Countess Lysandra Korischeva, descendant of a Latvian royal family, is a world-renowned curator and art restorer. In "The Madonna Caper", Korischeva is supposed to retrieve a microdot containing vital information on the Warsaw Pact missile deployment system concealed in a painting The Byzantine Madonna. Steve Austin foils a museum's security system so that she can get her hand on the painting. When Oscar Goldman learns of the substitution, he orders Steve to get it back before the imminent visit of a Russian art expert.