Salmoneus grimly goes about the business of selling the Titus brothers' manure until Hercules and Deon rescue him and get him a bath. Karis, who is eager to enlist Deon's power for his own ends, calls the boy over to his warehouse and tempts him with precious jewelry, a beautiful woman named Delia (Lulu Alach), and the offer of a lucrative job. That evening, Hercules runs into the bandits who attacked him the day before and after a brief battle, gets them to name Karis as their leader. Hercules confronts him in front of Deon, who has idolized his uncle all his life and does not want to believe he's a thief When Jacobus refuses to
