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John Tavner is a broken man. Working as a mid-level structural engineer for a Milwaukee piping firm, he is secretly a deeply traumatized intelligence operative. Driven by severe PTSD from past missions and a desperate desire to please his controlling father, Tom—a high-ranking director of American intelligence—John is forced into a hazardous, off-the-books assignment. The objective is to covertly funnel ten million dollars in non-traceable industrial funds to Iran to sway a presidential election and prevent them from developing a nuclear weapon.Traveling under deep cover as a regular corporate employee, John arrives in Luxembourg to execute the handoff. However, the mission immediately derails when the money is stolen by a mysterious man who is subsequently struck and killed by a train. Left without the cash, John is forced to improvise. He devises an increasingly absurd, high-stakes backup plan to secure more funds through his corporate front, leading to a cascade of catastrophic blunders, collateral damage, and escalating violence.While navigating this geopolitical chess match, John also has to maintain his boring day job. He adopts a bizarre persona, writes deeply depressing folk songs about his classified missions as a therapeutic outlet, and contends with relentless complications. Meanwhile, a dogged and intuitive Luxembourgish detective named Agathe Albans stumbles onto the trail of bodies John leaves behind, methodically closing in on him despite having a broken arm.Compounding the chaos, John’s family dynamics implode. Tom sends John’s brother, Edward—a straitlaced U.S. Congressman—to Luxembourg to help clean up the mess. Edward is completely out of his depth, struggling with his own moral boundaries as he is pulled deeper into the espionage underworld. Simultaneously, John's fatherly handler, Leslie Claret, an aggressively bureaucratic and rigidly by-the-book corporate boss, becomes unwittingly embroiled in John's erratic behavior, suspecting something is deeply wrong with his employee.As the pressure mounts, John’s mental stability deteriorates entirely. He suffers physical injuries—including losing fingers and enduring constant beatings—and grapples with severe insomnia and suicidal ideation. Yet, he presses forward out of a grim sense of duty to his country and his father. The first season culminates in a tragicomic, chaotic climax where John attempts to finalize the Iran operation amidst mounting casualties, police scrutiny, and the crushing realization that the espionage machine he serves cares nothing for his humanity. The second season plunges John further into despair as Detective Albans corners him, forcing the Tavner family into desperate, desperate measures to bury their secrets permanently, resulting in a devastatingly bleak yet darkly humorous resolution to John’s agonizing ordeal.