After debugging the computer at the Addington townhouse in New York, a group of Africans kidnapped Professor Robert Williams outside his home. Suzanne sends Peter Sinclair to see Mrs. Yvonne Williams after she called twice, telling Suzanne that her husband has not come back. After receiving a phone call from the kidnappers, he calls Luke and Nikki to New York to assist in finding Prof. Williams. Unknown to anyone initially, there are two factions viving for power in an African trible because the monarch died from poisoning. The Counterstrike team has to figure what is going on and find Robert before he gets hurt.

Gabrielle receives a package containing documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy from a certain source in Pennsylvania, who was killed within the hour of sending the package. She brings the entire package to Alexander in hopes of convincing him that it is worth a two-week fishing expedition in Pennsylvania. A certain US government official tracks that package to Gabrielle and orders her home to be ransacked. Two men ransacks her home just as she gets back from the meeting with Alexander. During the ensuing struggle, Sinclair and Stone arrive to tell her that Alexander has denied her request, instead find themselves coming to rescue Gabrielle from her attackers. After that incident, Alexander believes that the ransacking of Gabrielle's home is directly related to the pacakge she received earlier and send the team to Pennsylvania to investigate, and if possible clean up, this historic mystery.

A Nobel winner genetic science researcher, Dr. Arno, and two security guards were brutally murdered at his secured lab inside the Krestline compound and his assistant, Moya, was gone. Alexander tells Peter that Krestline is a recent Addington acquisition and wants the team to find out who killed Dr. Arno and who took Moya. What soon becomes clear is that there is very little to go on and there is a lot more than what meets the eye.

Trevor Winston returns with a new scheme to revenge the defeat Peter handed him the last time round. During a getaway weekend in upper New York state, Trevor hires two goons to kidnap Peter while Peter's date, Yvonne, reports that Peter has gone missing in the nearby lake. Alexander soon gets word of the reports of Peter's disappearance and tells Stone and Gabrielle the news of what he has only just learned. Stone and Gabrielle rush to the scene of the crime to investigate.

Senator David Carmicheal dies in a car accident while on his way home after Monroe Park, a tabloid journalist and host of the television show 'The Raw Truth', implicates the Senator in Jenette Moore's fatal car accident on election night in 1978 after attending his victory party. Afterwards, Park does a piece on the Carmicheal accident implying his drinking problems resulting in his wreckless driving that night that caused the fatal accident killing the Senator. A furious Alexander Addington calls up the station chief demanding Park to retract his piece on Carmicheal's tragic death. With sky high ratings and dramatic increase in viewership weekly, the station chief refuses to pressure Park for a retraction or pull the plug without proof. As a result, Alexander orders Peter Sinclair and the team to clear Carmicheal's name and put Monroe Park out of business. Park decides to do an expose on Addington and the kidnapping of his wife upon hearing the news that Addington is after him.