Dancing in the Smoke

Mick's new lawyer files an emergency appeal using the sniper contract. The conviction is overturned, and Mick walks out of jail. Ray Cifarelli moves into a formal role inside the operation and starts rebuilding contacts that Boston had cut off. Vincent partners with a Newark drug dealer named Curtis Lyle, who is an even-tempered sociopath. Elena and Maria reach a motel outside Trenton and begin uploading the Crowley evidence to journalists. Federal agents locate them and breach the room before the upload completes. Maria stays at the laptop until it finishes and is shot. She dies after the transfer goes through. Elena walks out into the road, devastated, and is taken into federal custody. She is not charged. She is offered a position inside the organized crime task force. Rudy drives Vermont back roads for days and stops at a bar, where a retired man named Gerald sits beside him and talks about memory and guilt, unaware of Rudy's life. Rudy drives away in the dark.