Tue, Jan 9, 2007
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.
Mon, Nov 12, 2007
Jimmy is facing increasing pressure on all sides. He does end up selling many of his illegal businesses to Dante, placing all his eggs into the one basket called the Irish National Bank Bahamas Branch. Jimmy figures that if he needs to leave the country, all the other players in town will be gunning for such business anyway putting Ronnie in the middle, hence the reason for going more legitimate with the bank. The DEA is closing in on Jimmy, and Mary is unable to guarantee safety for him as the Attorney General, who is proceeding on extradition charges, is not answering her calls. Jimmy, who originally was thinking about a quick departure out of the country if either the DEA or the Attorney General were going to force him out, changes his mind and decides that no one is going to push him out of his homeland. However Mary manages to strike an eleventh hour deal with the Attorney General based on new information, namely that Evans is meeting with the Blackmire Group to arrange for money laundering services through Jimmy's bank. The deal Mary negotiates is that Jimmy will become a registered informant - which means that his identity will still remain confidential but he may be required to testify in the future - if he agrees to report all money movements of the Blackmire Group through the bank. Otherwise, Jimmy will face extradition. However Mary can't get through to Jimmy since a pissed-off Jimmy is not taking her calls. Mary decides the only way to get to Jimmy is to arrest him. The timing of the arrest coincides with the DEA ready to nab Jimmy. Desjardins learns however that the people purporting to be DEA are just bounty hunters who are trying to get Jimmy across the border for the DEA. Regardless, Mary and the police get to Jimmy first. Although not totally happy with the Attorney General's deal, Jimmy agrees. Thus the bounty hunters are left empty handed. Meanwhile, Julianna successfully infiltrates the Blackmire Group, and requires legitimate papers, including a Canadian passport, to continue with her ruse at Blackmire. Although Mary and Kiniski think that Julianna will run if given a passport, they also figure that her relationship with Browne at Blackmire is short term and that she will ultimately need her connections with CSIS again; therefore, Mary decides to issue her requested passport. And Hogarty comes back to talk to Jimmy about what he sees now as an unfair deal.
Mon, Dec 10, 2007
Based on Mary's information regarding Blackmire, the Prime Minister's Office shows interest in the case, but Cleary wants to meet with Mary's informant - Julianna - to verify her credibility. Although Mary and Kiniski are wary about setting up such a meeting, they do so regardless, but do not make it face to face, and coach Julianna not to divulge the entire truth, especially her relationship with Browne. Following this meeting, Julianna can tell that Browne knows something and she needs to quickly get away. Mary realizes that she talked to the wrong people or person. Ronnie's cousin, Freddy - Jimmy's distributor in the east - is in Vancouver meeting with Dante and Phan about them taking over Jimmy's weed business. Because Jimmy has frozen out the Americans on the weed trade, the Americans have moved onto pushing high quality and cheap coke. The alliance of weed dealers decide to continue with this approach, thinking that it will either send the Americans packing or push the problem of their existence onto the local coke dealers. Jordan does not back down but rather brings reinforcements for some major action. Jordan does strike back, killing several men working within Jimmy's alliance. The alliance goes into lock-down mode - with the exception of Ronnie, who has to support Sweet in some issue with her pregnancy - while Jimmy tries to work things out with the Americans. He does come to an agreement with Pete. And although the OCU does manage to pick up Jordan, this does not stop a hit on one of the Vancouver weed kingpins.
Mon, Oct 29, 2007
After a supplier sells to the competition, Jimmy engineers a complex plot to punish him. Meanwhile, a police informant learns of an incipient DEA attempt to kidnap Jimmy. At the request of the inspector general, Mary investigates a Chinese dissident involved in a homosexual affair with a married cabinet minister.
Mon, Oct 1, 2007
On the DEA sting in Seattle, Jimmy knows he has no chance to escape so decides to give himself up. Against Altman's wishes (he who is also in Seattle with the DEA), the DEA however has other intentions, namely to take Jimmy out for good and decide to shoot him under the pretense of Jimmy being armed and dangerous. In the process, the DEA shoots Morgan, shoots and kills one of their own in a friendly fire situation, shoots and kills an innocent bystander and allows Jimmy to escape into the night. Because of the situation, Altman heads back to Canada and warns Williams not to expose him. So Jimmy is on the run in Seattle. Meanwhile, the DEA pick up and detain Francine and Stella in their hotel room in Seattle. The killings hit the local news with the implication being that Jimmy was the perpetrator and is on the loose in Seattle. With Royden's death, Mary needs to remain objective and enlists Detective Ogawa with Homicide to lead the investigation. With both situations, all the players are spinning the "facts" for their own benefit. The DEA, although realize the truth will eventually come out, decide to implicate Jimmy anyway in the FBI investigation in the hope that their ultimate goal of Jimmy being dead will be achieved by that time. Jimmy's men back in Vancouver use the club as the central planning point to rescue Jimmy. Michael hatches a plan, and although she previously intends to bail on the entire family, Sweet offers to be the primary pick up person in the US. Coombs works on getting Francine and Stella released. Like a vulture, Dante circles smelling Jimmy's downfall. Eventually, as Jimmy approaches the border, Michael takes one for this brother and acts as a diversion to the border patrol which allows Jimmy to jump the border fence. Back with the Royden situation, Mary shields Katarina from Ogawa's investigation, Katarina who saw a room service waiter in the hallway before the murder. Ogawa learns that "Richard Royden" was an assumed name and thus they have no idea who he really was. Mallaby chastises Mary for keeping him out of the loop in the undercover investigation, implying her career with CSIS is over even before it's begun. However Daniel Boudreau, the CSIS Inspector General, has other ideas. He praises Mary for her work with Royden, and implies she is first in line for the head of the CSIS Asia-Pacific job as well a wanted sexual diversion for him on his trips to Vancouver. Mary does not dissuade his sexual advances.
Mon, Oct 8, 2007
While Mike is in custody, Jimmy manages to make it across the border back into Canada undetected. He temporarily holes up in his summer house, where Raoul has brought his niece, Lorna, as an assistant, much to Bob and Jimmy's chagrin. Ronnie puts pressure on Hogarty, who Ronnie suspects was planning to run off with the money. Although Hogarty swears that he will clean up his act, problems arise when he is suspended from work which means that he no longer has access to the money. Ronnie also has problems with Francine, who accuses him of trying to place a wedge between her and Jimmy. She and Stella also face issues of reporter and FBI harassment. Boudreau temporarily posts Mary to the head of the CSIS Asia-Pacific Region, which does not sit well with Mallaby. The working relationship between Mary and Boudreau goes smoothly, but she manages to keep his romantic advances at bay by bringing up the fact that he's married. With the FBI investigation, Weathers has only circumstantial evidence to implicate Jimmy in the Seattle shootings but has no reason to doubt the testimony of the DEA. However Mary and Ted imply that without a gun as evidence, the FBI cannot be sure that the bullets came from Jimmy's gun. Weathers, Mary and Ted decide that they should raid the Chick-a-dee partly as a front to be able to plant bugs in the club. But Mary also tries to get a hold of Jimmy regarding the gun and the ballistic evidence it could provide to clear his name. Before Jimmy leaves the summer house to a more permanent hiding place, Ronnie and he meet to discuss money issues, problems which are mounting with the ATMs, and Jimmy gives the gun to Ronnie to give to Mary. But before Jimmy can take off, he, at the last minute, decides he needs to go back to Vancouver to deal with some tense issues surrounding Dante and Mike. With the gun imminently in her hands, Mary has it out with Weathers regarding his investigation and about his dealings in Canada.
Tue, Nov 28, 2006
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.
Mon, Oct 15, 2007
Jimmy, hiding out in the Chick-a-dee's basement, continues his sexual dalliance with Lorna, which started at his summer house. Both Ronnie and Bob are concerned about Jimmy's safety because of it. Indeed, Lorna does whatever she can to be with Jimmy, even if it compromises his safety. Ronnie suspects the OCU may have bugged the club during the raid, and does indeed find the place wired and uses it to his advantage. Tensions escalate between the Disciples and Mike, who arms himself with a small arsenal. Major violence is about to erupt between the two when the OCU unwittingly stops it by raiding The 25, Mike's club. Francine continues her rantings against Ronnie, who she claims is stopping her from seeing Jimmy. She needs familial support at this time as Stella has been kicked out of school because of Jimmy. And amidst the turmoil, Sweet announces to Ronnie that she's pregnant, Ronnie's happiness at the news which relieves Sweet. Meanwhile, Kiniski gets the ballistic report back from the gun supplied by Jimmy; he discovers that the gun's firing mechanism was disabled and had not been fired in the time frame of the shootings in Seattle. Behind Weathers' back, Kiniski manages to interview Morgan who tells him the truth behind the gun. Although he is not made privy to all the information, Altman does warn Williams that the DEA story will not hold water for much longer. Williams threatens Altman that he too will go down if the truth comes out and tries to persuade him that taking out Jimmy is the only solution. But one piece of welcome information that Altman receives is that Mary is recommending him as head of the OCU. Unfortunately for the OCU, Morgan passes away before Coombs can get an official statement from him. But Kiniski and Coombs manage to trace Jimmy's gun back to the DEA. Rather than face the music, Williams decides to commit suicide. Knowing they no longer have a case against him, the FBI drop the murder charges against Jimmy, who comes out of hiding.
Tue, Jan 30, 2007
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.
Tue, Dec 5, 2006
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.