Episode
Early Edition: Mum's the Word
Overview
Gary takes Marissa, who poses as an Egyptian princess, to gain admission to an exclusive museum exhibition so that he can save an archeaologist from being killed by an ancient Egyptian stone artifact. Gary pushes the man out of the way only to see that someone wanted the archeaologist killed. The day after, Gary reads in the newspaper that there'll be a fire in the museum, so he checks up on a journalist who was at the museum the night the archeaologist was almost killed. When the eyes are stolen from a cat mummy, a curse is released, causing everyone involved, including Marissa, to fall seriously ill.
Details
- Series
- Early Edition
- Season
- Season 2
- Episode
- Episode 15
- Air date
- 1998-04-04
- Runtime
- 45 min
Episode context
Mum's the Word is Episode 15 in Season 2 of Early Edition. It aired on 1998-04-04. The runtime is 45 min.
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