Tarot and Chas have gone to inspect a derelict house - where the security men had, for no reason they could explain, left the money which should have been delivered to the bank. Suddenly Chas finds himself in a room with no door, and Tarot is standing on a high building from which there is no way down. The mysterious Mr. Peacock observes them quietly.

Chas has decided to go it alone, and has found his way to the mysterious Mr Peacock's lodgings. But after a demonstration of Mr Peacock's powers, he finds himself a prisoner.Tarot and Mikki are about to do their mind-reading act at a smart West End restaurant - they wonder what has happened to Chas, but, as Mikki says, "he's old enough to take care of himself".

One of Mr Sweet's colleagues at the University disappears, and the trail leads Tarot and his friends to a dolls' hospital run by the eccentric 'Mama Doc'.