Bakura plays White Magical Hat (White Thief) and attacks, sending Tristan to the graveyard. Tristan's walking around in a cemetary, where he finds a tombstone with his name on it.

Yugi contemplates his next move. He doesn't want to use his friends' cards, but they're the most powerful cards in his deck, and he can't save them if he doesn't win. So he plays Flame Swordsman, and now Joey appears on the field, with sword and helmet, wearing the Flame Swordsman's clothes. He's even more freaked than Tristan was when he spotted the Giant Yugi, but Yugi explains what happened, and tells him that Tristan was already sent to the card graveyard. Joey's still confused, but willing to go along with whatever Yugi says. (US Joey thinks he's gone crazy. Japanese Jounouchi thinks he's dreaming. Either way, if it's a fight, he's all for it.) He attacks White Magical Hat and destroys it.

Bakura plays a monster face-down. Yugi suspects something, but before he can stop him, Joey's gone in for the kill. He destroys the monster, but it was a Morphing Jar (Metamor Pot)—both players must discard all the cards in their hands and draw new ones. Fortunately, Téa's card wasn't in Yugi's hand. Joey drops to his knees to apologize for jumping the gun.

Bakura plays another face-down defense card, and a face-down card magic or trap card. Yugi's not sure what Bakura's up to, but he has no choice but to risk his favorite card, and his alter ego's soul—he plays Dark Magician. And sure enough, it's little Yugi drowning in the Dark Magician's robes. Then he plays Reborn the Monster (now called Monster Reborn, and Raise Dead in the Japanese) to bring Tristan back from the graveyard.

The gang's relieved to be back together again. But, if little Yugi's down here, who's that big Yugi up there? Little Yugi says he has noticed when he's dueling that he feels another presence inside him, and reassures Joey and Tristan that they can trust the other Yugi. (Japanese Yugi tells Yami, "Now's not the time to keep secrets," and when Yami agrees, he tells his friends about the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, and the "other me" living inside him. He apologizes for not telling his friends before, but Jounouchi says he doesn't mind, Yugi is still Yugi.) Joey's about to attack, when little Yugi stops him—he was just played, he says, so he has to move (this isn't a real rule). Dark Magician Yugi attacks—and it's another Morphing Jar. The players discard their hands again.

This time, Yami draws the Magician of Faith. (Japanese Yami mentally notes that a player is not allowed to have more three of the same card in his deck, so Bakura can only have one more Morphing Jar.) Bakura plays another face-down monster, and activates his trap card, Just Desserts, inflicting 500 points of damage to Yugi's Life Points for each card he has on the field. Yugi only has 500 Life Points left, and can't take another hit like that.

Yami decides Téa's card isn't safe in his hand, and plays it face-down to hide her. But Téa peers out from under the card, wondering what's going on. Joey, Yugi, and Tristan try to explain to her what's going on. Joey says there are two Yugis—the cool one up there, and the little puny one down here—which makes little Yugi throw a little hissy fit. I'll show you who's puny, he says, and attacks Bakura's monster. But it's the Electric Lizard, an effect monster that makes Yugi go numb. Or, as the subtitles say, "My body feels numble."

Yami sets a trap card and ends his turn. Bakura plays Man-Eater Bug face down, which can destroy one monster on the field when it's flipped face up. The gang doesn't know what to do. The only way to destroy Bakura's monster before it can be activated is to play Yami's trap card, but it also requires the sacrifice of a monster. Either way, one of them will be destroyed. Tristan's about to attack, when Joey whomps him with his sword and makes the attack himself, pleading with Yugi to use the trap card so that none of the others will be destroyed. Yami plays his trap card, Horn of Heaven, sacrificing the Flame Swordsman, and destroys the Man-Eater Bug. But Joey's gone to the graveyard with it.

Joey's in the graveyard, hoping his friends will figure out a way to get him back, when he sees the Reaper of Cards coming after him. If it gets him, it will be all over—no way back! Bakura tells Yami that Joey's gone—he's already used Reborn the Monster once, the only way to get him back. Téa's heartbroken, and begins to cry. But her tears activate Magician of Faith's special effect (Whoa! the show's Magician of Faith has suddenly become a Level 7 monster with an ATK of 2500! The real card is Level 1, with 300 ATK, which is what it was when Yugi drew it earlier. The Japanese card has the correct ATK and DEF all along), which allows Yami to retrieve one magic card from the graveyard, and naturally, he chooses Reborn the Monster, and revives Joey, just in time to save him from the Reaper of Cards.

Bakura summons Lady of Faith (High Priestess) in attack mode, and then plays Change of Heart, the real Bakura's favorite card. He uses it to take control of little Yugi's Dark Magician.

But it turns out that Bakura's soul was sealed in his favorite card, just as Yugi and the others' were. He refuses to take control of Yugi, taking Lady of Faith instead, urging Yugi to attack him and win the duel. Yugi can't do it, but Bakura insists it's better to go to the graveyard than be taken over by an evil spirit.

Yami has a better idea. He uses the power of the Millennium Puzzle to put Bakura's soul back into his body, and trap the evil Bakura in the card. (Hmm... if he could use the Millennium Puzzle to restore people's souls to their bodies all along....) Then Yugi attacks, and sends the evil Bakura to the graveyard, where the Reaper of Cards comes to reap him.

Now safe and sound, Yugi asks Bakura about his Millennium Ring. Bakura says his father picked it up in Egypt on one of his trips, and that the dealer who sold it to him told him it had something to do with Duel Monsters. Bakura's father gave it to him, telling him he thought he was destined to have it. (In the Japanese, Bakura's father, an archeologist, bought the card along with the Ring. And, heh, the Japanese card the dealer shows Bakura's father has an ATK and DEF of 666. This has been changed to 1000 for US audiences.)

Meanwhile, Joey, Téa, and Tristan are finally waking up. They think it was all a dream, until they see Bakura. Joey and Tristan leap into each other's arms in fear, then freak out, saying "Hands off!" and "You grabbed me!" and fly apart, while the others laugh. In the Japanese version, however, Jounouchi and Honda's exchange is merely "What?" and "Don't scare me!" (directed at Bakura).

Then the gang hear a scream, and rush off to find out what's going on.