Carl Kolchak(Darren McGavin) investigates the brutal unsolved murders of healthy people whose hearts were removed. It seems that an Aztec cult is offering them as sacrifices for their mummified warrior chief, needed every 52 years in a ten-cycle pattern, this being the ninth, and the fifth and final offering must be a willing one, and one man named Pepe Torres(played by Erik Estrada) seems to be that man, though if Carl has any say in the matter, may make him change his mind... Though not tightly plotted, this is still an interesting episode that makes amusing uses of its millennium theme and 52 year cycles - we'll have to watch out for the year 2027 it seems...