Maxwell Smart is the top analyst of the USA's most important and most secret security organisation CONTROL, but while he dreams of becoming a field agent, going as far as passing all the entrance exams, his boss The Chief refuses, believing him to be too valuable as an analyst. The CONTROL base is suddenly attacked by their arch-nemesis, evil organisation KAOS and all the field operatives are either exposed or killed.In the wake of the attack, the depleted security force find out that their enemies, run by a man known as Siegfried, have been gathering nuclear weapons, planning to sell them to unstable dictators and throw the world into chaos, and Max's dreams finally come true when he is made Agent 86. The new operative is partnered with the beautiful Agent 99, whose plastic surgery has protected her identity while her fellow agents were killed. As the pair begin their investigations, they soon come to realise that there may be an even bigger conspiracy going on which keeps KAOS one step ahead of them all the time. And it's going in within CONTROL headquarters itself...