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(MultiCom Jingle)

- I don't think we can put this
off any longer, Marguerite.

Challenger's gone off
exploring for the day

and Veronica will be in the
garden another hour at least.

(smooth music)

- So you are right.

This may be the last chance
we have for a very long time.

- Just promise me one thing.

- Anything, John.

- Don't laugh.

- Okay.

Yours is the first move.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

One, two, three.

(laughing)

John.

Ow!

- What?

(Marguerite laughing)

- Whatever's going on up there,
at least they're laughing.

(Veronica humming)

- One, two, three.

Ow!

(laughing)

Maybe we should start
with something simpler.

- No, I think I know what I'm doing wrong.

- So do I, everything.

- First I have to hold you closer.

- It's generally considered polite for

the gentleman to let the lady breathe.

- Ah yes but the Waltz is supposed

to be deliciously improper.

And it should leave both
dancers completely breathless.

- John.

You could dance all along!

- [John] Yes, I was born to dance!

(humming)

(hand smacking)

(smooth music)

- Something's wrong
with the windmill again.

- No, it's the electric fence.

(elevator creaking)

Oh no, she must have touched the fence.

- Veronica knows better than that.

(gasps)

- What have you found?

- Nothing.

- Someone out there?

- No, of course not.

But you better get her
up to the tree house.

- [John] Got her.

- [Narrator] At the dawn
of the last century.

A band of explorers search
for a prehistoric world.

Driven by ambition, secret
desires, a thirst for adventure,

and seeking the ultimate story.

They are befriended by an untamed beauty.

Stranded in a strange and savage land

each day is a desperate
search for a way out

of The Lost World.

- I don't know what knocked her out.

She has no burns.

Doesn't look like she
touched the fence at all.

- I don't know what happened.

- I didn't suggest you did.

- I'll go get Challenger.

- [John] No, no, you
stay here with Veronica,

I'll get Challenger.

- No John, whoever stays
has to repair the fence

before the raptors start coming around.

You know how to fix it.

- Ah very well, but be back before sunset.

- Don't worry, I know the rules.

- Oh.

Thought you could get
away from me, did you hey?

(groans)

You, my friend, are as contrary

as my old colleague, Summerlee.

Yeah, come to think of it you even look

a little like Summerlee.

Definitely of the family Scrabaeidae.

Smaller than a Goliath, but
larger than a Ciervo Aegialian.

Oh you do look like Arthur.

No, not even on this plateau
is transmogrification

of that magnitude possible.

Arthur, eh?

- I know you're out here.

I got your bloody calling card.

Xan?

Xan!

- [Man] Master Xan.

- [Xan] Approach.

- [Man] As you commanded,
Miss Smith has arrived.

- [Xan] Excellent.

Miss Smith, your presence honors
my unworthy establishment.

- You've got a funny way of
making a girl feel welcome Xan.

- And you have an equally amusing manner

of treating your business
partners, Miss Smith.

Or perhaps we should call
you by the name you used

to purchase your ticket
for tomorrow's sailing.

From here in Shanghai to
Marseilles in only 28 days.

What an age we live in.

Thank you, Callum.

We took the liberty of
removing this from the safe

at the hotel Astor, Miss
Marguerite Montclair.

- One name's as good as another.

- And all the sentiment
for one such as you.

- What is that supposed to mean?

- Would you care for some tea?

- Why don't you get to the point?

- In my culture it is considered rude

to discuss business before
sharing hospitality.

- In my culture it's considered rude

to snatch a woman off the street,

shove her in the back of an auto

and haul her off to the docks.

So I guess we're even.

- Miss Smith, we are anything but even.

You see, we gave you the gold bouillon,

yet you have not yet
given us the diamonds.

- I told you, Xan, that
little uprising in Russia's

thrown off the delivery schedule.

We both knew there would
be problems like this.

- There are problems.

There are also attempts to leave Shanghai

under an assumed name
without honoring one's debts.

- The diamonds are on their way, Xan.

- No, Miss Smith, they are not.

- All right.

If you're impatient, I'll
give you back your gold.

- And how is that possible
considering that somehow

the gold in question has found its way

to an agent from a certain foreign power?

Know this, Miss. Smith, many men have died

for not meeting lesser debts.

- Could this day get any better?

Callum.

- Miss Smith.

- I know why you think you
are here but you are wrong.

- If that's true then I've
wasted five long years

of my life following your trail.

- It is true.

- Shanghai to Constantinople
to Paris, Berlin, Leningrad.

- Every mile a waste Callum.

- I doubt that very much.

(groans)

Master Xan does not permit
such misuse of his resources.

- Oh Xan's a madman!

- You believed him once.

- Never.

- You believed him
enough to steal from him.

- That's a lie.

- If you do not return what you stole

from Master Xan then all your
friends will pay the price.

What happened to the yellow haired woman

and the red headed man
is your only warning.

- Challenger, what have you done to him?

- Follow the path and
you'll find out soon enough.

After that keep in mind that you

have only until sunrise tomorrow.

Return what you stole from
Master Xan, else lose everything.

- How did you get here?

(elevator creaking)

Well how are you feeling?

- Like I went 10 rounds
with a Trog and lost.

- Do you remember what happened?

- Somebody hit me, I don't know who.

- Oh I thought as much.

I think the same person
may have used this cord

to short out the fence
and start that fire.

- Why would they do that?

- Disable our defenses,
make us more vulnerable.

- Maybe the fire was just a distraction.

- A distraction from what?

Nothing's missing.

- Unless.

- Unless?

- Marguerite.

- All right, you go back
up to the tree house

and lock the elevator.

- Where are you going?

- To find Marguerite and you're
in no condition to argue.

- Challenger?

Answer me, damn you!

Oh Challenger, I am so sorry.

Callum.

The next time you see Master
Xan, you'll both be in Hell.

- Little jumpy, Marguerite?

Where's Challenger?

- I, I don't know.

He was working here but.

- From the way his gear's
scattered everywhere

I think it's fair to
say there was a fight.

And it's quite possible
it's the same intruder

who attacked Veronica.

- [Marguerite] What?

- Well just before the fire
was set, Veronica remembers

someone coming up from
behind and hitting her.

- Does she know who?

- No, do you?

- How could I?

- That's what I'd like to know.

But right now finding
Challenger comes first.

It looks like one person
walked through here

dragging something heavy behind.

- [Marguerite] No, dragging Challenger.

- No!

- Challenger!

- Challenger!

He's still alive, cut him down.

- [Marguerite] Careful.

Careful
- I've got him, I've got him.

(gasps)

What is this?

You recognize it, don't you?

You know what's going on here.

You know who did this to Challenger.

And you know who attacked Veronica.

- Yes I know!

It's all my fault, isn't
it always my fault?

- What?

- I can't hide this from them any longer.

I have to tell you.

- Tell me what?

You answer me!

- I have to tell you the real reason

I funded this expedition.

The real reason I came to the plateau.

- He's got a couple of cracked ribs.

The bruises aren't anything serious.

I'll sit with him awhile
and let him sleep.

- Very good.

We have a discussion to continue outside.

All right, let's start from the beginning.

Now who's after you?

- His name's Callum.

He's a soldier I guess you'd call it.

- A soldier?

All right, for which country?

- Well, maybe mercenary's a better word.

He's half Asian, half Scottish,
half I don't know what.

He doesn't exactly follow a flag.

- Who does he follow?

- Shanghai Xan.

- The crime lord?

- More of a warlord, from the old school.

- Oh you try the school of
Genghis Khan, Marguerite.

Now the Xan Dynasty controls

a veritable league of world crime.

They traffic in stolen
archeological treasures,

opium, guns, and I've
tangoed with their Bravos,

everywhere form Kenya to Tibet.

- Okay, okay so it's no
surprise that they're here too.

- Look there are things
about you that I don't know.

That I have no right to know,

and to be honest I don't want to know.

But how in God's name did you
get mixed up with the Xans?

- It started when I heard about

this plateau for the first time.

- What, three years ago?

When Challenger first gave his lecture

at the London Zoological Socie--

- No, John.

I first heard about the
plateau five years ago.

I was in Shanghai.

I was an interpreter for
some private companies,

trying to keep business
as usual during the war

when the Russian revolution broke out.

One of the negotiations
I was involved in took

a turn for the worse, and
to make up for his losses,

Xan made a counter proposal to me.

- [Xan] Behold the ouroboros.

- More like half an ouroboros.

- You know the legend.

- A snake that eats its own tail?

A representation of birth, death,

and rebirth in a dozen cultures at least.

- That so many people
are aware of it suggests

that there could be some
truth in the legend.

- You believe the snake is real?

- We believe in the
legend of this medallion.

When the two halves are
joined the people who posses

it will unlock the key
to they mystical powers

to control space and time.

- Are you serious?

- We have dedicated our life

and fortune to obtain the missing half.

- Everyone needs a hobby.

- Our agents have narrowed
down the possible resting place

to a remarkable plateau
deep within South America.

- Why remarkable?

- It is considered to be a nexus

for supernatural forces
and mythical creatures.

- Creatures like the ouroboros.

- And others.

Many brave men have traveled

to this lost world, and few have returned.

- Oh I can see where this is heading

and it isn't going to happen.

- Indeed.

- First, I want no part
of supernatural forces

and mythical creatures.

Second, I am not going
to South America for you.

- As you are indebted to us,

you have no further choice in the matter.

- If it's gold you want,
it's gold I'll get.

You know I can.

So if this just about money--

- It is never just
about money, Miss Smith.

- Yeah, but we all have our price.

- Exactly.

And in your case we know
precisely what the price is.

- How can you?

- We know the value of a name, do you?

Excellent.

We sense that some
agreement has been reached.

- Keep talking.

- Your first task is make
contact with one of our agents.

An American scientist.

His name is William Maple White.

- William Maple White?

What the man whose journals led Challenger

to this plateau was in
Shanghai Xan's employ?

- He wasn't employed by Xan he owed Xan

a debt and needed to repay it.

That's how Xan operates.

- Oh I see, so you thought
you'd repay your sort

of little debt by folding us
all into your personal quest

to find the missing half of the medallion.

- I did not force any of you to come here.

Now all Challenger needed was money.

Between the Zoological
Society, Malone's newspaper and

the odd University or two, he
would've raised enough funds.

I sped up the inevitable.

- Look I don't care you
justify it to yourself.

The fact is you lied to us all.

And I still think you're
holding something back.

- If you'd let me finish.

- Oh please do, but let's get
to the point for a change.

Now what could possibly
account for Xan being

so fanatical he would
have someone pursue you

all the way to this plateau?

- He thinks I have something
that belongs to him.

- And do you?

- No!

No.

- All right, very well.

We'll start fresh.

I'll accept your story and
we'll put it behind us in this.

As long as you're part of this expedition

for whatever reason, I'll do
everything I can to help you

and the others be safe from Callum.

(suspenseful music)

Marguerite!

(kicks and punches thudding)

- Guns are a coward's weapon.

- Fair enough.

Try this the personal way.

- John, no!

- I presume you're Lord John Roxton.

- What if I am?

- Then I believe you've studied

at the Jokhang Temple in Tibet.

- I was there for a while.

- So you'd know the
Buddha's Four Noble Truths?

- I'd be happy to teach you a
few lessons from the Buddha.

- Teach them to Miss Smith instead.

Especially the fourth path.

Otherwise when I return, you all will die.

Sunrise and no later.

- Dare I ask what the fourth path is?

- Part of the Buddha's guide

to peaceful and harmonious behavior.

- Why does Callum want
you to teach that to me?

- Well you are familiar with
one part of it Marguerite.

Thou shall not steal.

- Damn it.

- What did you take from Xan?

(door creaking)

(drawer squeaking)

Not only did you steal from Xan,

it was his greatest treasure to boot.

No wonder he's moved Heaven
and Earth to hunt you down.

- I had my reasons.

- Or more secrets, if that's possible.

Or should I just accept that
everything you've told me since

the first day we met is just a lie?

- [Marguerite] Not everything, John.

- All right, no more games, no more lies.

I want the truth and the
whole truth or nothing.

- [Veronica] I don't know
what's going on up here,

but you two are disturbing Challenger.

- Yeah well he will be
considerably more disturbed

when he finds out
Marguerite's friend is coming

by in the morning to kill us.

- What are you talking about?

- Oh ask Miss Smith.

If that's her real name.

- All right, stop.

If you two are having a lovers spat,

that's none of my business.

- He is not my lover.

- I don't care.

Nobody does.

- Yeah well I certainly don't.

- But if we're in some kind of trouble,

that I do care about.

Now one of you two grow up
and tell me what's going on.

- The man who attacked
us is after me because

I stole a simple little
medallion from his employer.

- All right, that's a good start.

I take it he wants it back.

- Would he ever.

- Roxton.

Where's the medallion now?

- Oh now is not the time for
a coffee break Marguerite.

(suspenseful music)

- Yes, I have it.

Since the day we left
London, I have always had it.

And I swear to you I will die
before I give it back to Xan.

- Marguerite, what we
have to do is obvious.

- I agree.

When Callum turns up in the morning

we have to make him disappear.

- No.

We will give back the medallion.

- No we will not!

No, I spent my last pound
funding this expedition.

I have endured almost three
years of raptors, cannibals,

and Challenger's bloody
shifty planes of reality.

All for this!

- There's not enough
gold in that medallion

to buy dinner at the Ritz.

What makes it so damn valuable?

- It's not valuable on it's own, John.

I have to find the missing half.

- Suppose you do, what then?

- Well then I give both
halves back to Xan.

- This isn't about repaying
a debt to Xan is it?

This is about something else.

- Everything I've told you is the truth.

- But it's not everything
that we need to know.

- You have to trust me.

- I really wish I could, but.

- Veronica, give it back!

- You know what you have to do, Veronica.

- This is a snake biting it's own tail.

- And it's called an ouroboros.

- I don't care what it's
called I've seen it before.

- What?

- It's carved into the wall of a cave

I used to play in when my
parents still lived here.

- What?

A cave, where?

- Halfway to the Zanga village.

It's not far at all.

- If you told us the
truth from the beginning,

you would've found that cave years ago.

- [Marguerite] I still don't
think we should leave Veronica

here to take care of
Challenger on her own.

- Callum's after you, remember?

Veronica and Challenger will be just fine.

- Marguerite and Roxton
have had arguments before

but I've never seen them
go at the way they are now.

- Marguerite's never been caught

in so grand a deception before.

- Well she's lied and been caught at it.

It's not like that's new, Challenger.

- Marguerite has led an
unusual and daring life

and done things in the past

that I suspect she regrets today.

- Well hasn't everyone?

- Well too a degree.

But Marguerite's past actions

are no longer just her concern.

- Why not?

They were her actions, it's her life.

- I believe she's thinking
about sharing that life.

- Share a life with Roxton, you mean?

- I have never seen two
people so much in love

and yet so determined
to refuse to admit it.

- Care to check the compass Roxton?

The Zanga village is that way.

- If you wanna lead Callum
directly to Veronica's cave,

you be my guest.

- He's following us?

- Well what did you think Marguerite?

He said he was going to kill us if you

didn't give back the medallion.

So I'm certain he saw
us leave the tree house.

Just as I'm sure he thinks
you'll lead him right to it.

- You do care about me
finding the missing half.

- I'm doing this for Challenger,
Veronica, and myself.

And what happens to you,

well that's not up to me anymore is it?

- John.

- You're on your own Marguerite.

Which is where you obviously
wanted to be all along.

(suspenseful music)

- What's this?

I've seen this before, too.

- So have I.

It's the Chinese morpheme
for the element fire.

It's also the symbol of the Xan Dynasty.

- No, not this.

This.

- Oh, that doesn't
appear to be any language

that I am familiar with.

Did you see this symbol in the same cave

where you found the ouroboros?

- It's in my parent's journal.

The one Malone found in the hollow earth.

There.

- It's most curious.

But why would it be written alongside

these unusual Celtic runes?

Look, Veronica.

- What's the symbol of the Xan Dynasty

doing in my parent's journal?

- [Marguerite] Oh I don't like
the look of these old bones.

- Don't worry, it's not
a dinosaur graveyard.

Just the remains of
one unlucky Diplodocus.

But that opening is
definitely Veronica's cave.

- It can't be.

Veronica said she played in it as a child.

That cave's volcanic.

- Her directions were clear enough.

I'd say that 10 years ago,
all of this whole area

probably wasn't volcanic at all.

Whoa!
- Whoa!

(tremor rumbling)

- We best go inside while it's still safe.

- Who say's it's safe now?

- I have seen this before.

- What?

- This unusual mask that was given

to Summerlee by the Zanga shaman.

Look.

- [Veronica] It's a Zanga symbol?

- No, no, it came from
a different village.

But it's oddly fascinating, isn't it?

It's as if there's a
connection between the Xan,

your parents, and this other tribe.

The same connection that
was responsible for bringing

Marguerite and therefore the
rest of us to the plateau.

- Challenger, you and my
parents, you wondered about

all the plateau's mysteries
having only one answer.

- Oh my dear, we may just have stumbled

onto the first clue of
what that answer is.

- [John] This looks like
the main cavern up ahead.

- This is where Veronica used to play.

I don't see any doll houses,
unless of course she made them

out of these, which wouldn't surprise me.

- [George] Veronica, what was the purpose

of your parent's expedition?

- [Veronica] Scientific research.

- Oh nothing more specific than that?

I mean from their journals
we learned your mother was a,

is a talented botanist
and your father a man

of great scientific and
engineering expertise

but what exactly brought them here?

- I don't know.

Unless like Maple White and Marguerite

they were forced to work
for the Xan's somehow.

- Don't you even think that.

Your parents expedition
had more than 30 members

and enough equipment and supplies

to maintain them for years.

Believe me they came here for
more than a missing medallion.

- Then how did they find out
about the plateau, Challenger?

How did they know to come
here in the first place?

- I don't know the answer
to that mystery yet,

but I assure you nothing I have learned

thus far suggests the
answer that you fear.

- [John] Well, I guess we
have to cross this bridge.

- [Marguerite] Of course we do.

Otherwise it would be too easy.

(gasps)

- Well it looks solid enough.

Feels solid enough.

Let's go on carefully.

- [Marguerite] Why start now?

(screaming)

- John!

John!

Hold on.

Hold on!

- Well I had figured
that part out for myself,

thank you very much.

- Here, grab this.

- Only if you care to share
a nice hot lava bath with me.

(groans)

Get back now Marguerite.

Another tremor like the last one could

shatter your side of the bridge.

- Or shake you off your side.

- Oh I'll be fine.

Just need to find a few more hand holds.

- Don't you ever get tired of looking

after everyone but yourself?

- No.

- Well did you ever stop
to think that maybe why

I didn't tell any of you
about Xan and the ouroboros.

- You saying you're protecting us?

- None of you needed to know about Xan.

Once you start dancing
with the devil Roxton,

you can't stop.

But then again you were born to dance.

So maybe the devil just leaves you alone.

- That bone will never hold.

Don't you dare, Marguerite.

- Too late to complain.

If you don't trust me this
time then we're both dead.

- You are infuriating.

- You're insufferable.

(groaning)

Well, get me off this.

- All in good time.

Come on.

- Thank you.

- You're welcome.

- Don't move.

- Oh now what are you doing?

- According to the legend,
having half an ouroboros

makes it easier to find the other half.

We're heading in the right direction.

- At last.

- The ouroboros.

It's in there.

I know it is.

- Well here, I'm not
doing your dirty work.

- Here.

(suspenseful music)

I've done it.

- Well, take it.

Go on, that's what you came here for.

- It's um, but um, there's
more to the legend, John.

I don't know how it's
done but whoever touches

the restored ouroboros gains the power

to be translocated to any
place they most wanna be.

It's kind of like a genie granting a wish.

- And you believe that?

- Well I'd like to.

- Go ahead and make your wish, Marguerite.

Go back to London, or Shanghai,

or wherever it is you most wanna be.

'Cause I sure as hell know it isn't here.

- Is that what you want me to do?

- Well don't stay on my account.

We could all do with a little
peace and quiet around here.

(suspenseful music)

- This concludes our dealings Miss Smith.

Since you are unable to complete
your half of the bargain,

I'm certain Master Xan will
burn the birth certificates

you were so eager to trade this for.

- Birth certificate?

Well, he didn't vanish.

- That's why the legend was wrong.

No!

- It's over, Marguerite.

It's over.

- I'll only be gone a few weeks,

and there'll be enough warriors

at the Zanga party to
keep any raptors away.

- If your journey with the
Zanga can lead you to discover

the connection between your
parents and the tribe that

made this mask, and
everything else then it will

be a trip well worth undertaking.

- Stay out of trouble while I'm away.

- Of course I will.

- Same goes for you two,

if you can.

- As I am, you're my best.

- Farewell.

- You'll be back before we know it.

- See you soon.

- You know, I found
this remarkable beetle.

I think I might go down to my lab

and prepare some collection jars.

And then I might try and
pick up its trail again.

- Sounds like a full day, George.

- [George] And will idle hands.

- I'm sorry I have to ask,

but the birth certificate
that Callum mentioned--

- I know what you're going to say.

You're right.

The birth certificate was mine.

I was going to trade the ouroboros for it.

- You've never seen your own
birth certificate have you?

You don't know who you real--

- I don't know anything.

- In the cave, what you needed
was right in front of you.

You could have just picked it up.

Finding that medallion was the sole reason

you came to this plateau.

- It's not the reason I stayed.

- Well, whenever you're ready,

all your secrets will be safe with me.