Darrin and Samantha are out to dinner at the Chinese restaurant of potential client Mr. Fong, who serves them a special Asian-inspired cocktail he created. Among the many secret ingredients in the cocktail, the only one Mr. Fong will divulge to them is a Himalayan cinnamon stick. This potent potable is a little more potent to Samantha, who has an adverse effect from it. It's initially a severe dizzy spell, but when Darrin gets Samantha home, a more visible symptom appears: red stripes on her face. She also totally loses her witchcraft. Aunt Hagatha, who is babysitting, calls in Dr. Bombay, who prescribes an antidote that must be administered within 8 hours or else the symptoms will take one year to wear off. On top of the race against time, the prescription must be filled by the apothecary--the dirty old warlock with whom Aunt Hagatha refuses to deal; the antidote contains one impossible-to-obtain unique ingredient: a Himalayan cinnamon stick, the only known local source being Mr. Fong's now-closed restaurant. And one more thing, another impossible-to-obtain ingredient: the tailfeather of a dodo bird. Why impossible? Dodos have been extinct for several million years.
—Huggo