Howard Dayton

Mrs. Wehmeyer, local Unicef chairman, asks Samantha to help raise funds. Her first assignment is to get Mr. Haskell to make good on his $10,000 pledge. Larry Tate feels that Haskell changed his mind because he plans to marry singer Lila Layton, a very expensive young lady. Haskell orders Samantha to leave his mansion and never show her face again. Angry, Samantha pops up everywhere, finally as a Moosehead on his office wall. When Haskell consults a psychiatrist, Dr. Chomsky, Samantha pops in, followed by Endora. Haskell reports that his hallucination just left with her mother. The doctor feels he's really a case. Lila refuses to help Samantha collect the pledge. Then Endora and Samantha find that Lila expects to keep up her affair with Bruce, after she is Mrs. Haskell. Learning that she talked Haskell out of keeping his pledge, Endora sprinkles truth salts on Lila's food. When Lila can't help revealing her date with Bruce, Haskell breaks with her. However, Haskell still refuses to give Samantha a check, feeling she doesn't really exist. Samantha feels defeated until Mrs. Wehmeyer reveals Haskell brought his check, asking if she ever saw a blonde conscience.

Mannix becomes less skeptical when a woman predicts from a dream he will be killed, when other things she described start happening to him.

Rowdy Yates is brought to "trial" by his former Confederate Army buddies who say he betrayed their plan to escape a Union prison. Cabot and Bellamy, an ex-captain and corporal in the Confederate Army, ride into camp and, after a solemn discussion with ramrod Rowdy Yates, ride out with him. They travel to a ruined courthouse in a nearby ghost town where they are joined by Pvt. Jordan and Cpl. Mason: their purpose is a private court-martial of Pvt. Yates whom they charge betrayed their escape from a Union prisoner-of-war camp (an act that resulted in the death of two men and almost total paralysis for Cpl. Mason). Ironically, the proceedings are interrupted by a drunken old man, Judge Alexander Langford a once-powerful, respected jurist who has retired from the bench to a life of drinking. Cabot decides that Langford would be a fitting judge and forces him, with his ever-present bottle, to preside. Thus, the "trial" begins.

A man who left Paladin to die in his place writes to Paladin and asks for his help.