In which a pair of scheming young chaps plot an escape with all the grand theatricality and fanciful contrivances befitting knights and prisoners of old, fussing over details like rope ladders hidden in beds and journals penned with iron-rust ink. The more sensible Huck wonders at the necessity of such elaborate fuss, while Tom’s imaginations run as wild as ever, convinced that only the most complicated and romantic of plans will do for their endeavour.