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The City Spies are still in a tizzy over the revelations about Mother's family history, and have integrated his son, Cairo, into their group in Mission Manhattan. Now, the group finds out that not only is Clementine, Cairo's mother, back in the edges of the picture, but his sister, Annie, has gone missing after swim practice in Istanbul, Turkey. The group is also working on security for an upcoming royal wedding, since their teacher, Sophie Weir, is set to marry Prince Frederick, who is sixth in line for the British throne. Annie is seen leaving practice, but followed by a burly man dubbed Musclehead, and also jumping off a bridge into the river. Since she is a strong swimmer, Cairo believes she has survived, and surveillance shows that she has gone back to the gym. Cairo tells the team that she has started "Operation Breadcrumb", something the siblings had talked about when they were living on the run with their mother. He's sure that she has left clues about when to meet up, and finds them everywhere from the bottom of a container of licorice for sale in Paris to mixed messages in Rome. The computer at FARM, Beny, has been making big strides in interpretting aerial maps and communicating with Kat, but when Musclehead is seen a a local restaurant, the security of FARM is compromised, with devastating consequences. Clementine's history, and her involvement in Project Viola, is finally shared with Cairo and Annie, so that they can understand their mother's actions. After retrieving Annie, the group reconvenes at a safe house in London, where they need to work fast to protect the royal wedding. Without their safe haven to return to, how will the City Spies move forward on the next mission.