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  201 - The Put Back - 09-18-00
Answering the call of old friend and fellow Relic Hunter Ross Crawford, Sydney drags Nigel to
Africa on a completely atypical mission. Instead of hunting down a fabled treasure, they must return
one to its original hiding place. After Ross "liberated" an idol from the Temple of Woot, an African god of regeneration, he began degenerating at an alarming clip. Syd and Nigel will have to locate the Temple and put back the hexed idol before the Winter Solstice - or risk unleashing a curse of epic proportions.
Guest Starring: Neil Dainard as Ross Crawford (old),
Paul Essiembre as Ross Crawford (young), and Blu Mankuma as Abdulla.
203 - Dagger of Death - 09-25-00
After the meek anthropologist Fredrick Terrace bludgeons his assistant beyond recognition, he is convinced that the dagger of Kali, the Indian goddess of destruction, "made him do it." Believing that sheathing the blade will harness its mesmerizing power, Sydney and Nigel head for Calcutta to
recover its jeweled scabbard. But in India, where nothing is as it seems, they'll have to
infiltrate the deadly cult of Kali to ensure the blade never strikes again.
Guest Starring: Elias Zarou as Edward Patel, Martin Doyle as Doctor Fredrick Terrace,
Robert Joy as Doctor Flaubert, Suresh John as Aneesh, Graham Harley as Willoughby,
Wayne Robson as Waxman, Nicola Kelly as Shiraz, and Sugith Varughese as Gupta.
204 - Last of the Mochicas - 10-02-00
Recovering a vessel believed to contain the Great Warrior Spirit of the Mochica tribe and
hopping a flight to Lima, Sydney and Nigel assume their latest adventure is complete…but it's just the beginning. After their plane goes down, a motley crew of passengers is beset by indigenous headhunters, gun-toting rebels and internal strife. Forget getting the last of the Mochicas safely to the
Lima Museum - Sydney and Nigel will be lucky to get themselves out of the jungle alive!
Guest Starring: Nancy Sakovich as Cate Hemphill/Cate Smith, Colin Fox as Hans Lubeck,
Christopher Shyer as Jason Clark, Richard Eden as Jacob Strom, Jody Racicot as Tobar,
Markus Parilo as Lieutenant Hilgado, and Silvio Oliviero as Captain Sanz.
202 - The Legend of the Lost - 10-09-00
Derek Lloyd, a shadowy government agent who tricked Sydney and Nigel into a mission once before,
lures Syd to New Guinea by kidnapping Nigel. The relic-hunting twosome don't believe that the
enigmatic spy is on a goodwill mission, but are seduced by the possibility of rediscovering a lost civilization, the Kai Nomata, an ancient tribe believed to have been destroyed by a volcano
thousands of years ago. As is par for the course with Lloyd, when the need-to-know details
are finally revealed, Syd and Nigel don't know what - or who - to believe.
Guest Starring: Jeff Wincott as Jonathan Quelch, Louis Mandylor as Derek Lloyd,
Demore Barnes as Mudo, and Philip Akin as Mr. Budur.
205 - Fertile Ground - 10-16-00
Both nervous and excited to see her high school sweetheart at the reunion, Syd is surprised that
Tony has more on his mind than old times. He's on the trail of Hawaii's Idol of Lono, stolen by
Captain Cook's men in 1779. The hunt leads to Madagascar, where Sydney will have to outwit a
rival Relic Hunter, if they hope to get the national treasure back home.
Guest Starring: Steven Bauer as Tony, Richard Yearwood as Jor, Steven McCarthy as Eman,
Jack Wetherall as Fletcher, and Miguel Fernandes as Dryer.
206 - Gypsy Jigsaw - 10-23-00
After her old friend, Garrett Burke, is killed in Bucharest, Sydney receives a mysterious
package sent before his death. Burke was hunting the Crown of Roma, an ancient gypsy treasure,
when the Vulture, a Relic Hunter's worst nightmare, fatally intervened. With a box of authentic
Tarot cards and Claudia's surprising expertise on the subject, Sydney, Nigel and Claudia
jet to Romania to ensure that Burke didn't die in vain.
Guest Starring: Roman Podhora as Von Turgo, Noam Jenkins as Adrian,
Inga Cadranel as Nadia, Nicholas Kilbertus as Emil, and Ker Wells as Garrett Burke.
207 - Three Rivers to Cross - 10-30-00
Randall Fox, Sydney's father and a hydrodam-building engineer, beckons his daughter to China,
so that he can keep his word to a group of monks. The holy men refuse to abandon Three Rivers
for the dam's opening, believing their long-lost statue, the jade Empress, is hidden in the valley.
An unlikely foursome - Syd, Nigel, Randall and his newly announced, rather young fiancée, Jenny
- try to beat the clock and the odds, following a trail more than 700-years-old and knowing
that failure means a watery grave.
Guest Starring: Fred Dryer as Randall Fox, Jennifer Hill as Jenny,
Steven Vincent Leigh as Li Feng, Frank Crudele as Fetters, and Henry Chan as Senior Monk.
210 - Roman Holiday - 11-06-00
A colleague of Sydney's, Professor Penrose, has a lead on Caesar's breastplate, believed to
render the wearer invincible, and is off to Rome to have an ancient text translated. Claudia rushes
to the airport to deliver pages he left behind, and takes it upon herself to follow a stranger
carrying the professor's document tube - all the way to Italy. Syd and Nigel race to catch her,
believing the novice Relic Hunter is in over her head - and in mortal danger.
Guest Starring: Jason Cadieux as Gianni, Alex Karzis as Vittorio, Michael Caruana as Nico,
Jan Filips as Count Raphael Onofre, William Pappas as Dean Wormer,
and Ari Cohen as Professor Roger Penrose.
209 - Cross of Voodoo - 11-13-00
When two graduate students on the trail of the Haitian Cross of Utu disappear in New Orleans,
Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou to find them. Picking up the young scholars' trail, Syd and
Nigel uncover more than they ever wanted to know about voodoo and the dark arts, including a modern
day Utu cult hell-bent on keeping its prized black pearl talisman - and its amazing powers - a secret.
Guest Starring: Megan Fahlenboch as Kelly, Cameron Graham as Matt, Peter Mensah as Witch Doctor, Nigel Bennett as Professor Alaine Richarde, and Andrew Gillies as Auguste Devereaux.
208 - Lost Contact - 11-20-00
Sydney, Nigel and billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle to
rescue a relic-hunting team hired by Thorson to locate an ancient sacrificial bowl. The crew's last
video transmission -- of a blurred figure ravaging the campsite -- does not bode well. Hoping to find
the crew alive, as well as the world's oldest recorded religious artifact, the threesome
uncover a frightening discovery -- a living link to homo heidelbergensis, man's most savage ancestor.
Guest Starring: Danielle Brett as Joan Wyatt, John Novak as Rod Thorson,
Billy Khoury as Kyle, Theo Caldwell as Rudy, and Aaron Poole as Vic.
211 - The Real Thing - 01-08-01
While serving as technical advisors on a movie, Sydney and Nigel discover relics that belonged to Egyptian Pharaoh Amun the Second, whose treasure-laden burial chamber was thought to have never been found. But why are the priceless artifacts he wanted to take into the afterlife on a film set in London, England? It's off to the pyramids to unravel the mystery of a decades-old theft -- and double-cross.
Guest Starring: Ellen Dubin as Jacqueline Reed, John Gilbert as Crispin Hubbard,
Daniel Kash as Omar Nassim, Landy Cannon as Sean, Steven Gaetjen as Frederick,
and Richard Curnock as Clyde Sexton.
215 - M.I.A.- 01-15-01
When Sydney agrees to a sting operation orchestrated by Interpol agent Cate Hemphill, she knows
she's putting her life on the line. But before the sting even begins, she's snatched by an unseen assailant, and it's up to Cate, Nigel and Claudia to pinpoint a suspect. Between rival Relic Hunters and enemies
made on her adventures, the three have trouble keeping all of Syd's foes straight, much less zeroing
in on one. Can they rescue her before it's too late?
Guest Starring: Nancy Sakovich as Cate Hemphill, Elias Zarou as Edward Patel,
Rothaford Gray as Simon, and Vijay Mehta as Mohandes Gujaret.
212 - Out of the Past - 01-29-01
When Claudia claims to have known Cleopatra in a past life, Sydney and Nigel laugh it off. But when
her claims reveal a secret compartment in the Egyptian queen's golden jewelry box, they begin to
listen. Claudia's memories lead them to Alexandria, and the hunt begins for a 50-carat diamond
necklace, given to Cleopatra by Marc Antony. Meanwhile, back at the University, Nigel has to
face down University Auditor Maxine Schneider with unexpected results.
Guest Starring: Danielle Nicholas as Cleopatra, Gerry Mendicino as Kalifa, Yan Feldman as Shareef,
Will Corno as Achillius, Madhuri Bhatia as Dr. Hosni, and Melissa DiMarco as Max Schneider.
213 - Eyes of the Toklamanee - 02-05-01
Adam Grant, one of Sydney's graduate students, unearths a lead on the legendary Eyes of Toklamanee, the never found but most famous of all Native American artifacts. Adam's research takes him and
Syd to St. Louis, Missouri, and to the construction site of the city's newest subway line. With a
renowned archeologist on the project's staff to verify that construction won't destroy
anything of historical significance, it looks like the lead is a dead end - or is it?
Guest Starring: Ryan Black as Adam Grant, Kate Trotter as Betty Ramer,
Michael Rhoades as Homeless Man, Beau Starr as Moore, Tim Hill as Shaman,
James Bulliard as Dan Bernstein, and Philip Craig as Councilman.
214 - Run Sydney Run - 02-12-01
While in the steppes of Russia recovering the Sword of Ateas, an ancient blade lost more than
2000 years ago, Sydney, Nigel and their Army escorts are ambushed by rebel forces. When Syd
regains consciousness two weeks later, she's being held against her will at a hunting lodge deep
in the woods. Unbeknownst to Sydney, her captor has given up hunting animals and now stalks
only the most dangerous game -- humans.
Guest Starring: Joseph Zeigler as Dean Wormer, Peter Stebbings as Tsarlov,
Kevin Rushton as Yuri, and Kelley Grando as Tatiana.
217 - French Connection - 02-19-01
When one of Nostradamus' prophecies predicts that a Fox will stop a royal assassination, it
throws Sydney - and Nigel - into an international intrigue. To learn the identity of the assassin
in time, Sydney and Nigel must crack the prophet's cryptic code, armed only with precious little
"need to know" information and a 16th century riddle.
Guest Starring: Philippe Germain as Castillo, Alexander Hanson as David Watson,
William Chubb as Stanley, and Delphine Malassard des Reyssiers as Shipp.
216 - Don't go into the Woods - 04-16-01
Best-selling author and conspiracy theorist Vladimir Bugos calls upon Sydney and Nigel to
locate the Golden Falcon of Maribor, a legendary relic last seen the night its owner, Crown Princess Natasha, disappeared - almost 400 years ago. While not impressed by Bugos' reputation, the
twosome are swayed by a map he has discovered, and they head deep into the Carpathian
Mountains - despite rumors of werewolves -- to bag the Falcon.
Guest Starring: Beatriz Batarda, John Blakey, Richard Leaf, Breffni McKenna
218 - Midnight Flight - 4/23/2001
Davide Gagnon, an old friend of Sydney's from the Louvre Museum, begs to join her and Nigel
in the hunt for a ruby-encrusted scepter once wielded by Gunther the Brave. But finding this relic
is only the first half of their adventure - because they discover afterwards that Davide has quit
his job and sold the recovered relic for a handsome profit. It is up to Sydney and Nigel to
straighten out the double-cross and recover the scepter - before the mysterious buyer takes
a midnight flight under the cover of diplomatic immunity.
Guest Starring: Michel Albertini as Aziz Habasi, Alain Barbier as Gunther,
Fadila Belkebla as Fatima Somir, Less Clack as Dr. Francois Jaebert,
Jean-Charles Fonti as Intruder, The Sam James as Frederick, Carim Messalti as Botheus,
Patrick Médioni as Thug
219 - Executioner's Mask - 4/30/2001
When an antique bronze mask disfigures a supermodel during a fashion shoot, Sydney and Nigel
link the incident to French folklore. During the French Revolution, an Executioner, who was born
horribly disfigured, was believed to have put a curse upon the mask he had to wear. Until the mask
is returned to the burial remains of this Executioner, its curse will be handed down from wearer
to wearer. Syd and Nigel are determined to end the mask's legacy of terror.
Guest Starring: Christina Kumlin as Naomi, Alex Reid as Simone, Tony Vanaria as Bernard Guillot, Timothy Bateson as Max Lavoie, Malcolm Sinclair as Julian, and Thierry Ashenti as Vincent.
220 - The Royal Ring - 5/7/2001
Nigel's older, more successful brother, Preston, is a curator at the British Museum and uncovers
a riddle written by Henry VIII that may lead to the fabled wedding ring of Anne Boleyn. When
Preston calls Sydney for help, he re-ignites a long-standing sibling rivalry with Nigel. The brothers' fraternal competition becomes deadly serious and temperatures rise when Nigel discovers that his
former lover, Amanda, is also on the relic hunt - and romantically involved with Preston.
Guest Starring: Crispin Bonham Carter as Preston Bailey, Rachel Pickup as Amanda Reardon,
Vernon Dobtcheff as Anthony Cureton, Stephen Billington as Palmer, Jurgen Zwingel as Willis
221 - Set In Stone - 5/14/2001
Since childhood, Nigel had been enchanted by the stories that his father told to him of St. Gabriel.
So, he finally makes contact with a Hungarian monk who could help him prove that the virtuous knight
and his magical sword once existed. But, when Nigel and Sydney arrive at the remote monastery, the Abbot denies any knowledge of Nigel's contact, and they suspect foul play. However, they soon discover that this centuries-old monastic order is hiding a horrible secret about the legendary demon Belial.
Guest Starring: Joe Sheridan as Oswin, Bruce Myers as Theodoric,
Oliver Haden as Emil Vasay, Lionel Vitrant as Istvan, and George Birt as The Abbot.
222 - Deadline - 5/21/2001
Allan Devaut, an old flame of Sydney's, has been blackmailed by a mysterious collector into finding
the world's first Christian cross. This is a relic believed to grant its possessor eternal salvation.
To guarantee Allan's total involvement, this collector has also infected him with a deadly virus
(Necron) - using the antidote as an extra incentive. With only twelve hours to spare, Sydney and
Nigel must help Allan find and deliver the Cross of Tau and get him the antidote.
Guest Starring: Peter O'Brien as Allan Devaut, Matthew Delamere as Jean Chabot,
Tony Amoni as Anton, Waguih Talka as Van Gelden, and Robert Barr as Albert Chabot.
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