Intrigue

To swindle a felon, the team must use a hospital and stage a virus outbreak.

Armenian hedge fund boss Eddie Maranjian swindled many out of their savings but gets off with short, light time in exchange for ratting on the Armenian mob. After preventing a victim's brother from shooting him in the courtroom, Nate promises revenge -seizing the hidden cash- before he's transferred to jail. Eliot and Alec impersonate half of the assigned US Marshall, the rest staff and patients in a hospital ward. Maranjian is made to believe he's interned in a fatal virus quarantine, then tempted and guided to 'escape'. Meanwhile Eliot noticed bully Randall Trent repeatedly brings in his young son Randy with fractures suggesting gross abuse. The betrayed mob also has a plan for Eddie.—KGF Vissers

Affinity criminal, Eddie Maranjian, was a hedge fund manager tried in U.S. District Court for swindling fellow Armenians and other investors. His sentencing went better for Eddie than his trial: 18 months at Eglin AFB "country club," at Ft. Walton Beach. The team is certain Eddie hid a pile of cash. They want to find and redistribute the loot. There is whipped creme and a cherry atop the metaphorical sundae as they teach the dirty little rat some choice Latin... namely, actus reus and mens rea. Eliot and the US Marshal kick ass for a special young client.—LA-Lawyer

Belbridge, Mass.

We open, ladies and gentlemen, in a courtroom. A fancy Loius Vuitton suitcase behind the defendant tells us he's loaded. So do his watch and cuff links. It's his sentencing for running a hedge fund and bilking employees. He declines to make a statement or apologize to his victims, who are seething in the gallery. Because he cooperated with the government, the judge sentences him to 18 months in prison.

One older man in the gallery looks particularly upset. He makes this case further by taking out a gun and starting to aim at the defendant. A hand reaches out and stops him. Nate's there. The man reconsiders and slugs the defendant instead.

Nate walks Ronald, the puncher, out of court. He tells Ronald they're "in the restitution business," trying to help Eddie's clients. Hardison explains that they don't think the money is gone, it's somewhere in the town and the Leveragers intend to find it. Ronald tells them Eddie took his sister's life savings before she died. They trusted him because he was Armenian, like them.

The Leveragers reconvene in the now-empty courtroom. They wonder what reason they could give Eddie to disclose where he hid the cash. Nate's a bit short on ideas for the moment and Eddie's being shipped to prison in an hour. Then he notices a small vial of hand sanitizer Eddie left behind.

What's scarier than prison? Death, Sophie offers. And what's scarier than that?

Cut to Parker scooting down the air vent above Eddie, waiting in the hallway. He takes a swig of his bottled water as she lowers a string of floss into the bottle from the ceiling above. She taps her fingers on the vent, making rat scampering noises. She squirts a drop of something from a syringe down the floss and into the bottle. Eddie takes a swig and collapses.

Luckily, a doctor is nearby to check him out. Eddie comes to being examined by Dr. Nate, who announces that Eddie probably has a concussion and needs to go to the hospital for an MRI.

The Leveragers head out to steal a hospital.

IIn a hospital, Hardison sets up surveillance and practices his sound effects. He put speakers in Eddie's room and down the hallway so Nate can fake people coming or going outside Eddie's room.

The floor is being used for storage, it's theirs. They figure they've got two hours to run their fake tests.

Parker sprays something on the arms of a wheelchair and picks up Eddie.

Hardison and Eliot walk down the hall in cop uniforms. Hardison wants to prep, suggesting secret code words from Star Trek, but Eliot is distracted by a bruised kid whose dad says he got hurt on his skateboard.

After has wheeled Eddie in the tainted chair, Nate checks out Eddie and notices a brand new rash on his arm. Parker wheels him to the eighth floor as Hardison and Eliot distract the marshals with donuts outside the MRI room.

Parker straps Eddie to a hospital bed where he meets his roommate, a slutted up Sophie doing a Boston accent.

Parker makes an announcement into Eddie's room calling for the infectious disease unit as Sophie scratches like crazy. Nate explains the power of suggestion.

Eddie flips on his TV to see a screen that says Special Report before it fuzzes out. Sophie keeps scratching in his face. Eddie hears voices in the hall discussing the CDC and diseases.

Outside the MRI room, a nurse wheels in a real car accident patient who actually needs an MRI. Hardison and Eliot watch as she goes in and discovers "Eddie," a mannequin. The marshals think they have a runaway.

They start to call it in when Eliot suggests they find him on their own instead. The marshals go along with it. Via earpiece, Nate tells Eliot to lose the uniform and lets Sophie know it's time. Eddie hears yelling in the hall and Sophie freaks out, wiping blood from her nose. Nate rushes in with Parker and Eliot, they draw the curtain around her bed and Eddie hears a dramatic show of Sophie dying and them not being able to resuscitate her.

Eddie yells at them to tell him what's going on, but they leave without a word.

Hardison supervises the marshals as they check the surveillance footage and see no sign of Eddie. He also lifts their keys.

Back in his cop uniform, Eliot sees the young boy from before getting his arm put in a cast. Eliot is bothered.

Eddie is chained to bed and hears alarms and yelling in the hall, but no one comes. Nate tells Parker this is the stall, no different than any other con. Eddie develops a bloody nose. Watching on the monitor, Parker turns to Nate, impressed. "Did you just give a guy a nose bleed with the power of your mind?"

Hardison finds the marshal's car and checks in via earpiece with Eliot. But Eliot is off task, watching the kid with the broken arm and his big lug of a dad who just told someone the kid was a"klutz." He takes out his earpiece.

Eliot takes the guy into the stairwell. When the dad says the kid got his broken arm skateboarding, Eliot pins his arm behind his back and leans him over the open stairwell. He also noticed a bruise on the kid's cheek and another fresher one on his neck. He's not buying the klutz excuse. He tips the dad farther over, scaring him. He takes his ID, memorizing his address. When he lets him go the dad defends himself, saying at least he sees his kid and there's nothing wrong with "a firm hand." He tells Eliot the cop to go back to his speed traps. Eliot seethes.

On the monitor, Nate sees a security guard wandering into their secured area. He sends Sophie off for her second role.

Back in the hallway the security guard comes face to face with someone in a full hazmat suit.

Cut to the guard in his tightie wighties in the shower, scrubbing furiously. Over the PA, Nate tells him he's been exposed to something and to stay put. The scrawny, scared soaking guard agrees.

Sophie takes off her hazmat gear.

In the parking lot, Hardison gets into the second marshal's car and in surprised to find paperwork in the glove compartment that says it's a rental.

Cut to one of the marshals calling someone, saying he's with the policeman's fund and asking for the status of two marshals.

Hardison checks the trunk and finds duct tape and lye. He talks to Eliot, saying remember how Eddie helped out the government? Well, he must have ratted on the Armenian mob, because one of those marshals is a hit man. But Eliot doesn't answer.

And so when Eliot walks into the morgue to meet up with the assassin/marshal to continue the search, he's totally unprepared. He's looking around when the bad guy fits a gun with a silencer behind his back.

Hardison comes over the PA, telling Dr. Wrath O'Kahn to report to surgery. Eliot turns to see the gun pointed at him. He goes into Eliot Attack Mode. Soon, not only is the wouldbe assassin disarmed, he's getting whacked in the face by a bedpan and punched out on a gurney.

In his room, Eddie is totally freaking out when Nate finally comes in to talk with him, letting in the crisis sound effects from the hall. He tells him the Soviets have weaponized a virus and it has a fast incubation period. Nate's acting woozy and shows a rash on his arm. He collapses. Parker rushes in and Eddie, still cuffed to the bed, screams.

In the morgue, Eliot stows the fake marshal with a dead body. Hardison checks on the real one, who's heading somewhere bad.

In Eddie's room, Parker cuffs Dr. Nate to the bed, telling him she's sorry, but it's "order 23." She says it's not her decision.

But desperate Eddie asks if it is for $400,000. He has it near there and he'll take her to it if she lets him go. Parker appears to consider as Nate shouts no. She uncuffs him and they head down the hall.

She leads Eddie by the security guard, who's still showering, his clothes and taser in a heap nearby.

Meanwhile, the real marshal comes up on to the floor and finds Eddie's now-empty room. When he sees Eddie's tie he finally calls the escape in to all law enforcement.

Eliot and Hardison meet up in the hallway just as a ton of cop cars pull up out front. Hardison goes to deal with them while Eliot sees the abused kid and goes to chat him up. He tells the kid that, if he wanted to, he could tell a cop what happened to his arm. But the kid says his dad knows all the local guys, they come over to his house and drink beer. Hardison comes for Eliot.

Parker leads Eddie through the basement. Over the comm, Nate tells Parker their cover is blown. Parker waits for the security camera to sweep by and prepares to lead Eddie to the exit. But he pulls out the security guard's tazer and zaps her unconscious.

Eddie runs in the dark streets outside. He finds an unlocked car and drives to the courthouse.

He breaks in and runs to a utility closet when he finds a bag in the ceiling panel. He grabs it and leaves the closet -- where he comes face to face with Parker. She socks him in the nose.

Flash back to him zapping her to the ground, but her popping up and whipping off a protective vest under her scrubs.

In the hallway, the gang's all there. Eddie starts giggling, saying they're going to go away for a long time for what they did to him. He knows their faces and he's going to turn them in, he says. The Leveragers watch him run, unconcerned.

Outside, Eddie runs up to a cop who draws his weapon and doesn't listen much to Eddie's stories about being held in a hospital and fearing for his life. He assaulted a security guard and a nurse and tried to escape custody, he's toast.

Hardison and Eliot, still as cops, go down to the morgue with the real marshal and take the fake one out of his dead body bin. When he wakes up screaming, Eliot whacks him out cold again. The real marshal worries about the day, getting tricked by a fake marshal and letting a prisoner escape. But Eliot reads him his glowing report, which commends his bravery, saying it's only fair because Eliot was the one who told him not to call it in.

The marshal doesn't know how to thank him. Eliot seems to have an idea. He gives him the abusive dad's license.

Cut to the marshal going to talk to the kid, telling him he's from Boston and they need to talk. The dad comes to the door, angry, but the kid goes with the friendly marshal.

Eliot watches from his car, pleased.