When Robert Maxwell is assassinated at sea by an unknown agency, it can only be a matter of time before the dark secret at the heart of the British Establishment is exposed to the light of day SAS soldier Neil Slater has left the Army While trying to make a new life for himself as a teacher, terrorists attempt the kidnap of one of his pupils Slater intervenes, and the episode ends violently Dismissed from the school, it seems that he is to be drawn back into the covert world