Plot
Indiana Jones and the Emperor's Tomb begins in the jungles of Ceylon, where Indiana Jones is searching for the idol of Kouru Watu. After retrieving the idol, Jones meets a Nazi named Albrecht Von Beck, who is attacked by a giant albino crocodile, allowing Jones to escape. Back at school in New York City, Chinese officials Marshall Kai Ti Chan and his assistant Mei Ying inform Jones of the Heart of the Dragon, a black pearl buried with the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huangdi. Mei Ying breaks open the Ceylon idol to find the first piece of the "Mirror of Dreams", an artifact that will help navigate through the Emperor's Tomb and reveal the entrance to Huangdi's crypt.
Jones flies to a castle in Prague to acquire the second piece of the mirror, only to be knocked out and captured by Von Beck, who had survived the crocodile attack (albeit hideously scarred and blind in his right eye). Von Beck then takes the two mirror pieces. Jones wakes up in a prison cell in Istanbul where Mei Ying appears and frees him. He makes his way to the sunken palace of Belisarius to collect the final piece of the mirror. He eventually falls into a sunken amphitheatre and battles the Kraken guarding the piece. Indy defeats the beast and recovers the final piece of the mirror. Mei Ying appears again and tells him that Kai is the leader of the Black Dragon Triad, the most powerful crime organization in China. He had formed an alliance with the Nazis to get the Mirror for himself and control the Heart of the Dragon. At the Golden Lotus Opera House in Hong Kong, Mei Ying and Jones wait for Wu Han, a character from Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. When Mei Ying is kidnapped by Kai's men, Jones and Wu Han chase them down to the dock, where they discover that the kidnappers are heading to Kai's private island. Wu Han and Jones follow them in a junk.
After infiltrating a Nazi submarine base, Jones sees Von Beck and Kai arguing about their deal: Von Beck can take the Heart to Adolf Hitler when Kai takes control of all China. Fighting Nazis and using disguise, Jones makes his way to the peak of Penglai Mountain, the site of the Black Dragon Fortress, where he finds Mei Ying guarded by the Feng twins, Kai's female bodyguards. After killing the twins, he falls down a shaft into the temple of Kong Tien, where he finds a magical Chinese boomerang-like weapon called the Pa Cheng, the Dragon's Claw. Jones finds Kai assembling the Mirror of Dreams and sacrificing Mei Ying to the demon, Kong Tien, who possesses Mei Ying. Indy frees her and escapes with the mirror to the Emperor's Tomb. In the temple, Jones faces Von Beck, who pursues him in a tank, bent on having revenge for the crocodile attack. The Nazi is killed when his tank falls down a chasm and Jones enters a portal to the Netherworld.
After crossing a Netherworld Great Wall of China, he finally finds Huangdi's crypt and the body of Qin Shi Huangdi. When Jones takes the Heart of the Dragon, the emperor awakens but is killed by the souls of his victims. Unable to control the power of the Heart of the Dragon, Indy collapses while Kai takes the pearl from Jones. He uses its power to summon a dragon to battle Jones, creating a shield to protect himself. Jones uses the Pa Cheng charged with mystical energy to penetrate the shield and destroy the Heart of the Dragon. At that moment Kai loses control of the dragon, and spirits of his victims rise and mistake Kai for the first Emperor of China. Jones and Mei Ying flee as Kai is devoured by the dragon.
Back in Hong Kong, Jones gets to share some romantic time with Mei Ying, but Wu Han is quick to remind Jones that Lao Che has hired them to find the remains of Nurhachi, leading into the opening of Temple of Doom.
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