“The Wraps” is episode three of season one of Special Unit 2.
A foreman does not seem impressed with a drive who’s delivering a crate to a museum in a storm. Justifiably so. During the journey, lighting hits the lorry and the crate in the back. Something humanoid inside it glows. The driver isn’t watching where he’s going as he’s trying to pick up a CD he dropped. Then electricity arcs inside the cab and the driver crashes. He checks on the cargo and the crate is oozing. Then an arm punches through the wood and grabs him by the throat.
Police are at the scene when Nick and Kate arrive and Nick announces that they are taking over. The lead officer says he isn’t stepping off the case for them. Then gets a call. Yes, he is. They speak to the driver who says a dead guy stuck his hand through the wood and strangled him and yes, he does know how that sounds. Then he blacked out. He’s going to the Inquirer. They convince him it wouldn’t be in his best interests to do so.
Back at the cleaners, Sean says that this is a usual mummy reactivation. Dead for 4,000 years and revived in an electrical storm. SU2 has had 11 mummies in the last 60 years. This one is rare, though, as it’s Japanese, not Egyptian, and the Japanese usually cremated their dead. Electricity revives mummys and larger amounts destroys them. They can be stunned for about an hour. The mummy was being transported to a museum along with stuff in his tomb, things he’d expect to have in the afterlife. Nick and Kate go to stake out the museum; the captain wants the mummy back by morning.
At the museum, Dr Harlan Edens is told they think the person who stole the mummy will come to get the rest of the stuff from the tomb. They need his guards to clear out during the stakeout. Afterwards. Nick tells Kate he thinks Edens likes her. But relationships are a bad idea, because there are so many things in this job to keep secret to have a relationship. Kate says she normally scares men away. With honesty. They hear a noise and end up trashing a one-of-a-kind skeleton. Then the mummy attacks. Rather acrobatically. It knocks Nick down and is grabbing an artefact when Kate stuns it. However, the mummy isn’t out for an hour but mere seconds and escapes.
Sean says they didn’t fully appreciate this mummy’s background. Mummification in Japan was reserved for a few emperors and great warriors. This was the most trusted and feared samurai who ever lived. Nick thinks this would have been helpful earlier. Sean says electricity is still the right approach, they just need more voltage and be close enough to deliver it.
A man arrives at a clothes shop. The sales assistant asks if he needs a belt. He agrees. She thinks he looks familiar. The man says he’s new to the area. He ends up grabbing her by the throat and then taking her out of the shop in a garment bag. Passing a poster on the window depicting the same man.
Carl tells Nick and Kate that the mummy is definitely out there. But they know that. As to where, he isn’t sure. The mummy is seen one place then the next minute isn’t there. It’s also rumoured he’s getting help from a Herkamer. Nick wants the location of the last sighting.
Which turns out to be near the clothes shop. He calls Kate and says the mummy was there – he’s found some of its wraps – and there’s no blood. The assistant is missing, but possibly still alive.
This is only the first person the mummy kidnaps. And the reason it’s so hard to find is because, as seen, it can change its appearance. And it wants to complete a ritual using the artefacts from its tomb, and if it’s successful, it will be more powerful.