Carole sometimes hypnotizes her willing husband Dan, suggesting that he become even easier to hypnotize and more unthinkingly obedient each time.

Carole’s friend Emma has recently moved house and has a lot of work to do. Carole arranges to ‘lend’ Dan to Emma for the day, telling Emma the trigger phrase to use to drop Dan deep into trance. Dan finds himself ringing Emma’s doorbell on a warm summer morning. Emma answers the door, she's a big woman wearing sweatpants and flip-flops.