Q:Build a movie plot around this: When is TinTin ready to give up? After the boat leaves.
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See also: The Secret of the Unicorn SynopsisIn 1955, journalist Tintin and his dog Snowy are browsing in an outdoor market in Brussels, Belgium. Tintin buys a miniature model of a ship, the Unicorn, but is then accosted by an Interpol officer named Barnaby and a dreaded gangster named Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, who both unsuccessfully try to buy the model from Tintin. Tintin takes the ship home, but it is accidentally broken in an incident with Snowy and a cat in his apartment, resulting in a parchment scroll slipping out of the model and rolling under a piece of furniture. Meanwhile, bumbling police detectives Thomson and Thompson are on the trail of a pickpocket, Aristides Silk.After visiting Maritime Library, Tintin returns to finds that the Unicorn has been stolen. He visits Sakharine in Marlinspike Hall and accuses him of the theft. When he sees a miniature model of the Unicorn, he notices that Sakharine's model is not broken, realizing that there are two Unicorn models. Once Tintin returns home, Snowy shows him the scroll. Barnaby visits them in a second attempt to give him the Unicorn, but is assassinated. After reading an old message written on it, Tintin puts the scroll in his wallet, but it is stolen by Silk the next morning.Tintin is abducted by accomplices of Sakharine and imprisoned on the SS Karaboudjan. He learns that Sakharine formed an alliance with the ship's staff and led a mutiny to take over control. On board, Tintin meets Captain Haddock, the ship's nominal captain. Haddock is permanently drunk and thus unaware of the happenings on board his ship. Tintin, Haddock, and Snowy eventually escape from the Karaboudjan in a lifeboat but the ship's crew tries to ram the lifeboat. This fails because they instead notice an empty lifeboat that the Captain accidentally released before the escape and ram it instead. Presuming them to have survived by the number of lifeboats, Sakharine sends a seaplane to find them, which the trio seize and use to fly towards the fictitious Moroccan port of...