Hardison kept driving till they got back to the office, Lily was reading one of her school books.

"So sweetheart how was school?" Hardison asked.

"It was ok same stuff every day". She answered.

"Did Mrs. Green tell you about your test results yet?"

"No she said she wouldn't know for another day".

"Sweetheart, Nate won't know you're gonna be here so you're gonna have to be really quiet and stay hidden".

"He doesn't know I'm coming?"

"Not really I snuck out to come and get you".

The seven year old chuckled. "Uncle Alec you sound like a teenager when they sneak out".

The young hacker then chuckled as well. "I do don't I".

They continued the rest of the way as they joked and laughed, once they have arrived Hardison took her backpack then grabbed hold of her hand.

"So what happens if anyone asks who I am?"

"I haven't thought of that just yet".

"Well I could say I'm your niece and you couldn't find a sitter in time".

"That sounds like a great idea".

"Should we go before we both get in trouble?"

"Yeah let's go".

The two then headed off back to the monitor room where Eliot had stayed, when the door was opened the hitter had gotten up and whirled around to see the hacker and the seven year old.

"Good you got back in time". Eliot said.

"I told you I would". Hardison said.

"Hi Eliot". Lily said.

"Hey darlin' The hitter replied with a smile.

"Lets get to work. Lily you are going to do your homework while we do our work". Hardison says.

"Ok".

Interview Room

"I, um, I just thought that I'd make the introductions myself. Uh, Ms. Crystal, she, uh, she's our emotioneer. Yeah, and what she'll be doing is she'll be leading the team through some, uh, some creative exercises". Nate said.

Meeting Room

"Now, everybody take a finger. Um, the index works well. But the pinky's good for smaller cavities". Sophie says.

The employees hold up a finger

"And just - just stick it into your partner's ear. Just - now, don't be shy. Don't be afraid. We're gonna break through barriers today. Just stick your finger in your partner's ear".

Then the employees turn to their partners and put their fingers in the other person's ear.

"That's it. Lovely".

Interview Room

"She's obviously brilliant. Next up, we got, uh, Mindy Hoffman, and she, uh, she's gonna be observing the card writers".

Good Cheer Offices.

Parker sitting with card writers, looking at cards.

"Happy Anniversary," "Happy Hanukkah," "Happy Graduation." You know, I'm seeing a lot of "happy" here. Aren't people tired of the same card, the same positive message over and over again?" Parker asked.

Jennifer sighs and walks away

"Yeah. Jennifer not too happy, huh? Not too happy".

Interview Room

"And next up is Mr. Gates, our IT guy - no relation. And, then, uh, Mr. Dennis, he's our, uh, infrastructure guy".

Good Cheer Offices

Hardison and Eliot standing near a pile of office supplies.

"Lily you stay in this room and don't go anywhere if you need us text me". Hardison told his niece.

"Why can't I just use my earpiece?" She asked, looking up from her work.

"Because I don't want Nate to find out you're here".

"He's gonna find out sooner or later Hardison we know that". Eliot says.

The young hacker looked at his niece as she went back to her work. "Sweetheart I'm giving you your ear piece if you need anything talk and let us know one of us will come".

"Alright". She said.

The hacker gave his niece the ear piece then kissed her on the head.

Interview Room

"Efficiency is knowing what everyone's place is on the team".

Good Cheer Offices

Felicia sitting with other employees. "Efficiency just means more of us are getting fired".

The water cooler bubbles

Meeting Room

"This is what we in the business call the circle of trust".

A woman crosses her arms and prepares to fall into a coworker's arms.

"Now, which of you is the head writer?"

The head writer moves away from the woman as she falls, and she hits the floor.

"Oh. Whoopsy Daisy. She - she - she was a bit too trusting".

Bartley and Nate enter the room.

"Now, you - you've lost the power of..."

"Hey. Yeah. Hey". Nate says then gestures toward Sophie.

"Uh, a little touchy-feely, huh?" Bartely asked.

"Well, I mean, you know, you wouldn't send a player in to do something a coach wouldn't do himself, would you? So go, yeah".

"Blindfolds, ladies and gentlemen. Imagine a world where you cannot see, you can only feel. Oh, Mr. Bartley! What a surprise!"

"Hey. Yeah".

"You can have a blindfold". She hands him a blindfold, then to another employee. "Could you hand these around, please? Now, look. We're going to tap into our primal emotions. We're gonna act like monkeys. Here's an interesting fact about monkeys. Each member contributes to the pack. That's what we are today, a pack. Now, everybody down on all fours. Come on. Don't be shy. Down on all fours".

All the employees get down on the floor as Nate watches.

"And I want you to hop like a monkey. Do monkeys hop? Or is that a bunny?"

Employees begin hopping.

Bartley's Office.

Hardison and Eliot entering the office.

"Okay, guys, we're clear. See what you can find in Bartley's office". Nate tells the two men.

Eliot moves to close the door and it hits the camera.

"Sorry". Eliot said.

"Yeah, I'm just searching for evidence of embarrassment or, you know, something like that. Mr. Dennis here is gonna go search for any fragile activity". Hardison says.

"Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm". In a low voice Eliot says, "What am I checking for?"

"Anything fragile..."Ent."

"Oh".

Good Cheer Offices

"All right. A bunny-monkey. A bunny-monkey. Now, everybody, come on. We're gonna - we're gonna switch it up. Take my hand. We're gonna leave this corporate prison behind us". Sophie says.

The employees stand up, their hands out.

"You're gonna travel with me to the corners of the world".

Nate to Sophie, "You might want to ease off a bit. It seems like one of your crazy acting classes. Just -"

Sophie pulls Nate's tie down and leads the employees out of the meeting room into the office)

Sophie singing. "La la la la la, ooh! La la la la la, ooh!"

Interview Room

"He gave you that rubbish about everybody having a place? I - you kn- he likes to put everybody in their place. That's - you know, just last week, I started keeping a record - yeah, a record - of every time he blatantly disrespects my contributions". She holds up notebook and shows contents. "I mean, this is a week".

Good Cheer Offices.

Nate: Well done, team.

"Everybody bunny-hop. Here we go. Hop".

"Hop. Hopping".

"Ohh!"

Interview Room

Sophie's flipping through notebook. "Oh, this is the time he told me that my English accent wasn't convincing. I - this one - yeah. He sent me out for a pint of milk. Uh-huh. I take offense to that".

Good Cheer Offices

"Hey". Hardison says.

"What?" Eliot replies.

"Did you find anything?"

"Got a half pack of cigarettes".

"Ah, that's great. Anything useful?"

Eliot replies irritated. "Nope. Nothing fragile. No cheesy little accounts with the holes in them. And the only embarrassment around here is you". He smiles at camera.

Interview Room

"This job is all about trust".

"The job is all about respect".

"Uncle Alec I'm bored and hungry". Lily says in her comm.

Hardison shut his eye just as Eliot looked over at him. "Busted".

Nate then spoke. "Hardison what's Lily doing here?"

Bartley's Office

"Hardison what is Lily doing here?" Nate asked.

"I went and picked her up after school, I'm sorry Nate". Hardison replied.

"I'll deal with this later for now keep her hidden".

"I'm sorry Uncle Alec". Lily says.

"It's alright sweetheart". He tells her. "Parker I need a favor".

"Let me guess you need someone to bring Lily something to eat". The thief replied.

"Pretty much".

"I'm on it".

"No junk food either".

Hardison reaching into refrigerator behind desk and taking out a chocolate bar, "Go, baby".

"Did you put that in there? Did you put that in the fridge?"

"No, I-I just like it when the chocolate's all cold".

"All right. Put it back in there. It's not yours".

"Wh-who you think –"

"Put it back in there. It's not yours. Somebody left that so they can eat it later".

"Get - get on - bring it - bring it over".

They move to one side of the room. Lily was giggling in the comms.

"This about the sandwich?"

Interview Room

"In here? A guy makes a sandwich. H-he makes it that day, he wants to eat it later on that day, he puts it in the fridge, he's got to be able to trust that when he comes back, it's gonna be there for him".

"He's got to respect me enough to know I didn't take the damn sandwich. He likes sandwiches. I think it had turkey on it or something. I'm al- I'm allergic to tryptophan in the turkey".

[Good Cheer Offices]

Parker: Two dinosaurs falling in love? Makes no sense! How about a dinosaur (grabs a pen) ripping the head off a lion, hmm? Ohh, yeah. Now we're talking. (begins drawing) Oh! Little lion wants to leave the pack early.

(Gunter watches Parker from behind)

Parker (still drawing): A little bear cub wants to go out and see the world, huh? Oh, yeah? Raaaaaaaaah! (holds up a drawing of a dinosaur eating a bloody lion) Now, that's a high-school-graduation card". She then got up leaving the room. She began making her way to Lily.

Monitor Room

Lily was growing bored and restless, her energy was high she wanted to go run around but her uncle had made her stay in the monitor room to stay safe and out of the way.

"Uncle Alec I'm bored". Lily said in the comm.

"Is your homework finished?" He asked.

"Yes I even studied for my two test, can I please go walk around?"

The young hacker had sighed and everyone was still listening in, he knew that it wasn't the best idea to bring Lily on a job but he was still uneasy about leaving her for so long. Before he could speak again Parker had. "Hardison would it be alright if she stays with me?"

"Please Uncle Alec please".

"You stay with Parker at all times and not for any reason you leave her side. Do you understand me". He says in a firm voice.

"Yes sir".

Interview Room

The lead writer holds up a card that reads "f*** this" with the first word blurred out.

Good Cheer Offices.

Gunter says to camera man, "Here she comes. Get her. Yes, her".

The camera focuses on Parker, who tries to walk away.

"Keep filming her. Yeah. Good, good".

Parker walks away, irritated

"Follow her".

Parker stalks to the doorway of the copy room.

"Sorry, Mindy. The copier is broken". An employee says.

"Oh. Sweet". She turns to walk away. "Vaaah!" She then pushes camera aside. "I hate cameras".

The camera continues to follow Parker, making her angry. She turns and stalks the camera.

"You know what? I will break it!" The blonde yelled.

Gunter trying to hold Parker away from the camera. "Okay. Okay, okay, okay".

"I will break -"

"Achtung!"

Parker pushes a chair at the camera man and runs off.

"Parker are you ok?" Lily asked in her comm.

"Okay. After her". Gunter said following the thief.

Parker closes the blinds in the Meeting Room.

Interview Room

"I don't really have anything to say". She says.

Parker motions zipping up her lips.

"Why are you still rolling the camera?"

"What a magnificent creature". Gunter replies.

Parker looks surprised.

Hardison couldn't wait for Parker to get Lily so he quickly ran and got her.

"Alright sweetheart come on". He tells his niece.

"Do I get to help?" She asked.

"I don't know yet for now let's go".

Copy Room.

Nate adjusts his tie as the others join him. Hardison then entered the room with his niece and the young girl put her head down not knowing if she's in trouble or not.

"Oh, hey. Okay. We are going to- we're gonna call to order the efficiency council meeting right now". Nate tells the team.

"There's nothing on his computer". The hacker informs the team.

"What do you mean?" Parker asked.

"Couldn't find anything in the offices. There's no cheese accounts, no critical activity".

"There's nothing that says he's de-fragile-ing Good Cheer at all". Eliot added.

"Look. All the delivery notifications for the ink. He paid for that special holographic printer. He –" He hands paperwork to Nate. "It's all legit".

"Mm-hmm".

"He's not... embarrassing". Eliot said.

"No, there's something else here. It's color-shifting ink, 100% cotton paper. He's, uh, he's printing, uh, fake cards, fake cards. Yeah, you know how some greeting cards have people's faces on them? Um, important people's faces on them? Okay, well, he's copying those designs".

"Ohh! Sounds pretty embarrassing to me". Parker said, she then laughs.

"Parker your crazy sometimes". Lily giggled.

"Eh, no, no. His cards aren't real". Nate said.

"They just look real". Sophie continues.

"They look real, yeah".

"But the emotion…"

"The emotion…"

"The emotion..."

"The emotion -"

"Is false".

"It's false, the emotion is false".

"And they shouldn't be circulated".

"And they shouldn't be circulated".

Lily looked between Nate and Sophie. "Do they always do that? It's kinda creepy".

"Oh, the cards are made for passing money". Hardison said.

"Ohh! Bartley's counrfeiting mo-" Parker starts but was cut off.

"C-cards! Cards!" Nate exclaimed.

"Yeah".

"Yeah, he's counterfeiting cards. So w-w-we –"

"Cards".

"-we've learned a lot here t- okay, we're good. Thank you".

Hardison looks to camera man, "You get enough?"

"That's great. Thank you". He holds papers up to block camera.

"Do I get to help?" Lily asked.

Nate looked over at the hacker. "Hardison I believe that's your department after all you brought her".

"Please Uncle Alec please I don't have anything else to do anyway".

Hardison sighed and replied. "First let's see what were doing then I'll see".

[Break Room]

The Leverage Team sitting around a table, Lily is occupied by her phone at the moment.

"That's not what I said. Look, all I want to know is how do we nail this Bartley guy for counterfeiting?" Eliot asked.

"Cards!" Parker yells in excitement.

"Parker, we're alone".

"Yeah, well, that guy Gunter's been on me like a cheap suit!"

"The US dollar is part linen. Our guy's been, uh, using green and purple ink. I think he's cloning the euro". Nate said.

"We need to find every piece of equipment he's using". Sophie says from her spot.

"Hey, Parker, the paper, you got to find that. Eliot, Hardison, get the ink and especially that printer".

"We've got less than 24 hours to do it before Heartfelt gets here". Hardison says.

"That's enough". Eliot said. He stands and moves to block camera while Hardison closes the blinds.

The young hacker also tries to shield his niece from the camera, he didn't want her to be involved in anything he was actually starting to thinking bringing her was a bad idea. He was still having a difficult time after the kidnapping incident but he wouldn't admit it but he really needed to get it off his chest soon before he explodes.

"Uncle Alec? Are you ok?" Lily asked breaking her uncle from his thoughts.

"Yeah I'm fine sweetheart, listen to me very carefully your coming with me and Eliot. I want you to do everything we tell you to do". He says.

Women's Bathroom

Parker walks through the office and enters the bathroom. She makes sure no one is in the stalls, then looks upward to see a vent in the ceiling. She opens the stall door and finds Gunter there with a camera.

"Aah! Hey, Gunter". Parker yells surprised by his appearance.

"I am nowhere". Gunter replies.

"And everywhere. I'm starting to get it". She then raises her voice and closes stall door. "Mr. Meekers! Ms. Crystal!"

Break Room.

Nate is making a cup of coffee.

"We haven't had a chance to talk yet". Felicia said.

"Listen, you know, it's only natural", He begins to pour coffee. "You know, for you, an executive, you know, to feel, you know, threatened in a situation like this, you know, where a consultant comes in".

"I just want to make sure the romantic relationship you're pursuing with Ms. Crystal is a healthy one".

Nate's coffee begins to overflow.

"For the both of you".

Interview Room.

"She mentioned something called, um, reverse favoritism, and apparently i-it's a very common byproduct in workplace relationships. And she - she offered to speak to Mr. Meeker, which, um, I thought was a splendid idea". Sophie said.

Break Room.

Nate's coffee continues to overflow the cup and spill onto the counter and the floor. Eventually he realizes what he's doing and stops pouring

"Oh".

Warehouse.

Lily, Hardison, and Eliot arrives at the warehouse and the young girl continues to grow bored and restless. Hardison held onto his niece's hand the whole time.

"Wait. Ho- I'm sorry. A-are you actually trying to threaten me into admitting I ate your sandwich?" Hardison asked the hitter

"Is there a sandwich? I'm hungry I haven't eaten since lunch at school". Lily pipes in.

"We'll get something soon sweetheart I promise".

"I'm not threatening you. I ain't playing with you either. Nobody threatens anybody with a Moldavian sawhorse". Eliot said.

"You know what, man? Can we just finish finding this damn inefficient printer and do our jobs? We checked the warehouse, the office, the printer farm top to bottom - nothing".

They approach several warehouse employees playing ball, Hardison then made sure his niece was by his side because he nor Eliot would know how things are about to go down.

"Okay? Maybe this guy Bartley isn't as dumb as you think".

"Shh".

"Wha—"

"What's up?" Eliot asked one of the men.

"Help you guys?" One man asked.

"Yeah, we're just, uh, looking for the, uh..." Hardison stammered, he gently pushed his niece behind him.

"Trying to find - this place is like a maze in here, man. Just trying to figure out a way out of here". Eliot answers.

"Three crates down to the right". another guy answers.

"Three".

"Then go four crates to the left".

"And then four to the left. Told you. I got it".

"Appreciate it, man. Hey, appreciate it. Black. Yeah!" Hardison says.

"Walk".

"He look mad".

"Just mad".

"What the hell was that?"

"What do you mean, "what was that?" Man, if I was dummying up some cards like Bartley, I'd definitely have some muscle in on the operation. I'm just saying".

"Are you ser- you must have taken two hits to the head. Jumbo black back there? Come on, man. You probably ate the damn sandwich yourself and forgot about it".

"Can one of you carry me?" Lily asked.

"Come on darlin I'll carry ya". Eliot responded. Lily then jumped on Eliot's back wrapping her arms around his neck. "Besides your uncle's not as strong as I am". That made Lily giggle.

"I am stronger you just jealous". Lily giggled more.

"Your funny Uncle Alec". Lily chuckled.

Interview Room

"So, my sandwich is forgettable? Listen, I take thinly sliced turkey, all right? I pan-sear it with some sweet Maui onions, all right? Then I put a slice of dill havarti cheese and another slice of an heirloom tomato. All that goes on an everything bagel, and I make my own garlic-and-green-onion cream-cheese spread. That's forgettable?" He eats a chip. "I don't think so".

Monitor Room.

Gunter is directing his camera man to manipulate the security cameras.

"No. More forward. Forward. Forward. There". Gunter starts. Parker shows on the monitors. "There. Stop. Stop. Ahhh". Parker smells paper. "This mysterious wonder. She has the nuclear winter inside her. Yes? Ahhhh".

Copy Room

Nate and Sophie peek out of the copy room to see Bartley enter the main office. Hardison had went to the break room and found Lily a granola bar and a bottle of water. She then began munching on it.

"There's Bartley. You're up". Nate says to Sophie.

Sophie goes after Bartley.

"This guy is about five hours away from getting away with a scam. It's embarrassing".

"I wanna do what you guys do one day". Lily said.

"I thought we were using false emotion". Hardison said.

"Yeah. No, wait. What? No. Oh, I know he's not embarrassing. Hey. Look, I - well, whatever. I got most of this down - de-fragile-ing, cheese-accounts thing. Just don't know what "sandwich" has to do with it". Nate replied.

"Hmm?"

"Sandwich. "Sandwich." What does that have to do with it?"

"It's just –" Eliot started but didn't finish.

"What? It's what?"

"Sandwich" is an actual sandwich. It's a real sandwich. It's a real sandwich".

"Mm-hmm".

"Was a real sandwich". The hacker said.

"Man". Eliot said.

"They've been going at it the whole time and I don't understand". Lily tells the mastermind.

The water cooler bubbles. After a while Lily begins to feel sleepy so Hardison gently lifted her onto his lap and she laid her head on his shoulder.

"Absolutely not. It was in the fridge for less than 24 hours, man". Eliot says.

"The only reason why I know about the sandwich in the first place is because you won't shut up about it". Hardison snaps, he's trying to keep his voice down because Lily is close to sleep.

"How do you eat another man's sandwich? That's a code of the west!"

"Dude keep your voice down". Hardison signed to him that Lily was going to sleep.

Nate looking at blueprints, "The - the - the 3-d printer's got to be somewhere. Did you check behind the paper in the stock room? I mean, maybe he's built an artificial -" Nate was cut off by the young hacker.

"And see if they built an artificial wall with the paper boxes? Yeah, we thought of that".

"What about the janitors' closet?"

"No, man, I'm telling you, there's no printer". Eliot said.

"Okay. Uh, the loading dock?"

Parker entering room carrying paper, "How come we keep meeting in here? The copier's broken". She smells the paper.

"No. The copier". He quickly passes his niece off to Eliot then walks to doorway into main office. "Hey, does anybody actually know what's wrong with the copier?" He asked everyone.

"It's not working!" They scream.

"Appreciate it". He heads for the copier.

"Doesn't really tell you what's wrong with it, does it?" Nate asked.

Hardison examines the copier and finds the 3D printer within the bottom of the copier.

"I knew it".

"Ohh".

Hardison switches the copier on and it prints a test page, which Nate grabs.

"All right, all right. We got him. We got him. Yeah, we got him".

Sophie entering room. "No".

"What?"

"We may have somebody, but it's not him".

"It's not Bartley?" Eliot asked, he adjusted the sleeping seven year old in his arms.

"Unh-unh. No. I just threw every trick in the book at him, word association, NLP, nothing, nada. The guy doesn't have the foggiest idea what's going on at his own company".

"So Bartley isn't our bad guy, then". Parker said.

"No, no, no. He's just a fool. No, we have an airtight case against somebody. We just don't know who".

"Well, I think we're running out of time. Heartfelt's coming this afternoon".

"All right, here's what we're gonna do. We're just gonna look at all the security footage over the last couple of days, see who's been fiddling with the copier". Nate said.

"No, we won't. Look, man, security hard drives are crap. They erase every 12 hours". Hardison said.

"Well, I mean, there's got to be some way we can figure out and know what's going on the last couple of days in this office. There's got..." He looks toward camera. "To be..."

The team turns to see Gunter and his camera man in the doorway.

"Yeah, yeah. Zoom in". Gunter said.

"… a way".

"Zoom out".

Nate walks toward the camera, followed by the others. Hardison blocked Lily from view of the camera so Gunter couldn't tape her.

Monitor Room

Sophie and Nate watch the monitors while the camera films them.

"This is excruciating! Why can't Hardison do this, run some kind of algorithm or whatever it is he does?" Sophie asked.

"No. No, I think, I really think that you should-you should be doing it". Nate replied.

Sophie sends Nate a nasty look.

"So, your counterfeiters, they simply print new money on the copier?" Gunter asked.

"No. Modern printers and image-manipulation software are very powerful, and they both have safeguards to prevent people from printing money, you know, but they're not too hard to get around, uh, you know, if you know what you're doing".

"And you know what you are doing?"

"More or less".

"Ugh. This is getting us nowhere". Sophie said annoyed.

"Well, I mean, you can't take your eyes off it. You know, you might miss something".

"Huh? What?"

"You can't take your eyes off it, because then you might miss something. And for future reference (laughs) uh, Ms. Crystal, this is reverse favoritism". He points to camera. "Get - get that. Get that".

"Ohh". She looks back at the monitors.

Interview Room

"Oh, it is on". Sophie says.

Gunter to Nate, "Would you describe yourself as having any kind of life outside of work?"

"Uh, excuse me?" Nate replied.

"Do you have any outside interests? Do you ever do anything but this?"

"Of course I do. I... W-why does this even matter? This is-it's just so..."

"Well, your co-worker suggested I ask".

"She did. Really? You know what you should ask her?"

"I'm so- could you - could you repeat –" Sophie stammered.

"Career." Nate said.

"No. I wouldn't say that my acting career fizzled. I just - I-I – "

"Pbht!"

"I just put it on hold to pursue other things".

"But he implied it might have something to do with "ageism"? Gunter asked.

"Functioning alcoholic". Nate said. He's taking off his jacket. "Functioning. She always leaves that part out. And speaking of leaving -"

"No, I didn't abandon them to gad about. I just... I just faked my own death and went on a voyage of self-discovery". Sophie said.

Nate laughs. "God complex? What does that even mean?"

"Shrew?! Shrew?! Shrew?!"

"No, no, that - that right there, that's a lie! I-I love foreplay".

Sophie looks at the camera.

Nate holds up a card with a bunny on the cover. He opens it up to reveal the 'F*** this' card from earlier.

The water cooler bubbles.

Monitor Room

Sophie and Nate are still watching the screen. Two of the warehouse employees put ink in the printer beneath the copier.

"Ooh. There. There. There. Look at that". Sophie says pointing to the screen.

"Yeah, they're putting toner in the printer, not the copier. These are our guys". Nate replied.

"What do you do next?" Gunter asked.

"Well, we see what we can get out of them in a subtle, kind of quiet way".

"On film?"

"Um..." Sophie starts.

"Mm".

Break Room.

Hardison is fiddling with Eliot's tie, by this time Lily is laid out the couch.

"Is that a camera?" Gunter asked.

"Yeah. Yeah, man. Make 'em myself. It's got an HD-quality 3-CCD chip with image stabilization and omnidirectional sound. It's fitted with a transmitter, a micro-transmitter, that sends the image anywhere that I want. And would you keep your voice down my niece is asleep".

Gunter reaches for the tie.

"Please don't touch. It's very delicate. Thank you".

"You have more of these?

"Why?"

Good Cheer Offices

Gunter cross the room, adjusting his belt buckle to train the camera on Parker, who is sitting at a desk.

"Ms. Hoffman, what are you working on?" Gunter asked.

Parker looks around for a camera and seems confused when she doesn't see one nearby.

"Please. Describe it to me".

"Well, as long as there's no cameras watching us. 'Cause I hate them". Parker replied.

"All right. No camera".

"Fine. Here. Take a look".

Parker hands Gunter a card with a caterpillar on the cover that says 'Get Well Soon'. On the inside, the caterpillar is squashed and the caption reads 'or don't. It's not up to you!'

"Ah. Oh, poor creature! Good". He sits down. "Ms. Hoffman... sometimes when I'm hungry, I go to a hospital cafeteria to eat. This reminder of, uh, mortality, the fleetingness of life, combined with the institutional mass-produced flavor of food, it is intoxicating".

"Okay".

Gunter shifting in his seat to get a good view of Parker. "Sometimes I'll dress up like a doctor just to see if someone will stop me".

"Whoa. Um, is something wrong with your back?"

"Uh... Sciatica".

"Hey. What is that? Is that a - is that – " She grabs his belt buckle. "What? Is that a camera?!"

"Don't. Oh, it's off".

"Hey!"

They struggle as she continues to rip the camera from his belt buckle.

"What? Stop it!"

Parker rips off his belt buckle.

"Aah!"

Parker grabs the card from the desk and stalks away.

Interview Room.

Gunter smoothing Parker's hair, "Such nice hair".

"No. I'm not saying anything until I get a lawyer".

Warehouse.

Eliot approaches the two men he and Hardison had spoken to earlier.

"What's up, guys? Now, we can do this the hard way -" Eliot starts but was cut off.

"Okay!" A man yells. They all run.

"Let's go!"

"Hey!"

Eliot runs after the black man, climbing rolls of paper to jump on top of him.

Interview Room.

"He copped to stealing office supplies. Three cases of sticky notes". Eliot said.

Warehouse

Eliot is holding the Black Man against a roll of paper, choking him.

"Answer me! Answer me!"

"Copiers? What copiers?"

"The copiers! We saw you on camera, changing the toner in the broken copier!"

"Bob did that!"

"Who -"

"I swear it wasn't me! Aah!"

"Who's Bob? The other guy?"

"Yeah! H-he said Bartley wanted it done. That's all I know!"

Eliot pushes the black man away. "Get the hell out of here".

Interview Room

"Don't tell anybody I got beat up by an efficiency expert".

Monitor Room

"Sounds like this other guy put him up to it". Eliot said.

"No, it's a set-up. Whoever's doing this is building an evidence trail straight back to Fred Bartley". Nate says.

"Well, Bartley "told" them to fix the copier". Sophie added.

"And Bartley's the one who bought the paper and the ink". Parker pipes in.

"If the authorities come sniffing around, then Bartley's gonna take the fall, huh?" Gunter asked.

"No, it's not just counterfeiting. It's a frame job. Could y-" Nate was then cut off by Hardison.

"No, no, no. It's more than that. See, the copier's set for remote printing. I figured if I can get into the print queue, I could figure out who—" He looks at the camera, irritated. "I could figure out who's copying the money. Now, they covered their tracks. It's pretty tangled. But look where I-I traced it back to".

Lily began to stir awake but Hardison hushed her back to sleep he took off his jacket and covered her with it.

Felicia's Office

Felicia is typing on her phone.

Monitor Room

"Felicia from HR". Nate states.

"Yeah". Hardison replies.

"Mm".

"And checked the - she's not just printing funny money. There's another document in the queue, on hold, that's set to print in two hours".

"In two hours? But that's - that's - that's right in the middle of the, um, the, um, Heartfelt meeting". Sophie said.

"What's the document?"

"Suicide note. From Bartley". He looks to the camera man and saw that he was filming Lily. "I'm gonna crack your forehead. I swear".

Gunter holds Hardison back. "What - what is this? I-I don't understand".

"I-it means I-I-it's not just a frame job. It's about to be a murder". Nate said. He covers the camera with his hand.

Parking Lot

A couple from Heartfelt are getting out of their car and walking toward the building

"Let's go". A Heartfelt Woman says.

Interview Room

Gunter to Nate, "She's smarter than you are".

Eliot enters room. "We got a problem".

"What?" Nate asked.

"Heartfelt's here, and I can't find Bartley".

"Felicia's gonna kill Bartley". Gunter said.

Nate follows Eliot out of the room.

Good Cheer Offices

The entire office is panicking, in complete chaos.

"I-I am not ready to present. I need more time".

"Mr. Bartley isn't here. He's supposed to run the meeting!"

"What do we do?!"

"What do we do?!"

"Okay! Okay! Calm down! Okay!" Nate yelled.

The employees gather around him.

"Now, what we're gonna do now is you're gonna finish your presentation, okay? And, uh..."

Interview Room

"Well, that's the thing about him. He's... he's broken. Badly".

Good Cheer Offices

Nate directs the employees about the office.

Sophie voice over, "He gets the job done and doesn't let anything get in the way - not people, not feelings, not relationships".

Interview Room

"We're all second to the job".

Good Cheer Offices

By this time Lily had woken up from her nap she was rubbing the sleep from her eyes, she leaned into her uncle's side wrapping her arms around his torso.

"What about us?" Sophie asked.

"Okay, Sophie, you and I, we're going to, uh, stall Heartfelt. Eliot, Hardison, go find, uh, Fred Bartley. Par-Parker, you're gonna stay here and kind of take care of things". Nate said.

"What about Lily?" Hardison asked, he petted some of her hair back.

"Your gonna have to take her with you".

Eliot to Gunter, "You. You're coming with us. Let's go. You're in the game, pal".

"Who's going with her?" He puts his arm around Parker. Hardison covers his niece's eyes.

"Not you! You're coming with us!"

"Hey!" When Eliot and Hardison raised their voices Lily had jumped.

"Bring your ass!" The two yelled at Gunter.

"Okay".

Hardison then turned to his niece. "Lily first don't repeat that, second come on sweetheart". The seven year old got up from her seat and went to take her uncle's hand leaving the room.

Parker pushes Gunter away and he follows Eliot, Lily, and Hardison. Parker giggles and holds up Gunter's credit card.

Building Lobby

The Heartfelt employees enter the lobby.

"Hello! Hi! Hi. Hello. Hi. How are you? Joe Meeker. Meeker Efficiency Consulting". Nate greets the employees.

"Oh. Uh –" A Heartfelt Woman starts.

Nate pulling them down the hall. "You must be from Heartfelt".

"Yes".

"Yeah, welcome to Good Cheer".

"We're very, very excited to have you with us". Sophie said.

"Very excited to have you here".

"We'd love to give - give you a little tour".

"Little tour. So, like, for - here's the elevator that, uh..."

"Yeah".

"The fine employees of Good Cheer, they like to ride it all the way down".

"Yeah, the elevator car, yeah, not the company".

"No, no, no. You know. Exactly".

Bartley's Office

"What can I do?" Lily asked.

"You can be the look out". Eliot says.

"Ok". The seven year old began keeping an eye out.

"I'm gonna check his schedule, see exactly where he's supposed to be". Hardison said. He sits at the desk.

"His car's still here. Means he couldn't have gone far".

Gunter looking at cigarettes. "Yeah, yeah? What is this? Huh?" He grabs a cigarette package. "Yeah, yeah, cigarettes. Bartley has cigarettes!"

"And?"

"He told me he quit two months ago".

Interview Room

"Well, I-I quit smoking two months ago. Mm-hmm. It was easy. I'm, uh, disciplined". Bartley said.

Bartley's Office

"He fell off the wagon". Eliot said.

"Probably be smoking out of the way, where nobody would notice".

Various shots of Bartley coming out of the roof access doorway, tucking something back into his pocket.

"The roof". Eliot and Hardison said.

"The roof?!" Gunter exclaimed.

"I hate heights". Lily said.

The Roof

Several warehouse workers are dragging Bartley across the roof as he struggles with them. Eliot and Hardison climb a ladder to the roof, followed by Gunter. Hardison then turned to his niece.

"Lily, you stay here and do not for any reason come out". Hardison instructed Lily.

"No problem I hate heights anyway". She replied.

Gunter to the Camera Man, "Come, come".

Two warehouse workers are holding Bartley while a third punches him in the gut. Eliot and Hardison approach.

"Boys". Eliot simply says.

One of men swings at Eliot. He blocks, and punches the man in the face, knocking him down. Eliot goes for a second man, who tries to block, but Eliot knees him in the stomach and throws him to the ground. Eliot bends over him as a third man heads for the camera.

"Not the camera! Oooh!"

Gunter tries to keep the man away from the camera, but it falls to the ground on its side, recording Bentley with a warehouse worker bent over him. Eliot grabs another man and throws him to the ground, punching him in the face when he tries to get up. Another man grabs Hardison and they grapple.

"Uncle Alec no". Lily whispered.

Copy Room

Nate is still giving the Heartfelt employees a tour.

"This is the, uh, the copy room". Nate said.

"Oh, yes. Yeah. The copier doesn't work. It's a funny story. Mr. Meeker, tell them t-the funny story about..." Sophie says but trails off.

"Well, what happened..."

"Did we want to start this –" The Heartfelt Woman started but was cut off.

"ls normally it's a green button, and when it first arrived, it wasn't green. It was red".

The Roof

Hardison continues to struggle with the warehouse worker, who then throws Hardison off the roof.

"Aah!"

"Uncle Alec!" Lily yelled horrified.

Interview Room

Hardison holding ice to his temple. "Um... Yeah, no, it was cool, you know, uh, hanging off the side of the building, 'cause I-I got strong fingers from doing my thing, so I was good".

The Roof

Hardison hanging from edge of roof, "Eliot. Eliot".

"This is America. This is brutality". Gunter said.

Eliot tackles a warehouse worker to the roof, then begins punching him.

"Eliot help him". Lily calls out to the hitter.

"I know you're here! Eliot!"

"Yeah, get that".

"Eliot, I'm not playin'!"

"Eliot! There's a camera!" Gunter informed the hitter.

Eliot glances at the camera then continues to beat the warehouse worker.

"Eliot! Eliot!"

Eliot kicks the worker one last time and moves to the edge of the roof. Gunter walks over and kicks the man. Lily was close to running out from her spot she was ready to dash across and help her uncle.

"Eliot!"

"Over here".

Gunter motions the camera man to the edge of the roof where Eliot is leaning over the side, reaching for Hardison.

"Come on, man".

"You okay, man? You all right?" He then pulls Hardison up. "Come on".

Lily then dashed over just as Hardison was back on the roof, she collided into her uncle hugging him tightly, the young hacker felt her shaking a bit.

"I'm alright now sweetheart". He tells her gently.

"I thought I lost you again". She whispered.

He picked her up and held her close, kissing her temple. "You'll never have to worry about that. Ever".

Interview Room

"Nobody throws Hardison off a roof". He thinks a moment. "Except maybe me". He laughs and smirks, then shakes his head. "No. because then I'd have a seven year old after me".

Meeting Room

The employees are in the midst of an upbeat presentation for Heartfelt.

"And it will create maximum sentimentality for our customers. Or, as we like to say, "maxi-mentality." They giggle.

The water cooler bubbles.

"Mm. "Maxi-mentality." Sophie said.

Nate and Sophie clap, but no one else does.

"So, uh, do you have anything else?" A Heartfelt Woman asked.

"Uh..."

No one in the room does anything.

"Uh, uh - we could send Parker up. She's got some ideas. Yeah".

Interview Room

"I've been working with Mindy a lot on, um, on relating to people. Well, public speaking in particular, 'cause she's... Anyway, she's got it down. It's all about eye contact and enunciation". Sophie says.

Meeting Room

Nate looks at Parker.

"Yeah, okay, I'll go". The blonde said. She stands up. "I do. Thank you... "Maxi-mentality." She addresses the room, acting out her words. "Hello! My card line is called "Eskimo Kisses." Eskimo Kisses covers any occasion, such as" She begins the display. "Weddings, birthdays…"

Parker shows a picture of a vulture eating an animal, which makes the room groan and cover their eyes.

"And…" She shows a picture of a body and a toe tag. "Thank you. Arigato!"

Interview Room

"That was exquisite!" Gunter said.

Parker giggles. "Yeah".

"Good!"

The Roof

Eliot leads Bentley toward ladder, "We got to get you downstairs".

"What's going on?" Bartley asked.

" All right, Heartfelt is here. You want to save your company, you need to get into that meeting right now". Bartley looks at him. "G—"

Bentley hugs Eliot, who looks at Hardison who was holding his niece. He then patted the hacker on his back.

"Come on, man. Go! And act natural when you -"

Meeting Room

"Which is why Eskimo Kisses says exactly what you're thinking". Parker says.

"Okay, well, thank you very much for your time. We will let you know if we are still interested".

"Hi!" Bartley says, he runs into room, followed by cameras.

"You might think twice about drinking on the -"

"Hi. Oh, wait. I-I'm Fred Bartley, CEO of Good Cheer cards".

Felicia sends a print job from her phone.

"And I want to tell you that Good Cheer cards is good, with cheer".

"Yes". Sophie said. She begins clapping.

"Oh, yeah". Nate agreed.

Others begin clapping.

"Awesome".

Good Cheer Offices

An employee hears the copier printing and goes to investigate. She pulls a stack of printed money from the copier.

Meeting Room

"So, um, Heartfelt friends, if you could, um, maybe stick-stick around".

The Heartfelt Employees sit back down.

"Thanks for staying. I'm not big on emotion. I think - I think men should keep it all in here, not out there where people see it".

"The copier's printing some kind of money! We're all gonna be rich!"

"What?!"

"Money!"

"No, it's counterfeit money. Bartley's been counterfeiting! He's been doing it all along!" Felicia says accusingly.

"What, you think - I can't even - I can't even make greeting cards. You think I can counterfeit money?" He argued back.

"We all wanted to replace that broken copier years ago, but you said we had to keep it".

"We couldn't afford to fix the copier".

"There's all that weird ink and paper ordered in your name".

"I don't remember ordering weird ink".

"And Hal - you made me fire Hal".

"You said he tried to grab your -"

"Was he onto you? Is that why you had me fire him? Is this why you've driven the company into the ground?"

"Mr. Bartley, if this is true, then Heartfelt withdraws any offer of -" The Heartfelt Woman says but was cut off.

"Well, no, excuse me. I-it's not true. He's not doing any counterfeiting". Nate steps in. He points at Felicia. "She is".

"What? The evidence all points to him". Felicia said.

"Yes, evidence that you planted".

"That. Hold on her". Gunter said.

"Oh, sure, the efficiency experts that he hired are defending him".

"Well…"

"Are you in on it? Are you with the mob? It wouldn't surprise me if you were with the mob".

"That's nice. V-very n-nice touch. There's only one problem, though". He takes the remote from Parker. "We have it on tape".

Nate puts a video on the screen of Felicia sending something to the printer, her flower ring prominent.

"Yeah. There you go".

"I didn't - that's not –"

The other employees point at Felicia's flower ring, and as she puts her hand down, we can see a camera on her sweater.

"Time stamp on the phone, uh, will show that's exactly when the print order was sent for those bills". He then turns his attention to the Camera Man. "You might want to get right in there". He's pushing him toward Felicia.

"How did you film that?"

Flashback

Parker putting her arm around Felicia, "What do we have here? Oh, "Happy Easter." Now, my grandma used to make me little Easter eggs, and she used to put little daisies on them". She fastening the camera on Felicia's sweater. "Yeah".

"Is that a camera?" Gunter asked.

"It's fitted with a micro-transmitter that can send the image to basically anywhere that I want". Hardison said.

Meeting Room

The camera moves very close to Felicia, and she bolts for the door.

"F'leesh..." Bartley started.

"What a soap opera".

"I don't understand".

Felicia runs through the office followed by the camera, but Elliot helps Lily push over the water cooler to trip her. Eliot and Hardison bump fists then do it with Lily.

Woman helps Felicia to her feet. "F'leesh! You betrayed us?!"

"Us?" She jerks away. "What "us"? We're not a team! Bartley's not a coach. He's a fool! And you're the fools who follow him!"

"Stop".

"You think I'm just the lady who brings in brownies twice a week, who never gets tired of listening to your pathetic work-related complaints".

Several of the employees grab hold of Felicia.

"Stop. Stop".

"But I'm smarter than all of you! I'm - what are you doing?"

The employees push Felicia into her office.

"In you go".

"Lock it".

"Well, that'll hold her till the police come". Nate said.

"I-I still don't understand, Mr. Meeker". Bartley says.

"Look, Felicia was misappropriating equipment and covering it up in the company's expenses. Rather than risk exposure and a potential audit, she set you up as a scapegoat". Sophie explained.

Bartley still looks confused.

"Felicia was shaving points, you know, figuring no one would notice, 'cause you were calling bad plays, but just in case, she… doctored the playbook". Nate went on.

"So - so the coach would take the blame if somebody went looking".

"There you go. Yeah, yeah, yeah".

Bartley: Oh, my God. Oh, my g- I let this happen.

Sophie pulls out her notebook and makes another mark on the pages.

"I'm like t-the Joe Pisarcik of greeting-card execs, dropping the ball so Herm Edwards can run it back for the win".

"Miracle At The Meadowlands." Giants and Eagles in, uh, '78 - rallied the Eagles to the playoffs. Hell of a play". A Heartfelt Man said impressed.

"Are you a Gridiron man?"

"Lifelong. Been watching games with my pop since I was 2".

"Ah, well, if that's the case, you're gonna really like the, uh, the new card line he's working on". He turns to Bartley. "That's a hail Mary".

Bartley's Office

Bartley showing a card, "Remember, when it's crunch time... You can always call my number, dad. Now, that's how men, real men, emote. And this card is the play that Good Cheer ran to win the game. No, the championship".

Bartley and the Heartfelt Male shake hands, then hug.

McRory's Back Room

Gunter is showing the documentary on a large monitor.

Bartley on screen. "Okay?"

"So, what do you think?" Gunter asked.

"I think it's terrific. Absolutely uplifting. Heartwarming, even, don't you think?" Nate replies.

"Yeah, it was a story of triumph. I cried". Hardison said.

"Little baby". Lily said teasingly.

"I'll show you a baby". He then got up and began to playfully chase his niece around.

"Triumph. Little guy beats the world". Eliot said.

"Exactly". Nate said.

"I just love the ending. It's so hopeful". Sophie said.

"Hopeful".

"Yeah. You know, you could sell this to Hollywood".

"Hollywood! Nein! That is not the point! The point is to expose the futility of life..."

"Oh, it doesn't do that". Nate said.

"The ever-presence of decay, not to peddle simplistic, narrative pablum! It is not".

"Well, that's kind of what I got".

Gunter to Parker, "You have the soul of a German. Hmm? What did you think?"

"I didn't really get it". Parker said.

"She didn't get it? All right". He pulls the CD from the player. "It is disgraceful". He destroys the CD. "This heartwarming, soulful beast", throws pieces on the ground. "will never see the light of day. I thank you from the bottom of my heart, friends".

Hardison had stopped chasing his niece as he held her up with one arm.

"The hell's wrong with him?" Hardison asked. He then looked at his niece. "Don't repeat that word either".

"Whatever you say Uncle Alec". Lily giggled.

"You erased the film off of his..." Nate says.

"Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man, I uploaded a nasty virus into Gunter's digital-editing bay. It zapped every gigabyte of film he shot of us, except that. That was the last bit of it".

Nate moves behind the bar to pour a drink.

"I l-like this guy. I do. I feel sorry for him". Eliot said.

"He cut his finger". The thief said.

"Hey, man, do you finally believe me about the sandwich? Seriously". Hardison says to the hitter.

Eliot looks at him. He then put his niece down but kept her by his side.

"All right, you know what, man? I was gonna buy you dinner, 'cause I felt sorry for you".

"Ooh, you're buying dinner?" Parker asked enthusiastically.

"You're buying dinner?" The hitter asked a bit surprised.

"Thought you was hungry".

"I am let's go". Lily said, she tried dragging her uncle out by his hand.

"Are you buying?"

"Maybe. Do you believe me?"

"I'm in. I believe that you're buying dinner now".

Hardison, Lily, Eliot and Parker leave, while Sophie walks over to Nate.

"Oh, uh, Nate? Um..." Sophie starts.

"Yeah?"

"Oh, I-I just - I wanted to say the things I said on there about, you know, you, relationships, you know, it's not - I don't –"

Nate reaches into a jacket and pulls out a card.

"You and I - we're - we –"

Nate hands Sophie the card. She takes it and opens it, reading as Nate pours her a drink. It obviously pleases her. He hands her a glass and they toast each other.

Interview Room

Hardison eating a sandwich, "Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. I ate the damn sandwich. I ate the damn sandwich for sure. The boy can cook. He can throw down. If he wasn't gonna beat my ass, I'd go thank him".

Outside of McRoy's

Hardison held onto his niece's hand as they all walk to a near by restaurant, just as they all were walking they were stopped by a voice the young hacker knows from his past.

"Long time no see Alec". A man's voice said from behind the group.

The group turns around and Hardison kept Lily's hand in a death grip but loosens up, he kept her slightly behind him, he then had a smile on his face.

"Marcus? Man it's been a long time man". Hardison says.

"Very long time".

"I think you remember Lily, Madi's daughter. But this is Parker and Eliot they're part of my team".

"Hi". He says to the others. "You don't mind if I steal him for a minute do you".

"Not at all, come on Lily your uncle will catch up". Eliot said.

"Go on sweetheart I'll catch up with you guys in a second". Hardison tells his niece.

The seven year old took a hold of Eliot's hand, when she looked back at Marcus something about him was familiar with her but she couldn't think of what it was. Once Parker, Eliot, and Lily were out of earshot Marcus spoke up again.

"Listen I might have some information for you about who Lily's father is".

Hardison was confused at this new information. "Madi told me that it was a one time thing with some guy and that was it. She didn't remember his name".

"Well she lied I know for sure who Lily's father is".

"Ok who is he?"

"It's me. I'm Lily's father".

A/N: May not be my best work but hope you enjoyed! Made it longer for such a long delay!