"We'll have to find you a new name." "Something for the new you." "Let me know how you want me to handle your mother's funeral, OK?" "So how's the weather out there?" "I hate the cold." "Your team sucks, by the way." "You got no defence." "Found your offence in an old folks'home." "Seriously, you should come out." "Meet my friends." "Right." "Yeah, as soon as you can make it." "All right, yeah." "Ciao." "Hey, babe, how are you doing?" "Everything good?" "All I want to do is sleep all day." "Why not stay in bed?" "You don't have to get up." "You're sleeping for two now." "You want to go look at the house today?" "Yes, I do." "I just got to figure out when." "I've got a busy day." "I wonder who this is going to be." "Did I mention that twins run in my family?" "You're kidding me?" "I don't know." "Feels like it could be twins." "One of each, maybe." "Seriously, twins?" "Who's this?" "I hoped you might recognise him." "Anybody you know?" "Not sure." "Looks vaguely familiar." "He's a local player?" "Yeah, think so." "I think it might connect to the shooting of Dante's lieutenant." "Maybe Dante took revenge." " Everything's related somehow." " Six degrees of homicide." "The world gets smaller every day." "Climate definitely is changing." "I think I remember who this is." "He's connected to Phan." "Can you confirm that?" "Let's get forensics down here and look for slugs." " Yes, Ma'am?" " Julianna." "Where are we?" "I'm expecting a call." "We need to decide whether she's a liability on this operation." "She's reckless." "She enjoys the game too much." " She does enjoy the game." " Shall we take the risk?" "We have Reardon on the inside." "Do we need another source?" "Having them on the game allows one to confirm the other's intelligence." "Are either of them entirely trustworthy?" "Probably not." "Reardon won't tell us everything that's going on." "Neither will she." "But between the two of them, we have a more accurate picture of Blackmire's inner workings." " I want to see her face to face." " Yes, Ma'am." " Who is it?" " It's me." " What happened?" "Are you all right?" " No, I'm not all right." "Your crazy wife was here last night when I got home." " She was here in your apartment?" " Right there, waiting for me." "How did she get in?" "I assume with the keys she stole out of my coat from the staff room." "What did she say?" "She said if I don't stay away from you, she'll have me killed." "She said that?" " Should I call the cops on her?" " No, don't do thant." "She's not serious." "You're sure about that?" "I'm sorry about this." "I'm going to deal with it." "I will not let her threaten me like that." "If she comes near me again, I'm pressing charges against her." "I'm going to deal with it." "Are you going to stay for a while?" "There's a regime change coming." "Power shift in the dope trade." " What's that going to look like?" " God only knows." "I think we can expect a lot more of these, that's for sure." "This is Phan." "Give me a couple of minutes." "He's over here." "Take a look." "Tell me if this is your guy." "Yeah." "That's him." "Got a name for me?" "Don Li." "What's his relationship to you?" "He's my right hand." "He's been with me for a long time." "Ten years." "Any idea who might be involved here?" "I don't know." "No." "We're concerned about an escalating gang war." "We don't want that happened." "If you could steer us in the right direction, we might make some arrests that would stop that from happening." "I got no idea who did this." "Homicide will want to talk to you." "When they're done, give me a call, we'll have another conversation." "OK, things are definitely heating up." "The dead man is Phan's second in command." "All right." "Thank you." "Thank you." "OK." "So, Mexico?" "What happened?" "I told George that my mother was dying, like you told me to." "He insisted on flying back on the company jet." "Did you travel alone?" "No." "With us was the Irish banker, you know, Gordon Evans." "They spent most of the flight talking and I pretend to sleep." "Did you overhear those conversations?" " Of course." " What did they talk about?" "Many things." "Yes." "North American water rights." "The movement of cheap labour from Mexico." "How to move the money from country to country." "What problems there will be." "The banker seemed to know what he was talking about." "Did they make any arrangements?" "Was anything finalised?" "They agreed to use Mr Evans'bank in the Bahamas for the business deals." "I made the notes." "It is all in there." "Anything else we should know about your relationship with George?" "Yes." "He wants to give me the new history." "What does that involve?" "He's still waiting to buy my contract from Katarina." "He is willing to pay up to $250,000." " You were going to arrange for that." " I'll let Katarina know." "And after that is OK, I will get a new name and get a makeover." "Like Cinderella." "Right." "OK, you've done extremely well, but if Browne saw that notebook, you'd be dead." "Martin will give you a number to call and dictate your notes." " No problem." " I'm still a bit concerned about you being exposed." "When he looks into your background, which he's already doing." " It will be stressful for you." " I do not worry about that." "I have a lot of experience in how to lie." "If he looks into my background, it's OK." "I erased my footsteps." "Did you talk any more about marriage?" "I told him, "No more talk, more action."" ""You get divorced first and then we talk about marriage."" "How did that go over?" "He's going to tell his wife this weekend." "We're running a complicated operation against Blackmire." "There are very large sums involved." "I want to make sure that you understand that your life is at risk if you revealed your relationship with us." "I know how to keep secrets." "I make my living keeping my mouth shut." "All right." "Good." "I'll make sure Katarina's prepared for a call from George." "Is there anything else we need to deal with?" "Please help me with my mother's funeral." "George keeps asking how I want to bury my mother." "He wants to pay for it." "That's taken care of." "You can tell George you decided on cremation and it's been done." "You have a receipt for that?" "He will want to pay for it." "We've got a receipt, a death certificate and a box of ashes." "It's all taken care of." "George can buy you a nice urn for your mum." "My right hand gets gunned down." "Phan's right hand gets gunned down." "The DEA is gunning for you." "Something's in the works." " It's not just coincidence." " Let's see what happens over the next couple of weeks." "Keep our ear to the ground." "I'm hearing the American crew is bragging about taking my guy down." "I can't let this shit get around without some kind of payback." "My people are nervous." "So are Phan's." "We've got to find their main guy, take him out and everyone round him." "We don't want a war if we don't know how big the other guy's army is." "Let's find that out first." "We'll let everybody know we're working together, the three of us." "That we formed an alliance and not to fuck with us." "I don't think we should show our hand if we don't have to." "Let's get all our facts together first." "I agree." "We should just stay focused." "Do our business." "Make our moves now." "We'll introduce you guys to our distributors from the east coast." "Get things solidified and you can start supplying that market." " Just let these guys go?" " Nobody retaliates until it's done." "We need peace to achieve the things we want to achieve." "We don't have the resources for a protracted war." "Let's just stick to business." "Inspector." "A piece of intel says this guy's up here, looking for Reardon." " Jordan." "The ex-DEA guy?" " Yeah, that's an alias." "He uses half a dozen others." "Turns out he's quite the little globe-trotter." " This came from the DEA?" " No, from the Brits." "MI5." "Where did MI5 come across him?" "Jordan was popping up around American military bases in Europe." "MI5 was interested because he was connected to a cocaine bust at a base near London." "So what's MI5's theory?" "They're speculating that after Jordan arrived in London, a few dope distributors were killed." " Jordan was connected to those?" " Not directly, but circumstantially." "Same thing in Frankfurt when he was there." "In both cases, there was chaos in the dope distribution business immediately following these killings then a major shift occurred, putting Americans at the top of the food chain." "That sounds like what we're seeing now in Vancouver." "Based on what we know so far, yeah." "It fits." "Jordan arrives in Vancouver and immediately starts stalking Reardon." "Then Dante's second in command turns up full of lead." "Then, as of this morning, Phan's second in command, same thing." "We're seeing a new American crew aggressively taking turf away from both Phan and Dante." "So yeah, it fits the pattern MI5 describes." "Where's Jordan now?" "Have we got any recent reports?" "Not for a couple of days." "All right, stay on this." "Did you hear about the shooting of Phan's lieutenant?" "We need to do something to stop this from escalating." "So that's my job now?" "You guys have given up policing the city?" "It's going to take both of us." "What are you going to do about it?" "How are your negotiations with Phan and Dante going?" "That's going to take a little time." "I'll let you know." "One other thing." "Your bank partner flew back from Mexico with the CEO of the Blackmire." "Talk to him and find out what's going on." "I've got a couple of other things to deal with." "I'll call you." "Heard about Phan's guy?" "He got taken out last night or early this morning." "Yeah, we know that." "What are you guys doing about it?" "Nobody knows, but there's talk of an American crew going after Dante." "That's it?" " What about Jordan?" "Any contact?" " No, I haven't heard a word." "Jesus, man, what am I paying you for?" "Is Jordan connected to these murders?" "I don't know." "Could be." "Well, put it out there - make sure homicide knows about Jordan." "Maybe it'll help them put a connection together." "All right." "Watch your back." "Cops have no idea what's going on." "They're playing catch-up." "We should just quit fucking around." "Reach out to the Americans, see if they want to to business." "You want me to put feelers out?" "Let them know we're paying attention." "They want something, they let us know." "Maybe we could sit down and work something out." "I'll ask Jorge to set it up for us." "CIA is here." " Could be interesting." " Send them in, please." "Mr Cruikshank from the CIA." "Rick." "How can I help you?" "It's this Blackmire Group operation." "Keeps throwing us curve balls." "What's the latest?" "Do you know this woman?" "Don't believe I do." "These were taken where?" "Here." "Vancouver." "What context would I know her?" "She's an escort from Romania." "Arrived two years ago." "Met Mr Browne at the Blackmire conference a month ago." "What's her name?" "The one she's using is Julianna Vejzna." "What's your concern?" "Mr Browne seems to have fallen in love with her." "Is that a complication for you?" "No, not at all." "It's creating an opportunity." "We think she would make a very good confidential informant." " You've approached her?" " No, we thought maybe you could do that for us." "Why me?" "She's a recent Canadian citizen." "She's one of yours now." "And you may be able to offer her some inducements that we could not." "What sort of inducements would she be looking for?" "She may have family she would like to have join her here or something." "What's the approach, how will it work?" "Perhaps she could be picked up on a charge of soliciting." "We could see what she'd be willing to do." "And then we'd hand her on to you?" "We'd be handling her, yes." "Can you tell me where your operation sits." "Where the goal is?" "It may help me to know what you might expect of this informant." "It's the money-laundering aspect of Blackmire we're most concerned with." "Mr Browne is putting together a consortium." "Various international financial institutions." "The purpose of which is to hide money for his company and clients." "We've tried to get somebody inside Mr Browne's inner circle for years." "I'm hoping Miss Vejzna might be the one we're looking for." "And you have contact information for Miss Vejzna?" " It's all in the file." " All right " "I'll see what I can do and let you know." "Thank you." "Appreciate the help." "That's what we're here for." " Are they playing head games with us?" " Not sure what you mean." "Does the CIA know Julianna's our agent?" "Are they trying to steal her?" "I suppose that could be what's going on." "More likely not, but possible." "Christ." "So how do I play this?" "Do I pretend-recruit Julianna or admit she's already ours?" "Never admit anything." "Play along." "They've tried to get someone inside Blackmire, unsuccessfully, for years and here they see a chance." "With Julianna in place, you have a very valuable intel source." "One you can barter with." "The trick is not to lose it to the CIA." "Right." "OK, so here's what we can do." "I'll have you approach Julianna, for show, in case they're watching." "Pitch her the idea." "She'll insist on being handled by us." "Not the CIA." "That keeps us in the middle." "We'll hear any intel from Julianna first." "And decide whether to pass it on to the CIA or keep it for ourselves." "That sounds like the way to go." " Let her know what's going on." " Yes, Ma'am." "Is Julianna at home?" " I believe she's sleeping." " Put the wire up." "I guess she's not up to talking to you today." "We'll see about that." "You can't threaten to kill people, she's a citizen, for Christ's sakes." " She's gonna call the cops." " I didn't threaten to kill her." " To stay away from you." " She didn't take it that way." " She says you threatened to kill her." " Well, she's a child." "Just leave Lorna alone." "You don't care about her." "It's me you're pissed at." "Jesus Christ, give me a break." "You don't think the last couple months has been a little rough on me?" "You don't think I deserve a little break, maybe?" " I'm sorry." " Yeah." "Always." "How did it ever get like this?" "It got like this because you can't stop." "You think I've got problems?" "You're addicted to the whole game." "You don't have to be here." "You could disappear, but you don't want to." "If you wanted to, you would have done it by now, but you won't." "I can't just walk away..." "Here we go!" "I don't want to hear it." "Just leave Lorna alone." "You think I put in 15 years with you so some chicky you want to screw gets to cash in instead of me?" "You know, if you want to fuck somebody, fuck me." "I used to be fun, remember?" " How's Mike doing?" " In Frisco, putting some distribution." "You know this American crew that just come on the scene?" "Yeah, they came looking for as much weed as they could buy." " Can you get us a meeting?" " I'll check it out and give you a call." " I'm sorry, were you sleeping?" " I was up all night." "I am very tired." "It's important." "There's been some new developments you need to know about." "Sit down." "We've just had a visit from the CIA." "They're running an operation on the Blackmire Group." "What is it about?" "We don't know, but they've asked us to recruit you as a potential informer." "But I am already working for you." "They don't know that and we're not about to tell them." "We'll have to stage a couple of meetings with you." "In those meetings, we're going to ask you to become an informant." "You're going to agree..." "but you're going to say you'll only speak to one person." "That person is going to be me, do you understand?" "I... don't want to work for the CIA." "You won't be." "You'll continue working for us." "You've done an excellent job for us so far and we want you to continue." "But we don't want to risk offending the elephant." "Do I have a choice?" "I'm afraid not." "What do I need to do?" "You're going to go to a restaurant called Blue Tail today at three." "And have lunch there, alone." "I'm going to approach you." "We're gonna have a conversation." "The next day, we're gonna meet again and have another conversation." "I'm gonna ask you some questions." "I've written them down." "You're going to answer them as written." "Read it, know it... and flush it." "Three o'clock at the Blue Tail." "I want to update you about some developments of the bank." " Everything all right?" " Everything's good." "I spoke further with our friend George Browne from Blackmire." "I mentioned there's no problem shipping the cash from South America to the bank." "Where do we pick it up?" "Most of the cash seems to be in private hands." "In Panama, Colombia, Guatemala..." "How much?" "We're talking hundreds of millions." "Thanks." "What kind of business is he doing to have all that cash lying around?" "He was vague on its origins, but he did mention he wanted to stop in Costa Rica." "He wants us to drop it off in Costa Rica?" " A portion of it." " What's up there?" "Reading between the lines, I'd say he's trying to aid some political solution there." "We need details, where it's stashed, how to get it on board the ships." " My lawyer will do the go-betweens." " OK, that's perfect." "And on the heels of my conversation with Mr Browne," "I think it would be timely to increase bank machine acquisitions." "Those ATMs are getting harder to come by." "I've been trying to get some, but the Feds are cracking down on who they sell them to." "I could approach them on behalf of the bank." "It's a natural extension of our business." "We already operate cash machines throughout the Caribbean." "We're a legitimate financial institution, looking to expand into the north American market." "I'd like to see us pursue 10,000 machines." "10,000 bank machines?" "That's gonna get their attention." "You've gotta keep that money moving, that's how fortunes are built." "You wanna take that on?" "That would be a big load off my back." "All right, then." "I'm off to the islands for a week or two." "Stay in touch." "Let us know what's going on." " What do you think?" " I'm getting nervous about this bank and all these guys we're suddenly doing business with." "How much heat are they bringing with them?" "I'm gonna ask Phil to watch over things for us." "We'll send him to the Bahamas, get him to watch what's going on." "That will make me feel better." "I like the direction we're taking." "But I gotta admit, this bank is making me nervous." "It'll work out, bit by bit, putting distance between us and the street trade." "That's what we said we'd do, right?" "I'm there with you." "I know where we're going." "I just don't want to put all our chips on one number." "We've got a lot of bread at risk here." "Maybe we'd pull some of it back and buy some real estate." "I like to be able to touch my money." " Boy's hooking up with the Americans." " I'm meeting with this cat, name of Joseph." "See what's going on." " Taking Bob with you?" " Yeah, I'll be there." " What are you gonna say?" " I'm just a middleman, putting folks together, doing the hook-up." "You know... putting out the feelers." "Watch his back." "We've got a nice spot picked out." "We'll be cool." "What's homicide gotta say for itself?" "They're completely in the dark about the Viet killing." "But things are quiet for the moment." "They think whoever shot Phan's lieutenant might also be responsible for killing Dante's man." "They ID'd the guy of the surveillance cam, but..." " haven't found him yet." " Got a name?" "Clive Raymond." "Supposed to be a hired gun from the States." "Has anybody got a report on Jordan?" "I talked to MI5 and they're sending us everything they've got." "The meeting with Julianna is set for three o'clock." "I've got a counter-surveillance team in place." " We'll know if the CIA is watching us." " All right, let me know." "The Blue Tail cafe at 3 o'clock." "I want you both there at 2:30." "We've got a table reserved if you need it." "If you spot surveillance, I want you to follow them when they leave." "Hi, it's me." "It's getting a little crazy at work." "I need some advice." "Maybe a glass of wine or two." "Call me." "I talked with my banker." "He flew back from Mexico with your Blackmire honcho." "I guess we'll be doing more work with him." "What's your take on the Blackmire thing?" " Any idea who the master plan is?" " From what I can figure," "Browne's putting together a bunch of rogue banks from around the world and we're just... a little piece of that." "What does Evans want you to do for Blackmire?" "Apparently they've got a bunch of cash stashed in Central America" " that they want moved." " Any idea where the cash comes from?" "They're being cagey about that." "I wanna know who these other banks are." "I'll throw Phil Coombs into it." "He can track everything." " Heard anything about the killings?" " SFA." "I wanna reach out to this American crew and let them know we've got an alliance with the Disciples and Phan's crew." "Maybe that'll back them off, or bring them to the table, one or the other." "You've got Dante and Phan talking?" "So far, so good." "I'm trying to keep a lid on things." "If I can talk to these Americans, maybe things will settle down a bit." "I hope so." "Maybe you can do some police work for a change." "Find out who shot these guys, right?" "What's going on?" "I was talking to your boy the other day." " Still looking for some weed?" " Yeah, what can you do?" " You know I work for Reardon?" " I heard of him." "He knows about you, too." " So what are you looking for?" " Whatever you got." "We've got a big market south of the line." "Whatever you can give us, we can move." "What if I set up some talks?" "Yeah, we can put our peoples together." "Who's gonna be there?" "I'll bring Reardon." "You bring your top rep." "I'll set it up and get back to you." "Table for two." "That couple that just came in followed Julianna from her apartment." "Here's Martin." "Thank you very much for coming." "What is this about?" "I'm with the Canadian Intelligence and Security Service." "I'd like to speak to you about doing some work for us." "What sort of work is this?" "You're working for George Browne of the Blackmire Group, is that correct?" "We're very interested in what Mr Browne is doing here in Canada." "You could provide us with information about that from... time to time." " How did it go?" " Good." "We've got it rolling." "I told Evans I want you on the board of directors." "So you'd be vice-chair of acquisitions, in the middle of things." " When would I have to be there?" " In the Bahamas next week." "Evans says he has a condo on the beach for you." "Next week's a little tight." "I have to wrap up some other business." "But..." " it sounds good, I'm in." " Thanks." "I'm looking forward to it." "Be good to get out of the rain." "I'll might come see you at Christmas." "What's happening?" "I spoke to a cat named Joseph." "He's gonna talk to his guy." "And they'll get back to us." " They want to work with us?" " This cat Joseph says so." "I told them we'd want to meet somebody at the top." " He'll see if he can make it work." " What's the next step?" "They'll want to know where and when you wanna do this." "I'd like to do it here, tonight." "Don't give them any time to think about it." "If they wanna do business, they'll come." "If they don't, they're not serious." " Good for you?" " Yeah, I'm good with that." "I'll let them know." "Julianna was followed to the meeting." "From her apartment to the restaurant and back again." "Good." "Tomorrow we'll report to the CIA and tell them we've had our initial contact." "Have a good evening." "You, too." "Where were you this afternoon?" "You were not here this afternoon!" "Tell me where you were!" "Don't lie to me!" "Get out!" "Never call me again!" "I quit you!" "I quit!" " What's wrong?" " Julianna's having a meltdown." "Answer the damn phone." "Julianna's freaking out." "Go on up and keep her from taking off." "What happened?" "This guy from Blackmire started beating on her and she kicked him out." "Call her and tell her you wanna talk to her about leaving the agency." "Tell her you're coming over." "Calm her down." "Talk her into staying on the job." "She's important to us." "You guys watch the stairs." "Nobody comes up here or the front stairs." "When the meeting starts, these gates are locked." "You're over there." "You're down at the front door." "Anybody tries to come up the stairs, you stop them." "Two guys, Joseph and Pete." "OK, they're here." "Two guys coming in." "All right, we're upstairs." "Good to finally meet you, I have heard a lot of stories." "I've heard about you, too." "It's time we talked." "We've been trying to hook up, so here we are." " You guys want something to drink?" " Yeah, I'll have a beer." "No, I'm good." " You're moving in pretty quick." " Yeah, you've got a wide open town." "It ain't that wide open." "You've been stepping on some toes." " Not yours, I hope." " Not directly, no, but you've been giving the Disciples a pretty hard time." " They're friends of yours?" " Yeah, they're friends of ours." "We have an agreement about who sells what, where." "Disciples have a piece, Vietnamese have a piece, we've got a piece." "Things get bumpy, we all hear about it pretty quick." " Yeah, you've got the whole town." " More or less." "Not the whole town, because plenty of people want to buy from us." "That's because you sell cheap and drive the prices down." "We don't like that much, either." "You want to tell us where we fit in here?" "You don't!" " You're kicking us out?" " Not if you co-operate." " How's that gonna work?" " We control the supply." "The weed you've been buying comes from us." "You wanna move bulk Stateside, we can talk about that." "Street trade here?" "Off limits." " What kind of weight can you handle?" " Anything you need." "So if I wanted, say... couple of tonnes, you can do that on a regular basis?" "You can deliver it Stateside?" "We can, but we'd prefer you to handle that end." "I've got to take this back to my guys and talk it over." "This is a yes or no thing, we don't want any more bodies piling up." "It was good meeting you." " I hope we can work this thing out." " Yeah, me too." "That just sounded like you kicked him out of town." "It's a place to start." "See what they come back with." "Sorry I couldn't take your call." " I was in a meeting." " She's upstairs, talking to Katarina." "Take the back stairs." "How's she doing?" "She's a little exhausted." "She's in the bedroom." " Thank you." " Goodnight." "I understand you had a fight with George." "What was the fight about?" "He was accusing me of being a whore." "He hit you?" "You need to see a doctor?" "Maybe psychiatrist." "I can arrange that." "Maybe just a drink." "Mind if I join you?" "It is in the cabinet." "You know, this is never an easy sort of thing to do." "I am getting... confused about things." "It's not uncommon." "What sort of things are you confused about?" "I am... worried what will happen if..." "George finds out I am spying on him." "Do you like George?" "Yes, I'm... relaxed... with him." "That must feel good sometimes." "Yes, but it is confusing." "Are you falling in love with him?" "I think, sometimes." "It's a common phenomenon in this kind of work." "You spend a lot of time with someone." "You pretend to like them or love them." "The feelings get confusing." "I have not had someone love me in... a long time." "It is George." "Do you want to get it?" "It is okay." "I am sorry, too." "I love you, too." "He is coming over." "Are you gonna be able to continue this?" "I think so." "You can't tell him what's going on, no matter what." "Promise me." "I promise you." "We'll get together tomorrow and talk some more, OK?" "Goodnight." "Thank you... for... talking with me." "Any time." " She's cracking." " What do you want to do?" "I don't know." "Send her to the shrink tomorrow, see what she says." " Goodnight, Ma'am." " Yeah, goodnight."