- While stuck at an airport, the team must retrieve a heart donated to a fifteen-year-old patient when it is intercepted by a sick defense contractor.
- A testament to Nate's superpowers, this con unfolds at the Cincinnati Metropolitan Airport just as the team returns from a job in Montserrat. Nate spots a lady in scrubs participating in a dead drop. He can tell she is not a professional and she is very upset. She is Linda Johnson, transplant nurse, carrying a human heart for 15-year old Joshua Spin. Because of Sam, this icase hits close to home for Nate; Sophie actually urges him to drink. After rescuing Linda's kidnapped daughter, the team IDs the bad guy and hacks the airport with 1980's tech. Dean Chesney is the slime ball who thinks his money entitles him to steal from a dying young man and UNOS. Chesney would have made Nate's hit list, but for the fact he was dying. Nate adjusts to the situation and promises to monitor Chesney to make certain that the death God planned for him actually "takes."—LA-Lawyer
- Cincinnati Metropolitan Airport
The team makes a connection on the way back from a job gone wrong in the Caribbean. They've all got gripes about how rotten it was.
Nate is about to shush them when he notices a nervous woman with a cooler approach a pay phone. He walks over to her and, without making it obvious, asks her if she was forced to exchange something against her will.
Someone else dropped off a cooler and she exchanged it, but Nate can tell she's no pro. He says he's there to help.
She starts crying and tells Nate the men said if she didn't hand over the cooler, they'd hurt her daughter. He asks what was in the cooler: A human heart.
She meets with the whole team. She's the transplant nurse, bringing it from Detroit for a 15 year old boy named Joshua who lives in Cincy. Whoever put her up to it kidnapped her daughter to make her go along. They debate calling the cops, but with the heart remaining viable for only two more hours max they know there's no time to shut down the hospital.
"This is up to us, we have to rescue Linda's daughter, we have to get that heart, we have to bring it to the hospital -- on our own, under the radar. And we have 108 minutes to do it or a boy dies," Nate recaps.
Back in the airport, Eliot suggests they find Linda's daughter first because they're not likely to leave loose ends. Linda has only a photo of her daughter from the kidnappers. They're assuming the heart's still in the airport waiting for another plane -- otherwise they've already lost.
Hardison examines the cell phone photo. It looks like a restaurant booth. Nate recognizes the menu. It's the Crab-o-Rama restaurant in the airport.
We pan over and see Linda's daughter with man in a booth.
Eliot double-checks that the man is in there and Sophie does a quick change and goes in as a distraction. She pays off the waiter to let them use the restaurant as a base while Eliot grabs the kidnapper and Parker gets the girl.
Eliot finds two first class plane tickets and a working plastic gun on the man, but no other useful info. They're back at square one with 93 minutes to go.
Nate wants Hardison to hack into airport security, but Hardison reminds him his laptop went into the ocean. Their earbuds are fried, too. Parker's lock picks are checked. Nate thinks back to watching helplessly as his own young son died.
He sends Parker and Eliot to steal what they can. Sophie checks that he might be too close to this job, but Nate points out that doesn't matter.
Eliot scopes out walkie talkies then lifts the wallet of a snotty flier to buy them.
Parker steals sunglasses from a kiosk then uses the bow to break into a food cart for its computer.
Back in the restaurant, Nate suggest they need to hack the national transplant registry to find out who needs the heart. Hardison needs an email to get started.
Sophie calls the registry pretending to be the receiving hospital and asks them to resend the paperwork. Hardison gets to work hacking with his dial-up connection and old computer.
They get 3,000 names and narrow them by blood type and location and get Dean Chesney, the CEO of a defense contractor. Nate has had his eye on him for a while, but he was never a high priority target because he was dying.
Lying in his sick bed, a nurse tells him the men have the heart and are on the way to Chicago.
The team figures he'd be using a private plane and they need access to flight plans. Hardison explains the tower isn't networked, so Nate says they have to hack from within. There are 67 minutes left.
Hardison explains they have to get out of the public areas of the terminal, without being seen. They need badges for the three different levels.
Sophie walks through the concourse and trips, pretending to twist her ankle. A Skycap picks her up and they lift his badge.
Next they need a ground crew badge -- Parker picks a lock to get one. For level three, they need people with tower access, which is only people who work there.
Eliot goes into the tower waiting area dressed as a pilot and lifts a flight attendant's badge. He uses his walkie talkie to report back, but it doesn't work.
Then Hardison hears someone paging for "Kirk Picard" to meet at door E, which can only be for him. Eliot hands over the woman's badge.
Parker and Eliot hop a transport cart as Hardison makes his way to the tower. He's foiled by a badge scanner that needs a pin.
He hands it to a desk clerk, asking him to reset it. The man notices the badge is for a woman and Hardison goes into a transgender rant, claiming profiling. He rants his way to be able to see the guard's screen and gets the pin he needs.
Back in the restaurant, Nate tries to pre-empt Sophie's worrying. Instead, she tells him to have a drink because it's his crutch.
Nate remembers his own son again. Sam would have been 13. Nate is determined that Joshua will get the heart and get better.
Hardison goes up to the tower and pretends he belongs. He tells Nate where to find the private plane and grounds it. Eliot and Parker check it out -- it's empty.
Nate tries to guess their back-up plan -- there's a commercial flight to Chicago boarding now.
Eliot and Parker try to race there, but first Parker yanks something out of the cart engine so they can go twice as fast.
At the gate, they're looking for a black suitcase.
Nate calls Chesney in his sick bed. He tells him his name and that he has his heart and wants $1 million for it.
Nate tells Eliot to watch for whoever gets a panicked call. They see someone answer his phone, but he's boarding.
They try to figure out how to get people off the plane. A bomb threat won't do it because they'll keep people on the plane.
Nate tells Hardison they need a tornado. He and Sophie take turns calling the National Weather Service to report funnel clouds. They issue a tornado warning.
At the airport, Hardison convinces the boss to sound the alarm, just to be sure. They clear the planes already boarding.
Eliot and Parker wait for the heart-carrier to get off. Hardison convinces the tower manager to let him stay behind.
Nate gets a call back from Chesney.
Nate tells him there are 24 minutes left on the heart and he should let it go. Chesney says he has eight back up contingencies for this heart and it's his last shot. Nate lays on the threats, telling him if Joshua spends one day more than necessary in the hospital he'll hunt Chesney down and ruin his business and his name and kill him himself.
Back alone in the tower, Hardison is radioed from a plane nearly out of fuel that insists on landing.
Parker sees the heart carriers coming off the plane, she grabs the suitcase and runs into a tunnel, where Eliot waits and takes the guys out one by one.
In the tower, Hardison tries to find the vector the pilot needs. He gets a brainstorm and opens up the game Flight Simulator.
Parker keeps running with the heart with one guy after her. She runs into a luggage cart, intentionally spilling it. The man sees the suitcase and opens it. He takes out the cooler and runs.
In the tower, Hardison follows the Flight Simulator prompts and successfully lands the plane.
Parker reports that the man has the cooler. Nate tries to stop the private jet, but Hardison reads the screen and sees that it took off.
Nate is not bothered. Sophie meets Nate and hands over the cooler. They pulled the same switch as before.
Flash back to Parker tossing the suitcase over the luggage cart pushed by Sophie and the man picking up another bag. He got a cooler containing a snow globe. They just have to get it to a hospital.
There's an ambulance out front. The paramedic approaches them, but Nate punches him out, seeing him as one of Chesney's contingency plans. They take the ambulance.
At the hospital after the surgery, they wonder how Chesney is reacting. The kidnapper ended up stuffed in luggage and caught by security.
Sophie congratulates Nate on saving the boy.
The team flies home.
Alone in his condo, Nate gets a call from Chesney. Nate promises to stop him if he tries again. We see Nate somehow has surveillance on Chesney's room and eyes on all his bank accounts.
"Well, Mr. Ford, it seems you've killed me after all," Chesney says. "I didn't kill you, God killed you," Nate says. "I just made sure it took."
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