History Recap / TintinFlight714

Turns out that Splading's plan is to hijack the plane, with the two new replacement crew (whom the regulars end up in an "accident" with), and they succeed in this. They land on an abandoned volcanic island in the South Pacific and are held at gunpoint by armed gunmen who, to Tintin's horror, apparently kill Snowy. They are greeted by none other than Tintin's nemesis Rastapopoulos and TheDragon Allan. Having lost most of his fortune in his previous scheme, Rastapopoulos plans on stealing the money in Carreidas' SwissBankAccount. To do this he hired the services of [[HerrDoctor Dr. Krollspell]], who has developed an experimental TruthSerum. Rastapopoulos and Krollspell take Carreidas away while the rest are held prisoner in a bunker. Eventually they escape with the help of Snowy, who turns out to be alive.

* HowUnscientific: The alien encounter is one of the more strange things that has happened to the whole cast, and this is a series that includes ''[[Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun surviving Mayan civilizations]]'' and ''[[Recap/TintinExplorersOnTheMoon going to the Moon]]''.

While making a stop in Jakarta on their way to a scientific conference in Sydney, Tintin, Haddock and Calculus happen to run into the former two's friend Piotr Skut, the Estonian pilot from "[[Recap/TintinTheRedSeaSharks The Red Sea Sharks]]". He is currently the personal pilot of eccentric aircraft tycoon Lazlo Carreidas, "the millionaire who never laughs", whom he introduces to the rest. After Calculus inadvertently makes Carreidas laugh, twice, the latter decides to give them a lift to Sydney on his private jet. Due to that Spalding, Carreidas' assistant, decides to make a quick call to his accomplice to cancel their secret plan. However his accomplice refuses, even despite the fact that he seems to recognize Tintin from afar.

* HowUnscientific: The alien encounter is one of the more strange things that has happened to the whole cast, and this is a series that includes ''surviving Mayan civilizations'' and ''going to the Moon''.

The story ends with Tintin, Haddock, and Calculus boarding a flight to the Sydney conference.

* BerserkButton: Captain Haddock is about to tell Calculus to stop acting the goat, but [[Recap/TintinDestinationMoon wisely changes his words]] on seeing his DeathGlare.

Then things get weird... Tintin suddenly starts hearing a "voice" directing them to a secret entrance of an ancient temple to evade their captors. There, they find a strange man named Mik Kanrokitoff, a writer for a space magazine. Apparently the island was visited in the past by AncientAstronauts worshiped as gods by the natives. Mik himself possesses a device that allows him to communicate telepathically and maintains contact with the aforementioned race. While discussing this, Rastapopoulos' men set off explosives hoping to breach the temple which causes the volcano to awaken. Tintin and his friends are rescued by an honest-to-god FlyingSaucer. They are then hypnotized into forgetting everything that happened. Meanwhile Rastapopoulos and his men try their luck by leaving the island via dinghy. However, they are also picked up by the Saucer with their fate unknown.

* DieHardOnAnX: ''Die Hard'' in a tropical island, with a lot more humiliation for the Hans Gruber stand-in and a ''[[GoingCosmic very weird]]'' third act. Rastapopoulous even does a move worthy of the Gruber brothers by allying himself with terrorists to gather the funding and manpower for what is essentially a very complicated heist and then planing to [[YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness stab them all in the back]] and run away with the loot.

* QuintessentialBritishGentleman: Spalding. Could also count as IAmVeryBritish.
* RomanAClef: Sondonesia for Indonesia, whose residents also speak a variant of Bahasa.

** The villains later try to shoot Snowy.

* MindControl: Mik Kanrokitoff is able to do this.