Mugged in a crowded parking lot by an ex-basketball player who once had a million-dollar future, Mason turns around to defend the young man when he's charged with murdering the head of a major amateur sports federation.

Perry assists Nhi Khanh in finding her presumed dead husband, Ben Porter, a war correspondent who vanished after their marriage in Vietnam. Drake, tailing a suspicious observer of Perry, traces him to Clinton Exeter's political headquarters, where he spots a man resembling Ben before he disappears. Perry learns Ben's true identity: Royce, a bigamist who deceived Nhi.