On an errand for Face, Murdock, whose latest quirk is a mood ring, and B.A. answer an urgent message from the black giant's former girlfriend Deborah Duke, who tells them her husband Jason Duke, his former love rival, now a bank official specialized in the gold trade, is missing. Shortly after she claims he's back, but they guess she's being forced by goons, who indeed turn out to be around and almost had Murdock executed when Face and Hannibal turn up and save their bacon. They find out Duke is kept prisoner in an old abandoned gold mine, where the 'findings' are really just to cover up the gold stolen from an armed transport car robbery and prepare an exchange...