The Best Episodes of Relic Hunter Season 2

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.5/10(107 votes)

   #1 - The Put Back

   S2:E19/23/2000

   Event: KUBA, AFRICA 100 AD Sydney and Nigel go to Africa, after answering the call of fellow Relic Hunter Ross Crawford. They must return a treasure to its original place, instead of hunting down one. Ross began degenerating at an alarming clip, after he liberated an idol from the Temple of Woot, an African god of regeneration. Sydney and Nigel will have to locate the Temple and put back the idol before the Winter Solstice or risk unleashing a curse.

   Director:Ian Toynton

   Writer:Jeff F. King

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   Director:Ian Toynton

   Writer:Jeff F. King
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   7.4/10(102 votes)

   #2 - Dagger of Death

   S2:E29/30/2000

   Event: TEMPLE OF KALI INDIA 500 AD After he bludgeons his assistant beyond recognition, anthropologist Fredrick Terrace is convinced that the dagger of Kali, the Indian goddess of destruction, made him do it. Sydney and Nigel head for Calcutta to recover its jeweled scabbard, believing that sheathing the blade will harness its mesmerizing power. In India, they'll have to infiltrate the deadly cult of Kali to ensure the blade never strikes again.

   Director:Ian Toynton

   Writer:Jurgen Wolff

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   Director:Ian Toynton

   Writer:Jurgen Wolff
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   7.6/10(112 votes)

   #3 - Last of the Mochicas

   S2:E310/7/2000

   Event: SOUTH AMERICA 662 AD After recovering a vessel believed to contain the Great Warrior Spirit of the Mochicas and hopping a flight to Lima, Sydney and Nigel assume their adventure is complete. Their plane goes down and motley crew of passengers is beset by headhunters, 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.

   Director:John Bell

   Writer:Ronald A. Levinson

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   Director:John Bell

   Writer:Ronald A. Levinson
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   7.1/10(111 votes)

   #4 - The Legend of the Lost

   S2:E410/14/2000

   Event: VANUATU ISLANDS 4800 B.C. Government agent Derek Lloyd, who tricked Sydney and Nigel into a mission once before, lures Sydney to New Guinea by kidnapping Nigel. Sydney and Nigel don't believe that the 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. When the need-to-know details are revealed, Sydney and Nigel don't know who or what to believe.

   Director:John Bell

   Writer:Leonard Dick

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   Director:John Bell

   Writer:Leonard Dick
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   7.2/10(112 votes)

   #5 - Fertile Ground

   S2:E510/21/2000

   Event: HAWAII 1779 At the reunion, Sydney is surprised that her high school sweetheart Tony has more on his mind than before. He's on the trail of Hawaii's Idol of Lono, stolen by Captain Cook's men in 1779. The trail leads to Madagascar, where Sydney will have to outwit a rival, if they hope to get the national treasure back.

   Director:Terry Ingram

   Writer:M. A. Lovretta

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   Director:Terry Ingram

   Writer:M. A. Lovretta
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   7.5/10(110 votes)

   #6 - Gypsy Jigsaw

   S2:E610/28/2000

   Event: ROMANIA 1830 Sydney receives a mysterious package after her old friend, Garrett Burke, is killed in Bucharest, sent before his death. Burke was hunting an ancient gypsy treasure, the Crown of Roma, when a Relic Hunter's worst nightmare, the Vulture, fatally intervened. With authentic Tarot cards and Claudia's expertise on the subject, Sydney, Nigel and Claudia go to Romania to ensure that Burke didn't die for nothing.

   Director:Larry A. McLean

   Writer:Becky Southwell

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   Director:Larry A. McLean

   Writer:Becky Southwell
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   7.3/10(119 votes)

   #7 - Three Rivers to Cross

   S2:E711/4/2000

   Event: THREE RIVERS, CHINA 1245 AD Randal Fox, Sydney's father and a hydrodam-building engineer, beckons his daughter to China so that he can keep his word to 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. Sydney, Nigel, Randall and his young fiancée Jenny follow a trail over 700-years-old, knowing that failure means a watery death.

   Director:Terry Ingram

   Writer:Jeff F. King

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   Director:Terry Ingram

   Writer:Jeff F. King
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   7.3/10(105 votes)

   #8 - Roman Holiday

   S2:E811/11/2000

   Event: ROME 44 BC Sydney's colleague Professor Penrose has a lead on Caesar's breastplate, believed to render the wearer invincible, and heads for Rome to have an ancient text translated. Claudia rushes to the airport to deliver pages he left behind, and follows a stranger carrying the professor's document tube all the way to Italy. Sydney and Nigel try to catch her, believing Claudia is in mortal danger.

   Director:Milan Cheylov

   Writer:Jurgen Wolff

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   Director:Milan Cheylov

   Writer:Jurgen Wolff
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   7.5/10(105 votes)

   #9 - Cross of Voodoo

   S2:E911/18/2000

   Event: HAITI LATE 18TH CENTURY Two graduate students on the trail of the Haitian Cross of Utu disappear in New Orleans and Sydney and Nigel go down on the bayou to find them. Sydney and Nigel uncover more than they ever wanted to know about voodoo, when picking up the young scholars' trail, including a modern day Utu cult hell-bent on keeping its prized black pearl talisman with its amazing powers a secret.

   Director:George Mendeluk

   Writer:Charles Heit

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   Director:George Mendeluk

   Writer:Charles Heit
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    7.0/10(102 votes)

    #10 - Lost Contact

    S2:E1011/25/2000

    Event: BURMA THE BRITISH-BURMESE WAR 1824 To rescue a relic-hunting team hired by billionaire entrepreneur Rod Thorson to locate an ancient sacrificial bowl, Sydney, Nigel and Thorson parachute into the Myanmar jungle. The crew's last video transmission of a figure ravaging the campsite does not bode well. Hoping to find the crew alive, as well as the world's oldest recorded religious artifact, they uncover a living link to man's savage ancestor, homo heidelbergensis.

    Director:Milan Cheylov

    Writer:Leonard Dick

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    Director:Milan Cheylov

    Writer:Leonard Dick
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    7.6/10(113 votes)

    #11 - The Reel Thing

    S2:E111/13/2001

    Event: EGYPT 1516 BC Sydney and Nigel discover relics of Egyptian Pharaoh Amun the Second, whose treasure-laden burial chamber was thought to have never been found, while serving as technical advisors on a movie. But why are the priceless artifacts he wanted to take into the afterlife on a film set in England? Sydney and Nigel must unravel the mystery of a decades-old double-cross and theft.

    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Martin Brossollet

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    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Martin Brossollet
12. 

    6.9/10(121 votes)

    #12 - M.I.A.

    S2:E121/20/2001

    Event: ST. PETERSBURG, RUSSIA 1886 Sydney knows she's putting her life on the line, when she agrees to a sting operation orchestrated by Interpol agent Cate Hemphill. But before the sting 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 Sydney's adventures, the three have to rescue her before it's too late.

    Director:Julian Grant

    Writers:Jurgen Wolff, Leonard Dick, Gil Grant, Rob Gilmer, Bill Taub, Ronald A. Levinson, M. A. Lovretta

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    Director:Julian Grant

    Writers:Jurgen Wolff, Leonard Dick, Gil Grant, Rob Gilmer, Bill Taub, Ronald A. Levinson, M. A. Lovretta
13. 

    7.6/10(117 votes)

    #13 - Out of the Past

    S2:E132/3/2001

    Event: EGYPT 30 B.C. Sydney and Nigel laugh it off when Claudia claims to have known Cleopatra in a past life. They begin to listen when her claims reveal a secret compartment in the Egyptian queen's golden jewelry box. Claudia's memories lead to Alexandria, and they begin to hunt for a 50-carat diamond necklace given to Cleopatra by Marc Antony. Back at the university, Nigel has to face down University Auditor Maxine Schneider with unexpected results.

    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writer:Edwina Follows

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    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writer:Edwina Follows
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    7.0/10(98 votes)

    #14 - Eyes of Toklamanee

    S2:E142/10/2001

    Event: MISSISSIPPI VALLEY 1605 Sydney's graduate student Adam Grant unearths a lead on the never found but most famous of all Native American artifacts: the legendary Eyes of Toklamanee. Adam's research takes him and Sydney to St. Louis, Missouri, and to the construction site of the city's newest subway line. With a archeologist to verify that construction won't destroy anything of historical significance, it looks like the lead is a dead end.

    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Larry Mollin

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    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Larry Mollin
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    7.3/10(107 votes)

    #15 - Run Sydney Run

    S2:E152/17/2001

    Event: URAL STEPPES, RUSSIA 339 B.C. Sydney, Nigel and their Army escorts are ambushed by rebel forces, while in Russia recovering an ancient blade, known as the Sword of Ateas, lost over 2000 years ago. When Sydney regains consciousness two weeks later, she's being held against her will at a hunting lodge in the woods. Unbeknownst to Sydney, her captor has given up hunting animals and now stalks only the most dangerous game - humans.

    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writer:Jeff F. King

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    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writer:Jeff F. King
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    7.2/10(102 votes)

    #16 - French Connection

    S2:E162/24/2001

    Event: CHURCH OF CORDIERS SALON, FRANCE 1600 Sydney and Nigel are thrown into an international intrigue, when one of Nostradamus' prophecies predicts that a Fox will stop a royal assassination. Sydney and Nigel must crack the prophet's cryptic code to identify the assassin in time, armed only with need to know information and a 16th century riddle.

    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writer:Peter Mohan

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    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writer:Peter Mohan
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    7.1/10(105 votes)

    #17 - Don't Go Into the Woods

    S2:E174/16/2001

    Event: CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS 1711 A.D. Author and conspiracy theorist Vladimir Bugos contacts Sydney and Nigel to locate the Golden Falcon of Maribor, a relic last seen the night Crown Princess Natasha, its owner, disappeared about 400 years ago. Not impressed by Bugos' reputation, they are swayed by a map he has discovered, and they head into the Carpathian Mountains despite of werewolves to bag the Falcon.

    Director:Ian Toynton

    Writer:Elizabeth Baxter

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    Writer:Elizabeth Baxter
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    7.3/10(97 votes)

    #18 - Midnight Flight

    S2:E184/23/2001

    Event: GERMANIA CIRCA 400 A.D. Sydney's old friend from the Louvre Museum begs to join the hunt for a ruby-encrusted scepter once wielded by Gunther the Brave. They discover afterwards that this ""friend"" has quit his job and sold the recovered relic for a profit. It is up to Sydney and Nigel to recover the scepter before the buyer takes a midnight flight under the cover of diplomatic immunity.

    Director:Ian Toynton

    Writer:Charles Heit

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    Writer:Charles Heit
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    7.1/10(106 votes)

    #19 - The Executioner's Mask

    S2:E194/30/2001

    Event: BOURG, FRANCE 1789 Sydney and Nigel link the incident to French folklore, when an antique bronze mask disfigures a supermodel. An Executioner, who was born horribly disfigured, was believed to have put a curse upon his mask during the French Revolution. Until the mask is returned to the remains of this Executioner, its curse will be handed down to wearer.

    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writers:André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton

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    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writers:André Jacquemetton, Maria Jacquemetton
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    7.4/10(101 votes)

    #20 - The Royal Ring

    S2:E205/7/2001

    Event: TOWER OF LONDON 1536 Nigel's older brother and a curator at the British Museum, Preston, uncovers a riddle by Henry VIII that may lead to the wedding ring of Anne Boleyn. Preston re-ignites a sibling rivalry with Nigel, when he calls Sydney for help. The brothers' competition becomes deadly serious and Nigel discovers that his former lover, Amanda, is also on the hunt and romantically involved with Preston.

    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Jurgen Wolff

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    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Jurgen Wolff
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    7.3/10(105 votes)

    #21 - Set in Stone

    S2:E215/14/2001

    Event: BALATON, HUNGARY 1595 Nigel makes contact with a Hungarian monk who could help him prove that St. Gabriel 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. However, they soon discover that this centuries-old monastic order is hiding a horrible secret about the legendary demon Belial.

    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writers:David Wolkove, David Koslove

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    Director:Paolo Barzman

    Writers:David Wolkove, David Koslove
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    6.7/10(107 votes)

    #22 - Deadline

    S2:E225/21/2001

    Event: JERUSALEM 1099 A.D. THE FIRST CRUSADE Allan has been blackmailed by a collector into finding the world's first Christian cross. It is believed to grant its possessor eternal salvation. The collector has also infected Allan with a deadly virus using the antidote as an extra incentive. Sydney and Nigel must help Allan find and deliver the Cross of Tau and get him the antidote in twelve hours.

    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Jeff F. King

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    Director:John Bell

    Writer:Jeff F. King