 While Nigel rehearses his keynote speech in a Seville hotel room, a girl nearly breaks his nose demanding something - it turns out she was after the water from the Fountain of Youth which the dying explorer Ponce de Leon send the Spanish king who send one bottle via the English ambassador to Elisabeth I, which Nigel s brother Preston is desperate to find in order to save his British Museam job. As duke Andrew, the ambassador s heir, only agreed to see him within 48h, he and Sidney are off to England together while Nigel stays for his speech and equally disastrous workshop, but joins them by the time they are scheming against Sean James, a rival relic hunter, and the duke s gambling creditor.