Pharos Mandor, a former Thrush director, plays Thrush off against U.N.C.L.E. by pretending to defect and provide U.N.C.L.E. with inside information... that discredits his rivals in Thrush.

A former adversary, believed dead, abducts Illya and uses him as bait to lure Napoleon into a deadly game of cat & mouse in an abandoned block of buildings in New York City.