Answer the following question: Build a movie plot around this: Who does Edmond attempt to kill? Fernand
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In 1815, Edmond Dantes, Second Mate of a French merchant vessel, and his friend Fernand Mondego, representative of the shipping company, seek medical help at Elba for their ailing captain. Napoleon Bonaparte, having kept his guardians from killing the pair, exchanges his physician's services with Edmond for the delivery of a letter to a Monsieur Clarion.In Marseille, the company owner Morrell commends Edmond for his bravery, promoting him to captain over First Mate Danglars, who gave Edmond explicit orders not to land at Elba. Edmond states his intention to marry his girlfriend, Mercedes, whom Fernand lusts after.Fernand and Danglars inform on Edmond, concerning the letter Fernand saw Napoleon hand him, to the city's Magistrate, Villefort, who has Edmond arrested. Villefort prepares to exonerate Edmond until he learns the letter is addressed to his father, a Bonapartist; he burns the letter and orders Edmond locked up in Chateau d'If. Edmond escapes, and turns to Fernand for help, but Fernand holds him up and turns him over to the pursuing gendarmes. Edmond is consigned to the island prison and its sadistic warden, Armand Dorleac. Villefort has Fernand assassinate his father in exchange for persuading Mercedes that Edmond has been executed for treason and that she should take comfort in Fernand.Six years later, Edmond is startled in his cell by an eruption in the ground; another prisoner, Abbe Faria, has dug an escape tunnel. For 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; before expiring he reveals a map to a treasure that Napoleon had imprisoned him for when he refused to produce it. 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.Edmond encounters a band of pirates preparing to execute a fellow, Jacopo; their leader, Luigi Vampa, decides justice, and...