- Sam: You're not gonna believe this. We just found the tomb of King Ptah-Hotep II. It's incredible- Go inside, go inside... Incredible!
- Al: Well, Ziggy says it's unbelievable, because this has never been reported.
- Sam: Then I didn't just forget about it?
- Al: Well, no. As of 1999, it's never even been discovered, ever.
- Sam: Look, I know this place bothers you, but if you would just help me find the real burial chamber, you could leave.
- Al: I'm a hologram, I'm not a vampire bat! I can't see in the dark. If I walk through a wall or I walk into a dark room, all I see is black. That's it! And I'm sure as hell not gonna bump into anything.
- Sam: Al. We can't leave now. This is a major, major discovery!
- Al: This is gonna be a major, major catastrophe! What're you being so stubborn about this one for? It's crazy.
- Sam: Ptah-Hotep was never found. We can't lose him now!
- Al: Well, that's no problem. Ziggy'll locate it right after we get this chip business straightened out, and then, in 1999, you can...
- [consults his handlink]
- Al: Uh-oh.
- Sam: I knew it, I knew it. "Uh-oh" what?
- Al: Uh, well, there's a 99.8% chance that Ptah-Hotep's tomb is gonna be destroyed when they build the Aswân Dam in... the '60s.
- Sam: OK, so, see? I gotta stay.
- Al: [referring to Ginny and Sam] She and Conway disappeared on a dig in 1957 - that's this dig - and they were swallowed up without a trace.
- Sam: "As for anyone who will disturb the tomb of King Ptah-Hotep, death will swallow him." That was one of the inscriptions we found in the tomb.
- Al: I'd say he's a man of his word.
- Razul: 3500 years ago... other men and women sat around campfires near here, waiting to bury their great pharaoh. And now... and now, they're like the grains of sand around us. It makes one wonder what all our efforts are about, hm?
- [Sam - as Conway - does not believe in the curse of Ptah-Hotep]
- Razul: Dr. Conway, my dear friend. You are a student of Egypt, but you're not one of its sons. And until you have heard what I have heard and seen what I have seen, I would not expect you to believe that such a thing as a curse could be true. But it is.
- Sam: 3500-year-old dead men don't just get up and walk around.
- Razul: Not him, my dear boy. His ka.
- Al: That's his spirit body.
- Sam: I know what it is.
- Razul: Of course you do, but it could still be standing guard in his tomb, and is now protecting him.
- Sam: That would mean that Ptah-Hotep's body is still nearby.
- Razul: Yes, yes, yes. Perhaps you are right. Legend has it that Ptah-Hotep had a diamond scarab the size of a cow's eye, called the Heart of Ptah-Hotep. Supposedly, he used it to work magic.
- Sam: Right, and... with it he would one day walk again on Earth.
- Al: He's already doin' it.
- Al: Oh yeah. Oh yeah. 'Oops! It was an accident! I accidentally killed everybody. Haw haw. Now I'm stuck with this secret load of secret treasure. Oh, I'm going to have to give up my measley, poor-paying professorship and go somewhere and live a life of ease and luxury somewhere else. Ha ha.' Give her an Oscar and let's get the hell outta here.