Reporter Nick Crane is at a trendy nightclub with a gorgeous
blonde model hitting on him; he excuses himself to go to the restroom where a
bearded man warns him that blonde is out to kill him. The blonde clobbers
Nick’s two bodyguards and enters the restroom to find Nick alone. Then the
bearded man bursts out of a stall and fights the woman. Nick does not know who
to believe so he decides to run when the blonde pulls the mask off the bearded
man to reveal the Black Widow. Nick is shocked but the blonde stabs Natasha in
the shoulder and hustles Nick out of the room. Nick drives off and the blonde
reveals she is called Fatale, hired to protect him from Black Widow….
Flashbacks show that Nick’s father, Senator Whit Crane, a
promising candidate for Vice-President and known for his moral lifestyle, was
seen with a woman resembling Natasha on tape. A scandal resulted which led to
Crane’s suicide. Nick then took a job as a journalist to uncover the truth and an
anonymous source identified the mystery woman as Natasha Romanova, the Black
Widow. But it was not Natasha so she set out to find the killer impersonating
her….
Nat pursues Nick and Fatale in her car. Fatales asks Nick to
reveal his source for the mystery woman’s identity but he refuses as he does
not trust Fatale. She then threatens to stab him in the eye with a thin-bladed
knife is he doesn’t tell her how he knows who she is and what connects her to
three other political murders. Then Black Widow lands in the open car and the
two female agents fight in a very precarious position. Nat fires a rappel
device that hooks onto a high spot on the bridge and she wraps the other end
around Fatale’s wrist so that she is jerked out of the car. Then then stops the
car, point a gun at Nat’s face, telling her, “Say hello to my father.” And then
he fires….