- Mephistopheles uses Julie to force Roarke into another confrontation; elderly Joan Michaels and Ruby Rogers relive their Ziegfeld Follies days; and Brooklyn shoe salesman Ned Plummer travels to the Old West to meet outlaw Kid Corey.
- "The Devil and Mr. Roarke": Mephistopheles returns for another clash with Roarke. Since Roarke has asked Tattoo to assist him with one of their other fantasies, he takes Julie with him to find out what Mephistopheles is doing on Fantasy Island this time. As usual, Mephistopheles is confident he'll get Roarke's immortal soul this time -- to which Julie foolhardily retorts, "I bet you don't!" Roarke warns Julie that she must be extremely careful from this point on; but Julie meets up with the devil on her way to meet a friend, whom Mephistopheles uses to his advantage by causing her to fall into a pool of quicksand. Julie, unable to reach her friend without falling in herself, is forced to ask Mephistopheles for help, thus placing her in his debt. Later Julie comes to Roarke at his summons; Roarke suspects something is wrong and entrusts to Julie's care a box that he cautions her not to open at any cost. When he leaves her alone, Julie finds to her horror that Mephistopheles has invaded her mind and body, and now controls her. After Roarke returns, he tells Julie that they will burn the contents of the box, to which she says slyly that "the brick won't burn", proving to Roarke that it wasn't Julie at all but Mephistopheles to whom he gave the box. They make arrangements for a meeting that night to determine once and for all who owns Julie's soul. When they arrive, Roarke and Mephistopheles find themselves at an impasse, for Julie has sold her soul to Roarke; and while Mephistopheles has (verbal) right of first claim, Roarke has a printed agreement that was signed and notarized. After Mephistopheles rejects co-ownership, Roarke offers his own soul in his goddaughter's place. But before Mephistopheles can make off with his much-coveted prize, Julie produces a document that shows that Roarke has in turn sold her his soul, and Mephistopheles can't claim it! "Ziegfeld Girls": Ruby Rogers and Joan Michaels were once a part of the legendary Ziegfeld Follies, and they want to revisit those days and kick up their arthritic heels again. Roarke grants them their fantasy, with one caveat: they can't tell anyone they're having a fantasy, or it will immediately end. He then proceeds to make them young again, and they rush away to audition for that weekend's Ziegfeld Follies revival, which includes Joan's granddaughter, Billie, and her boyfriend, the show's director, Carl Wagner. When Ruby and Joan show they still have what it took to be in the original troupe, Wagner takes them on...and begins to gravitate toward Ruby, who once wooed Joan's husband away from her and for years had a habit of stealing men away from her friends. A furious Joan manages to make Ruby see that there's no way she can possibly keep Wagner; they're going to be old ladies again after the weekend is over. Brought to her senses, Ruby talks Joan into telling a stagehand that they're just having a fantasy -- mere minutes before they're to perform onstage in their big number with the revival troupe. "Kid Corey Rides Again": Ned Plummer is a shoe salesman from Brooklyn who's ventured west of the Hudson River for the first time in his life, in order to live his fantasy of meeting legendary Wild West outlaw Kid Corey. He claims to know everything there is to know about the Kid, and even carries around a copy of a Wanted poster of the outlaw...who, strangely, looks exactly like Plummer. Talked into it, Roarke agrees to grant the fantasy and sends Plummer back in time. Plummer finds himself in the middle of a shootout and dives for cover -- right next to a sly old coot who turns out to be none other than Kid Corey. The Kid instantly discerns he's got a convenient patsy on his hands, and tricks Plummer into covering for him against his foes while he steals Plummer's horse to get away. Plummer, already disenchanted, wants to end the fantasy, but Tattoo appears as he's trying to track down the Kid, and explains that he's in it till the bitter end. Eventually, a weary and wiser Plummer runs the Kid to ground, and is just about to leave him in the desert when a posse happens upon them and takes them both into custody. Plummer protests his innocence in vain. The Kid seizes the opportunity to escape when he gets the sheriff to check out the Wanted poster, with (apparently) Plummer's likeness on it -- sealing Plummer's fate when the sheriff releases the Kid. After a sham trial, during which a New York City reporter and her photographer friend get his picture for a story about "quaint and colorful characters" of the West, Plummer is taken outside to be hanged...by none other than Tattoo. When the trap door of the hanging platform drops out from under him, Plummer is shot forward in time, safe, sound and alive. About to leave the island with a completely new and cynical attitude towards his former hero, Plummer realizes (thanks to Roarke and Tattoo) that because of the photograph taken of him in jail -- the same one on the Wanted poster -- and the story created by the NYC reporter, Plummer himself has been immortalized as the Kid Corey whose history he so avidly read back home, while the real Kid was run to ground in South America with his stolen loot!
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