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This is Juliana.

Juliana, this is Mary. Good to meet you.

Katerina tells me that you're being harassed by an immigration official.

Yes.

What's the official's name?

Robert Bergen.

He's obsessed with her. He calls a dozen times a day.

What's he asking from you?

Every other night he shows up at my apartment. He won't leave until I give

back.

For free?

For free.

And if I object, he say, you want me to open file on you too?

He says he'll have her arrested for soliciting.

And now he say he want to introduce me to important people.

What's that mean?

Government people.

People who can throw you out of country or make you citizen.

Do you always meet him at your apartment?

Yes. Would you be willing to allow us to videotape these meetings?

If it'll get him off my back.

All right.

Thank you for speaking with me.

I'll give you a call tomorrow, see what we can arrange.

Thank you.

Good

afternoon.

Hello.

So where does he do most of his talking?

Here on the couch and in the bedroom.

All right.

Camera in the bookcase, audio under the chair there.

Room in the bedroom.

Do you usually have music or the television on?

Anything that might interfere with our hearing conversation?

No, not usually.

Camera directly above.

Audio behind the mirror.

How long have you been working for Katerina?

Not long.

Two, three months.

What's your story?

My story?

My story has many chapters.

What do you want to know?

Everything.

Yes. The wire's up. We're ready.

Just going to spend some time with Julianna.

Make sure that she's comfortable with the situation.

What are we doing?

Just fine.

Audio's good.

Zoom in.

This is our immigration guy, Bergen, getting comfortable.

I want you to meet a few friends of mine.

Who are they?

Just a couple of friends.

Guys I work with.

You like them?

You'll have to go through the escort service if you want to book me.

Bedroom? Oh, I don't want to do that.

Then you'll have to pay me more.

Ow!

Careful.

That's it.

I thought it was pretty much useless, aside from identifying Bergen.

Talk to Juliana. Walk her through it. Tell her she's got to get him to

who these people are she's talking about.

Well, that might have to wait till they actually make a date with her.

All right, fine. Send her back in. We need more than this. We need evidence of

the allegations of extortion.

I'll have a word.

Thank you.

Don't rush her, obviously, but we need results.

We need more specifics on tape.

What exactly?

Excuse me?

I said, what exactly?

The name of the people he wants you to meet. His immigration colleagues.

I already asked him, he won't give me names. I can't keep asking without him

getting questions.

Alright, here's what you do. Pay attention.

Tell him you want to meet his friends.

You need to make the money because you're thinking of leaving Katerina's

agency.

I don't want to do this anymore.

You're already in the game.

You can't back up now.

And what if I do?

You'll get tossed out of the country straight back to Romania.

You're no better than he is. You should have thought of that before you came to

us.

Call me if you hear from him again.

Juliana's just getting ready for her date.

All right, let's get this done tonight.

We need to identify this guy. Yes, ma 'am.

Catch him in the act, yeah?

Yes, ma 'am.

Okay, here's the deal. As soon as Juliana gets this guy's pants off, give

heads up on the radio.

I'll go in, grab his wallet, take some pictures of his ID, take the wallet back

and get out. I don't need much time.

60 seconds, in and out.

There's the doorbell. Is that the door?

Okay, remember.

Pants off. I'm going in.

Do you want a drink

or something?

That sounds great.

Pants are off. Pants are off.

Copy. Tiny.

57 seconds.

His name's Paula Gross.

He's a local immigration case officer.

He introduced himself as a friend of Robert's. I've got all his ID if you

it. Where's he stationed?

Here in Vancouver.

He works out of the downtown immigration HQ.

All right. Go pick him up and bring him on down. Thank you, ma 'am.

You ever send any of your escorts into the Bancroft Hotel?

No, not yet. They won't let me in.

Why not?

They haven't made the right connections.

Okay, I'm going to introduce you to their head of security.

I want you on standby.

If he calls you, I want you to send in Juliana, along with the other girls.

All right.

Inspector, I ran some profiles in the Blackmire group. Thank you. They

various industries. Construction, oil and gas, pipeline, shipping, hydro, huge

assets. And they're all pretty impressive players, very well connected.

And the chairman has an interesting background.

He was an assistant director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the early

90s.

We're at the hotel.

We need a relationship here. I understand.

I need you to form a relationship with this man.

I understand.

You want him to fall in love with you. You want to follow him wherever he goes.

You want to become his mistress, so you need to hook him with a good story.

I have a good story.

Keep it simple.

Tragic. Convince them you need to be rescued.

As you may.

Good evening.

Juliana, is it?

Juliana, yes.

Come on in.

You like champagne, Juliana?

I love champagne.

Ma 'am, Juliana's here. She's had quite an evening.

She's here. What's the story?

The head of the Blackmire group has invited her to travel with him to Mexico

City. But she doesn't have the proper papers.

That was quick.

Hello. Hello.

I understand you've been invited to travel abroad with Mr. Brown.

Yes, but I have no good papers. Can you get me Canadian passport?

Slow down. What's the story? You only met Mr. Brown last night, correct?

Yes. How the hell did you wrangle an invitation to Mexico City?

Well, Inspector Kiniski told me to appeal to him to form relationship,

so I gave him good story.

Must have been. What did you tell him?

I told him that I was desperate and that this was my first professional date and

that I was trained secretary and I was only prostituting until I could get an

honest job.

And that was it? He went for that?

Well, not right away, but by end of evening he was asking me to travel to

and to be his secretary at the meeting.

What meetings are these?

I'm supposed to be on the flight next week. Can you get me the papers on time?

What sort of meetings?

He's going to another summit meeting in Mexico, and he invited me to travel with

him so as to be his secretary.

He's going to Mexico for the same sort of meeting he's having here?

So he says he has more meetings today about the water.

And then tonight he's going to have dinner with the bankers. And he just

freely tells you all this?

Yes, I am his secretary now.

I already have some of his itinerary from 9 o 'clock until

noon today. He has the meeting at the hotel and then dinner with someone from

the bank to...

Arrange for some money transfers.

You wouldn't happen to know the name of the banker?

Yes, meeting Mr.

Evans.

I have question.

Of course.

If I get money and things from him, I can keep it? No problem for you?

No problem for me.

Okay.

Excuse me a minute, please.

Good work so far.

Thank you.

She's got the stuff.

But I've seen her in a long time.

If we give her a passport, we risk her never coming back.

I doubt very much whether Brown will keep her around very long.

She'll come back.

And with a lot of intel on the Blackmire group.

All right.

Go ahead and get her that passport. Call our man in immigration and get it done.

Thank you.

Come. We need to take your passport picture.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's already on. You don't have to touch a thing.

When the meeting's over, go to the washroom, remove the camera stick in

purse.

All right, done.

Now I'm going to put this on your lapel.

There you go.

We're going to drop you off a block from the restaurant.

Okay?

Yes.

Okay, let's go.

I'm going to go with Juliana.

Fantastic. I'm just having a look at it now.

What did Reardon have to say?

He signed the deal.

He's agreed to provide us with anything we want.

Juliana is perfect.

Here we go.

They don't get into the nitty -gritty until dessert.

At the Irish bank, Evans there.

That's the CEO of the Blackmire Group, Brown, on his left.

We

have

quite a few government officials, both here in Canada and in the United States.

They are all going to need individual accounts.

How much traffic do you think it can handle?

As much as you require.

I mean, we have subsidiaries around the world. You name it. The Caymans, Europe,

the Middle East. We can put them on wherever it needs to be.

There you have it.

Fantastic.

Katarina tells me you're threatening to leave her and work for me full time.

Katarina doesn't own me and neither do you.

We can't be talking with people about our relationship.

Not Katerina, no one.

I apologize.

That is the agenda for the Blackmire Group's meetings in Mexico.

I took it from George Brown's briefcase this afternoon.

This is the kind of thing I'm talking about when you act without consulting

If you take it from his briefcase, he's going to discover it's missing. And you

risk exposing my entire operation, yeah?

If he finds the briefcase, but he won't.

He left it in the taxi.

And now you have George Brown's briefcase because... I call the taxi

I go to pick it up.

I'm giving it back to him tonight when I see him.

You're seeing him again tonight?

In about 15 minutes.

I need the wire van outside of Julianne's immediately.

You should have called and told me you were doing this.

I didn't have the time. I was with George and Tibble an hour ago.

You spent the day with him?

Yeah, and every night this week so far.

I'm becoming the expert in George Brown and the Blackmire group.

I could be making a living at it, no?

You are doing some very risky things without telling me.

And I have serious concerns about that.

You don't want me to tell you what he is doing? You don't want the briefcase?

I want you to inform me of when you see him before you see him.

And I want to debrief you at regular intervals.

You are working under my direction.

Do you understand that?

Well, if I am working for you full time, then I need to get paid for it. I still

owe money to Katarina and...

If I can't work for her because I'm working for you, then she needs to get

And you need to leave.

He's going to be here in five minutes.

All right.

We're going to talk about all this tomorrow. You're going to call me first

thing, yeah?

No, probably.

Is the wire up and running?

It will be.

Hello?

Hello, George?

Come on up.

In the morning, first thing.

Go. Go.

Take this there.

There's not much here. Just some small talk.

No mention of Black My Group at all. Then they get into bed.

Did he mention anything about his briefcase?

He wasn't interested in his briefcase.

Burn me a copy and put it in my office.

Juliana's completely out of hand.

She is.

Very talented, however.

Very clever.

Did you make me a copy of the contents of that briefcase? I did.

Did you get a chance to look at it? Uh -huh. Very interesting.

We now have a list of all Canadian companies involved with the Blackmire

And the donation amounts are expected to funnel to the various lobbyists and

politicians or whoever it is they're piecing off.

Names and amounts?

There you go on top there. It's like a shopping list.

Fantastic.

Julianna's expecting to get her passport today.

She's supposed to travel with George Brown to the Blackmire Summit in Mexico.

I don't think it's safe to let her go.

She might find the life of a billionaire's mistress hard to resist.

And a few songs written about that.

I think I've got to reel her back in.

I agree.

Have immigration pick her up on something completely unrelated to us. As

wish. Tell them to hold her until she misses her flight.

When she calls us to help her out, we help her out.

How could we not?

I should be grateful, but too late to travel.

Too late to travel.

Yes, ma 'am.

Julianna Vesta?

Immigration. Would you come along with me, please?

Am I being arrested?

Yes, you are.

Why are you resting? I'm sorry, I don't know the details.

Watch your head.

Juliana. I am allowed to talk to my lawyer in private, I think.

I am in the immigration jail.

They say I am in violation of my visa and they are asking about working for

escort service.

Can you help me?

All right, stay calm.

Don't mention that we have a relationship with you.

I'm going to have to do some quick work to get you out of there.

I am supposed to be on the plane for Mexico tomorrow morning.

I'm aware. I'm going to do what I can. Just refuse to answer any more

I'll get a lawyer down there to see you.

Okay. Thank you.

Sit tight.

She's in immigration lockup, desperate for us to intervene.

All right, let her stay there a while.

I'll go see her later.

Yes, ma 'am.

How are

you? All right.

Did immigration tell you why you were picked up?

They said they were investigating Katharina's escort service.

What did you tell him?

Nothing. I am still waiting on a lawyer.

All right.

Good.

I am supposed to be traveling tomorrow, and I haven't spoken to George all day.

He is going to wonder what happened to me.

I'm not going to let you go.

Unless you find this.

Go ahead, read it.

What is it?

It's your contract to work for me as an agent at CSIS.

It's not the same as being a confidential informant, which is what

doing so far.

As an agent, I will be directing you to do certain things on our behalf, and you

may be required to testify in court in future. If you disobey my instructions

conduct any criminal activity, you can be arrested, returned to Canada at any

time from any place, and be prosecuted.

Just in case you were thinking of disappearing in Mexico, taking up the

leisure with Mr. Brown.

You'll be buying me?

For traveling with him?

We will.

And I will get passport?

Remember, you can be revoked at any time.

Call George Brown.

Tell him you've been at the passport office all day, you got your passport.

and you'll be back at your apartment in an hour.

Hello, George?

I'm sorry I couldn't call. I was at the passport office all day today. You can't

believe how long it takes.

I will call you when I get home.

I love you, too.

Again.

Let go.

So, what brings you to this end of the earth?

What can I do for you?

We received your report this morning on the Blackmire Group investigations from

the FBI.

I was hoping to persuade you not to pursue that any further. I wasn't aware

FBI was sharing with the CIA.

I apologize on their behalf. They should have informed you we were being

briefed. Yeah, that would have been good.

Can I ask why you want us to stop?

I can't say any more than we have a parallel investigation underway.

We really don't want to risk your operation endangering our own.

What's the nature of your investigation?

Not at liberty to say.

Well, as you probably already know, as the FBI may have informed you, we've got

direction from our financial investigations arm to conduct our own

investigation. All right, fair enough.

Perhaps you could call them, make them aware of our request.

It's going to have to wait until tomorrow.

But you could call off any operators you have in the case in the meantime. I

really can't do anything until I speak to someone from financial. In order to

gain access to materials you shared with the FBI, you've obviously got someone

on the case.

I can't tell you how we received that intel.

I understand.

Perhaps you could make your operative aware of our concerns.

Blackmire has a very sophisticated counter -surveillance program.

George Brown is an ex -CIA agent.

If you have an operative in there, they will be exposed.

I don't think you have anything to be concerned about. I don't have an

in any kind of direct exposure.

Good to hear.

If you could call me tomorrow after you've spoken to your superiors, I'd

appreciate it. You can reach me at that number any time. Thank you. I'll be

giving you a call in the morning.

All right. Thank you.

Good night.

Pleasure.

Call

Juliana

immediately and tell her she's not going on her trip with George Brown tomorrow,

will you?

Anything I can do?

Yeah, call the FBI and start screaming. They've been sharing our intel with the

CIA.

It's Inspector Spalding. I've just had a visit from the CIA regarding our black

liar operation.

Requesting we drop it.

Please advise me what course to take.

She's not answering.

Is the wire on Juliana still up?

Is Juliana at her place?

She's just leaving with friends.

There they go. Have you got everything?

Yes, and that's it.

Shit.

Have you got everything?

Yes, and that's it.

You just spoke with Mr. Malaby. Yes, I did.

He asked me if we had an operator inside Blackmire. I told him it wasn't my

file. And have you heard from that operator?

Not yet, no. She would have landed in Mexico City late last night.

How long since she last contacted us?

Going on 24 hours.

I don't trust the CIA to keep their nose out of our business.

If you're concerned for her safety, perhaps I should call our liaison in

City and send someone over to the hotel to watch her back if necessary.

Good idea.

I'll call Cruikshank at the CIA and tell them that we're backing off of our

investigation. But we are still continuing our operation.

Mm -hmm.

Thank you, ma 'am.

Gracias.

Hello? Juliana?

Yes? Hang on, Mary needs to talk to you.

It's Juliana.

Are you alone?

Yes. Listen carefully. I want you to tell Mr. Brown that you've got a family

emergency back in Vancouver and you've got to return immediately.

What is wrong?

It's a precaution.

Oh, my God.

Is he there with you now?

Yeah. When you hang up, tell him your mother's in the hospital in Vancouver

she's dying. What's wrong?

It's my mother. She is not well.

You've got to return immediately. On the next plane available.

Thank you.

Please tell her that I'm on my way.

Okay.

Call our liaison in Mexico City.

Have them make sure Juliana gets on a plane safely today.

Yes, ma 'am.

Que roble con Juan.

Si.

Martin.

Any word on Juliana? Our liaison in Mexico City went by the hotel.

Juliana's already checked out. He apologizes for not getting him over

fast as he could have.

But he was in a meeting when we called.

And there was nobody else he could have sent in his place?

Apparently not.

All right, check the airlines, see if she's booked on a flight.

I did. She's not on any commercial flight out of Mexico City.

You tried calling her? No answer.

Your man from the CIA is back.

For Christ's sake.

Let me know if you hear anything at all.

Yes, ma 'am.

Julianna's apartment.

I want a street unit to 1941 Georgia. I want video surveillance.

What's going on?

There's two men in apartment 543.

I'll tell you when they're leaving. Stay on the line.

Who's this?

No idea.

Hang on.

This one here looks like the Blackmire security guy.

I think you're right.

He's checking out her story. Shit.

I'm searching the bookcase. Going to find the wire.

No, he's not.

Building maintenance.

I've got the plumber with me now. It's the only time he's available.

So we're going to come up and fix the thing tonight.

We've got to go.

This fucking house is over.

These two jokers are just leaving.

Are you down in front yet?

90 seconds off and closing. Well, get a bloody move on.

Well, the problem is Reardon is both the strength and the weakness of this. As

he goes, so goes the entire thing, at least at the start, until we can salt

of our own operators inside.

Yeah, that may not be possible.

What about Juliana?

I'm not sure we should keep her in it. I'm not convinced she can play the long

game. If we do, it's doubling the risk.

If we pull her, we lose the advantage of having to come close to Brown.

We'll have to build her backstory and help a lot tighter if we do keep her in.

The devil.

Yeah.

Is there a problem?

The more the merrier. The heat turns on one, you got the other.

He's suspicious. What should I do?

She's back.

Is he there with you now?

George is on his way up.

He is very suspicious.

Sorry about my mother. He wants to come with me to the hospital to see her.

All right.

Stay calm.

When he comes, I'm going to give you a phone call. You're going to ask him to

answer it.

And then you're going to ask him to ask who it is. Have you got that?

Yes.

Oh, he is here.

Come in.

It's open.

Give me two minutes.

Which hospital is she at?

Forget. I have the number.

Ask for Miss Vesna.

Hello. Miss Vesna, please.

Who's calling, please?

St. Joseph's Hospital.

This is St. Joseph's Hospital.

It's a hospital.

Regrets. Her mother passed away.

Hello.

This is St. Joseph's.

I regret to have to tell you this, but your mother passed away earlier this

evening.

Nicely done, Rose.

You're catching on.

Are we up on Juliana?

No. Juliana took them out.

What?

When did this happen?

Last night sometime.

Brown stayed the night, and when he went to the bathroom, she ripped them both

out.

Has anybody heard from her since she did this?

I don't believe so.

Juliana took the wire down last night.

I'm going over there to see what happened.

Make sure it gets back up today.

Let's see.

How'd Brown take the story about your mother?

He was very sad. He never got a chance to meet her.

And how's the romance between the two of you proceeding?

Good, I think.

Where do you think the relationship with Mr. Brown is heading?

If all goes well, we will be married in the spring.

Why'd you remove the wire from your apartment?

I don't think you want it found by his security men.

What do you know about that? What are they doing?

George told me that he is doing a background check on me. So I told him to

ahead. I told him Katerina owns my contract and that he could buy me for

,000. George wants to talk to Katerina first, and then if he pays her the

I will be free.

Martin, could you contact Katerina for me, please? We'll have to set this up.

This is going to be a lot harder than you may think.

Your story is going to be very carefully scrutinized, not just by Blackmire, but

by the press.

Yeah, that is okay. George says he knows how to give me a new background,

and he wants to give me the makeover before we get married.

We'll have to find you a new name.

Something for the new you.

Let me know how you want me to handle your mother's funeral arrangements.

Miss Bell.

Juliana, where are we? I'm expecting a call.

We need to decide whether or not she's a liability on this Blackmire operation.

She's reckless.

She enjoys the game too much. She does enjoy the game.

Shall we take the risk?

We already have Reardon on the inside. Do we need another source?

Having the two of them on the game allows one to confirm the intelligence,

other is scary.

Are either of them entirely trustworthy?

Probably not.

Reardon won't tell us everything that's going on, neither will she.

But between the two of them, we have a more accurate picture of Blackmire's

inner workings.

I want to see her face to face.

Yes, ma 'am.

All right, thank you.

Thank you.

Okay, so Mexico.

What happened?

I told George that my mother was fine, like you told me to, and he insisted on

flying back on the company jet.

Did you travel alone?

No, with us was the Irish banker, you know, Gordon Evans.

They spent most of the flight talking, and I pretend to sleep.

Did you overhear those conversations?

Yes, of course.

What did they talk about?

Many things.

Yes. North American water rights, the movement of cheap labor from Mexico, how

to move the money around from country to country, what problems will be in the

future. The banker seemed to know what he was talking about.

And did they end up making any arrangements with anything finalized? I

they agreed to use Mr. Evans Bank in the Bahamas for the business deal. I made

the note. This is all in there.

Anything else we should know about your relationship with George?

Yes, he wants to give me the new history.

And what does that involve?

He is still waiting to buy my contract from Katerina. He is willing to pay up

a quarter million dollars.

You are going to arrange for that.

I'll let Katerina know.

Yeah, and after that is okay, I will get new name and get the makeover.

Like Cinderella.

Right.

Okay, you've done extremely well for us so far, but if Brown saw that notebook,

you'd be dead.

Martin's going to give you a phone number to call, and you dictate your

when you can, yeah?

No problem.

Still a bit concerned about you being exposed.

What may happen when he looks into your background, which we know he's already

doing.

It's going to be stressful for you.

I do not worry about that.

I have a lot of experience in how to lie.

If he looks into my background, it's okay.

I erase my footsteps.

Did you talk any more about marriage?

No, I told him no more talk, more action. You get divorced first, and then

talk about marriage.

How'd that go over?

He's going to tell his wife this weekend.

We're running a very complicated operation against the Blackmire Group,

there's some very large sums of money involved.

So I want to make sure that you understand that your life is at very

if you were ever to reveal your relationship with us.

I know how to keep secrets.

I make my living keeping my mouth shut.

All right.

Good.

I'll make sure Katarina's prepared for a call from George.

Is there anything else we need to deal with?

Please, can you help me with my mother's funeral? George keeps asking how do I

want to bury my mother. He wants to pay for it.

That's taken care of.

You can tell George that you decided to have her cremated and it's been done.

You have a receipt or something for that? He will want to pay for it.

We've got a receipt, a death certificate, and we've got a box of

taken care of.

You can tell George that he can buy you a nice urn for your mom.

Could be interesting.

Listen in, will you, please?

Yes, ma 'am.

Mr. Kirkstain from the CIA?

Hello, Rick.

How can I help you? Well, it's the Blackmire Group operation.

Keeps throwing us curveballs.

It's the latest.

Do you know this woman?

Don't believe I do.

These were taken where?

Here, Vancouver.

What context would I know her in?

She's an escort from Romania.

Arrived two years ago.

Met Mr. Brown at the Blackmar Conference a month ago.

What's her name?

The one she's using now is Juliana Vesna.

What's your concern?

Well, Mr. Brown seems to have fallen in love with her.

Is that creating a complication for you?

No, not at all.

It's creating an opportunity.

We think she would make a very good confidential informant.

You've approached her?

No, we thought maybe you'd be able to do that for us.

Why me?

Well, she's a recent Canadian citizen. She's one of yours now.

And you may be able to offer her certain inducements that we could not.

What sort of inducements would she be looking for?

She may have family she would like to have join her here, something like that.

What's the approach? How do you see it working?

Perhaps she could be picked up on a charge of soliciting, and you could see

she'd be willing to do.

And then we'd hand her off to you?

We'd be handling her, yes.

Can you perhaps tell me now where your operation fit and what the goal is?

It may help me to know what you might expect of this informant.

It's the money laundering aspect of Blackmire we're most concerned with.

Mr. Brown is putting together a consortium of various international

institutions, sole purpose of which is to hide money for his company and his

clients. We've been trying to get somebody inside Mr. Brown's inner circle

almost three years unsuccessfully.

I'm hoping Ms. Bejna might be the one we're looking for. And you have contact

information for Ms.

Bejna? It's all in the file.

All right.

I'll see what I can do and let you know.

Thank you.

Appreciate the help.

That's what we're here for.

Are they playing head games with us?

Not sure what you mean.

Does the CIA already know that Julianna's our agent and this is their

trying to steal our control of her?

I suppose that could be what's going on.

More likely not, but possible.

Christ. So how do I play this?

Do I go along and pretend to recruit Juliana, or do I admit she's already

Never admit anything. Play along.

They've been trying to get someone inside Blackmire unsuccessfully for

and here they see a chance.

With Juliana in place, you've got yourself a very valuable intel source,

can barter with. The trick is not to lose her to the CIA.

Right.

Okay, so here's what we can do.

I'll have you approach Juliana for show in case they're watching.

Picture the idea.

And she's going to say that she insists on being handled by us and not the CIA.

That keeps us in the middle. We can hear any intel Juliana provides first and we

can decide whether to pass it on to the CIA or keep it for ourselves.

That sounds like the way to go.

Let her know what's going on.

Yes, ma 'am.

Is Juliana at home?

I believe she's sleeping.

Put the wire up.

I guess she's not up to talking to you today.

We'll see about that.

I'm sorry, were you sleeping?

I was up all night. I am very tired.

That's important.

There's been some new developments you need to know about. Sit down.

Just had a visit from the CIA.

They're running an operation on the Blackmire Group.

What is it about?

We don't know, but they've asked us to recruit you as a potential informer.

But I am already working for you.

They don't know that, and we're not about to tell them.

What we're going to have to do is stage a couple of meetings with you.

In those meetings, we're going to ask you to become an informant.

You're going to agree.

But you're going to say you'll only speak to one person.

That person is going to be me. Do you understand?

I don't want to work for the CIA.

You won't be.

You'll continue working for us.

You've done an excellent job for us so far, and we want you to continue.

But we also don't want to risk offending the elephant.

Do I have a choice?

I'm afraid not.

No.

What do I need to do?

You're going to go to a restaurant called Blue Tail today at 3.

You're going to have lunch there alone.

I'm going to approach you.

We're going to have a conversation.

The next day we're going to meet again and have another conversation.

I'm going to ask you some questions.

I've written them down.

You're going to answer them as written.

Read it.

Know it.

And flush it.

Three o 'clock at the Blue Tail.

I've got the meeting with Juliana set for three o 'clock, and I've got a

-surveillance team in place.

We'll know if the CIA is watching us. All right, let me know.

The Blue Tail Cafe at three o 'clock. I want you both there at 2 .30.

We've got you a table reserved if you need it.

If you spot surveillance I want you to follow them when they leave.

That couple that just came in followed Juliana from her apartment.

Here's Martin. Hello.

Hello.

Thank you very much for coming.

Thank you.

What is this about?

I'm with the Canadian Intelligence and Security Service.

Yes?

I'd like to speak to you about doing some work for us.

What sort of work is this?

You're working for Mr.

George Brown of the Blackmire Group, is that correct?

Yes.

We're very interested in what Mr. Brown and his colleagues are doing here in

Canada. You could provide us with information about that from time to

Juliana was followed to the meeting.

From her apartment to the restaurant and back again.

Good. Tomorrow we'll report to the CIA and tell them we've had our initial

contact. Yes, ma 'am.

Have a good evening you too

What's wrong?

Julianna's having a meltdown.

Sorry I couldn't take your call.

I was in a meeting.

She's upstairs talking to Katarina. Take the backstair.

How's she doing?

She's a little exhausted.

She's in the bedroom.

Thank you. Good night.

I understand you had a fight with George.

Mm -hmm.

What was the fight about?

He was killing me of being a whore.

Can I hit you?

Yes. Can you see a doctor?

Maybe a psychiatrist?

I can arrange that.

Maybe just a drink.

Mind if I join you?

No.

It is in the tablet.

This is never an easy sort of thing to do.

I am getting confused about things.

Yeah, it's not uncommon.

Thank you.

What sort of things are you confused about?

I am... worried what will happen if...

George finds out I am spying on him.

Do you like George?

Yes, I am... relaxed with him.

It must feel good sometimes.

Yes, but it is confusing.

Are you falling in love with him?

I think sometimes.

It's a fairly common phenomenon, this kind of work.

You spend a lot of time with someone.

You pretend to like them or love them.

The feelings get confusing.

I have not had someone love me in... long time.

It is too hard.

Do you want to get it?

Yeah.

It is okay.

I am fine too.

Yeah.

Bye bye.

I love you too.

He is coming over.

Are you going to be able to continue this?

I think so.

You can't tell him what's going on no matter what.

Promise me.

I promise you.

Okay.

We'll get together tomorrow and maybe talk some more, okay?

Yes. Good night.

Good night.

Thank you for talking with me.

Anytime. Just crack it.

What do you want to do?

I don't know.

Send her to the shrink tomorrow. See what she says.

Good night, though.

Yeah. Good night.

How'd it go with Juliana last time?

Good. We got some good stuff on the wire.

How's she holding up?

Yeah, pretty good. She must have jumped right back after your little chat.

Anyway, she's got brown wrapped around her finger again.

This is the good stuff right here.

It's like he's asking her to take a mob oath.

A vow of silence.

Umerta.

I have to know that I can trust you.

That you can keep a vow of silence about the things you may see or hear.

Anything I tell you about Blackmire is top secret.

Anything you might overhear or see of the people we meet you can't talk about

with anybody.

Can you tell me why?

This is the bombshell.

We do work for the agency now and then.

What do you think?

We do work for the agency now and then.

We do work for the agency now and then.

She asks him to clarify.

What is this agency?

The Central Intelligence Agency.

Did he just admit Blackmire's a CIA friend?

Mm -hmm.

What kind of work?

They just use the company to do things they're not allowed to do.

Does that bother you?

No.

I find it very romantic.

You do, do you?

Yeah.

Then they go back to shagging for a while.

Blackmire's a front company for the CIA.

You heard it. That's what the man said. I'll need to talk to the Inspector

General about this.

May I have a moment alone, please, ma 'am, before you make that call?

I hope I'm not out of line here, but I don't believe it's the right decision to

tell the Inspector General anything about this.

No, why not?

May I present a hypothetical situation?

Go ahead.

Blackmire is a huge company here in Canada with massive holdings in hydro

other energy projects.

If you tell the Inspector General that you think Blackmire is a CIA front

company, he'll be obliged to tell the Prime Minister.

And the Prime Minister will be obliged to object.

until Washington, and then it'll get back to the CIA, and then we'll be told

get lost and lose any opportunity we have to monitor Blackmunner.

That's all neither here nor there. I'm obligated to tell the Inspector General.

Well, at some point you might be, but right now what we know is still simply

speculation.

Brown just confessed to Juliana that he's been fronting for the CIA.

We have it on the record. I'm only suggesting that in the long run, the

Inspector General may not want to hear that right now.

You're suggesting that we keep it to ourselves.

Well, I'm sure the Inspector General would prefer that we present him with

concrete and corroborated intelligence about what it is exactly Blackmire and

the CIA are doing up here, rather than report what could be the inflated

braggings of a man who's simply trying to impress his lover.

But more importantly, ma 'am, my personal concern is, if you report that

discovered a CIA front company... There's no guarantee anybody wants to

As we all know, the whistleblower always pays the price. The messenger is always

killed. Nobody wants this sort of revelation that the CIA has bought

Canada coming up in their watch.

It's suicide.

People need to know about this.

They do.

There are proper ways.

The back channels.

You've got to make use of them to protect yourself.

All right, for now I won't inform the Inspector General, but I want Juliana

pulled in. I need to know if it's safe to keep her in the game.

Yes, ma 'am, I agree.

Thank you, Martin.

Yes, ma 'am.

I want Juliana picked up ASAP.

Juliana, I'm here to pick you up. Stay where you are.

Right? Is that the way you want to play?

Juliana.

Get in the car. No, leave me alone. Fuck off.

Don't do this.

Yes.

Juliana's freaking out. She's taking her runner.

Grab her. Yes, ma 'am.

Police. They're right here.

I need a recruit now.

I'm on the north end of the Granville Bridge.

Subject is a blonde female, 25 years old, in a short gray trench coat,

into town.

And I need to track a cell phone number.

Did you get an opportunity to speak to Juliana again?

We did, yes.

And? Is she cooperating? So far, so good, yes.

That's good to hear.

We'd like you to arrange a meeting so we could introduce ourselves.

That's going to be problematic.

She's agreed to cooperate, but she's insisting that we handle her.

But she's agreed to cooperate?

That's the important thing.

Right.

How would you like us to proceed?

Perhaps you could put some specific questions about Blackmire to her for us.

Of course.

Good. You'll let us know when you've made contact.

I will.

Perfect.

Yes? She gave the address at Brown's Hotel to the cab driver.

I'm there now.

Do what you have to do. Do not let her meet with Brown.

In her state, she could say anything.

Yes? We've tracked Julianna's cell phone.

She's been calling Brown's hotel. The latest call was two minutes ago. She's

somewhat close.

Thank you.

She's close.

Sorry, ma 'am. Building maintenance. I've got an emergency in the basement.

Come along quiet.

Come along quiet.

Check the answering machine.

Ma 'am, George Brown just arrived at Julianna's. They're looking for where

might have gone.

Let me know when they leave. Yes, ma 'am.

Where do you think you were going?

Where do you think?

Mary is going to be very disappointed in you.

What does she expect me to do? I can't go on lying for every moment of every

day. Why not?

Because I am tired.

I can't think.

Why don't you go to sleep for a while?

Do you need something to eat?

No, I just need to sleep.

All right.

I'll have them bring a bed in for you.

Thank you.

Do you need anything from your purse?

Just my pills.

What kind of pills? Just for my nerve.

I'll get them sent in.

Thank you.

She's cracking.

A little bit.

Perhaps we should send in a shrink.

A shrink might just scare her.

She's exhausted.

It would be good to take advantage of that.

Right.

George Brown is looking for her.

Contact Katerina. We may need to use her.

Yes, ma 'am.

George is going to be worried about me.

I'm worried about you, too.

I don't think you can continue to work for us in your present condition.

I am feeling fine.

I just had...

Small breakdown.

Inspector Koniski was getting on my nerves.

But I am fine now.

Inspector Koniski was getting on your nerves how?

He is always watching me. I know that is his job, but it was getting on

my nerves.

All the time to have these secret policeman cameras on me. Is that really

necessary?

I think for your own security, yes.

some privacy.

I need some time to be alone.

Other than that, I am fine. Just a little tired.

It is time to let me breathe.

You think you can continue working for us?

Yes. Have I not proved myself?

Why do you want to continue?

Because you pay me and I don't have to sell myself every night to a different

man. I am with one man, it is safer.

You told me last night that you were feeling close to George.

I am close to no man.

I am taking care of myself.

George gives me gifts.

You give me money. I don't want to go back to working for Katarina.

I just want to... get enough money to go someplace.

Someday. And be alone.

You don't know how strong I am.

I am strong.

This is nothing.

I am...

Been through war.

This is nothing.

If I let you go back to work, will you stick to the rules?

Fine.

You go back to work, but the cameras stay up, and you do as we ask.

Inspector Koniski tells you to do something.

You do it.

Have more rest, and I'll talk to you later.

You heard what Juliana said about you? That you were harassing her?

She responds to intimidation.

She also responds to reward, and it's time to give her a little bit of leeway.

She has to feel she has some say -so in the relationship.

I'll lighten up.

Not completely.

Just a touch. Yes, ma 'am.

How long are we keeping her?

As soon as Katerina's ready.

Dave. Hey.

I was hoping I'd hear from you today.

I need you to broker a meeting for me.

All right.

George Brown wants to meet Katerina. I want it in a public place.

What's going on?

Katerina's selling Julianna's contract to Brown.

Go through a security to arrange it?

All right.

Yeah, this is Dave Baker.

Got time for a drink?

Had the analyst go over all the blackmail materials Julianne has given

far. These are the notes from the Canadian meetings.

These are from the Mexico City meetings.

Both the Canadian and the Mexican companies involved are numbered

we've determined who they are.

These are water contracts between Canada and Mexico.

Thank you.

Yes.

All right.

Yes.

These contracts are for bulk water sales between Canada and Mexico.

I don't believe those are quite legal yet, are they? No.

And this is the list of the proposed payment from Blackmire Counts in the

Bahamas. The name's listed on the right.

You may recognize some of them as members of the government.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention.

I'll see to it that this reaches the right people.

Thank you.

I'd appreciate the anonymity for the present.

Rest assured, this is going to cause quite a stir. But thank you. I believe

you've handled this in the right manner.

I hope so.

Your operator, he's reliable, of course.

Yes.

Well, he must have extraordinary access to get these sorts of documents.

He's been at it a long time.

Good. Well, like I say, this should get a reaction.

Your operator, he's in for the long term on this, if need be.

Of course, if need be.

All right.

Good to know.

Have a good evening.

You too.

Mr. Brown would like to see Juliana before he hands over any payment.

Yeah, all right. I've got that worked out.

I've got a table reserved from the bar.

If you hold the cash, if he says it's all right, it's all right.

Let's try 11 o 'clock.

She'll be here. 11 o 'clock.

11 o 'clock. We're on it. Thank you.

When Brown's satisfied with Katarina's story, he'll hand the money over.

Thank you.

Tell me something.

Of the $200 ,000 he's paying for you, how much will you see?

None.

Katarina gets all that?

She paid that for me. For the original price, and apartments, and the clothes

and things.

But when I pay her off tonight, I am free.

Not quite.

Not quite.

But I am getting closer.

Good luck.

We won't be talking as often from now on.

No, but sometimes, I hope.

You're going to be the one to initiate contact from now on.

You choose when you think it's safe and make the call.

Thank you.

I will call you more often than you think.

Whenever you want to, for any reason.

Goodbye, Mari.

Good luck.

Good luck.

She's on her way

Good

evening

It's good to finally meet you. I was beginning to think you were a figment of

Juliana's mind.

No, no, I'm flesh and blood.

You want something?

A vodka neat?

Two, please.

I'm very happy I could make a match for you and Juliana.

How long since you first met Juliana?

It is not my business to tell you about her. It's only for her. I know very

little. I saw a photo, a video, a friend recommended her.

That's how it works.

It's a simple dating service. It's nothing more.

All right. Very good.

I'm very glad we could make a deal.

And there she is.

Everything is okay?

Yeah.

Of course, I'd prefer if this were kept confidential.

Of course.

I would prefer that, too.

I think this concludes our business.

Thank you

Good

luck to you Good luck to you

You think you have a package for me? I believe I do.

How'd that go?

Very well, I think.

Got it all?

I think this concludes our business.

We got it all.

Thank you.

I hear things went well?

Very well.

$200 ,000, I peaked.

I'll see that you're reimbursed.

No rush when you have it.

Nicely done.

Did you read this graph in the paper recommending we approve bulk water

to the states of Mexico? Yes, I did.

I want everything you've got on the Blackmail Group so far.

Yes, ma 'am.

Any word from Juliana?

She should be checking in sometime this morning.

I'd like to speak with her. I'll let her know.

Any word from the Prime Minister's office on the Blackmail situation?

Nothing so far.

I imagine it's caused a bit of a panic.

I hope so.

I've got Juliana on the line. She says she's off to Ottawa with Brown tomorrow.

Here she is.

Are you going to Ottawa and Blackmire business?

Yes. George has meetings with the government people for two days.

Is it about the water deals?

Yes, and after Ottawa we are going to Washington for a week.

And how are you holding up?

Yes, good.

All right, get us the names of everyone George meets with and give us a call.

Your Blackmire brief caught the attention of the Prime Minister's

he's eager to pursue an investigation into your informant's allegations.

That was quick.

Well, apparently you know how to press the hot button.

Where do we go from here?

Well, before anything else is triggered, I need to speak with your informant to

verify his credibility.

I'd like to protect his anonymity. You have this foreign statement. That should

be enough. Under normal circumstances.

But your informant alleges that the Blackmire Group is a CIA front that is

trying to influence government policy.

That's no small matter. I think those type of allegations warrant a

check on the source.

That might be a problem for the informant. He hasn't agreed to testify.

I was under the impression that you had a deal in place.

To provide intel, not to testify.

I'll need to speak to him in any case.

If I find him credible and there are other sources or evidence that's

for court, we can work something out.

All right.

I'll set something up.

You've been doing good work out here for us, Inspector.

Keep it up and you'll find yourself in Ottawa.

Thank you.

I just met with Mr. Cleary. He says he needs to meet with Juliana to verify her

credibility.

Can we set up a meeting?

Yes, ma 'am.

Where would you like this to take place?

Here.

Yes, ma 'am.

You disagree?

Uh, respectfully.

Go ahead.

Governments come and go.

A long -term informant like Juliana is a rare asset that could serve the country

for a very long time.

You don't trust Mr. Cleary will do the right thing here. I've been working for

the government too long to trust them.

And this particular government has a lot to lose if it comes out that some of

its members are being bribed by the CIA to advocate for the illegal sale of

water resources.

I imagine Mr.

Cleary might be tempted to bury the whole thing.

Yes, he probably will be.

But the cat's out of the bag, and I don't think I have any other choice.

No, ma 'am.

I'll set up the meeting.

Thank you.

I have to be back at the hotel in two hours exactly.

We are going to dinner. I can't be late.

All right.

So I don't know exactly what questions Mr. Cleary is going to ask, but I want

you to avoid telling him you have a relationship with George.

As far as he's concerned, you have a secretarial position in one of the

Blackmire company.

He came across the materials you gave us accidentally.

Tell the truth, but avoid telling him you work for George.

And don't give any details.

Yes.

If he asks you if you're willing to testify in court, say no. Am I going to

asked to testify?

Probably, but it's a formality. You have the right to say no.

Be firm.

Tell him you never agreed to testify and we don't have a formal deal.

Yes.

You're going to do fine.

The informant has asked not to be identified in the interview and that no

recordings be made.

Fine.

We'll be in here. They'll be on the other side of the glass.

Do you hear it?

Yes.

All right. Mr. Cleary is going to ask a few questions.

Hello. Thank you for coming.

We appreciate what you're doing for us.

Yes. Thank you.

You work for the Blackmire Group in what capacity?

I am secretary.

Can you tell me how these documents, these water deals, came into your

possession? Yes, I was asked by my boss to pick up his briefcase that he left in

the taxi.

When I opened it to check it was filled, I saw the papers.

How long have you been working for the Blackmire Group?

Two years.

When did you come across these? How long ago?

Three weeks.

And do you know who these documents that talk about North American Union, who

they were prepared for?

Yes, for a conference here in Vancouver.

And your boss was at that meeting here?

Yes.

And where was that held?

At the Bancroft Hotel.

And these other documents?

They were for a meeting in New Mexico.

And you were at that meeting too?

No.

You know what these documents are about. You've read them all.

Yes. I was instructed by my handler to read everything.

Do you know the Blackmire CEO, Mr. George Brown?

I met him.

I don't know him.

You heard from someone that Blackmire was the CIA front company?

Yes. What was the source of that?

I can't tell you that.

All right.

Are you willing to testify in court how you acquired these documents?

No. Why is that?

Because I think my life would be threatened.

You like this informant?

Yes. She's been honest with you?

Yes. Do you think that she could lead us to other witnesses that would provide

testimony or evidence?

I think if she were given the time to develop the relationship, if she was

allowed to stay at Blackmire long term, I think she'd prove invaluable.

All right.

Let me take this back to the prime minister's office and justice and see if

think it's worth pursuing.

I find her credible, so I'm going to recommend that we continue along your

present course.

Keep your informant in place and continue to gather relevant materials.

Thank you.

Again, just let me say that you're doing an excellent job.

Try and get the names of the government officials George meets with, but don't

push for it. Just, if it comes to you.

You're a sleeper now, just gathering intel.

Yes.

Here we go.

If you've got any doubts, if you want to back out, now's the time to do it.

I can do it.

All right.

Good night.

Good night.

Call me anytime if you need to talk.

Thank you, Mari.

Take care.

Something's wrong. Juliana called. She said she's going to call again from her

apartment when she can talk.

Here she is.

Yes? Okay, I'm in my apartment now.

Yes, we can see you.

Here's Mary.

What's wrong?

I don't know.

I go back to George last night.

We go to dinner. Everything is laugh, laugh, good mood. And then we go to bed.

Everything is okay. Then this morning he goes out to a meeting. He comes back

and he is really mad and quiet and hating me with his eyes. Something is

Where's George now?

He's outside waiting.

He's waiting in the cab to take me to the airport, but I don't think I should

now because something is wrong.

All right, okay, you're going to need to make an excuse why you can't go on the

trip. No, I already make excuses and he is so angry.

No, no, he is coming up these stairs. He is coming in the building.

Lock the door.

He has the keys.

Go down the back stairs, go.

Go all the way down to the basement.

Yes, I am going down.

Are you there? Are you all right?

Brown is here.

He's not here. Take the stairs.

Juliana! Juliana, it's Martin.

Come, quick.

Justice won't play with us. To proceed, they need to have faith in the

informant's ability to carry through and testify at trial.

I think you heard what she said last night.

I'm going to want a second chance to persuade her.

We can offer her inducements in the witness protection program.

All right. I'll get in touch.

I'm prepared to meet her anywhere at any time.

I'll contact her handler.

Just knock that back.

Yes?

I'm going to need another meeting with the informant. I want to see her this

time. It's a face -to -face.

I understand.

Right. Call me when you make contact.

Sometime today, I hope.

Hard to predict.

I'll be close by.

Thank you.

Come. We've got to change houses.

Let's go.

How's he doing?

You rattle.

What happened?

I don't know.

Everything was fine.

Then George came back from the meeting and was very quiet and very angry. And

then he just said that we had to get to the airport.

Do you know who he met with? No. I asked, what is wrong? He wouldn't say

anything. so I said I had forgot my phone in the apartment and could we stop

there. So we take the taxi, and as I'm going to go up, he takes my passport to

keep.

Then I know it is really bad.

Well, we saw him go into your apartment and find the camera, so I think we can

pretty much say you've been exposed.

Yes, he knows.

So you need to make a decision.

We need to send you away. Where do you want to go?

Well, I don't want to go.

It's not a choice.

Is there a city where you'd like to live for a while?

Anywhere?

Anywhere.

Forest.

Why did I know you were going to say that?

Okay, let me get that started.

Get some rest.

Maybe I said something wrong to make him think I was spying on him.

I don't think it was anything you said or did.

Anyway, what's done is done.

You get some rest. I'm going to try and get you on a plane tonight.

Thank you.

of this whole thing.

Told the wrong people.

It's Cleary from Special Investigations.

Mm -hmm.

You're gonna have to have a good cover story or it's your head he'll be after.

I think that's pretty much a sure thing, whatever happens.

Governments come and go.

It's all that... You think so?

All you need is a good story.

I'll start the arrangements for Julianna's travel.

Thank you.

Have you spoken with her? I contacted her right after I saw you. I offered her

your deal. She refused.

Where is she now?

I have no idea.

So we have a wild card running around out there somewhere.

Possibly.

Bring her in. And if I can't find her?

Somebody else will.

You've done a good job so far. It would be a shame if someone else was to get

credit for your hard work.

Okay, I'm being followed. Get Julian out of town. Yes, ma 'am.

Let's go.

I got a plate I want you to run for me.

The driver will take you to Seattle.

From there, you take a plane to New York.

From there to Paris. Bon voyage.

Bon voyage.

Thank you.

Hurry.