It is Valentine's day, and Tom devises a plan to win over Lady Devereux. He will hijack a coach carrying a jewel encrusted necklace. However, all does not go to plan, and he ends up hijacking the postal coach, and stealing all the valentines!

Meanwhile, Lady Devereux receives the gift of an extremely rare and exotic fruit – a banana – from Baron Pedro of Spain. In his jealousy, Sir John confiscates the gift and places it in the centre of his new creation – the chamber of doom. This room is armed with a large array of booby traps, and is almost impossible to transverse.

Tom, conjuring another wild plan, buys a plum cake and laces it with a love potion from the apothecary. However, driven by his greed for food, Moses takes a bite of the cake and falls in love with Tom.

When DeeDee meets the boys, she gives them a letter to Swiftnick, from Lady Devereux, that she ‘found on the Inn notice board'. In her letter, Lady Devereux asks Swiftnick to show his love for her by retrieving her stolen