Frank is playing 18 holes on Ballarat golf course when another club member, a local newspaper reporter, turns up dead in one of the bunkers. Frank and Blake soon discover there is a lot more to local politics than meets the eye.

A strange mist is emitted when Talyn is damaged by radiation from a star, stimulating the crew's most basic instincts. Crichton and Aeryn are barely able to contain their passion for one another, Crais flies into homicidal rages, and Rygel begins to eat compulsively.