Five years before season 1, Kate Meyers, aka Ekaterina Zakharova convicted of a crime in Russia, and was approached with an offer to become an international spy and to work for The Russian Federation's External Intelligence Agency, the SVR. She accepts their offer in exchange for a reduced prison sentence. Kate goes undercover, and becomes a real estate agent by day, and an escort by night. She gets access to the most sensitive data and classified information that she passes along to the Russian Comrades with the help of another Russian agent John Rey, aka Leonid Voronov. Kate is trying to manage her day life with her night life, and hide her double-identity from her target Harry Hoffman, and her lover Leon Jackson.
—Katrina Landa