 The outraged French actors, led by their president, Picard, take over the inn where he will be staying, and Beaumarchais devises a plot to humiliate Garrick publicly.On the road to Paris, Garrick meets Jean Cabot, an elderly admirer who once acted with him in "Hamlet" and now works as a Comédie-Française prompter.Cabot—who was tossed out of the Comedie-Française meeting when he protested that Garrick might be innocent—has ridden non-stop for two days to warn the actor, although he does not know the details of the plot.