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Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the

fabulous Home of Gardens and to a

stunning new array of exciting jewelry

creations. Today's exquisite emeralds

are presented by the country's leading

fashion models and bringing them to you

is your host, our very own Dr. Anton

Arcane.

Doing a great job. Ladies and gentlemen,

I will not keep you from admiring the

dazzling emeralds before you. I just

wish to remind you of their beautiful

color, their clarity, and

and um

exceed anything that natural emeralds.

Yes. Uh exceeds anything that natural

emeralds, even the best from Colombia,

can provide. The new arcane emeralds are

produced by a machine which completely

recreates the conditions of nature, the

heat and pressure by which gems are

formed. Analysis by experts of your

choosing will show that these emeralds

contain the same chemical compositions

as do the finest emeralds in the world.

Thank you so much. And uh we do take

cash.

This is incredibly exciting. Dr. Arcane,

Colombia has 90% of the high-grade

emeralds in the world. You'll put them

out of business.

$50 million in the first year if I play

my cards, right? Go and work the crowd.

I got some business to take care of.

Thank you. Hello.

You know, if I were trite, I'd tell you

that you were as dazzling as my

emeralds. But being who I am, I shall

tell you the simple truth.

You're probably the most beautiful woman

I've ever seen.

Not bad, though. Still a little trit,

Dr. Arcane.

I'll try harder. Call me Anton.

You're ambitious.

Is there any other way to be? It's

Vanessa, isn't it?

Friends.

Well, I'd like to qualify on the basis

of appealing to your mind.

What an innovative idea.

How about dinner at my place for

starters? And then I shall show you the

extraordinary gem machine I spoke of.

I'll even create one for you.

My mother always told me not to take

presents from strangers.

Well, I think you'll be fascinated how

it operates.

The machine or you?

Actually, I am fascinated. A machine

that can recreate the power of nature.

That's quite an invention. Is it yours?

Oh, I wish it were. No, the invention

belongs to a gentleman called Adam

Martinelli. He's uh living it up in New

York, courtesy of me. Cheers.

Good job.

Relax, amigo.

Come with me.

Heat. Heat.

The swamp is my world. It is who I am.

It is what I am.

I was once a man. I know the evil men

do.

Do not bring your evil here. I warn you.

Beware the wrath of

Swamp Thing.

I raised you 20.

Come on. Come on. I'm not going to tell

your girlfriend why you lose all your

money here.

Turn it down. I'm talking to Bota.

No, no. Your government is paying me for

results, not for the sloppiness, which

unfortunately characterizes the way you

run your department. So, back off.

If they put a noose around your neck, I

sent flowers. Until then, stay out of my

way.

You'll be the first to know.

Put everything on the ground.

What is it?

This is different from anything I've

ever experienced. will.

Arcane must be poisoning something

again.

I've checked. All the spills have been

cleaned up. There's nothing going into

the groundwater. There's nothing going

in the air.

I still don't trust him. I'm going to

check around town and see what I can

find out.

I sense that it's something else.

If you tell me what you're feeling, what

you're hearing, it would help me better

understand.

It's sound will and rhythms, but

magnified and distorted in ways I've

never heard before. It's as if nature is

crying out to me from some distant

place. Yet, it's affecting me here,

which means it'll ultimately affect the

swamp.

I wish I could be more help.

You're doing what you can. I'll continue

searching.

All right. Well, I'm still going to

check up on Arcane.

Be careful. He's capable of anything.

Arcane?

He's a piece of cake.

Delicious. Come on, take at least one

bite. Had it flown in from my own pastry

chef in Paris, it's yummy.

My manager and about 50 other people

involved in my career would go crazy. So

would I. I've got four cover shoots in

the next two weeks.

Well, surely you must let go sometime.

I will someday when some gorgeous

newcomer knocks me off the magazine

covers.

Nothing lasts forever

except timeless beauty

and gems.

Come

hold my little darings.

They're beautiful and exciting

yet hard and cold.

Think how they were created. How it all

started.

Hot fluids, a mixture of berilm,

silicone, aluminum,

and oxygen.

Then add a touch of chromium to make

them green

and turn up the heat and pressure

to unbelievable heights.

But Anton, what about the machine?

the machine.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

All your money back.

I hope this meets with your approval.

It does.

Everything does so far.

There's plenty more where that came

from.

I really should get back to my hotel. My

agent's expecting to reach me there. Oh,

well then by all means, you must be

there. I wouldn't want to disappoint

him.

Then you want me to go?

What do you think,

Anton? By the way, just so you know how

I look at it, I'm a career girl who runs

all over the globe.

It's my life.

So, I hope we can keep it simple.

You're not only beautiful,

you're going to be my greatest challenge

ever.

A

Is she going to be staying the night,

sir?

Oh, Graeme, don't be absurd. She's a

fine, upstanding young lady.

Do you want me to follow her or

something?

Why would I want you to follow her?

Well, I was thinking maybe I should, you

know, keep an eye on her. In the past,

other women have tried to take,

you know what I mean, sir. We don't

really know that much about her.

I know all I need to know about her now.

Buck her off, Graeme.

Don't make me hurt you.

Oh, I apologize.

I wouldn't want to ruin that pretty

face.

Look, whoever you are, I have money.

Just don't hurt me, please.

But I have no intentions to hurting you,

Miss Vanessa.

If you follow instructions,

you're going to wear this. It will tell

me where Anton Arcane is at all times.

What is this all about?

His greed.

It's misbehavior.

Look, I barely even know the man. Let me

just give you money and get out of here.

You're not listening.

Listen now.

You will stay by his side every minute

with this on or your parents and your

little sister will never say their

prayers again.

Do you understand?

Good. I'm glad we reached an agreement.

Take her back to a hotel.

Arcane's weakness for beautiful women

will be his undoing. In 24 hours, his

machine and his threat to the government

will vanish

in a puff of smoke. I check the weapons

and explosives cuz our little camping

vacation is about to end.

Dr. Arcane, I have some bad news. Real

bad.

Oh dear. What is it, Graham?

Martinelli, the guy who invented the

machine, is dead. He was murdered. His

place was ransacked and apparently the

blueprints are gone.

Well, well, just as I expected.

Did you send the car for Vanessa yet?

Yes, she'll she'll be arriving any

moment. Dr. Arcane, what what did you

mean?

There's a much larger game being played,

Graham.

Much larger?

I don't understand.

Well, of course you don't, but you know

enough for now.

Is there something you want me to do? M

when the time comes, we'll have as much

help as we need.

Yes.

Well, good. Send her up.

I guess you'll want me to leave now.

No, Grant. You can hang around if that's

what you want.

I see your machine still in great shape.

It'll

never lose its capacity or its edge with

you around.

Something wrong?

No, I'm I'm I'm fine.

I made something for you. It's very

special. It's got a different edge.

Catches the light almost as brilliantly

as your eyes do.

It's yours.

It's beautiful. An

something's wrong. I know it.

Vanessa, whatever it is, I'll make it go

away. I promise you. Now, look at me.

Are you in with them?

No.

They've threatened to kill my family.

They made me wear this.

Who are they, Anton? What is this all

about?

Presumably, they wish to destroy the

Emerald Empire I'm building.

It was never my intention to involve you

in this,

Dr. Kane. We should destroy the

transmitter right away.

No, Graham. I'll keep this. You take her

to the airport and put her on a plane

far away from here. And I want you to

accompany her, Graham.

Yes, sir.

Don't you worry.

It'll soon be over and I'll join you.

I don't think so, Anton.

What do you mean?

You're too much like me. Totally into

your work and living on the edge.

You'd never give that up for me.

Well, I could try.

No, you couldn't.

Neither could I.

Dr. Arcane, what about security here at

the complex?

Just take care of the young lady.

I'll have all the help I need.

Apparently, Arcane is manufacturing some

kind of synthetic emeralds. Okay. Now,

he's had buyers in and out all week and

he's making a killing.

That's why he has the chromium barrels

at his complex. Arcane's flooding the

market causing the huge disruption. And

that also explains the armed group I

saw. They're planning on raiding his

complex.

What What does this have to do with

these feelings that you're having? these

these sounds that you're that you're

hearing.

I'm not sure, but that's not a problem

right now. The swamp is in mortal

danger.

How?

If those barrels are tampered with and

leak, it can cause a disaster that will

not only affect the swamp, but this

entire region.

Just let me know what you want me to do.

Put the boxes in the truck. Bomb them.

Grab it. Kill the fire. On my way.

Hey. Hey. Where did you go? Hey.

Get your

move.

Heat.

Heat.

You never

follow.

Alice the barrel.

Alan,

I'm moving back to the big city where

it's safe.

That door cost me 30 grand. I would have

been happy to let you in.

We want some answers now.

To what? I've been sitting here happily

minding my own gem business.

What are you looking at?

You deliberately left those chromium

barrels where I could see them.

Well, this little machine's worth a

fortune to me. I knew you'd protect me.

This isn't about emeralds. It's

something else. A darker plan on your

part.

You're very judgmental for someone

something who has no facts.

But I do have senses.

It comes from my world and it's tied to

you.

Decurari binds. Hey, be careful with

those. What the hell's he doing?

He's figuring out the truth.

And these Helonia plants are from the

Colombian rainforest, just like the

vines.

You're grasping at straws.

No, these areas you circle on this map.

Amazon, the Riope are Colombia's

rainforest.

By controlling the Emerald Market,

you're trying to force the Colombian

government into turning over their

rainforest to you.

I'm impressed. But before you get on

your soap box, think of the benefits. I

shall have no further use for you or

your puny swamp.

I'll have the ultimate swamp.

I represent more than this swamp arcane.

I am of nature, and in all of nature,

there is nothing more important right

now than that rainforest.

That really shouldn't matter to you.

Ravaging the rainforest, pillaging the

soil and minerals, that's harmful to the

entire planet.

Well, thank you, boy. Wonder.

You don't have to worry about arcane

will.

Stop that, Holland. Wait, Holland. Do

you realize what the medicines could be

worth? Extracted from the tropical

rainforest. Millions of dollars. We

could start a whole new lab.

That machine's bogus, arcane, just like

your emeralds.

Bloody hell.

Oh, don't destroy those. That's all I've

got left.

Oh, no. Arcane, you still have your

vanity and your greed and your distorted

view of the world around you. Shall I go

on?

No, I think that sums it up.

It's for your own good, Arcane.

Heat. Heat.

Heat.

Heat.