The archeology professor Emma Fielding (Courtney Thorne-Smith) is organising a conference at which the new president will be announced, but before the outgoing professor can announce her successor she is murdered and an important artefact is stolen. She teams up with her FBI friend and 2 graduate students to solve the case. This has a plot typical of made for television murder mysteries, but it lacks the archeological story line of the first two Emma Fielding films.