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{{quote| '''Al Giordino''': [[Let Me Get This Straight...|Well]], we're in the [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|desert]], looking for the source of a [[Green Aesop|river pollutant]], using as our map a cave drawing of a [[Civil War]] gunship, which [[Saharan Shipwreck|is also in the desert]]. So I was [[Lampshade Hanging|just wondering]] when we're gonna have to sit down and re-evaluate our decision-making paradigm?<br />
'''Dirk Pitt''': I don't know - it seems to be working so far. }}
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* [[Break Out the Museum Piece]]: A chopper gets taken out by a {{spoiler|Civil War-era ship’s cannon.}}
* [[Bring News Back]]: Rudi [[Got Volunteered|gets volunteered]] to take data on the toxins back to Sandecker.
* [[Conveniently
* [[Cool and Unusual Punishment]]: Do they honestly serve {{spoiler|Massarde}} his own poisoned water in the end, without him noticing? Wow. [[Nightmare Fuel|But wait a minute.]] Do they even have an antidote by the end of the movie? [[Fridge Logic|It's never clearly established.]] Although they probably have.
** Er, yes and yes. The scene with the water is adapted from the book, the same thing happens though the location and delivery method is different. Also, the antidote is ''explicitly'' mentioned by the American embassy man as being distributed in the... Is it 'denouement'?
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* [[Green Aesop]]
* [[Heterosexual Life Partners]]: Dirk and Al.
* [[Hey, It's That Guy!]]: [[The Office|Dwight]] is being very helpful and polite...
* [[Hot Scientist]]: Eva Rojas.
* [[Kick the Dog]]: Kazim does this several times but his worst act {{spoiler|is when he personally kills Carl}}.
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* [[Running Gag]]: Al losing his hat.
* [[Saharan Shipwreck]]: The object of Pitt’s search.
* [[Shout
** Several of the other clippings in Pitt's cabin also reference some of the more memorable adventures that he and Giordino had in the other books in the series.
* [[Stealth Pun]]: Admiral Sandecker is wearing a hat in one of the very last scenes: it's a Panama.
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