Angela returns from her first combat mission with fear in her eyes. Instead of resigning - which her roommate talked her out of - she finds herself in the hero-position: On the mission her commander shot down two enemy fighters but she gets the credit for this. Cassie herself is involved with a private who is the rival of Ripper, the LSO. A team of reporters is already on their way to interview Angela, but during the night Angela is killed.

Harm & Kate continue to investigate the death of Lt. Angela Arutti, all the while the carrier remaining on combat status.

When a civilian software developer aboard a Navy sub uses an experimental torpedo to blackmail the government for $40 million, Rabb and Austin are sent to negotiate with him and must figure out a way to trick him into deactivating it.