- The Leverage team must recruit old friends and rivals in order to take down Latimer and a foe from their past.
- Nate deduces who killed his father and is given a 3-step recipe for how to make any man kill: take his business, possessions and name. New foe, Latimer, enters into an unholy alliance and the team hires part-time assistance. Things get Chaotic. Will Sophie and Eliot be able to talk Nate out of murder? Parker plays Daddy's girl and Hardison finally gets a Bat-Cave.—LA-Lawyer
- Renton Federal Penitentiary
Nate pays Victor Dubenich (Saul Rubinek) a visit. Nate tells Victor he'll regret trying to kill him and his team. Victor points out he put Nate's team together and knows them better than Nate does. He recruited Latimer (Leon Rippey) because he needed help on the outside, he's been funding him by tipping him off to Nate's moves so Latimer can bet against the Leveragers victims. Victor says all anyone has is their business, their possessions and their name.
Nate says he'll have to do better.
"Better than killing your father? Wow," Victor says. Nate leaves with a threat.
Sophie's waiting outside. Nate wants to go after Latimer to get to Victor. She wonders what's left to do to a man already in prison. Nate has an idea.
At Latimer's building, Parker does recon. Hardison works on the security from inside Lucille the van. Parker is planting bugs. Latimer is prepping for a party.
One of Latimer's guys shows him surveillance of Parker and Eliot, caught by facial recognition. The door locks behind Parker and guys come for Eliot. Hardison gets locked out of the computer and takes off in the van. Eliot uses fire extinguishers to clear a path out the lobby. Parker rappels down the building and lands on the top of the van.
The team heads back to condo HQ. Nate is obsessed, sleeping on a cot downstairs to be near his notes. The whole thing started with Vert Agra and the super potato. Since then the CEO has sold land to Latimer so he could get the water rights. He wanted the patent for the water filter so he can get use it on Bellington dam.
The team points out Latimer knows all their usual moves and people they usually work with. "We find someone who is not a friend, who is not in the game, who we do not trust, that's what we do," says Nate.
Kiev, Ukraine Goons hold Quinn (Clayne Crawford) at gun point. He broke Eliot's rib once. Eliot offers him a job for a week, six figures. They negotiate as they take out goons and agree.
Cut to Parker's mentor Archie Leach (Richard Chamberlain) walking down the street with his family. Parker swipes all their wallets and he stops her. He leaves with her.
Hardison goes to Chaos (Wil Wheaton), his hacking nemesis. Chaos wants his usual fee, plus expenses, and Parker has to dress up as Starbuck from "Battlestar Gallactica". He'll negotiate and consider Counselor Troi instead.
Dubenich strolls in to Latimer's office. He got him out on early release. He wants a couple of guys who don't ask questions to deal with the Leveragers.
Dubenich leads his goon squad to Leverage HQ. They bust in with guns. It's completely cleaned out and they're gone.
The Leveragers and their counterparts meet up underground. Hardison is psyched they have a bat cave.
He gives the rundown. Latimer is in the middle of a deal with Chinese investors for control of the dam network, but according to land use laws he has to maintain them in proper working order or he forfeits control.
Nate explains to the back-ups that his team can't get near Latimer, which is why they're needed. He tells them no one goes near Victor Dubenich. Sophie finds Nate putting bullets in his father's gun. She warns him she doesn't work with murderers.
Hardison and Eliot walk on Bellingham Dam in Upstate, New York, waiting for the facial recognition software to spot them. It doesn't take long. Dubenich is there and waves. He gives the guys in the control room software to block Hardison's impending hack.
Haverford Water and Control Plant, upriver Quinn and Chaos walk through the dam, so Chaos can hack into the computer. It's super old but they're all networked so he can also access Bellingham. He's interrupted by goons. Quinn fends them off while Chaos hacks. When he's done Quinn throws him off the side of the dam into the water to escape.
Hardison dumps a bag of something into an access pipe. The dam workers find it and order a shut down. Dubenich thinks it's just ice.
At Latimer HQ, a dam worker shows Latimer and Dubenich that Hardison dumped an invasive type of mussel into the dam. They'll breed until they clog all the cooling pipes and the dam will explode. They can't flush it downstream because it'll flow into Latimer's other facilities and the EPA will fine them for intentionally releasing an invasive species. The dam is shut down and it will take a year to decontaminate.
At the Leverage cave, Archie rejects all of Hardison's high tech gadgets for his thieving mission. His list includes cake fixings. He reminds Hardison that no one cuts the cake until they're told to cut the cake.
Archie wheels a giant cake into Latimer's party. Parker pops out of it in the elevator and Archie strolls through the party. In the van, Chaos shows off to Hardison by hacking into Latimer's system.
At the party, Latimer is angry at Dubenich as he prepares to try to smooth things over with his Chinese investors. Latimer tells him that no one messes with his business. Dubenich gets the idea to protect Latimer's safe and business documents and rushes off.
Nate sidles up to Latimer at the party. The facial recognition software takes a while to kick in. He suggests they talk.
Dubenich assesses the items in Latimer's vault and deems them unworthy of theft by Nate. The most expensive thing at the party is the emperor's sword that Archie has been lingering by out in the middle of the party. Dubenich races back to the gathering.
Parker drops out of the ceiling with video footage of a guard punching in the access code to the vault. Flash back to Archie planting the mini camera on the guard's badge at the party. Nate suggests Latimer stop protecting Dubenich, but he declines.
Dubenich rushes out to protect the sword. The power goes out momentarily but the sword is still there when it comes back on. He makes a scene, grabbing it from its display and rushes it to the vault. Once it's safely inside, the small item Archie planted on it beeps. There's an explosion from inside the vault.
Archie wheels his hide-a-cake outside to the van and presents Hardison and Chaos with the sword.
Flash back to Archie using his taser-tipped cane in an electrical socket to blow the lights. He slips the sword out of its case and into the cake and replaces the handle with a fake one he brought with a tiny bomb on it.
Dubenich and Latimer assess the damage to the vault. Dubenich realizes Nate went after Latimer's business and possessions. His name will be next. He knows Nate's plan. Latimer asks how. "I gave it to him," Dubenich realizes.
Nate takes a few practice shots. Eliot warns him it'll change him.
Dubenich tells Latimer that Nate is going after his name next. Latimer thinks it's already begun. His stock is down 10 percent and he has a congressional summons to answer for not being able to protect his waterways. He's flying off to DC.
Latimer has a drink at the airport bar. Sophie joins him and toasts him. Dubenich steps in and takes the glasses. He has goons escort her out. They run into Quinn and Eliot, who take them all out. Eliot gets Dubenich down on the ground and aims a gun at him. He tells Sophie he's thinking of saving his friend the trouble. But he decides against shooting Dubenich for Nate.
Back at the bar, Nate's ex-wife Maggie (Kari Matchett) joins Latimer at the bar. He's watching TV footage about his scandal. She suggests a drink.
Later, Sophie brings Maggie around to see Nate. He didn't know Sophie called her. Apparently they're friends now. Maggie was happy to help. She's excited to see what happens next with Latimer.
He wakes up in a sleazy hotel with an open bottle of booze by him. Dubenich calls him and points out he's late for the hearing and is now in contempt of Congress. It's all over the news that he's missing and his stock is plummeting.
Latimer tries to figure out where he is. He opens the window and checks his plane ticket. He's in the Cayman Islands. He goes to pack and finds his suitcase full of his bonds, valuables and money that was in the safe.
Flash back to Parker loading up all the stuff from the vault before it exploded. He finds different passports in his bag and the sword.
Dubenich tells Latimer he's done. He sees a news report saying the SEC is investigating Latimer's trades on Nate's deals. The footage shows Nate and Sophie passing out the information on Wall street.
Dubenich tries to transfer Latimer's money into his account, but it's gone.
In the Leverage cave, Chaos finishes up transferring Latimer's money into their account. Archie tells Parker he approves of Hardison. Hardison and Chaos make a grudging peace.
Dubenich goes through Latimer's computer files, looking for something worth stealing. He finds the patent.
Dubenich goes to the Haverford water plant. Nate heads out to deal with him alone, refusing the help of the team.
Dubenich leads a team of goons through the plant, following the map to what he thinks is the research area. Nate meets them. The goons fire on him and Nate runs off. The goons scatter and the Leveragers, who followed Nate anyway, take them out one by one in the water plant. Eliot runs into the one who locked Nate's dad in the warehouse.
Nate runs off and gets Dubenich to follow. Dubenich shoots at him and nearly hits Nate. Nate keeps running and ends up on a ledge over the dam with nowhere to run. Dubenich approaches him with the gun on him.
Nate asks how everything is working out for him. He points out that Dubenich gets so angry, he overlooks details. Dubenich fires but his gun is empty. Nate counted the shots, Dubenich didn't.
Nate takes out his father's gun and the tables are turned. Nate marches him to the edge. Nate announces he has a surprise for him. He brings out Latimer. They both start trying to convince Nate to blame the other person.
Dubenich says if Nate kills him, Latimer will just start over. He says Latimer sent his father into the warehouse. But Nate points out if he kills Latimer, Dubenich will find his jewels and go free.
The problem Nate is having with all of this is that if he kills one of them, the other will go free. But he has five bullets. Nate pauses and turns around to see his team watching over him.
Nate walks to the edge between them and puts the gun down. He walks away.
Dubenich and Latimer both run for it and start fighting over it. They fall to their knees and keep grappling. Both tip over the edge.
Later, Nate tells Sophie that he's not his father and if he was he'd always be looking for the next score instead of appreciating what he has. He wants to make some changes. He has plans. He kisses her.
Hardison interrupts to ask if they can keep the cave. They squabble like kids. Nate and Sophie take the kids home.
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