Vance), comes to the site in a helicopter and immediately berates the two for running off and doing their own thing, chasing insurgents. The guys' superior, Colonel Greenway (Courtney B. As the bombs are dropped, a hole opens in the ground, nearly sucking Nick and Vail down there. Vail orders an airstrike to take the insurgents out. They go down there anyway and get shot at. Nick wants to go down for some adventure while Vail is strongly against it. Army Sergeant Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) and his buddy Corporal Chris Vail (Jake Johnson) are reconnaissance soldiers riding toward a village being overrun by insurgents.

We move to Mesopotamia (or Iraq) in the present day. She was mummified alive and had her sarcophagus taken away from Egypt and down a tomb where she could never be found. She prepares to perform a ritual on her lover using a special dagger that would give Set a body of his own, but the Pharaoh's priests stopped Ahmanet and killed her lover. Ahmanet murders Menehptre, his wife, and their baby. Knowing that the boy would be the Pharaoh's new successor, Ahmanet made a pact with Set, the god of death, to sell her soul for a dark power. She was a cunning warrior who was ready to succeed her father, the Pharaoh Menehptre (Selva Rasalingam), until his second wife gave birth to a boy. Through flashbacks, Jekyll tells the story of Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella). Henry Jekyll (Russell Crowe) enters the tunnels and comes across one particular tomb with hieroglyphs, leading him to realize what this means. Jump to the present day where the tombs of many other crusaders are discovered beneath London's catacombs. Crusader knights bury one of their own with a jewel resting in his hands. The synopsis below may give away important plot points.

Story line of the mummy movies