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PLOT
One night, in Brussels, Belgium, a pair of crooks discreetly break into the aquarium and steal a priceless pearl. As soon as the security guards on duty see the empty shell, they rush away to raise the alarm. The crooks take advantage of the guards' absence by putting a fake pearl, the same size as the real one, in the shell. When the guards return with the director and the director sees the fake pearl, he thinks the guards were making it up, but then has second thoughts about the incident as a similar case happened at another museum two weeks before. The moment one guard says "a real shark," the guards and director look at the aqaurium's shark, the only witness to the crime, swimming in its tank. The scene then shifts to the opening credits.
Some time later Tintin, Snowy and Captain Haddock arrive in Syldavia, a country in the Balkans. They have come to join their friend professor Cuthbert Calculus who has rented a villa near a lake in order to build his latest invention. The Captain is especially keen in improving his golf. At the airport they run into Thompson and Thomson who are also heading for Calculus on a special mission.
The four men and dog fly by hired plane to Calculus' house, but during the flight they get into some engine trouble and the pilot bails out with the only parachute. Tintin attempts to safely land the plane, but it ends up on the edge of a cliff and on fire. They are saved with the help of two local children, Niko and his sister Nushka, and their dog Gustav (who is somewhat goofy and bumbling compared to Snowy). The pilot discreetly watches this from a distance. He then contacts his superior ("Mr. Big"/"Shark King") via a walkie-talkie disguised as ordinary binoculars, telling him that their plan to kill Tintin and his friends has failed.
The children give their new friends a lift in their wagon. They warn them that there is a curse on the lake, at the bottom of which is an old submerged town. The party finally arrives at Calculus' villa where he demonstrates his invention: a camera which can project holographic images. It is part of a far more ambitious project: a machine which will make actual copies of physical objects.
Over dinner Thompson and Thomson explain that they are Calculus' bodyguards as they suspect that a criminal organization specializing in making art forgeries wants to steal his machine. They tell of the thefts from the museums and how the copies have become more and more sophisticated in the past six months.
Eventually, everybody goes to bed, with Haddock taking a bottle of whiskey (which he smuggled into Syldavia, following the events from Destination Moon) out of his golf bag and taking a swig of it, and Thompson throwing an alarm clock at Thomson to stop his snoring. Snowy wakes up Tintin at one point after hearing a noise outside, but Tintin shakes it off as bird calls. Outside, Calculus' housekeeper, Madame Black, contacts "Mr. Big" by using a walkie-talkie hidden in the dried-up well.
Next morning, while Tintin explores the local country with Niko and Nushka (unaware that there are cameras spying on his every move) and the Captain and the detectives play a game of golf, Snowy runs into a man in scuba gear who has obtained from Madame Black some plans stolen from Calculus' laboratory. The man escapes by jumping into the lake, but Snowy manages to bite off a part of one of his flippers.
After the Captain and the detectives tell Tintin what has happened, he gives the dogs the bitten-off flipper to sniff. While Gustav leads Haddock to a pile of abandoned tyres, Tintin follows Snowy to a buried chain which, when pulled, opens a passage to a hidden cave where the criminals have stashed the stolen art. Tintin recognizes the cave as the one discovered by Ali Baba. After getting sealed into the cave, Tintin finds an underwater tunnel leading out to the lake. On his way through, Tintin gets trapped by a wire net, but Snowy (who remained outside the cave) dives in and chews through the net, saving Tintin from drowning.
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