Quantum Leap (TV Series)

The Curse of Ptah-Hotep - March 2, 1957 (1992)

Dean Stockwell: Al

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• 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 : [of a camel strutting by]  Man. What an ugly horse!

  Al : [of Ginny walking by]  What a gorgeous woman!

• 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.

• Sam : I just was practicing what I was gonna say to the press about the tomb and the curse.

  Ginny : Oh, yeah, well, I can just see the headlines now. They are going to love this!

  Al : Yeah, I can see 'em too. "Genius has Death Wish. Nobel Prize Winner is really a Knucklehead."

• [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 : You know, Sam, did I ever tell you that one time I dated an Egyptian girl?

  Sam : Mm-hmm.

  Al : She thought she was the reincarnation of... of Cleopatra.

  Sam : Uh-huh.

  Al : But, boy, she had a nice asp.

• Sam : Al. If you can't be helpful, why don't you leave, okay?

  Al : Helpful?

  Sam : Yeah.

  Al : I'm being helpful. I'm keeping you company down here in the tomb of... King Heebie-Jeebie.

• 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.