Written by: Curtis Kheel
Directed by: Ernest Dickerson
Original airdate: August 26, 2008
Synopsis:
Jack rushes out of the bunker to avoid hearing any more of Lex’s self composed yoga music, thankful for a call to help fix an issue at GD. Upon arrival he finds an Egyptologist named Dr. Wilding, who has chained himself to an Egyptian tomb that was just transferred to the facility, determined to stop staff archeologist Dr. Sebastian Marx from opening it due to warnings on the tomb about a curse. In the end, Wilding is satisfied that he’s given them enough warnings and acquiesces.
Marx goes into the tomb with Eileen, a camerawoman and they document him opening the sarcophagus, finding the mummy of Queen Nyota.
Later in the evening, Fargo is trying to find a place to hang up a picture of Stark in the newly christened Nathan Stark Memorial Hall, when he feels a touch on his shoulder. He turns to see a decaying hand and panics and runs off. When he returns with Jack they search around and find out that the mummy in the sarcophagus is gone and Dr. Marx is lying nearby, unconscious. In her office, Allison sees a vision of Stark but when she turns on the light, there is no one there.
Marx accuses Wilding of taking the mummy but he denies it, explaining his great respect for the Egyptians who he considers the original scientists. Wilder names Marx as a sell out, and calls out his real name and past crimes, which Jo confirms. Meanwhile, Fargo tells Jack that cells that were in the paleontology lab were brought back to life with the same rays that were used to open the mummy’s tomb.
Eva talks to Henry about solving a cryptix puzzle but since she is still being cagey about her hotel plans and without knowing why she wants it solved, he refuses, leaving her to go to Zane instead who readily agrees to help.
Jack and Jo head off to see why Marx never showed up to his book signing and find him in his bathtub, running hot water, turned into a dried up skeleton. Henry begins an autopsy, quarantining the body while he works on it just in case it is a flesh eating bacteria that caused his death. Allison gets upset with all the talk about death and retreats to her car where once again she sees a vision of Nathan talking to her but disappears as quick as he appeared.
Jack,learning that Marx likely died of some type of dehydration sickness, looks into the camerawoman who is also missing and finds her in a fountain near the tomb, dead and reduced to a skeleton. Soon Fargo starts exhibiting signs of ebbing sick with the dehydration sickness as he rips open a water fountain, drinking right from the hose. They quarantine him but there’s little they can do as he starts to suffer the effects of the dehydration sickness as well, his body losing fluids rapidly.
Henry finds that the camerawoman’s body just disintegrated whereas Marx had hundreds of masses inside his stomach, keeping his body mostly intact.
Zane and Wilding try deciphering the tomb’s hieroglyphics and Jack discovers that the mummy never went anywhere, but just disintegrated into dust in her sarcophagus, the same as the camerawoman.
Allison reports that they have found microbial bacteria in Fargo’s blood that look like bugs. With Allison, they both theorize that the bugs may have been in suspended animation for centuries but have recently awakened when the tomb opened, and with water, have started to grow. Jack tries to warn Henry but it’s too late as the bugs emerge from Marx’s body and begins swarming around town, ready to infect others
After Zoe calls Jack to tell him the bugs are surrounding Cafe Diem, Jack has Lex turn off her music, which causes the bugs to leave, and when turned back on they return. They come up with a plan to use the music and draw the bugs into an enclosed area where they can use great cold temperatures to kill them. They tested the procedure on Fargo, putting him into a cryofreeze which does kill the infestation in his body.
Jack goes to Cafe Diem and blasts Lex’s music to attract the bugs, eventually running into Diem and thawing the boombox into Vincent’s freezer. The bugs follow, they close the door, and lower the temps until the bugs finally die.
Allison sees Stark again but so does Jack and the others, leaving them to realize Stark included a holographic message in the Logic Diamond he had made for Allison. She views the touching message by herself later on.
