Danny’s wife Nicky is a hypnotherapist. She’s hypnotized Danny so many times by now that he goes under incredibly easily and deeply. Danny doesn’t mind: he loves just sinking helplessly into mindless obedience.
Nicky ‘lent’ Danny to her 60-year-old mother, Denise, with the instruction to “just do whatever my mum tells you: no thinking, just obey”. (Under normal circumstances Danny and Denise don't get on that well) . He rings his mother-in-law’s doorbell in an utterly hypnotized daze and Denise answers the door in her slippers. 