The Sands of Time

**The Sands of Time** is the eleventh episode of Season 4 and the forty-seventh episode of Escape the Night.

## Episode Description

The Curator's malicious shenanigans for the guests are coming to an end in the Museum of the Dead, here and right now. One last era, as Henri Pierre turned into a murderous Mummy, the guests have one last key to find, so they can escape and survive the night. In the sands of Egypt, with two hours left on the clock, who will rise, and who will... die?

## Episode Summary

The clock chimed five on the clock, as the guests are chased out into the final exhibit they had to face. Sands blew past them as they reached a desert-like exhibition. The guests then prepared for the desert with the help of Akmal's supply of protective goggles, before they travelled through the sands to find the final key. While Akmal searched for the map amongst his possessions, the guests looked around the dunes, soon finding harmless beetles in the sand. The guests then looked at the museum's map, where a message told them about a single insect being the passage to where they needed to go. They then followed the wandering beetles, which led them to a nest of beetles, where they were able to find an onyx scarab that was buried in the nest of beetles.

They then decided to put the onyx beetle in the moonlight, which shone a beam of light, leading them to a very regal palace. They then followed a woman's crying to the throne room, where they then saw Queen Cleopatra, who was weeping. As the guests click together that she was grieving her beloved Caesar, who they had killed previously, Monica and Valeria then tried to comfort her in order to sway her to their side. While Monica and Valeria used their seductive skills from the ghulahs, Akmal and Christopher then study a wall of hieroglyphics, soon discovering mentions of a key. Christopher then pressed his hand against the specific words, and he found a hidden note, which mentioned Cleopatra knowing where the final key was. After they gifted the Queen her prized onyx scarab, the Queen then directed them to the ruins of Luxor, and she warned them to be cautious, due to troubles there that killed her guards. The Mummy then arrived after his preceding stomping footsteps, and the guests then flee, being chased by the Mummy, as the Curator then killed the Queen, her blood spilling on her throne.

The guests then arrived in the ruins of Luxor and they managed to barricade the entrance, before they started looking through the ruins, as Payton then trips over a rotting corpse. After the inventor then finds a scroll, Chris then translated the hieroglyphics, revealing that they had to pay a tribute to Anubis, the Egyptian god of the dead. They then started painting a sarcophagus that was meant for the newly deceased Queen, while avoiding the traps that nearly killed some of them. After they completed their painting, the ground shook and more traps came out, prompting them to flee through another entrance that had just opened. After Payton created some light with her mechanical arm, the guests then started to see ripples of timeless memories from young children and their parents, to adults and their own lives, to the three nights that the guests had endured. As they heard Time ticking away, they then discovered that they had to make peace and bury the possessions of their loved ones in their own respective coffins, in order to honor the fallen.

Despite the guests' obvious painful expressions and hesitations, Akmal and Winchester are able to encourage the five to bury possessions of their choosing, and honor their loved ones. After the five managed to close their coffins, the five coffins then sunk into the ground, and the ripples faded away as they were able to finally escape the ruins into the outdoors, once again. However as they then started to leave, Monica then ran into Henri the Mummy, and the guests then fight back to kill him, once and for all. As beetles poured from the Mummy's mouth, the guests then fled to a nearby oasis, where they then saw a chest in the water, which told them they needed the blood of the undead to unlock it. The guests then lured the Mummy, who then attacked his daughter, and the others then attacked and killed the Mummy, as the decomposed monster then fell into the tranquil waters of the oasis. They then opened the chest, where they found five golden quarters of a pyramid, along with a message that told them that all five would have to race with a quarter of a pyramid, and that in the end, only four would survive.

The guests then gave each other their farewells and promises, before they then walked to start of the race to the Pyramid of Time. The guests then raced, swimming through crocodiles in the River Nile, before Payton started to slow down due to her injuries. The guests then ran through the dunes to the Pyramid, before Christopher then stepped in a sinkhole. Christopher then got out with ease, before he then helped Payton navigate the dunes and avoid the crawling animals. However, they then fell into a ditch, as Alexander, Monica and Valeria ran up the pyramid while getting into traps and avoiding the dangers of them. Christopher then helped Payton climb out of the ditch, and carried her up the pyramid with the piece that Payton believed was Chris. However, the guests realized that they had grabbed Payton's piece, before Chris then placed the last quarter piece, as Time then stopped.

Then Time sped up, as the magic of the pyramid protected them all, but Christopher. Before the guests' eyes, Christopher's skin starts to decompose as his body started to crumble. He fell lifeless down the pyramid, his satchel spilling out all the contents of what was Christopher. And then out of the sands of Egypt, the sarcophagus that they had painted rose out of the dunes. The sarcophagus opened before engulfing Christopher inside, and it slammed shut, leaving the night in a deadly silence. Then the final four got the last key, and they carried Payton down the pyramid to mend her injuries. Valeria and Akmal then tended to Payton's stomach injuries with Josh's medical kit and their combined knowledge, as Monica drained the venom of a bite that Payton sustained, while Alexander and Winchester consoled Payton to keep her awake. The guests then successfully heal Payton to their best abilities, and they headed back to the museum to end the night, once and for all, or as they thought.

The clock was almost at the sixth hour, as they guests arrived back in the destroyed lounge for one final time. Valeria then entered the final key, and turned it, before silence rolled over the night, as the vault then cracked open, revealing that it was empty. As the guests looked at the empty vault in disbelief, the Curator with Theodosia's malicious mind-games then revealed herself in laughter, as it was revealed that she had the cosmic sphere. The Curator then made the sphere disappear, before she then drew out the chest that they had been chasing in the Cold War Exhibit, known as Pandora's Box. The Curator then laughed as she then told them how her latest exhibit would kill them all, before she was then attacked by Akmal, causing her to drop the box. The box then opened in explosive wisps of smoke, as the monsters from the Warlock's night of terror formed before them, the Victorian Era of nightly terror. The monsters then chased after the guests and Winchester, as Akmal and the Curator fought, the latter stabbing him in the chest with her hilted dagger. He then fought back, punching her in the face as she then unknowingly dropped a leather pouch. Akmal then stumbled as he then limped away, the Curator then smirking at his receding figure, before she walked away, leaving the mysterious pouch behind.

Akmal then stumbled outside the mansion foyer, into the front yard. He then stumbled and fell down the stairs, his body then crumbling at the foot of the fountain. He then sighed as he looked up into the night sky, the loss of blood causing him to deliriously see his friends among the stars, all free. He then sighed as he saw his friends, tears falling out of his eyes as he then heavily breathed and gasped. And then it stopped. Akmal then stopped breathing, as he then faded away, his body departing the museum... forever.

## Characters

* Monica Castillo
* Payton Hawthorne
* Valeria Pierre
* Alexander Boucher
* Christopher Shaw
* Jordan Winchester
* Akmal Prasetyo
* The Mummy
* Queen Cleopatra
* The Curator

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