SCENE 01 – Dateline: Tuesday, April 7, 1925 – Departing from Najjar’s shop, Al-Sedat and Crandal are separated and chased by cultists. Al-Sedat is able to find refuge in the mosque, eventually meeting up with Moriarty, Adler, and Morello.

Crandal is chased down a side street and is stabbed. She is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening wounds. Lacking ID, she is entered as a Jane Doe. Moriarty tries to locate her from calling various hospitals but is unable to find out where Crandal is taken.

SCENE 02 – Returning to Shepherd’s, Alder insists that Al-Sedat be restrained and his blood tested. Once satisfied that Alder is human, Al-Sedat binds his wounded palm, thinking Adler is unhinged.

SCENE 03 – Dateline: Wednesday, April 8, 1925 – Al-Sedat attends Dr Kafour‘s funeral where he meets Nigel Wasif. Wasif gives Al-Sedat his card and mentions the street violence from last night. When asked to elaborate, Wasif informs Al-Sedat that Najjar was murdered last night.

Wasif questions Al-Sedat about the rumors surrounding Dr Kafour’s death and the stories that the strange cat which attacked him turned into a young woman after it was killed. Al-Sedat does not confirm these rumors.

Wasif is horrified to hear about what happened to Crandal and offers his services to help locate her should Al-Sedat require them.

SCENE 04 – Morello and Taylor meet with Ishaq Rashal, who refers to himself in the third person. Rashal assures Morello that he can supply whatever he requires: guns, transport, and mercenaries, to the Great Pyramids. Rashal meets them just outside of Cairo that evening with five mercenaries and they head westward under the full moon towards Giza.

SCENE 05 – Journeying north by motor, Alder, Moriarty and Miss Shosenberg are able to find the town of El Wasta easily enough, but quickly discover that Nuri is a common name and it takes most of the day until they find the right one.

Living at the outskirts of the town in a ramshackle hovel, Nuri dwells with her son, Ubaid. Greatly disfigured and living in utter filth, the investigators are not able to get much information from the listless mother and son. At mention of the Carlyle expedition, Nuri becomes very agitated, gurgling and babbling around her severed tongue and gesturing with her stumped appendages towards a basket in the far corner of their hovel: within the basket, protected by an ancient Egyptian ward against evil, is a white stone block carved with a strange symbol that merges the Eye of Ra with an inverted ankh.

Nuri keeps gurgling and gesticulating at the block. The investigators take the stone, Nuri then sighs and looks at peace. Ubaid simply watches them mutely from the doorway as the return to the town and seek lodging for the night.