Everyone's got an angle to get ahead in CBC's Intelligence. A very different angle from anyone else, generally. In "Where There's One There's Another," Mary and Jimmy see varying levels of success in working those angles.

Mary Spalding (Klea Scott) finally succeeds in turning her wireroom mole, who offers her information on a plot to assassinate a Chinese dissident on Canadian soil in exchange for keeping his job, his wife, his pregnant girlfriend, and the spoils of being a mole.

She works on another victory by encouraging her prized informant, Jimmy Reardon (Ian Tracey), to accept stockbroker Randy Bingham's offer of stock options in exchange for freeing his arms shipment from where it's mired in Panama. Though Reardon wants cash from the guy who already owes him, Mary just wants the deal done so she can reap the intelligence rewards.

Putting a crimp in her plans to improve the fortunes of the Vancouver Organized Crime Unit and therefore her chances of moving up to CSIS is her deputy, Ted (Matt Frewer). Ted and his DEA contact have agreed on a sting operation to bust Reardon, a big fish for the Americans and Ted's ticket to a job at CSIS for himself and the withdrawal of the job offer at CSIS for Mary. Ted's got another trick up his sleeve, since before Ted will hand over Jimmy's file to the DEA contact, he insists on meeting the operator leading the sting.

Another possible danger to Mary is that Tina's infiltrating Reardon's club perhaps a little too much. She's started to avoid Spalding, who reminds her the rewards of cooperation depend on actual cooperation. Tina is sincerely as busy as she tells Mary, mostly because of Jimmy's encouragement to string along his married, father-of-two banker, who wants to set her up in an apartment and get her to quit her job. This show is nothing if not romantic, which is demonstrated again when Mary lets detective Don Frazer know their affair is just a fling, and he shrugs and says he should spend time with his family anyway.

Mary's not the only one with trouble brewing behind the scenes. Jimmy's inept brother Michael wants to start his own club and his own operation, with Jimmy's blessing and out of Jimmy's shadow. The man who's running money for Jimmy's bank machine operation is coy about how he's going to fund this operation, but Jimmy better hope he's right, and can trust Mike with money because it's simply respect he's after. But what if Mike thinks respect can be bought?

Mike is still living off the respect he earned by foiling the shooting attempt against Jimmy and Ronnie, and now Jimmy discovers the shooter is not connected to the biker gangs as he thought, but apparently to a Vietnamese gang. It seems like it should be good news that it's not the bikers, but the bad news is that another front might be opening up in the war Jimmy doesn't want to fight.