Hudson & Rex

Police converged on a warehouse

in Shea Heights late last night

seizing nearly two million dolllars

in counterfeit bills.

It's the first sign

of organized crime in St. John's

since the arrest of notorious mobster,

Rupert Mankiewicz, eight months ago.

Now with this latest development

police fear a new crime boss has emerged.

Superintendent Joe Donovan

is quick to dispel those rumours.

Unlike the Mankiewicz situation,

this appears to be the work of foreign influence.

We're working closely with CSIS and Interpol

to find these culprits.

Organized crime has no place in our city.

Donovan points out Major Crimes Detective,

Charlie Hudson,

has trained his canine, Rex

to sniff out the phony bills

based on smell alone.

It was this that led investigators

to the warehouse in the first place

making it clear that criminals

looking to set up shop in St. John's

are barking up the wrong tree.

If the threats don't scare him away, the canine puns will.

Assuming it's a him.

I mean, do we even know who this new crime boss is?

Unfortunately, we didn't catch anybody at the scene.

Well, hopefully, processing this evidence will help.

My money is on the Chechen mafia.

In other news... my

first television cameo is pretty impressive.

You had a television cameo?

Yeah. Right there.

That's my shoulder.

Yeah, it still counts.

Does it?

Really?

That was weird.

Yeah, he's been on the phone in there for a while.

- I wonder what's up? - He's not ordering pizza.

Is he? You know what that means.

Pizza means late night !

There's not much evidence left to process.

We should be okay.

Do you have somewhere you need to be?

Well, uh...

I have a dinner.

Oh!

With a woman.

Who is not my mom this time.

Ah, been a while, huh?

Only date I have is with a hot bath.

What's happening?

You need to push those dinner reservations, Jesse.

Rupert Mankiewicz is here.

Mankiewicz? Since when?

Apparently his life was threatened in the Penitentiary.

So they're moving him out of province.

What's he doing here?

It's just a stopgap until space opens up.

He'll be gone in the morning.

Which means Joe's going to squeeze him

for all he knows about this counterfeit thing tonight.

And we're going to have to be by his side

in case anything comes up.

Which can only mean that...

Who is up for some pizza?

I'm sorry to spring this on you guys.

But once an opportunity presents itself,

we need to take advantage.

How do we know Mankiewicz is going to co-operate?

We don't.

Mankiewicz was pummeled in prison by inmates.

Why was he targeted?

That's the million dollar question.

Our working theory is that whoever this new player is

is trying to send a message.

That there's a new boss in town.

Exactly.

Mankiewicz's grip on the criminal world is loosening.

If we're lucky, he's desperate.

He knows a lot of players.

He's very valuable to us. We cannot afford to lose him.

Does Mankiewicz even have a counterfeit background?

Actually, Mankiewicz had a brief,

albeit unsuccessful, stab at that

about six years ago.

So how do we do this?

I want you to talk to him.

Just you and Rex. Nobody else.

You're the closest thing

in this building to someone who he thinks that he can trust.

And what about us?

I want the two of you to comb over Mankiewicz's counterfeit files

from a few years back.

Compare it to the haul that we got last night.

So Jesse.

I want you to go down to evidence lockup.

And dig up those hard drives.

Do a deep dive on all of the data.

That's a lot of data.

And layers of encryption that I've never seen before.

It might take me hours.

Is that a problem?

It's no problem.

Excellent. Sarah, I want you to

take a closer look at those counterfeit bills.

- Everybody set? - Yeah.

Let's do this.

Alright Rex.

It's time to introduce you to an old friend.

Come on.

Rex!

Shut.

Up.

So this is the famous Rex!

Not the hellhound I was expecting.

Well, just hope you never see that side of him.

Hello, Hudson.

Mankiewicz.

You look, uh, well...

judging by that shiner looks like you're

not getting along with your neighbours

in the Penitentiary.

Oh, it was just a minor misunderstanding.

Yeah, I guess we're holding on to you for a bit

before you're moved to Kingston.

Well I hear the people are much more friendly.

Well as long as it has

nothing to do with your influence

being on the decline.

It must be pretty hard to know

there's another kingpin in town.

Ohhh.

Now, Detective.

You're not trying to

goad me into doing the heavy work for you. Are you?

Now why would I do something like that?

Well because I've got the feeling

you haven't got the slightest clue

as to whose behind all this.

And you need all the help you can get.

And might I suggest

that the next time I come to visit

that we use these holding cells here for VIPs only?

Well we could just send you back to your old prison.

I imagine those bruises will get a lot worse.

Listen.

Nobody needs to know

that we're talking.

But I understand

that you used to dabble in phony bills at one point.

That was a lifetime ago.

I bet you still recall some of the players.

They lost me when they went to plastic.

I'd say look to Asia for the high-tech stuff.

My money's on Beijing.

You're telling me that you're completely in the dark

about who's behind this?

I'm telling you I was smart enough to cut my losses.

My counterfeiting experience

was disastrous.

He's not wrong.

These old bills from his counterfeit days...

Here. Look at the edges.

Mankiewicz was counterfeiting older paper bills.

And they were easier to spot.

You see that?

They bleed.

And they're slightly off colour.

What about the bills we seized yesterday?

That's a whole different ballgame.

Modern bills have foolproof security features.

But these are nearly perfect.

They even get the raised ink right.

How is that possible?

This one uses multiple layers of ink,

all intricately laid one-by-one by the machine.

And the holographic elements are added later.

There might be something to this Beijing crime racket theory.

Their tech is just on a whole other level.

We have to assume the worst.

Well, they still haven't perfected the smell.

We still have Rex.

Yeah, but if an international crime syndicate

has taken a foothold here,

Rex won't be enough to save us.

Boss.

I pulled all the players

from Mankiewicz's failed counterfeit ring.

And I sent them to you and Charlie for reference.

I also got all the data for the ink layouts.

Anything interesting?

Yeah. I mean we're talking multiple layers

with 1200 dpi resolution for printing.

It's pretty impressive stuff.