- Nate and the team infiltrate a crew of top-flight car thieves to bring down a greedy car dealer.
- Eliot has turned Hardison into a warrior; now, it is Parker's turn to teach him new skills. As a child in the foster system, Parker learned how to boost cars. This skill set is necessary to help a new client accused of stealing a used truck which, unbeknownst to the client, had been cloned. Bill Engvall plays Duke Penzer, rival of honest Art's Car Sales. Nate gets ready to make his opening gambit: to steal Penzer's baby, (racing car) Veronica. This prompts Duke to steal Nate's baby (Sophie) and the chess game begins. The fun-time car boost duo infiltrates Lefty's boost crew while Eliot introduces the Salvadorans. Parker's big heart wants to protect Lefty's mutt, the last vestige of who Parker used to be. Will the crew be able to play a few EMPs and pull off the con, while giving a young girl a new life?—LA-Lawyer
- We open on a TV news helicopter following a car chase. The police pull over the driver and the millequetoast teacher protests that he didn't steal the truck. (Roll credits)
The teacher meets with Nate at bar HQ. He says he bought the truck used from Penzer's a few months ago for his part time landscaping business and has been making payments, but when he took it in to the mechanics in New Hampshire the VIN came back fishy.
Now the bank says he owes on the loan, the truck has been repossessed and he's been suspended from teaching because of the criminal charges (he ran because he panicked.)
Nate explains it's car cloning: thieves steal a car then get a VIN from an identical car in another state. The teacher only got busted because he happened to take the car to a mechanics in the state the real VIN was from.
The teacher bought it from Duke Penzer (Bill Engvall), a former race car driver. Parker explains that Penzer probably has a ring of car thieves working for him. She knows about it because she used to steal cars, that simple.
Hardison has them set to go at Art's Auto Supply run by Art and Joy Bauer, down the block from Penzer's. They're on the verge of bankruptcy.
Sophie visits them, telling them they've won a 10 day all-expenses paid trip to Hawaii from the auto club. The Bauers clear out and the Leveragers have their car front.
At the race track, Penzer is upset to learn someone has just beaten his track record. Hardison rigs it so Nate's time looks good. Nate offers to race Duke for pink slips.
Parker, Hardison and Eliot work on Nate's car. She's off to infiltrate the car thief gang. Hardison plans to use an EMP cannon that will knock out all the electronics in the car for 30 minutes -- Nate has to get in front of Duke and Hardison will trigger it.
They race. Penzer takes the lead and Nate struggles to get in front of him. He uses Hardison's nitrous gas to zoom ahead and Hardison triggers the EMP. Penzer's car stalls and Nate wins.
At Penzer Autos, Duke shows up to find his store empty of customers. Nate is set up at Art's and is raffling off Duke's car. Duke and his salesman go to check it out. They watch Sophie work on their repeat window shopper who never buys. She notices by his cinched belt that he's lost weight and compares driving the car to making love to a beautiful woman (neither of which he's done, he says). She closes the deal.
Duke tells Nate he wants to buy his car back and offers $150,000. Nate turns him down. Eliot interrupts, saying their "foreign friends" are on the phone. Duke hears him speaking Spanish. Sophie tries to get Nate to sign some papers but he blows her off. Duke gets an idea - the one they wanted him to get - of how to get back at Nate.
Meanwhile, Parker and Hardison show up at a chop shop trying to get the car thief ring boss' attention -- by stealing his car. They wait for Lefty to convince him he needs them. Parker mentions her early car thieving years, and how she got busted when her friends bailed and left her to take the rap.
Duke waits for Sophie and asks her for a drink.
Parker tells Lefty she wants to join his crew, then she brags she can steal an un-stealable car with a super high-tech alarm system in two minutes.
They approach the car, when Parker tells Hardison she has no idea how to get in because it's electronic.
Hardison has 90 seconds left. He works his computer wizardry via his smart phone and they get in. Lefty tells a teenage girl he calls Shorty to ride along with them to his shop. Parker clearly sees herself in Shorty.
Duke brings Sophie to his office, where he offers to double her salary and asks how Nate runs his business. He soon infers that Nate's cars are stolen. Meanwhile, Eliot calls the police to report "unsavory characters" speaking Spanish by Penzer's.
Then he gets out of his car with a baseball bat.
Parker and Hardison arrive at the chop shop and find it's a huge operation. Shorty scans for radio alarm signals.
From in his office, Duke hears car alarms go off. He comes out to find cars with smashed windows. Sophie says she'll call the police, but he doesn't want her to. She pretends to realize he's running the same stolen car scam as Nate. Duke calls Lefty.
At the chop shop, Shorty tells them they're using car registrations for identity theft. She admires Parker as a girl car thief.
Lefty tells Duke he heard Eliot's call reporting Spanish-speakers. They think Nate is working with the Salvadorans and think if he "loses" one of their shipments he'll have problems.
Sophie wants to see Duke's operation, in return she wants to know when Nate's next shipment is coming in. She tells him tomorrow at the docks.
Parker sees the guys in the shop laughing at Shorty and helps her jimmy a car lock. She tells Parker she has nowhere to go if they don't let her hang out with them. Lefty announces a big job at the docks tomorrow, he'll need everyone, even Shorty.
But first, the Leveragers needs to steal the cars for Lefty's crew to steal. They get to boostin' at a golf course. At the shop, Parker tells Shorty not to go on the boost tomorrow and to avoid the shop.
Cut to Shorty telling Duke and Lefty what Parker said. Duke realizes Nate's setting him up. He tells Lefty to steal the cars early, close his shop and bring the cars to his lot. Then he tells Lefty to kill Parker and Hardison. When Shorty objects, Duke tells her to "grow a pair."
At HQ, the Leveragers don't seem to know that the jig is up and plan to meet at Lefty's and call the cops.
Eliot pulls up with the cars at the dock and is greeted by Lefty and his goons. He throws the car keys in the air to distract the guys with guns and makes a run for it as they fire on him. He bounces off the hood of a car and rolls into the river. Lefty calls Duke, who is with Sophie. Duke tells Lefty he has something there he wants him to handle.
Parker and Hardison arrive at the docks and notice no one is there. They're realizing something isn't right when guys come out with guns. Nate tells Sophie via earbud to get out of there but Duke pulls a gun on her. Duke gets a call and leaves Sophie. Parker and Hardison are caught. Duke comes back with Nate.
On the docks, the bad guys have Hardison and Parker at gunpoint. But Parker and Hardison start laughing. Then the bad guys see why -- Eliot's behind them. He quickly knocks out the goons. They look around for a car and Shorty pulls up.
They tell Nate via earpiece that they'll be there in 10.
At Duke's, Lefty tells him the cars are on his lot. Lefty marches Nate and Sophie out at gunpoint as Parker races there. Parker yells at Shorty for telling on them then Eliot and Hardison yell at Parker for telling Shorty. Parker says Shorty deserved a chance.
At Duke's, Nate whispers at Sophie to stall. She responds by kicking him in the shins and starting to yell at him to make a scene outside. In the speeding car, they ask Parker where she learned to drive. She was a getaway driver before she was a car thief -- and she started stealing cars when she was 12.
Nate and Sophie are still yelling at each other at gunpoint when the alarms on the rig full of stolen cars on Penzer's lot start going off.
Penzer starts turning them off with the keys as Lefty takes Nate and Sophie inside. The cops pull up. They traced the alarm signals there.
Flash back to Lefty telling Duke he scanned the car and found no signals, then before that Hardison explaining to Eliot how to use the EMP canon on them to disable the alarms for half an hour.
Penzer tells the cop the guy he wants is inside, thinking they'll get Nate. Instead, they go in and find Lefty out cold.
Flash to the gang showing up at the back door, Eliot running in and knocking out Lefty and Nate and Sophie getting away.
Later, Shorty asks Parker how they knew the cops would get there so fast.
Flash back to the Leveragers stealing them from a charity golf outing -- of all police officers.
Eliot tells Hardison (in case you were wondering) why he didn't earbud warn them about the bad guys at the docks -- because the EMP fried it.
Sophie asks Nate to go easy on Parker since she at least thought she was doing the right thing when she warned Shorty. He wants her help.
Nate meets with the teacher and gives him the keys to Penzer's race car. They suggest he could use some help with his landscaping business and introduce him to Shorty.
They all sit down to a family dinner.
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