Agent Strom Lehmbruck of the Department suspects the aristocratic Lloyd Loring family of forging a third Judith Beheading Holofernes by Gustav Klimt, to be auctioned off for obscene amounts of money. Lehmbruck dispatches his young agent Cyrus Hancock to recruit the Lloyd Lorings’ estranged only son, Toulouse, to infiltrate the family and their fence. Cyrus and Tully take an instant interest in each other, despite or perhaps because of their obviously differing appearances and personalities. Tully steals one of Cyrus’s cigarettes, which induces a migraine; during the preceding migraine aura, he comes under the temporary belief that he is dead. Cyrus, under an old alias, will go to work on Tully’s family’s estate in the Cotswolds to see what he can learn from Tully’s family, and Tully will go to the London art gallery that will soon sell the painting, under the shadowy gallerist for whom Cyrus once worked.