After a high-risk elimination mission, Malotru has been taken hostage by the “Islamic State”. Moved from camp to camp, tortured and weakened, he’s close to despair. In Paris, the DGSE faces a dilemma: should they use all their resources to save Malotru, who betrayed the service, his country and friends when he became a double agent working for the CIA? In order to plan an operation to free him, the service needs to establish a direct contact with the “Islamic State”. Nadia agrees to help by getting in touch with a former Syrian colleague, now a manipulative and dangerous man involved in art trafficking with the “Islamic State”.
Agent Marina is back to Paris after her ordeal in Iran, unharmed – at least apparently. She can’t wait to go back in the field. She will find herself involved in a very complex mission in Azerbaijan, led by the Mossad – which doesn’t know that she works for the DGSE. As it launches operations to retrieve Malotru, the DGSE receives a mysterious coded message: an “Islamic State” commander wants to defect.
The Bureau was broadcast on SBS ONE at Wednesday 20 September 2017, 14:00.