- With Sophie gone, Parker and Hardison must assume new roles to recover a cache of stolen diamonds and help an innocent man accused of the crime.
- Diamond trader Jim Kerrity III arranged to have his own armored car robbed, the single guard was suspended without pay. Nate accepts to help him and break the crook. During Sophie's self-searching, the other team members assume shifted parts. Kerrity, known to be in debt with the Russian mob, is made to believe Harrison holds one of the world's rare lasers to mark with international serial numbers or un-mark. Things are complicated urgently as the Russian accomplices have their own ruthless agenda.—KGF Vissers
- Breath of fresh air: Sophie is gone. Joey, a Boston PD officer and part-time security driver is jacked mid-transport of diamonds owned by Kerrity Diamonds and consults Nate. Nate knows Jim Kerrity is dirty and Kerrity hired Russian goons to steal the diamonds. Hardison knows less than zero about diamonds, but he is the grifter. Parker is the roper, lovely in sapphire and wearing the (pink) Rosalind Diamond; her mantra: Say nothing. Trust the diamond. Eliot is reliably badass muscle and Nate is IYS adjuster. Did "The Iceman" overplay his hand? Lucky his best girl is the best damned diamond thief on the planet!—LA-Lawyer
- An armored car drives its route. Four men pull on masks and stop it with guns. The back explodes and they take what's in back. The driver gets out, gun drawn, and confronts one of the men, but is shot. The thieves speed away.
The driver, Joey, meets with Nate in the bar. He's a Boston police officer who was working a side job protecting diamonds, $9 million worth. The company thinks he's the inside guy so he's suspended by the force without pay and meanwhile medical bills are piling up. Joey notices another drink on the table, where Sophie usually sits. Nate says it's for nobody.
Up in the condo, Hardison gives his briefing on Jim Caritty III, who took over the diamond business for his dad and is running it into the ground with drugs and booze. He's overdrawn and maxed out. He's getting $9 million from the insurance company. Parker is fidgety, missing Sophie. Nate points out that there's a lot of red tape in insurance fraud, so Carrity won't get his money for a year at least. He needs to fence the diamonds.
Parker pipes up, having stolen some seriously famous ice. She says he won't be able to fence them because they're laser ID'd, like a car with a VIN number. Only three guys around the world have lasers to remove those IDs. So Nate proposes they'll present him with the fourth then call the state police guy, Lt. Bonano and drop the thieves in his lap.
But they need a grifter because Sophie has asked for some space and they're going to give it to her. Nate recommends Hardison will be the grifter, which makes Parker the roper - he says it just entails wearing a cute dress and heels. We flash back to the several times Parker has had to interact with men, including one time she ended up stabbing their mark with a fork.
She ducks into the kitchen to call Sophie, who assures her she'll be fine. She suggests Parker wear a diamond she stole in Perth and let it sell her cover for her. Sophie promises not to tell Nate she called.
Cut to Parker walking into a room wearing a skin tight mini-dress and enormous rock around her neck. She sidles up to the mark at the bar. He recognizes the diamond immediately as a famous Australian pink diamond. She says her boyfriend, who works in diamonds, gave it to her. Carrity wants to "talk shop."
She takes him back to meet Hardison, doing a cockney accent, and Eliot working as, naturally, muscle. Then Carrity's Russian body guards arrive - the armored car robbers.
Eliot starts fighting one immediately and the head robber draws a gun. They all stand down. Hardison introduces himself as a thief called "the Iceman," while Nate coaches in his earpiece to undersell it. Hardison sites Parker's jobs as his own bona fides. They talk thievery for a while and Hardison brings up the laser he claims to have. Jim balks at his rate of 30 percent, but a goon takes Hardison's number as they leave.
Back at the condo, Eliot gives Hardison grief for laying on the character a little thick. Parker says Sophie told her to undersell it. Nate wonders when she talked to Sophie.
Nate prepares to go up the pressure on Caritty. Eliot, irritated with Hardison for overdoing it, says he's not going to help him if the job goes south.
At the diamond store, the head robber asks Caritty for his 10 percent cut, but Carrity says he'll get it when the insurance pays out. The robber tells him to call the Englishman.
Nate shows up as Sterling from the insurance company. He says he has to review everything and Carrity could expect to see a check in seven to nine months.
Carrity looks at Hardison's number again.
Eliot calls someone, venting about Hardison driving him nuts. We figure it's Sophie and she gives him advice on how to deal. He tells her not to tell Nate he called.
Eliot and Parker go into a laser lab dressed as OSHAA inspectors looking for chemical exposure. They run the staff off then strip out of their hazmat suits and into their diamond thief wear. Carrity and his goons arrive and shortly after, so does Hardison.
Carrity hands him a 2 carat diamond to test the laser on. As Hardison sets it up, Parker goes in the other room and selects a similar looking cubic zirconia to swap out. She passes it off to Hardison on the bottom of a soda can. She's worried that there is no way he won't notice the difference. Nate assures her via earpiece that Carrity won't notice because he's looking at the ID number not the diamond.
Hardison completes the swap and hands it back. Carrity goes for it and agrees to bring the rest of his diamonds tomorrow.
Eliot and Parker are still irritated with Hardison for the over-acting and drive off separately. Hardison ambles back to his Ferrari and is standing there when a black van pulls up and he's grabbed.
Cut to Hardison, handcuffed to a table and held by the robbers. The head goon suggests they're going to steal the stolen diamonds from Carrity. He thinks the Iceman should have no problem getting into the vault. Hardison agrees. Then he says he needs to call his girlfriend.
He calls Sophie. She guesses he's been nabbed by the goons because he oversold the part. She says he'll be fine as long as they're not Russian, which they are. She says he'll have to call Nate, but he doesn't want to. She tells him just not to agree to do anything else -- which it's already too late for.
The head goon leads him to the storet. Nate checks in via earpiece, having just heard from Sophie. The goon wants to go in through the vault floor, but Parker points out that'll trip the seismic sensor. When Hardison tells the goon his plan won't work, the goon pulls a gun on him and says the world's greatest thief will just have to find another way in.
Nate tells him to buy time so they can figure out how to get him out.
Back at the condo, they regroup. They won't be able to prove Carrity stole the diamonds if Hardison steals them. They need to get a look at the vault.
Nate goes back to Carrity's as Sterling the insurance man. He uses a pen camera to help Parker get a look at it and describe how she'd get it to Hardison via earpiece, who lays out his plan for the Russians.
Parker tells Nate to use the hairspray to cover the heat sensor. Carrity continues explaining his practically impenetrable vault with every bell and whistle imaginable. Parker doesn't think Hardison can do it. But Nate says he won't have to, they'll do it for him.
The Russian guys prepare for the break-in, but say they won't tell Hardison which box the diamonds are in until they're in the vault. Meanwhile, Carrity unexpectedly shows up at the store with a date. As Carrity is showing off an obscenely expensive necklace, Nate shows up to keep his attention away from the security screens.
Eliot follows shortly behind him as a security guard, knocks out the real guard and takes his place. Outside the building on a ledge, Parker rappels down as upstairs, Nate stands in front of Carrity's wall of security TVs in his office.
Downstairs, Parker and Eliot get to work.
Hardison and the goons pull up outside. Hardison gets buzzed in with a delivery then proceeds to look like he's beating the tar out of Eliot as the Russians watch from outside. Parker keeps working on the safe as Nate pitches Carrity the idea of a bribe to speed up his claim. He calls it a "processing fee."
Hardison lets the Russians in. Inside, Parker is a step ahead of them, working her way across the vault by hanging from a pipe across the ceiling.
Hardison gets to the vault door, where Parker has written the combination in invisible ink. He start mock trying to crack the door as she races to disable the heat/motion sensors and the pressure sensor in the floor inside and Nate continues to vamp with Carrity while blocking his view of the security camera monitors. Listening in to progress reports, Eliot worries that the timing is off and Hardison will come through the door before Parker has cleared the way.
Upstairs, Carrity isn't buying the bribe idea and starts yelling at Nate to get out of his office. Hardison has to open the door before Parker says she has fully hidden in the vault.
The Russians race in -- no sign of Parker -- and point Hardison to the security deposit box, which Eliot informs him Parker didn't have time to crack because he went too fast. Upstairs, Carrity draws a gun on Nate to get him to leave. He shoves Nate and finally sees his security footage showing his own guys breaking into his vault. Carrity races downstairs. As he comes in, with the Russians distracted, Hardison disappears. Then the vault door slams shut and the fog starts pumping in.
Flash back to moments ago, Parker pulling Hardison into a person-sized security deposit box. They stand close and she tells him to pull his arms in. There's an explosion and the floor drops out beneath them, landing them in the tunnel below, where Eliot collects them.
Detective Bonanno and his troops police find Carrity and his Russians in the vault. The Russians tell Bonanno they were trying to stop a robbery, and direct them to the stolen diamonds. Bonanno opens a safe deposit box and finds the diamonds and a bag from the armored car company.
Nate meets with Joey the security guard, who has been reinstated and is all healed up. Nate tells him Carrity and the goons went down for insurance fraud and theft and the business is basically kaput. Nate presents him with a briefcase full of cash.
Flash back to Hardison palming Carrity's diamond in the laser lab.
At the bar, Hardison gloats that Eliot came to his rescue after all and asks for a "man hug". Eliot threatens to break his arm.
In the condo alone, Nate stares at his phone then calls Sophie. He says he's sorry for them bothering her. It's not exactly what she wanted to hear. He tells her to call whenever she wants, but doesn't say more. She drops her cell phone in her drink.
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