In the series pilot (whose showing was delayed well into the first season), Kelly narrowly escapes a sniper's bullet while playing a tennis match in Hong Kong. He and Alexander Scott, a pair of U.S. agents, aren't on assignment at the time. Shortly thereafter, they are told to find a freight train that disappeared between China and Hong Kong. The train was only carrying building materials. It turns out, however, there was a passenger who is of great interest to China.