Intelligence

A spy scandal erupts after a Vancouver drug smuggler (Tracey) acquires sensitive information about a local drug squad and tries to cut a deal for himself.

Bill and Harvey are about to be picked up by Ted's backed agents to inform on Jimmy, but Jimmy has made a deal with Bill for his silence, which includes a one-way trip to Vera Cruz. Roger Deakins, about to be replaced by Mary, is trying to wield his power over her while still in his office by demanding to be involved in all transactions with Jimmy. Jimmy refuses to this. But Ted provides Deakins with some information about what he assumes is the certain permanent silencing of Bill, which would look bad for Mary, in return for support for taking Deakins' job when Deakins himself decides it's time to go. Mike, out of prison, is back working at the club, wanting to show others that he's back in the family business in a big way, much to Jimmy and Ronnie's consternation. Mary's soon to be ex-husband Adam is demanding to know what's going on in her life, she telling him nothing. Jimmy and Francine have a continuing battle over custody of Stella. With Mary and Jimmy, he provides her with some information about Chinese gangs and a mole in her office by the name of Lee Ching. In return, Jimmy wants her assistance in his custody issues with Francine. At the end of the day, both Mary and Jimmy have problems stemming from two deaths. First, Bill is found murdered in Vera Cruz, neither side taking responsibility for it. And second, Colin, Jimmy's recently retired supplier, is shot in his driveway by who Jimmy suspects is biker gangs trying to take over his Vancouver Island territory.

In their domestic dispute, Francine continues to use Stella as her ace in the hole to lure Jimmy into getting back together with her. Jimmy however will do anything to get sole custody of Stella. Everyone finds out that Mike was the one who ordered the hit on Bill. Due to lack of cash, Mike stiffs Raoul and Rosie, his hit people, so he accepts a dope run with the bikers to raise money. Ted gets Mary's OK to place surveillance on Mike. The run goes sour, but Mike manages to avert getting caught by both the police and Ted's men. Jimmy needs to smooth things over with Raoul, Rosie and Harvey regarding Bill's hit. Ronnie advises Jimmy to ship Mike off somewhere as he is causing problems. Mary, in order to subvert Deakins' power grab and satisfy her superiors, gets advice from Don Frazer to infiltrate Jimmy's operation with an undercover agent. From her street connections, Mary recruits Christina - "Tina" - a stripper, who manages to infiltrate Jimmy's operation by getting a stripping job at the club under the stage name Sapphire. Back at the OCU office, the wire room finds out about an arms shipment to Africa that is tied to local broker, Randy Bingham. Jimmy advises Mary to scare Bingham into thinking the police know about his operation. Jimmy assists Mary in doing so. The wire room discovers that Jimmy and Mary's ploy worked just as Jimmy predicted.

Using an outside long-time contact, Mary tries to set-up a comprehensive wire tap on suspected mole, Lee Ching. Both Mary and Jimmy are respectively expanding networks outside of their organizations. Mary recruits Singh, a money launderer, with threats of jail time if he doesn't cooperate and become an informer. And Mary's recruitment of Tina is thus far proving to be useful, Tina who has successfully infiltrated the club. It helps that Jimmy has a thing for Tina. Jimmy is closer to setting up his ATM network as a front for laundering money. He also sets up a new partnership with a Vietnamese gang - a new marijuana grow-op and supply situation. Meanwhile, Deakins and Ted continue their alliance against Mary. They decide to enlist the help of a contact in the US DEA, who they explicitly tell their objective of discrediting Mary and stop her attempt to take Deakins job. Their plan is to entrap Jimmy in an illegal operation. This would be all the better is Jimmy is arrested in the States. On the domestic front for Jimmy, Francine visits her lawyer in the continued custody battle for Stella. Francine wants to show Jimmy that she's not going to be a push-over, but also doesn't want Jimmy out of hers and Stella's lives. Mike, who successfully completed his drug run for the biker's, is continuing to cause problems for Jimmy and Ronnie with his deceit and own substance abuse. But just as Jimmy is about to ship Mike out, Mike thwarts an attempted hit on Jimmy.

Edward Forrest has begun his surveillance on Lee for Mary. Lee, cheating on his wife, has a mistress who wants her brother to kill Lee's wife since Lee says that he can't leave her. Mary later learns the brother is a local leader in the Asian gang, the Red Eagles. Jimmy has his ATM network in place to start his money laundering business. Jimmy decides to reward Mike, who saved his and Ronnie's life, as the money transporter for the ATMs, this against Ronnie's better judgment. Tina, Mary's new informant at the Chickadee, is getting cozy with Jimmy's banker, John Hogarty, much to Jimmy's delight, Jimmy who will now have some leverage in his banking dealings. With other business, Randy Bingham, a stock broker, approaches Jimmy with a business problem: gun shipments. Jimmy passes this information to Mary in exchange for information on the club attempted shooting. Ted and Deakins' alliance with the DEA deepen. The DEA contact man, George Williams, and Ted want to conduct a reverse sting on Jimmy, but Deakins feels he doesn't have enough time in the job for that tactic to be effective for his own purposes. He wants whatever done to ensure Mary doesn't get his job, so they look into wire-tapping Mary's apartment. However Ted plans on double dealing against Deakins and Mary, while Mary plots against Deakins and Ted. Mary meets with James Mallaby and Dick Royden, two bigwigs with CSIS, about her career advancement to CSIS and Deakins' job. Royden wants deeper intelligence regarding the US spy system in Canada. He later confides to Mallaby that he doesn't feel Mary is the appropriate candidate for Deakins' job.

Tensions mount at the club between Tina and Sweet as Sweet doesn't like Tina's territorial attitude with clients, especially since she is the new girl in the club. However, Jimmy backs Tina as he wants her to uncover information on one of those clients, Jimmy's banker, John Hogarty. Ted meets with Williams of the DEA and agrees to hand over his files on Jimmy in exchange for meeting Williams' undercover operator on the sting on Jimmy. Mary finds out that the attempted hit on Jimmy was by the Vietnamese, who they blame Jimmy for stealing business. Jimmy initially doesn't believe Mary when she tells him as he has had good relations thus far with the Vietnamese, but later figures it is Phan's former supplier who ordered the hit. Phan, in turn, promises Jimmy that he will deal with the situation if that is indeed the case. Instead of cash, Bingham offers Jimmy a stock offering in exchange for transferring the gun shipment. Mary, who needs more time to implement a plan against Bingham, asks Jimmy to accept the deal, Mary and OCU who will back up Jimmy's payment if the stock is worthless. Jimmy and Ronnie get an offer to buy the club property for $10 million from developers who want to build a $300 million block long development. Ronnie in particular adamantly declines the offer. Mary and Ted's surveillance team apprehend Lee. Mary offers Lee a deal - he work undercover against the Red Eagles and he doesn't go to jail. He agrees. Stella is feeling trapped at home with Francine, and Maxine suggests to Jimmy that he bury the hatchet with Francine to make Stella's home life better. Jimmy does so, but Francine doesn't realize it is solely for Stella's benefit. This cease fire between Jimmy an Francine is short lived as Stella runs away from home and shows up at the club. When Francine calls, Jimmy is able to placate her by offering to have a family breakfast the next morning.

Lee starts to provide information to Mary while he continues his association with the Red Eagles. He tells Mary that the Red Eagles are planning to kill a Chinese dissident. Ted and Deakins are worried about Mary's turning of Lee, as it will expedite her move to Deakins' job. What's more, Mary will be able to tie Lee's hiring directly back to Deakins. Deakins wants Ted to move faster with his DEA contact against Jimmy to thwart Mary's power play. The DEA thinks the best way to get Jimmy is through the club. Mary's upper hand may be short lived as Lee is executed by Donny, Lee's girlfriend's brother and his contact with the Red Eagles. While doing their surveillance, Mary and Martin witness the execution. Katarina informs Mary of a big meeting to take place between some Chinese and American businessmen, the nature of the meeting is as yet unknown. Bingham asks Jimmy to move another shipment of guns, an act which would help Mary. However Jimmy will not help Mary out unless she provides information on Colin's murder. All she is prepared to tell him is that the bikers are indeed involved, which is not enough information for Jimmy to help Mary out. The Disciples - the bikers - get to Jimmy on two fronts, by squeezing him out of the ATM business in Vancouver and by taking over Jimmy's growers on Vancouver Island. Ronnie thinks that they need to exert a little pressure back onto the bikers or else the bikers will walk all over them; this stance is reiterated by the Vietnamese. Ultimately, Jimmy may have to strike a deal with the Disciples. Karl, one of Mike's old prison mates, wants to start supplying A-grade marijuana, which may solve some of Jimmy's supply problems. The OCU is tailing Mike on his cash runs. Mike is doing things the old-fashioned way, carrying the money in a guitar case. On one of Mike's cash runs, the bikers slash his throat and steal the guitar case. Mike manages to stumble back to the club seriously injured. At the club, Hogarty shows his weakness for Tina when he gets taken down by one of the club's bouncers. On the domestic fronts, Jimmy is softening with Francine, while Mary wants a little distance between herself and Adam, against who she obtains a restraining order. And Ronnie and Sweet hit an impasse when Ronnie refuses to let Sweet meet his mother because Sweet is a stripper and black.

Mary thinks there is another mole in CSIS who tipped the Red Eagles as to Lee's helping CSIS. She takes action by asking Vancouver Homicide to take charge of the investigation, taking CSIS and the possible mole out of the investigation picture. She also requests the telephone records of the half dozen or so possible moles, all of them high ranking officers. Most are cooperative, except for Deakins, who complains to Mallaby, who further tells Mary to desist. She does, but not before she learns from Homicide that a telephone call was made from Deakins' telephone to a Hong Kong police commissioner the day before Lee was murdered, the commissioner in turn who telephoned Donny. Jimmy is facing increasing problems with the Disciples. Ronnie is certain it was the Disciples who slashed Mike's throat and stole the $750,000. Jimmy gets his network, including Desjardins and a couple of his uniform buddies, to look for the culprits and the money, with a $500,000 reward. Many of Jimmy's contacts are backing out of deals with Jimmy because they fear retaliation from the Disciples. And Ronnie wants to hit back at the Disciples. Jimmy and the rest of the gang want to make sure first that it was indeed the bikers before doing anything. After Jimmy gets confirmation from Mary that it was the bikers that hit Mike, Jimmy confronts Dante, who denies everything. But Jimmy strikes a deal with Phan to hit the bikers' money laundering operation. Through all this, Francine lends emotional support, but who is also concerned for Stella's safety. On other business, Jimmy takes a meeting with Karl's marijuana supplier, who is actually Williams' undercover DEA operator. Martin learns from Katarina that a Canadian research scientist may be illegally selling seed patents to American and Chinese businesses. After talking to his wife Casey, Mary arrests Bingham and convinces him to provide her with info on his gun-running connections. Jimmy agrees to Mary to work with Bingham, he only doing so since she provided information of Mike's hit.

Jimmy's gang, with help from the Vietnamese and Desjardins, plot on how to hit the Disciples' money laundering business, Jimmy only wanting to scare them a little with no one getting hurt or killed. Tina secretly overhears the plotting. However, the Vietnamese end up shooting the money courier point blank. Mary meets Flannegan, Forrest's ex-CIA contact, who provides Mary info on Royden's U.S. ties, implying that Royden is still working for the CIA as a mole in CSIS. This could be true as Royden is coaching Deakins on how to work his way through Homicide's investigation of Lee's murder unscathed. Flannegan found nothing on any of the other CSIS directors. In exchange, Flannegan wants information on Luiz Falcone, a Mexican cocaine exporter; Mary has nothing on him as of yet. Later, they discover that Falcone is protected by the DEA. With the Homicide investigation, Mallaby wants Mary to use her influence to get Homicide to cease asking questions about who had access to files on Lee as it is causing concern in Ottawa. Although Mary says she will, she continues to work with Homicide to obtain the information she wants. She and Harvey learn that information on Lee was running rampant throughout the upper eschelon of CSIS and the Solicitor General's office. Ultimately, Mary wants Deakins suspended, either voluntarily or forcibly if need be. Martin, through Katarina's arranged party, learns that an American agri-business is planning on stealing the Canadian researcher's seed patents. Winston, Williams undercover agent, realizes that Jimmy is having him followed and thus has to be careful in communication with Williams and Altman. Jimmy is with Winston however when they and their trunk-load of weed are pulled over by police. Ronnie negotiates with Sweet on setting her up in a new stash house. Sweet, to hedge her risk, agrees only if the condo is under her name. Relations between Jimmy and Francine take a tumble when Jimmy learns that Francine has been telling her lawyer all about Jimmy's shady dealings.

During the traffic detainment, Winston talks the constable into confirming his undercover status solely with Altman, as he tells the constable that Jimmy has a mole in the ranks of the police. Following confirmation, the constables let Winston and Jimmy go. Later, Altman buys off the constable's silence. Although Winston and Williams are somewhat concerned about too many people, namely the constable, knowing what's going on, Altman talks Williams into taking the risk of continuing with their plan as it would take too much effort to set up another sting operation. Ronnie warns Jimmy of Winston, who Ronnie does not trust. Later, Jimmy does take possession of Winston's first delivery. Following the Vietnamese killing of the Disciples' courier who turns out to be Dante's nephew Nick, Jimmy figures that it would be a good idea to place a little distance between himself and the Vietnamese, Phan from which who plans on laying low in Hawaii. As not to attract suspicion onto himself, Jimmy does visit Dante to offer condolences and to restart negotiations on Vancouver business territory. Mike identifies his attacker, who is a known Disciple. Because of and despite Nick's death (Jimmy also learns that the gun Nick had in his possession was the one used to kill Colin, Jimmy's Vancouver Island supplier), Jimmy doesn't want anyone orchestrating a revenge hit on Mike's attacker. However later, Mike spots his attacker in a club, and Tremblay ends the matter with the attacker. Jimmy, acting partly in response to Francine talking to her lawyer, shuts her out of family relations by sleeping with another woman. In response, Francine turns to Ronnie, who she begs to be her ally to regain her position in the family. Hogarty and Coombs convince Jimmy that owning an offshore bank is the best and safest way to hold his money. Although Sweet agrees to front the stash house, the deal falls through as one of the neighbours in the building is the head of the commercial crime squad, which scares Ronnie off. Although Deakins is forced to resign, Mary convinces him to stay on to inform on Royden, who she believes is her biggest problem in CSIS. She also recruits Altman, by dangling the OCU directorship in front of his nose, to work against Royden. Mary finally gets in contact with Tina, who tells Mary what little she has learned about Jimmy's business. Mary is unhappy with Tina's lack of information, Mary threatening Tina with deportation if she doesn't deliver. Forrest and Flannegan continue their surveillance of Falcone and the DEA and manage to install a secret camera aboard Falcone's boat. Although Mary wants to be briefed on the goings-on of Falcone before either Flannegan or Forrest do anything, Flannegan is more interested in the $1 million if he sends Falcone back to Mexico. Mary learns that Falcone's main business is a drugs for guns racket, which is confirmed when Bingham meets with Falcone and the DEA.

The DEA begin tracking Jimmy's marijuana shipment and follow the distribution channel into the U.S. Their surveillance is so far successful, however the DEA doesn't have another large stash of weed for the next delivery and try to push cocaine instead. Winston is hesitant since Jimmy is not in the coke trade and may smell a rat, but Winston manages to at least ask the question to Jimmy without suspicion. Jimmy refuses the cocaine, which leads to Altman wanting to move on Jimmy's people in the States immediately just in case the delay causes an issue. Tina overhears Jimmy's plan for storing his money offshore, but the lack of detail she can provide is irking Mary. Later, Tina manages to steal Hogarty's briefcase, but needs Mary's help in getting it unlocked. Mary asks Flannegan to dig deeper and Bingham to provide information into the workings of Falcone and see if his association with the DEA is official or unofficial. Bingham had no idea the DEA was involved. Mary has to remind him that he is working for her, and no longer for his own business. Mary needs Jimmy's help in the guns shipment. With this deal, Flannegan wants and gets Mary's assurance that he will get first shot at Falcone once the deal is completed. Jimmy gets a tip on some upcoming government ferry contracts and possible inside connections to bid successfully. In addition to Deakins' assistance, Mary recruits Katarina to help her go after Royden. Katarina is successful in her initial Royden related task. Mary also confirms support from Senator Dugay's office against Royden. Martin confronts a Canadian seed patent research scientist and tries to convince him to work for the OCU in a win-win situation. Jimmy and Dante meet. Jimmy offers Dante a deal on the possible money laundering through his soon to be acquired offshore bank, in return for sharing territory on the ATMs in Vancouver. Jimmy also offers Winston's cocaine to Dante. Mike and his business partner, Red, negotiate to buy a competing nightclub.

Because of the large amount of money required and the fact that he really wants it to happen, Jimmy uses his shipping company as collateral for purchase of an offshore bank, the First National Bank of Ireland Bahamas Branch. To throw Mary off the track, Jimmy later agrees to work for her in handling Bingham's shipping deal in return for her assistance in his ATM problems. The DEA sweeps in on Alex Morgan, Jimmy's distributor in the US. The DEA forces Alex to work clandestinely against Jimmy, specifically to get him into the US. Senator Dugay's office confirms Mary's fears regarding Royden, but the Senator, working solely through her aide Roxanne Jameson, orders the investigation against Royden go underground. Ultimately, the senator and Roxanne want to turn Royden rather than expose him, a direction Mary does not support. With the sting against Royden, Mary recruits an inner circle of Kiniski, Katarina and Deakins, the latter totally under duress. Mary sets Katarina up with a fake personal history and business front, under which Royden later tells Katarina that he is planning on moving to Vancouver to head the Asia-Pacific operation of his company, namely CSIS. This information is confirmed by Deakins. All the while, Altman continues his search for information on Mary's dealings, and does find out about her connection to the senator, Mary's work against Royden, and Royden's plans to move to Vancouver. However Altman shows a personal side of himself that he probably would not like the OCU and CSIS to know about. Based on Ronnie's concerns, Jimmy tests Francine's loyalty to the family, a test she passes with flying colors. Jimmy also continues his mistrust of Winston. However Winston quickly notices the tail Jimmy has placed on him. Mike and Red's deal to buy the club falls apart when they discover Ray was deep in debt and tries to run off with their money. Despite the best efforts of Ray's mother Joanne, Mike and Red manage to get their money back from Ray. Sweet continues to negotiate with Ronnie and Jimmy on the stash house arrangement. Despite warnings, Phan decides to stick around Vancouver instead of the original plan of laying low in Maui. This situation gets worse when Dante kidnaps East Side Johnny, threatening Jimmy of Johnny's torture in order to find out what happened with his nephew's hit.

Dante does kill Johnny, but Ronnie and Jimmy aren't sure whether he talked before his death. Phan, Johnny's cousin, wants to retaliate, this against Jimmy's wishes, but Phan manages to enlist the help of Tremblay in his scheming. Jimmy and company are cautious about what Dante might do, and as such, Francine and Stella move back in with Jimmy. Ronnie also enlists Sweet to act as a buffer between Jimmy's gang and the Disciples since Sweet is old friends with Dante's sister, Rayann. Morgan convinces Jimmy to go to the States under the pretense of renegotiating their contract, he planning to do the trip with his reunited family. Meanwhile Ted finds out from his source, Morley, that Royden's plan does not include a promotion for him. As Royden doesn't know that Ted knows, Royden asks Ted for help against Mary. Since Mary finds out Royden's grand plans, she shreds her informant files. With help from Katarina, Mary gains access to Royden's communications records through his cell phone. However, Katarina is not totally safe as Royden rifles through her purse without her knowledge. Mary's battles with the senator and Roxanne about how to handle the Royden situation escalates to threats from both sides. Ultimately, Royden, wanting the informant files, threatens Mary with exposure of Jimmy's relationship with the OCU, which she in turn must tell Jimmy for his protection. With Michael's new club, he faces territory battles with the Disciples, who use old fashioned measures to slow business into the club.

Jimmy and Mary are each facing major crises, both surrounding one individual, Dick Royden. Jimmy risks being exposed as part of OCU's intel network, but he doesn't know by who. Mary refuses to tell Jimmy who it is. If Jimmy goes down because of it, his entire team goes down with him. He calls upon his inner circle, specifically Desjardins and Coombs, to find out who, and will pay any cost for the information and the ultimate disposal of that person. He also stashes a major amount of cash just as a precautionary measure. While his inner circle deals with this issue, Jimmy decides to take Francine and Stella to Seattle on a family vacation, unbeknownst to him that the Seattle meet is a sting against him. During Jimmy's absence, Sweet learns that Dante does think that Jimmy was at least partly responsible for Nick's death. Although he knows that this is not what Jimmy would want, Ronnie wants Phan to take out Dante to get rid of those tensions. Mary needs support from Ottawa to expose Royden as a mole, something hard for her to come by, this before he becomes head of CSIS Asia-Pacific. Mary's team discovers that Royden has the OCU intel network list, and it's just a matter of time when he places the names on the list to the actual people, including Katarina. This not only means that the entire network risks being exposed, but that Mary will lose her job and cannot offer any protection to the network. Royden has a particular interest in Randy Bingham. Mary warns her intel network of the situation and tells them to "disappear" at least for a little while. Ultimately Ottawa relieves Mary of her duties in the Royden investigation. Mary decides to take desperate, drastic measures: let it slip through the back door to the US authorities that Royden's cover is exposed. Forrest, who ends up being the informant, finds out that Royden is only one of several agents the US has undercover in Canada. Jimmy's team discovers Royden's name just as Mary obtains direct evidence to arrest Royden on spying. Before they can arrest him, Mary and Kiniski, along with Katarina, discover Royden's dead body, Katarina who admits she was going to kill him but that "someone beat her to it". Meanwhile in Seattle, Jimmy, who is at the meet with Morgan, realizes that the meet is a sting operation although the DEA doesn't yet know that he knows. Holed up in bathroom, Jimmy calls Francine and Stella to say his tearful goodbyes before what he sees as his ultimate demise.