Quantum Leap (TV Series)

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

John Kapelos: Dr. Mustafa El Razul

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Quotes 

• Razul : [pretending to read the hieroglyphics]  "For a good time, call Nefertiti."

• 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?

• [upon finding the real burial chamber] 

  Razul : Not even Tutankhamen in all his glory had anything like this.

  Sam : The wealth of a kingdom, buried with their god.

• [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.