Max is away on vacation with his fiancé when Serena returns, so she must wait to be debriefed. Serena goes about her routine tasks, waiting to hear from either her superiors or Haley. She receives word that Haley visited the Foundation offices and was impressed but feels betrayed that she personally did not see him again. As her colleagues discuss the war in the Middle East, Serena can only focus on Haley and the now-departed Shirley. Without Shirley or Max, Serena no longer has a social life. On the morning of Max’s return, everyone’s commute is delayed by an IRA bomb threat.

Serena is 10 minutes late to her meeting with Max, who has abandoned all the style tips Serena provided. They discuss Haley, who seems to be intelligent and in need of the money on offer. They set a schedule to hurry Haley into an agreement, then Max reveals that a KGB officer named Oleg Lyalin has been turned by MI5 and has provided them information about a mysterious mole in the British government codenamed Volt. As per Lyalin’s information, the mole was Tony Canning and he passed important documents to the Russians.