Zanda is due back from America where she has established the first part of Trisha Holloway's scheme to have her adopted as a 'cousin' and legitimise her baby (three babies as it turns out). Life at Sheraton carries on in a fairly normal manner until David and Trisha are kidnapped on the way to visit her parents by two of the men who had captured Trisha and her mother and have escaped from prison after four years. They are intent on torturing the Holloways and extorting fifteen million pounds from them. Neither David nor Trisha expect to survive this and escape seems impossible as their captors launch the first day of torture with Trisha.