 Jim Phelps and his team of agents get the mission to destroy a South East Asian drug smuggling organisation known as "The Golden Serpent", and to moreover locate their business dealing records. The identity of the organisation s leader has always remained a mystery. The thing that is known, however, is that another team of IMF-agents recently moving in on one of the organisation s key people, Prince Selimun of Benarli, have just had their mission blown and their leader murdered.