- Voice on Disc: Good afternoon, Jim. In the last several months, a number of high officials in the Egyptian Government have died horrible deaths by strangulation. The latest to die was Anwar Farthay. His behind-the-scenes power brokering helped put Egypt on the road to a new level of negotiation with Israel and several radical Arab states. We believe that this man, Horace Selim, is somehow connected to the deaths. The director of the prestigious Museum of the Ancients, he has used his high-profile job to create antipathy toward government policies and believes Egypt should return to the greatness of its past, a past he oversees at his museum. Your mission, Jim, should you decide to accept it, is to determine Selim's guilt and put a stop to the killings before they unbalance the U.S. peace effort presently underway to calm the volatile Middle East. As always, should you or any of your IM Force be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow any knowledge of your actions. This disc will self-destruct in five seconds. Good luck, Jim.
- [first lines]
- Horace Selim: [on phone] Your policies do not have Egypt's best interests at heart, Anwar.
- Farthay: They are the government's policies, Selim. I'm just one of many who believe they're right.
- Horace Selim: Right? Right for what? To blend Egypt into a community of lesser nations? To destroy a greatness born thousands of years before Christ?
- Farthay: Your position as Curator of the Ancients Museum is influential, Selim, but it does not allow you to dictate policy to me. And you may surround yourself with antiquities, but the days of the pharaohs are dead and you must live in the 20th century.
- Horace Selim: Very well, Anwar, if that is your final word. But know this, the pharaohs are not dead. They are only sleeping.
- [hangs up phone]
- Horace Selim: It is you... who are dead.
- [last lines]
- Jim Phelps: Present-day evil has joined ancient evil. Both of them lost in the sands of time.