PASSION! Shall We Give Our Lives for the Stage?

Lina, Gourry and Amelia are hungry and can't go into the nearest town without the fact that they might get arrested. They smell something cooking close by, which turns out to be stew. They eat it, unaware whose it belong too. It turns out that the stew's owner is a director of a theater on the road show. Lina, Gourry and Amelia eat their food (that they presumably paid for or was offered) and are forced to join the play when some actors quit. They find out that the play is about the ""vicious killer Lina Inverse."" Lina is upset, but both Gourry and Amelia calm her down, saying that she might blow their cover. Amelia lands the lead, while Lina and Gourry are stuck with being a dragon. Zangulus and Vrumugun argue a bit, and Zangulus takes off. He ties up an actor (who was fired from his role) and the actor tells him the answers (that Lina is aboard.) It's time for the play to go on and Zangulus and Vrumugun crashes it. Lina and Gourry fall through a trap door, and sees that the dir