Eliot drove the team under a bridge to ditch the car as Hardison kept a lookout on the aliases used during the mission and on any activity to help them out. Eliot pulled to the side and put the car in park and turned the engine off. The team got out. "The mayor's a federal witness? Federal?" Eliot questioned, not happy their covers were blown. "Every badge in a hundred miles is looking for us." Tara reported as the team grouped up. Hardison's phone dinged. "Guys, they are ripping through Nate and Tara's cover stories. All their financials are blown, so, look, until I know what they know, no credit cards, no debit cards, no ATM's, Nothing that can be traced back to us, okay? Cash in hand only." Hardison said, letting the team know how screwed they are. "Son of a bitch! Keeps getting better and better." Kaira exclaimed, upset as she started digging in her pockets to see what cash she had on her. "I got about 150." Kaira said, showing the cash to the team. The team looked at her, not knowing what to make of their jack of trades. "I've had a feeling since this job started something would go wrong." Kaira said, defending herself, putting the money back in her pocket. "Look, the mayor's not innocent. He cut a deal with the Feds because he's guilty. And he's got somebody working on the outside." Nate said. "Back at the warehouse, he admitted he has an accomplice." Tara said. "All right. Do we scatter or stay?" Eliot asked, wondering what the next move was. "No, we scatter, we give the mayor and his partner time to cover their tracks to get away with murder, literally." Nate said. "Yeah, well, we can't get anything done out here on the street. We need a hiding place." Parker pointed out. "And a plan." Kaira pointed out. "Guys, look, when I contacted the FBI team leader, I put a worm in the operating system in the sim card on her phone -" Hardison said, about to spiral. "Hardison, geek spiral." Eliot pointed out, not having it at the moment. "We can listen to what they say. Look." Hardison said, holding the phone in the middle and pressing a button. "No, not a safe house. Interpol wants Culpepper someplace off our system. We're taking him to the governor hotel." Agent Nevins said on the phone. Hardison turned the recording off. "Okay, that's it. That's where we're gonna hole up." Nate said. "The - The Governor Hotel?" Tara questioned. "Yeah." Nate confirmed the plan. "The hotel crawling with FBI?" Tara questioned. "FBI and Interpol, mind you." Kaira pointed out, not liking the plan. "Hey, you know, it's the one place in Boston they won't be looking for us. Come on. We just got to get there first." Nate said, getting in the car as the team sighed, going to get in.
They soon arrived at the hotel where the mayor was being held and managed to sneak in. Tara, Parker, Kaira, and Eliot went to the floor where the mayor was going to be held. The group hid in the hallway, spying a worker in a room. They waited till he went into the room and walked into the hallway. "All right. Three, maybe four empty rooms on this floor." Tara pointed out. "I steal that master key, he's gonna notice it's missing pretty fast." Parker pointed out. "All right, Parker or Kaira, I need you to do a lift." Tara said. "She just said -" Eliot tried to argue before Tara explained herself. "No, not the key. Just a towel." Tara said. Parker and Kaira walked to get the towel to pass it to Tara. They gave it to her and hid as Tara started stripping. She walked out with a newspaper and wrapped herself in the towel and stood until the guy from earlier came out of the room. "Excuse me." Tara said, getting the guy's attention. "Oh, thank god. I just stepped out to get the paper, and then my door closed behind me, and I tried to find a house phone, but you guys don't have those anymore." Tara said, acting all innocent. Then she dropped the towel. The poor guy was stammering and opened the door for Tara. She walked in and once the guy left, the rest of the team came in.
When Nate and Hardison came up once Hardison was finished covering their tracks, Tara was still in her towel and the rest of the team was waiting around. Hardison looked uncomfortable as Nate didn't seem to care. "Did I, uh, miss something?" Nate asked. "She was naked." Parker said as Kaira just shrugged her shoulders, wanting to ignore what she saw. Nate looked back at Tara and she smiled as she went into the bathroom to change again as Eliot and Kaira stood together, Kaira leaning on Eliot, who held her waist as the other team members sat on the bed. "In room checkout. Okay, look, this means I have access to the hotel's billing computers. It's a big old backdoor into every hotel room in America. As of right now, we have been here for a week, and our reservations are good for another week, courtesy of this man's platinum card, Mr... Ogden Shields, who has spent a lot of time in the adult section of pay-per-view. I mean, did he even leave the room?" Hardison said before Kaira groaned. "Hardison, that is just nasty, so please, for all of our sakes, move on to something else that's relevant." Kaira said, disgusted. She caught Nate holding a glass of liquor. Kaira knew it wasn't the time to start anything with Nate. "Hardison, I need background on all the mayor's business partners and all his little shell companies." Nate ordered, taking another sip of his drink. "You want background checks on this, a tv?" Hardison questioned. "Yeah." Nate said, not sure of the problem. "Yeah, I'll have Super Mario and Dig Dug get right on that." Hardison said. "Guns - anything having to do with guns." Nate ordered, leaving to go watch the lobby. "All right, I'm gonna go get some keys made. I'm going to the gym. Make sure I can charge stuff on the room." Eliot said, also leaving. "I got you." Hardison said as Kaira heard the adult movie that was playing. "I'm going with Eliot. Just, don't blacklight the damn place." Kaira groaned as she left with Eliot.
Eliot and Kaira changed into workout gear and Parker lifted a card and gave it to Eliot. Eliot and Kaira walked hand in hand to the counter. "Hello. We were down in the gym." Eliot said before the greeter spoke. "Ah, the fitness spa. Isn't the zen steam garden divine?" The greeter said, almost getting a review of the place. "Well, I mean, he mostly watched me the whole time. He likes to watch." Kaira said quietly, acting like she was teasing Eliot, making the greeter slightly uncomfortable. "Yeah... delicious. Listen. We were down in the gym, and I went back up to the room, and my - my key didn't work." Eliot said. "Oh, no problem. Do you have any I.D?" The greeter asked. "Who carries their I.D to the gym, bro?" Eliot said to the guy. "True." The greeter acknowledged. "Listen - Ogden Shields, room 1104." Eliot said. The greeter typed on his computer. "Here you go, Mr. Shields. Let me reformat that card for you." The greeter said. He went back to reformat the key and soon, Nate came on comms. "Parker, Eliot, Kaira, meet me outside. Tara, Hardison, stay in your room. Door closed." Nate ordered. "Why?" Hardison asked. "Sterling." Nate said. Kaira groaned at the development. Of course, if things weren't bad enough, now Sterling is back. Eliot and Kaira grabbed the key and changed, and met Nate and Parker outside.
"All right, guys, this is Tony Kadjic. He started out as a smuggler in Albania. He left a lot of competitors in shallow graves. He's been indicted for murder eight times in four different countries with zero convictions." Hardison informed the team. "His shipping company looks semi-legit and is tied to governments in the 'stans, Central America. It's got a batch of big government contracts, including some for U.S Security forces." Tara continued filling in. "Why do we care about him?" Nate asked. "Cause he's big in the surplus-weapons market." Hardison said. Eliot scoffed. "It's just a polite way of saying arms dealer." Eliot pointed out. "His specialty is buying cheap guns from third-world countries and reselling them." Tara said. "Okay, well, you know, I mean, this tracks. So, the mayor grifts the 9/11 money that's meant to improve security at the ports. That, along with crooked cops, makes the Belbridge port a perfect place for Tony Kadjic to run his guns in and out of the country." Nate realized. "Interpol must be chasing down the gunrunning." Parker said. "Don't worry about Sterling." Nate said. Kaira and Eliot looked at Nate like he was crazy. "Nathan, the man's like a shark. He has our scent and will track us down." Kaira pointed out, not happy. "Did you just say don't worry about Sterling?" Eliot questioned Nate. "Yeah, don't worry about Sterling. What, you don't think I can beat Sterling?" Nate questioned the couple. "I think in the last six months, Nate, I've heard you talk about beating the Triads, beating the Russians, all right? Maggie's boyfriend - huh? How'd that work out? We all said that meet was a bad idea, all right? But you got a taste for taking down this mayor, and you can't resist." Eliot said. Kaira showed she agreed. Nate had been erratic lately with the jobs, and it was putting the team in unnecessary danger. "You want to walk away, walk away. Walk away." Nate said to the couple. "Not walking away. That's not our job. Our job is to get your back." Eliot started arguing over stop of Nate. "Nathan, we're gonna do our jobs all the way. But I need you to do your job." Kaira told Nate, showing she wasn't happy. "And what's that?" Nate asked Kaira. "Be Nathan Ford. Be the person we came back for." Parker said, unexpectedly. Nate, Eliot, and Kaira looked at Parker. "Listen, guys. I'm trying to figure out why a group of very rich, very powerful men are trying to take out a good, decent cop. Now, are you gonna stick with me on this? Is that enough?" Nate said to the team. "Yeah." Eliot said. Parker shook her head yes. "For me, hell yes. For you?" Kaira said, swallowing her pride a bit. "Us too." Hardison said. "Good. Tony Kadjic is the one who pulled the trigger. I want to know exactly what he's up to and where he is." Nate explained. "And how do you propose we do that?" Hardison asked. "Let's go steal a mayor." Nate said, walking away. Parker, Eliot, and Kaira followed him.
Eliot, Kaira, and Hardison went into the room to clear out for the time being, and Parker went to act like housekeeping. "That's still bugging me, man." Eliot said, looking at the paper from Bonannos notes again, still pondering what it meant. "Me too, babe." Kaira looked at Eliot, packing a suitcase up. "You guys on the move?" Nate asked from the lobby. "We're heading out now." Kaira said. "And the mayor?" Nate questioned. "According to the room-service charges, looks like the mayor's taking the edge off of captivity with many, many tiny bottles of vodka." Hardison said, getting is bag over is shoulder and leaving as Eliot and Kaira put the suitcase on the cart. "He's gonna have one hell of a hangover later." Kaira smiled, lightening the mood a bit. Parker started her run to give the mayor drugged vodka bottles, acting as a French housekeeper. "Oh, great. Look who's back." Nate said. "You help Tara and Parker. I'm gonna stall Sterling." Nate said, talking to Hardison. "How?" Hardison asked. "I'm thinking." Nate said. Kaira heard him starting to breathe heavily, and she realized his plan. Nate was running up the steps, pressing the up button on every elevator until he reached the floor the mayor was on. Meanwhile, Tara, Parker, and Hardison moved the mayor to their room. Hardison had struggled with the harness and Tara offered to help him. He declined. When Sterling came out of the elevator, Kaira put her hood up, and Eliot moved his face to hide it from Sterling as the couple pushed the cart into the elevator. They took it out to a taxi and let it drive away, making Sterling think the mayor was in it. Eliot and Kaira walked up to the room they were in and watched Sterling on the tv order the agents to presumably track down the taxi.
"Where's the luggage going?" Nate asked. "Nashua, New Hampshire." Eliot said. The rest of the team set the room so it looked like the mayors room. "Okay, just like the picture - make sure it looks exactly like his room." Nate said. Kaira stood beside Nate as Eliot went out with Parker and Tara. Nate lightly smacked the mayor's face, waking him up. The mayor was startled. "Your honor." Nate said. "Get the chair." Kaira ordered Hardison. Nate grabbed the mayor and passed him to Hardison, as Kaira moved. The mayor was freaking out. "Where are the agents? Where are the agents? There should be two FBI agents standing at the door." The mayor asked. Just then Eliot walked in, carrying Parker as a housekeeper over his shoulders. "Did you have to?" Nate asked Eliot, acting as if Parker was dead. "She saw our faces." Eliot said, threateningly. "Okay. Put her in the tub with the others." Nate ordered. Eliot walked with Parker in the bathroom. "Is it weird that I'm turned on right now?" Kaira asked Nate, chuckling and smiling creepily as if she enjoyed the sight and what was happening. "Mr. Joshua, please move your ass and work already. We don't have all day." Kaira ordered, acting as if she was second in command. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Please, please don't kill me." The mayor all but begged as Hardison had rope prepared. "What did you think, huh? A guy that throws around the kind of money I do, that I'm not connected?" Nate questioned the mayor, jumping him. "I-I-I didn't know that-" The mayor tried to defend himself. "What? You didn't know I was backing him? That you could throw my associates to the Feds?" Kaira questioned the mayor, getting in his face. "Look, I-I had to. It was - it was nothing personal. I had to protect -" The mayor once again tried to defend himself. "What?" Nate asked the mayor. Nate clapped his hands and spun the chair around, and Hardison extended the rope, holding it in both hands. "Aah! T-the guns. The guns, the guns. Look, I'll cut you in, okay? It's a sweet deal. The cops are in on the payroll. And the Feds - they - they just turn their heads. It's - It's foolproof." Culpepper said, hoping to get out of his predicament. "How? Huh? How do the Feds look the other way?" Nate questioned Culpepper, getting in his face. "I wear a wire, okay? I help the FBI get other mayors and congressmen, and they - they don't bother with Tony's shipping business. Okay? So Tony said to give them you, okay, to give you to the Feds, okay, and then - then the heat would be off. Mr. Gitt, it was - it was just business, okay?" Culpepper explained the deal with the Feds and Tony. "Yeah, just business, yeah okay. I'd like to meet Tony." Nate said, still in Culpepper's face. "Well... I don't - I don't know where he is, okay? I'll get him on the phone. I can get him on the phone for you. If you'd like me to get him on the phone, I can do that." Culpepper made the offer before Nate acknowledged it and turned the chair back towards Hardison. "Okay, all right, all right, all right." Culpepper gave in, turning towards Nate and Kaira. "All right. He's here. Okay?" Culpepper said. "Where? Where is he?" Kaira asked Culpepper, getting in his face. "He's down at the docks, okay? He's on the boat. We just got a shipment in. And we've got some buyers who are inspecting the guns." Culpepper finally gave up everything. "Thank you very much." Nate said, giving the mayor some relief. "See, that wasn't so difficult, was it?" Nate said before snapping his fingers at Eliot. Before Eliot came over and punched the mayor, knocking him out. "Don't hold back or nothing, babe." Kaira smiled at Eliot, breaking the cover she was in.
Tara then walked in. "All right, FBI's cleared the building." Tara reported. Parker walked back out and joined the others. "So, we kidnapped a mayor. I hope you realize that even if we pull this off, we're gonna get out of the city with nothing but the clothes on our backs." Tara pointed out, making sure the team knew the stakes. "Yeah, okay, so, Kadjic has a shipment at the docks. Hardison, stash the mayor somewhere else and see what you can dig up." Nate ordered. "If I can access the security cameras at the port, maybe facial recognition can find Kadjic." Hardison said. "Yeah. Eliot, Kaira, Parker, Tara, do a physical sweep of the docks." Nate ordered. He stood a moment before walking away. "Where are you going?" Eliot asked Nate. Nate ignored him and just left, closing the door behind him. "Where's he going?" Eliot asked Tara. and Kaira. She didn't say anything and just left, and the team went to do their tasks.
Eliot, Parker, and Kaira walked along the docks, trying to find the boat that was mentioned by the mayor. So far, they had struck empty. They walked to one last part of the dock. "This is hopeless. And it smells." Parker complained as the trio kept walking. "How many ships left on the list?" Eliot asked Parker. "Only a hundred." Parker said. "Sweet." Eliot reported as Kaira groaned. "Yeah." Parker said. They joined up with Tara. "This is hopeless." Tara said. "And it smells." Parker repeated to Tara. "Yes, like old clown shoes." Tara said, not liking where they were at. "Briny despair." Parker said. "Smells like New York Harbor to me." Kaira pointed out, reminiscing of the memories she had at the harbor with her uncle. "Well, maybe Hardison - Hey." Eliot was about to say before finding something. "What is it babe?" Kaira asked Eliot. "He's Italian." Eliot said. "Huh?" Tara questioned as Eliot pulled out the paper from before. "Bonanno's Italian." Eliot said before walking off with Kaira in tow as she realized what he meant. "Oh, so now they're walking off?" Tara questioned. "Yep." Parker said. "Slow down, Sparky." Parker called out to the couple. Kaira realized that with Bonanno being Italian, instead of writing down the original name, he put down the translation of the boat name. Soon, however, they got a call from Hardison, saying to meet back at the apartment./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Nate sat on the steps, not looking too hot as the team sat on the couches while Nate explained his plan. "Is it possible?" Nate asked the team. "I'll need Eliot and Kaira and to buy some new supplies and maybe five hours. Plus I need to hack into the cargo-shipping system at the docks." Hardison said. "What about the money?" Nate asked. "It's on short notice, but -" Hardison said before Nate cut him off. "Use my accounts." Nate said. "Nathan, that'll clean you out." Kaira pointed out, unsure of this plan. "Use them. And what about you guys on your end?" Nate said. Kaira had a feeling something was wrong. She hated that feeling. Parker stood up and walked to the other couch. "I don't think we can make it in through the main entrance, so I think we need to go up and then make it down through from the roof." Parker explained. "But you can do it." Nate wanted to confirm. "Sure. It's not our part of the scam that's impossible." Tara pointed out, looking at Nate. "No, it's everything else." Parker pointed out. "Yeah, definitely that, but our part, no." Tara said, confirming the go-ahead reluctantly. "All right, well, I'm gonna set up the meet with Kadjic." Nate said. "No, no. I said I knew where the weapons were. I don't know if Kadjic's gonna be there." Eliot pointed out. "Well, then, we're gonna have to lure Kadjic to the weapons. I mean, the whole plan depends on our ability to confirm Kadjic and the weapons being in the same place at the same time." Nate said as he started walking upstairs. The team went silent as Kaira went to leave.
She needed to get out, as she sensed a panic attack coming. She opened the door to her and Eliot's apartment and just sat on the bed and quietly sobbed. She had a sick feeling that something bad was gonna happen, and there was nothing she could really do to stop in. Then she heard a knock at the bedroom door and Eliot walked in. She felt him sit down at the bed and place his hand on her back. "What's wrong, sweetheart?" Eliot asked his wife. Kaira sat up and calmed down. "I just got this sick feeling, and it won't go away." Kaira explained to her husband, trying to calm down. Eliot held her and it helped calm Kaira down some. "What kind of sick feeling?" Eliot asked. "The kind of feeling you get when a job's about to go wrong." Kaira explained, pursing her lips to keep from crying again. "Hey, that's why we'll be with Nate the whole time. It'll be okay." Eliot said, comforting his scared wife. Then it seemed something clicked in Eliot's mind. "You don't think we're coming back here, are you?" Eliot asked, sensitively. "Yeah. I mean, if Nate goes on this deal, he walks free, and we go down." Kaira said, starting to get emotional again as Eliot still held her, but letting go slightly. "Nate wouldn't let that happen." Eliot said before realizing what Kaira meant. "I know. That's the problem." Kaira said. She stood up and paced. Her phone went off. She wiped her eyes and looked at her phone. It was Hardison, asking where she was and if she was okay and that he needed help to get the plan ready. Eliot already knew. "Clean your face, take a breath, and meet me at Nate's apartment so we can get started." Eliot said, trying not to get emotional himself. Kaira smiled as Eliot stood up and walked over to her. He smiled some and planted a small kiss on her lips. Kaira smiled at her husband. "There she is." Eliot smiled at Kaira, causing Kaira to chuckle. "Thank you." Kaira said. "For what?" Eliot asked. "For being there for me. How did I get so lucky?" Kaira asked as she was about to kiss Eliot again. "I am the lucky one, Princess." Eliot all but whispered to Kaira, also going in for the kiss. Eliot and Kaira chuckled. He left and Kaira went into the bathroom and washed her face and changed her clothes. Once she was calmed down and ready to go, she went back to the apartment and helped Hardison get ready for this plan Nate had. After five hours, and Eliot changing into a grey and black flannel and blue jeans and boots, they were ready.
Nate, Kaira, and Eliot walked along the marina to find the boat. Eliot put his hair in a half ponytail and kept walking along with Nate and Kaira. "Everybody ready?" Nate asked everyone. "Yeah. But remember, once you're on that ship, all that metal's gonna mess with reception. I won't be able to reach you once you're below decks." Hardison said, reminding the team of the problem. "Okay, we're all set." Tara said, quietly from the FBI offices. "How do you know which one?" Nate asked the couple. "Liberian registry. Italian ship." Eliot pointed out, gesturing to the ship. "Bonanno's Italian." Nate realized. "Exactly - El Falcone Maltese." Eliot said. Kaira smiled a bit. "You have to speak Italian to me more often." Kaira quipped, smiling as she kept walking with Nate and Eliot. They made it aboard and came across two guards. "Ding dong, we're home." Eliot said as the guards turned around and Eliot and Kaira each fought a guard, very easily knocking them both out. Soon, an army of goons revealed themselves, coming from all entry points and pointing guns at the trio, telling them to stay put and not move. "Okay, okay, why don't you tell Tony Kadjic that the guy he sold to the Feds is here to have a little chat with him?" Nate said, revealing the money in the bag. The guys escorted them into the ship. Kaira and Eliot were both muttering as they were being escorted. "What are you doing?" Nate whispered to the couple. "Counting all the guys with guns." Eliot said. "How many?" Nate asked. "A lot." Kaira said quietly.
They were still being escorted as Tara and Parker made were getting ready to get into the building as Hardison went to scare Kadjic into making a phone call, speaking in a British accent. They were closer to where Kadjic was. "Look, man. We got Kadjic, all right? Let's just call-" Eliot whispered before Nate responded. "No. Not enough. We need Kadjic and the guns." Nate whispered. Soon, they met with Kadjic. Some people were being walked downstairs. "Well, Mr. Gitt." Kadjic said with his European accent. "Ah, so you know my name." Nate said. "Well, I think we're past pretending otherwise, hmm?" Kadjic said. Nate opened the bag to reveal the money. Kadjic sighed, curiously. "What is this for?" Kadjic asked. "It's an apology." Nate said. "What for?" Kadjic asked. "For what's about to happen." Nate said. Then Kadjic's phone went off and he answered. Needless to say, Culpepper was scared, telling Kadjic that they killed his FBI handlers and cut them up in a hotel bathroom and to do what they said. Kadjic moved the phone from his ear. "Is this true?" Kadjic asked. "Well, my husband did most of the cutting." Kaira answered, nodding her heads toward Eliot. "Thank you, babe. I appreciate that." Eliot said, blank-faced as Kaira looked a bit psychotic. "You work hard." Kaira pointed out, smiling. Then drilling noises were heard and static. Kadjic looked a bit uneasy as Nate stepped towards him. "That's what we do to people who lie to us." Nate said, getting in Kadjic's space. "You just killed my partner." Kadjic said, still uneasy. "You need new partners." Nate said. Kadjic chuckled. He escorted them down the steps and walked as Tara and Parker made it down into the FBI offices.
The trio at the docks kept walking, following Kadjic. "You're lucky. I was going to leave tonight. But some of my buyers insist on seeing my goods in person." Kadjic said, walking ahead of the trio. "Still counting?" Nate asked the couple. "I'm still counting." Eliot said quietly. Parker got Hardison into the servers to get the evidence box as they went down into the boat. Nate lifted a tarp over a wooden crate, revealing guns and hand grenades. Eliot and Kaira walked up to him. "All right. Make the call." Nate whispered to Eliot and Kaira. Eliot pulled out his cell phone, revealing they had no service. Nate sighed. "All right, we got to get you two topside." Nate whispered. "Mr. Kadjic!" Nate called out to Kadjic. He got his attention. "Just a moment, please." Nate said. "Yes." Kadjic said, walking over. "So..." Kadjic said to Nate, curious what he had to say. "Listen, can we - can we speak in private?" Nate asked Kadjic. "Of course." Kadjic said to Nate before telling him men to leave. "Go look after the buyers." Kadjic ordered his men as they escorted Kaira and Eliot with them.
They stopped at a room and Eliot and Kaira snuck out soon enough. They tried to make it to the front. They walked down a narrow hallway as Eliot kept trying the cellphone. All of a sudden, a goon knocked Eliot down with the butt of the gun, and then punched Kaira, knocking her out to grab. One guy held Eliot, who was disoriented, along with Kaira who was held by the other goon. The goon talked on his phone, asking what to do with Eliot and Kaira. The goons escorted the couple through the ship and were almost topside.
Eliot and Kaira kept getting shoved up the steps as the other goon went ahead to open a hatch. Eliot's and Kaira's face has blood near the eye where they got hit. Eliot stopped moving and got shoved, getting told to move. Kaira stood beside him, not moving, and getting shoved as well, getting told to move. Eliot and Kaira looked at each other, knowing what to do next. "13." Eliot and Kaira whispered to each other. "Move it." The goon who kept shoving them ordered. Kaira jumped onto the steps as Eliot used his shoulder to disarm his goon. Kaira heard gunshots firing and used her bound hands as a brindle, putting then around the goons' throat and pulled hard, but the goon didn't budge and kicked Eliot in the face. "12." Eliot growled, getting up. Kaira flung herself back, as her hands were still around the goon's throat and used herself as an anchor as Eliot swung his arms and hit the goon's face. "11." Kaira growled as Eliot kneed him in the jaw, causing him to go down, and Kaira got off of the goon. Eliot and Kaira positioned themselves at the corridor beside the steps and Eliot went first, punching a goon, knocking him down, but the goon grabbed a big wrench, but Eliot ducked, and then him and Kaira kicked his knee, then Kaira kicked his face. Eliot grunted and yelled as he ripped apart the zip tie binding his hands. "10." Eliot said, growling still. Kaira grabbed the end of the zip tie with her mouth and pulled it tighter. She then held her hands up and pulled down against her knee hard, breaking the zip tie and grunted. Eliot looked at Kaira. "Thank you, babe, for teaching me that." Kaira chuckled as her and Eliot climbed up the steps and went out and took out more goons before heading back in and about to climb up more steps before they heard a familiar voice.
"Hey. It took you too long enough." Hardison said, still in his suit and holding a wrench. "What?" Eliot questioned as a guy came out, revealing his gun, which Kaira grabbed his arm and banged it against the metal cabinet, causing him to drop it as she kicked him in the groin and then punched him, knocking him out. "One." Eliot said, throwing the gun he grabbed to the side. "What?" Hardison asked them, looking at Kaira's handiwork. "Where's Nate?" Eliot asked Hardison. "I don't know, man. All this metal is messing with the signal, man." Hardison told the couple as they heard footsteps and saw a female figure wearing a black and white striped dress coat. "Huh?" The trio questioned. They jogged to the corridor she went down. They saw who it was. "Sophie?" The trio questioned. Sophie turned around, smiling at her team. "Took you long enough. Come on." Sophie said. She continued walking as the trio looked at each other, following her.
Eliot took out the goon was outside the room Nate was held in and bashed the door in. "Zero." Eliot growled. Nate looked impressed as Kaira kept watch as Eliot got the key off the downed goon and unlocked Nate's handcuffs. They continued out the door, meeting back up with Sophie. She stayed behind as the trio ran out to the cabin and Eliot and Hardison locked Kadjic and Culpepper with one door, then Nate got the other one with Kaira and ran like Hell, but a shot fired, missing Kaira. Nate continued shutting the door. "Good. Come on. Let's go." Sophie said, getting excited and ready to get out.
They walked out to the pier, Eliot and Kaira up front with the rest of the team trailing. They met with Parker and Tara as Kaira heard sirens in the distance. Parker hugged Sophie, which Sophie didn't know how to react to. "Huh. Parker's touching." Sophie pointed out. Parker let go of Sophie as Kaira hugged her next. "Kind of, yeah." Parker said. "I missed you, Soph." Kaira whispered to Sophie, still hugging her. "I missed you too, Kaira." Sophie whispered. Kaira let go once the sirens got louder. "Listen, I hate to cut goodbyes short, but they're playing my song." Tara said. "Well, keep out of trouble." Eliot said, saying goodbye. "Or if your want to get in trouble again..." Hardison said, a hint of a flirt. "Or if you need someone to get you out of trouble, give us a call." Kaira smiled at Tara, already knowing she was gonna miss her. "So we're -" Tara was about to ask Sophie. "Oh, we're even, absolutely." Sophie confirmed. Tara patted Nate and then walked away. "Hey." Nate said, causing Tara to stop as she looked at him. "You gonna be alright on your own?" Nate asked her, holding his chest, which Kaira noticed. "What do you think?" Tara questioned, giving a hint of a smile before leaving. The team looked around, trying to find an exit. "There's not that many ways out of here." Eliot pointed out. "Eliot, when I arrange a rescue, I do it properly." Sophie said, looking out on the pier. Just then, helicopter blades were heard. They looked to the source of the source, which was a helicopter about to land.
The team liked the exit as they went down the steps and were about to walk to the helicopter. Nate was behind. Just then, the team heard clapping and then another familiar voice. "Bravo." Sterling said. Just then, Agent Nevins revealed herself and many more men did too. Sterling walked down the steps as the team huddled up. "So... Where is Tony Kadjic?" Sterling asked, joining the agents pointing guns at the team. "He's locked in the bridge. And the guns are stored in boxes in the hold." Nate said, walking through the line of the thieves and walking up front. "I'm glad to see you kept your end of the deal, Nate." Sterling said. Nate then walked over to the railing that was on the side of the doc and handcuffed himself to the railing. The team looked at him, wondering what he was doing. Sterling looked disappointed. "Yeah, Sterling. We have a deal." Nate said. "Nate, what are you doing?" Hardison questioned Nate. Kaira realized her fears were coming true. "Stop messing around." Sterling said, taking a couple of steps towards Nate. "In 30 seconds, there'll be another dozen guns on the deck." Sterling said, trying to convince Nate to go with the deal. Eliot and the rest of the team were prepared to fight if they needed to. "Do you have any idea what's going on right now, Sterling? There's a fire in the FBI evidence room." Nate revealed. Kaira remembered the document that Tara put in the evidence locker, which had been lit into flames, burning the documents inside. "And Hardison wiped the servers of all the evidence." Nate said. "Where are you going with this?" Sterling asked. "I've destroyed all the evidence the FBI has on Culpepper and Kadjic. You have no photos, no tapes. You don't have anything." Nate said. The team all stood in a line, knowing what was happening next. "You don't have a case on anybody... unless you arrest me... and only me." Nate said. Sophie walked behind him, breathing in shock. "I agree to turn state's evidence. And I testify to what Kadjic told me, how he put the hit on Bonanno. Hell, I'll - I'll even give you Bonanno's evidence against the gunrunning." Nate said. "Nate... Kaira and I can take these guys." Eliot said, causing Nevins to look at the couple as Kaira was ready to fight. "It's just 10 more yards to the chopper, man." Hardison said, trying to tell Nate to not do what he was doing. "Listen, guys, I got you into this mess. This is only way to get you out." Nate said to his team. Then Nate addressed Sterling. "And I can feel you thinking, Sterling, and don't - don't bother. And if you touch one of them, the deal is off." Nate said, giving the terms. "Nevins loses two years of work, and your first case with Interpol -" Nate said, giving the consequences if Sterling didn't take the deal. "So, you're my case, or I have no case." Sterling said, contemplating his choices. "Exactly." Nate said, almost quietly, taunting Sterling. "We'll call it a draw, then." Sterling said. "No, we do not take this deal." Nevins ordered, drawing her weapon. Sterling turned around, annoyed as he put her weapon down. "Take one more step, I'll shoot you myself." Sterling told Nevins. Nevins walked away, telling her men to move in.
Nate turned towards the team. "Come here." Nate told his team. The team looked at each other, then walked towards Nate. "You guys are the most honorable people I have met in my life. You've become my family, my only family. I won't forget that. Now get them on the chopper, please." Nate said. The team was hesitant to move. "Now!" Nate yelled. Kaira walked up to Nate as Eliot rounded up the others. "We'll get you out, Nate." Kaira whispered to Nate, a bit emotional. "No. Kaira, get on the chopper." Nate ordered Kaira. "All right." Kaira whispered, reluctantly. Eliot grabbed her shoulder and gently walked her with the others to the chopper. Eliot and Kaira looked at Sterling after seeing Nate passionately kiss Sophie, then she slapped him, emotional over what he was doing. Kaira smiled at the display as Eliot looked at Sterling, getting in his face. "Watch your back, Sterling." Eliot warned. They continued walking, not looking back as they made it to the chopper. They all made it in and the pilot flew off. Kaira looked out the window and saw FBI surrounding a downed Nate, as an ambulance was flying in. Kaira knew Nate had been hurt. And she wished there was something she could do, but there wasn't. Her father had gone to prison for his family. And she was gonna do what she could to get him back. And one look at her team confirmed what she was going to do next. She was going to break her father out of prison. No matter what.