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Blood & Treasure is an American action–adventure drama television series created by Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia that premiered on May 21, 2019 on CBS. Federman and Scaia are also set to serve as writers and executive producers alongside Taylor Elmore, Ben Silverman, Marc Webb, and Mark Vlasic.
Blood & Treasure centers on "a brilliant antiquities expert and a cunning art thief who team up to catch a ruthless terrorist who funds his attacks through stolen treasure. As they crisscross the globe hunting their target, they unexpectedly find themselves in the center of a 2,000-year-old battle for the cradle of civilization."
THE CURSE OF CLEOPATRA Parts I-II
episode one
When his mentor, Dr. Ana Castillo, is abducted by terrorists after discovering the tomb of Mark Antony and Cleopatra, art expert Danny McNamara recruits an old flame, professional thief Lexi Vaziri, to rescue her, despite Lexi blaming him for her father Reza's death two years prior at the hands of the same terrorists. With assistance provided by Danny's billionaire contact, Jay Reece, they track the stolen antiques to a Mafia auction in Rome, unaware that the Carabinieri are planning a raid. At the auction, Danny uses the resulting chaos as an opportunity to kidnap the terrorists' middleman, Aiden Shaw, who turns out to be an American named Dwayne Coleman. Shaw demands $2 million to contact his employers, but when Danny steps away to make a call, Lexi lets him escape so the pair can discreetly follow him. Danny admits that what happened to Reza still haunts him, and has carried his prayer beads with him every day since he died, giving Lexi some closure. She forgives him, and they prepare to pursue Shaw across the border.
episode two
In 1942, a unit of German soldiers enter the tomb of Cleopatra and steal her sarcophagus; a handful of men escape while the others are sealed within the tomb by a mysterious cult. In the present day, Shaw tries to sell back his remaining antiques to Karim Farouk, a terrorist who was supposedly killed two years earlier, but when Danny and Lexi show up, Farouk shoots him and escapes despite Lexi's attempts to pursue him while Danny rescues Castillo and the still-alive Shaw. Danny and Lexi are arrested by Interpol agent Gwen Karlsson, but manage to parachute off the transport plane into the Vatican, where Danny's friend Chuck Donnelly, a Vatican official, informs them that Shaw has fled to Istanbul. There, an assassin sent by Farouk tries to poison him, but Danny and Lexi are able to steal the antidote and save his life again. With Castillo's help, Danny determines two things: Farouk wants to weaponize the curse of Cleopatra and Antony and the cult that killed the Nazis is the key to finding the bodies.
It came on as a summer replacement for NCIS/FBI. There have been four episodes so far of 13 total). It moves back and forth between the present and the past and mixes modern action with WWII pulp adventure and an occasional flashback to ancient Egypt. One of the things I like is that the individual episodes are not stand alones with an overall story arc but part of a single continuous storyline.
And like I said I have always been a sucker for esoterica and pulp.
"Nazis. I hate those guys."Father Chuck, Danny's boyhood friend, works at the Vatican Foreign Ministry in Rome so there is a Vatican (secrets) connection and there is also an ancient secret society that guards Cleopatra and Anthony ala
Last Crusade and the Grail. There is a lot of confusion and angst in Danny and Lexi's relationship {danny Left the FBI after the death of Lexi's father) and anger in Lexi who wants to kill Farouk (because he killed her father) no matter the consequences but it is all lightened somewhat by the presence of Father Chuck, who is not a stuffy priest type as you might except, but at same time he is more than comic relief in that you know behind the friendly smile he knows stuff about what is going on.
In the cast are...Matt Barr from
Valor and
Sleepy Hollow and Sofia Pernas from
The Brave and
Jane The Virgin. Michael James Shaw (Avengers movies and Constantine), James Callis and John Larroquette.