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Second Season Episodes - The Curse Of Cousin Smith (episode 39)
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Smith's cousin tries to trick him out of an inheritance.
Will, Penny, and the Robot watch as a spaceship drops several parcels by parachute.
With the baggage is a man in futuristic dress who says his name is Jeremiah Smith. Back at the Jupiter 2, Smith locks himself in his cabin and refuses to come out. When everyone retires for the night, Jeremiah lingers behind to release a compression unit valve, filling the ship with smoke. Smith is the first one out, but when he sees Jeremiah, he runs away into the night.
Jeremiah announces that he is Dr. Smith's cousin. Jeremiah sends Smith a pie in which is hidden a tiny bomb. Will and the Robot return Jeremiah's pie to him -it explodes in his face. When the Robot reveals that Smith's late Aunt Maude's will provided that the last living member of the family should inherit her fortune, John decides to keep the two cousins apart until he can find a way to settle their differences. Jeremiah, armed with a laser pistol, follows Will and the Robot on their next trip to Smith. He advances on the terrified doctor, but suddenly he disappears into a trap set for him by Smith.
John tries to bring the two cousins to the conference table, but they will not negotiate and return to their separate plottings to kill the other. Deciding to hit one of Smith's weak points -gambling -Jeremiah obtains a gambling machine. In short order, Smith and Jeremiah lose their money. Then, both wager their inheritance against the machine and lose. When they tell the machine that one of them has to die before the money can he collected, the machine levels a laser to do the job. The Smiths escape to the Jupiter 2, but the machine follows and threatens to blow up the ship unless theyemerge. John induces the machine to play one game, in which he will bet the entire spaceship against the Smiths' losses.
The machine agrees, and John produces three shells and asks the machine to guess which one hides a ball. The machine picks the first and loses. Then the machine, a good sport, dematerializes. After it has gone, the Smiths cannot find the ball under any of the remaining shells. But John will not admit a thing.
Ray says:
* Henry Jones in the form of Jeremiah Smith pays a visit on his cousin Zachary in this episode. Henry Jones does a fine job as Cousin Smith here.
* Not a fan favorite with LIS fans.
