A young deaf-mute is credited as a hero after he saves a guard from a warehouse fire just as Pete, Linc, and Julie come upon the scene. But someone is trying to kill the young man, who seems ashamed by all the attention he's getting, and may know more than he's letting on.

Pete is contacted by his old friend Rusty Bryson, a war correspondent whom he knew and idolized as a boy. But the Treasury department is looking for Bryson, who it suspects of smuggling drugs from Vietnam.