Defence of the Realm

“Just how far will a government go to hide the truth?”

A prominent Member of Parliament has been seen with a KGB agent, and nobody will say why a teenage runaway and a U.S. Air Force base come into it. Reporter Nick Mullen (Gabriel Byrne) picks up the thread, and David Drury sends him after it alongside Vernon Bayliss (Denholm Elliott), an old hack, and Nina Beckman (Greta Scacchi), the MP's assistant. The nearer they get, the more it looks like a buried near-nuclear accident, and they have only each other to trust.