'The Rameses Connection' (5 Parts) by Grant Cathro

When two men steal an ancient crystal from the British Museum during the night, Ami, Megabyte and Adam hear the mental cry of another Tomorrow Person calling out to them across time. Then, when the three friends meet up in the spaceship, they see a brief vision of an Egyptian boy speaking to them in an ancient tongue. The next day, Adam, Megabyte and Ami visit the British Museum, hoping to find a way to translate the boy’s message; teleporting past the police crime-scene boundary, they learn that the stolen crystal was the Mahaba Stone – a fragment of an ancient meteorite found in the Temple of Tamanya, in Egypt. With the help of Egyptian expert Amanda James, Adam, Megabyte and Ami translate part of their message as “the sacred obelisk of Cleopatra”. Realising that this refers to Cleopatra’s Needle, the three Tomorrow People head for the Thames Embankment, where they encounter Millicent F. Rutherford, an eccentric old lady who somehow knows each of them by name. After warning the three friends that the future of the world is in their hands, Millicent hands Adam a photograph of an unusual-looking house and arranges to meet them again later. They are aware that, elsewhere, a mysterious man is watching their every move through a strange, pyramid-like monitoring device… Adam and Megabyte locate the house, which is occupied by Mr Tate and his associate, Scully – the two museum thieves. While Megabyte distracts the men, Adam teleports inside, where he finds a collection of Egyptian artefacts and a hidden room that contains a model of a pyramid. Although Adam leaves just before the villains return, both Tate and Scully seem to know exactly who the two boys were, and agree that they should have been killed. After Ami meets with Millicent and tells her of the museum theft, the old woman talks of an ancient prophecy that foretells imminent doom for the Earth; however, before Millicent can say more, Tate and Scully arrive and bundle her into their car. Adam and Megabyte arrive just in time to see the vehicle drive off; Adam gives chase on rollerblades, but the villains manage to evade him, and he only just survives an attack by an Egyptian cat firing high-energy beams from its eyes. Millicent is brought before the mysterious man, Sam Rees, in his inner sanctum; when the old woman stubbornly refuses to give information on the Tomorrow People, Rees’ eyes blaze with energy, and she vanishes into a swirling vortex. Adam, Megabyte and Ami are surprised to see Millicent’s address appear on the back on the photo; leaving Ami to go birthday shopping with her mother, Adam and Megabyte discover that instead of a house, Millicent lived in a green double-decker London bus parked on waste ground. Inside is a white void occupied by three bizarrely dressed people: Red Rainwear, Lindsay Motherwell and Rupert Short. This odd trio instruct Adam and Megabyte to go to the ‘Zu-Zu Club’ to retrieve the Rameses Cartouche – an ancient artefact belonging to a tyrannical Egyptian pharaoh who lived four-thousand years ago, which shows the location of his long-lost tomb. Rees orders Tate and Scully to destroy the cartouche, and then uses his powers of suggestion to draw Ami to an old pendant on a junk stall; after her mother buys her the item, Ami immediately falls under Rees’ power. Megabyte uses his father’s contacts to determine that the ‘Zu-Zu Club’ is in Cairo, but Ami tries to prevent him and Adam for going there. Worried about their friend’s strange behaviour, the two boys teleport to Egypt without her knowledge; entering the club, they see Tate and Scully kill the owner, Roach, and then take the cartouche. Ami visits Rees and vows to kill Adam and Megabyte. Having followed the two villains back to their hotel, Megabyte causes a distraction while Adam steals the cartouche; the two Tomorrow People use the markings on the artefact to determine the location of Rameses’ tomb, situated under one of Egypt’s eight mighty pyramids. However, the boys are unaware that Ami has been spying on them, and when they teleport inside the tomb, she follows closely behind. Using the cartouche to unlock the entrance to the burial chamber, Adam and Megabyte find Rameses’ sarcophagus; but when they open the coffin, instead of finding the ancient remains of the Pharaoh, they discover that the sarcophagus is empty – could it be that Rameses never died? The image of the Egyptian boy appears, drawing Adam and Megabyte’s attention to a frieze painted on the wall; however, before they can learn its secrets, Sam Rees uses Ami as a conduit for his power and destroys the roof of the chamber. As heavy chunks of stone crash down around them, Adam sees Ami – but before he can reach her, the ceiling collapses…

Kristian Schmid (Adam Newman), Christian Tessier (Marmaduke 'Megabyte' Damon), Naomie Harris (Ami Jackson), Christopher Lee (Sam Rees), Elizabeth Spriggs (Millicent F. Rutherford), Robert Lang (Hubert Tate), Andrew Powell (Scully), Adjoa Andoh (Amanda James), Mark Biltcliffe (CID Officer), Fidelma Meehan (WPC), Adam Dean (Tutankhamun), Sally Sagoe (Mrs. Jackson), Rolf Saxon (Roach), Anthony O'Donnell (Red Rainwear), Sarah Flind (Lynzie Motherwell), Christopher Brand (Rupert Short), Akbar Kurtha (Hotel Receptionist), Harry Jones (Felix Fry)

Directed by Roger Gartland
Produced by Alan Horrox

TX:
Part One - 4th January 1995
Part Two - 11th January 1995
Part Three - 18th January 1995
Part Four - 25th January 1995
Part Five - 1st February 1995

Notes:
*Featuring Adam, Megabyte and Ami