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Based on Mary's information regarding Blackmire, the Prime Minister's Office shows interest in the case, but Cleary wants to meet with Mary's informant - Julianna - to verify her credibility. Although Mary and Kiniski are wary about setting up such a meeting, they do so regardless, but do not make it face to face, and coach Julianna not to divulge the entire truth, especially her relationship with Browne. Following this meeting, Julianna can tell that Browne knows something and she needs to quickly get away. Mary realizes that she talked to the wrong people or person. Ronnie's cousin, Freddy - Jimmy's distributor in the east - is in Vancouver meeting with Dante and Phan about them taking over Jimmy's weed business. Because Jimmy has frozen out the Americans on the weed trade, the Americans have moved onto pushing high quality and cheap coke. The alliance of weed dealers decide to continue with this approach, thinking that it will either send the Americans packing or push the problem of their existence onto the local coke dealers. Jordan does not back down but rather brings reinforcements for some major action. Jordan does strike back, killing several men working within Jimmy's alliance. The alliance goes into lock-down mode - with the exception of Ronnie, who has to support Sweet in some issue with her pregnancy - while Jimmy tries to work things out with the Americans. He does come to an agreement with Pete. And although the OCU does manage to pick up Jordan, this does not stop a hit on one of the Vancouver weed kingpins.
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In their domestic dispute, Francine continues to use Stella as her ace in the hole to lure Jimmy into getting back together with her. Jimmy however will do anything to get sole custody of Stella. Everyone finds out that Mike was the one who ordered the hit on Bill. Due to lack of cash, Mike stiffs Raoul and Rosie, his hit people, so he accepts a dope run with the bikers to raise money. Ted gets Mary's OK to place surveillance on Mike. The run goes sour, but Mike manages to avert getting caught by both the police and Ted's men. Jimmy needs to smooth things over with Raoul, Rosie and Harvey regarding Bill's hit. Ronnie advises Jimmy to ship Mike off somewhere as he is causing problems. Mary, in order to subvert Deakins' power grab and satisfy her superiors, gets advice from Don Frazer to infiltrate Jimmy's operation with an undercover agent. From her street connections, Mary recruits Christina - "Tina" - a stripper, who manages to infiltrate Jimmy's operation by getting a stripping job at the club under the stage name Sapphire. Back at the OCU office, the wire room finds out about an arms shipment to Africa that is tied to local broker, Randy Bingham. Jimmy advises Mary to scare Bingham into thinking the police know about his operation. Jimmy assists Mary in doing so. The wire room discovers that Jimmy and Mary's ploy worked just as Jimmy predicted.
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