Leverage: Redemption (2021) s01e01 Episode Script

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[HARRY] You see, my whole life,
I've prided myself on
never picking a side.
I'll help you hide the hundred million.
Look at that.
You think this was my
first choice? It's insane!
Cole's dead?
I have to take something.
[PHONE BUZZES]
[SIGHS]
[PHONE BUZZING]
[PHONE BUZZING]
Please, will you stop?
[SIGHS]
[EXHALES SHARPLY]
Grifter.
Hitter.
Hacker.
Thief.
We found other people who heard about us
and were doing the same
thing, so we recruited them.
Now we have 12 active teams.
Leverage International.
And no shortage of rich bad guys.
Sadly not.
Hardison says it's because
we live in the worst timeline.
Well, we do.
Hey.
To Nate, yeah?
One year gone but never forgotten.
To Nate.
He was self-righteous. He was arrogant.
I swear to God he made it
up half the time, but
I miss the hell out of him.
To Nate.
Hey, no.
Dude.
You're a lightweight, man. I'm
not carrying you out of here.
Eliot and I do most of the traveling
so he can check on his meat wagons.
Food trucks, Park. It's food trucks.
I started a chain of food trucks.
Jobs for folks that
get out of the military.
It's good for them. It's a fresh start.
But mostly we're just
supervising the other crews.
I can't remember the last
time I was in an air vent.
I miss vents.
Hey, we built vents in the house
so you could spend time in them.
But I know those vents.
There's nothing like the feeling
of sliding into a hot, strange vent.
To strange vents.
Mm-hm.
Why are you staying at home?
You know, just working
with refugee groups.
Coordinating food drives
to resettlement camps,
getting medicine to aid workers.
George Clooney's satellite
that tracks all the war crimes?
It's all software.
Somebody's gotta run it.
Age of the geek, baby.
- Age of the geek, baby.
- Age of the geek.
What about you though, hm?
How you doing since, uh you know.
You know, I've just
been doing this and that.
[PARKER] Because you
stopped returning our calls.
Eliot was very worried.
It's not We were all
I'm gonna cut this with some food.
Hey, I'll tell you what.
I'll whip up some
brunch for us right now.
Eliot, my cupboards are bare.
And you guys, you've
got a plane to catch.
Oh, no, no, no. I'll run to the store.
- Yeah
- Could you just stop?
Just stop.
[SIGHS]
[WHISPERING] We should steal something.
That's it.
That is it. That is it. That's it.
No. I haven't
- It's been years.
- Sophie.
This might be a nice
distraction for you.
Nearest art gallery?
Boston Museum of Art.
One point nine miles away.
Just upgraded to a
Glenn-Rieder Mark IV system.
What!
[ALEC LAUGHS]
[CROWD CHANTING] Hey, hey, ho,
ho! Fletcher's art has got to go!
Hey, hey, ho, ho!
Fletcher's art has got to go!
Maxwell's a murderer! He's a murderer!
[CHANTING CONTINUES FAINTLY]
[ELIOT] All right, I count
two guards in each gallery.
[PARKER] See anything you like, Sophie?
I'm gonna go secure the exits.
Hey, man, if you happen to find
some water or some aspirin
I told you, man!
It's been eight years
since I've done this.
I need a sec.
I can't do this.
[EXHALES]
[MAN] No.
This is ridiculous. This is idiotic.
You're being an idiot.
Don't walk away from me.
The issues around my family have
nothing to do with the art, my art.
Why would you remove my
name from the brochure?
I would think the protestors
would make that clear.
Do you want me to pull my Rembrandt
from this show? Because I will.
Harry?
This is one of my lawyers. Fix this.
Well, unfortunately the
terms of your contract
preclude removing the piece mid-show,
but we can cancel the next donation.
- Actually, we no longer want your money.
- Oh, you don't?
You don't want my money?
I've sponsored this
museum for over a decade.
I rebuilt that damn gallery!
I'm calling the board right now.
He's a treat.
Well, the Maxwell family has
donated millions of dollars
to art museums around the world.
Mr. Maxwell values his reputation
as a collector above all else.
Remind me, how did the Maxwell
family make their fortune?
Opioids, right?
Wasn't it?
Not one of the protestors, are you?
I'm just here for the art.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
This is Mr. Maxwell's piece.
Oh.
You know, before he
owned it, it was stolen.
- Back in, um
- 2002. London.
On a beautiful spring day.
It was a bit of a rush job, really.
[HARRY SIGHS]
[HARRY SIGHS]
No.
Hey. Um
Sorry if we pushed you to come here.
It's just, we are worried.
Not now. You're not gonna
believe what's happening here.
Oh, yeah. Somebody cut the cameras.
They're gonna steal that Rembrandt.
Probably set off the
fire alarms for cover.
So, anyway, my psychologist says that
Your psychologist?
Dr. Novik.
We helped her save some abused kids,
so she pays me back in services.
Three.
- Two.
- One.
[ALARM BLARING]
I'm sorry, you're seeing
a child psychologist?
She like the puppets.
So much anger. [GROWLS]
[HARRY] People, people.
There's no need to panic.
Just head right for the
exits. Right this way.
Here we go.
[HARRY] That's right.
[GATES CLANK SHUT]
[EXCLAIMS]
This is not what it looks like.
'Cause it looks like
you're stealing a Rembrandt.
And you've got a
two-minute window, tops.
Hurry on.
Are you not gonna call?
You want me to keep
- Who are you?
- Who are you?
Harry Wilson, lawyer.
- That my wallet?
- Well, I hope so.
It's got all your credit cards in it.
Undergrad, Tulane. Oh,
he's a New Orleans boy.
Okay, law school, Harvard.
Works at a New Orleans law firm.
Your client list
Ooh. These are not good people.
Harry, you work for some bad people.
You shady.
Hardison, he cut the cameras,
but we should probably wipe
footage of everyone in the gallery.
I'm on it. Babe, give me a
hardwire tap into the gallery Wi-Fi.
[DEVICE BEEPS]
She does that.
Ooh. Looping the magnetic
detector. I like that.
I don't know that technique.
Where'd you learn that?
- YouTube.
- Oh, dear.
Exit strategy with those gates down?
Ah.
[CLICK]
[DOOR CREAKS]
Employee access corridor. Nice.
- [SOPHIE] Parker.
- Is that my watch?
He's not gonna learn
unless he does it himself.
Not gonna learn what?
[ALARM RINGING]
You have to check for weight
triggers in the support wire.
You were doing so well.
He was doing so well, right?
No, he wasn't. You know
he's going to prison forever.
Leave the painting.
- Leave the painting?
- The painting.
- The painting.
- We have to go.
Right now they're overriding
the fire alarm doors,
the police are on their way,
and an enterprising employee's
gonna come running
through your escape route.
Well, can I at least get my my
my wallet.
- Where's Eliot?
- He's securing the
[GRUNTS]
Securing the exits.
- Well, now you're gonna have to carry him.
- What?
You wanted a distraction.
He's the distraction.
Hardison, get the left
side. I'll take the right.
- You hit him.
- Hardison!
Damn it, Hardison.
Yeah, we caught him trying to
steal one of the Rembrandts.
So he's a thief?
No.
I'm not sure what he is.
[WOMAN] Mr. Wilson.
Mr. Wilson.
Sorry, I was just doing the math.
I think we could protect about
a hundred million dollars.
You'll have to pay out
the rest in settlements.
[CHUCKLING] No, no. I'm
not settling anything.
I am a doctor.
I'm a patron of the arts.
I'm not a drug dealer.
My family makes
medication for sick people.
It's not our fault a bunch
of addicts took advantage.
You're omitting the bit
where for eight years
you misled thousands
of doctors and patients
about how addictive
the opioid mixture was.
Well, that's an exaggeration.
You made cartoons.
[HIGH-PITCHED SINGSONG VOICE]
I make the ouchie go away.
There's memos.
In that one, you talk about
how much money you make
selling drugs to wounded veterans.
- Where did you get this?
- Well, that doesn't matter.
What matters is that the attorneys
general from the seven states
that are about to sue you, they have it.
Now, my firm can help you
hide some of your money,
but you will pay out the rest, or,
as outlined in this report,
you're facing years of costly litigation
against these media-friendly victims.
If you agree, I'll help you
hide the hundred million,
and I'll seek out each of the litigants,
and I'll talk them into settling.
[SIGHS]
All right.
You come very highly recommended.
I'm glad to have you on my side.
Oh, I'm not on anybody's
side. I'm a lawyer.
Cole Hoskins?
My name's Harry Wilson.
I'm here to talk to you about your
lawsuit with Libris Pharmaceuticals.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa.
- Cole. Cole.
Go inside. I'll handle it.
I'm his sister Jenny. I
have power of attorney.
The limp's from an IED outside Bagram.
What about the power of attorney?
After his third stint in rehab.
Know any reason I don't beat you myself?
Libris Pharmaceuticals wants to settle.
Your medication turned
my brother into an addict.
Not my medication. Those are
the people my firm represents.
We've convinced Maxwell to pay out.
But I gotta go back down there
and tell him that you'll
put down the shovel, so to speak.
We used to own a house, you know.
Belonged to my grandparents.
Had to sell the second
time he was in rehab.
Well, I promise you'll
have enough to buy it back.
I'll even help you with the paperwork.
You bank a lot on that
sweet-looking face, don't you?
You have my word.
And done.
Now, only use these codes
to move the money you want,
completely secure.
As to our plan for the
settlement [CLEARS THROAT]
Oh, we're not settling anything.
I'm not letting a bunch of
nobodies ruin the Maxwell name.
Um, I thought I explained,
you're gonna spend millions of
dollars litigating this for years.
Millions I have.
Years they don't have.
No, you you laid it out
so beautifully right here.
If I tie them up in court, eventually
they're gonna settle or quit.
Hell, because you got most
of them to consider settling,
I even know how much to lowball them.
Now, when I spend the next
decade donating to museums
around the world, sharing
the gift of my art,
no one is gonna remember a
bunch of penny-ante settlements
strung out over years.
These problems are gonna
be forgotten, and my name
will live on in those museums forever.
Honestly, Harry, I
I could not have done this without you.
Have a good day.
[SOPHIE] So you felt guilty.
My whole life, I prided
myself on never picking a side.
But I began to think all those
years, maybe maybe I had.
Better late than never, I guess.
Lightweight. See?
Hey, don't.
Do not.
Say, man, why didn't you
just go for all his money?
No. [SIGHS]
I'm the one who made
it impossible to access.
Bank of Malta.
Voice passwords that
change every 24 hours.
Mm-mm. Besides
You wanted to hurt him. You know
the money doesn't matter to him.
The art does.
He's got famous paintings
hanging in galleries
in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York
Eight museums all around the country,
all with his name on the walls.
That's all he talks about.
[ELIOT] No, that's not right.
It's not about the art.
It's about this guy's
name. That's what matters.
It's his lost reputation.
At the museum, he wasn't just angry,
he was afraid.
He thought he bought legitimacy,
and he can feel it slipping away.
And nothing hurts like
feeling you're safe and then
having that taken away from you.
So, are we gonna help this guy,
or are we gonna bonk him on the head,
Hardison wipes his ID and credit
rating and we dump him in Venezuela?
I'd like to vote no on that.
You don't get a vote.
Sit your ass back down.
No.
No. I'm retired.
I haven't been on the con for years.
But you spotted him prepping
his heist without even trying.
Yeah, you should have seen your face
when you realized. You lit up.
Sophie, you're the one
that made us bring him here,
all right, instead of
leaving him for the guards.
Hey, get the gang back
together Star Trek style.
Even numbers only, baby. I
can't believe I know that.
Uh, excuse me. If I may
I think I've deduced that
you are a group of thieves
who were at the museum
not to steal the Rembrandt.
Who here hasn't already
stolen a Rembrandt?
Got three. Hat trick.
But now that you've heard
that the owner is vermin,
you will help me ruin him?
You want our help or not?
[SIGHS] I can trust you?
- [ALL CHUCKLING]
- Sorry. That's funny.
You can trust us on this?
- Probably.
- Hardison.
We haven't even done background on
the target. We don't know the mark.
Are you trying to
tell me you don't think
you can cold-read this
Maxwell dude, Sophie?
I once saw you predict a mark's weakness
off of his driver's license photo.
Come on, now.
Maxwell knows his philanthropy
can't outrun his scandals.
You saw those protests.
In theory in theory
he's looking for the next big score.
The one donation they
can't take away from him
that's gonna drown out
all the negative press.
Well, any man who's
insecure about his name
can never turn down an
opportunity to be a hero.
That's not bad, new guy.
A hero-level donation.
Stolen painting.
A stolen lost painting,
one specific to him, to hook him.
A lost Rembrandt.
A lost Rembrandt.
Nate.
Nate worked the case.
Every insurance investigator has
at some point. It's the white whale.
The Gardner Heist.
Highly overrated. Strong
results, but amateur technique.
Nate was still on Vista.
What kind of ancient
historical foolishness is this?
Nineteen-ninety, a bunch of
thieves broke in and stole, like
[PARKER] Thirteen.
Thirteen works of art from
the Isabella Gardner Museum.
Including a Vermeer and Rembrandt's
Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
That's it, Hardison.
It's the greatest unsolved
art crime in the world.
Anyone, no matter their sins,
who was to find and return
just one of these paintings
would be a hero.
Well, anyone who claimed to
return one of these paintings
that later turned out to be a fake,
their name would be ruined
in the art world forever.
Quite right.
It seems like you're already halfway
to a plan there, Ms. Devereaux.
Way ahead of us.
We'll do this one.
Just one.
And we're gonna need our Mr. Wilson.
- No, no.
- We're rushed.
He's already an inside
man. We can use that.
Yeah, and we can bonk him on
the head later if we have to.
Uh, thank you.
That doesn't seem right.
Hey, Sophie, come on. Say it.
You know you have to.
Let's go steal a stolen Rembrandt.
- [CLAPS HANDS]
- Yes!
That's my girl.
Whew.
What just happened?
So, according to our Mr. Wilson,
Maxwell is obsessed with
these Monet sculptures,
so there's no need to pressure him.
You just ease into it.
Sophie, I've been the roper
for the last eight years.
Yes.
Yes, of course you have.
And don't worry.
I haven't stabbed anybody in a
really long time, like a whole month.
Parker, a month's not very long.
It is when you're the one
not doing the stabbing.
Yes, my name is still on the wall,
but they took it out of the brochure,
and it is not on the placard.
Yes, yes, it's a private auction,
but we still need certification.
- I'm gonna call you back.
- [PHONE BEEPS]
[PARKER] You've got to be kidding me.
Well, then find me another
expert on Monet's collection.
Well, it's invitation only for a reason.
They're the rarest pieces.
[HARRY SIGHS]
Y'all better not be scratching my baby.
So we're not painting fakes
anymore? We're printing them?
Man, we gotta keep up with the times.
Hey, go on and start that thing up.
Go ahead.
[DEVICE WHIRRING]
- [CHUCKLES]
- Are you kidding me?
I am not, sir.
Yeah, see, this is my baby, all right?
This is the 3-D printer I
use for all my forgeries.
And check it, there's this dope AI
program from the Netherlands, right?
I used that to teach this
how to duplicate brushstrokes
from great artists.
I'm talking about
masterpieces in four hours.
Been doing this a long time?
Oh, yeah. Since I was a kid.
Yeah, since he was
an annoying, cocky kid
that almost got us killed all the time.
I was cocky because I was good.
You were just cranky.
And then you decided to help people.
I didn't start out that way.
I mean, I was really in it for the rep,
Parker for the cash.
I had anger issues I needed to work out.
What changed?
- What happened?
- Uh
Us. We happened.
The only thing that stays the
same is he gets the easy job.
So a masterpiece in four hours.
Excuse me? Did he just say e-e-easy?
Bruh, I I g gotta
fake a masterpiece from 1633.
Not only does the painting
have to look identical,
the materials I use
have to be identical.
I'm talking about the canvas, the paint.
You want to know where
Rembrandt got his paints?
Come on, come on. Excuse me,
bro. Bro, watch out, watch out.
Get a little history on this, brother.
[COMPUTERS BEEPING]
A'ight, see, Rembrandt got his yellow
from soil only found in Cyprus
his blue from a stone from
one mountain in Afghanistan.
He got the red from these
nasty little crunchy lice
off a damn cactus in Mexico.
I got a sniper in Afghanistan.
He can get you the rocks.
I got a mob driver in Cyprus.
He can get you the soil.
I got a guy in Mexico owes me a favor.
Oh, you you know somebody
who's nasty enough to pick lice off
a damn cactus with his bare hands?
Yeah.
It's a big favor.
They asked him to dig his own
grave, and I saved his life.
How'd you do that?
I told 'em the check had cleared.
The man could stop digging.
[ALL CHUCKLING]
Uh-uh. Mm-mm.
Canvas I can't help you with.
All right. New guy,
check the storage unit.
Whew.
Are these all stolen
masterpieces in this closet?
Don't be ridiculous, man.
If they were stolen masterpieces,
they'd be in that closet.
Just check the dates on the back, man.
Get me something from the
1630s that I can strip.
Look.
That's the one.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! No, no. Uh-uh.
Y'all y'all gotta get
all this stuff out of here.
This stuff is going to
auction in a few minutes.
Hey, hey, is there a problem?
Yes, this man is Who are you?
The collection coordinator.
- Look, as Ted said
- It's Todd.
Todd. Todd. As Todd said, all this
is going to auction in minutes.
Yeah. Y'all hear that
high-pitched whistle?
Your jockey pump failed.
All right, water's gonna come
bursting out of these pipes
at about 300 psi.
Is that bad?
Son, that's enough to
tear a baby's arm off.
On a baby or, like, a toddler?
I don't know. Maybe a toddler.
Maybe one of those pre-Ks.
What an unsettling metaphor.
Well, y'all can ride it out if you want,
but if I was you, I'd
try to get up underneath
one of them big metal
tables or something.
No, no, no. Get all
this stuff out of here.
Come on. Now! Now.
- Let's go.
- Hey, whoa.
Hey, Todd. Todd. The auction must go on.
I take full responsibility
for the safety of my people,
and this art.
Well, there's a lot of
pipes in the hallway, too,
so you might want to just keep on going.
Perhaps all the way down
to the loading garage.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
[SOPHIE, OVER COMMS]
Okay, places, everybody.
He's coming.
And item 44 is sold
for $475,000.
Which brings us to our last item,
a plaster minotaur by Rodin,
once owned by his friend Claude Monet.
This is a rare piece from
the Musée Marmottan Monet
in Paris that will only
enhance its owner's collection
and reputation.
Let's start the bidding at one million.
Do I have one point one?
One two?
One three? Do I have one three?
One four. One eight.
Two million.
Do I have two point one?
- Two point five.
- [CROWD MURMURING]
Two point five million is the bid.
Do I have two six?
Going once.
Twice.
The item is sold.
- Two point five million.
- [APPLAUSE]
[CHUCKLES] That concludes
our auction for today.
On behalf of Sommersby's,
thank you all for coming.
[INDISTINCT CHATTER]
Could have faked that minotaur and
walked away with a nice painting.
Nate never settled for nice.
Looks like I have a minotaur.
Yes, and oh.
I'm afraid I can't sell this to you.
Is there a problem?
Your name has been flagged, Mr. Maxwell.
Illiquidity.
Really?
- I'll just call my bank right now.
- I'm afraid that's not the issue.
The seller doesn't want his piece
seized in a future
lawsuit or bankruptcy.
Pardon me, do you have a
deadbeat bidder here, because
Oh, no. You have Fletcher Maxwell.
More than a deadbeat.
He's a drug dealer.
Okay, this actually has
nothing to do with
Now, I should demand a recount,
okay, but since my guy's
up here throwing blanks,
I'll take it for two million.
[NO AUDIBLE SPEECH]
You're gonna pay for this.
Well, I can pay.
Yeah, my money's good here. [CHUCKLES]
[FLETCHER] I don't care.
Tell me how to find whoever flagged me.
[ELIOT] This was a waste of my time.
Mr. Gallagher, the Rodin is a rare one.
- The price that you put in for it
- I don't care about the price, okay?
I I want big ticket items.
Stop putting together these
little penny-ante auctions
or I'll send you back to that museum
in Cleveland where I found you!
[SIGHS]
Excuse me.
[SOBS SOFTLY]
Excuse me.
[SIGHS]
Come on.
- I gotta get back in there.
- No.
She's Sophie Devereaux.
[EXHALES]
Are you okay?
I, uh
Yes. Uh thank you.
Is your boss always so charming?
Oh.
He has his good days.
I'm Fletcher Maxwell.
Katherine Clive.
Are you a Monet fan, Katherine?
A fan? Well, he's my specialty. Why?
'Cause I think I have a
business proposition for you.
Can you be at my place around 7:00?
No, it's completely
professional, I assure you.
I'll be there.
Great.
That was
[EXHALES]
- Exhilarating.
- Yeah.
I never doubted you.
Yes, you did.
Yeah, I need you to do a full
security check on someone.
Everything about them.
Everything.
You know your haystacks.
You know, I stayed in Monet's house.
I just had to see the
light the way he did.
How can you stand to be
around that boss of yours?
- He got me out of Cleveland.
- [CHUCKLES] Cleveland.
Yes, that's twice I've heard that.
The Cleveland Museum of
Art's really more known
for its Egyptian and
Asian art, isn't it?
You know, I've never had dinner with
With personal security?
Unfortunately, a lot of
unreasonable people blame my family
for their own ugh misfortunes.
Everyone's suspect.
You see, I had someone do just a
little bit of checking up on you.
I don't like people poking
into my personal affairs.
Well, you're not required to like me.
Ms. Clive has an excellent reputation
with Impressionist collectors,
but her research at Oxford
was in Egyptian antiquities.
She is one hundred percent legitimate.
- The boss, on the other hand
- Hmm.
Will Gallagher. His
father was Irish mob.
Who left his son a very
corrupt trucking business
when he died. Page three.
You'll see that
Gallagher's been suspected
of being behind numerous
high-price blind sales
at auctions worldwide.
You know I can't confirm that.
These purchases don't make any sense.
It's like he's almost buying at random.
- Why?
- I should go.
- This was a mistake.
- No, no, no.
How would you like to
oversee my Monet collection?
I'll give you full control.
The job's yours. I just
need you to be honest with me
about Will Gallagher.
All right.
If you'd never bought a
piece of art in your life,
and you suddenly tried to sell
one for 40 million dollars,
then that would raise a
few red flags, wouldn't it?
The IRS would hound you to the grave.
But if you already owned a
collection worth 20 million,
and you made it look
like you flipped it for 40
in a series of blind sales,
then that would make you a
savvy collector, wouldn't it?
Why would he do that for a painting?
And what previously unknown
painting is worth 40 million dollars?
One that his gangster
father stole 30 years ago.
[EXHALES]
His father's Boston Mob?
The Gardner Heist?
Um, is it
The Rembrandt.
[EXHALES]
How would you like to help me screw
your ungrateful thug of a boss?
- You enjoying yourself?
- [CHUCKLES]
I gotta get my trucking
company up and running
before Maxwell gets here.
I told him the banks are
about to seize your property.
- You're broke and you have to sell.
- All right.
Do I even want to ask to whom
this building actually belongs?
No? I didn't think so.
You know, this character
you got me playing,
the son of a Boston gangster, it's
no secret who you wrote this one for.
You know, we never
we never really got to talk.
If you ever want to discuss
I think this is my way
of talking about it.
Through this.
Nathan Ford?
[SIGHS]
Choose your next words
very carefully, Mr. Wilson.
I saw his name on a
document, I made some calls.
Frankly, the stories are
incredible.
He was a very brilliant, very angry man.
May I ask?
For a while, his family
contained his anger and
then his son died, and he
turned the anger on himself.
When we worked together, it
drove him, and he was relentless.
Then he stopped being angry.
But the damage was done.
His heart burned too hot for too long.
Well, I'm sorry.
Don't be.
At least he burned.
[FLETCHER] Will Gallagher.
Remember me?
Yeah, I remember you.
You here looking for
customers for your pain pills?
Lot of bad backs in here.
Actually, you're the one selling.
And I very much want to buy.
I'm talking about the
Storm on the Sea of Galilee.
Mm-hm. [CHUCKLES] Your
curator works for me now.
I guess I outbid you on her, too.
I I got a lot of
other buyers lined up.
[CHUCKLES] You don't.
My lawyer, Harry Wilson,
he's already drawn up
the evidence for the IRS.
If you try to sell to anybody else,
you're never gonna be able to
save your shoddy little legacy.
[GRUNTING]
Relax. [LAUGHING] Relax.
Painting's worth 40 million and
I'm gonna give you twenty-five.
You're gonna give me 25 million.
Yes. You get to cover your
very ill-advised art purchases,
and you walk away with a nice profit.
I'd take the win.
What are you gonna do with it?
Oh, well, as a noted patron of the arts,
I'm gonna give the painting back
to the Isabella Gardner Museum
as a public service to the
lovely people of Boston.
I'll be authenticating the
painting at 7:00 pm this evening.
You get paid in full.
You even made all the
cracks from the paint aging.
Yeah, I cooked it low and
slow in the pizza oven.
I made the cracks one by
one using a ballpoint pen.
Is that weird that I find
all of that really attractive?
I thank God every day that you do.
All right, get a room. I'm taking this.
What, the Wrap it first!
[ELIOT] I know that, Hardison!
Hmm. Nice.
Eliot's food truck
makes excellent cover.
Oh, it's more than cover.
[COMPUTERS BEEPING]
It used to take a whole van.
Now we can fit a mini-Lucille
inside every food truck in the world.
Please don't touch my stuff.
Maxwell asked me to find an expert
to authenticate the painting.
He'll buy it if you're with me.
Wow.
Yeah. [FRENCH ACCENT]
Professor Michel Baptiste
of the Sorbonne Art History
Department, at your service.
Oh. It's impressive how much
better your accents have gotten.
- Pfft.
- Whatchu talkin' 'bout, girl?
My accents have always been great.
Baby, ain't they always been great?
Sure thing. They always
Ooh. I gotta go
[EXHALES] do that thing. Bye.
Huh?
[ELECTRICAL BUZZING]
[MICROPHONE FEEDBACK]
- [STATIC]
- [WINCES]
[PHONE RINGS]
Hello?
[FLETCHER] Hey. It's Maxwell.
No need for us to go
to that meeting tonight.
Mm-hm. I'm about to
teach somebody a lesson.
Maxwell just cancelled.
Eliot, Maxwell cancelled.
We're coming in.
Do not. Your cover ain't
blown, and I ain't down.
You stay there.
[WOMAN] As I live and breathe.
It is you.
I know you?
Not personally.
My company RIZ,
we provide VIP security,
cutting-edge data collection,
threat analysis, blah, blah.
I'll leave you a brochure.
Your face didn't ping a single alarm.
But I happened to glance
at the file, and, well
I work in the field of violence.
Not knowing Eliot Spencer
in our line of business,
it's a bit like not knowing Rembrandt.
You'll not be hustling
Mr. Maxwell today.
So you've only read about me on paper.
This a warning?
Oh, no. It's an audition for them.
Can we not do this.
Ooh. Giving up already?
You got your boys two by two.
I'm gonna start off
with the guy on the left.
I'm gonna send him into the big fella
here and disrupt his attack line.
By that time the guy on the
right's gonna be on top of me,
so I'm gonna dislocate his elbow,
and use him to get closer to Taser boy.
At that point Goldilocks
should be coming around,
but I'm gonna be too close to
the beans, so he can't flank me.
I'll move into the center
and take them down one by one.
The fight's already over.
I'd just as soon skip the bruises.
And now they're going to second
guess every move they make,
a fraction of a second
hesitation negating their numbers.
[ALL GRUNTING]
[TASER CRACKLES]
[ATTACKER SHOUTS]
[COMBAT GRUNTS CONTINUING]
Come on, man, come on.
- Yeah?
- Yeah.
[GROANS]
[GRUNTING]
Big guy's got potential.
You can cut the rest.
It's a lot faster in person, huh?
Be seeing you.
Well, maybe we can offer
up another painting.
No.
Look, if Gallagher's
blown, then I'm blown.
This con is dead.
RIZ Security is one of those new,
scary breed of ex-spy-for-hire firms.
It's come up in the last ten years.
They've got offices
in London, Geneva, D.C.
Damn, defense contracts?
We've handled private security before.
Mm-mm. No, no, no.
These are the guys you
call if you're a dictator
and you want somebody disappeared.
Yeah, these guys are past security.
It's more like having
your own private army.
Smart thing to do would be to run.
Put some space between us.
You too.
This is my home.
This is our home.
All of Nate's things are
And
[CLANG]
Eliot!
I didn't know! I didn't know!
Why should we trust anything
coming out of your mouth?!
How do we know this wasn't a setup?
You think this was my
first choice? It's insane!
Obviously it's insane!
Working with you people is insane.
[EXHALES]
I tried.
I tried to do the right thing,
the right way.
I wanted to make amends.
I tried to track down
everybody that Maxwell had
that I had hurt.
Mr. Hoskins.
Mr. Hoskins!
[MAN] They're gone.
Been gone since the boy died.
Cole's dead?
OD'd.
Hospital bills took what
was left of Jenny's money.
So the bank took the trailer.
Where's Jenny?
Don't know.
You could try the women's
shelter over on 5th.
Maybe the overpass.
Lot of homeless there.
I gotta take something from him.
If I If I can't give them anything,
and I can't be forgiven
[EXHALES] I need to take something.
I need to take something!
[ALARM BLARING]
[LID UNSCREWS]
[ALARM CONTINUING]
Not at all. I'm pleasantly
surprised. Mm-hm.
You wanted to see me? [GRUNTS]
- [GROANS]
- So the the funds will clear today.
That's no, that's
fantastic. Thank you.
Yes, so my bank account
routing number is 37-alpha-33,
and the transaction
password is 22164866.
[CHUCKLES] No, thank you.
You've been incredibly helpful.
All right, thank you. Buh-bye.
Wow.
That was my insurance company.
They're going to be direct-depositing
a very comfortable payoff
for the Rembrandt you burned.
- I didn't burn your [GRUNTS] [WHEEZES]
- No, no, no. Harry.
Come on.
- [PANTING]
- Someone wiped the security footage,
Harry, so I can't prove it,
but Gallagher was a fraud.
That Clive woman's disappeared,
so I'm kind of just left with
you in the middle of all of this.
[PISTOL COCKING]
Do you know how
incredibly easy it would be
to claim that you just broke
in here, you're deranged,
ranting about how I
have to pay for my sins
because of [MOCK
SADNESS] all these deaths.
Do you know what this gentleman
will get if he shoots you in the head
and then lies to the police?
Time and a half.
[PHONE BUZZES]
[CLEARS THROAT] Excuse me.
Yes?
Mm-hm. All right. Sure.
[PHONE BEEPS]
It's the museum.
They're desperate to apologize
for letting my masterpiece burn.
I mean, obviously I'm
gonna sue them, but
I can go listen to them
beg. That'd be fun, right?
Oh, and I called your firm, Harry.
You're done.
[GRUNTS]
[PANTING]
And this was the residue test.
[SCOFFS]
- Mr. Max
- Please.
Can I have a moment?
To mourn.
Mr. Maxwell, this is Connie
Lieu from the insurance company.
Hello.
I just spoke to your
people about my payout.
I suppose you'll be joining
me in suing the museum?
Why, exactly?
[CHUCKLES]
You did just pay me a ginormous sum.
I I assume you'd like
to recoup some of it.
Two things, Mr. Maxwell. First
Why did you hire someone to burn
a fake Rembrandt in my museum?
What?
We tested the residue. It's a fake.
We're gonna need to
come up with a Plan M.
Why we gotta call it Plan M?
You know my feelings about Plan M.
You say this machine can duplicate
any masterwork in four hours?
Pretty much.
Can you do that one?
I like your style, new guy.
Eliot, Plan S.
For Hardison survive, damn it.
[LAUGHING]
Pfft. No, no, no, no.
No, no, no. I see what you're doing.
No, it's a mistake. [LAUGHS]
You have no problem
selling poison to people.
I really don't put
insurance fraud past you.
I bet you sold the painting
and then torched the fake
to collect the insurance.
Okay, Connie, that is ridiculous.
I am Fletcher Maxwell.
I am a patron of the arts.
Do you know that I have paintings
hanging in all of the
great museums in America?
Yes. I called the directors
of all those museums
to check your art, and Mr.
Maxwell, we know they're all fakes.
All of them.
[SPUTTERS]
That's impossible.
That is impossible.
What do you think about Harry's idea?
I think why stop at one?
You make eight.
One for each of his paintings
in the other museums.
Well, sure, if I cut
the print time in half,
but they won't fool anybody.
They don't have to.
Wait a second, that's impossible.
You're talking about breaking into eight
of the highest-security
museums in the country,
swapping out eight masterpieces
in 24 hours, that's
That's is she all right?
Go ahead, babe.
- So many vents!
- Mm-hm.
[GASPS] You take your hands off of me.
I'm calling my lawyers.
All of them.
Oh, Mr. Maxwell, I said two things.
Second,
my insurance company
didn't give you a payout,
so
who the hell were you talking to?
You didn't give them your bank
information over the phone, did you?
[BOTH CHUCKLE]
That's impossible. I just
What do you what
do you mean, "empty"?
I just talked to you! No.
I did not. I did not withdraw it. The
I with Everything? What
do you mean everything?
Hey! Thanks for letting
me into your house!
I just had to pick something up.
[SOPHIE] Look on the
bright side, Mr. Maxwell.
You'll no longer be famous
for being a drug dealer.
You'll be far more famous
for being the biggest
fraud in the art world.
I believe that's the first
time I've seen you smile.
You know, I really wasn't too sure
about the whole gloating thing,
but you were right. Seeing
his face was very cathartic.
It's an acquired taste.
I'd forgotten how much
I enjoyed it myself.
Hey, so, look,
we found all the money
that you hid for Maxwell,
plus we sold the
paintings to some, um
[STAMMERS] some of the homies.
All right? Now we divvy that up
between the families that he hurt.
Won't make up for everything, but, uh
it'll make a difference.
You didn't pay out to everyone?
We couldn't find everyone.
Oh, I'm sorry. Did you
think you were done?
Oh, if only you could find all the
names, then you could just move on.
Harry, Harry.
You didn't do just one thing wrong.
You've been working on the wrong
side for a long time, right?
Yes, yes, I would have to say that.
Yeah, so you don't get
to just do one thing
and claim you've repented.
You see, in the Jewish faith
Jewish faith?
My Nana leads a
multi-denominational household, so
In the Jewish faith, repentance,
redemption, is a process.
You can't make restitution
and then promise to change.
You have to change first.
Do the work, Harry.
Then and only then can you
begin to ask for forgiveness.
You see that cowboy back there?
Man, for the last 12 years
I've seen him risk his life
to save hundreds of innocent
people who will never know his name,
all that, and every single
morning he still gets up,
and you know what he says?
I still got more to do.
So this
This isn't the win.
This is the start, Harry.
He's not wrong.
He's his father's son.
[NEWSCASTER] the CEO
of Libris Pharmaceuticals
has become a fugitive.
Maxwell pulled a runner.
[NEWSCASTER] Maxwell was
arrested earlier today
on an array of charges including
burglary and insurance fraud.
Authorities say Maxwell
fled his Beacon Hill estate
hours after posting bail
of two million dollars.
[ELIOT] Where's he gonna go?
The banks froze all his other assets.
We have his secret
money. He's done, right?
We got almost everything. His
family had one more emergency fund.
It's not very much, but
it's enough to disappear on.
That's where he's going.
Well, looks like we got more to do.
The money's in Panama.
He's going to Panama.
We gonna go after him?
Sophie?
Your call.
I said one job.
But the job's not done.
Grab your kit.
We're going to Panama.
Woof!
[ELIOT] I got a tamale truck in Panama.