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Relic Hunter 209 Cross of Voodoo

(chanting)

The zombie spell is broken.

You are human again.

(chanting)

Is it safe?

Yeah, she's just gone to get some stamps.

Good timing.

There you go.

You're late today.

Just felt my...

Beeper go off.

You...

Sure it was your beeper?

I got to go.

What?

Something wrong?

Yeah, I just got another call from the dean.

Apparently, matt and kelly's parents still haven't heard from them.

Kids partying go incommunicado all the time.

It's been 2 weeks, claudia.

Must've been a hot party.

They were checking in twice a week.

Have you spoken to the new orleans police department?

Yeah, they didn't come up with anything.

You didn't force them to go to new orleans for their research.

But I encouraged them to.

They're my students, nigel.

Can you try again, please?

Okay.

(phone ringing)

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(professor richard:) the thing is, you see,

Voodoo takes the basic tenets of catholicism

And incorporates practices from a variety of african traditions:

The fon, nago, ibos, the dahomeans, the congos --

Oh, and the senegalese.

Professor richard, we really need to talk about matt and kelly.

{pos(192,200)}Oh, right, right. You sounded concerned on the phone.

Well, we haven't heard from them for a while.

{pos(192,200)}Well, they've been doing some very good work.

{pos(192,200)}They're very sharp. They came up with information

{pos(192,200)}On haitian rituals that even I didn't know about.

When was the last time you saw them?

{pos(192,200)}Oh, a couple of weeks ago, maybe.

(prof. Richard:) actually, I was quite surprised when you called.

I assumed they'd left new orleans by now.

(landlord:) they ain't been here for a while.

{pos(192,200)}Still owe me for last month.

{pos(192,200)}Kicked them out before with all the gris gris was hanging in there.

{pos(192,200)}Gris gris?

{pos(192,200)}Don't get me wrong. I like to pass a good time myself,

But they done left the place beaucoups crasseux.

Do you have any idea what he's talking about?

You english?

Uh huh.

I had a friend move over there about 6 years ago named beau,

Beau la croix. You know him?

No, no, I don't think so.

Huh?

No.

Your friend was into some strange stuff.

What kind of strange stuff?

See for yourself.

(sydney:)looks like matt and kelly were getting into their research.

Some of their notes.

Have you any idea where they might have gone?

If I did, I'd send the cops over to get my money.

You see them, you tell them they want their camera back,

They'd best clean this mess up and get me the rest of the rent.

Camera?

(landlord:)only thing worth a damn they left behind.

But I'll be lucky if it and the security deposit cover this mess.

There's a tape inside.

How much?

$500.

$500 for a tape?

Afraid it only comes as a set.

Take a cheque?

Only cash.

Of course.

(nigel:)did you see those mutton chops?

The man looked like captain queeg.

And then when he asked me if I knew beau -- beau?

Just because I've lived in England is like asking me

If I know the queen.

Let's just hope there's something here we can use.

Yeah, so do I for $500.

Why don't you check these notes while I call claudia?

(sydney:)looks like someone broke in, nigel.

(sydney:) nigel.

(nigel:) sorry.

It doesn't look like there's anything missing.

You all right?

Did she see you take her brush?

This woman needs a taste of the power of uto.

(speaking in french)

(kelly:) wait, let me get the camera steady. Okay, matt.

(matt:) all right, it's Tuesday, November the twelfth.

We're in the voodoo church of legba, duvall, louisiana.

This is so awesome. Right up here, it's the cross of the uto.

No one has seen it for over a hundred years

And kelly and I might be the first ones to find it.

So, man, we are so stoked.

Now, we've got to go back to new orleans tonight

To meet up with professor richard

And then we'll be back here tomorrow morning.

The last time professor richard met with them.

We met this voodoo priest...

(kelly:) matt. He told us not to say anything.

Put the camera on the tripod for a second and come up here.

Kelly's a little freaked out.

I think she's taking her job a little too seriously.

Yeah, why don't you tell us your theories, agent scully?

I'm not being paranoid

Because a lot of strange things have been happening lately.

Right, like satan and his voodoo posse

Might carjack us on the way home.

It's not funny, matt.

I'm serious.

Kelly looked pretty scared.

Cross of uto?

Yeah. It's a voodoo icon, as I recall.

I thought it was supposed to be in haiti.

Yeah.

I looked through matt and kelly's notes.

They say there's a voodoo sect here that worships uto.

Probably in that church that was on the video. What else?

Well, there are two symbols that represent these sects,

A spider and a serpent.

The serpent represents the second in command,

A sort of lieutenant.

Then there's the leader, the... The sect's king.

It's represented by a spider.

I think we should head down to duvall,

See what we can find out.

Maybe we can find the church.

Maybe we can find the priest they're talking about.

I think we should run this tape by professor richard first,

See what he has to say.

(gasping in pain)

Sydney?

My shoulder.

(gasping in pain)

I believe your professor's in some discomfort.

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(claudia:) hey, wait, where are you going? Come back.

Don't I have to sign for this?

(recording)the cellular customer you are trying to reach

Is not available or has travelled beyond the service area.

(matt on video:) right up here is the cross of the uto.

No one has seen it for over a hundred years

And kelly and I might be the first ones to find it.

So, man, we are so stoked.

Now, we've got to go back to new orleans tonight

To meet up with professor richard,

Then we'll be back here...

The cross of uto.

It's amazing.

It's been missing for over a hundred years.

I had no idea they were onto its location.

Your students really are very good.

We also found some notes of matt and kelly's.

Have you heard anything about a sect worshipping uto here?

No, I didn't even know that the cross was in the country.

Legend has it that it's still in haiti.

You all right?

Yeah, just a little sore.

What's the matter?

Someone broke into our room.

I must've sprained a muscle.

Someone broke into your room?

We should get going if we want an early start to duvall tomorrow.

Sydney, duvall isn't new orleans.

They're not very receptive to outsiders there.

There can be some very unfriendly elements in voodoo.

We'll be careful.

Goodbye.

(nigel:)so this is duvall.

(sydney:)yeah.

I guess professor richard was right.

They're not exactly rolling out the red carpet.

Yeah. I don't see anything that looks like a church.

(sydney:)kind of strange. No church in a small town like this.

(nigel:)let's see if there's someone in that store we can talk to.

(nigel:)I'm getting a very strange feeling.

Like we're being watched?

Yeah.

Yeah. Let's keep going.

There's got to be someone here that'll talk to us.

You want to know about the cross and the students.

How did you know?

Look for a fire in the woods tonight,

An hour after sundown, south of the motel.

Wait.

Not here. Tonight, in the woods.

(nigel:)sun's going down. Should be getting dark pretty soon.

(sydney:)our accommodations for the evening.

(nigel:)I don't suppose the building inspectors

Get out to the swamp very often.

Sydney, about meeting this man tonight,

With what the professor said and all,

Don't you think it could be a little bit...

Dangerous?

Mm.

Uh huh.

Thanks again. All I wanted was a nice teaching job.

You've been avoiding me.

No, I...

Tell me something.

What's wrong? I am a...

Healthy red-blooded woman,

Don't seem to have any problems getting dates.

So tell me, what is the problem here?

Nothing, it's just... It's against my religion.

Oh, please. I've seen you partying at the pub.

I have a girlfriend.

You and sharon broke up a month ago.

I don't even know you.

Nothing escapes me on this campus.

Do you hear that? Fire drill. Well, you really should...

Very well, you leave me no choice.

Ow, my hair. What are you, nuts?

I will have that man.

(nigel:) there we go.

Not taking a shower in this room.

(claudia on phone:) hello?

(nigel:) claudia.

(claudia:) nigel, where are you?

I've been trying to get a hold of you for hours.

I'm sorry, claudia.

There doesn't seem to be a lot of reception

For cell phones in deliverance-land.

Thought you were on bourbon street.

(nigel:) no, it's a long story. What's so urgent?

I got a package from matt and kelly in new orleans.

What's in it?

I don't know. I would never open one of sydney's personal packages without her...

Claudia.

It's a bunch of paperwork.

What kind of paperwork?

I don't know. There's like 300 pages here.

(claudia:) looks like research or something.

Overnight it to the hotel in new orleans as soon as you can.

Okay. I missed today's pickup

But I'll send it out first thing tomorrow.

Thank you.

(knocking)

You might want to put a jacket on before we go out.

What do you mean?

I can't seem to find my hairbrush.

Can I borrow yours?

Sure.

Nice bird.

Thanks.

Thank you.

(nigel:) do you think there are snakes out here?

(sydney:) yeah, but only a couple whose species are poisonous.

Oh, that's real reassuring, thank you, yes.

Oh, don't worry. They scurry away when they hear people coming.

Really?

Now, the alligators, they could be a problem.

I think I see something.

What is it?

Not sure.

What do you think?

Does that look like a fire to you?

Maybe.

(nigel:) something's not right. It's very quiet.

Yeah, I think we're onto something.

Did you see that?

No.

Exactly.

(sydney:) fire. Looks like a... Huh.

(nigel:) sydney!

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(gasping in pain)

You all right?

Yeah. I guess that flash must have scared them off.

I guess.

(nigel:) I just can't believe that those creatures

Are the same matt and kelly

I saw in your class 2 weeks ago.

It was them. Or some form of who they were.

And now they've turned into some sort of zombie?

No, zombies are the living dead.

Your friends are still very much alive,

But deveraux has them under a strong spell.

Who's deveraux?

A powerful bokor.

A bokor is like a sorcerer.

This will help with the pain.

The cross of uto gives deveraux his power.

What kind of power?

The cross can be used for evil by men like deveraux,

Gives them great strength and control of others.

They are under his spell and will do whatever he wishes.

(nigel:)this deveraux must have known

That matt and kelly were close to finding it.

The cross can also be used to heal the sick

And break spells cast by a bokor.

And now, it is the only thing that can save your friends.

(sydney:) where can we find it?

Legend says the cross was stolen from haiti

By deveraux's ancestors and brought here.

They hid it with a spell that gives him his dark power,

Supposedly somewhere in this very bayou.

To break the power, we must find the cross.

Did I do something wrong?

Your hair. It's brown.

Yeah, yes, it is.

You must change it before the next full moon.

Change it to what?

Not brown.

(nigel:) matt and kelly mentioned they were coming to see you.

(nigel:) the symbols look african.

(witch doctor:) fulani.

(nigel:)it has tribal roots in northern senegal.

The symbols on the carvings show where the cross might be.

Half of it seems to have broken off.

It is only half.

When complete, the carving shows the location

Of four talismans placed near the cross.

They are part of the spell.

Only by locating the talismans can we find the cross.

So, who has the other half?

It was lost long ago in battle.

But your friends discovered it in their research.

They were bringing it to me, but deveraux got to them first.

I'm not sure if he got the carving.

I was hoping that maybe you had it.

We searched their apartment.

There was no wood carving, nothing that looked like this.

Then it is hopeless.

Maybe not.

The package matt and kelly sent to the office.

It's still at the office. Let's go back to the motel, call claudia.

Syd', it's 2:00 in the morning.

I am not happy about this.

Yes, I'm sorry, claudia, but it's very important.

Now, you're sure there's not a wood carving in the package?

I'm positive. It's just paper.

But they must've made a copy.

It's standard research protocol.

Probably made a rubbing of it.

Claudia, look for a rubbing.

It's like an impression taken of an engraved object.

Okay.

And it should have african writing on it.

Have you been a witch doctor long?

I mean, I'm... I'm sure you don't go to school for it

Or anything like that, not in a university sense.

I mean, can you imagine a bachelor of science

From harvard in witch doctoring? Poof.

Not brown.

No.

Wait a minute, I think I found something.

Great. Scan it and e-mail it to nigel.

It's on its way.

It says the cross is buried in a chamber under the ground.

It must remain there for deveraux to keep his power.

But we have to find the talismans first.

Yes. The first is located on an oak tree

At the mouth of silver creek.

Silver creek is not far from here.

(nigel:) the first talisman.

(sydney:)pentagram. Let's mark it.

Now, all we need to do is find the other 3.

(nigel:) okay, we're more or less in the centre of the 4 talismans.

(sydney:) I don't see anything that would mark an altar.

(nigel:) the carving says the talismans hold the cross' power in place.

Well, then the logical place would be the centre.

You don't believe that, do you?

Well where else would it be?

Hold this.

Now, the talismans are supposed to show us

The location of the cross, right?

These are the 4 locations of the talismans we've already found.

Each of those talismans has happened to be a pentagram.

So if we connect these and finish it as a pentagram,

The fifth point is where the cross should be.

The top of the pentagram

Is the point of strongest magical energy.

The other 4 points support it.

Now, a pentagram's points are equidistant from the centre.

If we measure the distance from here

To any one of these torches,

The fifth point must be the same distance in that direction.

To save your friends,

You must place the cross to the front of their heads

And chant this prayer:

Umbala netay uto.

(together:)umbala netay uto.

Where are you going?

Deveraux will try to stop us.

I can perform a ceremony that may counter his power,

But I must go back to my hut.

Start measuring.

From that one?

Yeah.

(sydney:) 45, 46, 47,

48, 49, 50.

Well, this is the same distance.

Probably somewhere around here.

Nigel.

What if we align it with the direction of the points we found?

Stay on my tail, we'll go slow.

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(nigel:) pentagrams.

The tablet says pentagrams

Hold the cross' power in place.

Is that it?

The spider and the serpent.

The leader and his lieutenant,

Like in matt and kelly's notes.

Strange. Feels like there's an electrical current

Running through it. Here.

No, no, thanks. Let's just take it upstairs

And go find matt and kelly.

What?

This was way too easy getting in here.

Where's this deveraux guy?

(creaking)

What's that?

(creaking)

Nigel, the cross.

I know about the cross, but what about the words?

(nigel:) I can't remember the words.

Umbala...

Umbala netay uto.

Umbala netay uto.

Thanks.

(deveraux:) now, you didn't think I was just going to let

You walk out of here with my cross, did you?

Deveraux.

Looks like a snake to me.

Let me show you how it's done.

Don't be discouraged.

You did hurt me. In here.

Umbala netay uto.

Where are we?

(sydney:)don't worry, you'll be all right from now on. Let's go.

Nigel, why don't you take them back to the motel?

If deveraux is the serpent, we have the spider to worry about.

I'm going to go visit our witch doctor.

Okay. Come on.

(sydney:) hello?

Hello?

Richard.

(knocking)

Sydney got back early.

(nigel:)mr. Richard.

Hello. I... I was concerned about you and sydney and...

You found them? Matt, kelly, you're okay.

(nigel:)they're a little disoriented,

But I... I think they'll be all right.

Please come in.

Thank you. What on earth happened to you two?

We're not really sure. Our memories are really weak.

(richard:) well, I'm just glad that the two of you are all right.

As I recall, once the cross is removed from the chamber,

The power it gives you and deveraux is gone.

(sydney:) nigel, richard is...

The spider.

(nigel:)not anymore. His power is gone.

(kelly:)I don't think we'll be able to use this for our thesis.

A thesis which happens to be 3 weeks late.

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They convicted him of assault and kidnapping.

(sydney:)well, that should put him out of business for a long time.

Yes.

So tell me about this voodoo ceremony

That the priest performed on the cross.

It was amazing.

Yeah, they put the cross in this shrine in the church.

The sun just beamed off it

And threw this awesome light show on the wall.

(matt:)and then they recited this protection spell

Using animal bones and... And potions.

And the priest said that any bokors won't be able to touch it

After the blessing ritual they did.

Well, it's good to know that it's in the right hands.

Yes.

Oh, and there's one more thing that we want to show you.

Oh, my goodness, congratulations.

Yes, well, we thought about living together

For a little while longer.

Right, but then we figured

We pretty much had seen each other at our worst.

(kelly:) yeah.

Nigel, the gangsta look is so over.

And besides, you're supposed to wear it like this.

Well, it's only 12 hours until the full moon.

For the most beautiful woman in the world.

(claudia:)for me? You shouldn't have.

So I'll see you tonight then.

7:00? Seems like an eternity away from you.

I don't understand. What did you do to that poor man?

What do you mean?

Well, a week ago,

He didn't want to come within 3 miles of you.

Now, he's practically proposing marriage.

How did you do it?

I wore him down.

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