F-A-B, Thunderbird 5.
This is Thunderbird 2 descending on the Quetacha Mountains.
But there's no sign of any mine.
Because it's buried under the landslide along with half the crew.
We'll get 'em out. Gordon's rigging a pod.
And it's a beauty!
(WHIRRING)
OK, Virgil, I got a good look at the rock face.
If you hit this just right, you should be able to pull away the obstruction all at once.
Marking contact points.
Locked on.
Gordon, you'd best clear out.
What is that?
(VIRGIL GRUNTS) It's a lot bigger than I thought!
Gordon, get out now!
Huh! Easy there, big fella!
Shaft is clear, all miners accounted for.
Mission complete.
(MINERS SHOUTING IN SPANISH)
Gordon, are you OK?
I'm fine but are you getting this?
Some kind of carved message.
Cross-checking with the database of ancient languages.
Got it.
It's from the Quetacha tribe. They ruled this area around 1100.
Forget the history lesson. What's it say?
"This is the pyramid of Sapa Quepanqui...
the Laughing King.
Who dares disturb my peace will join me in my tomb."
5...
4...
3...
2...
1.
Thunderbirds are go!
(FRANTIC SHOUTING IN SPANISH)
Five months ago, the pyramid International Rescue uncovered
turned out to be a major archaeological find...
over 1,000 years old.
Professor Harold, as a monitor for the World Heritage Society,
I'm a firm supporter in unearthing our past.
We've made a lot of progress in the last three months.
But there's still a long way to go.
Like the road back to civilisation!
So I'm looking forward to seeing the carvings and hieroglyphics I've heard so much about.
You mean the curse!
Primitive superstition.
It's just to stop treasure hunters.
Speaking of treasure hunters, keep an eye on the Professor.
There were unanswered questions about valuables going missing on his last dig.
Nothing was ever proved but...
GORDON: Lady Penelope!
~ Gordon? ~ (GORDON GRUNTS)
(STRAINS AND GRUNTS)
I wasn't sure what we'd need, so I brought the all-terrain kit.
~ (GRUNTS) ~ First, ever hear of travelling light?
And second, why are you here, Gordon?
First, better safe than sorry.
Second, you called me, remember?
As long as you're here, you're welcome to have a look inside.
But I didn't send you any message.
Yes, you did. You said it was too dangerous to go in alone.
Dangerous? (SIGHS) Parker, would you happen to know anything about this?
Well, m'lady, I knew I wasn't going in, so I called International Rescue.
Because you think I need someone to look after me?
Exactly!
I mean, no, not at all, m'lady.
You're more than capable of fending for yourself.
~ See what you've done? ~ I thought you weren't going in?
Exactly! Then you arrived!
I had a five in six chance of it being one of the others.
~ There are only five of us! ~ I was including your gran!
This is the main tunnel.
Many precious finds have been found here.
(WHIMPERS)
Hold up!
I want to run a full electro-magnetic spectrum analysis before we go in too deep.
Why, exactly?
Because I brought the electro-magnetic spectrum analyser.
~ (BLEEPING) ~ I'm picking up traces of precious metals.
~ Gold, silver... ~ Really? Where?
The readings get stronger this way.
Very interesting.
Shame the way is blocked.
Nothing getting through here.
Oh!
(RUMBLING AND CREAKING)
(LOW MOAN)
(CONTINUES MOANING)
A vein of gold leads to a golden heart.
A treasure chamber!
~ Really? ~ Oh, er...
I've got to keep it safe from looters.
So do we.
Er... guys? We shouldn't leave the main tunnel.
Oh.
(SIGHS) Guess we're going in.
Dead end.
~ Let's go, Professor. ~ No, there must be a mechanism.
(WHIRRING AND CLANKING)
~ It's a trap! ~ Run!
~ Pyramid! ~ I know where we are!
No, human pyramid!
(GRUNTING)
PROFESSOR: It's OK, I made it through!
Well, bully for you!
There's no mechanism on this side.
Thunderbird 5, do you copy? John, are you there?
Professor, my comms are dead!
All the gold and silver's causing electro-magnetic interference.
I'll get help! Stay there!
Where does he think we'd go?
I don't know.
~ Gas! ~ But we'd better go somewhere.
(DEVICE BLEEPING)
And the readout says it's toxic.
PARKER: Of course it is!
Lucky I brought my re-breather.
Still wish I'd travelled light?
Are you serious?
We're being poisoned and you're scoring points?
(EXHALES DEEPLY)
The re-breather won't last forever.
The gas is heavier than air. If we don't get to higher ground, we'll end up six feet under.
(SIGHS)
Well, if I'm gonna die here,
might as well get comfortable.
(CLANKING AND WHIRRING)
Ohh!
Wonderful! Let's go even deeper into this cursed pyramid!
Professor Harold?
Are you there? Come in, Professor.
I'm here, I'm here!
Where's our pilot? I can't reach him.
He's in the pyramid with Lady Penelope.
Are they OK? I can have Thunderbird 2 there in minutes and blast them out.
No, no. No, no.
That won't be necessary.
They're just er... taking a tour.
Comms are down because of electro-magnetic interference, that's all.
I'll get him to call you as soon as he's out.
Anyway, nice chatting to you, but I've got to go.
Lots of archaeology going on.
Bye!
(BLEEPING)
No toxic gas up here.
Where do we go now?
It appears we don't have much of a choice.
(DEVICE BLEEPING)
Oops!
Look out!
~ Are you OK? ~ No!
Are you hit? I don't see an entry wound.
No, the spears didn't get me, but you nearly broke my nose.
Oh, well... excuse me for saving you.
~ I didn't need saving. ~ Fine!
Next time I'll wait to see if you've been impaled...
The spears were nowhere near me.
Er... m'lady?
Gordon?
Could use a hand here.
A spear would've hurt less than getting your lumpy elbow in my face.
My elbows aren't lumpy!
What does that even mean? Some people would be grateful.
Some people would appreciate what I did, some would say...
~ Ohh! ~ Huh?
(RUMBLING)
~ Thank you. ~ You're welcome.
(PARKER CLEARS HIS THROAT)
And Gordon hasn't checked in since?
No, the Professor says it's electro-magnetic interference.
But I got a feeling he wasn't telling me the whole story.
~ I don't like the sound of that. ~ There's more and you'll like it even less.
My scan is picking up chlorine-dioxide gas around the base of the pyramid.
Better move fast. Virgil, follow in Thunderbird 2 in case we need to blast them out.
Thunderbirds are go!
(WHIRRING)
(ENGINE WHINES)
5, 4,
3, 2,
1.
Thunderbirds are go!
(WATER DRIPPING)
~ It's flooded! ~ First pyramid I've seen with an indoor pool.
The Laughing King must have liked an early-morning dip,
before a hard day's cursing the innocent.
It's OK. I came prepared.
Yes, and you've only mentioned it 100 times so far.
You're being dramatic. (COUGHS)
Seven or eight times at the most.
(SPLASH)
(STRAINS)
(GRUNTS)
Gordon?
What's going on?
Gordon, are you OK?
I drained the tunnel. Come on through!
What took you so long?
I wasn't sure there'd be enough room in the tunnel for us and your big head.
Oh.
The tragic loss of Lady Penelope must not be in vain.
We owe it to her memory to continue the work for which she gave her life.
~ What? ~ (GASPS)
~ What's happened, are they...? ~ No, no, no!
Well, probably.
Tell me what's going on now!
~ They're lost in the pyramid. ~ Why didn't you call it in?
The other one said they'd blast the pyramid wide open
and I couldn't allow this unique discovery to be destroyed.
I'm sorry.
But people are just for a lifetime.
History is forever.
~ You rat-faced weasel! ~ Whoa, Scott!
We'll deal with this later.
Right now, we need to find Gordon and the others.
OK.
But you'd better hope we're not too late.
(SPLUTTERS)
We can't use a mole pod, the whole mountain's unstable.
Digging could bring the whole thing down on top of us.
I should've taken Parker's call, not Gordon.
You would've ended up in the same situation. Give Gordon credit, he can handle this.
There's help in the pod bay. I have something we can try.
These tunnels all look the same.
How can we tell we're not going round in circles?
Because we're not, OK?
Could be some kind of maze... meant to muddle our brains.
No, I'm sure this tunnel's different.
(CLANKING)
See? This one has a big wall in it.
~ (HISSING) ~ Listen. Did you hear that?
Sounds like the Laughing King is coming to meet us.
PARKER: I'm not laughing!
I'll tell him a knock-knock joke!
(SLITHERING)
~ Virgil? ~ Hey, brother.
I see you met our cablecam.
We couldn't dig without risking the mountain coming down on you.
Most obliged.
So I drilled a small hole to send in the cam and map the pyramid.
We found a shaft that looks like it'll get you out through the top chamber.
Keeping heading up. But this time, we're coming with you.
Hold up, there's another inscription here.
~ Can John get us a translation? ~ Yeah, he's watching the feed.
It says it means... Ah.
"Point of no return".
(PARKER GASPS)
I reached that a while ago.
~ (CRACKLING AND FIZZING) ~ Should've expected that by now.
Guess we're on our own again.
Gordon, do you read me? Gordon?
Agh! (GROANS) It's completely dead!
We don't have eyes in that last chamber.
They're in the final chamber?
Have they found the treasure?
Not that it matters.
All I care about is their safety.
PENELOPE: King Quepanqui, I presume.
Whoa!
Maybe that means no more traps.
PARKER: Or maybe we're the only ones to make it this far.
(RUMBLING AND CRUMBLING OF STONE)
Follow my lead!
~ Nice moves! ~ PARKER: Oh, thank you!
Best hopscotch player in my school.
Your father must be proud, m'lady.
(LOW HOWLING)
The wind! It sounds like he's laughing!
Because he knows there's no way out!
The warning was true!
We disturbed his peace.
Now we'll share his tomb!
(LAUGHING SOUND)
Gordon... now what?
(PENELOPE GASPS)
We only have a few seconds left.
So it's now or never.
(ROCK CRUMBLING)
We're being rescued!
Everyone hold onto me tight...
for your own safety.
(HOWLING)
(DEEP RUMBLING)
(LAUGHTER SOUND)
(GRUNTING)
We're alive!
(LAUGHS MANICALLY)
Hoo-hoo, hoo!
(CHUCKLES)
Well, it's all over. I'd better go see Scott.
Gordon, wait. When we were on the statue...
I thought for a second...
That we were done for?
Hm.
~ Yeah, me too. ~ Yeah.
Oh, thank goodness!
I was beside myself with worry!
About us or the treasure?
(CHUCKLES NERVOUSLY) You, of course.
But now that you mention it, did you find the...
It's gone.
The chamber collapsed and now there's a whole mountain on top of it.
No, it can't be!
I mean...
because it's of such historical significance.
Perhaps World Heritage will fund a new dig?
Oh, I'll be making my recommendation.
And when I do, the only thing you'll be digging is the vegetable patch in your back garden.
But... (GROANS)
After all we went through, perhaps some things are best left buried.
You're probably right. I mean, you and me,
it just wouldn't...
~ You're talking about the Laughing King? ~ It seems he got the last laugh.
We should let him rest in peace.
I'm sure World Heritage will agree.
It's simply not safe in there.
Home, Parker!
At last, m'lady.
I 'ope I never see this infernal place again.
Ohh!
For mercy's sake, I seem to have lost my keys inside the temple.
There must be a way back in.
(LAUGHTER)