 In the final act, Clan allies gather for the banquet to celebrate the forced engagement of Miriam and Creon.Agent Fleming is sent by the government to the banquet as well as part of a plan to make contact with her and turn her into an informant, posing as a captured West Coast courier.All the plans fall to pieces when the anti-Clan Prince Egon launches a coup, correctly fearing he would be denied the succession, and potentially murdered, had Creon produced an heir.