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Relic Hunter Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2000 - 2001
Episode 1
The Put Back
42 mins
Kuba, Africa 100 AD: Worshippers of Woote curse his idol to protect it. 2000: Ross Crawford comes to Sydney, because he took the idol and the curse has accelerated his aging. And, if the idol isn't returned, Woote's wrath will be unleashed.
Episode 2
Dagger of Death
42 mins
India, 500 AD: A precious dagger is used in human sacrifices to goddess Kali. 2000: Dr. Terrace is in a maximum security prison for killing his assistant. The dagger compelled him and now Sydney must return it to its sheath in India.
Episode 3
Last of the Mochicas
43 mins
Nigel and Sydney recover a vessel believed to contain the Great Warrior Spirit of the ancient Mochica tribe from a cave sanctuary and hop a private flight to the Peruvian capital Lima, after escaping a road ambush to the airfield. However aboard are rival relic hunter Tobar, German author on Precolumbian cultures Hans Lubeck, whose notes prove fascinating, and the elusive double agent Cate Hemphill alias Smith. The plane is shot down over jungle territory disputed by Mochicas demanding autonomy, government troops and a rogue war lord. The duo must deal with soldiers, fiends, the dangers of the jungle, keeping the relic safe and its activated spirit.
Episode 4
The Legend of the Lost
43 mins
Sydney and Nigel set out to find if the legend of the lost civilization in New Guinea is actually true. Unfortunately, they have to team up with Derek Lloyd.
Episode 5
Fertile Ground
43 mins
At Sydney's otherwise lame high school reunion, studly class sweetheart Tony recruits her to follow the trail of a legendary stolen idol of Hawaiian fertility god Lono. The written trail of the British invaders' ship leads to a pirates' nest of mutineers in Madagascar. Nigel's civilized approach yields nothing at the only contact's rough bar, but Sydney's fists get them to the man who knows about possibly appropriate tombs in a desolate valley, and procures them weird guides, two LA fans who get them past dangerous falls while fighting off a rival. After deducing that the recording carpenter's grave must be fake, they take on the booby traps and new betrayal.
Episode 6
Gypsy Jigsaw
42 mins
Romania, 1830: The dying Romani king gives orders to hide the crown. Trinity College, 2000: Sydney receives a deck of rare tarot cards by mail from her friend who just died. The infamous Vulture was after him. Sydney enlists Claudia to help.
Episode 7
Three Rivers to Cross
42 mins
Nigel and Sydney respond to a call from her father Randall Fox, an international contractor, whose three gorges dam project is about to flood at its grand opening several Chinese valleys, including the one where monks believe the priceless jade empress statue to be hidden for centuries. The culture ministry official in charge assured the military governor it's just a myth, but he, a mystery boss and more parties are after the jade key, which our relic hunters finally decipher, under the nose of the Communist authorities, and use to rescue the statue.
Episode 8
Roman Holiday
42 mins
Rome, 44 BC: An alchemist creates an impenetrable armor for Caesar. 2000: Sydney and Nigel are on a trip, so Claudia decides to help Sydney's friend Roger to find Caesar's Armor. But relic hunting is not her strongest talent.
Episode 9
Cross of Voodoo
42 mins
When two graduate students on the trail of the Haitian Cross of Utu disappear in New Orleans, Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou to find them.
Episode 10
Lost Contact
42 mins
Sydney, Nigel and billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle to rescue a relic-hunting team hired by Thorson to locate an ancient sacrificial bowl.
Episode 11
The Reel Thing
42 mins
Egypt, 1516 BC: Amun II is buried with his crook and flail. London, 2001: Working as consultants for an archeology adventure film, Sydney and Nigel realize the Pharaoh's "props" are genuine, long thought lost relics. How can they be?
Episode 12
M.I.A.
42 mins
While luring for Interpol international art thieves with a Fabergé egg from the Czarist court, Sydney is kidnapped, but not for the loot. Agent Cate Hemphill seeks Nigel and Claudia to list plausible suspects, by reminiscing about various relic hunts on various continents (episode flashbacks), but all seem dead or otherwise accounted for. FInally they find that Edward Patel, the leader of a Kashmiri Kali cult, is alive, and has indeed captured Sydney as human sacrifice. His Indian student cahoot Mohandas Gujaret proves the key.
Episode 13
Out of the Past
42 mins
Sydney leaves weary Nigel to deal with the long-delayed accounting audit by foxy Maxine Schneider, as she can't wait to check out the Cleopatra exhibition at the Alexandria Museum. The jewel box on the brochure arouses inexplicable memories and knowledge of hieroglyphs in Claudia as if she were the reincarnated royal handmaiden, Iras. Her clues allow museum director Mohammed Kalifa to find a papyrus in a secret compartment, only to be stolen. His assistant Shareef is after the hidden necklace; the trail leads to a recent temple excavation.
Episode 14
Eyes of Toklamanee
42 mins
Mississippi Valley, 1605: Indians lock French explorers into a chamber in which they get disintegrated. 2001: Sydney and her student Adam are onto his ancestors' fabled Eyes of Toklamanee, but they are pursued by mysterious gunmen.
Episode 15
Run Sydney Run
42 mins
Sydney and Nigel are ambushed in Russia. Two weeks later, Sydney wakes up in the house of a man called Tsarlov, who claims to have saved her. However, Sydney understands soon something's wrong, and she's right: instead of hunting for relics, she's going to be hunted now.
Episode 16
French Connection
42 mins
Nigel is looking forward to giving a civilized guest lecture in Paris with Sydney, when her fear of boredom is resolved: MI5 agent David Watson commandeers her to help prevent a top-secret assassination at a peace conference. She is believed to be mentioned in a Nostradamus prediction as the 'fox' to stop the crime. The key seems to be the missing '1600' medallion, presumably buried with the seer in a church. They are countered by rival relic hunter Antonio Castillo and a mystery killer, while tracking down the medallion to the monastery of its presumed thief, the discredited Cardinal Dallier. His journal, which they steal back, leads to the '1600', but the clock ticks toward the royal assassination and the mastermind strikes.
Episode 17
Don't Go Into the Woods
42 mins
Despised dodgy relic hunter Vladimir Bugos fascinates Sidney and Nigel enough to join him in Carpathia by showing a map possibly leafing to the golden falcon of Maribor, which disappeared with princess Natasha's carriage. At their arrival in the Rumanian abbey of Lubjanka, he has disappeared. The villagers seem aloof or even hostile, with a werewolf legend spelling doom if the falcon is found. Indeed following the clues from Bugos leads after a car accident to the carriage and Vladimir in a cage inside a cave, but now the locals lay siege.
Episode 18
Midnight Flight
42 mins
Louvre museum director Dr. Francois Jaebert's gray researcher Frederick Harris calls a marker on Sydney to help, with Nigel, track down his trail from a manuscript to the mythical, ruby-studded golden scepter in the secret tomb of the Germanic conqueror Gunther the Brave (circa 400 AD). The clues and matching crystal and stone tablet enable them to locate it in Kleine Burgh and get it past the deadly booby-traps. However they were spied upon by ruthless agents, and by the time they realize being used by Frederick he has already sold it to Turkish collector Aziz Habasi, whose diplomatic status complicates retrieving it to MacGyver level.
Episode 19
The Executioner's Mask
42 mins
Sydney and Nigel investigate how her childhood friend Naomi, now a diva fashion model, is disfigured and in hellish pains during a photo shoot when she puts on an historical mask, once worn by a French Revolution executioner. As this fits a legendary curse, they travel to his native city of Bourg, where the previous owner suffered the same fate until Naomi put on the mask. They consult a macabre French expert on executions, who helps them trace the mask back to an orphanage-turned-boarding school. A villain learns a nightmare lesson before the curse is lifted.
Episode 20
The Royal Ring
42 mins
Nigel has personal reserves about Sidney's next mission, the search for Tudor king Henry VIII's missing engagement ring for Anne Boleyn, as the case is presented by his ever-rivaling elder brother Preston Bailey, as executive in the British Museum. There CEO Dr. Anthony Cureton bluntly rejects their help, actually being in dirty dealings with a dodgy relic hunter, whose henchman fails to arrest the Bailey quest, which deciphers Henry's artistic riddles one by one in London and Leeds castle, while the brothers' ex/girl Amanda Reardon two-times them viciously.
Episode 21
Set in Stone
42 mins
Hungary, 1595: In a monastery, Knight Gabriel impales a demon, which then turns to stone. 2001: Nigel and Sydney arrive bearing a letter from a monk, but the abbot claims it is a forgery and shuts them out. Sydney decides to dig deeper.
Episode 22
Deadline
42 mins
Sydney's colleague and ex Allan Devaut seeks her help as he was injected with a fatal poison and has only 24 hours to earn the antidote by bringing to tycoon's son Jean Chabot the Knight Templars' magical tau cross, found in 1099 in crusader kingdom Jerusalem, the cure for Jean's dying father Albert, who promises his empire to whoever brings it to him. Claudia is installed in the Paris library to continue research while Allan, Nigel and Sydney got look for the final clues to the cross in a medieval dungeon ruin and a modernized castle. They are bothered by rival relic hunter Van Gelden and Jean's henchman, and have reason to mistrust the cross itself.