For weeks, Mr. McMahon appears on TV and is increasingly senile. Family and friends alike begin worrying for his mental stability. One week, he's having a conversation with Triple H when, all of a sudden, he begins acting like there are extra people in the room. Triple H has no clue what's going on. The camera pans over, and the Vaudevillains are standing off to the side, in black and white. Mr. McMahon interrupts Triple H to have a conversation with the Vaudevillains (under the names Stanislaus and Ernest) about their contemporaries - Buddy Rogers, Lou Thesz, Fred Blassie, and so on. The skit ends with Vince demanding that Triple H draw up a contract and sign these guys immediately.
Of course, WWE Superstars cannot wrestle figments of someone's imaginations, so the Vaudevillains are called up (without Mr. McMahon's knowledge) to wrestle as Stanislaus & Ernest, the figments of Mr. McMahon's imagination. Concerned, The Authority convince Mr. McMahon to let a scientist hook him up to a machine that lets them broadcast what he's imagining so that they can come up with a diagnosis of his senility.
The Vaudevillains debut Stanislaus & Ernest actually physically wrestle the other WWE tag teams. During their matches, Mr. McMahon is hooked up to this brain machine, as they broadcast the live matches side-by-side with Mr. McMahon's wacky brainwaves, showing these people that he's seeing wrestling in black-and-white at Madison Square Garden (green-screen at the Performance Center) against other old-time wrestlers (stand-ins).
Eventually, there's a snag as one of the wires becomes unhooked, briefly shocking Mr. McMahon into reality for a moment as he sees these physical representations of his delusion doing modern-style wrestling moves in the ring in 2015. This brief snap into reality causes a complete meltdown, as Mr. McMahon runs away and becomes a hobo.
The Authority try to bait Mr. McMahon into coming home and letting them help him come back into reality, staging the Vaudevillains as actually being these delusions (billed as their names, all of their matches in black & white, giving front row fans old-timey costumes), but he sees through it. The Authority eventually hits Vince's most sensitive nerve and announce that they'll shut down WWE if he doesn't come back.
He reappears, in a dirty, torn suit with a backpack, long hair and beard, and a new street wife named Big Mel (she's very tiny and weak). He acts like a scared animal in front of the people, as they hold a live therapy session with Mr. McMahon's doctors, The Authority, and the Vaudevillains all in the ring trying various exercises to snap Mr. McMahon into reality. None of them work.
A podium rises from the stage, as clouds appear on the Titantron. A spotlight shines down, revealing Bo Dallas. Dallas preaches a quasi-religious sermon about happiness and how life is what we make of it. Bo gets really deep, speaking on quantum physics and alternate realities and how Mr. McMahon might be the only sane one. Finally, he begs everyone in the ring and in the arena to close their eyes and imagine Stanislaus & Ernest standing in the ring. He begins to chant...
"BO-LIEVE!"
"BO-LIEVE!"
At first, no one chants with him. Then, Mr. McMahon chants alone. Hopefully by this point, the crowd's in it with them. The chant speeds up as the doctors start chanting along. The entire roster empties out chanting along before finally, The Authority join in.
Cut to a two-shot of the Vaudevillains in the ring. Slowly, Stanislaus & Ernest appear superimposed beside them, in black and white. The four look at each other up and down, in disbelief of what's happening. The entire building keeps chanting as Stanislaus & Ernest slowly step into The Vaudevillains and finally, they merge soul and body as a flash effect transitions to a wide shot of the ring.
The doctors are gone. The Vaudevillains are standing with the rest of the roster around the ring. The Authority and Mr. McMahon stare at each other. The anticipation builds, as no one knows what just happened before...
THEY HUG! Everyone rejoices as Triple H lifts Mr. McMahon on his shoulders! The crowd chants "VINCE!". Vince has never looked happier.
Cut to a close-up shot of Vince on Triple H's shoulders. He looks over to Bo Dallas on his high podium. They smile at each other before giving each other a HUGE thumbs up.
Raw fades out with Bo Dallas smiling and crying at the happiness he has created.