Taking place after the events of World of Tomorrow, A Gilded Cage sees Agent 47 travel to Marrakesh, Morocco, where banker Claus Hugo Strandberg who was to be on trial for billion-dollar investment fraud and is facing charges of fraud against the Moroccan people is freed by mercenaries and evades prosecution by taking refuge at the local Swedish consulate. General Reza Zaydan, a high ranking army officer hoping to stage a coup to seize power Morocco, who controlled the mercenaries forcibly frees Strandberg and allows him to retreat to the Swedish Consulate to escape prosecution.

The escape has cause an outbreak of rioting, which Zaydan looks to take advantage of in order to destabilize the Moroccan government. Zaydan monitors the situation from an abandoned schoolhouse, while Strandberg remains held up in the Consulate. Zaydan, who secretly controls the mercenaries, plans to use Strandberg's escape to drive the Moroccan public to riot, creating an opportunity for a military coup d'état.

Hamilton-Lowe, a construction contractor with lucrative contracts with the Moroccan government, has hired the ICA to eliminate both Strandberg and Zaydan. 47 assassinates both men, preventing the coup.

Two days later, in New York City, two men discuss the deaths of the agent in Johannesburg and Cobb who also carried a key, as well as the failure of the coup and the destruction of the Ether virus. They realize that these events have all been orchestrated as an attack on Providence. They discover that a vault which held information on Providence's assets and operatives, requiring two keys to open, has been compromised and raided. One of the men warns the other, the "Director", to begin preparing defenses now that Providence has been exposed.