We hear Peter Wingfield’s voice, as Methos, as he proclaims:
“I've died, been reborn a thousand times and died again. But in the five thousand years that I've been alive, I've rarely thought back to the beginning and the secrets I buried there.
“Unfortunately, secrets never die when you're immortal.”
(end)
Episode 1
TOKYO, PRESENT DAY
A busy street filled with neon signs. We hear thunder and rain falling. The camera zooms in on a restaurant/bar and the scene switches to the interior on a close-up shot of a glass of beer on the bar top. We see an emblem with the word “FUJI” on the glass. A TV is playing behind the bar; we hear Japanese commercials running.
The camera pulls back and we see Methos sitting by the bar slurping a huge bowl of soup as he watches the screen.
The programming switches to a news report (in English):
“. . . Tonight in a special breaking report, we go live to Egypt where Dr. Mina Abadi has recently made a miraculous underwater discovery. Dr. Abadi?”
The screen changes to show a woman holding a microphone and standing in the desert near pyramids.
Dr. Abadi: “Good evening. The completion of the second Aswan High Dam 30 years ago in southern Egypt caused the flooding of significant areas of archaeological interest.”
Several images of dated footage from 1960 and 1963 during the construction of the dam flash by the screen.
Dr. Abadi: “During the past several years my research team at the Egyptian Museum at Cairo has conducted extensive reconnaissance on the submerged areas.”
The TV displays a research vessel hoisting a huge artifact from out of the waters. Then we see a diver in scuba gear swimming downward towards the bottom.
Dr. Abadi: “But it wasn’t until last week that I discovered what appeared to be small fissures in the bedrock. Using a state of the art sediment extracting system, I was able to navigate down under these crevasses, only to discover that it was the roof of a large tomb.”
Dr. Abadi: “And in the middle of this tomb . . . was a huge, magnificent, intact sarcophagus.”
The artifact is shown on the TV and rotated so that we see a strange symbol of two crossed swords and a falcon on the back.
Methos gasps loudly and drops his bowl of soup, causing a loud crash as the bowl shatters on the floor. Methos simply stares in complete horror at the image.
(credits roll)