Bruce Gray and Sonja Smits starred as the firm's senior partners, Adam Cunningham and Sally Ross.
[1] Jack Larkin, a Vancouver-based trader with Gardner Ross, shows up at their Toronto office with a plan to move from the trading floor into corporate finance.
During the poker game Jack connects with Gerald Graykirk and, while sharing a limousine ride later, convinces him to let Gardiner Ross lead the IPO.
Despite an attempt to undermine the deal by Adam, Gardner Ross leads the Graykirk IPO, taking 40% of the $300M issue but endangers its ability to survive to do so.
The firm only survives the offering with some deft (and questionable) market maneuvering led by Jack and the head trader, Marty Stephens.
When Jack and Donald D'Arby show up at his office, he refuses to see them but learn that he is a client of Ann Krywarik at Gardner Ross.
At the end of the episode, Sally figures out that the securities commission made an illegal search and seizure in obtaining evidence on her father and the case against him is dropped.
Rather than face serious and potentially unlimited losses as the stock rises, Marty defies orders and covers the short position anyway.
Donald informs Adam that the British rail offer does not have a market out clause, meaning that the price is guaranteed by Gardner Ross.
Susannah Marks, the firm's analyst, suspects a company's reported financial numbers are cooked and resists pressure from the others to make a buy recommendation.
After seeing it Sally goes to a ministry that her father allegedly embezzled funds from to talk to the Reverend, who is under RCMP surveillance.
Donald initially refuses to participate in structuring the bid for his family's firm but Jack forces him to work on the acquisition.
Adam and Sally make Benny head trader for the duration of Marty's absence but, due to his computer illiteracy, new environment and lack of experience, he is ineffective.
As the stock price of the record company rises, the position that Adam ordered Grant to set up to bet on its fall loses money quickly.
With the broker's client list, members of the firm figure out who the extortionist is and report it to the police but they do not have enough evidence to take any action.
When Susannah relents again, Adam threatens to make a press release stating that her changed recommendation resulted from extortion.
As Marty returns to the trading floor after his 30-day suspension, Jack is rushing his father to the hospital emergency ward suffering from flu symptoms.
The firm's legal counsel tells Chris he received a call from the securities commission about him using his deceased grandfather's parking sticker.
Near the end of the episode, Chris is called into a meeting with a man in a wheelchair supposedly from the securities commission over his use of the disabled parking sticker.
Grant interrupts the executive meeting with the termination consultant and asks that he be the first to be laid off but since his activities are highly profitable to the firm, they refuse.
In order to save his job, Chris shorts the Danish Krona and then starts a rumor about Denmark holding a referendum on withdrawing from the European Union with a less reputable wire service.
The bond trader tells her that, while having lunch in a clam restaurant, he heard a voice say that the pipeline company Sally's client was bidding on is going to be bought.
Sally and Anton go to the restaurant where the bond trader who bought shares of the target pipeline company thought he heard voices from God.
Sally asks the waiter to find out who was sitting at both tables the day that the bond trader thought he heard the voice God.
Jack and Donald are approached by a Jewish man who wants to buy a company that made a catalytic agent that was used to rapidly decompose bodies, including those of his parents, during the Holocaust.
Since the previous debt holder did not waive the breach, it gives the new debt holder the right to send the company into receivership but after visiting the company that his client intends to destroy, seeing how well it treats its employees and realizing that those employees are innocent of any wrongdoing, Jack has second thoughts about destroying the firm.
While they are discussing this, a Gardner Ross lawyer enters with an injunction filed by the catalytic agent company on the grounds that the receiver was appointed in bad faith.
At the end of the episode, upset that the bank will not be acquired and he will have to continue in the business for longer, Adam is consoled by his ailing wife.
Jack and Donald agree to handle a leveraged buyout of a cosmetics firm owned by the mother of the hostile bidder.
Meanwhile, the newly floated Gardner Ross stock has started trading and is dropping precipitously on the news that Grant has quit.