The village’s teacher Connie Bishop cries for help in the night. She thinks there would be a burglar in her house, but the neighbours don’t even find traces. The next day she sleepwalks bloodsmeared through her garden. There also lies a dead man, who stalked her, when he was still alive. Shortly after the throat of locksmith Laurence Mann gets cut through in Connies gardenhouse. Connie has bad nightmares and is not sure, if she was the murderer. Zukie Richardson uses the scruples in Connies accountability to throw Connie off the throne of the Frobisher-Night-Committee. She wants to reorganize the ball to a glamorous event for the village. Barnaby and Jones get into a ball of sexual stalkings, vicious rivalry and envy.