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Previously...

Nigella, we trusted you. That might have been a mistake.

Thank you. Ugh!

Magic? Theodosia's powers?

It's all true. Yeah.

Come on, we've got my parents to rescue and an ancient evil to stop.

Mr and Mrs Throckmorton!

Chaos is coming.

Oh, no.

Please, no!

Theo. We have to go. Will, we can't!

We have to go after Aapep! OK?! I can stop him!

Have you not seen that thing? We wouldn't stand a chance.

OK, your mum and dad are safe. We need to be safe too.

HISSING

Ah! Go, right now!

Magic?

Ancient powers?

All real?

My family in danger?

If Aapep gets free...

..all of us.

SHE EXHALES SHARPLY

So much I... I never knew.

From Theodosia...

..from all of you...

..from Harold, most of all.

Leave me, Safiya.

But... Please.

Leave.

You should have trusted me, Harold.

How much more did you hide?

Henry. Waiting for Theo and Will to get back

really wasn't working for me.

Believe me, hanging with your granny wasn't much fun, either.

I'll bet. Look, anyway, I checked out Nigella's room.

That's...

..a great idea, actually.

Did you find anything? Books, teaching things.

Oh, come on! No-one's that boring.

Where's Serpent girl hiding the bad stuff?

Maybe here.

OK.

Disappointing.

The bad stuff is, she's even more boring than Clive.

Look. Rosalind. Remember?

The key from snake guy's flat?

No way I'm forgetting that!

You... you are a genius.

Oh...

A hug.

You know, it's good when people remember I'm the smart one

as well as the good-looking and incredibly brave one.

Ooh! Not turned to stone.

Always a win.

You're back. Mum? Dad?

They're safe. Aapep?

Saf, I had to save mum and dad.

Theo, you were supposed to save everyone's mum and dad,

you were supposed to stop Aapep from getting free.

Saf, we haven't lost yet, OK?

I'll make this right.

Aapep was locked up before. We can do that again.

How?

OK. I'm working on that,

but, look, there's got to be a clue somewhere, right?

Like this?

Vincent's flat.

I'll bet you that's where they took Nigella to brainwash her.

And left her with the key?

She wasn't brainwashed, she's one of the bad guys.

How'd you find this, anyway?

I'm a genius. Didn't you know?

No, I'm so not hugging you again.

OK.

Come on.

HE PANTS

Al?

We're still here, darling.

We're still here.

Looks like we managed to escape somehow.

Let's get back, darling. I'll be at the Pyramid in no time.

No, no - back home.

Right now. I don't feel like I can.

Me neither. Truth be told, I can hardly see straight.

Right?

Of course you're right.

Home, we'll see to it.

Come on. OK, here we go.

Arm around me.

Come on. Yes.

Wasn't there a snake in that flat last time?

Not a fan.

And now we've got a snake called Nigella.

I still say she can't be a true Serpent.

Not in her heart.

You know, I'm pretty sure I heard her say she was to your face.

Well, what if she got hypnotised, like Yaret did to Henry?

Hey. Don't remind me. People, how is this helping

with the giant evil snake thing?

OK, you're right. Will and I can go check out Vincent's,

you two stay here and see what you can find.

I know it seems like everything is going wrong.

But I will...

We.

We will fix this.

Can't you feel it?

The world knows it's about to be changed.

There's much to be done yet.

The Great One was imprisoned so long.

He'll regain his strength soon enough,

with our help.

After all, who's going to stop us?

Don't underestimate your cousin.

She defeated Yaret.

I'm surprised you forget that.

He favoured you so strongly.

She was defending herself.

And as for Theo's power, don't forget,

she had Osiris's staff to help her.

She didn't need the staff to free her parents.

But rescuing them kept her nicely busy while I freed the Great One.

Don't worry, Miss Krait.

It'll take more than one girl's magic to defeat immortal Aapep.

WHISPERS: Why?

All these secrets I never knew.

SHE GASPS

"My dearest Lavinia...

"it seems you've found my diary.

"And that means a time has come I long feared,

"the time for you to learn things I...

"I hoped to hide from you and little Alistair forever."

OK. It's OK, like I told you.

There's definitely no snakes.

I just don't like them, OK?

Yeah, I get it. I've got a thing about slugs.

Slugs? Wait.

This coming from the girl who faced down a magic serpent-wizard?

Yeah, but he wasn't squishy.

Come on, can we please get this search over and done with?

This place creeps me out.

HE GASPS

What?

It is so weird being back here.

Not as weird as Nigella coming.

They definitely controlled her somehow.

Hey! I think I've got something.

Mm. I didn't see Vincent as the scrapbooking type.

You know, he's more of a lurking-in-the-shadows kind of guy.

That's my uncle Andrew.

Nigella's dad.

Caught smuggling artefacts out of Egypt.

Got prison for it! You never told me this.

I-I never knew!

That must have been why Nigella stopped coming.

Can't imagine your granny putting up with that kind of thing.

"Dear Lord Snortington, you must meet my nephew, Prisoner 72365."

I mean, come on.

HE CHUCKLES

That's Nigella, isn't it?

That's Nigella all right.

Look, there's a...

THEY GASP

Yaret.

Hello, Head of the Serpents.

We had to get the pyramidion

as far from the Serpents as we could, you see.

It was Augustin who came up with hiding it in the museum.

You should have told me.

I should have told you.

But I know you too well.

You'd have tried to stop me.

Or worse, you'd have tried to join me.

I couldn't risk that, not if I didn't have to.

Now, though, I think I'm onto something,

an artefact that even Aapep fears.

I hoped you'd be in my arms as I told you this.

Looks like Nigella didn't change much.

Apart from the whole wall of stuff about the Serpents.

She was really into this stuff.

Almost makes you look normal.

I was wrong.

I was wrong about everything.

I trusted Nigella, I didn't stop Aapep.

I even convinced Safiya and Henry to attack that magician of yours.

Neville? No, I can worry about him after Aapep's locked up.

OK.

I mean, he could be doing anything right now.

Yes.

"Yes", you're losing your hair?

A small clue, I'm not blonde.

I'm hoping it's Nigella's, because I know a spell

that can help me find where people are.

Where we find Nigella, we find Aapep.

Uh, that's the one.

I still can't believe Theo let Aapep out.

She's usually the one who's telling us how dangerous snakebreath is.

Just give her a break, Saf. She's trying to fix things.

We all are, or supposed to be.

I can moan and fix at the same time, it's called multi-tasking.

Can you multi-task us a clue? Cos there's nothing downstairs.

That's why we're trying upstairs again, genius.

Come on.

I should've known.

Throwing things on the display.

You've no respect for history.

After what history's been doing to us?

What on earth are you talking about?

Take this back to where it belongs.

Sure, in a minute, only...

Do you want me to speak to your grandmother?

So not a good idea right now.

That's better.

What are you doing down there?

Cracked.

Kids.

Wouldn't know your artefacts from your...

Most unusual.

HE SPLUTTERS

HE COUGHS

HE GAGS AND GROWLS

DEEPER GROWLING

Hathor of the Four Faces,

show me the one I seek.

Theo? WHISPERS: This isn't what you meant to happen?

No. I can hear you, you know.

Nigella, this has to stop.

We've been through this, Theo.

You don't have to do everything what Aapep wants.

I want what Aapep wants.

Nigella, he will get rid of everything and everyone,

including yourself.

That's why I'm going to stop him, and I will stop you, if I have to.

Theo, you need to stop.

You can't stand against an immortal power.

You should worry about dangers closer to home.

Is that some kind of threat?

A warning.

Mess with snakes, they bite.

No, no, no, no. Nigella!

Ugh.

Ugh!

Yeah. That could have gone better than it did.

Let's just hope they're having better luck at the museum.

The museum..."dangers closer to home".

You don't think that...? Come on.

Did I hear you talking to someone?

News from the Great One?

No.

Nothing that need concern you.

I leave it all to you, Lavinia.

My notes, these finds...

..my secrets.

I've had to be careful to hide everything

in case the Serpents might find it.

But if I'm gone and Aapep threatens...

..well, you're the brightest, bravest person I've ever met.

You'll find the way through, I know you will.

But all this...

..it's so much.

How can I possibly...?

I'm to go to Berlin, then?

And Paris for me.

So much of Egypt's magic has been stripped.

Thanks to the likes of your father.

He became a true Serpent.

Besides, museums were hoarding Egypt's treasures long before him.

So we take them all back to Aapep to feed on.

Wherever the Great One is,

if he's found while he's still weak...

He'll be safe.

And we'll find all the magic he needs

for him to regain his strength.

You don't know where he is, do you?

He hasn't chosen to share that... yet.

Not even with you?

Doesn't look like Nigella left anything here, anyway.

FAINT GROWLING

Did you hear something?

GROWLING CONTINUES

We should investigate, shouldn't we?

GROWLING GROWS LOUDER

Together? Together.

GROWLING

Oh, the children.

GROWLING CONTINUES

What? Clive?

Clive. What's happened to him?

Magic, what else?

Soon he could be a god off a tomb fresco.

I'm guessing one of the angry ones. Look, Clive, it's me, Henry.

How well do you and Clive get along again?

OK, I'll admit, that wasn't the best way to calm him.

But, if at first you don't succeed...

CLIVE GROWLS

Run away?

GROWLING CONTINUES

I really wish he'd stop.

Come on.

Roaring, or chasing us?

Both would be good. Ah!

ELEVATOR DINGS

Children?! Watch out, Granny.

Clive's gone wild, literally.

SHE GASPS

Clive.

I... I...

No, the children, the children.

Clive. Desist at once!

You are an assistant curator and an Englishman.

This is no way to behave!

CLIVE ROARS

What's she doing? She makes Clive angry when he's normal.

Normal for Clive, anyway.

Clive. Stop. Granny!

Children, follow me!

Quick, quick. Close the door!

There. Now hold fast.

Granny, that was great.

Who knew there was an umbrella martial art?

It seems I did.

Surprise, that's the trick.

Learnt that when Harold and I were in Africa.

Now, help me build a barricade.

Too much running.

We should be used to that by now.

Are you sure something's up? Everything looks normal to me.

GROWLING Normal for us, unfortunately.

Come on, let's go!

Push!

There.

That should suffice to keep us safe a while.

Oh! Ah!

Or maybe not.

We need more chairs. More chairs!

That looks bad.

OK and that looks worse.

Oh, no. That's Clive? That was Clive.

Is it just me, or does he seem extra-angry, even for Clive?

Ha. Funny, but how are we going to stop him?

In a way that'll amaze you.

Well, he's a big cat, right?

Do you think a bowl of milk might help?

Did Grandad ever mention anything about a secret exit in this office?

Cos we could really do with one right now.

Sadly, your grandfather mentioned rather less

than he might about a lot of things.

Keep pushing!

OK, I think Clive's been turned into an incarnation of Shezmu.

That's the god of blood.

The thing is, Shezmu is basically a good guy.

Uh, "god of blood"? He's just under the influence of Aapep.

Well, that's what you said about Nigella.

OK, this time I'm right.

Here kitty, kitty!

That's it. Go to the window, quick!

Theodosia!

What is she doing?

Clive, it's OK, I'm getting you back. I hope.

She can't stand up to that creature.

You'd be surprised, Granny. Look, I hate to admit it,

but my sister's kind of amazing.

But... Henry is right.

Theo's the only one who can stop that thing.

Mighty Shezmu.

Punisher of wickedness, blade of righteousness.

Shezmu, god of blood, I bow.

Hear me, mighty Shezmu.

The vessel you have taken, he cares for this museum, he guards it,

just as you guard the righteous.

Shezmu, Aapep has deceived you,

he cast you into the body of an innocent.

Fierce Shezmu, look into this man's heart! Theo!

HE GROWLS

What...? What's going on?

What are you two doing here?

What...

What have you done to my museum?

There are a great many things I don't understand, Theodosia.

A great many things I've misjudged too.

Not least my granddaughter.

But duty...

..that's something I was taught about since I was a girl.

It seems your duty is a heavy one, my dear.

This Aapep must be defeated.

It's OK, Granny. I know.

But never think the burden is yours alone.

You have friends.

And now... you have me.

Harold fought this creature.

I will, too.

We can do this, Granny.

Yes.

I believe there's a chance we can.