The day before Halloween, Martin gets experimental eye surgery to fix his cataracts, which the doctors warn him may have unknown consequences. Frasier recreates Orson Welles’ legendary October 30th 1938 radio broadcast of The War Of The Worlds, but is disappointed when there are no reports of anybody panicking or committing suicide, leading him to question his skills as a dramatist. Niles secretly throws a costume party one night early, to rub elbows with powerful socialites unknown to Frasier. While squeegeeing their balcony doors in preparation, Daphne reminisces about nightly intrusions during her childhood by a boogeyman-like figured named “Soapbrush John”. This sounds charmingly quaint to Niles at first, but it soon becomes clear that her and her brothers were victim to years of secret sexual abuse by a deranged Cockney window washer.



Martin goes to visit Niles with his vision completely restored, but is aghast when he mistakes the apartment full of ghoulishly-dressed partygoers for spectres of the dead walking aimlessly among the living, visible to him alone as a terrifying side-effect of the untested ocular procedure.