A government agency later realizes that Thornhill was mistaken for someone they had been targeting but decides not to rectify their mistake or risk their ongoing operation.
Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) is mistaken for another man and kidnapped by an advertising executive. Thornhill is interrogated by a spy who later stages Thornhill's death as a drunken driven accident. Thornhill survives but is swiftly arrested by police. A government agency later realizes that Thornhill was mistaken for someone they had been targeting but decides not to rectify their mistake or risk their ongoing operation.