[3] Famous motion picture producer and writer Jesse Craig (Glenn Ford) attends a film festival on the French Riviera.

He secretly arranges to get a copy of Craig's script by sending several women to Murphy's hotel suite.

While Murphy is otherwise occupied one of the women takes the script downstairs to the copier machine in the hotel offices.

Craig meets a former love, Constance Dobson (Shirley Jones) and they decide to travel into the countryside together to a small inn.

Meanwhile, the terrorists have secretly taken control of three airliners and have landed them on remote and desolate airfields that have been prepared in advance to off load and imprison the airliners' passengers and then quickly retrofit the planes to each transport and drop a nuclear bomb on three cities in the United States.

A violent brawl ensues and Easton tries to stab Craig with a small sharpened boat anchor.

The Air Force is able to identify and shoot down the three terrorist controlled airliners just minutes before their attack runs on the cities take place.

Evening in Byzantium was one of the many TV movies, miniseries and other shows syndicated to local independent television stations in the US in the late 1970s as part of a project known as Operation Prime Time, in an effort to compete with the three major broadcast networks.

"A piece of made-for-television hack work that suddenly became sort of topical 23 years later, with the attacks on the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001".