Code Name: Emperor

Juan and his small team begin tracking a wealthy couple connected to a neo-Nazi leader and a weapons trafficker, while also surveilling a young congressman. They rely on hacking and live monitoring to gather leverage and compile a case. The operation centers on watching for signs of illicit ties and planning future actions.

To gain access to the couple’s mansion, they stage the kidnapping of the live-in Filipino maid Wendy and pretend Juan is another victim. The team stage the ruse by ejecting the couple from the vehicle at a stop, creating an opportunity for Juan to approach Wendy. This setup gives Juan the entry point needed to begin monitoring inside the house.

Juan romances Wendy to gain entry to the mansion, then installs hidden cameras to surveil the household. The surveillance continues as their personal connection deepens, giving him cover to gather intelligence. Wendy becomes a conduit for access rather than just a target.

As the surveillance unfolds, the team uncovers evidence that the couple intend to bring black-market Cobalt-60 into Spain, possibly for a dirty bomb plot. The discovery raises the stakes of the operation and links the trafficking to broader threats. The investigation moves from personal manipulation to dangerous material intelligence.

Juan finds himself emotionally drawn to Wendy, complicating the mission he previously justified as surveillance. Wendy shares her dream of saving enough from her maid work to return to the Philippines and open a bed-and-breakfast with her sisters. The developing feelings threaten the balance between professional duty and personal loyalty.

Galan, Juan’s politically ambitious boss, assigns him to investigate newly elected congressman Ángel González for illegal or unethical conduct. The initial hacking and surveillance find nothing, prompting Galan to push Juan toward creating a compromising situation. The pressure shifts the operation from passive watching to active entrapment.

Juan persuades Marta, a teenage girl from a previous case, to participate in a honey-trapping scheme. Marta creates flirtatious messages to Ángel on a dating site and meets him for drinks at a fancy nightclub. The setup culminates in a staged, seemingly random encounter designed to entrap the congressman.

Marta accompanies Ángel back to his hotel after a night of drinks, where a video camera installed by Juan records the encounter. After they have sex, she goes into the bathroom, then flees into the hall, leaving Ángel unaware of the full surveillance weight against him. The sequence is a critical turning point in the attempt to expose him.

Juan confronts Ángel and reveals that he has just had sex with a minor and assaulted her. Marta destroys Juan’s surveillance laptop in disgust and escapes, but Juan later retrieves the laptop and the sex recording remains intact. The personal betrayal intensifies the moral cost of the operation.

Wendy discovers that she has been used as a means to gain access to the house, and she confronts Juan about the deception. The revelation foreshadows a rift between the operation’s aims and the people involved. Despite her hurt, she remains a key figure in the unfolding events.

Police track and arrest the weapons traffickers, but Wendy is not in the house at that moment. Juan asks Wendy to stay at his apartment to resettle while the case wraps up, signaling a pause in the surveillance-driven relationship. The operation continues to conclude with politically sensitive fallout.

When Wendy is threatened with deportation, Juan informs Galan and explains that the intelligence service collects compromising material to control leaders. Galan promises Wendy’s release, and Juan secures her travel documents and a ticket to the Philippines. He hands a hard disk of surveillance to a reporter to blow the whistle on the agency and abandons his old life to join Wendy in the Philippines.