This episode plot was changed significantly from the original story, clearly in order to make it suitable for young viewers: while according to the New Testament Salome willingly collaborated with her mother Herodias to have John the Baptist killed, in this episode Salome asks Herod innocently to grant her mother what she wishes, and is shocked to hear Herodias' demand to behead John. She tries her best but in vain to prevent the execution, and afterwards she deeply mourns John.