Black Jack and Pinoko get separated as a plague ravages Australia; Pinoko meets a local; Black Jack discovers the cause of the plague -- but not before becoming infected himself.

Black Jack meets a young girl with heart trouble and must convince her and her demanding father that she requires critical surgery.

A boy desperately tries to find someone to operate on his father after hospital employees go on strike and the man's doctor callously refuses to help him; although Black Jack takes up the case, a massive storm threatens to disrupt the surgery.

Twenty years after an operation on Black Jack's hand, it suddenly stops working.

A fisherman's son runs away to avoid school, but when a giant clam traps him, Black Jack risks his life to save the boy.

Shortly after a boy sees a falling star, an unexplained growth appears on his side, and he becomes convinced aliens have something to do with it; Black Jack must break through the paranoia and operate on the boy.