Basilisk: The Serpent King

444 00:30:58,481 --> 00:31:00,775 It's called a "Basilisk". It's an Egyptian word. 445 00:31:00,859 --> 00:31:02,735 It means King of the Serpents. 446 00:31:03,319 --> 00:31:07,115 It's a creature the ancients believed could paralyze its victims 447 00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:08,491 with its venom and… 448 00:31:09,117 --> 00:31:10,702 turn them to stone with its glance. 449 00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:14,998 There are passages in the writings of Pliny The Elder and the Bible, 450 00:31:15,081 --> 00:31:18,710 which tell how the first Basilisk was born of a chicken's egg, 451 00:31:18,793 --> 00:31:21,754 hatched by a snake during the solstice 452 00:31:21,838 --> 00:31:24,924 in which the stars of Sirius and the sun are closest together. 453 00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:28,303 I guess that explains why snake meat tastes so much like chicken. 454 00:31:28,386 --> 00:31:29,679 So, how do we stop it? 455 00:31:29,762 --> 00:31:31,514 No. no, no, wait. No offense here, 456 00:31:31,598 --> 00:31:34,309 but I just want to get the hell away from this thing. 457 00:31:34,934 --> 00:31:35,810 The legends vary. 458 00:31:35,894 --> 00:31:39,147 Some say that loud noises can drive it back into the darkness. 459 00:31:39,230 --> 00:31:42,191 Others have suggested that the sight of its own reflection 460 00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:44,027 can turn it into stone, but… 461 00:31:44,527 --> 00:31:48,489 Apparently, the only sure-fire way to defeat it is with the Eye of Medusa. 462 00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:50,074 Oh, great. 463 00:31:50,825 --> 00:31:54,037 Well, since no one seems to have a boom box, 464 00:31:54,120 --> 00:31:55,997 or a big-ass mirror. 465 00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,626 By the way, do you have that, that eye thing that you just mentioned? 466 00:31:59,709 --> 00:32:01,085 Do you? 467 00:32:01,669 --> 00:32:04,130 No. But I know who does. 468 00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:10,511 Did you see it, Brock? The way it sparkled? 469 00:32:11,429 --> 00:32:12,889 No, I didn't. 470 00:32:13,473 --> 00:32:17,810 I was a little busy watching that monster eat people and turn them to stone. 471 00:32:17,894 --> 00:32:20,104 Baby. Baby. Shh, 472 00:32:20,188 --> 00:32:22,023 Don't look so concerned. 473 00:32:22,106 --> 00:32:24,901 The hard part's over. We're practically home free. 474 00:32:24,984 --> 00:32:26,444 Are you crazy? 475 00:32:26,527 --> 00:32:29,614 {\an8}We're still down here in the dark, that thing is on the loose, 476 00:32:29,697 --> 00:32:31,324 and we still don't have the map. 477 00:32:31,407 --> 00:32:33,117 But Brocky… 478 00:32:33,826 --> 00:32:35,745 that's why we have this. 479 00:32:36,663 --> 00:32:43,169 Which means you're going to make me a very happy woman 480 00:32:44,045 --> 00:32:47,048 by using it to translate the map. 481 00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:49,676 And when I'm happy, 482 00:32:50,426 --> 00:32:56,474 believe it, baby, you are going to be very, very happy. 483 00:32:56,557 --> 00:32:58,685 Just think about it, cowboy. 484 00:33:01,688 --> 00:33:04,524 So, all we need to do now is get over to the university 485 00:33:04,607 --> 00:33:07,276 and retrieve that map while people are distracted here, right? 486 00:33:11,197 --> 00:33:12,615 It's that way. I remember now. 487 00:33:12,699 --> 00:33:13,741 Are you sure? 488 00:33:14,409 --> 00:33:17,328 Oh, yeah, it's all up here, like a steel trap. 489 00:33:17,412 --> 00:33:20,957 There's an old subway tunnel ahead. We can use it to reach the surface. 490 00:33:26,504 --> 00:33:28,089 Heigh ho, Silver. 491 00:33:29,090 --> 00:33:31,050 Brock. Brock! 492 00:33:32,176 --> 00:33:33,720 You said it was this way. 493 00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:38,015 Idiot. 494 00:33:42,020 --> 00:33:43,521 If I didn't know any better, 495 00:33:43,604 --> 00:33:45,189 I'd say you planned this whole thing 496 00:33:45,273 --> 00:33:46,858 just to get me alone in the dark. 497 00:33:46,941 --> 00:33:50,069 I'm good, but I'm not that good. 498 00:33:50,153 --> 00:33:51,279 Hey. 499 00:33:51,988 --> 00:33:53,656 Look, up here. 500 00:33:55,616 --> 00:33:57,035 Might be a way out. 501 00:34:07,962 --> 00:34:08,963 Hey. 502 00:34:09,839 --> 00:34:11,382 Here. 503 00:34:11,466 --> 00:34:12,675 - Oh. - Yeah. 504 00:34:12,759 --> 00:34:14,302 All right. 505 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:18,680 Oh. 506 00:34:22,310 --> 00:34:24,312 - Oh. - Ah. I think it's welded shut. 507 00:34:25,229 --> 00:34:27,190 Great. Now what? 508 00:34:28,858 --> 00:34:33,112 Help! Hello! Can somebody help us? Anybody. 509 00:34:33,196 --> 00:34:34,864 Oh. Hey, I've got my cell phone. 510 00:34:37,283 --> 00:34:38,363 Oh, come on, baby. Come on. 511 00:34:38,409 --> 00:34:40,953 - Can you get a signal? - I have one bar. 512 00:34:41,662 --> 00:34:44,207 Oh, come on, baby. Come on. Let me hear you r