In the premiere episode, Carlton Dial is on a mission to Morocco to retrieve a futuristic weapons system stolen by a mercenary industrialist.

Dial poses as a marine-mammal specialist to retrieve a research submarine stolen from an ocean-study facility. But someone is trying to blow his cover.

While on a mission to retrieve a U.S. missile stolen in Mexico, Dial is pitted against an old Cold War nemesis who once had Dial imprisoned and who still wants him out of the way.

Dial is asked to find a priceless diamond by the deposed dictator of a small Baltic country. To complicate matters, he discovers that his female contact has a personal vendetta against the dictator.

A Russian satellite containing a poison nerve gas crash-lands in the U.S., sending Carlton with the aid of a lovely Russian scientist (who created the nerve gas) scrambling to find it before a Ukranian general does. In the midst of all this, the main frame computer is infected with a virus, which means Harry has to move in with Carlton.