A young Jafar is escorted by royal guards to the presence of the Sultan of Agrabah, and announced as a young thief. The guard explains that Jafar stole a dagger right off his belt. The Sultan asks the young man if he thought it was a good idea to steal from a palace guard, and Jafar answers that he knew it wasn't. "Yet you did it anyway," the Sultan says, before reminding the young man that he is to lose the hand with which he stole as punishment by law. The child, a bit nervous, walks closer to his Majesty and kneels down, reaching out his hand, wearing the ring his mother gave him. "If you deem it best," he says. The Sultan's attention is caught, and he asks the boy where he got that. "My mother," he says. The Sultan asks what her name is, and Jafar simply tells him to look at his face a