Serafino Roca labored 30 years to construct three mosaic-encrusted concrete towers---which are about to be condemned.

Slattery's career is at stake in a fight over over a bill to permit humane abortion. Barbara Harrison knows that the child she's expecting is the only thing keeping her marriage together. But the child may suffer congenital defects— Barbara has German measles. The episode examines the legal and ethical aspects of therapeutic abortion.

Representative Slattery investigates a group called the Frontiersmen and listens to their leader spitting fear and hatred.