In this short scene, we learn that Dr. Agamemnon is dead, and that his corpse is deposited in a cart with silver coins on it. The coins were collected during the war to pay for the cost of the war, and the coins were given to the soldiers who fought for the city. The soldiers eat the coins, and they all eat the corpse. The narrator tells us that he wanted to become the "most infamous criminal" of the city, but that he left without saying anything to his companions. He says that the following spring, he went to the palace, but he did not say a word to anyone. He thinks that the woman who has come to eat is a horned head, and she has devoured the soldiers. She looks like a "swine" and will stain the earth, he says. He tells the woman that she is everything wrong with the city and that her existence is an "offend to the gods." He tells her not to touch him, or else the gods will not believe that he is noble. The king demands that the city send fourteen nobles to be killed by the "horned head." The narrator says that if one of the nobles kills the man, then the king will leave the city in peace and the war debt will be effaced. He adds that the men will surely trick the king too, and he says that they will surely do it again. He concludes by saying that there is only one way out of their "dark destiny," and that is to escape from the "beast" they will be sent to.