Recap
Jim and Artie receive anonymous tickets to attend the performance of a magician, Abu the Magnificent. When they see nothing impressive, the agents prepare to leave but Abu gestures with a sword and causes King Solomon’s Throne to appear. His assistant, Jasmine, goes into the audience and tries to select Jim as a volunteer. He hesitates and Artie goes up with her and sits in the throne. With a gesture, Abu causes himself, Artie, Jasmine, and the throne to all disappear. There’s a round of applause, but after a few seconds the manager comes out and tells the audience that the performance is over. Jim goes backstage and the puzzled manager informs him that he has no idea where Abu went, and that there’s no way he could have disappeared. Abu has left his saber behind, and it is inscribed with a regimental insignia and the words NBV, Vicksburg, MS. As they look around, puzzled, Artie calls out to Jim but there’s no sign of his presence...
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Episode Notes
Corner Slides
Upper Left: Jim trapped in the void.
Lower Left: Jim over Artie’s corpse.
Lower Right: Jim and Artie watch the restored Vautrain.
Upper Right: The
Wanderer departs.
Although the agents refer to their superior at least twice as "Colonel Falk," in the end credits the actor is identified as "Col. Fairchild." "Falk" is presumably intended as an in-joke, since
Leonard Falk is Robert Conrad's father, and appeared in
"The Night of the Murderous Spring" in the first season.
Captain Scofield's name is misspelled "Scoffield" in the end credits.
Episode Quotes
James: You present a problem, Colonel. I don't know whether to applaud... or sink to my knees.
Col. Noel Bartley Vautrain: No question of divinity, Mr. West. They are just magician's illusions, the art of... legerdemain.
James: The colonel is a rather unique travel agent.
Artemus: And a most unusual magician, too.
Col. Noel Bartley Vautrain: I've done it. I've beaten Time to its knees!