- The team must battle a treacherous mountain, dangerous conditions, and hired mercenaries to retrieve evidence to bring down a corrupt financial executive.
- The team meets 8,000 feet+ high at Mt. Kibari Basecamp after Karen Scott reports her husband, Alan, missing at 10,000+ feet in the brutal Alaskan mountains. Hardison describes the scene as a danger cupcake with murder icing, and Alan, a seasoned climber, may well have been murdered. There is a race to find Alan-- the team, Karen and various real estate moguls, lawyers, investment bankers and business associates of Alan want to locate him and (more importantly) the business notebook Karen hopes he is carrying. In a cameo as Alan Scott, Eric Stoltz is, as ever, some kind of wonderful!—LA-Lawyer
- A man records a message for his wife from on top of a mountain. It fuzzes out at the end
Mount Kibari, Alaska
Basecamp, 8000 feet
Eliot drives up to base camp, angry at Nate for calling him in when they're supposed to be laying low. Nate explains the job has a specific window of opportunity.
Cut to Nate in the bar meeting with Alan's wife, who says he disappeared in a storm. They met climbing. He's an investment banker who partnered with John Drexel five years ago at Merced Financial. Alan thought they were seizing properties they didn't own.
After Alan disappeared, their house was broken in to and Alan's emails were wiped. But she says there's one place they may not have looked.
Cut back to base camp. Sophie saunters in and Nate remembers ending up in bed with her a few weeks ago. The rest of the team arrives and Nate questions their climbing skills.
Flash back to Hardison explaining how dangerous the job is. Nate tries to determine where on the way down Alan might have died. The storm he disappeared in shut the mountain down for three months. Nate wants to get there and find Alan before anyone else.
Back on the mountain, Nate wants Eliot and Parker to go up now -- in the blizzard -- to find Alan's notebook, with information on the mortgage fraud.
John Drexel shows up. Hardison gives Eliot a receiver that will ping off Alan's beacon when they get closer. Eliot reminds Nate that his alcoholism doesn't go well with high altitude.
Eliot and Parker head off. Nate notices that Alan's widow Karen has just arrived.
Nate worries if Drexel sees her there he'll figure out what they're doing, so he hooks her with an earpiece. She feeds Sophie info on the members of Drexel's team and Sophie schmoozes with them in the tent.
There are Japanese climbers from a rival firm there and Australian rich people. Sophie swipes Drexel's phone.
She has Hardison reroute a Paris phone number to her phone. She snaps a picture of herself with his phone and puts it back.
Nate explains the set up is that she's meeting Drexel for the second time.
She goes up to him and slaps him for not "remembering" her. He checks his phone and sees her in there as verification.
Eliot and Parker come upon a high camp with first aid and oxygen. Hardison is worried that they're not getting a ping off Alan's beacon yet. He suggests sending up another receiver to triangulate a signal, but Nate is against it. Karen eyes the receiver.
On the mountain, Eliot sees a Russian boot print and we see someone sinister looking watching them. Nate warns them there are other climbers up there.
Hardison intercepts a text Drexel sent to basecamp, to his competitor Hiro Miyashta. Nate notices Karen has split with the receiver.
Nate suits up to go after Karen. He tells Hardison to get financials on Miyashta's company and figure out what Drexel is up to. Nate heads out.
Hardison finds big stock transfers that seem to indicate an impending buyout. Sophie realizes she's surrounded by lawyers, not climbers, and that Drexel is selling his company. She tells Hardison to shut down Drexel's phone.
She sidles up to a German named Hans and complains about Drexel selling his company to get the German interested.
Nate huffs and puffs up the mountain. Finally, he flops face first in the snow outside the high camp. He sucks down oxygen from a canister.
Hardison finds that he's starting to get a signal from the triangulated receivers, but Alan's beacon is way off from the location Drexel gave the rescue crew.
Hardison tells Eliot and Parker they're on top of Alan's signal, but they see nothing. Suddenly, the ground goes out beneath them and they fall into an ice cavern.
Hardison can't reach anyone.
Nate finds Karen unconscious in the snow. He gives her oxygen, but then passes out himself. He wakes up to find he's in the high camp with Karen. She woke up and dragged him back. She twisted her ankle, hyperventilated and passed out earlier.
He counsels her on not being overcome by her anger.
Back in the ice cavern, Parker and Eliot see an object wrapped in red plastic. They look and find it's Alan's body. His leg's broken and he couldn't get out.
Eliot lifts his notebook. Parker wants to take his body with them.
Back at base camp, Sophie learns the Germans are buying Drexel's stock like crazy and driving the price up, but Drexel doesn't know because his phone's out. Sophie mentions it to the Japanese, who check.
Hardison sees Nate and Karen on the way back down the mountain, but can't reach them. There's a big storm on their heels.
Drexel accosts Sophie and demands answers. She tells him to check his stock price. He sees Miyashta is selling, which is going to cause the Germans to sell and the stock will crash.
Drexel sees Karen is at base camp.
Nate stumbles back in after her and Sophie catches him up on the con, that he's buying Drexel's company.
Eliot and Parker try to work out a way out of the cave, but their rope snaps. Eliot says they don't have enough rope and have to take some from Alan's body, but Parker is upset about the idea of leaving him and makes an impassioned plea for them to do the right thing.
Back in base camp, Nate tells Drexel he has Alan's notebook and knows some of the assets are worthless. He asks Drexel if he's heard from his Russian and tells him they're getting in position to profit from Miyashta's announcement.
Back in the cave, Eliot tells Parker it's a good thing they found Alan's body and got stuck because the others would have tried so hard to get the body home that they would have died, but they're the ones able to leave him behind to survive.
Before they go, Parker plays the last message on Alan's phone.
They get out of the cave and play the message for Hardison, who tells Nate. He heads over to the comm tent, but Drexel follows him and socks him. He calls Nate's bluff about the notebook and tells Nate his Russian won't kill Nate's people if they turn it over.
Eliot and Parker find the snow mobile at the high camp. Eliot's looking around for the Russian when he pops up out of the snow from behind Parker and grabs her. He holds a gun to her and Eliot turns over the notebook. He takes out a flare and burns it then drives off.
Drexel goes into the communications tent and tells Hardison to contact his snow mobile. Drexel learns the notebook has been destroyed.
Drexel and Miyashta celebrate their impending deal in base camp. Alan's final message starts to play on all the TV screens. Alan says John Drexel cut his rope and let him fall.
Flash back to Eliot and Parker trying to play the message for Hardison, but he can't receive it because they're too high up. He tells them to get it below the radio signal cut off line. So when Parker is grabbed by the Russian, she slips the phone into his pants pocket and he rides down with it.
The Russian comes in and rangers arrest him and Drexel.
Hardison says he didn't anything, the message sat on Alan's phone waiting to email until it had reception.
Karen watches her dead husband cry and tell her he loves her. He tells her not to come looking for him because he's with her.
Eliot tells Parker they accomplished what she wanted: they brought Alan back. A choked up Parker hugs Hardison.
Back at the loft, Nate and Sophie agree to pretend their night together never happened. She says he could still start calling her by her real name, but she realizes he's completely forgotten it.
Hardison finds a listening in the light fixture. There's a very long list of people who might have it in for them.
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