In the suspenseful scene, Edmond replaces the corpse of his now deceased friend, Abbé Faria, with his own body inside the body bag once occupied by his companion in an attempt to break free from the walls of the dreadful island prison. As the scene progresses, Edmond soon is thrown into the fateful waters outside the prison, in which after having returned to the surface, he states he will "go on to the end... until I'm seized with cramps" (Dumas 81). Of course, as the novel progresses, the reader knows once Edmond makes it to dry land, he will carry out the will of his deceased friend, whom told Dantés to search for the hidden treasure on the aisle of Monte Cristo. As time passes, Edmond has now been accepted into a crew of theives, wherein he meets his new companion, Jacopo. Whilst Dantés aids his new friends with their work, he still thinks of when he will travel to the Isle of Monte Cristo, where as soon as he locates the treasure, he will become the Count of Monte Cristo. However two additional I's are identified wiring the mind of the Count of Monte Cristo.
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