Though the FOX version may never reach our television screens, the Canadian version is at least finally available for a wider audience to discover on DVD. Will we ever get a resolution to the second-season cliffhanger, though?

"It's such a hard thing for me to think about, because the fans are hanging on the edge of their seats out there and I would like to continue the story in some form," said Haddock. "Who knows, Ian (Tracey) and Jimmy Reardon might be the guy we end up selling to FOX, we don't know, so that life will continue. That would be a weird twist for Canadians."

Right now, the only resolution is in Haddock's head, and he wasn't sharing. "When I conceive a show I think way, way out, to where this group of people will be in five years if we have the luck to stay on the air for that long."

What he will say is that Reardon is a "non-violent man in an increasingly violent environment, being encouraged to become more violent," so season three would have tested that, and his leadership, with "endless stuff to be played out."

So it seems particularly unfair that there is, so far, a definite end to the show. Haddock reiterated his contention that if he were offered the head job at CBC – a post currently filled by the none-too-popular Richard Stursberg – he would take it. I suggest that might be a way to greenlight a third season of Intelligence.

"Do you really think they'd let me hand myself a show?" Haddock pondered.

OK, then, give me the job. I'll do it.