Gordon Brittas is about to host a conference for leisure centre managers, and hopes to use the occasion to spread his dream of universal brotherhood. Laura has applied for a job elsewhere, and Helen Brittas is convinced disaster will befall the centre. She is not far wrong.

Gordon Brittas is trying to raise funds to buy a second trampoline so that Whitbury Leisure Centre can advertise "synchronised trampolining". To raise the money needed, Tim and Gavin are sitting in stocks having wet sponges thrown at them and Colin is attempting a marathon juggle. Brittas himself is on a sponsored silence, an idea suggested by his secretary Julie. Then a wealthy American turns up - but who is he?