"He never misses his target, and now his target is 007." Bond is led to believe that he is targeted by the world's most expensive assassin and must hunt him down to stop him.

A private detective investigating an adultery case stumbles on to a scheme of murder that has something to do with water.

"Harry Caul will go anywhere to bug a private conversation." A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered.