PLOT
In 1989, on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the shifting of superpower alliances, MI6 agent James Gascoigne is shot and killed by KGB agent Yuri Bakhtin, who steals the list, a piece of microfilm concealed in a wristwatch that contains the names of every active field agent in the Soviet Union. Ten days later, Loraine Broughton,
a top level spy for MI6, is brought in to be interrogated by MI6 executive Eric Gray and CIA agent Emmett Kurzfield about her mission to Berlin.
The day after Gascoigne's death, Loraine is dispatched to Berlin to recover the list and assassinate Satchel, a double agent who has sold lots of intelligence to the Soviets for years and who betrayed Gascoigne. When she arrives in Berlin, she is immediately ambushed by KGB agents working for arms dealer and KGB associate Aleksander Bremovich. Lorraine then meets with her main contact, agent David Percival. After failing to find any immediate leads, Loraine investigates Gascoigne's apartment and discovers a picture of him and Percival, and is then ambushed by Volkspolizei. She realizes only Percival knew she was going to the apartment, and begins to suspect him of being Satchel. Lorraine also encounters Delphine Lasalle, a naive French agent, and enters into a relationship with her.
Bakhtin declares his intention to sell the List to the highest bidder. Percival, having been tipped off, kills him and takes the list for himself. He then meets with Bremovych to arrange the transfer of the list to him, which Lasalle photographs. Percival offers to escort the defector who stole and memorized the list, a Stasi officer code-named spyglass, and his family across the border to West Berlin. However, he then shoots Spyglass and tips off Bremovych's men, and despite Lorraine's best efforts, Spyglass is killed. Percival then goes to Lasalle's apartment and kills her to cover his own tracks. When Lorraine arrives too late to save her she discovers the photographs taken by Lasalle, proving Percival to be Satchel. As Percival burns his safe-house and attempts to flee, Lorraine tracks him down, kills him , and takes the list.
In the present day, Lorraine presents MI6 with the photographs as well as spliced audio recordings painting Percival as traitor, and denies knowing the List's current whereabouts, forcing the agency to close the case. Three days later, she meets with Bremovych in Paris, revealing herself to be Satchel. Lorraine gives him a fake list, but Bremovych admits he knows she set him up. Lorraine kills his henchmen, and reveals she was manipulating events from the very beginning before killing him. She then meets with Kurzfield, revealing herself to be a mole(specifically a triple agent) planted by the CIA, before returning with him to Langley.
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