This chapter's epigraph comes from a line in the play's first scene, in which a servant tells the Emperor that he used to be his most devoted servant, but that he left him with a scar on his back. The servant says that he'll pay back what he's done to him today, and the Emperor says that's a good thing, because it means that the spy will have to pay for what she did to him. The Emperor is all, "Gee, I used to have a crush on you, but you ignored my efforts and left me with that scar. I'm going to pay you back today, so you're going to have to do something about it." He's not going to let this happen, though, because he knows that if they get into a real fight, they