Angela decides to give Fedora a £50 note and takes the cat in for a bath. Fedora ran off to laugh maniacally about scamming yet another group of people and sees another poster for a missing cat on the same tree she found the previous. The reward was £5000. Fedora salivates thinking about how she would spend £5000 as she hears purring behind her. She turns gleefully to find a circus tiger, which eats her whole. The circus owner later finds the tiger asleep from a stomach ache. Alexander uses numerous tactics to stay awake past his 7:30pm bedtime by pestering his exhausted parents, such as taking time to put on a swimming costume, pretending to be interested in minute details of keeping his bedroom protected from creepy shadows, forcing his mother to search for toys downstairs that he knowingly had in his room, and asking for water a few minutes later so that he could pretend to use the toilet. His parents (particularly his father) become angrier by the second, but Alexander does not break his naivety ploy. By four o'clock, Alexander is asleep. His window latch creaks open and a sardine smell fills the bedroom. He wakes up terrified and calls for his parents. His father rushes in angrily and checks the window—it was closed—but only his mother admits that she can smell the sardine, despite his father finding a sardine tin. Alexander denies throwing it there for a prank. "Who did? Mr Peeler?" shouts his father, and then explains to his confused wife that Peeler was a character from a nursery rhyme that he remembers from childhood. He leaves the room, followed by his wife, demanding that Alexander never bothers them again for the rest of the night. The window latch reopens and a man dressed in tweed clothing and holding a butterfly net creeps in with strange-looking butterflies surrounding him. He introduces himself as Mr Peeler. Alexander declares that he is not scared because he is still wearing his swimming costume. Peeler points out that he cannot call for his parents regardless because they are in a deep sleep. He moves to Alexander's bedside and explains that he wants to help the boy stay awake, and takes out a key that opens sardine tins. With the key, he peels off Alexander's eyelids and uses the net to catch the rest of his butterflies, and dissects them into eyelids to stick onto his face, with Alexander's on the top. He floats into the air as he gloats, reopens the window and flies out, leaving Alexander with no eyelids, unable to sleep again.