- An innovative computer chip the team steals from an executive's home becomes the ransom when the executive's daughter is kidnapped.
- After 50% success at Verd Agra, the team takes on debt-ridden FluidDyn, Sales VP, Connell. The client, Geoffrey, invented an environmentally adaptive tech design chip and then, was fired by Connell. Geoffrey sued and Connell denied there was a chip. Nate believes widower, Connell, is hiding the chip in his home to sell on the black market. The con has to afford entry to the Connell safe room. "Security Guard" Eliot bonds with Molly, Connell's sad, confused daughter. Eliot teaches Molly cheating is unnecessary; practice and playing to win are the way to go. Molly is abducted at a local carnival. Can a few hours of Eliot's teachings help Botasky and Perky survive this ordeal? Green is the color of Parker, the 2000 and envy when our favorite cat burglar misunderstands a loving gift.—LA-Lawyer
- A boss named John greets a worker named Jeffrey as he bikes up to work at FluidDyn. John has two security guards with him. They take Jeffrey's bag and John reminds him that anything he creates while working for FluidDyn belongs to the company. Jeffrey protests that it took him a decade to make the object outside of work. John takes it, and tells Jeffrey he's fired.
Jeffrey meets with Hardison and Nate, explaining his design for a super high tech computer chip.
Back in HQ, Nate explains that John lied, saying there's no chip. He didn't steal it for the company, he stole it for himself to sell on the black market. He's made several trips to Russia lately.
Hardison and Parker stake out John's house, which he owes heavily on due to extensive remodeling. They listen as John tries to convince his contractor to build against code. John's teenage daughter Molly comes out and asks to use her dad's computer. The nanny is an Eastern European woman named Daria.
Molly's mom died a year ago. Sophie thinks John is consumed with grief, not greed.
They think Jeffrey's chip is in the house.
Sophie and Nate go to John's neighborhood and pose as contractors remodeling the house for sale next door. Sophie talks grandly about adding a spire to the house and making John take out his landscaping.
Hardison plays with some blueprints and Parker sneaks into the city recorder's office to swap out the plans. John comes in and bribes the clerk for a copy of the blueprints, which show a giant spire.
John tells Sophie he knows about the payoffs and he can either sue them or they can come work for him.
Cut to John showing the team around his house, discussing what he's like done. John has a panic room. Hardison tells John he can make the house fully electronic, down to the cupboard doors and the car. John is insistent that only he or Molly goes into the panic room.
They're stymied on how to gain access. Nate suggests a camera on John's glasses to get the password.
Eliot knocks on the door as the security guard. John sends him to look after Molly. He says he doesn't have time to keep tabs on her.
Nate starts to go into the panic room but is interrupted by the nanny.
Eliots finds Molly watching a carnival down the street. He tries to make conversation but she's surly and says cheating's the only way to get anything, since the world is rigged, according to her dad. Molly says her dad hasn't let her go anywhere lately.
Eliot offers that he knows how to beat carnival games that she thinks are rigged: hard work. "Was 'Rudy' on TV last night?" she asks.
Hardison rigs a new pair of glasses with a camera for John. Parker bumps into him and knocks his glasses off, putting the new ones on him.
Hardison watches the video as John goes into the panic room to take a phone call. He tells someone to have the money there tonight. John takes off his glasses and opens the safe, so Hardison gets no shot of the combination. He takes out his chip and contemplates it then says "sorry, Jeffrey."
Hardison shows Nate the footage and they realize John got into the panic room with a breath scan. They need John's or Molly's breath.
Parker comes back to HQ irked that Hardison has built a robot, she thinks to replace her. He named it after her as a lovesick homage.
At her house, Eliot shows Molly how to throw darts at balloons in an arc to pop them. He has her blow one up. He shows her how to throw in a mirror, but she doesn't like mirrors. "I don't like what I see," she says.
Parker swipes Molly's balloon. Daria comes to get Molly to go to the carnival. Molly insists Eliot come along.
John comes downstairs to see Sophie slap Nate and storm out. John and Nate follow her outside.
Parker releases the balloon on the sensor and it opens. Parker and the robot go into the panic room to crack the safe, but Parker refuses to let the robot work.
At the carnival, Eliot gives Molly tips on how to beat the games.
Sophie and Nate keep John distracted with their fake argument outside.
Inside, Parker works on the safe over Hardison's pleas to let the robot do it in a fraction of the time.
Molly hears Eliot talking to Parker over his earpiece and wants to listen. He gives her one, but tells her to put it in her pocket.
Parker finally attaches the robot and it opens the safe in no time.
Eliot watches Molly and Daria walk away into the crowd.
Parker grabs the chip.
Eliot can't find Molly in the crowd and Daria runs up crying that someone took her.
Daria says there were three men. Eliot sends her back to the house.
Nate tells the team they have a new mission to get Molly back. Everybody agrees.
Nate takes the chip they just swiped and gives it to John as a goodwill gesture and to get his attention. He explains they were working for Jeffrey but the Russians he was going to sell the chip to have kidnapped Molly. The Russians call and Nate answers. They hang up.
Eliot hears Molly's voice in his ear. She has the earbud. She's in the dark and scared. He promises he's coming for her. He asks her to listen. She hears one of the rides.
The Russians call again and demand they bring the chip to the carnival in one hour. Nate thinks they're being tested. He tells Hardison to clear the carnival.
They check blueprints and figure out based on the sounds that Molly is in the northeast corner. Hardison directs Eliot to a supply closet for chemicals. He tells him to mix it with hot liquid and run.
A Russian sniper rides the Ferris wheel for the tenth time for the vantage point.
Eliot dumps the chemicals in a deep fryer and creates giant clouds of smoke, sending people for the exits.
The teams waits at the entrance. Nate tries to convince John to let them handle it.
Eliot talks to Molly, telling her to stay quiet and to run if he says so.
Hardison heads to the security closet to watch the surveillance. Eliot finds one Russian and knocks him out then takes on another. As he's fighting him on an amusement park ride, another man turns the machine on and it cracks into Eliot, knocking him out.
A gunman confronts Nate, but he says he refuses to speak to anyone but "her."
Daria walks out, asking how he knew.
Flash back to Daria taking a call and telling Molly it was her dad, telling them to go to the carnival so they're not late. Then flash to Sophie lifting John's phone and Nate finding the call history empty. Then flash to Nate noticing Daria's Russian mob tattoo.
Parker races through the park. Nate demands to talk to Molly, but Daria points out the rifle sight on his chest.
Nate looks at it and counts to three. The rifle laser sight shifts from Nate to Daria. Up in the Ferris Wheel, Parker has taken out the sniper and grabbed his gun.
Molly tries to talk to Eliot through her earbud but he's still out cold. John borrows Sophie's earbud to talk to her. He assures her he hired the best and they're coming for her. He promises to be there for her in the future.
Eliot wakes up on the pavement, bleeding from his mouth. Nate stalls for time with Daria.
Eliot runs to the storage shed but finds they moved Molly.
Eliot hears Molly telling the gunman holding on to her that he's going to regret taking her. Eliot asks her for a clue and she says she doesn't like what she sees.
Since they don't have Molly yet, Nate gives Daria the chip. He tells Eliot to wait, but he announces he's going for Molly and heads for the house of mirrors.
Eliot goes into the funhouse but someone gets the jump on him and knocks him out. He thinks he sees a bad guy, but ends up punching a mirror. Another goon socks him. Daria runs to her car and drives off.
Eliot looks in the mirrors and sees a Russian standing behind him. He starts dropping elbows, but is knocked down quickly. Eliot gets back up, but the Russian knocks him out again. Eliot tries again, but is knocked down again. He hears Molly saying she's scared and the Russian taunting him.
Eliot stands up again, but shuts his eyes. He goes all Jedi (appropriate since Yoda's voice Frank Oz directed this episode) and dodges the Russian's fists with his eyes closed. The Russian runs at him but he socks him in the gut. Eliot knocks him out. A mirror shatters behind him and he sees a man holding Molly. Eliot takes him out with a swift right.
A seriously pulverized Eliot takes Molly to her dad.
The team reconvenes in the parking lot, where Daria is trying to get out of her car, or start it.
Flash back to Hardison explaining how he can wire everything, including the car. He shuts it off remotely and locks her in. He rolls down the window and grabs the chip, then rolls it up, leaving her there.
Cut to the team giving the chip back to Jeffrey. They hear Molly and her dad are making up for lost time.
Eliot is bruised and battered, but says he hired a nurse. He leaves with a hot blond.
Hardison tries to explain the Parker robot to the real thing. The robot is green because it's her favorite color. He says the robot wasn't to replace Parker, she's for her. Parker grabs it and announces she loves it. She wants to call it "Hardy."
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