Tarzan and Dan use sticks to move a raft with themselves, Cheetah, Jane and Roger on it. They are headed for Haunted Island which has been here for millions of years, according to Jane. The zoological society is offering Roger a thousand bucks for a story on Malachi Kingfishers and Roger claims for the money but to save the birds from extinction, too. Pesticides are endangering the kingfishers. Roger hopes they will turn the island into a sanctuary. Dan brings up that the natives will not go near the island, that it is haunted, and one Father Kelly disappeared after going there. Roger does not believe in ghosts. Jane thinks most psychic phenomena can be explained through scientific logic. Cheetah thinks he sees a log turn into a croc and gets the raft rocking so that all of them fall into the water. The foursome wade through greenery in the water to the shore. Cheetah is with them on the land but doesnt look wet. Cheetah tells Tarzan what he saw and Jane thinks Cheetah ate too many bananas on the way up. Tarzan thinks the powers of the island have captured Cheetahs soul. Dan translates that as possessed. As their clothes dry out, Jane, Dan, and Roger stay behind trees, Jane seemingly naked. Tarzan gives them their clothes and tells them that Father Kelly was a wise and bdsm gentle man who gave love to everyone. He met him just before he disappeared. As they dress, Roger tells them he thought of being a missionary once but Dan jokes that he didnt want the self sacrifice and deprive all the beautiful girls from meeting him. A coconut falls from a tree and almost hits Roger as Tarzan explains natives believe the island stole Kellys soul. Cheetah comes out and seems odd and stands straight. Tarzan smiles. What the hell is going on? Is this the last time Roger is seen shirtless? It, hopefully, is the one and only time we see Dan shirtless. Someone is heard zipping up a zipper. It might be Jane? It seems Cheetah made the coconut fall. Hes have to be awfully fast to do it. Father Kelly disappeared seven years ago this spring. He was repairing the roof of a mission at the time. Dan, and this is starting to get annoying with this Poppa Nagumi stuff, chimes in that is why the police think he was murdered: why repair the roof if youre going away for good? Tarzan states the island will not find peace until the mystery is solved. Roger goes to look at one of the birds (a parrot? Or one of the birds he was studying?) and when he turns to return to the others, he is faced with what looks like a white leopard with black spots. Backing away, he falls over a log and calls for
Tarzan! Great, some action! Well
no. When Tarzan gets there, the leopard is gone and there are no claw marks on the tree. Tarzan believes Roger. Wolf has a cut on his upper left near his clavicle and scapula. Tarzan says there would be other signs: smell, salvia, bits of fur. The jungle made Roger see what it wanted him to see. What he saw lived in his head. They had for the caves. Snake. Tarzan, Jane, Roger, and Cheetah cross a tree that has fallen over a greenish lake (?). Dan sees a ghostly croc on the tree and falls into the water. Tarzan rushes over and helps him out. I have to say the action here is frankly, boring. Dan explains it as the log turning into a huge croc but that is not the way it looked. Tarantula. Inside the cave, Tarzan says strangers come but do not stay long. Dan has to take his shirt off again! Roger gets wood for a fire to warm Dan. Tarzan leaves to get more wood. Jane references SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON but Dan hopes it doesnt turn into NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET. Dan thinks the river hasnt done anything to help his rheumatism. At Rogers suggestion, Dan tries to get Cheetah to rub his feet but Cheetah runs off. The trio find this hilarious. A cold wind whips through the cave at them. As Jane stokes the fire with a branch, she sees it turn into a red black and yellow snake! As the trio try to rationalize what is happening and not give in to fear, Tarzan returns. He found a beehive and used the wax to make candles. Roger wont go out for grub for all the cars in Detroit. Tarzan leaves, The jungle is Tarzans friend. Tarzan will bring back fruit. Roger says, You know, its not like Im afraid of the dark or anything. Dan adds, Me, either. Jane comments, When you two are through lying to each other, perhaps you can put some more wood on the fire? Another wind whips through and spreads some of the fire so they put those out. Then they start to feel something cold touching them. Dan likens the touching to fingers all over his flesh. Jane thought she heard voices. Roger did, too. They heard something like find me, help me. Tarzan returns. Tarzan heard something, too. The jungle often talks to Tarzan, he says or possibly without the the. He adds, But this was different. Next, bats fly or a bat flies around. Everyone ducks but Tarzan. One is stuck in Janes hair. Tarzan tells her the bat is as frightened as Jane is. He is still speaking of himself in the third person and uses her name instead of a pronoun. She feels like such a fool, afraid of a fruit bat. Dan references Murphys law, If it can (happen), it will. Tarzan wants them to eat. He tells them peace will come to them in their dreams and in the morning they will greet the sunshine with smiles. In the morning, Tarzan brings Roger to the place where the kingfish play. The strange voices told Tarzan to go the ruins of the old mission. Jane will find something that will bring peace to the island. Jane thinks the island looks better in the light. When Tarzan tells Dan not to worry, Dan says, Easy for Tarzan to say. Tarzan tells a scared Dan to trust him. Dan does not want to go with Jane and Tarzan to the ruins. Jane thinks it is sad that soon the jungle will claim the ruins of the mission. Tarzan tells her Father Kelly did not help people to be remembered. He did it out of love. Dan calls Roger buddy, previously he called him in this episode, old buddy. The next time we see Tarzan walking with Jane, Wolfs chest, arms, and abs are lightly covered with dark dirt? Jane has dirt on her, too. Moving toward the ruins, Jane falls and Tarzan picks her up but she finds something. It is the skeleton of Father Kelly! Tarzan finds his cross. Tarzan finds a pointy object in the skeleton: an arrow head or a spear head or a knife. The five stand before a buried Father Kelly where Jane says a prayer for the Lord to take Father Kelly into his arms. If you look closely something weird is going on with Wolfs right leg. The way it is slanted looks very odd. Or maybe it is just bent? Tarzan says, Father Kelly was a man whose heart knew no evil. He lived in harmony with the jungle. It is good that his soul now rests here forever. Tarzan put the cross on the wooden one they made. Wolf has a dark spot on his left hand. Back at the compound, Cheetah paces with Roger (Sean has bites on his right leg). Roger has a parrot shirt. Tarzan, when Dan drives the jeep is sitting next to Dan (usually he is standing and holding onto the roll frame but I guess since there are only two of them?). The native fishermen say that the strange powers on the island have gone away. Tarzan looks questioningly as Dan when Dan says he wanted to make Roger sweat it out some more but did not have the heart. The natives believed that Father Kellys soul was trying to find a final resting place and they think Jane is now a big medicine lady. Jane says, Tarzan is the one they should be thanking.