A deaf woman's ability to read lips gets her a job on the FBI surveillance team.

Sue Thomas is a young deaf woman who has recently graduated from college and is about to start her first real job. F.B.I. agent Jack Hudson discovers her unique lip reading ability and enlists her to join the bureau's elite surveillance team.

Sue's first assignment involves an anonymous bomb threat at a local oil company; Lucy wants Sue to become her roommate.

Sue is swept into the maelstrom of a dangerous assignment when the FBI has to protect a visiting dignitary who has been targeted for assassination by a terrorist cell.

Sue cultivates her first FBI informant after Jack and Bobby bust a guy for selling steroids; an office manager is determined to make Myles' life miserable.

Sue gets called in after a car theft suspect turns out to be deaf and communicates solely through sign language.