Willie Caine and Mike Wallace find themselves providing security for the UK delegation at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Malta. Neal Burnside is philosophically opposed to the SALT talks and would do anything to disrupt them. An opportunity to do so presents itself when Yuri Filatov, a KGB agent in the employ of SIS, wants to be lifted and sent to England. Burnside knows that by lifting Filatov during the conference the Soviets will walk out, but Matthew Peele and Geoffrey Wellingham make sure his plan fails. Burnside's plan does have unintended consequences when one of the Sandbaggers is shot.
—garykmcd