Into this void steps itinerant researcher and heart surgeon Jack Hunt.
Hunt negotiates a fantastic salary.
For his family the itinerancy is at an end. They settle on buying a suburban mini-castle of a home. Carson juxtaposes these developments with tensions at work. Then he goes over time to unravel Hunt's world with personal agendas and corporate intentions. When the former head was still alive, Carter was lined up to front the launch of pharmaceutical giant Zemdon's preventive heart drug Cyclint.