Maggie Hayward is a drug addict found guilty of murdering a police officer during a robbery shootout, and is about to be sentenced to death by lethal injection. Her demise is faked and a spy named Bob informs her that she has to work for him. Maggie, having little choice, reluctantly agrees to cooperate and she begins a regimen of intensive training that includes not only martial arts and firearms training, but etiquette and computer use.