Maddie Spence is at home, helping write a report on Jim Nash's latest caper.
She gets a call from a friend who asks for help with their missing daughter.
Upon arrival, she learns it was a false alarm, and she and Friday head off into the night to return home.
She makes a stop for coffee in Blue Springs, where a former nemesis is now imprisoned.
Unbeknown to Maddie and faithful good boy Friday, trouble awaits before she can get a chance even taste that coffee.