Barry (Daniel Craig), a young man with a strange device that can paralyze people and play with their emotions, is hired by Touchstone Edwards ad exec Jacqueline Edwards (Ute Lemper). He starts by embarrassing creative Frank (Denis Lawson) and then gets revenge on his boss for Alistair Touchstone (Paul Freeman, Belloq!), the boss she ruined.

They tell me Luca Brasi sleeps with the fishes. He’s a strange guy. But that’s not why I called this meeting of the five families. The Tahacklies, the Bonettis, the others. The reason I called you all together is this. As Godfather of the Goreleone family, I say its time that we in horrorganized crime stop frighting each other! I want there to be peace amongst us. I want there to be a whole lot of pieces! Which is kind of like the young man in tonight’s tale. He wants a whole lot of something, too, in a nasty nugget I call “Smoke Wrings.””

The device will soon be used to sell more Chalmer’s Chocolates, Amazon Cola, Alanis Lipstick, and Quarter Moonlight Condoms. In truth, it’s all been a plan by Alistair and Jacqueline, who hypnotize their clients and soon, all of England, as they send the inventor to his doom.

Gayle Hunnicutt is in the cast. You may recognize her from Shadows In an Empty Room, The Legend of Hell House, Eye of the Cat and The Wild Angels.

This episode was directed by Mandie Fletcher (Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie) and written by Lisa Sandoval, an associate producer and script supervisor for the show who was also A.L. Katz’s assistant.

This episode was based on “Smoke Wrings” by Vault of Horror #34. It was written by Al Feldstein and William Gaines and drawn by Reed Crandall. It has a man get seduced by a client and his ad idea being taken by her; a cigarette smoking billboard that she uses to kill him before one of the smoke rings kills her. The title makes sense for that story, but not this episode.