- In order to take down his former boss, Nate must reunite the splintered team to help him.
- Having barely escaped while robbing Ian Blackpoole the previous time, the team members all return from hiding and are spotted surveying the museum he picked for a Renaissance exposition five months later. They agree to go on even after Nate announces he told Ian they'll try again and steal both David models. Nate's ex finds out but decides to join them once told why Nate hates her esteemed client. After an eventful battle of wits with Jim Sterling, whom Ian had take over museum security, determining winners and losers proves most confusing.—KGF Vissers
- After thinking like Parker and Hardison saves the day from Sterling, there is a big blowup in operations. The team scatters for a few weeks, but Nate knows everyone will show up a week or two before the Two Davids exhibit opens--he knows his crew. Nate boldly tells Blackpoole and Sterling he is going to rob the Two Davids Gallery on opening day. Nate knows his former boss... and he knows Sterling is every bit the self-serving, utter bastard he needs him to be. But, how will IYS survive the future if oversight becomes a goal?—LA-Lawyer
- In what looks like an art exhibit, Ian Blackpool points a gun at Nate's face as Maggie looks on. "Where are they?" Blackpool demands.
Three Days Earlier Blackpool introduces Jim Sterling as the latest vp of IYS.
In a museum Sophie talks on her phone and pauses to take pictures of the art. Separately, Parker also does recon.
Blackpool talks about the museum show they're planning, with his art and that of clients of IYS.
Eliot walks around a museum as a security guard, taking notes. Then Hardison strolls as an electrician and lets himself in to where ever he likes. Blackpool shows Sterling his new office, where he finds that Nate is sitting in his desk chair. Nate breezily tells Blackpool that he's going to rob the Two Davids Gallery on opening day.
Hardison does some magic with museum wiring.
Blackpool doesn't take Nate seriously. He reiterates the policy that led to Nate's son's death. No exceptions to company policy, he says.
The Leveragites continue their independent recon. Then they bump into each other and are shocked to find each other there. They all claim they found it first.
In Sterling's office, Nate offers Blackpool a deal: If he donates all his assets to charity, Nate won't ruin him. Haridson gets spotted, but Eliot as security guard busts him first. Sophie is spotted by Nate's ex-wife Maggie. They all end up running out at once and straight into Nate's waiting car. Because the Leveragites are sweet like that.
Hardison shows them a new safe house, a giant mansion. It was an IRS foreclosure. He heard it used to be MC Hammer's place. I guess you can touch this," he says.
Sophie sees the team bickering and says to Nate: "You see that? We're a mess."
Hardison asks how Nate knew they'd all be there. A few days before the job was the perfect time to case, he knew they'd be there. He did used to track them. They start arguing, after not hearing from each other for three months.
Then they start sharing the intel they've gathered.
Nate asks why they came back. They all had agreed to scatter for six months. They all have different reasons, but they all want to be there.
Nate says that IF they work together, with Sterling working security they can add humiliating him to the list of spoils of the job. Nate tells them he already told IYS what he was planning. He's planning on their response being, as Sophie puts it, "biblical."
They brainstorm. Nate asks what's underneath the base of the statues. They realize the restoration room is the way in. Grifter, hitter, hacker, thief, Nate says, they were all working to solve their version of the crime. There's a reason they work together. But they need a new face inside.
Parker suggests Maggie.
Maggie arrives at the museum with the museum director, Dr. Lloyd who is suffering from a severe case of allergies. Blackpool introduces Sterling, saying he's taking over security.
Eliot calls Maggie as Adam and easily sets up a date as Nate listens, getting really irritated.
At the café, the team listens in from the van, watching on a button cam. They hear her say that Nate was obsessive, perfectionist, controlling. Then she says he was lousy in bed. But worst of all, he completely forgot that she gave him that same button camera for Christmas three years ago. She points at Eliot's lapel. Busted.
They bring her back to the new mansion. She doesn't understand why Nate's doing what he's doing. He sits her down. He tells her about Blackpool denying their son's treatment. She's mad that he let her keep working with them, like an idiot. He kept it from her because he didn't want her to hate him like he hates himself.
Flashback to Nate, watching his son die and Maggie watching her husband lose it.
He apologizes and she hugs him.
One of Sterling's men pulls up the application Eliot filled out when he worked as a guard. He used his real number and now they know he just called Maggie.
They continue planning at new HQ. Maggie doesn't think it'll work. They need something from her in the museum inventory. She IDs something but says the museum director has to OK moving it to the restoration room.
Maggie goes to the museum with Nate in her head, giving directions. When that creates too much friction, Sophie takes over guiding through bumping into the director after Parker has, and switching out his phone. Parker also switched his allergy medication with allergens and something that makes him woozy and forgetful. Maggie bluffs her way through reminding him about the order he signed to move what she needs moved then sends him on to Sophie. She's a natural.
Sterling watches from the security room, recognizing Parker. The director meets with Sophie, who pretends to be an Egyptologist, who mentions some silly mummy curse business. He starts to see fuzzy then checks all the places the sarcophagus was found before hitting the museum. He finds a trail of deaths, courtesy, the team.
Sophie tells Maggie to wrap it up and she comes out, getting him to sign something. He asks if she believes in curses. She tells him not to be silly, it's not a curse. It's a fungus. She lists the symptoms, the same ones he's having.
He orders it sealed up.
At the mansion, Sophie tries to patch things up with Eliot, who's upset she conned the team. Then Parker and Hardison join in and ask if she's trying to apologize. She says she's not. That's the problem. She asks if they're all OK with each other. They accept her non-apology.
Sterling watches Maggie guiding the rearranging of pieces.
Opening day. Blackpool speaks about the two Davids being reunited for the first time in 400 years. Sterling checks that photos of the Leveragites have been distributed. They're wanted in a surprising range of countries. Sterling gets giddy just thinking about where he's going to drop them.
Nate arrives. They let him in. Blackpool thinks they can catch him in the act. The director tells Sterling about the mummy he moved.
Nate watches them run to the restoration room, followed by a bunch of guys. They find the mummy under the Davids. Sterling thinks they're going to drill up through the base. He thinks it'll be done by whoever's hiding in the sarcophagus. He opens it. It's a mummy, long dead and dried.
The dust sets off something in the museum which causes fog to be pumped into the display case. The Leveragites all check their phones. Blackpool wants to open the case, but the director says evacuation is the standard protocol for a chemical attack, and that's what they have to follow since an unknown gas has been released. They call for an evacuation.
But in the lobby they find everyone has a mini David statue in their hand. Sterling now thinks they already have the statue and they're using fakes to distract while they smuggle out the real one. Now he wants everyone to stay put while they check.
They collect the statues as Sterling realizes everyone is out of the building. He tries to go back in, but Hardison has triggered the door locks. Sterling's man races to find Nate on the roof. He rappels down inside to meet the other Leveragites. Sterling's security doors come crashing down, presumably sealing the Leveragites inside. "Lets go to work," Nate says.
Outside, Sterling thinks he has them trapped. The fire department and police are there. Sterling tells Maggie this is her last chance to come clean, but she says she doesn't know what they're talking about.
They open the doors to find Nate leaning up against the display cases, with the two Davids safely inside. He wasn't the thief, he was the bait. They turn on the lights to find every other work of art but the Davids, gone. The director wants to call the police, but Blackpool says no because they were his responsibility. Worth $150 million, Maggie says. Nate continues the thread, mentioning that every piece was insured by IYS. What does Blackpool think his board of directors is going to do when they realize how much he's lost them? Nate says.
And now were back at the beginning, as Sterling shouts to clear the room and Maggie looks on horrified as Blackpool takes aim at Nate's head. Nate remains calm.
"Are you here to kill me, Ian?" Nate says.
Nate tells Sterling that every piece of art will be returned when Blackpool is stripped of his position and all his assets in the company and his policy of denying all claims is ended. Nate plays the tape of himself from Sterling's office, telling Blackpool he's going to rob the Two Davids Gallery on opening day and Blackpool saying of course he's not going to call the police. He tells Sterling that the owners will sue when they hear the tape and realize Blackpool did nothing in the face of an imminent threat.
Sterling likes the sound of it. Blackpool, realizing what just happened, runs to Maggie and asks if she understands. She decks him.
Sterling acknowledges that Nate's entire plan relied on him being a self-serving bastard. Pretty much. Sterling will call Nate when it's done.
Maggie and Nate talk. He gets a call saying Blackpool is out. Maggie asks if it's time to return the art work. Nate thinks so. They get up from the bench they were sitting on in the middle of the gallery and lift the top cushion to see the Leveragites and all the paintings below. They'll drop it on the loading dock, making it look like someone dropped it off. Maggie is impressed. She likes this Nate.
At a hangar, Nate thanks everyone and they talk about moving on and fresh starts. "We made a difference," Nate says, "remember that." Hardison asks Parker where she's going. "Let's see how hard you look," she says. They all turn and, like the premiere, walk away from each other. But the show was renewed for a second season. They pause.
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