Mitch is keen on Sarah, who is in charge of the rehabilitation centre for female ex-cons. Teri, a trouble-maker at the centre, escapes one night and is not heard of and seen for some time. In the sub-plot, divorcee Renee (who is also Mitch'a friend) goes home to collect her child from ex-husband Brett and runs into an argument with him over the matter. Then Brett is found killed, and Renee is the prime suspect.

When Mitch yearns to go to the Surfing Finals with pro-surfers Terry Manhoff and Kay Stratton, Barrett, his father, advises him that living in the past is just another way of dying.