Linc receives a desperate call from an old friend, now an inmate at a mental institution. Shortly afterward, the friend is dead of "heart failure", only the latest of a number of strange deaths at the place. Linc goes undercover as a patient at the institution, hoping to find out what's going on.

Linc works undercover as an assistant to his childhood friend, movie star Willie Rush, after an attempt on his life with an ill timed car bomb on the movie set. But concerning Linc more was Willie's cavalier lifestyle and attitude, created in part due to Willie's fear that he may have Huntington's disease.