The Adventures of Tintin

Tintin and the Picaros - Part 2

How many Picaros are there, General?

30 or so.

30! Is that enoughto overthrow Tapioca?

With me as their leader...

30 Picaros can do anything!

We plan to sneak into the

capital during the carnival,

and free your friends.

Captain!

Are you okay?

Anchors away!

How did they get those bottles?

Tapioca drops them into the jungle.

He knows the Picaros will drink them...

so they'll be unable to fight.

The Bandito river will lead us to the Picaro camp.

Take cover!

If it's one of Tapioca's...

let us hope they didn't see us!

Captain!

What's that? A Picaro by the river?

Where'd he go? Carumba! He disappeared!

Captain!

Blue blistering barnacles!

Hang on! Captain!

How did I get here?!

Gunshots coming from the camp!

Uh oh!...

Looks like the bottles got here before we did!

El General! Come join the party!

Caramba!

You've got some nerve! Sneaking out of the camp

without telling me!

If you think you can just run off and leave me

any time you want,

you've got another thing coming! Understood?!

Yes, my dove...

And who are these guys?

These are my old friends...

Captain Haddock, Tintin and Professor Calculus.

My dear lady! Your lovely welcome has moved me deeply!

It shall be a pleasure to share your delightful company

as we prepare for war...

Oh! Well...!

They can stay in the tool hut!

She may seem a little harsh...

but she has a heart of gold...

Alcazar!

What a charming woman!

Such grace and beauty!

As for her husband, his revolution will never succeed

if his army keeps drinking!

I know.

There goes our best chance to rescue the Thomsons and Madame Castafiore.

Luckily for everyone, I've been doing some

herbal experiments in jungle apothecary!

- Jungle apoth-a-what? - No! Not at all, Captain!

I've developed something that would make those men stop drinking!

Anyone taking one of these pills

will find the taste of alcohol unbearable.

And the very first person whom I tested it on was you, Captain!

Me!

You miserable, blundering, barbequed... blistered!

- My sister has nothing to do with it! - It's a scandal!

Hm! Pills? The Picaros will probably resist it.

My sister! I asked you to leave her out of this!

No, Professor! The Picaros will resist taking these pills.

Unless we sneak them into their food!

It's worth a try!

Come to think of it, I don't have a sister.

But if I did, it's the last place I wanted to be...

General!?

I know how to stop the Picaros from drinking!

But first you have to promise that the revolution will be peaceful. No executions!

A revolution without executions?!

I would be the laughing stock of the country!

But... surely we can make another deal?

What about a 5th of gold reserves in El Banco de la Nacion?

I'm not interested in money.

I want a peaceful revolution!

Forget it!

I'll get the Picaros under control myself!

Uuhh! Tear gas!

Tintin! I have changed my mind!

I will accept your conditions!

Now, my friends...

you watch the ridiculous justice of General Tapioca!

TV coverage!

Even in a remote jungle camp!

Before you...

sit two evil, brutal men.

So cunning are these...

would-be assassins...

they have even grown moustaches

to better fit in and gain our trust.

We object!

We were born with our moustaches!

Silence!

I find you guilty! Death!

It's not fair!

I told you, amigo!

As for you, Bianca Castafiore...

you will spend the rest of your life in prison!

Ah, you are making a joke, no?

A silly joke made by a silly little soldier!

It's no joke! Here is proof!

You make me laugh!

Kill him! Hang the traitor!

What's going on?

This spy! I caught him...

dropping pills to the chili!

He was trying to poison us!

General?

It's okay, amigos!

Those pills were only vitamins!

I don't trust this food. The dog must eat it first!

Doggy woggy! Come!

Good stuff! Yum...

Yum... Eat it!

Amigos!

Who wants to eat this stuff?

Back! Snowy! Eat!

Eat! Come on, boy!

You see! Totally safe!

I say!

How far to Tapiocapolis?

We aren't sure!

Bless my buttons!

Look who it is! It's Tintin and the Captain!

Jolyon Wagg!?

You've got it, old friend!

Me and my troupe...

the Jolly Follies...

have been invited to perform at the big carnival.

I designed those costumes myself.

Nice, don't you think? - Hm... very interesting...

- What's going on, amigo?! - Ah, the chap in charge!

Mind if my gang spends the night

in your camp? - Forget it!

Eh.. General...

Perhaps I spoke a little hastily my friend...

You may stay here as long as you like.

Morning, Professor!

Sleep well?

Alcazar!

Where is that lazy...?!

"Peggy, my dove!

"At dawn we left to overthrow the tyrant Tapioca.

"Love, Alcazar. P.S. Due to the revolution...

I will not be home in time to cook dinner. "

Alcazar!

Alcazar!

I feel bad, sneaking off

with Wagg's bus like this...

What's more imporant? Some silly tourists...

or winning the revolution and saving your friends

from the firing squad?