Tom Crane is a writer for a newspaper on psychic phenomena. He goes to Edinburgh to get a story on a clairvoyant. While there, he looks up Anne Reynolds. Later, after meeting with Drexil and getting on his bad side, Tom and Anne use his repressed psychic abilities to find a missing woman, dead. Tom's wife Julia arrives in Edinburgh for a visit and Tom meets her at the station. While driving after dinner, Tom sees a woman on the road and crashes, killing his wife. He decides that Drexil is the one who caused the crash. Later at his home a man visits from Department 7 and offers him a job using his psychic abilities. He agrees as long as it will help him to find Drexil.