A reluctant Magnum is hired by Ms. Jones, the "Hall of Records" clerk who often aggravates him with excessive red tape, to help her find her husband, Ray, an expert computer programmer who has disappeared after completing work on a valuable new artificial intelligence formula.

When Magnum picks up a rabbi friend of Higgins' at the airport they're ambushed, a valuable Torah is stolen, and the investigation of the theft leads Magnum to a gang of smugglers.