The founder of a colony on Janus Five believes that their sun will explode. However, the council chairman resists his pleas to move the colony because he was found to have been wrong before.

An ex-student returns to blow up a university with bombs he's made by cracking the secret of cold fusion, after being booted from the school's physics program. Todtman swears he won't follow through if authorities execute five people he hates. Should the government kill his five or risk Todtman killing 5 million?