A young man, injured in an auto accident, appears to be neither alive nor truly dead, while another patient desperately needs a donor for a kidney transplant.
Dr. Hunter joins with research doctor Ralph Simpson in an attempt to develop artificial sight. Dr. Stuart hopes it will help a new patient of his, a young woman Casey Woods, who has recently lost her vision.
After hotshot malpractice attorney Henry Speiser accuses Dr. Theodore Stuart of misconduct in court, he request that he performs his open heart surgery.
Fervent Doctor Lanier receives a directive to desist when he performs an experimental heart operation which causes him to abandon Craig Institute for another medical facility sparking a competition for a lucrative grant.