Having convinced Elsie Partridge, Del holds a 'dummy run' séance with his friends (Trigger, Boycie, Rodney, Mike and Uncle Albert) in the hall above the Nag's Head pub. Mike is concerned about 'messing with the forces of darkness' due to the pub being built on the site of a public grave for victims of the Great Plague, but Del and Boycie believe it to be fear-mongering. At the séance Elsie gives Boycie a message from his father that Boycie must look after his child (it was previously established that Boycie and his wife Marlene could not have children) and then gives Del a message from his late mother Joan prompting him to go to the doctors. Del still refuses to believe in Elsie until Marlene announces she is pregnant, thus confirming his fears that he may be seriously unwell (the message from Joan was actually a ploy by Albert to prompt Del to do the right thing, as he tells Elsie that the only person Del would ever listen to was his mother).