Alexia goes into a tailspin when she realises her demanding parents are coming for dinner. She only decides to invite Aethelwynne from the console, which goes disastrously wrong when he is cursed for stealing an artefact from his game, Alexia's virtual date is kidnapped, Rex ends up serving hairball canapés and Kiki's legs seize up just as she is about to perform a dance from Swan Lake. It just needs Claireparker to save the day - if only she had been invited in the first place.

Everyone in the console is excited when the extraordinary Dr Nigiri visits them from the virtual TrainBrain Academy to test their minds. Everyone except Riley that is, who thinks the good doctor might not be everything he says he is. Meanwhile Kiki has her hands full trying to nurse a man-eating plant back to life.