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In Paris, James Reese (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) works in the office of the US Ambassador in Paris, who is preparing to welcome the US Secretary of State to an African peace summit, as cover for the CIA. His agency duties consist mainly of switching license plates on other agents' vehicles, despite repeatedly asking for more exciting assignments. He is proposed to by his girlfriend Caroline (Kasia Smutniak), who gives him a ring belonging to her father.