Three weeks have passed since the attack on the ship. Nemo is still hiding out in the darkness. He's worried about his friend, Raindrop, who has stopped talking to him. Nemo tells Raindrop that he and the other pirates have reached the bottom of the river. They need to find a way to get to the shore. They can't fight, they say, because they're too deep. They'll sink, Nemo says, and he'll use his boom-a-zoom to zoom in on the pirates. The pirates have found Nemo and the others, and they want to get them aboard the ship, but Nemo won't let them go until he hears a bell. It's a message for Raindrop: he's got his bear. He wants Raindrop to show it to the pirates and give it back to him so they can all be together again. Nemo says he doesn't have a lot of money, but he does have a treasure that's buried deep in a cove of absence. He needs Raindrop's help to get it.