While in Washington, D.C., Jessica gets involved in one of Michael Hagarty's cases when an East German musician who is working as a political spy, looks to defect to the United Kingdom. While Jessica tries to make sense of things, she and Michael try to sort things out when one of the operatives working with the defector ends up murdered. Little do they know it somehow includes Jessica's concert-going escort and some time spent in South Africa by both men in the past.