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TIMED DRAWBRIDGE: This next room contains a C-shaped walkway above lava. There's a switch at each end: the one on the right raises the bridge; the one on the left opens the exit door, which is opposite the entrance. Both are timed, but the door stays open longer than the bridge stays up. Here's the drill: First, follow the walkway to the left and pick up some Uzi clips. Don't use this switch yet. Now go all the way around to the right end of the walkway and throw that switch to open the door. Run all the way around to the left switch. (Take running jumps along the straight parts and over the corners to cover more distance.) Use the switch to raise the bridge. Roll, then run/jump back to the center and across the bridge to exit.

SCION ROOM: Just beyond this door is the room where the Scion is kept. Pick up 2 sets of Uzi clips on the floor, then try and take the Scion to end the level.

(NOTE: This room is located high above the lava pool, presumably at the center of the pyramid. You'll wind up on the big platform below at the beginning of the next level. There's nothing to find there now, but if you do jump down there, you're not stuck. Just face the opening above and approach the left corner. A door will open in the wall and you can jump into it. Follow the passage up to the top to emerge in the drawbridge room near the switch on the right.)

A movie follows: Lara touches the Scion and receives another mysterious vision. In this one we see Natla held captive by the other two Atlantean rulers, Qualopec and Tihocan. Qualopec passes sentence on Natla, condemning her for her misuse of power, for waging war on both himself and Tihocan, and for using the pyramid's powers of creation for her own "mindless destruction."

Natla retorts, "Mindless?! Look at you! Neither of you have one squirt of inventive juice in your heads. Wasters!" Then she appeals to Tihocan, but he stands by Qualopec, accusing Natla of using the pyramid as a "freak factory." The camera reveals a mutant standing nearby.

"They're survivalists," she argues, "a new generation."

Tihocan is unswayed. He concludes, "And you...we're going to lock you in limbo. Greet your eternal unrest, Natla!" Qualopec gives the signal to the mutant, who activates the machine that will entomb Natla.

As the freezing process begins, Natla yells, "You won't rest either...or your damned continent, Atlantis!"

Next, a cut scene: Lara staggers back from the altar and sees Natla draw near. "Back again?" Natla asks.

Lara returns, "And you?" Lara responds, "For a grand re-opening, I assume?"

In the typical overconfident-villain-revealing-her-evil-scheme speech, Natla explains, "Evolution is in a rut...natural selection at an all time low. Shipping out fresh meat will incite territorial rages again, will strengthen us and advance us, even create new breeds." She indicates the nearby incubator with its huge, yellow egg.

"A kind of evolution on steroids, then?" Lara asks.

"A kick in the pants," Natla says emphatically. "Those runts Qualopec and Tihocan had no idea. The cataclysm of Atlantis struck a race of languoring wimps...plummeted them to the very basics of survival again. It shouldn't happen like that."

"Or like this." Lara waves her arm to encompass the whole room, maybe the pyramid itself.

A computer voice announces a status report, "Hatching commences in fifteen seconds...."

"Too late for abortions now," Natla says haughtily.

"Not without the heart of the operation." Lara aims a pistol at the Scion, and Natla screams, "No!" She tackles Lara, hurling them both over the edge into the pit. Lara manages to grab the edge of the platform below, but Natla plummets into darkness.

Lara pulls up onto the platform below the incubator as the electronic voice counts down, "Five...four...three...two...one...."

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