Journalist Tom Crane is fascinated with the occult. He challenges the dangerous Drexil to prove how good he is, with tragic results. Tom then joins the mysterious Government Department 7.
Anne accepts an invitation to visit an experimental unit on a remote Scottish Isle where she receives a welcome that is a bit too hot for her to handle.
Michael's newly discovered ability to dream of conversations and incidents which occurred at places he has never been to puts Department 7 onto a plot to kill a visiting African president.