Cash-strapped Alison and Mike think their dreams have come true when they inherit a grand country house, unaware that it's falling apart and teeming with the ghosts of former inhabitants.

Alison, still recovering from her near-fatal accident, finds herself hounded by the ghostly gaggle, who now realise that she can both see and hear them.

On Pat's "death day," he prepares for his family's annual pilgrimage to the site of his demise. But, realizing that Alison is a conduit between the dead and the living, he begs her to pass on a message from the other side--a plan that gets complicated when Pat realizes a shocking truth about his marriage. Meanwhile, Mike struggles to come to terms with his bathroom-based paranoia, and Kitty tries to find out where babies come from.

Fortune smiles on Mike and Alison when a TV company comes looking for an old house.

Alison and Mike meet their posh neighbours and decide to host a dinner party; Robin celebrates a lunar eclipse.

Mike and Alison consider selling Button House to a hotel chain.