A King County Sheriff's deputy responds to a call for a disturbance at a local eatery. Then, a pair of Minneapolis Police Officers are called for a man assaults a woman and must use a Taser to bring him down. Next, a North Las Vegas Police Officer is called in when a man beats up a woman as she tried to retrieve her mother's possessions.

Officer's from the Minneapolis Police Department go on a high speed chase which ends badly. Next, a Harris County Sheriff's Deputy is dispatched for a family disturbance where a man, possibly holding scissors, is tearing up a trailer. Then, the King County Sheriff's Officers make a traffic stop.

Darken Rahl has begun using a new weapon against the Midlands' civilians, called Whisperers. While Zedd is taking Jennsen, Richard's sister, to safe location, Richard and Kahlan plan a spy mission to steal the D'Harans' supply of Whisperers. Complications arise when several members of the Resistance decide that they want to selfishly use the weapons for revenge.

Lewis and Hathaway investigate the death of a new talent on the theatrical circuit in Oxford. The main suspects are the cast of The Merchant of Venice. Hathaway gets a lead on the person who killed Lewis's wife in a car accident several years ago.