Orlando fails to make Patrick see reason, who orders against their own lieutenant's instructions to go easy to avoid causalities, when protesting fisherman start fires on the pier, resulting in the ringleader, Patrick's hostile brother, making a dangerous fall. Tom's beach apartment remains 'inacceptable' to lover Nina, who also acts 'neglected' in favor of his fire studies, but by breaking up she pushes him to focus on that, and volunteer as unpaid assistant with the official expert.
—KGF Vissers