When Archie Cookson, a washed up British spy, mysteriously receives stolen secret tapes, he becomes the target of an assassination by senior MI6 officials. Archie survives the elimination of his department colleagues only to be confronted by his long time friend and ex-CIA ‘problem solver’, Ennis Miller. At first believing that he is his savior, Archie discovers Ennis is his reluctant assassin who grants him a stay of execution for Archie to reconcile his differences with his estranged family. Assassination is now the last of his worries.