A baby taken from his parents because of a genetic disposition towards crime disappears from the Reproductive Selection Board. Investigating, Farve and Hume find that his parents aren't the only ones interested in him.

Dr. Latham is starting to cooperate, when a lawyer from Recall shows up demands his release. Moments after his release the doctor is assassinated. Surprisingly, an autopsy reveals it was just a clone, so Hume and Farve try to find the real Latham.

Hume and Farve travel to a crashed interplanetary cargo transport that went down in the freezing ""New Territories"". While all the six crewmembers survived the crash itself, 3 of them were murdered before help could arrive.