While Steve's away on vacation, a man who has been surgically altered to resemble Steve, goes into Oscar's office and photographs every classified material there is. Someone tries to kill Steve but Steve evades them. Steve returns just as Oscar and the false Steve are leaving a secret facility, which he photographed. The imposter tries to run away but is run over by a car. Steve then decides to assume his identity so that he can recover what he photographed.
When Oscar discovers that the construction of a top secret laser is being duplicated, he suspects Harry Green, the expert overseeing the project, is a traitor. Steve believes that he is not a traitor, but that his thoughts are being monitored through ESP. He obtains the help of Audrey Moss, also gifted with ESP, to track down the ESP spy.
With Jaime adjusting to her bionics, Oscar wants to use Jaime to infiltrate a counterfit ring and steal the counterfit plates lock in their vault. Steve is adamantly opposed, but Jaime's bionic hearing is the only way to successfully open it the vault. Jaime's body seems to be rejecting her bionics, but does not tell anyone. After the mission the rejection worsens and leads her to run aimlessly. Steve tracts her down and brings her to Rudy, but there is nothing he can do and Jaime dies.
When Steve returns to his hometown, he runs into Jaime Sommers, his former girlfriend. The romance is rekindled and they quickly get enganged. While the two are skydiving, Jaime's parachute gets tangled and has a near fatal accident. To help save her life and another chance at a normal life, Steve pleads with Oscar to let Rudy operate on her and give her bionics.
Revolutionaries kidnap the wife of the US Ambassador to the nation of Balinderry. In exchange for her release the revolutionaries want the fellow revolutionaries that are imprisoned to be freed. With the help of Julia Flood, his liason with the kidnappers, Steve attempts to rescue the ambassador's wife.