Bandit Keith brings out one of his most devastating cards, Barrel Dragon. Its powerful guns lay waste to Joey's monsters, but he's able to metallize his Red-Eyes Black Dragon in order to beat it. Unable to beat Joey by force, Keith resorts to cheating in order to power up his Slot Machine card, and uses a card to steal Joey's Shield and Sword to wipe him out.
Joey planned for that, however, and uses a trap to steal one of Keith's own cards, Time Machine, which restores his Red-Eyes Metal Dragon to how it was one turn ago—before its points were swapped. Joey attacks Slot Machine and wins the duel, but Keith isn't ready to give up. He claims that Joey's entry card doesn't belong to him and he should be disqualified as a result, but Joey then asks him how he knew that. Pegasus intervenes and confirms that Keith not only stole Joey's card, he cheated during the match as well.
But Keith breaks free of Pegasus's guards and threatens to take the prize money by force. Pegasus won't have any of it and casually drops him down a trap door into the ocean. Now, the only match left is between Yugi and Joey.
This episode contains examples of:
- Affably Evil: Pegasus seems genuinely charmed when he reads Joey's mind to discover that he's dueling to save his sister's eyesight, relating it to his own desire to revive Cecelia. He also seems to admire Joey winning despite the endless cheating, and exposes Bandit Keith before having him ejected.
- Bowdlerize:
- The dub considerably cuts parts of what Pegasus sees in Keith's mind, which showed that after he was defeated by Pegasus, he became alcoholic and turned to underground dueling in order to make money.
- The dub drastically changes Keith's Barrel Dragon. Whereas in the original version, it's based on a revolver that deals with Russian Roulette, the dub changes it into a laser cannon to make it a more Family-Friendly Firearm.
- Keith threatens Pegasus with a gun in the sub. In the dub, he just points at him while delivering his threat.
- Cheaters Never Prosper: This happens to Keith on multiple levels.
- He loses the duel to Joey despite cheating by hiding two of his "7 Completed" cards up his wristbands.
- He tries to get Joey disqualified, claiming the entry card he used wasn't his and thus the duel shouldn't count. All this does is reveal to everyone that Keith stole Joey's real entry card, which Pegasus claims was obvious even beforehand, since Keith was so confident Joey wouldn't make it back before the time limit was over.
- Pegasus also states even if Keith hadn't stolen Joey's card, and hadn't lost the duel, he still would have been disqualified anyway for cheating during the duel, since Pegasus reveals he saw Keith hid his "7 Completed" spell cards.
- Counting to Three: After losing to Joey and being literally dragged away by Pegasus' goons, Keith pulls a gun on Pegasus and gives him to the count of three to give him the prize money. A thoroughly unfazed Pegasus calmly says "Fine, one two three" and sets off the Trap Door that drops Keith into the ocean.
- Disney Villain Death: Pegasus delivers one to Keith via a Trap Door.
- Hoist by His Own Petard: Keith activates his "Pillager" card to steal one card from Joey's hand-namely, the Shield and Sword. It swaps the attack and defense points of both Red Eyes and Slot Machine, allowing Slot Machine to become stronger. It's subverted immediately after, however, as Joey uses his Graverobber card to copy Keith's Time Machine card and restore Red Eyes. Plus, since it brings the monster back before Keith stole Joey's Shield and Sword, it has enough power to deliver the final blow.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Keith slips up by claiming Joey's card for the finals entry wasn't his (Keith stole Joey's own card beforehand). While Joey admits that it was the one Mai gave him, both he and Pegasus call Keith out on the cheat, questioning how Keith would even know in the first place.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Despite pulling every underhanded trick he had to get Joey out of the tournament, Keith gets his butt handed to him in and out of the duel by not only Joey, but Pegasus as well.
- Spared by the Adaptation: In the manga version of events, Pegasus punishes Bandit Keith's cheating with a fatal Penalty Game. The Disney Villain Death inflicted upon him instead allows him to make a return appearance.
- Taught by Experience: Remembering Joey's Time Wizard from his duel with Bonz, Keith anticipates him using it again and sets his Time Machine trap to counter it.
- Villain Respect: Pegasus develops this for Joey after reading his mind and learning of his determination to save his sister from going blind by winning the prize money. It becomes even more understandable when his own motives are revealed.
