Their child is missing but all they can do is rave about a marvelous bowl of cheap rice and have a warm fuzzy brandy with a pedophile who purposefully was dressed in his nightshirt. What is wrong with these people?
In the end of Eyes Wide Shut the Nicole Kidman character hands over her young daughter to the sex/murder cult. That’s one possibility.
Another is they are just clueless saps who got played.
Wonder what delicious meal Sir Clement (he was knighted, btw) cooked for our young couple?