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Scene from "Stargate"(1994) INT—ALAMEDA ROOM, HOTEL [Catherine enters the crowded room. She stands by the doorway, watching the proceedings. Daniel Jackson is giving the lecture.] DANIEL Every other architectural structure at the time was covered with detailed hieroglyphics. When is the academic community going to accept the fact the pharoahs of the Fourth Dynasty did not build the great pyramids? [Many of the audience begin to mutter amongst themselves.] DANIEL Look, look—inside the pyramid, the most incredible structure ever erected, there are no writings whatsover. And— THOMAS Doctor Jackson, you've left out the fact that Colonel Vyse discovered inscriptions with Khufu's name— DANIEL Right... [Daniel nods, raising a finger and starting to write on his blackboard.] THOMAS (continuing) ...within the pyramid. DANIEL Well, his discovery was a fraud. [Outraged mutterings come from amongst the audience. Some start to laugh.] THOMAS I don't think you'll prove it. HECKLER Well, who do you think built the pyramids? [Everyone stays silent, awaiting Daniel's answer.] DANIEL I don't have any idea who built them...I mean, HECKLER Men from Atlantis? Or Martians perhaps? [People begin walking out of the room, laughing and scoffing with comments that can be overheard like "what a joke" or "which is the bigger myth?"] DANIEL The point is not who built them; the point is when they were built. I mean—we all know new geological evidence dates the Sphinx back to a much earlier period. And knowing this, I think, we have to begin to reevaluate everything we've come to accept about... [Only one man in the front row remains. He awkwardly stands. Daniel steps off the podium to address him directly.] DANIEL I-I mean, I've been able to show a fully developed writing systems appeared in the first two dynasties, you know, which you know, almost as if it was based on an even earlier prototype. [Catherine backs away. Daniel and the lone remaining man look around the now empty room.] DANIEL Is there a lunch or something that everybody...?