The Mummy (1999)

Erick Avari: Dr. Terrence Bey

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• Dr. Bey : [stutters in disbelief]  What... How... Oh, look at this! Sons of the pharaohs! Give me frogs! Flies! Locusts! Anything but *you*! Compared to you, the other plagues were a joy!

  Evelyn : I am so very sorry. It was an accident.

  Dr. Bey : My girl, when Rameses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You are a *catastrophe*!

• Dr. Bey : We are part of an ancient secret society. For over three thousand years, we have guarded the City of the Dead. We are sworn at manhood to do any and all in our power to stop the High Priest Imhotep from being reborn into this world.

  Ardeth Bay : And now, because of you, we have failed.

  Evelyn : And you think this justifies the killing of innocent people?

  Dr. Bey : To stop this creature? Let me think...

  Dr. Bey , Ardeth Bay : *Yes*!

• Evelyn : There's only one person I know that can possibly give us any answers.

  [sees Ardeth Bay with Dr. Bey] 

  Evelyn : You!

  [the men draw their guns and point them at Ardeth] 

  Dr. Bey : Miss Carnahan. Gentlemen.

  Evelyn : [about Ardeth]  What is *he* doing here?

  Dr. Bey : Do you really want to know, or would you prefer to just... shoot us?

  Rick : After what I just saw, I'm willing to go on a little faith here.

• Dr. Bey : LOOK AT MY LIBRARY!

  [sighs in frustration] 

  Dr. Bey : WHY do I PUT UP WITH YOU?

  Evelyn : W-Well you put up with me because I can... I can read and write Ancient Egyptian, and I can... I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratic, and, well, I am the only person within 1,000 miles who knows how to properly code and-and catalog this library, that's why.

  Dr. Bey : I put up with you because your father and mother were our finest patrons. That's why! Allah rest their souls.

  [pause] 

  Dr. Bey : Now I don't care how you do it, I don't care how long it takes, STRAIGHTEN UP THIS MESHIVER!

• [Imhotep, fully regenerated, and Beni walk through the possessed crowd towards Rick, Evelyn, Jonathan, Dr. Bey, and Ardeth] 

  Dr. Bey : It's the creature. He's fully regenerated.

  [Imhotep speaks in ancient Arabic] 

  Beni : [translating for Imhotep]  Come with me, my princess. It is time to make you mine, forever.

  Evelyn : For all eternity, idiot.

  [Imhotep speaks in ancient Arabic] 

  Beni : [translating for Imhotep]  Take my hand and I will spare your friends.

  [Rick scoffs] 

• Evelyn : [to Dr. Bey about the map to Hamunaptra]  You see the cartouche there? It's the official royal seal of Seti the First, I'm sure of it.

  Dr. Bey : Perhaps.

  Jonathan : Two questions. Who the hell was Seti the First, *and* was he rich?

  Evelyn : He was the second pharaoh of the 19th dynasty, said to be the wealthiest pharaoh of them all.

  Jonathan : Good. That's good. I like this fellow. I like him very much.

• Evelyn : I've already dated the map. It's almost 3,000 years old. And if you look at the hieratic just here, well, it's Hamunaptra.

  Dr. Bey : Dear God, don't be ridiculous. We're scholars, not treasure hunters. Hamunaptra's a myth told by ancient Arab storytellers to amuse Greek and Roman tourists.

  Evelyn : Yes! Yes! I know all the silly blather about the city being protected by the curse of a mummy nonsense, but my research has led me to believe that the city itself may have actually existed.

  Jonathan : Are we talking about the Hamunaptra?

  Evelyn : Yes. The City of the Dead. Where the earliest pharaohs were said to have hidden the wealth of Egypt.

  Jonathan : Yes, yes, in-in-in-in a big, underground treasure chamber.

  Dr. Bey : Heh!

  Jonathan : Oh, come on. Everybody knows the story. The entire necropolis was rigged to sink into the sand on Pharaoh's command. A flick of a switch, and the whole place would disappear beneath the sand dunes, taking the treasure with it.

  Dr. Bey : As the Americans would say, it's all fairy tales and hokum.

  Dr. Bey : [lets the map on fire that made him shocked]  Oh, my goodness! Look at that!

  Jonathan : [they got rid of the fire and looks at the map]  You've burnt it! You've burned off the part with the lost city.

  Dr. Bey : It's for the best, I'm sure. Many men have wasted their lives in the foolish pursuit of Hamunaptra. No one's ever found it. Most have never returned.