He appears in the middle of a Hex Girls concert and warns them to stop performing or else. The next night, they put on another show, this time using Daphne as a Thorn lookalike. When the Phantom appears, the trap malfunctions and cages the other two Hex Girls, and Daphne is taken by the Phantom. Later, Daphne escapes, when the Phantom attacks again, he thinks he grabs Daphne, but in a cloud of fog, she switched out with Scooby's ventriloquist dummy, and he is yanked back and caught. Daniel was taken to jail. The next villain is the Gnome.