TV Review: Intelligence - "Down But Not Out" - Page 2

Ted, who is ecstatic to learn Mary will be losing her job and he'll be finding it, is less frantic than relieved that Jimmy plans to head down to the US to talk to his American distributor — the guy who's been coerced to work with the DEA as part of Ted's master plan to have Reardon arrested on American soil. He's a little less relieved that Jimmy is bringing ex-wife Francine and daughter Stella along for the ride. Is it possible Ted has a shriveled little heart somewhere in that chest cavity? There's even further evidence when Jimmy arrives in Seattle with his family and Ted discovers that his DEA connection might just be planning to kill Reardon instead of arrest him.

Ronnie takes advantage of Jimmy being away to give Bob orders counter to Reardon's own — to let Phan take care of Dante if he's so inclined and therefore remove that particular threat to the Reardon empire.

Jimmy's undercover cop has come through and narrowed the search for the person threatening to expose him to Dick Royden. Mary and her team overhear Royden talking to his American handler and head to arrest him. Katarina, who's been warned to pack her bags and get her family prepared to move — again — makes arrangements to see Royden, against Mary's orders.

Those three threads come together when the Organized Crime Unit's wireroom overhears room service (otherwise known as Bob, perhaps?) enter Royden's room, then later, a woman screaming in that room. When Mary and Martin arrive, they find Royden dead and Katarina swearing that someone got to him before she could.

Jimmy meets his American distributor in a bar, but realizes it's a setup and finds himself trapped in the bathroom with a gun that doesn't work, a bar full of armed DEA agents, and a cell phone that lets him tell his daughter — who has discovered what her daddy really does for a living - that he's sorry for the life he leads and that he loves her. It also lets him tell his clingy and slightly insane ex-wife Francine that he's always loved her. Stress does bad things to people.

The next episode of Intelligence ... well, we don't know yet. But it better air sometime in the fall. Don't make me hire a Bob.

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