Ali Quli arrives home with a scroll from Salim. Nisa, while planning to consume poison, comes across Salim's scroll and on reading it, breaks down. In sheer desperation, Salim tells Akbar that his campaign has been the best of the three and Akbar admits it, rather haughtily. Salim notices that Akbar is besotted with Nadira and this is reaffirmed when he sees Nadira in his father's tent.