Because the subjects of his assignment apparently desired greater proximity, the cold-hearted agent arranged it by stretching out Natalia and Natasha mere inches apart on a narrow bed. Tied down on their backs and gagged with duct-tape, the nude pair yanked at the ropes pinning their wrists above their heads to the bed's headboard while twisting fervently against frustrating restraint. At last Natalia was able to free herself, but because she resented Natasha's earlier blunder she left her partner snared to the bed, only promising that she would send for help.