- Bellamira and Ithamore are chilling at her place, drinking and pledging their devotion to each other (real on Ithamore's part, fake on Bellamira's), while Pilia-Borza looks on.
- Ithamore brags to Bellamira about how he and Barabas are responsible for the deaths of Lodowick, Mathias, the nuns and friar Bernadine.
- Because regaling your lady friend with a laundry list of your heinous crimes is a tried and true dating tactic.
- Hark, a French musician has dropped by! Mais non! It's actually Barabas in disguise.
- Bellamira really likes the bouquet of flowers that the French musician (ahem, Barabas) is carrying, and asks to have them.
- Barabas is happy to comply. Why? Because, kids, poisoned flowers. That's right. Their scent is deadly. They are, like, anthrax daisies.
- Barabas plays the lute for them whileaping a hilarious French accent and listening to them trash-talk Barabas.
- After the French-musician-ahem-Barabas leaves, Ithamore tells Pilia-Borza to go back to Barabas and demand 1,000 crowns, instructing him to threaten to reveal Barabas's crimes if he doesn't pay.