The Mysterious Cities of Gold - S3E12 - The Memorial Temple

I can't hep but start singing tunes from the Junglebook

Of course it was kids, and I wasn't wrong about Temple of Doom reference since they pretty much referenced that plot point but with the adults missing instead of the kids. Our heroes decide to team up with the kids to save their parents from the magicians, the group of alchemist that Ambrosius leads called the Order of the Hourglass. The girl leader also tells Tao the name of the region which means the land of the sun and is the name of the capital of Mu, indicating a connection to the cities of gold and why Ambrosius have his base of operation here. Also Zia seems to still possess the power of telekinesis even without the crown as she moves a normal rock while sitting by a river. The next morning they split up with Mendoza, Esteban and one of the older boys scouting out the fort, Zia, Tao and the girl leader looking for a temple the order have taken an interest in an Sancho and Pedro been taken to a temple in search of offerings, which turns out just to be food and feathers, but the temple is home to a pack of monkies that chase them into a hole which seems to connect to a larger cave system, but some monstrous sounds scare them away, to the two children's delight.

Esteban is able to sneak into the fort by hiding in a passing cart and run into a side-opening where he is able to find Ambrosius and follow him to his laboratory in the ground. Ambrosius have discovered that the crown is able to make the wearer to lift things with their minds and connects them to something called the black suns, and the order begins constructing them, going as far as attempting to gather up children as workers as well since their parents aren't enough. Ambrosius sees Estebans reflection in a potion bottle and screams out his anger.

Tao and Zia finds the temple, releases a monkey the order put up against tigers and observe as they crack open a slate from the temple wall (I assume to bring to Ambrosius to translate), they are spotted and one of the magicians follows them into a corridor, but returns on the call of the other since they got what they came for and should warn Ambrosius. The kids returns to the place to look what was stolen and behind them a shadow of a tiger appears.

The documentary focused on the inspiration of the fort from the Jodhpur region in India and the fort Mehrangarh. The last segment was also about Hanuman, the monkey-god that was the central statue of the temple Sancho and Pedro visited. It was unfortunately cut short by 12 seconds by the recording so that was a bit of shame.