Inspector Faulker fills in for Tom when he is sent away for a training session, leaving the station seriously understaffed. Things go from bad to worse when the computer system goes down, an old man goes missing, and a young mother's car is stolen with her baby asleep in the back seat. Nick and Adam are preoccupied by a pesky car alarm and Faulkner dismisses a young man who comes into the station looking for recruiting info.