The film opens as Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus (Kevin Kline) narrates a flashback of a soccer match between France and China. French coach Yves Gluant (Jason Statham) comes down the stadium, wearing the Pink Panther diamond ring, and kisses his girlfriend, pop star Xania (Beyoncé Knowles), after whispering to her. After the game, Yves dies with a poison dart in his neck and the Pink Panther missing from his hand. Eager to win the Medal of Honor (the Légion d'honneur), Dreyfus promotes a clumsy policeman, Jacques Clouseau (Steve Martin), to the rank of Inspector and assigns him to the Pink Panther case. Meanwhile, Dreyfus assembles a secret team of top investigators to crack the case, allowing Clouseau to serve as the public face of the investigation so that media attention is focused on Clouseau, rather than Dreyfus' team. Dreyfus assigns Gilbert Ponton (Jean Reno) as Clouseau's assistant and instructs Ponton to keep him informed of Clouseau's actions.
Bizu (William Abadie), the prime suspect being a star footballer who hated Gluant, is shot in the head and killed. While at a casino to interrogate its owner, Raymond Larocque (Roger Rees), Gluant's business partner, he encounters British Secret Agent 006, Nigel Boswell (Clive Owen, parodying James Bond). Boswell foils a robbery at the casino by the notorious "Gas-Masked Bandits". Clouseau mistakenly receives credit for the deed in the press and is nominated for the Medal of Honour, much to Dreyfus's dismay.
Bizu (William Abadie), the prime suspect being a star footballer who hated Gluant, is shot in the head and killed. While at a casino to interrogate its owner, Raymond Larocque (Roger Rees), Gluant's business partner, he encounters British Secret Agent 006, Nigel Boswell (Clive Owen, parodying James Bond). Boswell foils a robbery at the casino by the notorious "Gas-Masked Bandits". Clouseau mistakenly receives credit for the deed in the press and is nominated for the Medal of Honour, much to Dreyfus's dismay.
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