Scucci?

Dad? How soon can you be in Hong Kong?

Where's that damn your father's building again?

Three Rivers.

Check out this report on BM24.

We'll call you from the airport.

So I'm finally going to get to meet your dad?

You probably have an image in your head of what my father's like, don't you? I

suppose I do.

An engineer who builds dams all over the world.

Traditional. Level -headed, analytical.

We'll wipe that out.

Think unconventional, impulsive, non -traditional. My dad lived by two rules.

Defy authority and never be caught dead in a suit.

Dad?

Wow. Nice suit.

You look terrific.

Thanks for coming.

This is my assistant, Nigel Bailey.

Pleased to meet you, sir. Please, come around.

Have a seat.

Meet Mr. Lee Fang.

He's the cultural affairs officer of the region. He was just telling me why his

government can't reopen my dam for a couple of days.

Your father is a very persuasive man.

But even with your help, he cannot make the Jade Empress reappear.

It does not exist.

You seem very certain of that. I exhaustively researched sacred scrolls

centuries ago.

They referred to a dragon mandala, the supposed key to finding the statue.

And? And I found the mandala, translated writings on it, examined their

meanings.

But that lead, like all others to the statue's whereabouts, did not bear

The monks won't leave willingly.

They'll drown. Colonel Chang has assured me he can remove them safely.

Lee, my daughter is a relic hunter.

Give us the mandala. Perhaps it's something you've missed.

Regrettably... No.

I have my instructions from Beijing.

Now, this dam will provide power for millions of Chinese.

I'm sorry, but... This is out of my hands.

Lee, what's a couple of days?

Randall, enough.

I told them the statue does not exist.

Now, Miss Fox, perhaps you can convince your father to enjoy sightseeing in

China's newest city rather than wasting time chasing a fairy tale.

You obviously don't know my father.

Let's go.

Valleys flooding, lives at stake, Lee is concerned about saving faith.

What he didn't mention was a top spot in Beijing, the culture ministry just

opened up, and he's in line for it.

Lee's a real bureaucrat.

Where are we going? We're going to find that mandolin.

I guess that means we're not going to cut the monks loose either.

Well, I promised them you'd find their statue for them. I'm going to keep my

promise. Dad!

Call me when you find out.

That was my contact.

He's going to call very soon.

Nice place, Dad.

Very quaint.

Oh, thank you, honey. Come on in. Now, make yourselves at home. Come on in.

Nigel, tell me.

How was it working with my daughter?

You two dating yet? No.

Dad! Nigel's my assistant.

Oh, that must have been the other guy. What was his name? Dad.

Robert. Berto.

Javier, wasn't it?

So, Nigel.

Sidney tells me you're an Oxford man.

Working on my masters.

Well, the masters are very impressive.

Not just a pretty face like the last fellow.

What was his name? Dad, enough.

Honey, I'm just kidding.

Like always.

Exactly how long do we have to find this statue?

Well, now that the floodgates are closed, let's see, the dam holds back

100 ,000 liters of river flow per minute.

The valley should be underwater in less than three days.

Not a lot, in other words.

You sure you don't want me to make a few phone calls?

Yeah, go with the flow.

Excuse me.

Fox. Ah.

Yes.

All right.

Where's my contact? He said that after Lee examined the mandolin, he gave it

back to the dealer who had it in the first place. Now, we have a meeting with

that dealer in a very quiet spot where we're not going to be interrupted.

A bomb going off wouldn't interrupt this place.

They must be fetters.

It's a representation of the mandala around such as neck.

And that's the Jade Empress.

A truly magnificent piece of jade.

If it exists.

Oh, my contact says that you have him in mind.

I do?

Great. We'd like to see him.

Are you serious, Byers?

Academics.

What? My contact said... No.

I've had enough to hear with academics.

Sit down.

Please.

We'll make it worth your while.

You mean Lee? You're looking for the jade statue, right?

That's right. Yeah, so was he.

The mandala's supposed to be the key to finding the statue.

He had that mandala tied up in red tape for nearly a year while he studied it.

A year couldn't sell it. No way, I'm not going through that again, folks. Why'd

you give it to him in the first place?

He's the cultural officer.

Ain't no choice.

We'd only need it for a few hours.

In your office. It'll never leave the premises. No red tape.

What's in it for me?

Next time I come across a good relic, maybe I'll slide it your way.

Give me a quote.

I only deal in museum quality.

I'll call.

Thank you.

He wouldn't really do anything, would he?

Oh, no.

What is it?

Well, it's trouble is what it is. Now, look, I've been in too many fights. If I

get in one more, they're not going to let me back in this place. Fight with

Fox.

Now, take it easy, Big Sam.

If you think I'm letting her go without a fight, you're wrong.

He stole my girl.

Do you know him?

Yeah, that's the boyfriend.

The boyfriend?

You can step outside, or we're going to go right here, right now.

Now, look, I don't want any problems with you, Big Sal. Maybe you should have

thought of that before.

Come on.

I'm back in the saddle, cowboy.

Sit down, missy.

Okay, show's over.

Nothing to see here.

Sorry about your trouble.

Thanks, Scoochie.

You're welcome, Dad.

Please don't call me Scoochie.

That's a little pet name I have for you, honey.

Yeah, I know. I was three, but I'm a grown -up now. Can you call me Sydney?

Yes, I will, Sydney.

Rusty, allow me to pay you for all of this.

Anything we should just go?

Yes.

To be a boyfriend, you have to have a girlfriend. Exactly who was his

girlfriend? Jenny.

Jenny who?

My fiancée.

Your fiancée?

You're not going to believe who just came to me looking for the Jade Empress.

Sidney Fox.

Just thought you'd want to know.

What were you going to tell me?

You know, I think I'll make some tea.

Anyone like a cup?

No. But you meant it before the invitations went out. Look, Sydney,

right. I greatly apologize. I'm just asking you to give her a chance, is all.

Isn't this just a bit sudden?

Well, it wasn't my idea to get married, certainly, but, you know, when I met

Jenny and I got to know her, I mean, she was just the one.

Mom was the one.

Sit down.

Now listen.

Nobody will ever take your mother's place. She was one of the million.

Happiest days of my life was being in Hawaii with you and your mother, just

three of us.

That's the truth.

I know you did the best you could, Dad.

And I loved all those places you took us to.

Yeah? I was always so proud of you.

Just messers all.

I guess it never goes away.

I miss her as well. Who's in a day that goes by I don't think about you and your

mother? Really, that's the truth.

But, Sidney, Jenny's a terrific girl. Wait till you meet her. She's smart.

funny. You'll see.

Sidney, this is Jenny.

Jenny, this is my daughter, Sidney.

Hello.

Fox.

Right.

It's time to meet Fedders. Good.

Oh, and, uh, Jenny.

Be right back.

Let's go.

I have no idea.

So that's the girl that's replacing Mom.

Oh, no, Sidney. You're marrying Barbie.

You think maybe this is some sort of little midlife crisis thing, Dad?

Well, you never even talked to her. I didn't know what to say.

What was I going to say?

Love your shoes?

Well, now I see that you're upset. I am not upset.

Am I upset, Nigel? Just one more flight, I think.

Hey, hey, hey, what are you doing?

Let's get out of here.

The Mandela.

And that's fetters.

We can't afford to lose that Mandela.

Right.

We need the jealous wife.

I'll be the dutiful assistant.

What?

I'm telling you, he's not in here. Miss Pettis, I'm so sorry. Where's my weasel

of a husband? Why are you protecting him?

Let's go!

Why is it suddenly worth killing for?

The mantle updates from the original temple monks. The dragon symbol on it is

closely associated with the Jade Empress.

Well, we know these are the symbols of the Chinese zodiac.

What's this about?

Never conquered. Well, the monks believe the mythical power of the statue helped

keep the temple safe.

Well, actually, it's probably the natural defense system of the three

that surround it. Yeah, they'd act like a moat around a castle.

Any attackers would be sitting ducks when they tried to cross.

But for some reason during the attacks in 1248, the temple master ordered the

statue hidden.

And the local village and the temple were sacked.

It's odd.

Yeah, why get rid of your most powerful weapon?

Ah.

Okay, we know Lee looked for clues on the outside of the mandala. But it

lead him to the statue.

Lee's a bookworm PhD.

He's never been in the field.

He analyzed it from the outside and translated like a scholar.

We have to look at this with different eyes.

I read it on designs.

He couldn't look beyond what he could see.

Well, seems solid.

There are no seams. It appears to be carved from a single piece of jade.

What's this?

Dog, monkey and a rat.

Looks like a drawing.

Buried for 750 years.

That's the Three River Derry. Three rivers.

And a temple. Where's the fourth river?

Dragon symbol.

On an island in a fourth river.

I know the river basin very well, but I don't recognize this.

What we need is a map.

Coming up.

Complete match -up.

We'll be on our way to finding the statue.

Where's the fourth river?

Another dead end.

Maybe not.

Okay, I'm going to load a program that we used to develop plans for the Hydro

Dam.

And as you can see here, this is a map of the Three Rivers area that we're

interested in and how it looks today. Now watch.

I'm going to give the computer some parameters here.

And I'm going to ask it to go back into history, look back into the past, and

chart this system based on historical, geothermal, seismological, all relative

data.

It's amazing.

Yes, it is.

I'm watching the computer turn back the clock of history.

What's that?

That right there is our mystery river.

How does a river just disappear?

Well, erosion, drought, massive earthquake, a combination of all three

it, actually.

And right there is your island.

And with any luck, there's our statue.

Ginny.

Guess what? We have a line on the statue.

That's great.

I'm going to fax Lee and have him get Beijing to reopen the dam so we can take

better look.

I'll get my things. Good.

Well, let's not just stand around.

Let's go get that statue.

Colonel Chang, to what do I owe the honor of a visit at this late hour?

Because of this missing statue, our leaders in Beijing are being portrayed

the media as monk killers.

The monks are... Be silent.

We are flooding their lands based on your final assurance as cultural officer

charge that all religious artifacts were found and relocated out of the path of

the water.

As I recall...

You guaranteed it.

The statue does not exist.

If it is located, the consequences to you will be dire.

Dear Lee, through this map we're going to find the Jade Empress. Stop the

We'll meet you there, Randall Fox.

Sydney tells me you're Randall's translator.

That's right.

I've had training in several different Chinese dialects.

Those can be very handy, especially when ordering takeout.

You have no idea.

How do they deliver to a junk?

Very carefully.

Hello.

Are you going to the Three Rivers area?

I'm looking for the officer in charge. I need some information.

As a matter of fact, we're all going up to Three Rivers.

What business have you there?

To try and convince the powers that be to open the dam and stop the flooding.

I don't believe we've met.

I'm Sidney Fox.

The Relic Hunter.

You have an advantage over me.

Chang.

Military governor of the Three Rivers area.

And of the dam project.

Then I guess my business is with you.

So it would seem.

Nigel, did Sidney say anything to you? You know, about me and Randall?

Well, the usual sort of thing. Hope Dad's happy.

Like that.

It was a bit of a shock.

I mean, any time a parent tells you about something as life -changing as

marriage, especially when it's marriage to someone like you... Not that there's

anything wrong with you, don't get me wrong, I just meant... Well, the two of

you are so different.

Like?

Like, he's very tall.

He's very, very tall.

Very, very, very tall.

He certainly is tall, all right.

Not that you're that short.

I mean...

Well, it's all relative, isn't it? I mean, what is tall, what is short, what

small, what is big?

Full! Full. You're full of energy.

And, well, not that she expected him to marry anyone boring and listless. I

mean, he's a very vibrant man.

Not more vibrant than anyone gave him credit for, it seems.

Nigel, I know what you're saying.

You do?

I know that I'm not what she expected.

I just don't want her to hate me.

I'm sure she doesn't hate you. I mean, in fact, that I know.

Do you think she'd be open to having a conversation with me?

I don't think now is the right time.

But I'm sure there is a right time.

And if I were you, and I'm not, but if I were you, I'd just let her make the

first move.

Yeah.

And she won't be subtle about it.

In my case, she threw a spear at my head.

A great conversation started.

And she could have taken my ear off. It was that close.

I had nightmares about it and everything.

I thought I was going deaf. I had no ears.

What?

Colonel, your government's going to look awfully bad if those monks end up dead.

Believe me, I want that least of anyone.

I believe you're a decent man.

Why don't you just open the dam?

It's beyond my power.

I think you're being too modest.

Mr. Lee has given his report.

It says that the monk's statue does not exist. Therefore, my orders are simple.

The monk's refusal to leave must be met with an equally powerful push.

I take it you don't care much for Mr. Lee.

No. Then that makes two.

Proud and careless.

I've been doing this a long time, Colonel. I can find that statue.

I believe you.

You do?

Yes.

But the longer I let you look for the statue, the longer the monks will

and the greater the chance that some may die.

Then stop the flooding.

Perhaps, if you already had the statue... I don't.

Then I have my horse.

What about the monks, Colonel?

The greatest danger to the monks now is you.

You give them hope, which encourages their resistance.

What they need now is to leave.

It's too late.

This is my stop.

Mine too.

Colonel, you might want to keep your eyes open.

I have a feeling that statue just may turn up.

It looks like we're here.

So much of a welcoming committee.

I was hoping to hear from Lee by now, but we can't wait.

All of these roads will be underwater very soon.

Speaking of which, where's our transpo?

The project officer said they'd send someone.

He must have got held up.

Just one moment.

You promised to find the trade empty.

No, I know I did. I'm mad at my word. There are still others in the woods.

They will not leave.

No, I understand.

We'll find it, I promise.

I wonder

what he's all about.

Can't be good.

Can you make out what he's saying?

Cantonese.

Urgent message.

Restrain?

Restrict. Revoke.

Revoke.

Colonel Chang revoked Randall's papers.

They have orders to stop us from going into the valley.

That would explain our missing driver.

Sydney, where's your dad?

Right there.

Let's go, let's go.

You're going to get a shot.

Said you want a transport.

And stop here.

Careful, honey.

Okay.

According to the GPS,

Ancient riverbeds should be just beyond these trees. Let's cut right through

here. Come on. Be careful.

Listen.

That's a military helicopter.

Any source?

I don't think so.

Well, they may have seen the truck, though.

Let's get going. Come on.

Get off.

It's red.

It'll be harder to spot you from the air.

Jane.

Dad, that looks like something up ahead.

This could be the old riverbed. That would make this entire area in here an

island at one time.

The monks would use their rafts and their boats to get out to it.

Drop!

As soon as they get that statue, they won't be able to touch us.

Over here. It's a marker of some kind.

The symbols of the Chinese zodiac.

That's a dragon mandala with an indentation in the center.

The mandala must be a key.

No movement.

Nothing.

Well, there must be another step.

Okay.

Symbols of the Chinese zodiac.

Now, what if we push the same ones as the mandala as part of the sequin? That

would be the dog, the rat, and the monkey.

Dog, the rat, and the monkey.

Okay, all at the same time on the count of three. Dad, could you push that one?

Yes, sure. Right there.

On the count of three.

One, two, three.

What else?

The monk hid the statue in 1248, right? The zodiac encompasses in each of its

symbols every year since the ancient Chinese recorded time. So counting

backwards from now would make 1248 the year of the tiger.

Look at that.

Dad, do you know how heavy a jade statue is going to be?

Maybe we should get the truck a little closer. Okay.

Nigel, take the map.

GPS. Get the truck around as close as you can to that statue.

Go with you.

Go ahead, Jenny.

The statue's in there. I can feel it.

Let's go get it.

Ignore this.

Now have a cup, please.

Ancient prayer screen.

It's like an old Mandarin dialect.

A warning of some kind.

Whoever releases the Jade Empress will forever be cursed.

To honor the Queen of Heaven.

I can't make out the rest of it.

Hang the dragon around her neck.

Dragon Mandala?

Could be.

Only when the Mongol danger has passed will the world be safe for her return.

Whoever wrote these didn't want this empress out of her cave.

There she is.

The Jade Empress.

Wow. I know a colonel that wants to meet you.

At last.

Surrounded by a moat of water.

The water isn't reflecting any light.

Yes.

Well, I can't see the bottom of this.

Must be a ground fault brought on by the valley filling up with water.

It definitely came from under here.

Nothing going on under here.

Hey,

hey,

be careful here.

It's just water, right? What am I afraid of?

Oh, you found it.

I don't think Beijing's going to reopen your dam, Dad.

Correct.

You sent those men to Federer's office.

You killed him.

I did not mean for Federer's to be killed.

Only to retrieve the mandala.

You were in business with him, then?

No.

What I did was not for something as crass as money.

No!

Dad!

I'm all right.

Sidney, he's got the gun.

Put them on your neck.

It's okay. They're with us.

What happened down here?

It's a long story.

Dad, are you okay?

Randall! It's okay.

How'd you guys make out with this Chinese army?

Oh, I told them that they would have the extreme honor of recovering one of

China's most treasured missing relics.

Or we'd pay them 50 bucks each.

Oh. Well, that's cheap at half the price now, isn't it?

I think I've figured out why the monks hid the statue.

An inscription on one of the columns in the cave gave me the idea.

The statue disappeared in 1248, but three years before that, the beginning

1245, the Mongol hordes led by Genghis Khan had the Three River Valley under

siege.

Records say that they couldn't conquer it on account of some legendary force

within the temple.

Statue? At the end of those three years, every building in the valley except for

the temple had been reduced to smoking ash.

I think the monks realized that if they wanted to save what was left of their

world, they had to stop fighting and remove the means of waging war. So they

the statue and fled.

With the statue gone and no enemy to fight, the Khan went home and peace was

returned.

The new cultural affairs officer just told me the Jade Empress has a new home.

Safe from floodwaters, where the monks are free to worship her. Isn't that

great?

Oh, and by the way, honey, if you'll excuse me for a moment.

Nigel, would you come down to the bar car with me so you can tell me about

intentions toward my daughter?

Intentions?

Sidney?

Randall?

Sir?

I think he's leaving us alone to

talk. Yeah.

You like dim sum?

Your father and I like those little round coconuts. That's me.

Good.

Because I know a really great place on the Kowloon side.

It doesn't look great. It's kind of a hole.

It's a dive. But the food's great. The food's amazing.

How did you two meet anyway?

That's a long story. We'll tell you about it sometime.

But I probably should clear it with Randall first.

Can you tell me now?

You may not like me anymore.