An important peace conference is being held in Britain in which the British delegate Sir Andrew Boyd is due to make a ground-breaking agreement for the future of international relations in Europe.

The following day on the way to the conference, Boyd begins predicting events, from the button missing on the coat of the butler, and mentioning that he will see a lion before his death.

Arriving at the rescheduled conference, Boyd again becomes disoriented but flees this time even before he enters the building and in doing so is killed by a passing car.

The following day, every turn of events in his dream starts to come true to the point that as he approaches the conference room door and, like Boyd, he refuses to enter and leaves.

Finally Steed is curious to find out who the sinister-looking man is in his dream; Melford identifies him as Albert Becker, a representative for the eastern bloc, and gives him his address.

It appears that the delegates were drugged and brought to the warehouse in their sleep and programmed to scare them away from the conference by the perpetrators to delay it for political reasons.

In fact, Tom Soter believes that the dreams were inspired by the Salvador Dalí sequence in Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945).

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