Tia Carrere stars as a university professor and black belt who globetrots after lost, stolen and rumored-of artifacts and antiquities.
Cast: Tia Carrere, Christien Anholt, Lindy Booth, Tanja Reichert, Michael Ealy, Gary Grubbs, Indigo, Warren Kole, Jack McGee, Yohance Myles, Sonya Walger, Keith Hodiak, Garfield Brown, Ronald Pickup, Irene Marot, Kairen Kemp, Jeffrey S. Perry, Michael Aldridge
When Sidney and Nigel are about to enter the site of a Bristol lecture, a surprisingly young author on the Celts approaches them to follow up immediately on a tip about a map to the "astronomicons", the lost keys to the druid cult in Stonehenge.
While Nigel rehearses his keynote speech in a Seville hotel room, a girl nearly breaks his nose demanding something - it turns out she was after the water from the Fountain of Youth which the dying explorer Ponce de Leon send the Spanish king.
Bekkastan, 1401 AD: warrior princess Kahina proves her right to rule. 2002: Sydney and Nigel unearth a cave painting that might lead them to Kahina's Saddle. But her descendants cause complications.
Sidney inherits from the best relic hunter of the previous generation a key, and rushes with Nigel on the hunt for the one treasure he never found: Pandora's box, which was guarded by the clan of the Persian sultanate of An-Najaf.
When Nigel is charmed by brilliant student Lorraine to show her their offices (and kiss), a burglar knocks out Sidney, but what was robbed?
Scotland Yard calls Sidney and Nigel to identify a 5th century murder weapon. It turns out to be the burial cross of King Arthur, but besides the victim several others are looking for it, and more killing follows while they search for it in its historical hiding place and unravel the murderous plot.
Despite terrible weather, Sidney drags Nigel along to an Arctic base where an ancient Indian mummy has been found. It turns out to be an Anasazi, from warmer hunting ground, but also connected with the numerous deaths on the small base - will they ever get back alive?
Sydney drags Nigel along to Istanbul, having heard her former mentor professor Alan Evans is missing. He's actually murdered, they can barely convince Turkish police detective Kemal Ochmar not to arrest them for breaking into his room but join forces to investigate who was after what clues.
An urn commissioned in a Cambodian monastery by the Chinese emperor for the remains of Confucius is about to be destroyed by systematic bombing of a whole province.
Pacific Northwest, 1398: A native American sees lights descending from the sky. 2002: Sydney is lecturing about said natives who faced a mysterious cataclysm 600 years earlier. A native brings her a relic from that era. What is its secret?
Southeast Asia 1075: An idol of Ganesha is prayed to. 2002: Sydney has found the temple with the idol and it is being filmed for TV, but they get trapped inside when the local rebels stumble onto them. Can Nigel and Karen help from USA?
New England Colonies, 1692: Witches consecrate an amulet before they are burned. 2002: Sydney's student Meg's roommate finds the amulet. It hospitalizes Meg. Meg's boyfriend's fraternity brother races to get the amulet. What is he up to?
Greece, 800 BC: King Minalysius gives a necklace to Princess Nabina, enslaving her to his will. 2001: Carson Inez, a collector, uses the necklace to get Sydney to help her in raising Athena who will then help her conquer the world.
New Guinea, 1522: A lancet bestows strength with its cut. 2001: Retrieving the lancet, Sydney and Nigel run into Nigel's look-alike just before his death. Nigel gets a cut from the lancet. Later, Cate persuades Nigel to impersonate the man.
(Generally) Central America, 1488 AD: the Aztecs hide a mysterious box. (Specifically) Central America 2001: A guide leads Sydney and Nigel to an unusual, underground Aztec burial chamber. Instead of a body, they find a relic.
Czechoslovakia, 1720: A Satan-worshiper escapes from his hunters. Trinity College, 2001: Lucas Blackmer, a babe-magnet, professor and a novelist asks Sydney to help find Vlad Tepes' lost relic. And he isn't the only one after it.
2001: An anonymous Sultan's wife Danielle dies in mysterious circumstances in the desert. However, she had called for Sydney to help. Sydney believes Danielle was searching for the Star of Nadir, that would prevent a civil war.
Sydney's on the hunt for a Pirate's booty, ...but will a traitor force her to walk the plank?
Arabia 843 AD: A sheik uses the Light of Truth to reveal his general as a traitor. 2001: Prince Shareem drops out from Sydney's class to go search for the Light of Truth. Sydney refuses to help, but then has to rescue Shareem from trouble.
St. Beatrice's School for Girls, 1981: Sydney sees his teacher shot by a scar-faced man over an Egyptian pendant. 2001: Sydney's roommate from school is on track of the pendant and enlists Sydney to help find it and catch the killer.
Bali, 1459: A princess gets to look into Parvati's Bowl. Singapore, 2001: Sydeney runs into her ex, (just) Gray, and goes on a holiday with him to Bali, but when Derek Lloyd shows up to enlist her to find Parvati's Bowl, she can't resist.
Quan Shu, Manchuria 1359 BC: The Chinese invent an explosive gift egg. New York, 2001: A rival beats Sydney and Nigel to a map leading to the Dragon's Egg. Claudia has moved onto a new job, so Sydney hires a new, busty assistant, Karen.