- Vicki Lee, granddaughter of silent-film Becky Lee, visits a chateau to learn more about her grandmother's life. The feuding Scoggins and McAllister families compete for a special moonshine recipe.
- "The Chateau": Vicky Lee is researching a biography she wants to write about her late grandmother, silent-film star Becky Lee, and comes to the island hoping to talk with Becky's frequent co-star and lover, Claude Duncan, who lives in a remote enclosed estate. Roarke has misgivings about sending her there, but agrees to do so anyway. Once at Duncan's chateau, Vicky meets a man who introduces himself to her as Karl, Claude's grandson. They get to know each other a little and watch one of their grandparents' classic films together. When Roarke attempts to contact Vicky through a television set, she tells him about Karl, whom Roarke had no knowledge of. Vicky presses Karl to allow her to speak with his grandfather, but he keeps evading her by saying his grandfather isn't ready to see her yet. Vicky explores the chateau looking for Claude, but instead comes across some things she wishes she hadn't seen -- in particular, a painting of a horribly old and disfigured Claude Duncan -- and tries to escape the estate without success. Karl takes her down to the dungeon where she learns that in fact, "Karl" is really Claude posing as his own nonexistent grandson. He needs Vicky in order to fulfill a pact he made with the Greek god Pan to sacrifice two victims in exchange for eternal life and youth. Becky Lee was the first victim, and Vicky is to be the second. But Roarke intervenes, stopping time at the stroke of midnight, and sets afire the portrait, breaking the spell and sending Claude to his own death, where his spirit joins that of Becky Lee. "White Lightning": The Scoggins and McAllister clans, from Tennessee, are a modern-day version of the Hatfields and the McCoys, and have been feuding for several generations. Both are eager to obtain a recipe for a very special moonshine called White Lightning, which will bring riches and prosperity to the clan that gets it. When the young people of the two clans can't control their impulses to shoot each other dead, Roarke steps in and sends them on a quest for the still that brews the moonshine, tearing a map in two and giving a half to the head of each clan. But unbeknownst to the others, R.J. Scoggins and Ruth Ann McAllister are secretly in love with each other. After various attempts at sabotage by the McAllister boys, Roarke provides the Scogginses with a shortcut to make up for the McAllisters' cheating, and both clans end up arriving at the still simultaneously. The two sides get into another fight, which the stillkeeper quells with a shotgun, then gives the McAllister boys and the older Scoggins boy a sip each of the stuff. However, he denies a taste of it to the others, and while he reveals himself as Roarke, explains that the moonshine has a magical property that makes everyone love his fellow man, and that R.J. and Ruth Ann don't need a taste because they have already discovered the power of love. For that matter, so have the heads of each clan, who were also secretly in love for many years. The two clans leave the island making plans to work together for the common good.
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