Colin has fulfilled a post in New York with the CIA . He is tasked to develop a suite of programs using the Pick Relational Database System - for a gardening project. As months go on he has successfully become one of the workers using Interflexion - a new gardening seed. Once completed he returns to Scotland to discover five days later the police & MI5 have raised the security level to Red due to a terrorist threat. On his return home he is apprehended by two young cops who misread Colin taking an epileptic automatism. As a result he is thrown in the cooler for two days without his medication. Then interrogated by British police on the computer system he developed back in New York. He is charged with infiltrating the CIA. What follows is a dog-eat-dog scenario of interrogation against Colin fighting for justice and ultimately his freedom.