First Lie Wins

Mr. Smith assigns Lucca the alias Mia Bianchi and instructs Mia to infiltrate the campaign of a rising political star, Andrew Marshall. Mr. Smith has instructed her to get blackmail-worthy material on Marshall. This increasingly concerns Mia as she learns that Marshall is a boring, clean-cut man. Without Mr. Smith’s knowledge, she enlists the help of a man named Devon to deal with any issues that arise if the Marshall job goes wrong. While she’s with Marshall at a legal conference in Hilton Head, Mia receives instructions from Matt that she’s to get Marshall drunk and get him to have sex with a sex worker. Matt has bugged Marshall’s room and will record the encounter. Mia knows this plan will be unsuccessful because of Marshall’s personality, so she sets a plan of her own in motion. She invites a group of powerful men—congressmen, lawyers, and judges—to an informal meeting in Marshall’s room. The men, eager to ingratiate themselves with a rising political talent, accept. Mia drugs Marshall to get him out of the room and then sends in a group of sex workers.