The Phantom is in Antwerp, running down a lead in an effort to stop the trade of these miserable stones. Meanwhile in America’s heartland Kathy Prebble is about to embark on missionary work sponsored by her church. Her work will be dangerously proactive — she plans to be the high bidder at an illegal slave market. Meaning well, but too naïve, she sets off a chain of events that lead her to a mysterious stranger… who is dressed in purple.