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Previously onThe Border...

- Homeland Security was very satisfied with the outcome.

- You just broke every law in the book.

- Now LaGarda owns you. - I've been officially reprimanded.

- I believe that Homeland Security's mandate includes

cooperation with "all" relevant agencies.

Please don't get caught up in Major Kessler's ill-advised fantasies.

- My superiors weren't happy that I failed to keep them informed.

- Major LaGarda, we'll make a Canadian of you yet. [Bianca laughing]

[Dance music]

[All talking and screaming excitedly]

- Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much.

Thank you.

[All talking and screaming excitedly]

Kiley! Kiley we love you!

[Dramatic music]

- I can't breathe. I can't breathe.

I can't...

♪ I sometimes want to die

[Siren sounding]

- Platinum-selling singer- songwriter Kiley Tristano

collapsed here in front of Club 273 as she left the launch party

- for her new CD last night. - Ah yes, thank you.

- She was rushed to Columbia St. Luke's Hospital,

but emergency room doctors were unable to revive her.

[Phone ringing] Kiley Tristano, suddenly,

shockingly, dead at age 34.

- Yep, I'll tell Dr. Farber. Thank you. Good-bye.

- ...no history of drug abuse-- - Ah, come on!

[Turning off the TV] Why'd she say that? So typical!

Now everybody'll be saying,

"Oh, Kiley was secretly a doper, just like all the other stars."

- Were you a fan? - She was a beautiful person.

A real human being. She had no airs.

She'd come in and talk to me like we're talking right now.

- She was a patient here? - Well, I shouldn't say 'cause of confidentiality.

But it's tragic, right, 'cause- 'cause she was so young.

She had cancer?

- But it couldn't have been what took her: it was early stages, her diagnosis was excellent.

She was going to beat it.

Just like you will, right?

[Phone ringing in the background]

- So what got the Pride of Miami up before the birds?

[Singing from the video] Heironymous?

Is there something you want to talk about?

- Thought she'd always be there for me. She's gone.

- But if you'd rather not... - She got me through puberty.

Okay, not. Enough said.

- This was posted less than an hour

after she keeled over, and the iTunes server cacked out

trying to handle the downloads of her songs.

- Yeah well, death and double platinum will do that.

- Ever think maybe this whole Internet thing is a bad idea?

- And Kiley Tristano was your first clue?

No. Midget porn.

- Oh. - But this is a close second.

[Slade sighing] She was here when I got in.

- What, on the monitors? - Cruella.

I told her the boss usually shows by 8. She said she'd wait.

[Slade sighing again]

Cause of death: anaphylaxis.

She suffocated before anyone could figure out what was wrong.

- Anaphylactic shock is an allergic reaction.

No allergies.

Miss Tristano did have cancer - lymphoma.

She was taking a number of prescription drugs.

Including this one: Pericine. It's new.

Not approved by the FDA for sale in the United States.

- Prescribing physician: Dr. Bruce McKeown.

- Here in Toronto. - I'd like to talk to him.

The New York City medical examiner

is analyzing the Pericine from that bottle right now.

Gray, Layla.

What's up?

- Book the earliest flight to New York. You'll talk to the ME.

Canada may be about to take the fall

for the death of an American sweetheart.

- Like the song says: "Blame Canada."

Okay, so we're on the 9:45 out of the Island Airport.

- Great, I just need to grab some stuff from my locker.

New York City?

No better place to take a lady to dinner.

- I'm afraid that bird has flown.

Hey, um,

so you guys are going to New York, hey?

So, are you going to check out the scene? - Like take in a play?

- Or catch the last game at Yankee Stadium?

No. No, Club 273.

You know, the spot where Kiley drew her last breath.

- We're going down to talk to the medical examiner, Slade.

- Yeah, this isn't some weird necro-fantasy tour. - No...

I was just going to ask you to pay my respects, you know.

Like maybe leave a flower

or something - never mind.

- So I read your report on the WesTech case.

- Mm-hm.

- Thanks for not mentioning anything about Jimmy and me.

Wasn't relevant.

Maybe. But I owe you.

So you heard from him?

Don't expect to. It's over.

From now on, I'm concentrating on the job.

Right.

- Yes, I approved Pericine for Kiley Tristano.

She read about it and came here to see if it could help her. - Did it?

- Too soon to tell but we expected positive results.

The drug performed so miraculously in trials

it was fast-tracked for approval in Canada and Europe.

- But it's not approved by the FDA.

- Look, this isn't like going to some clinic in Tijuana to have your blood cleansed.

- Something went wrong, right? - Food and Drug Administration approval can take years.

You think Kiley Tristano should've waited?

- Anything in her medical history suggested she might have had an adverse reaction?

- No. - So there are no negative side effects to the drug?

- Like anaphylactic shock? No.

If you want a complete run-down, talk to the drug company -

CanPhar. Are we done?

I'm not finished with my rounds.

Sure. Thank you.

- U.S. citizens can import Canadian prescription drugs

for individual use - it's completely legal.

- Importing Pericine isn't legal. It's not approved in the U.S.

We dispense Pericine

using Canadian prescriptions written by Canadian doctors.

We don't need to check patients' citizenship.

- Well, we're going to need samples,

all of your data on the drug,

and copies of prescriptions.

No way. No way!

- This is an investigation into the death of a prominent U.S. citizen.

Now sir, are you refusing to co-operate?

- The FDA filing alone runs to over 100,000 pages.

Now I'm not going to make a copy of that for you or anyone else.

- I don't think you understand.

People taking Pericine could be at risk.

[Chuckling] You don't care about people's health?

- We've developed a drug that can save them from cancer. I think that's caring.

- And what if it has deadly side effects?

- I told you already, we've tested the hell out of it!

- Malcolm, perhaps I can explain... - Great, great.

Maybe you'll do better with Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber!

- I'm Nadia Abrams, chief pharmacologist. Please don't be offended by Malcolm's attitude.

- It's hard not to be. - He's very passionate about the work we do here.

- And we're trying to determine whether one of your products caused a woman's death.

- I can assure you, after years of clinical trials,

there's never been the slightest indication that Pericine

could trigger anaphylaxis.

- Give us a sample. If Health Canada officially clears it,

you can use it to counter negative publicity.

- Or, U.S. Customs starts paying

special attention to every package with a CanPhar label.

I'll get you a sample.

[Motorists honking and siren sounding]

- [Knocking at the door] - Dr. Jefferson?

Ah!

- Tommie. - Thomas Jefferson? - Direct descendant. Coffee?

- No. - So, you wanted the latest on the Tristano death?

- She was taking Pericine, an anti-cancer drug

from a Canadian company. If it contributed in any way--

- You're afraid we'll hang this rap on you. - That's it.

- Have you got the results from the tox screen?

- I think I identified the chemical combination that triggered her allergic reaction.

Either one of you have an advanced science degree?

No? Then I'll spare you the chemistry.

Tristano had a few Pericine pills left.

They contained one of the chemicals in the compound. - One of the chemicals?

So my theory is,

chemical A from the Pericine

must have combined in her system

with chemical B

to trigger the allergic reaction.

- What's the source of chemical B? - Don't know, yet.

But she'd have to shoot it, snort it or swallow it.

- Other people on Pericine could be at risk if they have the same allergy.

- That's why we have to find the source of the second chemical.

- You have anyone looking through Tristano's personal effects?

- Investigators are bagging and tagging at her apartment right now.

[Typing and phone ringing]

[Electronic noises]

- I don't believe it. Can you process this?

Someone's flogging

Kiley's first indie CD. Bidding's at 104 simoleons.

- It's not even signed. - I thought you'd sworn off the Internet.

- I got a video of her when she played the El Mo. Summer '94.

I was 14, she was sweet 16.

- You were 14 in '94? I was 12. - I snuck in.

It was transcendent. 'Til security spotted me taping.

Making bootleg videos, huh?

You're lucky the RCMP didn't pick that up on your security check.

- You kidding? That's how I got my first job.

[Electronic noises] Ah, look, look!

Now it's 1-25!

- [Phone ringing, siren sounding] - Aromatherapy oils,

sleeping pills, birth control, and a puffer.

Asthma medication,

plus prescription meds from 3 different doctors.

- Chinese herbal remedies, cold medication...

What's this, dry cleaning?

- Could be something in the cleaning fluid,

or something used to launder her sheets, or shampoo her rug.

This is how we live now.

Up to our asses in a chemical swamp.

So what's the answer?

Can Pericine help me or not?

- I'll need to review these test results and your history.

To ensure there are no adverse affects.

Okay, what's your best guess?

- Your cancer seems to be at a very early stage.

That's when Pericine can be the most effective,

but sometimes watchful waiting is the best first strategy to determine our options.

- Waiting isn't my style, Doctor.

So I'll call you back later on.

[Phone ringing in the background]

- We put out a query to the coroners' offices in major cities.

- Death from anaphylactic shock? - Came in last night.

Man in his sixties. Cancer patient.

Taking Pericine.

- ...don't know what caused Miss Tristano's allergic reaction.

- We understand she was taking an experimental cancer drug from Canada.

Could that have been the cause?

- I don't want to speculate 'til we've completed all our tests.

- Or, if you prefer the Chicken Little version,

you can flip on over to Channel Four.

- There's a very good reason why it is illegal to import

prescription drugs that have not been approved by the FDA:

There is no guarantee that they're safe.

- Trouble is, nothing else seems to work as well.

- All U.S. citizens currently taking Pericine need to consult with their physicians

and seek alternative treatment.

- How'd you like to make that call?

"Oh, this drug could kill your cancer.

On the other hand, it could kill you."

Nothing's been proven yet.

Any results back from Health Canada?

- [Cell phone ringing] - Not yet. Kessler.

- [Five hundred million dollars.]

- Do I have your attention? - Total.

- That's Canada's annual drug sales to the U.S.

- I hope whoever's buying has health insurance.

- American pharmaceutical companies would love

to squeeze off that trade.

[If they can use the death of this singer]

[to cast doubt on the safety]

of Canadian drugs, they will.

- We should get word soon on whether Pericine was a factor in the deaths.

Deaths?

Plural now? This isn't reassuring.

- U.S. authorities are cooperating. I'll get back to you when's something definite.

- Try and make it good news, Mike.

[It's been a hard week on the Hill.]

- [Gray sighing] - Thought you were staying in last night.

- [Congested]: It's a cold. Musta caught it on the plane.

- Here, I've got some Tylenol. - I can't. Already took Aspirin.

- There's this new thing: 24 pills in the first 8 hours.

- It's all natural. - Coupla shots of bourbon and a steam. That's natural.

- What's the latest from the New York ME?

- Uh, it could take weeks for them to analyze all the samples they've collected.

- We don't have weeks. We've already had another death.

Health Canada's getting calls from doctors and patients, coast to coast.

- I've got a possibility. Outta left field. - Let's hear it.

- When I was in Africa, we heard a lot about counterfeit drugs.

In the mid-90s, 2,500 children

died in Niger because of a fake meningitis vaccine.

- How are you tying this to the Pericine?

- What if someone replaced the expensive ingredients in the Pericine?

The fakes in Africa had a lot of cheap ingredients -

uh, starch, chalk, pollen.

- The second source is added right into the pills. - And there's your allergen.

- It's a theory. - Hold on. The New York ME and Health Canada checked the pills.

- They were good. - Maybe the counterfeits are mixed in with the legit pills.

- Sure, we had counterfeits. [The U.S. spends 300 billion dollars a year on drugs.]

You can make a better buck

selling fake Viagra than hustling crack.

- So there could have been a fake pill in Kiley Tristano's prescription.

- Or more. Like bee stings, the allergen would have to build up in her system.

- So the first time it's just a mild reaction?

- You get stuffed up, short of breath; you think maybe you're getting a cold...

- And then the next time it's lights out. [Sneezing]

- Bless you. - [Congested]: Hey, sometimes a cold is just a cold, alright?

- [I'll keep testing.] But what you're saying?

- [Not the worst idea I've heard.] - Thank you, Doctor.

- You're welcome. - Get a warrant for CanPhar.

I want more samples of the Pericine and all records related to its manufacture and sale.

- If they had cooked up a batch of fakes, wouldn't they have dumped it before you showed up?

- Maybe Toal and Abrams aren't in on it.

Get CanPhar's personnel records as well.

- You wait a goddamn minute! You can't do this!

- Yes we can. We showed you a warrant.

- Hey whoa. Take it easy, chief. - Hey, keep your hands off me!

- Who's in charge here? [Gray coughing] - Gray Jackson, ICS.

- Your people are confiscating hundreds of units of Pericine. We already gave you a sample.

- Yeah, well I'm afraid we're gonna need more.

- How do we service customers? - Sooner we execute the warrant, the sooner you're in business.

- What do we tell the cancer patients who need these pills?

- That we're trying to make sure they're safe.

- You goddamn government assholes!

Malcolm!

- What do you think? Legitimate outrage because he's innocent?

- Or blew his top to hide his guilt.

- Somehow I knew it wasn't the best time to ask him for advice on cold remedies.

Two weeks at the most.

Yeah.

[Sighing]

Well, I am tired, Mom.

Yeah - and it's late. I should go to sleep.

[Speaking in a foreign language]

[TV playing in the background]

- [Turning up the volume] - They were like the Gestapo!

They did everything short of kicking down the door.

What kind of country are we living in?

Thousands die from lymphoma every year and here's a drug that can save lives.

The American drug companies

must be thrilled about this Pericine scare.

Now they have time to get their alternatives on the market.

[Siren sounding and motorist honking]

- Cleaning lady found him. - Anyone else around?

- No, he was always the last to leave. Looks like he was going over company accounts.

[Camera clicking]

- Miss the old days, Moose? - Yeah, especially this time of the morning.

- First observations? - No obvious foul play. I'm going to guess heart attack.

- That's what working nights'll get you.

- The Pericine samples seized yesterday are checking out okay.

So either they ditched the fakes or-- - There aren't any.

- Pericine, like your shirts, my sneakers,

and a surprising number of "Don't Mess with Texas" products, is made in China.

- Well, 40% of all U.S. drug ingredients come from China or India.

- They're also the major suppliers of the world's counterfeits.

- The FDA stepped up inspections of Chinese drug factories

after those blood thinner deaths last year - the Pericine plant got an A-1 rating.

- And, I'm sure, a personal letter of commendation from Premier Hu.

- Who? - What? - That never gets old, does it?

- [Sighing] - Audit CanPhar's financials.

See if there's anything out of line.

[Malcolm Toal's dead. Maybe cardiac arrest.]

- Heart attack? - We should get confirmation later today.

- He was a classic Type 'A'. Did we push too hard?

- Like I said, nothing's confirmed.

- What about the Pericine? - [All the samples checked out.]

[You might want to pass that along to Jefferson and the FDA.]

Sure. I'll do that.

[Water running]

- The New York ME said Kiley Tristano only had a few Pericine pills left.

- According to CanPhar's records, she was sent a new batch of pills three weeks ago.

- So where are they? - If it's like everything else connected to Kiley,

they'll probably show up on eBay any minute.

Her first CD, it sold for over 200 bucks. [Gray blowing his nose]

- Did I mention I got a video of-- - U.S. Customs stops thousands of prescription drug shipments

- every year. - Pills were sent before there were suspicions about Pericine.

- Yeah, but it's still an unapproved medication.

The package is probably sitting in the U.S. customs warehouse

at Pearson - if it hasn't been incinerated.

- Lets see if Agent LaGarda can use her charm.

[Gulls crying]

Any trouble getting the pills released? - Not really.

Boys in Customs think they're helping catch a major terrorist.

- I have Health Canada on the line.

Hey. Okay...

Out of one 168 pills tested,

56 do not have the correct chemical ingredients.

- They're fakes? - Do they have the allergen?

- Yep, a chemical in the filler combined with an ingredient in the Pericine.

[Probably 100 people]

[could take these fake pills with no reaction.]

Miss Tristano was unlucky enough to be susceptible.

- And the 100 people who aren't allergic still die of cancer

because they're not getting the daily dosage they need.

You've got a point there.

- It's impossible to analyze every single pill.

We do random testing and we were assured

that the manufacturer in China is extremely reputable.

- You'll have inspectors here from Health Canada until this gets straightened out.

- We're as eager to get to the bottom of this as you are.

- Yeah, well Malcolm Toal didn't seem all that cooperative.

- Did you notice any changes in his behavior recently?

- Money trouble? Marital problems? A whisper here or there?

- No, no. Malcolm was a thoroughly honorable man.

His only failing was that he worked too hard.

- He pretty much ran the whole show?

- When he got a heart condition, I took on some of the load.

But he wouldn't let up.

Your raid the other day was probably one stress too many.

- The counterfeit pills could be Toal's scam.

We show up, he can't take the heat. His heart blows out.

What about the pharmacologist?

She could be in on it.

- There's still the possibility that it's all run from China and both of them were in the dark.

[Phone ringing]

What've you got, Moose?

- Malcolm Toal was supposed to be taking beta-blockers for his heart.

But they didn't show up when forensics checked his blood. - Maybe he took a break.

Beta-blockers can mess with your sex drive. What?

- Yeah, anyway, they found traces of an amphetamine in his system.

- A man with a heart condition takes an amphetamine?

- Once again, if he wanted to give a boost to his sex drive...

- [Or he's stressed, and he took his meds,]

and it was really speed because somebody had made up a dose

of amphetamines to look like his beta-blockers.

- Somebody who doesn't want Toal to take a closer look at the company books.

- [That's where I was going.] - Set up surveillance on Nadia Abrams.

[Thunder and rain]

[Dramatic music]

- Ah! Did you get the guy from the cab? - Yeah.

Good.

He just hooked up with our favorite pharmacist in the restaurant.

Who's this now?

Better get him, too.

- No, no, I'll go. I already got a cold.

- No, we'll both go. Play tourist.

- All right, this ought to be fun.

[Cheerfully]: Ah!

[Gray laughing] Ah! No, no, no!

- Ready? - Whoo! Whoo-hoo-hoo!

Whoo!

- Got it! - You sure? - Yeah. Let's go.

Think Slade can get any details on the photos?

- He's working on them. We should've had an underwater camera.

- Yeah, and wetsuits. - Well, you're not going to win any photo contest but--

Oh! Uh...

I, uh... Right.

Um, I have news. When you're, um, done.

Not that you're doing anything here... Are you?

- All, all dry? - I'm still wet.

- Um, uh... - My hair.

- What have we got? - Right.

Uh, the guy on the left - still unidentified.

But the guy on the right?

From outside the key, all net, three points. - Who is he?

- Name's Steven Gao. Guoanbu. - Chinese Secret Service? - Yes indee-dee.

You hooked yourself a deepwater fish.

- Mr. Gao. One of the many 'grains of sand' the Chinese

have scattered across Canada to keep an eye on us.

And CSIS, in turn, keeps an eye on them.

- In this case, he's watching the same people we are.

- Do you recognize this man? - No.

- We're drawing a blank as well. - There are no flags on Mr. Gao's file.

But if he's started some new initiative, I would like to know about it.

- We picked him up. He's next door.

Thought we could interview him together.

Oh, I must say,

even in the middle of the night, I find it most gratifying

to be asked to cooperate with an ICS investigation.

- No, no. I'm the market analyst for Prescott Capital.

That's just your day job.

You also collect information for the Chinese government.

- I have lived in Canada since I was a graduate student.

I am a landed immigrant.

- Agent Mannering is with CSIS. He has a very large file on you.

- Why were you following this man earlier tonight?

I wasn't.

So you were following her?

- Mr. Gao, if you continue to waste our time,

Major Kessler and I can have you back on a flight to Beijing - tonight.

- Where you can explain to your bosses why you were deported.

- And why you're such a failure as an intelligence agent. I'm sure they'll be understanding.

Who is he?

- I don't have time to waste on this minnow! - Sharaf Mirza.

A client asked me to do some research on him.

- And what exactly did you discover?

- Mirza funnels money from North America to Muslims

in Xinjiang Province.

- Chinese Muslims protesting religious persecution

by the government?

- They are subversives trying to undermine the State.

Who is she?

I don't know who she is.

They've met several times. Perhaps a girlfriend?

- Nadia Abrams and her mom emigrated from Lebanon when she was a kid.

Mother remarried, Nadia goes to U of T for Pharmacy,

at CanPhar for thirteen years.

Traveled to Lebanon, also Syria and Iran several times.

- Not exactly typical holiday destinations.

- Surprised she went back at all.

Her father and older sister were killed in Beirut in '85.

Along with 78 other people. Car bomb.

- The target of that attack was a radical Muslim cleric.

- Some say the CIA planned it. - Hm...

Retaliation for the bombing

of the Marine barracks 2 years earlier?

Maybe Abrams gets her revenge

by peddling counterfeit drugs in the West.

- What's the relevance of that? - Oh, that's- that's nothing.

[Uneasy moan] That's nothing.

- You've cooperated with us. We want to return the favor.

- We'll start by not mentioning to your bosses

that you shared information with us on Mr. Mirza.

- We suspect this woman is marketing counterfeit drugs made in China.

- Given China's recent problems with contaminated

food and drug products, I hardly think they want more bad publicity.

The name of the drug factory.

You'll get Chinese government to make some discreet inquiries.

- But I am just a financial analyst...

- Yes, yes, we'll play along with your cover story

if you play along with us.

[Gulls crying and car engine starting]

[Toy gun shooting sounds]

[Beep]

[Objects falling to the floor and Slade laughing]

- Slade did a fine comb through CanPhar's financials.

And we got word back from the investigators in China.

This is what it looks like: the factory in Shanghai

making the Pericine also has a night shift making the fakes for a fraction of the price.

- They get blended with the real pills and sent to Toronto? - Right.

CanPhar sells the pills for 40 bucks a pop

and Nadia Abrams skims the profits from the fakes.

Without Toal knowing.

- Abrams has access to the company's electronic banking system.

She hooks up with Sharaf Mirza, an international bagman.

He arranges for Abrams' profits

to be sent to a numbered account in Dubai.

From there the money goes to Lebanon and Syria.

- Islamist extremists? - Most likely. - How much of it can you prove?

- The drug counterfeiting and Abrams taking money out of the company.

- Do you think she killed Malcolm Toal?

- No hard evidence. [Background conversation]

Congratulations.

Your investigation is going to have long-term benefits for national security.

Really?

- Identifying Sharaf Mirza enables us to plot

an entire financial network for radical Islamists.

- Grab him quick. He's likely to disappear when we move on Nadia Abrams.

- No, no, no. They both have to stay in place. - What?

Nadia Abrams is marketing fake drugs.

She's killing people.

The Pericine threat is over.

She knows she can't continue with that.

Sure, she can.

- All she has to do is make sure the filler isn't toxic.

- But if the pills aren't toxic, they're not going to hurt anyone.

- Or cure them. So people get sick and die while you read Sharaf Mirza's mail.

- Maybe I didn't make myself clear.

This is now a joint operation

of CSIS and the CIA.

We've taken over.

And you can confirm that with your superiors.

So thank you again for all the good work.

Mannering!

Agent LaGarda.

Are you feeling alright? You look a little tired.

- Nadia Abrams must be stopped, okay?

- Her time will come. Just not right now. - That is unacceptable!

- Don't tell me you've gone soft on terrorism?

- No. No, but I haven't gone soft on people suffering either.

- Sometimes that's a necessary trade-off.

For the greater good.

- Greater good? What greater good?

Some half-baked plan to subvert Islamists in the Middle East?

From Lebanon to Iran, today those plans have failed.

- We can but try. - You owe me.

Do I?

Well then, let me give you a little advice.

If you value your job,

you won't fight the CIA.

[Phone ringing in the background]

- Ya-ha! Go, baby! Go!

Ha! I just put my Kiley video up for auction.

- Have you gone over to the moneychangers?

Latest bid is 1,300 smackers!

- Making money off of other people's misfortunes - won't you feel guilty

every time that you spend one of those dollars?

- Wow... You available for parties?

Just to make sure no one has too good a time?

[Computer noises]

- I've confirmed with the Minister. CSIS has the ball now.

This is wrong.

What?

- I'm not used to agreeing with you.

- Mike, there's got to be something we can do.

- We can conspire or we can commiserate.

Like to go for a drink?

Um...

Um, I have a project to finish.

Umm...

Yes?

- You know, I'm still getting Health Canada reports.

They're monitoring the Pericine that CanPhar dispenses.

- And what? - This is the latest prescription list.

- We never saw this. - Absolutely not.

Miss Abrams.

Can we sit in your car and talk for a moment?

- Is this really necessary? I'm on my way home.

It won't take long.

What is it?

- As a Homeland Security agent,

I have many more resources than my Canadian counterparts.

Yes?

- I know what you've been up to. The drugs...

- I had nothing to do with-- - Where the money goes...

And how you killed Toal.

I see the Canadians

never need to know about these things - unless I tell them.

- Whatever your resources, your information is false.

- I'm a U.S. government employee.

I don't make that much.

Even with the hardship supplement

I get for working in Canada.

- I don't need to listen to this any longer-- - Fifty thousand dollars.

And I stay silent.

Please get out of my car.

- Talk it over with Mr. Mirza.

Call me. One hour.

[Speed-dialing beeps]

- Boss, yeah, I'm set up on Abrams.

Guess who she just met?

- [Bianca]: Talk it over with Mr. Mirza. Call me.

One hour.

[Cell phone ringing]

- Hello. - Abrams: [My office.]

[Eleven o'clock tonight. Come alone.]

- Of course. I would expect you to be alone, too.

Mike?

Bianca.

[Siren in the background]

[Elevator bell]

Hold up your arms.

I'm not carrying a gun.

You're not wired, either?

You're paying me off.

You think I want a recording of that? Just give me the money.

Yes, your payoff.

Good night, Miss LaGarda.

[Muffled screams]

[Screaming in pain]

[Fighting yells]

[Screaming]

Shit...

Are you alright?

- [Whispering]: Oh God, what took you so long?

Had to take the stairs.

[Bianca moaning]

Okay, okay...

[Phone ringing in the background]

- Hey, so how'd the video auction go?

- It was okay. - Just okay?

All that rationalization and you're not bragging about making a killing?

- Yeah, I cancelled the bidding. I pulled the video. - Good for you!

- I traded it for a Geddy Lee bass.

[Laughing] From Rush's first American tour.

Now this, this is going to be worth something some day.

Ha-ha! Hey! Don't you wanna hear Working Man?

- No! - Well, anything?

- This was a CSIS-CIA operation.

- I was explicit! - You we're tracking the big international

terrorist conspiracy; we were working the little counterfeit drug angle.

- Getting evidence that could be used against Nadia Abrams

once you'd made the world safe from terrorism.

- Maybe you can use the attempted homicide charge

to persuade Mirza to cooperate.

You'll be lucky if you end up

inspecting fishing trawlers in Alaska!

And you...

- I may have sailed too close to the line on this one.

- I've been keeping a file on Mannering.

It's yours if you want it.

Thanks anyways.

- [Plucking a note] - Like that? No, I can't.

Need a couple of strings. [Inaudible reply]

I will in my own time. [Sneezing]

You gave me your cold.

- Did that involve an exchange of bodily fluids?

Here. Be my guest.

For all I know, they're full of sugar and tofu powder.

Chicken soup.

- Aw.... [Plucking a note]

- Oh no. I had enough.

I have to go.

I have to pack.

I've been recalled.

They think I've lost perspective.

Gone native?

Yeah. Something like that.

What now?

Take care of myself.

Visit my mother in Miami, go shopping, walk on the beach.

- If there's anything you need

that you can't get in the States...

we'd be glad to send it.

Maple syrup? Arctic char?

Box seats to a Blue Jays game?

Right.

You know, I might come back sometimes, right?

I'm going to miss you.

A little bit.

Yeah. Same here.

This might be the second-best country in the world.

[Chuckling]

And there are things about it

I was really starting to like.

Take care of yourself.