Lance Stone, the fictional federal agent, was adopting to life in Buffalo, NY after an involuntary transfer from Chicago. He investigated a variety of different cases and tried to maintain a sense of humor while doing so. He learned to set humor aside when necessary and proceed solely with professionalism. It was a game. A competition like many others in life and not always fair. It was a game of statistics, which was the measuring device at hand. Learn to play the game for your own self-interest or you could easily find yourself last in the line of success.