GINGER IS STILL MASSAGING HER FESTERING BOIL-LIKE LESION AND MOANING IN PAIN.

MARY ANN KNOCKS ON HER DOOR, THEN COMES IN.

Ginger? What's the matter?

GINGER HIKES UP HER DRESS.

Oww! This place is still right here on my leg!

Whoa! I thought the Professor got that tended to!

He didn't! It's really killing me! Oooch!

Never mind that, did you hear about the Skipper?

GINGER JUST LOOKS AT MARY ANN.

Yeah! Your sore is not the whole world!

Anyway, the Skipper claims he saw a large ship on the horizon yesterday!

What?

I said, the Skipper claims he saw a large ship on the horizon yesterday.

Well, then, we're saved!

No. Hold on, Ginger. He saw - past tense - a ship. As in, it sailed right on past us.

Oh, Mary Ann! Why did you get my hopes up?

So, Skipper, you say you saw a ship out there?

Definitely. It just went on by like we wern't here.

And you waited until today to tell anyone about it?

Well, I waved my hands and all. Nothing!

Skipper, is there any chance that you just think you saw a ship? And what you really saw was just an illusion?

No, it was a ship, alright.

How do you know, since it just, as you say, sailed on by?

Ah, that's what ships do, Professor.

I can't believe you didn't try to light a fire or do something to get their attention!

(just looks at the Professor)

OK, if you saw a ship, which way was it going?

Ah, east to west. No, wait. west to east. It was hard to tell.

Aren't you a seaman who is supposed to be clued in to the compass directions?

It's all getting kind of foggy, we've been stranded so long.

Think some of that fog was what you saw out there on the horizon?

Certainly not!

JUST THEN, GILLIGAN RUNS INTO THE SKIPPER'S HUT OUT OF BREATH.

(puffing)

I saw it! I saw it, too!

Saw what, Gilligan? The ship?

Ship? What?

No! I saw that monkey that used to come around nibbling on Mary Ann.

Nibbling?

(dismissing)

Gilligan, we are trying to see if the Skipper really saw a ship or not.

I did see it!

So you say.

JUST THEN, A MAN BEARING A STRONG RESEMBLANCE TO WALLY COX ENTERS THE SCENE FROM THE LEFT.

I'm sorry, who might you be?