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The Leverage team tries to recover a rare agricultural object worth millions of dollars.

Emily Margold, Crop Sciences major at university, developed a potato with extra Vitamin A and nutrients inside. She plans to open-source the potato to help the poor and the children of the planet. Verd-Agra Corporation is trying to stop Emily as her "Super Tuber" will cost them. Corporate thugs claim because Emily used Verd-Agra seed to grow it, her tuber belongs to them and they steal the potato. Sophie and Eliot team up to lead a quickly assembled con, Hardison makes a friend, Parker dances with fire and Nate has a field trip.—LA-Lawyer

A woman named Emily confronts two men in suits poking around her rural property. They tell her she has something that belongs to them. When her dad comes over to help, one of them punches him and nearly runs him over.

Emily meets with Sophie and Nate. She says someone from a food corporation named Verd Agra offered to buy their property a while ago, but she turned them down. She shows Nate and Sophie what's so valuable: a potato.

She created one with vitamin A, to help fight blindness in malnourished children. She's a crop sciences major. It's a super tuber.

She plans to give it away. She says the men put her father in the hospital. Nate assures her they'll take care of it.

Sophie mentions she's hungry and Nate suggests dinner, saying "as friends" about five times.

Cut to Sophie coming downstairs the next morning and Nate half dressed. Nate stammers and tries to tell her he doesn't want a relationship. She seems to agree, saying the work is the most important thing. She says they're friends with "extras."

The rest of the team comes in. Sophie notices her bra is on the stairs, Nate tries to hide it before anyone notices. He passes it back to her.

The potato market is worth $3.5 billion a year. Colin Saunders (Mitch Pileggi) is the Verd Agra CEO. Hardison describes him as power hungry. His No. 2 is Jana West.

Nate gets a call from Emily that Verd Agra is back at her house. Cut to Jana West and two goons taking Emily's potato, claiming she grew it from their seeds.

The Leveragers arrive about 10 minutes after they've left. They have to get the potato before the Verd Agra people get it back to their HQ, which is heavily fortified.

Nate sends Sophie and Hardison after their SUV on back roads. They find a truck with bales of hay on it. Cut to Hardison scooping the bales out of the road and the Verd Agra pulling up to the blocked road.

He doesn't do a convincing job pretending to be a farmer. Sophie steps in and punches him out. She tells Jana she's a security consultant hired by her company and they have to get the potato back to HQ. Sophie rides with them.

Having a man inside changes the plan.

The rest of the team picks up Hardison and follows Sophie to Verd Agra. Sophie sends Hardison Jana's cell phone number en route so he can trace her calls. Nate goes about building Sophie a profile for when they check her back ground.

Hardison pulls up Eliot's go-to cover story and swaps Sophie in. She passes muster. Jana calls the board for confirmation and Nate answers and tells her to check with the CEO.

Hacked into surveillance they see Sophie led into a waiting room. She meets with Jana, who doesn't believe that the CEO would hire her without telling her. Sophie talks tough, saying she understands what it's like to be a woman in a competitive field. She has a gruff Southern twang and Eliot realizes she's doing his voice.

She tells Jana she has a mole, otherwise known as a "Romanian Circus" -- you fake an internal threat to turn people against each other. Nate says it's a variant known as the "snipe hunt".

Sophie meets with the CEO, who says they're doing Emily a favor and deserve a cut. He says the spud is in their "burn room" and he's the only one with access. Hardison knows it's a vault within a vault, with walls lined with thermite, so that it can be burnt at a moment's notice.

Sophie suggests Saunders order a lockdown, Nate knows the con will only work if the whole team gets in in the next five minutes.

Hardison walks up with a stack of packages and lifts the ID card of a security guard who stops to help. He's in. They're expecting her assistant, which takes care of getting Nate in. Sophie says she really needs Eliot the hitter on the inside. He tackles a nerd on his way in and takes his dweeb clothes. He signs in and meets Sophie inside. He looks around and can tell there are a lot of ex-military men around.

Nate sees a school bus full of kids arriving and he and Parker go greet the teacher as the education consultants. They tells her to come back at 5p and she's happy to leave.

Once they're inside, the alarms go off and the building is locked down. Nate teases one of the kids, Trevor, for having a cell phone. "It's for if I get abducted," he explains. Nate explains to the kids and Parker that the badges work like lo-jacks and she can't get into the high security system without one.

Sophie introduces Eliot to Saunders. His real voice is too much like the one Sophie is using so he goes for high-pitched dweeb. She suggest they investigate the head of IT first. That leaves the IT surveillance room open for Hardison and Nate.

Sophie is getting Parker three badges to fool the system so she can get to the burn room. She wraps the badges in foil to further mess with the signal.

From security, Nate and Hardison watch her. She's stops at a key pad. Hardison plays video footage of the employee whose badge she has getting money from the cafeteria ATM. He uses the same PIN .

Nate and Hardison are interrupted by Trevor the bratty kid, who finds them in the IT security room. They tell him they're playing a game.

Hardison gets to the next interior level and finds a guard outside a door with a dual manual lock. The guard has one key.

Nate wants Sophie to call in the head of security but they bicker. Parker sees a janitor and plans to lift his keys. They doubt she can get them, but she walks up and sneezes on him and grabs his keys.

They call the janitor into meet with Sophie, to keep him from noticing his keys are gone.

Sophie tries to think of ways to keep him distracted as Hardison looks up his squeaky clean file. Sophie accuses him of having a bank account in the Caymans and Nate thinks she's gone too far. But Hardison finds an account with over $3 million in it. The janitor confesses.

The team can't believe they actually found a mole. Jana thinks this means they can lift the lockdown.

Sophie takes her aside and raises her suspicions, suggesting that the janitor couldn't have done it alone. She suggests Saunders might be working against his own company and that Jana should keep the lockdown in place to investigate.

Nate calls a security guard and yells at him to distract him so he'll let Parker through quickly.

Parker gets to the outside vault and opens the door. It's subzero but she goes in. There's a keypad on the door. She breathes on it and sees fingerprints on numbers, but there are only four of them. Nate says the code is six numbers, specific to Saunders. Nate remembers Saunder's start date and feeds it to Parker.

She gets to the inside vault, where lasers guard the potato. Saunders confronts Sophie, accusing her of trying to sabotage him.

The alarms go off in the vault and Nate announces they're blown. A lackey tells Saunders about an intruder in the vault -- but the computer says it's Saunders. Flash back to Sophie assuring him they'll catch the intruder with a pat on the arm, and her swiping his ID badge.

Saunders orders his three security guys to take Sophie, but Eliot is there to fend them off. Saunders goes for the burn room switch and they tell Parker to get out. She slides out of the room just as the flames erupt.

Saunders orders someone to search everyone leaving the building. He stops Nate and Parker. Flash back to Parker defeating the lasers with gymnastics and taking the potato before flames follow her out of the vault.

Saunders orders her searched but Jana interrupts, saying she's called the board of directors and he's fired.

Flash back to Hardison transferring all the money from the janitor to Saunders. Security guards take him away. Then security guards come for Jana.

Flash back to Nate telling Hardison to make sure the transfer came from her.

Parker trades Trevor the trouble maker for his cell phone as he gets on the bus.

Flash back to Parker and Nate using a paper cutter to slice off a piece of the potato and hide it in his cell phone case. He sneaks it through the metal detector, since they don't search kids.

The rest of the potato ended up with the regular potatoes in the cafeteria.

Back at the bar, Emily is thrilled Saunders got fired and is being prosecuted for larceny. They hand over the potato slice.

Nate and Sophie admire each other's techniques on the job. Nate gets flustered asking how they'll make things works. Sophie suggests dinner, as friends.

They walk out, and Nate leaves his cell phone on the bar. Hardison calls with an urgent message after watching a news report. Jana was cleared of all charges and was appointed CEO of Verd Agra.