A man meets with his employer to collect payment for a completed cross-border job to the Soviet Union and declares he will not return there due to the increased danger. The employer urges him to take on another job for double pay and advises him to adopt a playboy persona with women to avoid suspicion as a lone operative. The man agrees and later returns home to a woman waiting for him. He gives her money and a secret signal, implying their relationship is part of his new cover, while she gratefully sees him as genuinely kind.