No Way Out is told in flashback as Naval officer Tom Farrell ( Kevin Costner ) is grilled by his superiors regarding a recent "unpleasantness." While at a Washington party, Tom meets Susan Atwel ( Sean Young ), and they're soon sharing a steamy love scene in the back of a limo (marvelously parodied in 1993's Hot Shots! Part Deux ). Several months pass before Tom meets Susan again; he discovers she's the mistress of the US Secretary of Defense David Brice ( Gene Hackman ). When Susan is murdered by Brice, his loyal aide ( Will Patton ) dutifully destroys the evidence and invents the fallacious theory that a KGB mole was responsible. Tom is assigned to locate that mole — a perilous situation, since Tom knows that no such mole exists, but must go along with the charade since he was the last person who was seen with Susan. — Hal Erickson