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Beni: You just got promoted. Rick: [shouts to the other Legionnaires] Ready and position! Steady! [to Beni] You're with me on this one, right? Beni: Oh, your strength gives me strength. (after a moment, takes off running for the ruins) Wait for me! Rick: Steady! Steady! FIRE!

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Evie: ...Oops. Curator Terrence Bey: [entering; stutters in disbelief] What...How...? [realizes angrily] 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! Evie: I am so very sorry, it was an accident. Curator Terrence Bey: An accident? My dear girl, when Ramesses destroyed Syria, that was an accident. You are a catastrophe! Look at my library! Why do I put up with you?! Evie: Well, you put up with me because I can read and write in ancient Egyptian, and I can decipher hieroglyphics and hieratics... (getting angry) and well, I am the only person within a thousand miles of this place who can properly code and catalog this library, that's why! Curator Terrence Bey: I put up with you because your mother and father were our finest patrons, that's why! Allah rest their souls. Now I don't care how you do it, I don't care how long it takes... straighten up this meshiver!

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Evie: Mister O'Connell, can you look me in the eye, and guarantee me that this isn't all some kind of a flimflam? Because I am warning you... Rick O'Connell: You're 'warning me'? Lady, let me put it to you this way. My whole damn garrison believed in this city so much, that - without orders - they marched halfway across Libya and into Egypt just to 'find' that city. And when we got there...all we found was sand, and blood. (Evie looks stunned) Lemme get your bags. Jonathan: [to Evie] Yes, you're right. Filthy, rude, complete scoundrel, nothing to like there at all.

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Evie: What exactly is this man in prison for? Warden Gad Hassan: Well, this I did not know. But when I learned you were coming, I asked him that myself. Evie: And? Warden: He said he was just looking for a good time. [Rick enters with guards holding him] Evie: This is the man you stole it from? Jonathan: Yes, exactly. So why don't we just go slip out when-- Rick: Who are you? [looks at Evie] And who's the broad? Evie: Broad? Jonathan: Well, I'm just sort of a missionary chap, spreading the good word and that, and this is my sister, Evie. Evie: How do you do? Rick: Oh, well. Guess she's not so lost. Evie: [offended] I beg your pardon?! Warden Gad Hassan: [shouts command at someone in Arabic] I'll be back in a moment. [leaves] Jonathan: [whispers to Evie] Ask him about the box. Evie: We have found--uh [notices Rick looks distracted] Hello? Excuse me? We both found your puzzle box and we've come to ask you about it. Rick: No. Evie: No? Rick: No. You've came to ask me about Hamunaptra. [Jo

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Rick: You came back from the desert with a new friend, didn't you, Beni? Beni: What friend? You are my only friend. Rick: [Picks him up and slams him on the table] Why the hell are you hanging around this guy?! What's in it for you? Beni: It is better to be at the right hand of the devil than in his path. As long as I serve him, I am immune. Rick: [smashing him against a wardrobe] Immune from what? Beni: Piszkos állat...(Filthy animal) Rick: What did you say?! Beni: I don't wanna tell you- you'll just hurt me some more. Rick: What are you looking for? And try not to lie to me! (Holds Beni up against a ceiling fan) Beni: AHH! The book! The black book they found in Hamunaptra! He wants it back! He said to me it would be worth its weight in gold! Jonathan: What does he want the book for? Beni: Oh come on, I don't know... (Rick shoves him closer to the fan) AH! Something about bringing his dead girlfriend back to life! But that's all, I swear! Just the book, I swear... (Rick lowers him to

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Evelyn: You told me you got it on a dig down in Thebes! Johnathan: Yes, well, I was mistaken. Evie: You lied to me! Jonathan: I lie to everybody, what makes you so special? Evelyn: I am your sister! Jonathan: Yes, well, that just makes you more gullible.

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Evie: You know, nasty little fellows such as yourself always get their comeuppance. Beni: (scoffs, then serious) They do? Evie: Oh, yes. Always.

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Evie: I think this may be the Book of the Dead. Rick: The Book of the Dead? Are you sure you wanna be playing around with this thing? Evie: It's just a book. No harm ever came from reading a book. Rick: ...That happens a lot around here.

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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- Ardeth Bay and Dr. Bey: YES!

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Rick: Well, if it ain't my little buddy Beni! I think I'll kill you.(readies gun) Beni: Think of my children! Rick: You don't have any children. Beni: ...Some day I might. Rick: Shut up! So you're the one who's leading the Americans. So what's the scam Beni? You take them out to the middle of the desert, and then you leave them to rot!? Beni: Unfortunately, no. These Americans are smart. They pay me only half now, half when I get them back to Cairo. So this time I must go all the way. Rick: Them's the breaks, huh? (holsters gun) Beni: You never believed in Hamunaptra, O'Connell. Why are you going back? Rick: (looking at Evie) See that girl. She saved my neck. Beni: You always did have more balls than brains. (laughs)

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Beni: Hey, O'Connell! It looks to me like I've got all the horses! Rick: Hey, Beni! Looks to me like you're on the wrong side of the river!

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Rick: Morning, Winston. A word? Winston: So what has your little problem got to do with His Majesty's Royal Air Corps? Rick: Not a damn thing. Winston: Is it dangerous? Rick: Well, you probably won't live through it. Winston: (excitedly) By Jove! Do you really think so? Jonathan: Well, everybody else we've bumped into has died. Why not you? Winston: [gets up] What's the- what's the challenge, then? Rick: Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world. Winston: Winston Havelock, at your service, sir!

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Henderson: [wipes lips] Sweet Jesus! It tasted just like— Rick: [drops shot glass in shock; stands up] Blood! Jonathan: [quoting from Bible] "And the rivers and waters in Egypt ran red, and were as blood..." Rick: [about Imhotep] He's here...

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Jonathan: Can you see-- Rick: Yes. Jonathan: Can you believe-- Rick: Yeah. Jonathan: Can we just-- Rick: No.

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Evie: (drunk) You're wondering what is a place like me doing in a girl like this? Rick: Yeah, something like that. Evie: Well, Egypt is in my blood. [shows picture in locket] You see, my father was a very, very famous explorer. And he loved Egypt so much, he married my mother, who was an Egyptian and an adventurer herself. Rick: Yeah, I get your father, I get your mother. [points to Jonathan] I get him, but what are you doing here? Evie: [offended] Look, I... I may not be an explorer, or, or an adventurer, or a treasure-seeker, or a gunfighter, Mr. O'Connell, but I am proud of what I am! Rick: And what is that? Evie: I... am a librarian! [drops to her knees] I'm going to kiss you... Mr. O'Connell. Rick: Call me Rick. Evie: [Grins] Rick. [leans in closer but passes out]

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Mr. Burns: [to Imhotep] I'm so pleased to meet you. [extends hand; Beni stops him] Beni: Prince Imhotep does not like to be touched. A silly eastern superstition, I'm afraid. Mr. Burns: Please forgive me. [spills tea; whimpers] Beni: Mr. Burns, Prince Imhotep thanks you for your hospitality. Mr. Burns: No. Beni: And for your eyes, and for your tongue... Mr. Burns: Wha... Beni: But I'm afraid more is needed. The prince must finish the job and consummate the curse, which you and your friends have brought down upon yourselves!

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Rick: Is he supposed to look like that? Evelyn: No – no, I've never seen a mummy look like this before, he's still – still – Jonathan and Rick: Juicy. Evelyn: Yes, he must be over 3000 years old and he looks as if he's still decomposing. Rick: [sees marks on sarcophagus lid] Hey, what do you make of this?

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Evelyn: We must stop him from regenerating. Who opened that chest? Henderson: Well, there was me and Daniels here. And Burns, of course... Daniels: And that Egyptologist fella. Rick: What about my buddy Beni? Henderson: Nah, he scrammed out of there before we opened the damn thing. Daniels: Yeah, he was the smart one. Rick: Yeah...that sounds like Beni. Evelyn: We must find the Egyptologist and bring him back to the safety of the fort before the creature can get to him. Rick: Right. (Points to Evelyn) She stays here. (To Daniels, Henderson and Jonathan) You three come with me. Henderson: Oh, no way! Evelyn: Just a minute, you can't just leave me behind here like some old kind of carpetbag, I mean, who put you in charge - (Rick throws her over his shoulder) O'Connell! What do you think you are doing? Jonathan! O'Connell! Jonathan: Er...sorry, Evie, he's, er...a bit...tall... Rick: (Grabbing Daniels and holding him up by the collar) This door doesn't open. She doesn't come out and no one