The player then has to steal the palantír, after which it disappears out of the plot, safely kept away.

As children, they foil a Ferengi plot to steal the captured Enterprise and sell the crew as slave labor.

Set mainly in Paris in 1979, the plot concerns a scheme by an alien, Scaroth, to steal the Mona Lisa to finance experiments in time travel in the hope of averting the accident that marooned him on Earth four hundred million years previously, which also began the existence of life on the planet as well.

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock sees Uhura take an assignment in the transporter room as part of a plot to steal the Enterprise.

Shortly afterwards, Hector uncovers an apparent plot by an old, trusted employee, Mr. Smithers, to steal cash from the bank, and alerts Mr. Bagby.

But, in fact, he has hatched the " perfect " plot to steal a load of bullion and retire.

As well as establishing the background to the smuggling operation, Bond uncovers a much larger plot, with Goldfinger planning to steal the gold reserves of the United States from Fort Knox.

For example, Tom Sawyer's plot to steal Jim out of slavery in the last part of Huckleberry Finn is a classic caper.

On the same journey, Froud " pictured a baby surrounded by goblins " and this strong visual image-along with Froud's insight that goblins traditionally steal babies-provided the basis for the film's plot.

There was an attempt on 7 November 2000 to steal the collection ( see Millennium Dome raid ), but the Metropolitan Police discovered the plot and arrested the robbers before their escape.

Before his death, Agent One was investigating a plot to steal the Crown Jewels.

The villains also plot to destroy the Command Center and steal the completed Zeo Crystal.

The most common recurring plot involved the Gatchaman team opposing giant monster mecha dispatched by Galactor to steal or control various natural resources ( water, oil, sugar, uranium, etc .).

The plot begins when a race of butterfly-demons named the Mahoroba want to enslave Miko Mido and her sister to steal the seal case that control the Shikima.

Pharisees are for example revealed to be extremely dangerous, continually plotting against Jesus even though he often forgave them ; at one point, a Pharisaical plot to steal from the Romans is revealed, and at their trial Jesus, whose reputation for keen wisdom is known to the Romans by this time, is consulted.

The plot of each episode dealt with Victor and Hugo and their English-based business " Naughtiness International " being hired by crime figures to steal something.

In 1990 a local Argentinean highway police officer foiled a plot by Robert Haag to steal El Chaco.

On one occasion, when he and some of the other Leaguers were abducted by the apparently insane Adam Strange as part of a plot to defeat a telepathic race, Steel was forced to steal Orion's Mother Box and use it as a telepathic shield ; Orion was so enraged that the Mother Box was devoting too much energy to keeping him calm to do anything else.

In " SWAT Kats Unplugged ," Hard Drive steals an anti-weapons scrambler from Pumadyne scientist Dr. Ohm in a plot to steal the gold being transferred to Megakat Mint.

* A Malaysian comedy film, Ali Baba Bujang Lapok ( 1960 ) which quite faithfully adhered to the tale's plot details, but introduced a number of anachronisms for humour, for example the usage of a truck by Kassim Baba to steal the robbers ' loot.

* Uncovering an elaborate plot to steal books from the public library ( by means of a tunnel drilled through several hundred feet of cliff ) and sell them at a bookstall on the beach.

A heist film is a film that has an intricate plot woven around a group of people trying to steal something.

In Artemis Fowl: The Eternity Code, he is initially working for the Antonelli family as a " monkey " ( which means someone who is good at breaking in to places ) under the alias Mo Digence, but foils a plot to kidnap Artemis, and subsequently assists him in breaking into the Spiro Needle to steal back the C Cube.

Her villainous plot in the show was to steal the Dearlys ' farm from them, and using the puppies as a ransom, mainly because the old widow Smedly would not sell it to her and that her mother Malevola demands it.

The fourth and most famous statue was bought by a family in Savannah, Georgia, who named it Little Wendy and set it up at her family's plot in Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.

* In the Animaniacs episode " This Pun For Hire ", a rare and valuable statue serves as a plot device-when one of the characters tries to run off with it, she says that she " claims it in the name of Gulf + Western ", and Dot concludes she works for Paramount.

In 1861, Reyer composed an opéra-comique in three acts and six scenes, La statue (" The Statue "), whose plot was inspired by " One Thousand and One Nights " ( also knowns as: " Arabian Nights ") with a libretto by Michel Carré and Jules Barbier.

She tells them of Claudia's plot and explains that the awry spell must be lifted before midnight, or Oliver will be doomed to remain a statue forever.

A statue of her, mourning her mother, who is interred in the same plot, decorates the gravestone.

The plot is about an adventurer called the Dragon Knight of Palados, who sets on a quest in a South American-like jungle country in order to discover the priceless golden idol statue of Katak, God of Flame, which is hidden in an abandoned pyramid temple deep in the wild.

* Jack Finney's 1970 novel Time and Again takes advantage of the presence, in 1882, of just the arm and torch of the statue in Madison Square Park for an important plot development.

Sam Merlotte's attraction to the statue upon first meeting Maryann causes her to see him as the perfect sacrifice for her ritual to bring Dionysus to life, a major driving force for the season's plot.

At an anti-Thaksin rally on 22 March, government critic Sondhi Limthongkul charged that the destruction of the statue was a plot by a superstitious Thaksin who was seeking to maintain power through black magic.

They are all stories with a plot and characters who are either deities, human-like figures, or animals, who often speak and transform easily.

The alleged plot revolved around right-wing former military figures who were supposedly building private armies to counter the perceived threat from trade unions and the Soviet Union.

Its intricate plot and humorous, intimate portrayal of pre-Victorian dandyism kept gossips busy trying to associate public figures with characters in the book.

The Anti-Somoza revolution itself figures prominently into the plot of the game as well, being described within the game's narrative as being started by the fictional KGB agent Vladimir Zadornov in order to make Nicaragua a communist state so the Soviet Union could force the United States out of Central America entirely.

As sales figures plummeted towards the end of the series, the writers attempted to revive interest by introducing fantastical creatures, aliens, and even Alec Holland's brother, Edward ( a plot point ignored by later writers ), into the picture.

Many of the political and other public figures who are lampooned gain in-joke characteristics, which often build into plot strands of their own.

Nhu was aware of the plots, but remained confident he could outmanoevre them, and began to plot a counter-coup, as well as the assassinations of U. S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and other American and opposition figures.

Apart from being set in Wyoming and the fact that many of the characters have the names of key figures in the Johnson County War, the plot and the characters themselves have almost no relation to the actual historical people and events.

Others suggest that the novel complicates the plot by introducing the dual figures of Irene and Clare, who in many ways mirror each other.

* Near-total depletion of the aquifer figures as a minor plot device contributing to the second Dust Bowl in David Brin's futuristic novel, Earth ( 1990 ).

He fabricated most of the plot details and characters, although he did use some historical figures in purely fictitious ways.

As the fiction takes place in the past, and historical figures interact with the plot, Callirhoe may be understood as the first historical novel ; it was later imitated by Xenophon of Ephesus and Heliodorus of Emesa, among others.

Storymen Dick Huemer and Joe Grant were the primary figures in developing the plot.

In fact, Keats's major works include the late 1818 poem " Hyperion " that was unfinished mainly due to the depression caused by the death of his brother Tom, and also the late 1819 poem " The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream " whose plot also revolves around the figures of Hyperion.

Each figure came with a Cyber Key regardless of size, but there were several Cyber Keys crucial to the plot of the anime series which only came with certain figures.

Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes are typically named after an event, object, or person which figures prominently in the plot, similarly to how Seinfeld episodes were named.

IWPR reported that on 28 November, in an interview held with the press at his home, Shevardnadze " spoke with anger " about a plot by " unspecified Western figures " to bring him down.

It would appear that the Emperor Nicephorus I incurred George's disfavour at around the same time: in 808, Nicephorus discovered a plot against him, and punished the suspected conspirators, amongst whom were not only secular figures " but also holy bishops and monks and clergy of the Great Church, including the synkellos ... men of high repute and worthy of respect "; it is unknown whether the syncellus in question was George himself or a colleague / successor, but the attack on the clergy, including George's friends and colleagues, would not have endeared the Emperor to George, and is suggested as the motivating factor in the " pathological hatred " towards Nicephorus I in the Chronicle of Theophanes The date of his death is uncertain ; a reference in his chronicle makes clear that he was still alive in 810, and he is sometimes described as dying in 811, but there is no evidence for this, and textual evidence in the Chronicle of Theophanes suggests that he was still alive in 813.

Initially presented as evil and bent on the destruction of all that is not smooth pudding, he figures into the plot in increasingly complicated ways.

The novel is known not only for its satiric bite and inventive plot machinations, but also for the caricatures of prominent figures of the American 1920s including W. E. B.

His narrative too is lucid, and moves as a stately march or royal triumph ; the sequence of the figures is unbroken ; the arrangement of the groups accords with even literary form ; the picture falls into incident, episode, dialogue, action, plot, as a drama.

More recently, the Creighton Mine, owned by Vale and hosting the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, figures largely in the plot of Robert J. Sawyer's Neanderthal Parallax trilogy.

Aillas is still a vigorous young king, and by the prophecy which figures so large in the plot he would clearly live out his reign, and his son Dhrun would become king in turn, presumably with Madouc as his queen.

Sarraute became, along with Robbe-Grillet, Claude Simon, Marguerite Duras, and Michel Butor, one of the figures most associated with the rise of this new trend in writing, which sought to radically transform traditional narrative models of character and plot.