- Now sober, Nathan Ford reunites Sophie, Hardison, Parker, and Eliot to help him con members of an Irish mob.
- The team have bored themselves out of their minds while split-up inactive, even committed break-ins just for the kicks, so they invade Nate's place hoping he'll hand them another case. Although reluctant to be stuck with them, especially at home, he gives in 'just once' after witnessing bank employee Matt Kerrigan nearly dying with his child in a car hit and run as diversion for the theft of incriminating documents. They work out the bank, about to be taken over by the government to settle unsurmountable debts, is a front for an Irish mob. However it soon becomes clear the criminal hierarchy is dramatically different from what Nate assumed, so they must improvise.—KGF Vissers
- Despite Sophie, Nate gets sober and tries to return to corporate America. The utter hatred of job and fellow worker he finds is cause for a drink. En route to a bar, Nate sees father and daughter, Matt and Zoe Kerrigan, have a serious car accident. Nate rescues them; a thug rescues Matt's briefcase before the car explodes. At the hospital, Nate learns Matt set a meeting with Lt. Patrick Bonanno of the State Police and he does not need Denmark to smell the rot. Nate must brave the theatre (to root for the Nazis?) to reunite his loyal, homesick team and save the Kerrigans from a world full of wolves.—LA-Lawyer
- Nate Ford reluctantly reassembles the team to pit the local Irish mob against a banker who is gaming a government bailout. If they survive, Nate has to deal with four thieves who've decided he needs them in his life, whether he likes it or not.—TNT Publicity
- Boston Nate wanders around an insurance office, being welcomed back by a suit. He looks around and doesn't like what he sees, apparently. He leaves.
In a car, Zoey, a teenage girl, tries to convince her dad to do the right thing. What that is, we're not sure, but she's glad he called the police. He suspiciously eyes a briefcase in his back seat.
Outside the insurance office, Nate loosens his tie and heads for a bar.
Meanwhile, in a nice bit of cosmic intervention, the dad's car goes out of control, his brakes are out. They round the corner, hit a pole and flip dramatically up in the air and clean over Nate's head, landing upside down.
He rushes over and gets the girl out of the car (despite flying through the air and landing upside-down, both dad and daughter are conscious and in one piece - magic of television!). Nate tells a nearby man to get the dad. Instead, the fishy-looking dude reaches in the car and takes out the briefcase, scurrying off.
Nate goes back for the dad. The car is flaming and with the dad out and limping away with Nate, it explodes.
Later at the hospital, Nate checks on the guy he saved, Matt Kerrigan. His boss at the bank, Glen Leary, is there. Nate wonders why a Lt. Bonano of the state police are there. A car crash downtown isn't their jurisdiction. Leary explains that Matt called them to set up a meeting, but he doesn't know why. The bank, First Boston Independent, is about to fold.
Leary tells Nate that Matt had been drinking. From her hospital bed, Zoey tells Nate that something was wrong with the car. She's upset about it. He stays with her.
Nate strolls into a playhouse. A poster shows Sophie starring in the Sound of Music. Nate looks around the lobby. He sees Parker, who then sees Hardison, who turns to see Elliot. Aww, the gang's all here.
They say an awkward hello after six months off traveling the globe on their own. Sophie runs out, in full hair and make-up. She invited them all and announces that they'll be meeting up afterwards. The gang doesn't look thrilled.
At a bar later, Sophie moans about her apparently disastrous performance (earlier she said she couldn't sing as well as she could act, which we know is not well). Parker reads from a review on-line: "Never before has a performance of the Sound of Music made me root for the Nazis."
Elliot tries to accept Nate's news that he quit drinking. He knows about the bar they're in because he rents a condo upstairs.
Parker knows how to cheer Sophie up: They'll steal something. Nate quashes the idea. Turns out everyone is miserable. Hardison blames Nate for breaking them, making them want to help people. Sophie begs him to throw a job together. But Nate says he's not a thief.
After he leaves, Parker says to Sophie that she didn't even get a chance to tell him. What we don't know.
Nate goes to his condo upstairs. The door doesn't shut behind him and the fishy-looking guy who took the briefcase creeps in behind him with a knife. Nate sees him in the reflection of a hanging pot lid (natch) and ducks in time. Sophie runs in moments after and helps out with a head butt. The wouldbe stabber runs off and Nate follows him into the hall. But when Nate walks back into his apartment Sophie bashes him in the face with a cookie pan.
Nate wakes up with Parker dressed as a nun sitting over him. The gang's all there. He tries to throw them all out, but they're determined to figure out who's trying to kill Nate. They know about the guy and his daughter that he saved.
Hardison has found surveillance footage of the fishy dude. They get Nate to give up the name of Matt's bank and his boss, Leary.
They have footage of Leary and someone else in the bank going into the bank's vault. They want to steal the briefcase contents back. Elliot figures out why Parker is wearing a nun's outfit.
She and Hardison as a priest are shown into the vault by an employee, who leaves them alone. He points out Parker will need the master key.
Flash back to Parker fishing it out of the employee's pocket, making a quick mold and slipping it back. She uses some nifty solution to make an instant plastic key from the mold.
Hardison tells Parker he did look for her. She gets the box open.
Nate comes downstairs to find Hardison has a whole command center set up in his living room. He shows Nate what Matt found: a bunch of businesses started in the late 70s that were clean for years but then bad loans and refinancing in the last six months. Nate knows the name Brandon O'Hare, they're all related to the mob.
News to Hardison, and to Elliot, whom he quickly calls. Elliot's in the middle of going through some boxes in a warehouse. He has time to hear Hardison say the word mob when three goons, including the earlier fishy guy, come around the corner. Fishy Guy jabs at Elliot with a bat, making the bull angry. He gets the horns.
Elliot disarms him and rebreaks his nose then takes on the other two dudes and fells them all in short order.
Back at Nate's they go through the stuff Elliot found. Nate tries to sit things out, but can't help piping up that the businesses were squeaky clean because they were fronts. "If you have a body in the trunk of your car you drive the speed limit, right?" Nate says to explain. "You know, when you're sober your metaphors get creepy," Parker replies.
Nate explains that the bad loans are a great idea because the bank isn't going to fold, it's going to get bailed out by the government. Now he's getting into it. He even has the right con in mind: the Turnabout.
He agrees to do just this one. And now he just needs to call the professional killer who tried to murder him and arrange to meet him in an isolated location.
Parker and Hardison intercept the bank boss Leary, saying they're with the state police. As they ask him about Matt's car accident while Elliot makes a point of walking by where Leary can see him and looking shifty.
Then Elliot rounds the corner and puts a few spots of a putty substance on the side of the building. He meets up with Parker and Hardison, wanting to know if his detonator will be in range from around the corner.
Hardison says it should, he hasn't worked out the kinks, then he gives Eliot reason to believe the remaining stuff in his pants might explode.
Sophie checks in via cell phone. Nate is getting worked over by mob guys in a warehouse. He tells them he was following Matt. Then he lays out their plan that he knows about, which convinces the goons to off him. Then Sophie strolls around the corner, identifying herself as a British money launderer who hired Nate to find good laundering opportunities in the U.S. Which is how Nate found them.
She proposes a deal, including $250,000 tomorrow as a good faith payment.
As Larry walks out of the bank building Elliot detonates the small charges he put on the side of the building, which have Larry convinced someone's firing at him. He calls "Detective Costello" (Hardison), saying he's ready to talk.
Nate waits at Matt's bedside with Zoey, who has a busted arm, but is OK. She's upset people are saying the accident was her dad's fault. Nate tells her he found out about some bad stuff at work. But she feels responsible since she urged him to call the police. She's upset about the bad people in the world who do bad things and get away with it. Nobody stops them, she says to Nate, the guy who used to stop them.
At Nate's, Hardison distributes new earbuds to the team. They're expecting Leary to run to the police. They've got the earnest money for O'Hare.
Nate calls O'Hare, saying he's on his way but his boss lady wants to meet with their banker.
Meanwhile, Leary calls Hardison in a panic. He says he can't come in, so Hardison warns him whoever it is will probably go after him again. Hardison lays the groundwork, telling Leary that the next time he gets a call from someone he knows telling him to meet them somewhere, that's the hit.
Nate finalizes plans for O'Hare to bring his banker, Leary.
Hardison directs Leary to Lt. Bonano. O'Hare calls Leary, telling him to meet him now.
Via earbud Nate checks with Elliot that Leary is heading to the cops. Uh, no he's not, in fact he's rounding the corner into the warehouse to join Nate at that moment.
The gang outside realizes O'Hare isn't the boss, they've set the con up wrong. They'll be inventing as they go.
Meanwhile, Leary recognizes Nate from the hospital and tells O'Hare to whack him. It's suddenly clear that Leary is the one in charge, not O'Hare. He crows about the mobsters being smalltime and bankers like him working the system for billions and then getting even more out of the government.
A second group of thugs finds Elliot lurking in the warehouse and brings him in. Leary recognizes him as being around when the cops questioned him.
Nate walks over to him and plants a state trooper badge on him. Leary orders O'Hare to kill him, not exactly what Nate was going for.
But O'Hare tells Leary that if he wants him dead, he can do it himself. He already fixed Matt's brakes, he's not killing a cop.
Just then a bullet hits Elliot's chest (we don't see from where). Then another and another and he falls to the ground.
(Back from commercial...) We see Sophie holding a smoking gun. She orders Nate to see if Elliot has a wire. He doesn't, but he does have a cell phone. Sophie tells him to hit redial. O'Hare's phone rings. Leary wants to know why a cop's last call was to him. (By the look on his face, so does O'Hare.)
Flash to Nate calling O'Hare earlier on his phone and then planting it on Elliot's body a moment ago.
They confront O'Hare, who runs outside. Hardison and Parker drive up and tell him to get in if he wants to live. He does. They pull over and tell him to spill. He does. They tape it and taser him.
Inside, Sophie checks where the evidence is against them. Leary says he has the documentation and will finish of Matt, his loose end. After Leary leaves, Elliot pops up and Nate asks how they did it. He used the putty and detonator from before, and some packets of ketchup.
Back to the hospital. Leary pulls out a gun and goes to Matt's bedside, but when he pulls back the curtain he finds Lt. Bonanno sitting on the bed, an actual state police officer who wants to know what's in the briefcase. It's the cash. Lt. Bonanno says O'Hare's been talking. He found him duct taped to his car with a taped confession in his pocket. Bonanno accuses Leary of finding out O'Hare had talked and then robbing his own bank. Somebody cleaned out several safe deposit boxes.
Flash back to Parker mentioning to Hardison in the vault that they could take everything and then going through the boxes to round up the cash.
Bonanno accuses Leary of trying to kill Matt. He would also like to know why Leary has Matt's briefcase. Flash to Elliot saying earlier that he found Matt's empty briefcase at the intersection of the car accident.
Leary protests that he was tricked. Bonanno doesn't think anybody is smart enough to trick someone into bringing a briefcase full of incriminating evidence directly to the police.
Cut to the people who actually are.
Nate and Sophie present Matt and his daughter with a check, explaining that the IRS pays for evidence of tax fraud and Matt was the one who uncovered the fake businesses. Zoey gives Nate a hug and says she's glad there are good guys in the world.
Sophie asks Nate if it's still his last job. He says maybe until he finds something else.
Sophie's phone buzzes as he's suggesting they get dinner. This is awkward. It's her boyfriend. She leaves.
Nate orders a whiskey. He picks it up and inhales deeply. Then he puts it down and leaves it on the bar.
He goes back to his place upstairs. He finds Hardison setting up a new wall o' TVs, then Parker coming in soon after with their old painting of old Nate from the previous Leverage offices. He asks how they got in. Hardison explains that Nate's landlord has the right to enter to make repairs. He knows because it's in his lease, which Hardison has read because he bought the building.
A chainsaw buzzes through the wall. It's Elliot with some minor remodeling. And the gang's back together.
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