When a former protege of McCall's is murdered, he vows to seek out those responsible. His subsequent investigation, however, reveals that she may have been involved in criminal activity following her departure from The Company.

A woman who works for an ambitious Assemblyman learns he is planning to get a Senator to step down, thus paving the way for him to take the Senator's place, by threatening to reveal something from the Senator's past. She calls McCall. But when her boss finds out what she is doing, he has her committed. McCall tries to help her.

When some students at an inner city school get the blessing of a criminal to do whatever they want there, they start by assaulting one of the female students. When one of the students informs the principal what is happening to the girl, she then calls McCall for help. The student who told her about the assault is stabbed. McCall starts by being a new teacher and he takes the students who assaulted the girl to an autopsy and then has a man whom he knows "died" talk about what happened to him during his near-"death".