- Singer Susan Lohman wants to meet Edmund Dumont, the composer whose songs made her famous; and Alan Colshaw needs to convince three former friends that he didn't abandon them after a plane crash the previous year.
- "Crescendo": Susan Lohman is an acclaimed singer whose fame was built largely on the work of reclusive composer Edmond Dumont, whom she now wishes to meet. Roarke agrees to arrange the meeting, but advises that Dumont never has visitors and that she must have patience. Eager to meet the man she so admires, Susan mostly disregards Roarke's advice on the way to Dumont's ultra-secluded estate. When she ventures through the gate, she finds that the place is doubly guarded by a jungleful of wild animals. Somehow she makes it to the front door, where she is let in by Dumont's butler/manservant -- who can't tell her what Dumont looks like, for he is blind. Susan shortly discovers that Dumont has been keeping track of her career with a scrapbook full of clippings and articles about her appearances onstage. Encouraged by this, she finally is allowed upstairs to see Dumont after her long wait. Just when they both think they've made a connection, Dumont takes a chance and removes the mask over his face -- and Susan flees in terror, for he has the face of an animal. Later, when he comes to see her, she demands that he let her leave; he agrees, on condition that she listen to his newest composition, written just for her to express the love he feels for her. She accedes to his request, but then bolts as he is taking her to his rooms to hear the song and manages to escape. At her bungalow, Roarke comes to visit; she is sullen and resentful, telling Roarke he could have warned her about Dumont. It's then that Roarke explains that Edmond Dumont's family was cursed so many generations back that the origins of the curse are lost in time; it causes every seventh generation to be born with an animal's face. But before he can say any more, he receives the sense that Dumont is dying, "of loneliness and a broken heart", as he tells Susan. Torn, Susan finally can't stand the agony and rushes back to Dumont's estate, where she finds him nearly dead in the middle of his private jungle. She realizes she's in love with him and tells him so, bringing him back to life and breaking the curse once and for all. A retelling of Beauty and the Beast. "Three Feathers": Alan Colshaw was involved in a plane crash a year before, after which he seemingly vanished. He now wants to confront his three companions on that flight and explain to them what really happened, as they believe he simply disappeared and left them to their fate. They have accused him of cowardice, and he wants to clear the record. After talking to his one-time girlfriend, Lena Jordan, Colshaw approaches Roarke hoping to change his fantasy -- he just wants to be able to live with Lena from now on. Roarke tells him ominously that it isn't possible, for in fact Colshaw was killed after the plane crashed, and he must continue on with his fantasy as originally granted. Colshaw is actually a ghost! The next day Colshaw manages to convince his friend Jake Lawrie of the truth; but, like Lena, Jake wants to know what happened to the diamonds that were being couriered on their flight -- which disappeared after the crash, just like Colshaw. In an attempt to find out, Colshaw tracks down his last companion, Jesse, aboard Jesse's yacht; however, Jesse refuses to listen to him and has him thrown off the boat, causing Colshaw to lose the pendant Roarke gave him that has helped him to show the truth to Jake and Lena. But Colshaw has to get rid of that last white feather; so Jake and Lena come with him for one more confrontation with Jesse, wherein they all discover that in fact Jesse stole the diamonds and used Colshaw's disappearance as the cover story for what happened to them. Colshaw, after a final goodbye for Lena, is at last able to move out of limbo and rest in peace.
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