Relic Hunter

- Season 2

(2000)

Kuba, Africa 100 AD: Worshippers of Woote curse his idol to protect it. 2000: Ross Crawford comes to Sydney, because he took the idol and the curse has accelerated his aging. And, if the idol isn't returned, Woote's wrath will be unleashed.

India, 500 AD: A precious dagger is used in human sacrifices to goddess Kali. 2000: Dr. Terrace is in a maximum security prison for killing his assistant. The dagger compelled him and now Sydney must return it to its sheath in India.

On a search for a South American Mochica Indian relic of protection, Nigel with his colleagues Tobar and Cate get captured by local guerrillas, and it's up to Sydeny and ally Jason Clark to save them. But things take surprising turns...

Sydney and Nigel set out to find if the legend of the lost civilization in New Guinea is actually true. Unfortunately, they have to team up with Derek Lloyd.

Sydney reunites with her high school sweetheart Tony to track down a Hawaiian fertility idol in Madagascar.

Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king orders to hide the Crown. 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare Tarot cards via post from his just died friend. The infamous, previously unmentioned, Vulture was after him. Sydney enlists Claudia to help.

2000: According to local monks, the Famed Jade Empress is hidden in the valley that will be flooded when the Three Rivers Dam's flood gates have their grand opening. Sydney's dad asks her to come to Hong Kong to find the statue.

Rome, 44 BC: An alchemist creates an impenetrable armor for Caesar. 2000: Sydney and Nigel are on a trip, so Claudia decides to help Sydney's friend Roger to find Caesar's Armor. But relic hunting is not her strongest talent.

When two graduate students on the trail of the Haitian Cross of Utu disappear in New Orleans, Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou to find them.

Sydney, Nigel and billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle to rescue a relic-hunting team hired by Thorson to locate an ancient sacrificial bowl.

Egypt, 1516 BC: Amun II is buried with his crook and flail. London, 2001: Working as consultants for an archeology adventure film, Sydney and Nigel realize the Pharaoh's "props" are genuine, long thought lost relics. How can they be?

Sydney gets kidnapped, but by whom? Nigel, Claudia and Cate will have to go through the list of enemies Sydney has made in the past and deduce which of them is responsible. Cue flashbacks.

Sydney leaves weary Nigel to deal with the long-delayed accounting review by Foxy Maxine Schneider as she can't wait to check upon the Celopatra exhibition in the Alexandria museum, the jewel box on the folder arousing inexplicable memories and knowledge of hieroglyphs as if she were the reincarnated royal handmaiden. Her clues allow museum director Mohammed Kalifa to find a papyrus in a secret compartment, only to be stolen. His assistant Shareef is after the hidden necklace, the trail leads to a recent temple excavation.

Mississippi Valley, 1605: Indians lock French explorers into a chamber in which they get disintegrated. 2001: Sydney and her student Adam are onto his ancestors' fabled Eyes of Toklamanee, but they are pursued by mysterious gunmen.

Sydney and Nigel are ambushed in Russia. Two weeks later, Sydney wakes up in the house of a man called Tsarlov, who claims to have saved her. However, Sydney understands soon something's wrong, and she's right: instead of hunting for relics, she's going to be hunted now.

While on a lecture tour with Nigel in Europe, Sydney is contacted by MI5 because she is the only one who can prevent an impending high-level assassination, according to a prophecy written by Nostradamus himself.

Sydney's friend phones to inform her that he's discovered information on the Golden Hawk of Maribor, lost since 1711. Sydney and Nigel travel to Lubjanka to meet him, but he's already gone after the Hawk.

Germania, ca. 400 AD: an artifact called Gunther's Scepter is sealed in a vault. Kleine Burgh, 2001: Sydney and Nigel are hired to find the Scepter using a crystal and a stone tablet that were recently discovered.

Sydney and Nigel investigate how her childhood friend Naomi, now a diva fashion model, is disfigured in hellish pains during a photo-shoot when she puts on as prop a historical mask, worn by a French revolution executioner. As this fits a legendary curse, they travel to his native city Bourg, where the previous owner suffered the same fate until Naomi put on the mask, and consult a macabre French expert an executions, who helps them trail the mask to an orphanage turned boarding school. A villain learns a nightmare lesson before the curse is lifted.

Nigel has personal reserves about Sidney's next mission, the search for Tudor king Henry VIII's missing engagement ring for Anne Boleyn, as the case is presented by his ever-rivaling elder brother Preston Bailey, as executive in the British Museum. There CEO Dr. Anthony Cureton bluntly rejects their help, actually being in dirty dealings with a dodgy relic hunter, whose henchman fails to arrest the Bailey quest, which deciphers Henry's artistic riddles one by one in London and Leeds castle, while the brothers' ex/girl Amanda Reardon two-times them viciously.

Hungary, 1595: In a monastery, Knight Gabriel impales a demon, which then turns to stone. 2001: Nigel and Sydney arrive bearing a letter from a monk, but the abbot claims it is a forgery and shuts them out. Sydney decides to dig deeper.

Jerusalem 1099: crusaders find the Tau "cross", but it evaporates the one touching it. Paris 2001: Allan comes to Sydney, telling he has 12 hours before a Necron virus kills him unless he delivers Tau to a blackmailer who has the antidote.