Episode Report Card Sara M: A+ | 1 USERS: A+ YOU GRADE IT The Dorky Decimal System
By Sara M | Season 11 | Episode 9 | Aired on 12.04.2004
Seven hundred and ninety-two yards later, Nicole and Noah are in the middle of some dense jungle. Noah peels away some bushes to find the wall of a temple. Apparently, it's a mythical temple, although when Noah and Nicole look at it, the camera zooms out to reveal and huge Machu Picchu-looking pyramid that sticks out prominently over the trees, so it can't be all that hidden. Nicole asks Noah how they're supposed to enter the temple. Perhaps they could go through the giant door we see birds flying out of. But no, Noah seems to have other ideas. "Those are Mayan numbers!" he says, running into a commercial break.
When we return, Noah and Nicole are approaching the wall of the temple. Nicole tries brute strength to open the doors, but it doesn't work because those doors are made out of extremely heavy stone. Suddenly, Noah realizes what the mysterious clue about the bird becoming a bird again means: the Mayans had figured out how long it took for the "birds of Heaven" -- constellations -- to make a complete revolution around the galaxy: 25,765 years. How exciting for them. Noah finds the Mayan number stones that correspond to that number and pushes them in. When he hits the last one, he jumps back and cowers, telling Nicole to watch out. But nothing happens. Well, until the trapdoor opens behind their feet.
Noah and Nicole fall a rather long way and land on a dusty, stone floor. After their plummet from an airplane and off a couple-hundred-foot high cliff and waterfall, though, this should be a picnic. They find themselves on a ledge in the middle of a large stone room. "We are in a Mayan death chamber!" Noah says, pointing to the pit of spikes below them. If any of you have played the computer game Prince of Persia, then you know exactly what this looks like. The death chamber is too wide for them to jump across, but Noah says that their only way out is through the door on the other side. Suddenly, they hear a rumbling sound. They turn and see that the wall is moving toward them, and will eventually push them off the ledge and into the pit of death. Nicole tries to push against it, but is ineffective. Noah flips through the book, but there's nothing in it to help them. Probably because that book just spent several hours in a river and all the writing has been washed away. Nicole encourages Noah to think of a solution to their problem, but Noah panics that he has no ideas. Nicole is very angry. Suddenly, Noah says something about the chamber's being an "exact replica" of some Temple that had one space in it where one would achieve salvation. Noah does some quick math and points to a spot in the middle of the pit of death. He asks Nicole if she trusts him, and she grabs his hand and says "you only live once." "Unless you believe in Buddhism," Noah starts. "Oh, I hate you so much," Nicole responds. Heh.
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