Tibbs' former flame (Jo Bates) is placed in the firing line when a cyberterrorist is hired to steal the briefcase she is guarding---which contains the President's nuclear-warhead codes.

Wiley smells a conspiracy brewing when a prominent politician is assassinated just prior to the publication of his memoirs, and he suspects a retired general is behind it.

Tibbs suspects that the daughter (Roxanne Day) of the President he served in the Secret Service implicated him in the kidnapping of a computer tycoon's son.