Bartok es un personaje increíblemente fanfarrón y divertido, pero no muy valiente, que divierte con sus "fingidos" actos heroicos a los habitantes de Moscú y, entre ellos, al mismísimo Príncipe Iván. Cuando éste es raptado, se necesitará un héroe de verdad para rescatarle de las garras de la malvada bruja Baba Yaga. Es el momento para que Bartok, ayudado por su inseparable compañero Zozi, saque al héroe que todos llevamos dentro y salve al Príncipe Iván antes de que la malvada Ludmilla, tutora del Príncipe, se apodere del trono de los Romanov...
With the discovery of an incoming asteroid, the government of America formulate a plan to destroy it. When the plan fails, all the world can do is wait. The main impact zone is revealed to be Dallas, Texas. Generally, the plot follows the lives and reactions of several characters: an astronomer, her father, her son, two firefighters from Kansas, two young doctors in Dallas and the heads of the government agency in charge of the situation.
A recently widowed doctor moves with her daughter to start at a new hospital. While there a loving mother brings her son in for treatment. The doctor suspects that there is something wrong, and theorizes that the mother is deliberately making her son sick so that she could bring him to the hospital for the attention that it gives her. When the doctor decides to restrict the mother's access to her son and is reporting her to child services, the mother in turn decides to sue the doctor and the hospital. And some of the hospital board don't agree with her diagnosis or think that she's over-reacting. And even while the mother's not allowed access to her son, he is still sick, so is the doctor right or wrong?
El oficial Talbot está decidido a usar misiles teledirigidos en su submarino. La marina todavía no ha dado el visto bueno, por lo que él decide saltarse a la torera las órdenes de sus superiores y comienza a probarlos. La iniciativa no puede resultar peor pues en las pruebas mueren varios de sus hombres, lo que le acaba provocando un colapso mental.
