A milkman winds up shot dead by a neighbor of Amanda and Rick. Intrigued by the event, the Tuckers investigate only to find the corpse has vanished from the morgue.

While investigating a break-in at a high school computer lab, Rick and Amanda uncover clues to a political suicide. They are assisted by a whiz kid, a blond girl, who has detected the maneuvers of a greedy candidate and his minion, a hacker.