Charlie Morrow is a N.Y. businessman who's also a veteran of the first Gulf War, an ex-marine sniper who keeps his rifle in his closet. He meets an exotic Palestinian woman, Leila Khan. They begin dating, but unknown to him, FBI Agent Bob Borland and his collaborator Becky Feldman are watching Leila too. They have evidence that Leila heads a terrorist cell and she's funding a secret biotechnology factory built to engineer a lethal virus. Borland has one month to find that factory. Becky's an American-educated Israeli Mossad agent who went to college with Borland years before. She offers to get closer to Charlie so they can learn where Leila gets her money, where she's building the factory and more importantly, if Charlie's implicated in the plot. Charlie meets Becky on one of his frequent business trips to Germany. He's attracted to her short skirt and long legs. He thinks she's there by coincidence. Unknown to him, Becky had volunteered to get closer to Charlie. He tells her that he's leaving Germany to travel on to the U.K. on business and she fabricates a reason to follow him there from Germany. At breakfast in London the next morning, she introduces him to Borland, who traveled there specifically to meet Charlie. She explains that she's been following him because he's been dating Leila. Together they ask Charlie for his help. His ego is hurt but he consents to let them know the next time Leila's out of her apartment for a few hours. That's all he has to do. A week or so later, while Charlie and Leila are dining out, Becky's operatives enter Leila's apartment and plant listening devices. They also bug Leila's computer so it downloads information in the middle of the night. Charlie and Leila become lovers. Leila gets up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and she sees her computer working when she knows she had shut it down. It doesn't take her long to suspect Charlie has tampered with it because he had explained to her that he's a computer expert at wor