West and Gordon are assigned as escort to the Sultan of Ramapur and find themselves also protecting the Sultan's gift to President Grant - Akbar, a sacred white elephant calf. En route to Washington, D.C., bandits board the train and steal Akbar. West goes after the bandits while Gordon tries to deal with the Sultan's threats to declare hostilities unless paid $1 million in compensation. Neither agent is very successful; they soon join forces and follow Akbar's trail, which leads them to a nearby gypsy circus.
Disguises used by Artie: Uncle Moe, Peddler
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Tropes present in this episode:
- Alliterative Name: Zoe Zagora, who runs the gypsy circus.
- Amazon Brigade: The Sultan's harem all carry pistols, and they know how to use them. The Sultan boasts that they shot a suspected intruder 14 times.
- Backup Bluff: Artie convinces the bandits that he has an army surrounding them by setting off firecrackers. And shouting a lot.
- Bodyguard Babes: The Sultan of Ramapur is accompanied by a bevy of beautiful, scantily-clad and well-armed female attendants.
- Cassandra Truth: When Jim and Artie tell Zoe that they're government agents who are looking for Akbar to prevent an international incident, she thinks it's ridiculous at first. Then she realizes that because their story is so unlikely, it must be true.
- Deadpan Snarker: When Hillard tells Jim and Artie that he lost the elephant:Artie: You lost an elephant? That takes talent.
- Everybody Lives: In keeping with this being one of the show's more lighthearted episodes.
- Faked Kidnapping: The Sultan brings a fake "sacred white elephant" to give as a gift to President Grant, arranges for it to be stolen, and then tries to shake the American government down for a million dollars in reparations because he's bankrupted his own economy.
- Fortune Teller: Zoe pretends to be one while dosing Hillard with Knockout Gas so she can steal Akbar.
- Graceful Loser: The Sultan, after he's arrested and his people overthrow the monarchy and replace it with a constitutional government. Even after Jim and Artie turn down his offer of a bribe he still leaves them a "parting gift" of two of his harem girls.
- Hot Gypsy Woman: Zoe is a pretty straight example of the trope.
- The Infiltration: Claiming to be an escaped criminal on the run who's looking for a place to hide, Jim joins the gypsy circus as an acrobat.
- Jerkass: The Sultan emerges as one even before he's revealed as "a royal Con Artist". When he mentions that the man shot multiple times by the Amazon Brigade was an innocent messenger, he thinks it's hilarious, and demands that Jim and Artie join him in laughing about the incident. Later, he makes it clear that he values Akbar over Ramapur's American residents, whom he seizes as hostages, including the ambassador and his family.
- Minion with an F in Evil: Hillard just can't quite manage to kill poor Akbar, not that he wants to—he just wants his boss to think he did.
- Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat: A gypsy magician is shown struggling with this trick. Artie steps in to show him how it's done.
- Qurac: Ramapur, which is vaguely located somewhere in the Middle East.
- Romani: A whole circus full of them.
