Smythe offers to pay Janice handsomely for her help in deciphering its text and Janice pretends to accept his proposition, deliberately misreading the words and declaring the tablet a fake. They are soon interrupted by the arrival of Smythe and his thugs, who show up with the tablet stolen from the murdered Nikos, which is the key to unlocking the tomb. Introducing himself as a lieutenant in the Free French Army, he offers his protection, explaining that the government cannot allow the Xena Scrolls, which may unlock the secrets to long lost mystical powers, to fall into the hands of the Nazis.
As Janice talks about her own father, an archeologist driven by a life-long quest to find the Xena Scrolls, Jacques S'er arrives on the scene. Much to Covington's surprise, Mel begins to prove her usefulness when she corrects Janice's translation of a scroll fragment describing an epic battle between Xena and Callisto.
Janice reveals that a ruthless thug, John Smythe, is also determined to find the tablet which is the key to opening the tomb, and that Smythe's men probably attacked Mel thinking the tablet was in her briefcase. Sure that the stylish, long-legged Mel will be useless in the trenches, Covington tries to persuade her to leave just as Nikos, one of the diggers, staggers towards them with a knife in his back and dies. Mel explains that whilst sorting through her deceased father's records, she found a telegram from Janice asking for help in translating ancient writings and has come to offer her services. Immediately set upon by armed thugs, Melinda is quickly rescued by Covington, who drives the trespassers off with her gatling gun.
She and her men are searching for the key to unlock a tomb containing the ancient Xena Scrolls, the most important archeological find of the century, when Melinda Pappas, the daughter of a world-renowned archeologist and a student in the field herself, arrives unexpectedly. Janice Covington, a tough and determined young archeologist, is supervising work on a Macedonian dig. Melinda Pappas, the daughter of an Earth renowned archeologist
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