Jim Phelps and his team of agents get the mission to destroy a South East Asian drug smuggling organisation known as 'The Golden Serpent', and to moreover locate their business dealing records. The identity of the organisation's leader has always remained a mystery. The thing that is known, however, is that another team of IMF-agents recently moving in on one of the organisation's key people, Prince Selimun of Benarli, have just had their mission blown and their leader murdered.