When Bessie Faro's husband Johnny dies in a plane crash in Veracruz, Mexico, she finds that his air cargo business is deeply in the red.

Recognizing his system for marking betting slips at race tracks, she decodes the cards and realizes that they indicate a bank account.

In Germany, she closes Don Mueller's account from Berliner Bank, but the cashier hands her only 750 DM.

He explains that 74,000DM worth of cashier's checks have been paid out to a company called EDK Technik in the former East Berlin.

When the teller sees how distraught Bessie is, she confides in her that a local shipping company cashed out some of Johnny's money and that the rest was wired to Cairo.

She visits Kolatos Shipping Company and finds that one of their boats is headed to Cairo with grain for a food aid effort.

She sneaks onto the truck where he loaded the bag, opens it, and finds, hidden beneath the grain, containers of thionyl chloride manufactured by EDK Technik.

She explains what she found in the bag, and Fergus confronts his Operations Manager, who reveals that he allowed the smuggling to finance the grain shipments.