- Fran Warner presents Roarke with her daughter Nancy, claiming he's her father; and security guard Kevin Lansing assists a fictional detective of Roarke's choice in solving a case.
- "The Case Against Mr. Roarke": Fran Warner arrives on the island, accompanied by her six-year-old daughter Nancy, without having told Roarke what her fantasy is. To both his and Tattoo's shock, she announces in a very crowded restaurant that Roarke is Nancy's father! Angered and bewildered, Roarke retreats to the main house to regroup, leaving Tattoo to deny Fran's claims all over the island, to little avail. When Tattoo tells Roarke he saw Fran buying prescription medicine at the local pharmacy, Roarke asks him to leave the matter to him and stop trying to defend him. But it starts Roarke thinking, and when he happens to see Fran emerging from the island's bureau of records -- acting quite furtive -- he decides to investigate. The smirking clerk obligingly shows him a form Fran has filled out to enroll Nancy in school, pointedly naming him as the father and even listing the child as Nancy Roarke. By now Roarke knows something's up and, recalling Tattoo's mention of prescriptions, quietly arranges to have Fran's doctor brought to the island. Meantime he meets Nancy, who is thrilled at the idea of having a daddy, and immediately starts addressing the startled Roarke as such. Roarke almost tells her the truth, but is halted by a pleading stare from Fran over Nancy's head. So while he doesn't actually confirm parenthood, he goes along with Fran's plans for the moment and takes Nancy for a pony ride and out to lunch. The doctor arrives the next day and reveals another piece of the puzzle: Fran is suffering from some terminal illness, and hasn't told Nancy about it. The doctor then explains that Nancy's actual father deserted Fran before the child was born and commends Roarke for trying to give Nancy some happy memories. Unfortunately, they're unaware that Nancy has overheard them from the back patio; she runs away crying before someone sees her and gets lost in the jungle, precipitating a search. When Roarke and Fran find Nancy, the little girl wants to know why Roarke lied about being her father; Roarke explains that he never actually said he was, but wanted to make Nancy's stay on the island enjoyable. So Nancy asks Fran why she lied, and Fran at last admits that she thought Fantasy Island would be the best place for her to grow up. She nearly tells Nancy about her illness, but Roarke stops her. Good thing, because the next day Fran finds out that the doctor has new test results showing a remission in her illness. "Save Sherlock Holmes": Department-store security guard Kevin Lansing's fantasy is to work with a fictional detective of Roarke's choice -- and naturally, Roarke chooses the epitome of fictional detectives, Sherlock Holmes. Lansing soon finds himself in nineteenth-century London and presents himself to Dr. Watson as a visiting American hoping to work with the great detective. But Holmes is missing, and the distrustful Watson is forced to enlist Lansing's help in finding him. After retracing Holmes' last known whereabouts, they deduce that the evil Moriarty must have him; and that's where they find him, locked in a dungeon in Moriarty's sanatorium and drugged to keep him compliant. Lansing and Watson set out on a crazy quest to free Holmes, involving an amorous, empty-headed nurse and an inmate (actually Roarke in shriveled-old-man disguise) playing chess against an invisible opponent, who keeps pointing the way out for Lansing, Watson and Holmes and misleading Moriarty and his cronies. Lansing is happy at having gotten the chance to live out his fantasy, but is now satisfied with his quiet job as security guard.
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