Turner), to learn more about the creature encountered as well as the history of the Abkani. Edward tries to get information from his former co-workers at Bureau 713, one of whom is staff surgeon and pathologist Sam Fischer ( Frank C. The mysterious creature from the ship attacks them inside the museum, killing a security guard, but Edward and Aline hide in a storage closet long enough for troopers from Bureau 713 to arrive, and the creature retreats into the night.Ĭommander Richard Burke ( Stephen Dorff), the team leader of the Bureau 713 strike force, arrives where Edward tries to relay information to him, but Burke rebukes him, saying that since he no longer works for Bureau 713 he should stay out of their investigation. Edward arrives that evening at the Natural History Museum where he is reunited with Aline with the artifact, and she shows him another Abkani artifact that recently arrived that she has been working on since Professor Hudgens was away. At the same time in Bureau 713, the location of the opening of the gold coffin is relayed by the control room techs who report it to their bureau chief by the evidence of the electro-magnetic wave that appears on their monitors.Įdward thinks it's related to the Abkani, since the old friend and the others who disappeared were fellow orphans, from which Hudgens convinced Sister Clara (Karin Konoval) to run some experiments on the children. During this, Edward hears a ear-splitting screech while in his apartment looking over the Abkani artifact. Upon the opening of the gold coffin, an old friend of Edward's disappears into the night, as well as several other people across the USA and Canada. Hudgens collects an artifact from the coffin, and he slips away ashore. Minutes later, Hudgens escapes his imprisonment to find the crew killed by a mysterious creature and the coffin empty. After they dock, the captain locks up Professor Lionel Hudgens ( Matthew Walker), while his men open the gold coffin, against Hudgens's advice. On his way to the museum where Edward's ex-girlfriend Aline Cedrac ( Tara Reid) works as an assistant curator scanning similar artifacts, he is attacked by somebody with supernatural abilities who tries to steal the artifact that he has, but Edward fights him off.Īt the same time, a ship recovers a coffin made of gold from the ocean floor. Edward looks for remains of an extinct Indian tribe, the Abkani, which disappeared suddenly 10,000 years ago for reasons unexplained, and he finds an artifact of something related to it. Paranormal investigator and former agent of Research Agency Bureau 713 Edward Carnby ( Christian Slater) has a nightmare, in which he hides from alien-like creatures as a child. 6 Original film and game tie-in concept.