<P> Six years later, Edmond is startled in his cell by an eruption in the ground revealing another prisoner . Abbé Faria, who has been imprisoned for 11 years after he refused to tell Bonaparte the whereabouts of the treasure of Spada, has dug an escape tunnel . For the next seven years Faria educates Edmond in all facets of scholarship, including swordplay, in exchange for his help in digging a new escape route . Faria dies in a tunnel cave - in but before expiring he reveals a map to the treasure . Edmond escapes by switching himself for the priest's body in the body bag, and is thrown into the sea, pulling Dorleac along with him, whom he drowns . </P> <P> Edmond encounters a band of pirates preparing to execute a fellow pirate, Jacopo, (Luis Guzmán). Their leader, Luigi Vampa, decides justice and entertainment would be better served by pitting Edmond and Jacopo in a knife fight . Edmond wins, but spares Jacopo, who swears himself Edmond's man for life . Jacopo and Edmond both work for the pirates until they arrive in Marseille . </P> <P> Edmond learns from Morrell, who does not recognize him, that Fernand and Danglars are complicit in his betrayal, and that Fernand and Mercédès have wed . With Jacopo, he locates Faria's treasure, and establishes himself as a Count in Parisian society . </P> <P> Edmond ingratiates himself to the Mondegos by staging the kidnap and rescue of their son, Albert (Henry Cavill). Now known as the Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond lures Fernand, Villefort and Danglars into a trap by letting slip the notion that he has located the treasure of Spada, and is shipping it through Marseille . Danglars is caught red - handed in the act of theft . Villefort is arrested upon confessing that he ordered the hit on his father and it is revealed that Fernand carried out the murder of Monsieur Clarion . </P>

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