Meanwhile - elsewhere in the village.

Into this malevolent melting-pot arrives young Benjamin, who has arranged to meet a friend for a walking holiday in the area. Unfortunately, Benjamin's friend has met a sticky end at the hands of Tubbs and Edward, and Benjamin is forced to stay longer than planned with his aunt and uncle, Harvey and Val Denton, a toad-obsessed couple given to pathological cleaning bouts and living by petty, but unbreakable rules. Benjamin is virtually held prisoner in the Dentons' home, reeling from one humiliation to another and increasingly terrified by their daughters Chloe and Radcliffe, sinister twins who simultaneously speak the same lines and seem able to read minds.