Charlie Cannon
[To Larissa, applying makeup in bathroom mirror]
Babe, do I use my hands too much when I'm on TV?
LC Larissa Cannon
Um... isn't it one of your tics?
Charlie Cannon
My tics?
LC Larissa Cannon
Like trademarks. Like, you know, good night and good luck, or this "is the way it is".
Charlie Cannon
Those are catchphrases. [spins both hands] I mean, do I do too much of this shit with my hands? 'Cause that could potentially be very annoying to viewers.
LC Larissa Cannon
You know what is really annoying? That you are doing it in my peripheral vision, so stop it.
Charlie Cannon
[playfully approaches]
Oh, yeah. It's annoying.
Charlie Cannon
In your peripheral vision?
LC Larissa Cannon
It's very annoying.
Charlie Cannon
Yeah?
Charlie Cannon
What about this? Is this annoying? [playfully spins her around] Is this annoying? [she giggles]
LC Larissa Cannon
Stop it.
Charlie Cannon
[referring to Larissa's pregnancy]
What about her? Is she gonna be annoying?
Charlie Cannon
[Officer Zaki shows photo on table]
What is this?
Detective Dalia Zaki
[Refers to photo]
It's a basalt sarcophagus. Between two and three thousand years old. Katie was being transported inside it when the plane crashed.
Charlie Cannon
What the **** was our daughter doing in a three-thousand-year old sarcophagus?
Detective Dalia Zaki
If you want to smuggle someone or even something in this country and avoid detection, the best place is our history. Blind eyes are turned to the illegal trade of artifacts. It's the perfect human trafficking cover.
LC Larissa Cannon
I think we should get back upstairs to her.
Charlie Cannon
I remember you. You were there the day she got kidnapped. You had a working theory then too, didn't you? You thought I did something to her.
Detective Dalia Zaki
That was my senior officer's opinion.
LC Larissa Cannon
Charlie, let's get back upstairs.
Charlie Cannon
And where's his expert opinion tonight?
Detective Dalia Zaki
Buried in Bab-al-Wazir Cemetery.
Charlie Cannon
Are you gonna do a better job of finding our daughter than he did?
Detective Dalia Zaki
Yes.
Detective Dalia Zaki
[on phone]
I appreciate your frustration but I cannot dispatch officers to arrest a monkey.
C Caller
I'll just throw it down my well then!
Detective Dalia Zaki
No, I would not recommend you drown the monkey.
C Caller
Fine, I'll just shoot it.
DI Detective Ismail
[hangs up Zaki's phone]
Officer Zaki, you speak good English, right? [Dalia nods]
...
DI Detective Ismail
[walking with Dalia]
Why do you want to join the missing persons department? Lose a cat when you were eight years old?
Detective Dalia Zaki
I'm allergic to cats.
DI Detective Ismail
You know, Officer Zaki, I've located one hundred and ninety-three people in twenty-seven years on this job. [opens door]
Detective Dalia Zaki
That's on average seven-point-one-four people you saved per year.
DI Detective Ismail
[turns to her]
One hundred and ninety of them were dead. If you want to be promoted in this department, you should consider if facing that many corpses is an equation you can stomach. [goes in interview room]
...
LC Larissa Cannon
[slides phone across table]
This is her. This is just from a week ago.
DI Detective Ismail
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Are they tourists?
Detective Dalia Zaki
[in English to Larissa and Charlie]
Are you on vacation?
LC Larissa Cannon
No, no. We live here. We've been living her for five months. He's a TV news correspondent.
Detective Dalia Zaki
[in Arabic to Ismail]
They are here for work. He's a TV reporter.
DI Detective Ismail
[to Dalia in Arabic]
I don't know his face.
Detective Dalia Zaki
[in English to Larissa and Charlie]
When was the last time you saw Katie?
LC Larissa Cannon
11 am, um... then I went to work, and... [to Charlie] you were at home with the kids. And that's it.
Detective Dalia Zaki
Mr. Cannon.
Charlie Cannon
About three pm.
Detective Dalia Zaki
[in Arabic to Ismail]
The father was the last to see her.
LC Larissa Cannon
Wait, I have these. Somebody, whoever took her, was giving these to her. [presents candy wrappers]
Detective Dalia Zaki
[in Arabic to Ismail, examining candy wrappers]
She says the girl was getting these as gifts. Sounds like she was being groomed.
DI Detective Ismail
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Or they could be lying.
LC Larissa Cannon
What is he saying? What is he saying?
DI Detective Ismail
[to Dalia in Arabic]
Always start by looking in the family. They might have accidentally killed her and are trying to cover it up
Charlie Cannon
Hey. You think I don't know what you're talking about? [gestures to Larissa and himself] You think we did this?! You think we did something to our own daughter?! What the **** is your problem?! [bangs table up and down] Are you going to **** help us?! Send someone out there to find her! Somebody took our child!
Detective Dalia Zaki
[To Layla Khalil in interrogation room]
What the **** is happening on that tape? [Grabs Layla by shirt and hoists her up] **** speak! [Layla opens mouth to reveal semi-amputated tongue and Dalia recoils in horror] Who did this to you? The woman on the tape? Your mother?
LK Layla Khalil
I tried to tell the truth once, so she punished me.
Detective Dalia Zaki
What is the truth?
LK Layla Khalil
Katie is not supposed to be outside of the box. The valley, it's going to be flooded soon. My brothers had no choice but to move it, but it was never moved before.
Detective Dalia Zaki
What is it? [Layla makes a "I need to write it down gesture]
FW Funeral woman 1
[observing Carmen's cadaver in open casket]
She looks at least ten years younger.
FW Funeral woman 2
Embalming fluid. It's like Botox for the dead.
FW Funeral woman 1
I heard she slipped and fell when she was dusting curtains.
FW Funeral woman 2
I heard it might not have been an accident at all. [other woman does a Sign of the Cross on chest] That shade of lipstick really suits her though, right?
KC Katie Cannon
[Charlie taps in morse code on table]
Pepperoni pizza?
Charlie Cannon
Oh. You have got this all wrapped up tonight.
SC Seb Cannon
Can we get pizza tonight?
Charlie Cannon
Not tonight, buddy.
KC Katie Cannon
You don't even like pizza.
SC Seb Cannon
No, I don't like cheese.
KC Katie Cannon
Pizza's not pizza without cheese.
Charlie Cannon
She's got a point.
TA TV anchor
Large scale efforts are being made...
KC Katie Cannon
Dad, come on, another...
Charlie Cannon
Yeah, uh... okay. Let's do...
TA TV anchor
Our reporter on the ground is Charlie Cannon.
TV Charlie Cannon
Critics suggest that three years of almost continuous drought has forced local farmers to find new and increasingly desperate measures to make money. But government ministers...
TV Charlie Cannon
...are on the defensive...
Charlie Cannon
Just a minute.
TV Charlie Cannon
...as they roll out new major schemes in water management and irrigation in desert areas.
Charlie Cannon
[Seb mimics hand gestures of Charlie on TV]
What is that, Seb? What are you doing?
SC Seb Cannon
An impression of you?
Charlie Cannon
Oh, that's an impression of me? With the hands thing?
TV Charlie Cannon
Unlike the swath of looting that took place during the Arab Spring of 2011, the Egyptian authorities are unsure of what caused the uptick in authorized digs, with the smuggling...
Charlie Cannon
[Katie takes TV remote and turns off TV]
Hey!
TV Charlie Cannon
...of ancient art...
KC Katie Cannon
We need to practice this more, or I'll fail it.
Charlie Cannon
Okay.
Maud Cannon
[approaches bedroom door]
Katie, is that you singing?
KC Katie Cannon
Yes. I can talk now too.
Maud Cannon
Holy shit! I'll go get mom.
KC Katie Cannon
No, Maudie. L-let's make it a surprise. I wanted to practice talking to you first. You're my favorite in the family.
Maud Cannon
But you don't even know me.
KC Katie Cannon
Exactly. That's why I wanna know all the different things about you.
Maud Cannon
Like what?
KC Katie Cannon
Like how your little piggies taste. [licks Maud's toes from under door, startling her who attempts to flee, then thwarts her and suspends her in mid-air, and is infused with a Nasmaranian enchanting spell]
Maud Cannon
Where are we going?
LC Larissa Cannon
[packing suitcase]
We're going somewhere safe.
Maud Cannon
Is Katie coming?
LC Larissa Cannon
No. Not right now.
Maud Cannon
Why are you so bad at this?
LC Larissa Cannon
Because, we are in a rush, Maud. Okay?
Maud Cannon
No. At being my mom. [breaks grinning at TV with a silhouette of The Magician on it]
The Magician
[in Arabic]
You're late today. You must have taken enough of my blood to fill a swimming pool by now. I wish they would stop playing this music. It's giving me a headache.
LC Larissa Cannon
[paralyzes The Magician]
You know my face. You remember my Katie, don't you? She wants to know if you'd like to see a trick.
Detective Dalia Zaki
[in Arabic]
I'm sure you remember what happens now. [Closes the door, begin chanting the ritual that will transfer Nasmaranian from Charlie to the Magician]
Detective Dalia Zaki
[Places VHS tape on coffee table before Charlie and Larissa]
I wish I didn't have to show you what's on this tape. But it's very important you see what happened to Katie. [Plays tape and The Magician appears and sits on couch seat] This is the woman who kidnapped your daughter. [The Magician speaks and Dalia translates] "The dark signs have begun to show once more. Warning us that the time has come to recommit to the containment of our ancient family secret. This will be the 82nd mummification ritual. And as the first-born child, I am honored to carry this great responsibility of ensuring that our family will remain protected from the evil reach of the Nasmaranian. I commit this testament so that in decades to come, your children will know what they must do, when it is their time to transfer this demon from a spent vessel to a freshly prepared host. [The Magician gets up and leans into camera] An innocent child is best, as the bodies lasts longest, but any live human will do. Let us begin." [Tape changes to a scene of demon possession transfer ritual, with The Magician pulling hood off of Katie whimpering she wants to go home with Katie being hung up on a rack and lowered over an Egyptian mummy with a black smoke column shooting into Katie's mouth] That thing they put inside her was meant to stay buried and bound.
