A Classified project being developed for the N.S.A. has been stolen from the Mayer Foundation, and Darien has been called in to investigate. He has his work cut out for him though, because it is so classified that they will not tell him what it is. When Darien learns that Dr. Kate Easton may be able to help him extricate the invisibility gland, he withholds his findings in the hopes that Dr. Easton can do what she says. Dr. Easton reveals that the project is a quantum computer. As if things were not bad enough, Darien and Dr. Easton have to evade a third party group that is also trying to get the project for themselves. Darien's partner, Robert Albert Hobbes, suspects that Darien is not being completely forthcoming with the information they have been assigned to obtain. Bad guy, Mallon kidnaps Dr. Easton and waits for Darien to to bring the classified project as a ransom for Dr. Easton. Darien knows that Mallon will never let Dr Easton live, because she is the only person who knows how the project works and would be capable of producing a second one.