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| At an Antique Shop a man named Doctor Wallace meets the owner. Doctor Wallace gives the man money for a pendent and a ring. A boy comes out; Doctor Wallace takes the pendent off of the boy. Then scars on his chest appear. The Doctor demands the ring, the owner tells the boy, Allie, to go and get the ring. The owner talks to Doctor Wallace about this ring and pendent. That maybe they are not doing the right thing. While the boy goes in the back of the shop and opens up a crate, that is a man lying there. The man looks like a mummy. The ring is on the dead man's hand. The boy tries to pull it off but it will not come off so he grabs a hammer and breaks the man finger. He gets the ring off and the boy looks at it. It is shaped like a scarab. The boy looks at it as its wings start to flap. Next morning at the house, Derek calls on Rachel to come to see him. She arrives to find out that a dear friend of Derek's, an anthropologist named Clayton Wallace, has a daughter who is dieing from euplastic anemia. Derek knew his daughter, Samantha. Derek was like an "Honoree Uncle". Derek is going to the hospital to see her and Rachel said that she would come. Derek like the idea and invites her to come. At the hospital Clayton Wallace is watching his daughter in the hospital as he is talking to a Doctor. The Doctor said that she could die tomorrow or as soon as tonight. Wallace walks in as his daughter, his daughter is awake. He gives her the necklace with the pendent on it. She wears it. Wallace tells her to rest; he is just about to put the ring one when Derek and Rachel interrupt. Derek, Rachel, and Wallace start to talk. Wallace is very defensive and says that his daughter will pull through and walks away. Derek feels terrible. In the bathroom, Wallace puts the ring on. The scarab bites him and he starts to mutate. Derek and Rachel are watching Samantha when suddenly she gets up. Derek has a premonition of someone yelling, and blood. In the bathroom, Wallace is mutating into something. His hand is corroding and his left eye is blind. The next morning Samantha is okay. The Doctor says that she is fine and that she will be out of the hospital in two days. But Samantha has no place to go so Derek insists that she stay at the house. The next morning at the house, Samantha joins them. She meets Nick and everyone else. There is still no sign of Wallace. In the evening Derek talks to everyone about Wallace's disappearance and Samantha's recovery. He tells them about his premonition. Then Samantha come out from the hallway holding her side and collapses. Wallace is watching outside of the house as she falls to the floor. At the hospital Samantha is under the care of the Doctor and they still cannot find Wallace. Nick stays at the hospital as Derek and Rachel go looking for Wallace. Later on that evening, back at the shop; Wallace talks to the shopkeeper. The ring did not work. The shopkeeper tells him that he is too weak. That he must find another person stronger then him to save his daughter. But he warns Wallace that every time he tires to save her, that the scarab will need more "water from the spring". Wallace does not care. He tries to take the ring off but it will not budge. So there was only one thing to do, cut off his finger. Wallace is walking home from the shop as he encounters a man standing next to a car. He pulls a knife on Wallace and tells him to give him his money. Wallace says he has nothing. The man takes him and throws him against his car. The man searches Wallace to find the ring. The man tries to put it on but Wallace tells him no. The man gets offended and Wallace says nothing. He puts on the ring. Then the scarab bites him and starts to feed on him. Slowly and painfully the man dies. Back at the hospital Samantha is standing near a window. Nick sees her and asks if she is okay. She says that she feels great. Derek and Rachel are at the Wallace's houseboat. They take a look around and then Rachel got a call from the hospital. Samantha has recovered and Wallace is there. At the hospital, Samantha is grubbin down on some chicken wings. Derek walks through the door and wants to talk to Wallace. They go out into the hallway and talk about her recoveries. Two recoveries in less than a week, Derek doesn't understand and Wallace just wants to accept it. Derek tells Wallace that he wants him to stay at the Luna Foundation when Samantha gets out, and Derek will not take no for an answer. Back at the house, Derek is talking to everyone in the library. Rachel said that technically Samantha should have died, twice! Alex found out that before Samantha's illness, Wallace was at a dig in Turkey. When he found out about it, he flew back immediately. But while Samantha was in the hospital Wallace flew back to Turkey for two weeks. Alex is very suspicious about that second trip. Nick also found out that the police found a body near the houseboat and there was something "very twisted" about the corpse. Outside of the house, Samantha and her father (Wallace) were outside talking. Samantha wanted to dance with her father when suddenly she started to feel queasy. She needs more; the scarab needs more water from the spring. That is the only way Wallace will be able to keep her alive. In the morning Nick visits a friend at the coroners office. She tells him about the guy that they found near Wallace's houseboat. They think its some virus but the strange thing is the guy is missing a finger. Back at the house, Wallace is sitting at the library table fiddling with the ring. Rachel walks in to check up on him. He starts to talk to her about protecting someone special, about what would Rachel do if someone ever threatened Kat, would she kill that person? The conversation starts to get interesting when suddenly the ring starts to move. As Rachel gets close to the table she sits down and put her hand on top of the table. The ring starts to move closer, Wallace's notices and just before the ring (Scarab) is about to attack Rachel, Wallace grabs the ring and says he has to leave to check on his daughter. Leaving Rachel confused and worried. Wallace knocks on the bedroom door, to see his daughter Samantha. She is not doing well; she is in so much pain. She need another person, she needs more water from the spring. Wallace does not want to kill another person but he has not choice if he wants to save his daughter. While Wallace went out to clear his head (find another victim) Derek and the others are in the control room discussing about Wallace's trip to Turkey and the man found at the houseboat. Nick found out that the man at the houseboat, cell structure completely collapsed. He had no living cells in his body. It was like the life was sucked out of him. Alex found out that Wallace was in Ankara (near Istanbul) for most of the two weeks that he was there. They also found out that Wallace sold everything he owned except for the title on the houseboat. Nick came up with the assumption that he paid a faith healer but Rachel said that he is involved with something much darker than that. Back in an Alleyway Wallace meets young homeless girl who is part delusional. She thinks that Wallace is her father. Wallace gives her a gift, the ring. She puts it on and its not long before the Scarab (ring) bites her draining the life out of her as the doll that she was holding in her hands falls to the ground. She dies in Wallace's hands. Back at the house Samantha gets up. She feels great, and then Nick walks in to see if she is okay. He couldn't sleep and heard noise coming from her room. She is fine but she wants to go out to get something to eat. Nick is hesitant to go. He says it's a little late but she insists. She wants to go get something to eat and go the houseboat. Nick finally says okay and they go. Its late morning, Samantha and Nick are on the docks walking to the houseboat. They turn the corner and her father is standing there holding onto the side of the house. They get him inside. Back at the house Alex and Derek are researching some things that happened while Wallace was in Ankara. At the Ankara Museum two items were stolen, the Naphasties Scarab Necklace and the Scarab Ring. Supposedly by legend whoever wore ring was the spring of life and whoever wore the necklace was to drink from that spring. Alex also found out at the bay in Ankara found a strange looking corpse but before the police could get to it the body was gone. Rachel walks in telling Derek that Nick and Samantha are gone, and that Nick left a note. Derek read it to found out that Nick took Samantha to the houseboat. Derek is very disturbed because Wallace did not come home last night. Derek leaves immediately to go and save Nick. Wallace is breaking down. He says he can't take it anymore; he cannot do any more killing. Nick is confused but Samantha says that everything is fine. Samantha asks Nick to give her and her father some private time. Wallace knows exactly what she wants him to do to Nick. But Wallace can't do it. Samantha insists that her father gives her the ring. Wallace gives it to her. Samantha starts to act like she is in pain and Nick comes to see if she is okay. Derek rushes through the door buts its too late, Samantha quickly slides the ring on Nick's finger and the Scarab starts to drink. Nick yells in pain as Samantha gets up to walk around. Derek grabs Wallace telling him to let her go, that this is not the way for Samantha to live. Wallace agrees to release her. Derek goes to Nick in the corner, his hand is bleeding. Wallace comes up to Samantha and tells her that it's not the way. He takes off her necklace. The Scarab on the necklace crawls away but Derek crushes it with his foot, as Samantha lets out a terrible scream and the ring falls off Nick's hand. Samantha falls to the ground in her father's hand and dies moments later. Derek gently closes her eyes with the palm of his hand as Wallace mourns for his daughter painful and agonizing death. Selected Lines: (Rachel): "No, not a faith healer, not something that benign. What he is involved in is much darker. (Alex): "He who wears the ring is the spring of life, he who wears the necklace drinks from the spring." Back | BACK TO MAIN SITE | Your Opinion? |
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