- The team is trying to take down a corrupt local mayor, even with the stakes rising to dangerous levels.
- Even now the Mayor is in the FBI's hands, as their informer, Nate wants to continue the plan. His team liberates Culpepper from incompetent FBI special agent Nevins' men, only so that Nate can be trapped by present Interpol agent Jim Sterling. Jim offers a steep deal: Nate's freedom if he helps trap all his own team. He calls Sophie, and surprises everyone while neatly helping to put arms dealer Kadjic and his small army of heavily armed goons away.—KGF Vissers
- Where are Agents Taggert and McSweeten when really needed? State, federal and international law enforcement breathing down their necks, the team hides in the Governor Hotel, arriving minutes before the crooked mayor and badge entourage. Tara shows some skin and a lot of sense; Parker is French Delight with a rolling mini bar. Sparky (Eliot) decoys and translates Italian and Hardison becomes Mr. Joshua, the lost Reservior Dog. Only Nate loses his barometer and fails to think before he acts. The team may be able to destroy Tony Kadjic and his empire, but the return of Annie Kroy signals bad accents ahead. No one is happy to see Tara go--she has open invitation for future reindeer games. Au revoir, Tara Cole.—LA-Lawyer
- A police bulletin goes out for the Leveragers as they speed away from the dock. The team isn't happy Nate set them up to try to con a federal witness.
They debate whether to scatter or stay. Nate points out the mayor must be guilty of something or he wouldn't be cooperating and back at the warehouse he admitted he has a partner. Hardison reports he did something to the agent's phone when he called it and they can listen to the FBI calls.
They're taking the mayor to the Governor hotel. Nate suggests that's where they're going to hide.
At the hotel, Sterling and the FBI bring the mayor in. Nate sees him.
In a room, Agent Nevens defends her witness the mayor to Sterling as the mayor drinks tiny bottles of hotel booze.
Out in the hall, Sterling tells Nevens about Nate and the Leveragers. He wants to know about Tony Kadjic (Paul Blackthorne), the mystery man from the first episode who was running guns and pulling the mayor's strings.
Hardison does some research on Kadjic, an Albanian smuggler who's been indicted for murder eight times. He has a lot of big government contracts and is an arms dealer. Nate thinks the mayor took the 9/11 money and Kadjic is using the ports to run guns. Nate says he's not worried about Sterling and Eliot and Parker tell him they're in but he has to be on his game.
Nate wants to find Kadjic; all they have to do is steal a mayor.
Back in the hotel, Eliot's still bothered by Lt. Bonano's note about the Maltese Falcon.
Parker, dressed as a maid, brings the mayor some more tiny booze bottles. And then he falls over.
In the lobby, Nate sees Sterling arrive. He follows and plans to stall him. When Sterling gets on the elevator, Nate races up the stairs and onto every floor to push the elevator button, so it has to stop at each one. On the 14th floor, Eliot walks by Sterling, hiding his face, but Sterling takes note.
At the mayor's room, Sterling finds the mayor is gone.
Flash to Parker dropping off booze as the maid and then accessing the room next door to find Tara and Hardison doing her usual rappelling job.
Sterling thinks of Eliot and checks security footage to see the a trunk being placed in a car. Thinking that the mayor is in the trunk, they give chase. Except that it's actually luggage.
Back in their room, the mayor is passed out on the bed. The room had a connecting door the the mayor's room. Nate wants the team to make it look exactly like the mayor's room.
Flash to Parker, Tara and Hardison picking up all the mini bottles and trash from his room.
Nate wakes the mayor up. He panics immediately, asking about the FBI out front. Eliot carries in Parker as the maid and they pretend he offed her, with Nate telling him to put her in the tub with the others.
The mayor tries to apologize to Nate and tells him he had to protect the guns. He says he helps the FBI out and they ignore the guns. He says Tony told him to give Nate to the FBI. He tells him about the guns at the dock. Eliot knocks the mayor out.
Nate wants the Leveragers looking for the guns at the docks. Nate takes off.
Tara makes a call, telling someone she wants to make a deal with Tony Kadjic.
Cut to Nate at his loft, frantically searching for something. And in walks Sterling, holding Nate's kid's drawing. He's caught.
Sterling gives Nate a flask an lectures him about his do gooding. With Agent Nevens there, Nate tells Sterling about the FBI protecting a corrupt mayor and allowing gun running. FBI agent Nevens says that there is no proof. Nate tells them Kadjic shot a state cop, but again, no proof.
Sterling tells Nate everything he's got on him but offers him a free pass if he brings Kadjic and the guns. In exchange Nate, and only Nate, will be allowed to go free. The team will be busted.
At the dock, Eliot, has a thought about the Maltese Falcon being Italian and Bonano being Italian.
Nate calls Sophie, but she's on a tiny plane and can't hear him when he finally tells her that he needs her. He goes on about not knowing himself any more and needing her to keep him in line. He's about to tell her he loves her, when she finally hangs up because she can't hear him.
Nate puts in his ear piece and tells Hardison his apartment is safe and to bring the team.
They meet up and Nate asks if something is possible. They need money, and Nate offers up his.
At the dock, Nate and Eliot walk up the ship Il Falcone Maltese. Tara wheels Parker, who is in a wheel chair, through a metal detector of a building, but they let her and her oxygen tanks through.
Eliot takes out two goons on the ship but he and Nate are quickly surrounded by guys with guns. Nate pulls out a bag of money and tells them to tell Kadjic the guy he sold out to the FBI is there.
On the roof of a building, Parker and Tara suit up in their rappelling gear.
Hardison wakes up the mayor, now tied up in a different room, and tells him to call Kadjic.
Eliot and Nate are brought to Kadjic, where Nate explains the bag of money is an apology for "what's about to happen." Along the way, Eliot is counting the guys that have guns. When Nate asks him how many, he replies, "A lot."
The mayor calls Kadjic and tells him to do whatever they say, that they killed his FBI handlers. As he gets off the call, Hardison scares him into screaming bloody murder and Kadjic thinks they killed him. Nate says that means he needs new partners.
Tara and Parker emerge from their air vents -- in the Boston field office. Parker hooks the computer up so Hardison can hack it remotely.
Kadjic shows Eliot and Nate the guns in the hold of the ship, but Eliot can't make the call he needs to from below. Nate vamps with him while Eliot slips away.
At the FBI office, Tara delivers evidence to the lock up.
Kadjic tells Nate how he keeps the FBI and local police in line.
Hardison accesses the dock's security footage and sees a picture of Tara meeting with Kadjic that morning. He runs off, leaving the mayor with his cell phone.
Hardison reaches Parker via earpiece on the roof of the building and she goes after Tara. The mayor calls Kadjic, who pulls a gun on Nate.
Eliot wanders the ship trying to get reception, but gets knocked out instead. Kadjic orders him killed.
Tara tells Parker she was setting up a meeting, but not for herself.
Cut to Kadjic, with the gun on Nate and a buyer interrupting, suggesting he wait to kill Nate. It's Sophie. The captain reports there's something wrong with the engines.
Eliot fights back against his captors, taking out the 13 men with guns one at a time. He even breaks his cuffs.
Tara and Parker drive to the dock while Tara explains that Sophie asked her to keep an eye on Nate.
The captain tells Kadjic that someone sabotaged the engine. Cut to Hardison with a big wrench below deck finding Eliot. They see Sophie.
The mayor frees himself and escapes from where he's being held -- a shipping container on the dock.
Eliot fights his way to free Nate.
The mayor finds Kadjic in the control room and the team locks them in together. They regroup on the dock and Tara says her good byes as sirens sound in the distance.
Sophie points out their ride -- a landing helicopter. As the team runs for it Nate stays behind and reveals he's bleeding.
Sterling and the FBI stop the team on the ship's deck. He thinks Nate's kept his end of the deal. Nate handcuffs himself to the ship's railing and tells Sterling there's a fire in the FBI evidence room.
Flash to whatever Tara entered bursting into flames.
Nate tells him Hardison wiped the evidence against Kadjic so the only way to get him is to arrest Nate and have him testify against Kadjic. The team watches Nate give himself up to let them go.
He tells them they're his family and he won't forget that. He tells them to get on the chopper. Sophie stays behind. Nate finally kisses her.
She asks him why he told her he needed her and then pulls this. She slaps him. Someone asks Sterling who Nate is. "My name's Nate Ford, and I am a thief."
Sterling notices that Nate is bleeding and calls for an ambulance. The FBI storms the ship and the team flies away as Nate collapses and remains handcuffed.
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