Post by Kriss on Aug 16, 2009 14:51:37 GMT -5
Summary:
Sinbad and his crew take a break from sailing and relax on the beach. Doubar, Firouz and Rongar take a walk, but are soon attacked by a group of sinister Bedouins, who capture Rongar and sell him to Scratch, a mysterious slaver. Dermott communicates the imminent danger to Sinbad, who races off to help. Doubar and Firouz attack the Bedouin horsemen and force them to reveal Scratch's whereabouts. Sinbad joins them and they head off to Scratch's hideaway in the ruins near the forest.
When the door of the crumbling sandstone structure swings open, the three men step into another world, a dark and eerie cavern. Inside, they find Rongar tied to a large wooden "X." As they untie him, Scratch's voice condemns the crew to death, but a female voice tells him to go away. The men follow the voice to find the voluptuous Sudra, who is chained up next to a human skull resting on a pillar. She explains that in order for her to be freed, they must complete the mission from Dim-Dim which she had begun - to search for and return the three other skulls, placing them on the remaining pillars. To do this, they will have to travel through portals that twist through time and space to lands no mortals have returned from alive.
Splitting into pairs, they each enter separate portals. Sinbad and Rongar enter a doorway and land on a bleak and craggy moor. Instantly, they are forced to battle baton-wielding Ninjas, followed by an invisible warrior whose power comes from a magical helmet. Sinbad wins, takes the skull, as well as the helmet and he and Rongar escape through a magical doorway. Meanwhile, Doubar and Firouz have entered into a thickly wooded marshland. Sensing this Scratch is no mere slaver, Doubar tells Firouz that in the western lands Scratch is the name of the devil himself. He then recalls a pivitol moment from his childhood.
Sinbad was a toddler. Their parents were sailing to the west. A storm capsized the ship, taking the brother's parents down with it. As he tried to keep his little brother afloat on a piece of deck, Doubar kept hearing a demonic voice tell him to save himself and let the devil have the child. Doubar is sure that the demonic voice belonged to Scratch. As Doubar finishes his recollection, Firouz and him encounter a pit of slithering cobras guarded by two Neanderthal-like bog men with hatchets and spears. Firouz diverts the bog men's attention, while Doubar uses a branch to extract the skull from the pit and elude the giant snake protecting it. After Doubar dispatches the bog men with a large boulder, the two escape through the next open door.
As the pairs meet up by a lake, the men realize that the four skulls represent the four elements that Alchemists believe can unleash the greatest magic in the Earth, when combined with a fifth element - the power of good or evil. They spot the last skull on a monument by the lake. Overhearing this conversation, Olokun, once a powerful water god who wishes to regain his godly status calls upon an enormous sea serpent to guard the skull. However, Doubar puts on the magic helmet, becomes invisible, climbs onto the monument and tosses the skull to Sinbad, who escapes through a doorway with Rongar and Firouz. Doubar is left behind.
As the grief stricken trio approaches Sudra, she turns into Scratch, the devil himself, grabs Firouz and threatens to kill him unless they turn over the skulls, which would give him the ultimate power of evil. Sinbad is forced to make a choice that will either destroy the world or leave him dead. Just when all hope is thought lost, Doubar appears, taking off the helmet of invisibility that protected him from the monster. Sinbad, Firouz, Rongar and him destroy the four skulls. They escape the cavern as it collapses, keeping Scratch's quest for ultimate power at bey for now.
Starring:
Zen Gesner (Sinbad), George Buza (Doubar), Tim Progosh (Firouz), Oris Erhuero (Rongar), Dermott (Himself), Jacqueline Collen (Maeve)
Guest Stars:
Tom Caprari (Scratch), Ashley Hayden (Sudra), Farouk Valley-Omar (Ackram), Danny Keogh (Olokun)
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