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.
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