Somehow Tom manages to win a supermarket trolley dash,every single prize in a charity raffle and a novelty prize from the policeman's charity ball. However a man digging for buried treasure in Tom's garden has cut through the electric cable so that when Tom and Alison host an American couple,Mr and Mrs Burrows,they have to improvise. With the Burrows gone Tom impresses Alison by buying every single ticket at the library's upcoming slave auction to spare her humiliation.