at stromboli's theater, pinocchio befriends one of stromboli's employees vitelli and her puppet sabina. pinocchio puts on a good show for the crowd as they throw their cash to him, but stromboli locks pinocchio in a bird cage to prevent him from ever leaving, wanting to exploit pinocchio for all he's worth. soon, stromboli's coach ends up freeing jiminy from the jar and when he enters the coach, he manages to help pinocchio escape when pinocchio has him reach the keys to the lock on the cage by telling lies since that makes his nose grow. geppetto, figaro and cleo go out to look for pinocchio when he fails to come home for dinner.