(David’s cousin Kelly embarrassingly easily hypnotizes him, giving him suggestions to make him even easier to hypnotize in future, and to do a few things as her submissive zombie, but he has no memory of that. It starts when, despite neither of them even believing hypnosis is real, he accidentally really does go under when she is just joking around and pretending to do an exaggerated fake induction, laughingly playing along at first but gradually becoming docile and utterly entranced, to her astonishment and glee)

David and Kelly are hanging out in the garden of his uncle's house, David having come over for a Sunday visit. It’s a warm day, David’s drinking a beer and Kelly has taken her socks off and is lying back on a blanket.