- When Latimer hires Nate's father to pull off a heist in an ultra-secure government office, the Leverage team must stage a fake hostage stand-off when they're trapped inside and the feds lay siege to the building.
- Latimer hires Jimmy Ford (Tom Skerritt) to break into the U.S. Patent Office after Nate refuses the job. During the weekend Jimmy gets inside, he supposedly loses contact with Latimer, causing the latter to issue dire prognostications to Nate. Worried about Jimmy, Nate goes to D.C.; and the team follows him. Jimmy must weed through nearly 423,000 patent applications to find the one Latimer wants. Various law enforcement agencies force some interesting exits; and Jimmy has the coolest one. Latimer threatened to murder Nate; this is why he took the job. Will this be Jimmy Ford's last job? Is Eliot right: is someone other than Latimer messing with Nate's head?—LA-Lawyer
- United States Patent Office, Alexandria, Virginia
Hordes of SWAT teams pull up outside a building, complete with helicopter and heavy duty automatic weapons. Nate surveys the scene from inside the building.
Latimer Diversified 12 Hours Earlier
Nate goes to meet with Jack Latimer (Leon Rippy), who tells him when he couldn't get Nate to do his job he went on to the next man on the list. The man got in fine Friday to get the item, but he hasn't heard from him. Nate tells Latimer that the man is sitting on the item for a higher price. Latimer says he knows the man hasn't left the building and will have him arrested on Monday. Nate says it's not his problem.
Back at the loft, Sophie reads Nate the riot attack for standing her up. He has a bag packed and leaves on personal business. Hardison briefs the team on what he's dug up about Nate's secret trip, to a patent office. They think it's a heist. The building is highly secure. They have to get to the central computer room and play a surveillance loop. They head for Virginia.
Cut to Hardison and Eliot confronting Nate, explaining that they have his back and if the heist is tied to Latimer it affects them all. Nate plans to pull the fire alarm and go in as his arson investigator persona.
Up on the roof, Parker, Hardison and Eliot come in the fire door. They harness Hardison and drop him down the open stairwell to get to the computer room.
He hooks into the system and finds it has a two hour buffer, so that's all the time they have.
Nate and Eliot find the Patent Application Archive room open, Nate insists on going in alone. In the maze of desks he finds his dad (Tom Skeritt). The last time he saw his dad, he was sending him to Ireland with a price on his head.
Nate tells his dad Latimer is just using him to get to Nate and his team. His dad is getting paid $2 million to carry a patent application out of the building. He brought a gun. His dad only knows the name and address of the inventor who sent it in 20 years ago. There are 422,722 applications to dig through.
Eliot does a sweep of the building and runs into three goons in the basement. He quickly takes them out, immobilizing one with duct tape. Then he runs into a fourth who gives him some trouble, but he deals with him quickly.
Sophie walks through the warehouse of invention prototypes, including a home made meat smoker and sympathy pregnancy belly for men.
Eliot searches the four guys he knocked out and strung up with duct tape. They're orders were to follow Nate's dad and take whatever he came out with. Eliot points out that Latimer hiring local felons instead of using his own guys doesn't make any sense.
Nelson M. Bartholomew, the Chief Patent Archivist, is responsible for scanning old applications. Hardison calls him at home and tells him an application was flagged as top secret and they're trying to find it. He gets the organizational system. Parker goes to the files.
Just then, the SWAT teams begin arriving. The goons must have set off the motion sensors when they came in. They cover every exit.
Nate wants a clean phone and his dad's gun. Moments later, Eliot hurls a package out with the phone in it. FBI Special Agent Dennis Powell answers. Nate pretends to be an anti-government nut and says he has hostages. Eliot fires a few shots into the air to make the point. Nate demands the SWAT clear out and wants $10 million in the Caymans and a fully fueled helicopter from the building. The FBI asks for a hostage in return.
Hardison makes Sophie a Patent Office ID using a tortilla warmer, she straps on the fake pregnancy belly to really sell it.
She comes out and tells the FBI that a man bust in with a gun on Friday and there are a few other hostages. He kept repeating numbers.
She reports the cops' positions from outside and Nate plans to draw them away from one exit. Hardison scans the prototypes for things they can use.
Nate lays into his dad for coming back from Ireland and going for one last score, he says Latimer was never going to pay him. They start yelling at each other and Jimmy finally says he did the job because Latimer threatened to kill Nate if he didn't.
One of the goons wakes up in the basement and tries to free himself.
Sophie hears the FBI talking about "acceptable losses" and worries they're going in. Nate wants a turf war to slow things down. She tells the FBI the man inside was talking about jihad and he has to call in Homeland Security.
Eliot checks the monitors and finds the goons didn't set off the sensors, so who called the cops? Eliot suggests Jimmy was just bait to get Nate and the team there. Someone above Latimer is messing with them.
Sophie senses Homeland Security isn't buying her story. Nate tells Sophie to get out of there any way she can. She dumps water out and pretends hers just broke and is whisked away in the ambulance.
Inside, Hardison uses found objects to set up an elaborate, something, complete with radio controlled butler figurine.
Nate tells everyone to get ready. Sophie hops out of the ambulance.
Eliot calls the FBI agent from inside and pulls a "Die Hard" pretending to be a fellow cop and warning the FBI not to bust in. The Homeland Security woman is having none of it. "In Homeland Security, we aren't paid to think, we're paid to act," she says, preparing her guys to go in.
Hardison and Parker set off their contraption, super heating LED Christmas lights that explode when they get too hot. They go off like bullet shots.
Eliot walks across the glass-walled sky bridge and runs into the goons. He makes sure he's clearly visible from below and lets the goons wallop on him for awhile. Homeland and the FBI see it.
After the SWAT breach is called off, Eliot gets the goons off the visible sky bridge and then swiftly takes each out. He radios the FBI guy to let him know he's still there, then acknowledges the "Die Hard" homage with "Yippiekiyamother--" (CUT TO) "Found it!" Jimmy shouts, going through papers.
The patent application was for a dam water filter. Nate plans to use the skybridge to get to the building next door and escape. Sophie picks up their van Lucille and goes to meet them.
Eliot found a cell phone on one of the goons and sees a call from Rockford, Ill. Eliot radios the FBI to say the goons are heading for the west entrance. The FBI charges in and Nate and the team sneak out the other way.
The FBI guys are greeted by the remote control butler and blast it to smitherines.
Nate and the team walk out of the building and into a crowd of people looking toward the sky. A man says someone called a radio station and said he was going to throw $1 million from the roof of the building.
Nate realizes his dad is missing and he has the patent. Flash back to Jimmy calling the radio station.
Nate remembers Eliot suggesting someone above Latimer is messing with them and the goons had a call from Illinois. He needs to find his dad quickly. He knows whose behind everything.
Inside, the FBI man finds the goons taped up and waiting for him.
Nate gets a call from his dad and tries to warn him, but Jimmy won't listen. Hardison tracks the signal.
Jimmy takes the patent to a warehouse and walks in to find a man in a suit waiting for him. He asks for his money and the man tosses a bag.
The team races to the warehouse and Hardison narrows Jimmy's location to one of three warehouses. Nate asks him to look up ownership for all of them.
Jimmy double checks that Nate will be safe. He hands over the patent and it immediately knocked out from behind.
The man calls someone to report "he" didn't show.
Nate recognizes the name of a shell company on the warehouse ownership. He calls his dad, who wakes up groggy in the warehouse surrounded by oil drums marked flammable. Nate tries to convince his dad it's a set up but Jimmy's not listening until he sees a detonator. He tells Nate to be sure to tell stories about him and tell everyone Jimmy Ford loved his son.
Nate pulls up to the building in time to get out and stand there as the giant explosion goes off and blows him off his feet. Eliot and Hardison race to him. Nate is bloodied and dazed, but alive. He realizes his father was just blown up in front of him.
Cut to Renton Federal Pentitentiary, Rockford, Illinois It's Victor Dubenich (Saul Subinek), the man the team took down in their very first job.
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