As the military junta of the South American republic of San Pedro prepares for their first democratic election in decades, an aide to the President informs Father Vera, a Catholic priest who founded a key opposition, that the clergy was on the President's hit list and would be dead before the election and provides him with enough information to throw the junta out of power if the priest could present the information to the U.N. Committee on Latin American Affairs due to convene the day before the election, covered by the world press. An emergency call from a Cardinal in the Vatican reaches Alexander asking him to help protect Father Vera during his stay in Boston before he goes before the U.N. committee and elude a death squad sent by the President.