Harry Sullivan sits in a pub with his friends Chumpy Withers and Buffy Worthington. He tells them stories of his fantastic adventures, but they don't believe him. When Harry heads home, a young woman named Lettice Butts collides with him. She is being followed and asks him to take her home. The two men following her, Abel Crumpton and Mr Cruncher, are looking for the Egg. At Lettice's flat, she convinces him to deliver an envelope for her. He leaves with the envelope, and realises he left his coat in her flat. Before he can make up his mind whether to go back and get it, he is hit from behind.