More suspense than sci-fi in this episode, as movie star James Craig pilots a reconnaissance mission to a military base near the arctic circle to find out if a recent volcanic eruption on its island will require an emergency evacuation.
A geophysicist is aboard with his female assistant and he ends up saving the day when a magnetic storm throws all the plane's instruments out of whack. Not only is Craig able to safely land the plane despite the storm and flying blind, but the scientist witnesses the generation of energy via the storm, possibly a hope for cheap energy for mankind in the future if it can be harnessed. All the while, the geophysicist proves to be a great navigator with his calculations on the spot.
The series continues to explore a genre of science fiction that is deeply rooted in actual science (like the novels of Hal Clement, yet to interest filmmakers like those of his peers), rather than the anything goes spurious lumping of all sorts of nonsense, including ghost-hunters, into what people watch in the genre as typified by the programming of any old content (including wrestling!) on the SyFy channel.