Later, at Mrs. Chang's Chinese Restaurant, the British agents finally find Magnus, waiting for the Number 3 with extra rice. The agents go "undercover" as New York City detectives and present Magnus with evidence of his granddaughter's kidnapping. They have a very difficult time and Magnus escapes out the back.
Frannie Mason believes he is safe from the mermaids and once again fishing on Solomon's River's shore; in reality, Frannie is in a cleverly constructed zoo exhibit far underwater, in the Mermaid Kingdom. A pair of mermaid princesses ogle their highly prized human and bask in their own perfection, until "Split-Tail", the deformed merman, arrives. The mermaids mock and shun him. Split-Tail leaves, shamed from the shunning, catches up with his buddy, Flounder. While he is happy to have a friend, he is the only merman to hang out with a flounder, and he misses his own kind.
Above, at the water treatment plant, they are still having trouble keeping sea life out of the water supply. Split-Tail is sucked into an intake and gets himself captured by humans. He swims in sad circles.
Meanwhile, across town at the Adverson mansion, the fake Matlock and Cilantro are both tied up and the British secret agents simply hope Magnus comes home. The bell rings and Mrs. Chang brings poisoned leftovers for Magnus. The agents pass it off on their captives, not knowing it's poison. Magnus arrives and "Jeeves" the butler (really the British secret agent) attempts confrontation but nobody understands anybody and the poisoned food is kicked away.
The antidote to the poison is in the fortune cookies, but nobody cares because nobody ate it. "Jeeves" attempts to just ask about the location of the Chinese microchip factory, but it no longer matters because the other agent opened a fortunate cookie... a very fortunate fortune cookie!
- Will Frannie Mason become the most popular zoo exhibit?
- Will Split-Tail escape the water treatment plant?
- What kind of fortune actually provides helpful advice?
