Wiseman). There she reveals a plan -- based on inside information from Gnossus, the King's bookkeeper -- to steal a shipment of gold paid for by the villagers' taxes as it is being transported through the Lucian forest. When they put the plan into action, however, they find themselves ambushed by mounted soldiers. Fortunately, Hercules and Iolaus are able to hold off the troops while the rebels flee.
As Hercules and Rheanna ponder who might have set them up, they learn that soldiers have dumped a body in the village square. The mortally wounded rebel
