Rick, Evelyn, and Jonathan travel across the desert on camels towards Hamunaptra, the city of the dead.

After a long war, the Scorpion King and his army travel through the desert. One by one, they succumb to its unforgiving environment until only the Scorpion King is left. He makes a pact with Anubis to spare his life.

A group of men are stranded in the desert, and they reconstruct an airplane and get it ready to fly as their only escape.

Johnny is trapped with Carl and several others in an isolated dome where they have replicated various biomes found on Earth, such as swamps and tundras. Carl shows Johnny the characteristics of each biome and the types of organisms present in them. He also briefly discusses how the areas combined maintains a healthy ecosystem.

Immediately after Rango mentions the need for a hero to face conflict in a story, the car in which he's riding collides with an armadillo on the street, sending his tank out the back window. Rango finds himself in a desert without water, and he is evidently not adapted to this new hot and dry environment.