Spock records the communication between the Great Evil and Zorg. Kirk hands command of the Enterprise to Mera as he and Ripley take a plane to Fhloston Paradise. Meanwhile, Cornelius instructs David to prepare the temple designed to house the stones, then stows away on the space plane transporting Dallas to the cruise liner. Upon learning from the Mondoshawans that the fourth and final stone is in Plavalaguna's possession, General Munro, Dallas' former superior, recommissions Dallas and orders him to travel undercover to the planet Fhloston to meet Plavalaguna on a luxury cruise Dallas takes Leeloo with him. Zorg kills many of the Mangalores because of their failure to obtain the stones from the Enterprise, but their surviving compatriots determine to seize the artifacts in revenge. Cornelius learns from her that the element stones were not on the Mondoshawans' ship, as they placed each stone on each planet until they entrusted the fourth stone to the alien Diva Plavalaguna, an opera singer. Kirk.ĭallas delivers Leeloo to Cornelius and his apprentice, David, whereupon it is revealed that she is the Fifth Element. Terrified of the unfamiliar surroundings, she breaks out of confinement and jumps off a high ledge, crashing into the flying taxicab of Korben Dallas, a former major in the special forces and a friend of Captain James T. Scientists take it to a New York City laboratory and use it to reconstruct a powerful humanoid woman who takes the name Leeloo. The Mondoshawans' spacecraft is destroyed, and the only 'survivor' is a severed hand in a metal glove from the Fifth Element's sarcophagus that still contains some living cells. As the Mondoshawans return to Earth, they are ambushed by a Klingon B'rel-class Bird-of-Prey, commandeered by the Mangalores, a race hired by Ensign Annalee Call's boss and the industrialist Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg, who has been directed by the Great Evil (sending messages as “Mister Shadow”) to acquire the element stones.

The Mondoshawans' current contact on Earth and Lieutenant Mera's caretaker, priest Vito Cornelius, informs the President of the Federated Territories of the history of the Great Evil and the weapon that can stop it. In 2286, the Great Evil appears in deep space in the form of a giant ball of black fire, and destroys an attacking Earth spaceship while the USS Enterprise-A watching. The Mondoshawans promise their human contact, a priest from a secret order, that they will come back with the weapon in time to stop the Great Evil when it returns.

The weapon consists of four stones, containing the essences of the four classical elements, and a sarcophagus containing a Fifth Element in the form of a human, which combines the power of the other four elements into a divine light capable of defeating the evil. In 1914, aliens known as Mondoshawans arrive at an ancient Egyptian temple to collect, for safekeeping from World War I, the only weapon capable of defeating a Great Evil that appears every 5,000 years.

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