After the prologue, the film then moved forward to 20th century Egypt, to the year 1933 (seven years after the events of the first film), where brash adventurer Richard "Rick" O""Connell (Brendan Fraser) was exploring ancient ruins near the Nile in an underground tunnel area below a temple - now a family man with a precocious 8 year-old son named Alex (Freddie Boath)." But he cannot locate his young son: "Tonight Jakie is to sing Kol Nidre.He should be here!" His mother, Sara Rabinowitz (Eugenie Besserer): "God made her a Woman and Love made her a Mother," is more sympathetic: "Maybe our boy doesn""t want to be a Cantor, Papa - " Cantor Rabinowitz can""t believe that his boy would turn his back on family traditions: "What hasheto say? For five generations a Rabinowitz has been a Cantor - - hemustbe one!"Young Jakie Rabinowitz (Bobby Gordon as a 13 year old boy) has forsaken the ways of his fathers to try out show business.He also offers the inmates a motto: ""Be happy in your work"".[Note: This scene was referenced, in homage, inStar Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991), in the speech of the Klingon Commander (William Morgan Sheppard) of a high-security work/prison camp on the ice world of planetoid Rura Penthe.The attendant [later identified as Billy] in the front seat of the van leafed through a girlie magazine.