Michael is left as the Charge d'Affaires. He promptly gets himself into trouble, although not as much as Mahmoud does while in Australia. Clayton suffers by ignoring Stewart's instructions. Mahmoud meets a TV star.
Valerie, the alcoholic wife of an Australian Defence Attache to Ragaan, becomes a problem for the Australian diplomatic community when she is taken hostage at a refugee camp, where a desperate inmate seeks admittance to Australia.