A reporter named Mullen 'stumbles' onto a story linking a prominent Member of Parliament to a KGB agent and a near-nuclear disaster involving a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base. Has there been a Government cover-up? Mullen teams up with Vernon Bayliss, an old hack, and Nina Beckam, the MP's assistant, to find out the truth.

Gabriel Byrne
as Nicholas 'Nick' Mullen

Greta Scacchi
as Nina Beckman

Denholm Elliott
as Vernon Bayliss

Ian Bannen
as Dennis Markham

Fulton Mackay
as Victor Kingsbrook

Bill Paterson
as Jack Macleod

David Calder
as Harry Champion

Frederick Treves
as Arnold Reece

Robbie Coltrane
as Leo McAskey

Steven Woodcock
as Steven Dyce