- A smooth-talking criminal comes to the island and holds the women on the island hostage in exchange for ransom money, but when he is captured they decide to try and reform him instead of holding him prisoner.
- A stranger covertly lands on the Island and kidnaps Mrs. Howell (Natalie Schafer), leaving behind a note demanding $10,000 and requesting Gilligan (Bob Denver) and the Professor (Russell Johnson) to deliver it to a hollow log on the north side. Meanwhile, Gilligan is distracted by the idea that the log is twelve paces from a large rock than seven paces, even squeezing in the last five steps to make his point. When he delivers the money, he doesn't think it's far enough into the log and crawls in further, getting stuck, stumbling around with it over his head then flipping himself into the air. Mrs. Howell is found bound and gagged before she's freed, but she's unable to describe her kidnapper before Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) vanishes. The kidnapper demands $20,000 for her return and requests that the Howells deliver the money to an idol on the South end of the island. Mary Ann vanishes to escape, but Ginger (Tina Louise) gets kidnapped next and the price for her is $30,000. When she returns to camp, she reveals her abductor plans on kidnapping everyone else then starting all over again. The castaways wonder if hostile natives could be behind this, but the Professor disagrees, thinking the natives would not be motivated by money. The Skipper (Alan Hale Jr) and Professor set a trap for the criminal with Gilligan as the bait, but he gets scared and trips the trap. In the confusion, the Skipper captures Norbert Wiley, a career con-artist whose boat got beached on the island and left his propeller bent. He's kept in a bamboo cage to keep him under control, but the island bars do not stop him from showering the Howells with flattery. As the Skipper and Professor work to repair his boat, Ginger tries to psychoanalyze Wiley. She convinces the rest to let him out, but at a party for Wiley that night, he secretly steals the women's jewelry and pick-pockets the men of their valuables, eventually slipping away and escaping on the repaired boat. As the Professor turns to Ginger to remind her it's not so easy to reform a criminal, she confesses that the exact same thing happened in the movie from which she got the idea.
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