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Relic Hunter Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 2000
Episode 1
Buddha's Bowl
44 mins
Brilliant young Oxford graduate finds it quite a culture shock to become unorthodox New England archaeology professor Sydney Fox's teaching assistant. Nigel gets his baptism by fire in her more adventurous capacity, relic hunter, when they are commissioned by villagers from Nepal who scraped together their meager coins savings to find Buddha's bowl for their new shrine to prince Siddhartha, the original Buddha. Sydney finds her rival, less scrupulous relic hunter Stewie Harper is after the same- he was hired by bumbling Chinese banker Michael Chan to find the bowl so he can save his family's bank from financial ruin. The villagers handed them a map with cryptic clues, which they solve on the road, dealing with successive dangers and their own phobias.
Episode 2
Smoking Gun
44 mins
Aaron Shiner hires Nigel and Sidney to prove that his grandfather was wrongly convicted for a murder set up by Al Capone, using his legendary but missing diamond-stud revolver. The trail leads to a stately hotel, about to be torn down, overbooked so they must oppose as married couple, rather awkward for shy gentleman Nigel, who has a reciprocal crush on history teacher Lori, who later accidentally joins the quest. Sid must survive a machine gun trap after finding the infamous swimming pool on the 'hidden' floor. It's only part of Capone's elaborate deception infrastructure, which does yield the relic, but they're also watched by cahoots of dirty cop Lawrence Zale, who help set up 'too honest' accountant Murray Shiner.
Episode 3
The Headless Nun
44 mins
Returning from a polar relic hunt, Sydney's plane crash-lands on Nova Scotia due to a stowaway rival parachuting out with the prize. A group of nuns walking by rescues Sydney and takes her to the convent where her expertise is considered a sign: she's asked to search for a nun, Sister Evangeline, who went missing in the seventeenth century. She is presumed a martyr to French explorers who established the fort that later became the convent, which she allegedly still haunts. Nigel flies in to assist Sydney to examine the site, where a benefactor contractor executes repairs. A fire occurs, but the relic hunters persevere and confront the arsonists.
Episode 4
Flag Day
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel head to Larivee, California to find the Pioneer's Bear Flag.
Episode 5
Thank You Very Much
44 mins
Germany 1960 - Sydney and Nigel go to Germany to find a lost Elvis Presley guitar.
Episode 6
Diamond in the Rough
44 mins
Sydney, Nigel and rival relic hunter Kurt Reiner, attempt to find the lost baseball glove of Jimmy Jonesboro.
Episode 7
Transformation
44 mins
Cocky US secret agent Derek Lloyd stops Sydney's tai-chi session to summon her for a top-secret mission: preventing the second of two legendary Paracelsus scrolls, one of which he already has, falling in the wrong hands. The alchemist allegedly found the formula to make gold, which could disrupt world economy. She refuses to go without Nigel, to a rebel region in Peru, to search the villa where war profiteer Arthur Stanton may have hidden it. Coping with the dangers of a war zone, including two-faced fixers, a land mined Nigel steps on, rebel patrols and HQ in the very villa, a deadly snake, strong indications that Derek is a traitor, and a rival US agent, they still face the trapped Paracelsus site and the dilemma what to do with the completed scrolls.
Episode 8
Etched in Stone
44 mins
Dodgy relic hunter Stewie Harper bought a professorship in a tacky South African university, which gets Syd and Nigel ordered to assist him to track down the funeral rune stone of Viking King Jann of Norway. A page from a secret manuscript and a remarkably knowledgeable Viking bar waitress -- with a crush on Nigel -- send them to an old church, converted into a nude wellness spa. Only with the stone, they realize it's not Jann I but II, famous for a huge treasure raided in Northumbria, where he died in battle.
Episode 9
The Book of Love
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel are in Milan, Italy to search for Casanova's lost Book of Love.
Episode 10
Myth of the Maze
44 mins
Stavros Vordalos, decent playboy son of Greek dodgy shipping billionaire Dimitri, uses gullible Claudia's Athens party holiday to deliver an intriguing pendant in Cretan marble, possibly the legendary key to king Minos's Minotaur maze, and sends a picture to intrigue Sydney, who rushes in with Nigel. Local archaeology professor Alex Tavina claims it's a fake, but is targeted himself by Dimitri's men, who have instructions to get, at any cost, the legendary golden twine which showed Araidne the way out. After the gang and Stavros find a surprising way in, it proves magically useful, with Dimitri's goon on their trail.
Episode 11
Irish Crown Affair
44 mins
Nigel and Sydney fly to Ireland, to search for the crown of the last High King Brian Boru, he entrusted his crown to lord Hugh O'Donnell. The latter's descendants still suffer from the stigma of traitor who did homage to the conquering English king Edward. If they can find the crown, helped by Dublin heir Garrett O'Donnell, that allegiance may be proven a ploy. However they're not the only ones after the truly precious, historical relic, and the rivals are violent.
Episode 12
Emperor's Bride
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel are in Moose Bay, Alaska looking for the white jade sarcophagus of a Chinese Empress. Sydney runs into fellow relic hunters Dallas Carter and Kurt Reiner.
Episode 13
Afterlife and Death
42 mins
Sydney and Nigel are in Cairo, Egypt and then Amsterdam. They must beat rival relic hunter Avery Ko to the Pharaoh Thutmose's diamond before it is cut up and sold.
Episode 14
Nine Lives
44 mins
NIgel awakes the obvious gay interest of dodgy New York (fake) art gallery owner and fence Lagerfeld when he and Sydney are begged by foxy antiquities museum curator Elizabeth Rukeyser to retrieve before the Egyptian exposition opens the golden statue of cat goddess Mafdet, stolen from her apartment, where she sneaked it out to. The heist bares the mark of cat burglar Roselyn, who attacks them but ends up murdered for the statue, which was bought by crooked diplomat Juan Escuevero. Nigel ends up kidnapped at blade-point to force Sydney to find it before the midnight ritual sacrifice of an ancient Pharaonic servants order, Lagerfeld stupidly stumbles inside their hidden temple.
Episode 15
Affaire de Coeur
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel go to Scotland to find the 2nd ring of the pair of Twining Rings of Calum and Elena.
Episode 16
A Vanishing Art
44 mins
Magician Rex Rolands recruits Syd and Nigel to pose as his assistants to search the magic house installed in the huge Atlantic City home mansion of the Great Brodsky, who presumably stole the 'cursed' Hungarian royal scepter which disappeared during his performance at Habsburg emperor Franz's court. The relic hunters must deal with manager Malcolm Zales, who has a crush on Syd, the other resident/visiting magicians and the mansion's build-in traps, while an insider seeks to kill them.
Episode 17
A Good Year
44 mins
Before the French Revolutionaries executed queen Marie Antoinette, she entrusted some of her 'crown jewel' diamonds to stable-hand and lover Laurent Halezan. The cocky incompetent juvenile heir to his wine estate, Jerome, is selling off all possessions. Louvre professor Dupuys guesses that trail and engages old friend Sydney to embark near Paris on a relic hunt with Nigel, lading there. They find he's being robbed by the delivery maid and extorted by a loan-shark Paris gangster, who gets and auctions the wine bottle form the revolution years suspected to contain the treasure, but that proves an outdated trail.
Episode 18
The Last Knight
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel go to Paris, France after the Sword of Jacques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templar. Rival relic hunter Rita Rosellini is also after the sword.
Episode 19
Love Letter
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel go to France to look for the lost wedding vows of Josephine Pontoise and Guy de Bourdin, which would prove their heir is the rightful owner of St. Agnes Sur-Loire.
Episode 20
Possessed
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel are in Brussels, Belgium in search of the sacred sundial of Zeus to stop the Vampires.
Episode 21
Nothing But the Truth
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel are reunited with Stewie Harper, in the search for the Chalice of Truth in France.
Episode 22
Memories of Montmartre
44 mins
Sydney and Nigel head to Paris, France to find a stolen locket, so they can clear Sydney's dead grandmother of the charges.
