Electric City

Cleveland Carr, a secret operative, introduces us to the wonders and dangers of the Electric City. Mrs. Orwell knits in a circle of mysterious elderly women, however this is no ordinary knitting club. They discuss a plan to patch a particular hole in the justice system. Cleveland Carr pays a visit to one of the City's most unsavory characters.

Cleveland Carr meets Hope Chatsworth, the voice of Wire 6, the city's communication service. The young, ever-curious Roger Moore investigates the scofflaws who engage in the contraband communication known as Tap Code.

Mrs. Orwell visits the History Museum but her trip down memory lane triggers flashbacks to a more volatile time. Cleveland Carr pays a visit to Knobs, and decides this lovable little lawbreaker is going to make a great stool-pigeon. Dick and Eva Jacobs tap for kicks with their neighbor, Walter La Fong. Hope sends a message to Carr via the wire service broadcast.

Commander Welles of the Allied Municipal Patrol is briefed on the city-wide spread of the Tap Kits. The women in the knitting guild know all too well the danger of unregulated influence. The darkness of Mrs. Orwell's past continues to come into focus. Dr. Loman and Makaela enter the city with big plans. Hope suspects her coworker, Frank Deetleman, is up to something.

Mrs. Orwell asks Carr to get a sense of scale in the Tap Kit epidemic. A deeper look into Mrs. Orwell's past begins to make her current motivations clearer. Mrs. Emerson lets her operative, Dick Jacobs, know she is not pleased about the Tap Code problem.

Dr. Loman is more than a just spectator to city government. Knobs is asked to build new technology. Hope follows Deetleman to find out what he's been up to.