- When the team cons an addicted embezzler into entering rehab, Nate confronts some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.
- The team grudgingly accepts that Nate, who seems to be struggling with alcohol abuse, accepted the case of a charity whose treasurer, investment professional Jack Hurley, apparently embezzled all the funds. It turns out he has gambling and other debts with violent gangs of various ethnic origin. After Hurley crushes his car while escaping drunk, Nate organizes for Jack, himself as roommate and Parker to be enrolled in an addictions rehab clinic, where Sophie is hired as their group therapist.—KGF Vissers
- The team meets Jack Hurley (Drew Powell) of McTeague Investments, one of the more endearing 8-balls on the series. Sophie is Nate's self-appointed guardian and tries to monitor his drinking; the drinking and the nagging escalate. The team searches for Hurley because their client accused him of embezzlement; Parker likens Hurley's path to "Billy from The Family Circus if Billy was a drunken sex fiend." Hardison and Eliot enjoy hitting the strip joints but the large number of gangs after Hurley is growing. Intervention is warranted. Is medicated Parker really Parker?—LA-Lawyer
- A man drives through town, eating, drinking and boozing. He arrives at McTigue Investments. There are people in his office. His secretary says he had to show them everything. He turns and runs.
At Leverage HQ Nate talks to Michelle, the woman who was in the man's office. She hasn't told anyone the money went missing. She could be arrested. Their money manager Jack Hurley (are Leverage writers Lost fans?) said he could grow their investments. She needed to write a check for a new food pantry but couldn't contact Jack. She called his boss and they said her organization didn't even have an account with them. They're covering for Jack's embezzlement.
Nate assures her they can fix it as he guzzles from a soda can. After the woman leaves Sophie takes a whiff from the can and asks Nate if it isn't a bit early to be drinking. He asks what it matters.
Hardison reports on Jack. No record and he's not on-line anywhere. They think he liquidated the cash. His credit card shows bars, strip clubs and massage parlors all over town.
Nate thinks he's an addict under stress and is still in town. Nate tells Parker to break into his apartment and Eliot and Hardison to check his usual spots.
Outside bar No. 12, they find Jack stumbling out and getting into a car. Before he can pull away, a car full of thugs pulls up and jumps him. Hardison and Eliot jump out and pick them off but Jack gets in his car and drives away as some pretty sweet hand to hand combat ensues. Hardison shoots out the thug's car's engine. He was aiming for the guy's leg. Hardison reports to Nate that they lost him. Not to worry, they found him around the corner, passed out drunk in his crashed car.
Nate has a plan. Jack wakes up in a small room with Nate. He asks where he is. Welcome to rehab.
Sophie presents herself as a rehab expert and is welcomed to the center. The director explains how they take away all contact to the outside world. Sophie leads the group which includes Parker the klepto and Nate the drunk. Jack introduces himself as a compulsive gambler and eater and alcoholic and porn addict, and he was in the CIA (so, liar too). Sophie wants to lead the discussion back to Nate, using group to ask why he drinks. He steers things back to Jack.
He doesn't even remember where he parked his car. It wasn't his he totaled yesterday. He parked his downtown somewhere. The slip was in his pocket.
Parker's on it. She breaks into a storage closet and rifles through Jack's things. She finds the ticket. Back out in the hallway, the doctor says it's time for her drugs. He wants her to take anti-depressants. She chews them up.
Hardison and Eliot take Jack's keys to the lot and beep the alarm til they find his booze and taco-filled car. Eliot notices the seat is farther forward than it'd need to be for Jack or the parking attendant. He's bothered by it, but Hardison climbs in the seat. Eliot looks under the car and finds a bomb. He thinks it's on a pressure sensor. It's counting down from 2 minutes. Eliot describes it as a computer bomb. When Hardison says they have to reboot it, Eliot asks if that means he should kick it.
Eliot looks at all the wires under the hood. Hardison tells him to yank them out at the same time he hot wires the bomb to reboot it, which will trick it into thinking it went off.
On the count of three, they do their things and Hardison leaps from the vehicle, which does not explode. Eliot grabs the disarmed bomb from under the car. He doesn't get long to enjoy life because the car full of thugs and a bonus car pull up. They ask if they're with Jack and ask where their money is.
They're two different groups, Koreans and Mexicans who say Jack stole money from them. Hardison stalls them for a minute with a Jamaican accent, saying Jack owed him money, too.
When that doesn't appear to work, Eliot shows them the bomb, saying he's rewired it to blow if they don't back away.
The gangs recognize it as the work of Chileans, who apparently Jack ripped off as well.
In rehab, Sophie wakes up Nate, who looks like hell and is shaking. He claims to be doing some fine acting, but she recognizes it as withdrawal. He hasn't had a drink in 48 hours.
Eliot and Hardison visit Nate. Only family are allowed to visit, so Eliot says he's Nate's brother. Hardison says he's "with" Eliot, and takes his arm as they waltz in.
They meet with Nate, catching him up to speed. He's still in deep shakes. Sophie says they need to find the people in Jack's life.
In group, Sophie leads things to the healing power of apology. A Nick Nolte clone mumbles something unintelligible that Sophie finds touching. She tries to get Nate to apologize, but he says he has nothing to apologize for. Sophie tells Jack to make a list of the people he needs to apologize to and call them.
Eliot and Hardison meet with the woman they saw Jack with outside the dive bar. He bought her a car and was just trying to get her to take it.
Sophie gets a call. Someone tried to go over the wall.
She arrives to find Nate. Jack's still on the phone, calling people. He gets off the phone with a woman from work, where the Korean gang is in her office, pretending to be from the SEC. They wonder if he mentioned what facility he's at.
Nate insists to Sophie that he's fine. He just wanted air. He doesn't want to talk. He says if she wants to help him, just give him something to do. She tells him they found that Jack does a lot for people in need, buying cars and paying college tuition. Nate says the guys just an addict. His father was, his grandfather was, he knows how these people operate. Sophie just lets him think about that for a minute.
Nate turns to find Sterling, from the insurance agency, telling Nate the company will pay for his treatment. He takes a swing at him, but Sterling disappears. Nate shouts at him, trying to get him to go away.
After watching a banal game of charades, in which cheery Jack charms people, Nate confronts him in their room. He wants the truth.
Jack says his wife left him.
The Koreans arrive at the facility.
Jack admits he took money from a charity. He says he cleaned out Michelle's account because he wanted to quadruple it.
Parker walks down the hall and bumps into the Koreans.
Jack asks Nate if you're lying, cheating and stealing to help someone, doesn't that make it OK?
Parker goes into their room, saying she didn't mean to, it was just instinct. She produces the gun she accidentally lifted from the Korean man.
They need to get out of there. Parker doesn't want to leave, she thinks she's making real progress. Nate shoots out the lock on the window and he and Jack climb out.
Nate calls in to HQ, saying Jack insists the money's in his car. Eliot and Hardison think they searched it top to bottom. (Nate got him to talk by feeding him tacos, which Sophie thinks is enabling.)
Nate and Jack go to the parking garage where Jack's car is parked. The Koreans and Mexican gangs meet them there. Jack just needs a minute to find the money. He climbs in the car and hears a ticking. A gang member checks under the car and finds yet another bomb. Jack tells everyone to run. They take cover and the car explodes. The Koreans assume the Jamaicans came back, took the money, and re-armed the bomb.
Nate watches a flaming tire roll by. The gangs climb in their respective vehicles and drive off.
The rest of the team runs up. Hardison apologizes for the blast, saying that's what happen when you use other people's equipment.
Flash back to Nate's phone call checking in. He asks what happened to the Chilean's bomb. Then cut to Eliot reinstalling it and Hardison holding a remote.
Then, back on the top of the garage, Jack walks out, unscathed, although he's not entirely sure what just happened.
Flash to Jack in the car, opening the door and seeing Sophie on a wheeled mechanic's sled under the car. She tells Jack to jump out and climb on and Eliot drags them out under the car next to them and they hunker down as his car explodes (he got out out of sight of the gangs who'd run for cover).
Eliot says he checked the whole car, no money. They track down a flaming tire. Steel-belted radials. Eliot cuts one open and finds the cash.
Jack gives the money back to Michelle, who thanks Sophie and Nate. (Jack tries to hug Michelle, but Nate tells him to just "take the win.") They present him with his new identity. He promises to find a support group as soon as he hits his new town. He leaves.
Nate says they have one more piece of business. Back to the facility, where Parker is having a blast with Pictionary. Sophie comes for her. She's happy and bubbly, enjoying her anti-depressants.
Sophie asks Nate if he's ready to finish what he started. He says he's ready for a drink.
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