Parker is ordered to Backstep in order to prevent a Presidential candidate from being assassinated. His mission is a success and the Governor asks him to join his campaign team, but Frank soon discovers the Governor has psychological issues and his daughter is trying to get the evidence to the public.

A friend of Olga's, who's a scientist, calls to tell her she discovered a cure for cancer. Shortly after she dies in an accident. Frank is sent back to save her and he does. Later someone tries to kill her.

During a backstep to prevent a train crash spilling nuclear waste into the Colorado River, sunspots cause the sphere to pick-up a stray soul; a dead woman from 1979 who materializes and endears Frank in a quest to find her daughter.