Mike is hit by a drunk driver outside NAVCOM and is critically injured. He wakes in hospital where he finds he is paralysed from the waist down. Doctors aren't certain he will walk again, and Mike's former Hammersley crew come from far and wide to offer support. Each person has a story of hope to tell, to encourage Mike, but it's the least likely of them who comes through - Robert

Campbell Fulton has been tried and sentenced for the murders of eight divers, including ET. Fulton and another prisoner break out of jail and plan to go to New Guinea. They head north in a stolen vehicle, but Fulton has another agenda- revenge. They reach Cairns where he kidnaps Mike and Steve Marshall, to get to Hammersley. He wants Nikki as surety to get to New Guinea.