Working for the Department was supposed to be like marriage - ''til death do us part' - but the Department is really not like that; and neither are many marriages, including that of Bernard Samson. The cool and cynical field agent has grown older and wiser, but things have not gone well for Samson. Life has become even more precarious for Bernard and, ignoring all warnings, he pursues his own investigation, meeting with the biggest surprise of his life...