The Spy Coast

Jo eats dinner with her father, Owen, and tells him about Maggie and her friends. He says it is her fault for underestimating them just because they are old. When her work phone rings, she answers it even though she is supposed to be off duty. Her officer, Mike, tells her that Callie is missing.

Jo goes to Luther’s house, and Mike takes her to the barn and shows her a butchered goat. A sheet of paper above it reads “Malta. A life for a life” (298). It seems like revenge, and they wonder against whom. Upon leaving the barn, she sees Lloyd and Ingrid and decides to ask for their help. She shows them the goat and the message, and they think Maggie might understand. Before they can explain, Ingrid goes outside to make a call.

Maggie meets Declan and Ben on the hotel terrace that night. Declan is back to being reserved, as if the moment of connection in her hotel room never happened. Maggie tells them that she thinks Hardwicke is after her, and they are shocked that he is still alive. They all realize that Maggie might not ever be able to go home, and Maggie is surprised by how distressed she feels at this thought. Declan suggests she stay with a friend in Singapore until they can figure things out. Just then, Maggie gets a call from Ingrid.

After Danny died, Maggie thought she was invulnerable because she had no loved ones, but in spite of herself, she has grown to care deeply for Callie. Now, she is determined not to fail Callie as she failed Bella. She begins packing for home, but Declan protests that she can’t go because she is the target. Maggie agrees to go to Singapore, but when Ben and Declan drop her at the airport, she buys a ticket to Milan.

Maggie goes to a party held at Silvia Moretti’s current lover’s villa—Ingrid helped her track Silvia down. She looks like a party guest and security lets her in without a problem. She searches Silvia’s bedroom and finds her address book, but Hardwicke’s contact information hasn’t been updated since the plane exploded.

She goes back out to the party and finds Silvia on the terrace. Silvia doesn’t remember her, but Maggie introduces herself as Danny Gallagher’s wife. She asks Silvia if Hardwicke is still alive, but Silvia denies it. Maggie can tell that she truly believes that Hardwicke is dead.

Maggie leaves the party, not knowing what to do next. Before she can get in her car, she hears someone behind her. She turns and finds Diana pointing a gun at her. Diana forces her into the car.

Diana instructs her to drive to an abandoned church, where she has been hiding. Maggie tells her that Gavin is dead, and they are likely next. Diana says they should work together to kill Hardwicke, but Maggie doesn’t trust her. She confronts Diana with the fact that she could’ve saved Danny and Bella but chose not to, but their argument is cut short by the sound of an approaching car.

Maggie and Diana hide in the dark, and Diana gives Maggie her extra gun. Outside, a gun fires and blows the door open. Maggie and Diana fire back and run up the stairs to the bell tower. As they hear their attackers coming up the stairwell, they fire, and Maggie runs out of ammo. There is no escape, and Maggie realizes that “this is how it ends” (323).

Diana moves behind her and wraps her arm around Maggie’s throat to use her as a shield. When the attackers, two men, come into view, Diana offers them all her money, $20 million. Maggie realizes Diana has been draining Hardwicke’s accounts, using the information from the thumb drive Maggie gave her.

Diana offers to give them Maggie if they let her go. Instead, Maggie hears a gun fire and Diana slumps behind her and falls from the bell tower.

A figure comes into view behind the two men. Maggie is expecting Hardwicke, but it is Bella. Bella explains that all those years ago, Camilla wouldn’t let her board the plane after she heard about the arrest of Hardwicke’s associate, knowing that he was involved with the Russians. Instead, Camilla had taken her home to live with her in Argentina. They had held a funeral, and Bella had lived in secrecy until her mother died.

After Camilla’s death, Bella hacked the CIA’s Operation Cyrano file and found out what had happened, including Maggie’s role in the operation. She accuses Maggie of being complicit in her supposed death, pointing out that Maggie hadn’t been on the plane. Maggie points out that Danny was on the plane, and died, and after a moment, Bella believes her. However, she still believes that Maggie was the one who drained her father’s accounts.

Maggie reminds Bella of the message she left in Callie’s barn, “A life for a life” (329) and says that she is there to trade her life for Callie’s. While Bella is thinking about that, Maggie remembers her as a young girl and realizes that she deserves part of the blame for the “bitter creature” Bella is today.

Bella decides that killing Diana is enough, and she will let Maggie go. When Maggie asks about Callie, however, Bella doesn’t answer. She gives Maggie a burner phone and leaves.

Maggie makes her way back to Milan and goes directly to the airport. She has to get home to find Callie. When she finally enters Purity, she gets a text on the burner phone. She finds Callie in an abandoned house outside Purity, tied to a chair but unharmed.

Jo goes to Callie’s hospital room and asks Luther what happened. He tells her to ask Maggie, who just left. She confronts Maggie in the parking lot, and Maggie promises to tell her what she can if Jo visits her house tomorrow.

Bella is at home in Scotland, looking out at her garden through the rain. She knows Camilla wouldn’t have approved of what she did, but after Camilla died, she was left on her own. She’d used her father’s training and built her own network and business.

Bella had intended to kill Maggie but saw Maggie’s grief over the loss of Danny and realized that Maggie was also a victim. She knows, however, that if she sees Maggie again, the outcome might be different. Right now, she is focused on growing her operation but knows that someday, she might change her mind about Maggie.

Ben, Declan, Ingrid, and Lloyd all show up at Maggie’s house bearing food. They fill each other in on what they’ve learned about the investigation into Diana’s death, and Ben asks what they’re going to do about Bella. Maggie says it’s not their problem, and Declan agrees—the Agency knows about her and now it’s their job.

They open a fresh bottle of Longmorn, and Maggie tries to catch Declan’s eye, but he is still angry that she went to Milan without telling him. Just as Lloyd raises a glass to make a toast, Jo arrives at the front door, wanting to ask Maggie some questions.

Maggie and her friends are impressed by the police chief, and they offer her a glass of whisky. She drinks, and from her reaction, they can tell it is her first. She says that Callie reported that, although she was bound and blindfolded, she was treated well and not threatened. Before she can say anything further, Jo’s radio crackles and dispatch reports a “ten-thirty-one.” She leaves quickly. Ingrid points out that it is the code for crime-in-progress and wonders if they can be of any help. Maggie comments that if Jo wants their help, she knows where to find them.