Chase (Simon MacCorkindale) and Brooke McKenzie (Melody Anderson) are at a lecture concerning a young girl found in the Indian jungle of Sultanpur, by Professor Barta (Rick Jason). The girl (Laura Cushing) was raised by wolves. Barta created a sort of habitat for her on the campus of the local university. While the lecture is going on, a man throws an incendiary device into her habitat, setting it on fire. The wolf girl howls with fear. Chase hears her howls from the lecture hall and runs to the room to save her. The girl escapes. Chase goes after her but ends up losing her.
Suspecting that she will make her way to the wolf habitat at the nearby zoo, Chase races there as a panther. He knows that the local wolves will kill her since they aren’t the ones that raised her. Chase frightens away the wolves. He then transforms back into a human. Seeing his transformation, the girl instinctively understands that he is trying to protect her. He takes her back to his apartment.
Realizing that someone purposely set the fire, Brooke has the girl put under protective custody. When Barta finds out that Chase has her he demands to have him return the girl. Chase refuses, maintaining that she is not property and is in danger. The people that are trying to kill her follow Barta and find out where the girl is. Chase, his assistant Ty (Michael Roberts), and Brooke try to find out whom she really is, hoping that they can find out who is trying to kill her.
The animals that Chase morphs into are a panther, a hawk and a dolphin. The only on-screen transformation into a creature is the hawk. He does transform on screen from a panther back into a human. To do that they just run the transformation film backward. In this episode Chase keeps in his downstairs glass enclosures: an ostrich, a tiger, and a couple of large lion cubs. Chase examines a wallaby. There is also a vulture in a large wire cage.
The story for this episode was written by Michael Berk and Douglas Schwartz. They would use this plot again, as well as some of the actual lines of the script, for the series “The Wizard” episode “Endangered Species” 1986, and again for “Thunder in Paradise” episode “Endangered Species” 1994.