 Soon after having stayed as guests at the English country estate of Lord Holman, third Baron of Saffron Cobden and member of the English House of Lords, two western diplomats have committed suicide. Another diplomat, and also a frequent guest of Lord Holman s, has been admitted to an institution of the mentally insane. At the same time, the bodies of three young girls have been found stabbed to death in a river close to Holman s estate. Jim Phelps and his team of agents get the mission to investigate these mysterious events; to find out if there is any connection between the dead girls and the suicides, and in addition to discover what Lord Holman and his guests really get up to at the country manor.