Scott’s cunning plan seems to be working: Lubkov wants to defect. But when he meets him in West Berlin, he is shot. The assassin manages to escape. Lubkov’s secretary is afraid and flees to the West. Under interrogation, she tells Severine that something big is going to happen in Berlin on August 13. Meanwhile, Conrad Greer is being blackmailed about his homosexuality. He is supposed to lure Scott into a trap.