Manny(Bill Bailey) decides to shell out for an advanced security system for the shop after the shop is burgled. Unfortunately he is distracted by a subbuteo player in the installers hair and cant remember the security code.Meanwhile Fran(Tamsin Greig) runs into an old flame Howell Granger(Peter Serafinowicz) whose voice she finds irrisistable. Later that evening Bernard(Dylan Moran) demands to know how the new security works and in the process gets locked out. Unable to ring the shop due to his deliberate vandalism of the telephone and incapable of getting through to Fran who has put the phone off the hook to listen to Howell give the shipping forecast on Radio 4, Bernard is forced to walk the streets. Fran meanwhile, finds her good times abruptly brought to a halt, and in desperation makes a humiliating phone call to Howell which proves just the tonic. Manny turns to a bottle of absinthe and the SAS guide to survive the night alone. Bernards night brings him to a cinema without a film and in an effort to avoid the cold and rain runs foul of a pornographer and gets a job in a burger bar before finally making it back to the bookshop and finding out that his state of the art security system has been stolen and Manny has ate his treasured bees