In rural Loxton, South Africa, Lemmer reluctantly embarks on a shadowy smuggling operation. Meanwhile, Cape Town's Presidential Bureau of Intelligence launches a high-stakes, covert investigation into a terrorist plot after a police informant blows the whistle on a meeting between local Islamic extremists and Suleiman Daoud, a senior Al Qaeda operative. As PBI chief Janina Mentz carefully directs the sting, special agent Quinn is eager to make an arrest – and Milla, a housewife who's escaped an abusive suburban existence, lands a job as a researcher on the team.