Six months. Six months since Kaira said a teary goodbye to her team. Six months, no phone calls, no emails, no contact. Kaira was going stir crazy. Her and Eliot needed something else to do.
So they were in Boston for a bit. Kaira and Eliot got a message from Sophie saying to meet her at the theater. Eliot and Kaira decided to go for the Hell of it. They were bored, for once in their lives. They needed something to do. Kaira and Eliot got dressed and ready a date night. Kaira put on Eliot's favorite lipstick, and Eliot put on a leather jacket. Eliot and Kaira were just chatting after getting their tickets. Kaira heard a familiar female voice and smiled. She turned around. She saw Parker, Hardison, and Nate.
They walked to the middle, forming a circle.
"Eliot? Kaira?" Nate said.
"Nate?" Parker said.
"Parker?" Hardison said.
"Hardison." Eliot said.
It was an awkward moment.
"How have you all been?" Kaira asked, smiling.
"Good. Good. Great. You?" Nate asked Eliot and Kaira.
"Fantastic." Eliot said.
"Pretty good." Kaira said.
"Six months of traveling. Did a couple of big jobs." Eliot said.
"Yeah. Me, too. Great off time. Well, I bought an oxygen tank. Cool, nice." Hardison said.
"Yeah, super. I've been really super, too." Parker said.
"Yeah, she didn't tell me that you guys would-" Nate said.
Just then Sophie went up to them in costume. "Oh, you all made it." Sophie said, happy to see her crew again.
Kaira smiled and hugged Sophie.
"Good to see you." Kaira smiled.
"I didn't know you could sing." Hardison said.
"You know. Not as well as I act, but, yeah." Sophie said.
Sophie went to hug Nate, but Nate kept her off.
"Uh, I don't want to wrinkle your-" Nate said.
Sophie chuckled and removed the rollers from her hair. "We're gonna meet up afterwards." Sophie said.
Kaira agreed, causing the rest to agree. Sophie left, doing some warm-ups. Kaira looked at the gang who was still awkward.
"Guys, we haven't seen each other in six months. Let's not make this awkward okay? We'll get some drinks after the show. I know I'll need one." Kaira said.
The team agreed. This was gonna be a long night. The team sat down and watched Sophie perform. Needless to say, it was indeed a long night. Sophie didn't do that well at all.
They met up at a bar and got drinks. Sophie laid her head on the table and groaned. Nate, Eliot, and Kaira then walked in. Nate actually told them some good news.
"You quit drinking?" Eliot questioned, going to sit down.
"Yep." Nate said.
They sat down. Eliot and Kaira had a draft beer and Nate had coffee.
"You quit drinking?" Kaira questioned Nate.
"Sure did." Nate repeated.
Kaira hugged him. "I'm proud of you, Nathan!" Kaira exclaimed.
She let go, leaving a smiling Nate.
"How do you know about this place, then?" Eliot asked Nate.
"I rent a condo upstairs." Nate said.
Kaira stumbled a bit. "You rented a condo above a bar?" Kaira questioned.
"That's right." Nate said.
"Well, that's very... Catholic." Eliot said.
Nate smiled a bit at the couple.
"The costumes were really great." Parker said, trying to cheer up Sophie.
"No. No, no, no. Stop it. There is nothing you can say that's gonna make me feel better." Sophie said, sad.
"Unh-unh. I know what could make you feel better. We should steal something." Parker said.
Nate sat his cup down after taking a drink. "Mmm. No, no." Nate declined.
"Yes!" Sophie said, feeling better.
"No." Nate objected.
"We could do it together." Kaira suggested.
"I like this. Get right back up on the bike." Eliot said.
Kaira moved to sit on Eliot's lap. He placed his hands protectively on Kaira's waist.
"Bike of crime." Parker said.
"Didn't you tell me how great your new lives were?" Nate questioned.
Eliot and Kaira took a sip of beer.
"Yeah, well, I stole the Hope Diamond." Parker said.
"What?" Nate questioned.
"And then I put it back. Yeah, because I was bored. Didn't care." Parker said.
"I spent three days hacking the White House e-mail - no buzz." Hardison said.
"See?" Sophie pointed out.
"But we are doing some pretty hinky stuff in Pakistan. Hinky." Hardison said.
"Look, I'm miserable. They're miserable. Okay, W-what have you lovebirds been doing the last six months?" Sophie said, looking at Kaira and Eliot.
Eliot and Kaira looked at each other awkwardly.
"We were in Pakistan." Eliot said.
The team looked at them weirdly.
"You see what you did? You took the world's best criminals - hitter, hacker, grifter, thief, jack of trades." Hardison pointed to each team member and they raised their hands when their job was said.
"You took us, and you broke us." Hardison finished.
"No, no. I - what I did - I taught you how to help people. That's - that's all." Nate said.
"Exactly." Kaira said.
"This is the problem, though, with being the good guy. It - it gets under your skin." Eliot said.
"It becomes this rush. Kinda like taking crack." Kaira said.
"Look, Nate. you have to have some poor little loss soul somewhere who needs a little extra legal aid." Sophie said.
"Look, we all - we all agreed that we would just move on." Nate said.
"Yeah. But... we're... we're thieves." Sophie said.
"Not me." Nate said.
Kaira groaned a bit.
"Look, it was great. It was fun. It was wonderful while it lasted, but, you know, I was drunk most of the time, to be honest with you. A little crazy-" Nate was saying before Eliot cut him off.
"Yeah, but you were good." Eliot said.
"You were the best." Parker said.
"We were the best." Hardison said.
"Listen, really, I owe all of you. And I'm very proud of what we did. I-I really am. But... I got my life back, and I intend to keep it that way. And I am not a thief." Nate said.
He got up out of his seat. "It was great to see all of you." Nate said, leaving.
"You didn't even get a chance to tell him." Parker said.
"I know." Sophie said, taking a sip of her drink.
"Tell him what?" Eliot questioned.
"Nothing." Sophie said, taking another sip.
They sat down at the bar for a bit before leaving.
They met back up in the morning, where Sophie informed them of the night's events. Apparently, someone tried to kill Nate. Sophie helped fight the guy off, and accidentally knocked Nate out with a cookie sheet. Kaira went to check on him as Eliot, Hardison, and Parker did some digging on a case that Nate found. Apparently, Nate saved a banker named Matt Kerrigan and his daughter Zoe from a car crash.
Parker was eating cereal in a nun outfit as Kaira sat at the foot of the couch. Nate woke up. Nate gasped when he realized Parker and Kaira were there.
"Calm down, Nathan. It's just us." Kaira calmed Nate down.
Sophie came down the spiral staircase, wearing a blue striped button-up shirt as Hardison was at the laptop, wearing a priest outfit minus the white collar.
"That's my shirt." Nate realized.
Kaira chuckled a bit.
"Yeah. Oh, yeah. I stayed the night to make sure you were okay." Sophie said.
Kaira walked to the table Eliot and Hardison were at.
"You what?" Nate questioned.
"But don't worry. I didn't, you know, look under your bed. I know that's where guys keep weird, kinky stuff." Sophie said.
Nate sat up as Parker opened the cabinets.
"There's nothing under my bed." Nate said.
"This is all coffee." Parker said.
Nate laid on the back of the couch.
"Get out of there! What are you guys doing? Come on, get out of here." Nate got off the couch and walked up to the table.
"Get all this stuff out of here. You're planning something. I know it. Come on. Get out of my house. Out." Nate ordered.
"Like hell, we are, Nathan. Someone tried to kill you last night. We're not leaving until we find out who and why." Kaira said, kinda amused.
"What do you want us to do, man. You want us to just blow town and let you figure it out?" Eliot said.
"Yes, actually. That's exactly what I want you to do." Nate said.
"We found the phone number of the hospital in your pocket, and we know what you - what you did. We know you saved that guy's life and that little girl. And we're all really proud of you." Sophie said.
Eliot clapped his hands a couple of times.
"Look, nobody else is gonna help that guy and his little girl. Okay, that's what we do. We help people. By the way, I compared Sophie's description of your attacker to the accident footage from the security camera." Hardison said.
He typed some and showed that it was a match.
"Do you realize, on average, people are caught on security cameras 13 times a day? ATM cameras, traffic cameras. It's crazy, man, but we can track him. We can. Well, I-I lost him in this." Hardison said, showing the footage of Nate's attacker running to a dumpster and dumping a briefcase.
"Yeah, well, I found this empty briefcase belonging to a Matt Kerrigan at that intersection." Eliot said, opening up the briefcase.
"It's Boston Commonwealth Bank, right?" Hardison questioned.
"No, First Independent Boston. That's where Kerrigan works. Come on." Nate said, drinking coffee.
Kaira smiled a bit, amused.
Hardison pulled up more security footage from the bank.
"Who's that guy?" Eliot asked.
"You don't know, do you? That's Kerrigan's boss, that guy. Leary." Nate said.
The team looked at Nate, amused.
"Whatever." Nate brushed them off.
"All right, who's the other guy?" Eliot asked.
"It's not clear enough for facial recognition." Hardison said.
"Yeah, well these guys went down to the safety deposit boxes." Kaira informed Nate.
"Which is the only room in every bank, with absolutely no cameras." Parker said, leaving.
"Which means we up, baby. They tried to kill Kerrigan for what was in the briefcase. We're gonna steal it back." Hardison said, getting ready and leaving with Parker.
Eliot and Kaira chuckled a bit. This was what Kaira was missing.
"She was dressed that way cause she's doing a con." Eliot said, chuckling a bit.
"What, you thought she was dressed like a nun for no reason?" Nate questioned.
Kaira looked at Nate. "It's Parker." Kaira pointed out.
"Oh, fair enough." Nate said.
"Okay, I want you out of my house. Out." Nate ordered.
"I'm-I'm getting cleaned up. I'm going upstairs. I want all this stuff out of here. I want you guys out of here. I'm not a part of this." Nate warned.
Kaira chuckled a bit.
"Okay. " Sophie said. She was putting on her boots.
"Not a part of this. This is - this is you guys." Nate said.
"We got it." Sophie said.
"If you want to do this thing, you're on your own." Nate said, walking closer to the steps.
"Fine." Eliot said.
Kaira moved in front of Eliot and leaned on his body. Eliot put a hand around Kaira's waist.
"Understood?" Nate questioned.
"Yes, Nathan." Kaira said, amused.
"So, you going?" Sophie asked Eliot and Kaira.
"I'm not going anywhere. The man has 700 sports channels." Eliot said.
"No way in hell." Kaira said.
Sophie leaned into Kaira and Eliot.
"You want to see what he's got underneath his bed?" Sophie asked.
"No, I do not." Eliot said.
"Hell no." Kaira said.
"Icky." Sophie said. She shook her head yes.
Eliot, Kaira, and Sophie waited until Hardison and Parker came back with the information.
He told Eliot and Kaira to go to an address and look through the things in a few warehouses. Eliot's phone rang. He looked at it.
"It's Hardison." Eliot said. He answered the phone.
"What?" Eliot answered.
"Yeah, Hardison. This is the third place we looked. It's all the same." Eliot said.
Kaira hit his shoulder after spotting three guys.
"Cowboy, we got company." Kaira said.
The guy up front was the one who attacked Nate and had a baseball bat.
"What do you mean, mob?" Eliot questioned.
"Hey!" The leader of the trio yelled.
"Oh, that mob." Eliot said.
He hung up the phone. They went from behind the boxes.
"Hey, that's private property." The lead goon yelled.
"Yeah. Sorry." Kaira said.
The lead goon kept pushing Eliot in the chest with the baseball bat.
"Yeah, I'm gonna teach you how to respect private property." He said.
"I wouldn't do that. See, my boyfriend here has a bit of a temper." Kaira said.
Eliot then grabbed the bat and punched Goon #1 in the stomach, causing him to bend over.
"What did she tell you?" Eliot growled.
He threw the guy behind him as Eliot and Kaira got ready to fight the goons. Goon #2 picked up a crowbar and Goon #3 picked up a wood beam. Goon #1 was on his knees and Eliot went back and hit him in the nose. He started yelling about his nose. Eliot picked up the bat. Eliot spun the bat in the air. The guys stared at each other as Eliot motioned for them to take him on.
"Come on." Eliot growled.
Kaira went up by Eliot. She cocked her head. Goon #2 went after Eliot, and Goon #3 went after Kaira. Kaira easily grabbed the board and kicked the guy in the knee. She broke the board on her knee and used it to hit the goon over the face with it. She went back and knocked Goon #1 down. Eliot had used the baseball bat to block the crowbar and knocked down Goon #3 by hitting his knees with his leg. Pretty soon, all the goons were down.
"Uh, sorry." Eliot said, grabbing Kaira's hand as he pulled her back to the boxes.
They grabbed what they felt was important and left.
They arrived back. Eliot was laying the stuff out on the coffee table when Nate opened his fridge.
"Seriously?!" Nate exclaimed.
In his fridge was Hardison's favorite orange soda. Nate turned around and saw the dishes.
"You know, guys, uh, there is a dishwasher." Nate called out.
"Sorry, Nathan! I'll do the dishes after we look at this stuff." Kaira said.
"You're out of ice." Eliot told Nate.
"This is all the stuff me and Kaira found at the warehouse in the boxes." Eliot said.
In the boxes were various clothes and memorabilia. Hardison grabbed the calendar.
"Check it out - a 1981 calendar of Hall and Oats. The first two months are all hall and no oats. Cold, man." Hardison said.
Parker then put on a pretty crappy-looking jacket.
"Judging by this fringing and... what? ... those shoulder pads." Sophie said, getting distracted by the jacket Parker put on. Parker made robotic movements with her arms and body.
"This stuff hasn't left the warehouse since the 80's." Kaira observed.
"I feel like a robot." Parker said in a robotic voice.
"Wait, so if these are supposed to be just fake businesses, how come their financials are so squeaky clean?" Sophie questioned.
"Because they're fake businesses." Nate blurted out, causing the team to look at him. He was sitting on the table in the kitchen.
"I mean, come on, it's right there. I mean, I'm just saying." Nate said. He took a sip of coffee.
The team looked at each other.
"What? Sophie, how do you catch mob guys?" Nate asked.
"Uh, two glasses of Chianti and a story about my grandma in Sicily." Sophie said.
"How does the government catch mob guys?" Nate asked.
"Taxes." The team said.
"That's how they got Capone and all the mob guys." Kaira pointed out.
"So, 30 years ago, the O'Hares got very smart. You see, they set up all these shell companies. Fake sales, fake receipts. They launder all their dirty money through them." Nate explained.
"Everybody in the family gets a "salary". Yeah, they pay withholding, payroll taxes, pension. It's all old-school." Hardison said.
"So they're dirty on the inside." Kaira realized.
"Well, yeah. I mean, if you have a body in the trunk of your car, you're gonna drive under the speed limit, aren't you?" Nate said.
Kaira pursed her lips together.
"You know, when you're sober, your metaphors get creepier." Parker pointed out.
"But, uh, wait, wait, that still doesn't explain the last six months of running up bad loans." Hardison realized.
"All from a bank that's about to close." Sophie said.
"Close? No, not close. Get bailed out. Look, we've got a banker in the pocket of the mob. The mob takes out bad loans, cleans out the bank, knowing three days from now, the government's gonna come along and then, you know, bail the bank out." Nate said, walking to the board.
Eliot sat on the couch with the team and Kaira sat on his lap.
"I mean..." Nate chuckled. "It's perfect. You know, I don't even think it's illegal. It's... I mean, if we were gonna do this - this job." Nate said.
"Just this one job." Sophie said.
Parker held up her index finger.
"Yeah, just this one." Nate said.
"Yeah." Kaira said.
"I mean, the con that you'd want to do-" Nate said.
"Hypothetically." Hardison said.
"Hypothetically, you know, is, uh, the Turnabout, of course." Nate said.
"Oh, that is a good one." Sophie said.
"You know, it takes... five people to do the turnabout." Eliot said.
"That's true." Sophie said.
"There are five of you." Nate said.
"Yeah, but we need our mastermind to pull this off." Kaira said, acting innocent.
"What? Kaira can do it." Nate said.
"Nathan, I'm overwatch. My job is making sure everyone's safe during the con." Kaira said.
Nate gave in and started thinking.
"We've got to scare the Banker into turning against the mob. All right. All right, we'll do this job. Just this one." Nate said.
"If you really want." Hardison said.
"If you insist. We're on board." Sophie said over Hardison.
"Hardison, you and Parker, you're gonna be on the badge. Eliot and Kaira, sheepdogs. Sophie-" Nate assigned the rolls.
"Ice Queen." Sophie said.
"And I'm the Bagman. Now, if you'll excuse me, I am gonna go call a professional killer who tried to murder me, and arrange to meet him in an isolated location. Well-played." Nate said, leaving.
"See that? He did miss us." Sophie said, excited, rubbing Eliot's arm. They got up and left.
Eliot and Kaira went to the bank two days later ad Hardison and Parker talked with Leary. Eliot and Kaira stopped in front of him and stared at him, threateningly. Then they walked away to the side of the bank. Eliot went to one of the pillars and started putting a charge on the pilar. Kaira watched as Eliot put the charges on. Hardison and Parker soon walked to the sidewalk. Eliot and Kaira walked over.
"Hey, this detonator - if we're around the corner, is it still gonna be in range?" Eliot asked.
"Should be. I haven't worked out all the kinks yet. Sometimes the things just go off." Hardison said.
Eliot stopped them. "Whoa, whoa, wait. Hey. I thought you said this thing was safe." Eliot growled.
"Mostly. Mostly safe. I was very specific. Uh, sometimes the frequencies get messed up." Hardison explained.
Eliot freaked a little and started playing with the charges in his pockets.
"What frequencies, man? Huh? I got these things in my pants." Eliot said, not happy.
Kaira tried to keep a straight face.
"Like, you know, a garage-door opener, a car alarm." Hardison said.
Just then a car alarm chirped, causing Eliot to panic a bit. Eliot walked away.
"What are the odds that Eliot's crotch actually explodes?" Parker asked.
Eliot looked back, still fiddling with the charges.
"Damn it, Hardison!" Eliot exclaimed.
"You're gonna get your ass whopped by Eliot." Kaira said, walking with Eliot.
Eliot and Kaira went to the car and waited until Leary got out of the bank. Eliot hit the button as gunshot sounds could be heard and people screaming. Leary was freaking out. Kaira and Eliot were laughing. They drove off.
Nate and Sophie had made the deal with O'Hare the day before. They met back up after the Leary meeting.
They were in a circle as Hardison opened a case.
"New earbuds. Better range, better fit. All you have to do is whisper, and we'll hear it." Hardison said, handing them all the new earbuds.
Kaira put hers in.
"Okay, now, if this thing works, our friend Mr. Leary he goes to the state police, he runs, he spills his guts. Eliot, Kaira, make sure he gets there." Nate ordered.
"We're on it." Eliot said as they left.
"Okay. And O'Hare's money for the frame-up?" Nate questioned.
"And this money came from..." Nate questioned.
"Oh, yeah." Parker said.
"Perfect. Okay, let's reel them in." Nate said.
Nate called up O'Hare and Hardison called Leary. Eliot and Kaira left and went to the warehouse. Kaira brought along Boston State Trooper badges to be safe. Nate gave the money to O'Hare.
"Eliot, Kaira is Leary with the cops? We don't have a lot of room for error." Nate asked.
Eliot and Kaira hid behind some wood.
"There's a problem." Eliot reported.
"Leary is at the waterfront. Dumped his car and he's heading towards you." Kaira reported.
"He was supposed to go to the cops." Nate said.
"Well, then, I don't know what he's doing." Eliot said.
They went to follow him. Eliot and Kaira stayed just outside.
"Okay, guys, it's not O'Hare." Nate reported.
"What?" Sophie questioned.
"O'Hare is not the boss, is what I'm saying." Nate said.
"No. This whole con was built around O'Hare." Sophie said.
"Ooh, they're probably gonna shoot Nate in the face." Parker said.
"Parker, I can hear you." Nate reminded Parker.
"Ooh. Uh, sorry. Forgot about the-" Parker said.
"T-this is not good." Sophie said.
"All right. Well, listen. We're gonna have to make this one up as we go." Nate said. Kaira and Eliot made their way in the warehouse.
Leary was arguing with O'Hare about making deals. Leary also admitted he was in charge. As Eliot and Kaira were watching the exchange, three guys come back and grabbed them. Kaira tried to fight as they went to the meeting area.
"Alright! Alright!" Eliot said.
The goons grabbed two chairs and sat Kaira and Eliot down in them.
"You better not lay a hand on him." Kaira said. She got slapped.
"Hey! Don't touch her!" Eliot exclaimed. He also got slapped.
"Hey. Hey, I know these guys. They were there when the cops questioned me." Leary said.
"Them?" Nate questioned, pointing to the couple.
"Yeah." Leary said.
Nate walked up to Eliot and Kaira. "You better know what you're doing." Eliot whispered.
Nate looked at Eliot. He then patted down Kaira and pulled State Trooper badges off them.
"Hey, they've got state trooper badges." Nate said, holding it up. He handed them to Leary.
"Son of a... that's it. Kill them." Leary ordered O'Hare.
"Whoa." Eliot said.
Kaira got wide-eyed and panicked.
"Don't you dare." Kaira warned.
O'Hare pulled out his gun and then handed it to Leary.
"You want them dead, you kill them. I fixed Kerrigan's brakes. I'm not killing a couple of cops." O'Hare said.
"You screwed up Kerrigan." Leary told O'Hare.
"Yeah, no. He's right. You're right. He's - well, we're-" Nate was saying before they heard a gunshot.
Kaira looked over to see Eliot going limp.
"No!" Kaira screamed.
Eliot looked over to Kaira and gave a slight smile before three more shots were fired at Eliot, knocking him out of his seat. Kaira looked to see Sophie as Annie.
"You bitch!" Kaira screamed before another shot was heard.
Kaira then heard a couple more shots before getting knocked out of her chair. Kaira kept silent and still along with Eliot.
"Have they got a wire?" Sophie asked as Annie.
"Well, come on, Ford. Get with it! Check them for a wire!" Sophie ordered.
"Yes, uh, right on it. Uh..." Nate said before patting Kaira down.
"This isn't how we do it in Boston." O'Hare said.
"Really? It's exactly how we do it in London. Except we usually use a razor blade." Sophie said.
"No wires." Nate reported.
Kaira felt Nate pat her down and then heard the phone buttons going.
"But he has a cellphone, though." Nate said.
"Give it to me." Leary ordered.
"Ah, nothing on speed dial." Leary said.
"Hit redial. See who he called." Sophie suggested.
"Say that's good." Leary said.
"Leary, right? Annie Kroy. Nice little number with the banks there. It's a shame the rest of your operation's a bit more balls-up." Sophie said.
Just then another phone rang. It was O'Hare's.
"O'Hare? Why was a cop's last phone call to you?" Leary asked.
"This is-this-this-this-this is a setup." O'Hare argued.
"How is it a set up? She shot the cops." Leary argued.
"Yeah, and he's the one who dialed the phone." Sophie said.
"You didn't want us to shot them, either, did you? Why? Did you know them?" Leary questioned O'Hare.
"It wasn't like that! Come on! Y-you know I was in this thing right from the beginning. W-Why would be involved?" O'Hare was arguing.
Leary told his guys to go. A few seconds later, Hardison and Parker were heard.
"Get in if you want to live." Hardison said.
A moment later, O'Hare was nervous.
"What are you doing? T-they're gonna be right behind us." O'Hare said, nervous.
"Then you best talk fast. State police." Hardison said.
"What happened to our people?" Parker asked.
"I didn't kill them. They did." O'Hare said.
"Tactical's moving in now." Parker said.
"So in about one minute your friends are gonna have SWAT teams, smoke bombs, helicopters, and lasers all up in there, which means you got about 30 seconds to cut a deal O'Hare. That is who you are, right? Brandon O'Hare?" Hardison said.
"Oh, god. I'll give you Leary. All right? He organized the bank fraud, and he contracted the Kerrigan hit. I was an accessory after the fact." O'Hare said.
"Eh, good enough." Hardison said.
Hardison and Parker wrapped up with O'Hare. Leary was heard again.
"Those were the state cops that questioned me." Leary said.
"Well, have they got any evidence?" Sophie asked.
"No, no. Nothing real. Just O'Hare's word against mine." Leary explained.
"And no documents?" Sophie questioned.
"No. No, no. I-I have those. But Kerrigan saw them." Leary said.
"And there's just one problem. You know, we're screwed if he wakes up." Nate said.
"He won't. Kerrigan's the last loose end. I'll take care of him myself." Leary said.
"Hey, hey, whoa. Wait. What about them?" Nate questioned.
"Them? Hey, I never touched them. Your fingerprints are all over them. I'll clean up my mess, you clean up yours." Leary said.
It was a second before Nate spoke.
"So, how'd you do it?" Nate asked.
Eliot and Kaira then stood up, groaning a bit.
"Detonator... ketchup." Eliot said, showing the detonator and pulling out a ketchup packet for Nate to see.
"Ah, the classics." Nate said, impressed.
"Did I go too far with the acting?" Kaira questioned, looking at Sophie.
"No. That was perfect, my favorite hitters. Oh, I love a good death scene!" Sophie said.
They all left and met back up at the bar, where they had Matt and Zoe meet them.
Kaira heard the Leary was arrested. Turns out, Parker and Hardison stole the money from the safe-deposit boxes and put it in Matt's briefcase, which got switched with Leary's. Parker and Hardison hand-delivered O'Hare to Bonanno, who was the cop that Matt was talking to.
Matt and Zoe arrived. Nate handed him a check. He gasped.
"I can't take this from you." Kerrigan said.
"Well, you know, it's not from us." Nate said.
"The I.R.S pays for a percentage for all the tax frauds reported. All those mob businesses, 30 years of back taxes. You found them." Sophie said.
Kerrigan chuckled a bit. "Thank you. I can never thank you enough." Kerrigan said.
He and Zoe were about to leave when Zoe came back and hugged Nate.
"Thank you. There are wolves in the world. But sometimes they're the good guys, I guess." Zoe said, looking at the team.
She put a necklace in Nate's hand and closed it. Nate held the necklace.
"Still your last job?" Sophie asked.
"Well, uh, maybe, um..." Nate turned around to face the crew.
"Yeah?" Sophie questioned.
"I mean, you know, until I find a job I like enough, you know, to stay out of the bars." Nate said.
"Idle hands are the Devil's workshop." Hardison said.
"And then I'm out. I'm done." Nate said.
"Sure." Kaira smiled.
"Yeah. Cause you're not a thief." Eliot said.
Kaira followed Eliot, leaving.
They went up as Hardison told them that they were using Nate's apartment as the new office. They got to work. Kaira was helping Hardison by holding a flashlight.
Nate didn't look hot coming in.
"Whoa, whoa. W-what are you doing there?" Nate asked, surprised.
"I'm running this CAT-5 cable to the-" Hardison was saying.
"Oh, no, no, no, no. You don't understand. No, I don't want to have these monitors in my apartment." Nate said.
Then Parker came in with the picture of Old Nate.
"Coming through!" Parker called out.
"No, these must go. What?" Nate said, turning around.
"No! Parker, no! Not that paint - I don't ever want to see that painting." Nate exclaimed, getting upset.
"Hi, I'm old Nate, and I live here too." Parker said, imitating Nate, tilting the painting side to side.
"You can't just break in here and start hanging-" Nate said before Hardison put him off.
Kaira tried not to laugh.
"Oh, yeah, yeah - for repairs or renovation, your landlord has full access to your dwelling. It's in the lease." Hardison explained.
"What are you doing reading my lease?" Nate questioned, confused.
"Hardison may have bought the building." Kaira explained. She chuckled a bit.
"You bought the... you're my landlord?" Nate questioned, staring at Hardison.
"Yeah. Yeah." Hardison held out his fist for Nate to bump.
He didn't.
Just then a chainsaw could be heard. Nate kept yelling no as the wall beside the screens went down, revealing a dusty Eliot, having way too much fun holding the chainsaw. Eliot laughed weirdly. Kaira had her arm around Nate and Hardison came over.
"You know, Nathan, did you really think you're gonna get rid of us that easily?" Kaira questioned.
Eliot went over to hug Kaira after putting down the chainsaw.
"Sorry, cowboy, but not when you're covered in dry wood dust." Kaira chuckled.
Eliot chuckled a bit too. This was her new home. Kaira loved it. She and Eliot could rent a space right next to Nate. Kaira smiled at the new opportunity ahead of her. Leverage Consulting was back in business. Kaira couldn't be happier.