- For the first time ever, Mozzie must turn for help to the FBI, via Neal, desperately worried when the person of his affection, waitress Gina De Stefano from a local diner, disappears. Mozzie uses cryptic clues, often references to book texts, left by Gina to find and rescue her. Neal got Peter also on the alert, and it turns out she has a boyfriend, petty thief Tommy Barnes, long on the FBI's radar, who works for a big fish, Colombian 'cigars' dealer Navarro, who actually abducted Gina to get Tommy to return what he stole. Neal concocts a convoluted plan to catch Navarro and liberate Gina, involving ID gay Devlin but compromised as Mozzie spooks Tommy.—KGF Vissers
- Mozzie fears that the object of his affection has been kidnapped, and turns to Neal and Peter for help. For the first time, Mozzie must put his faith in the FBI - and when the rescue mission takes an unexpected turn, he is forced to step out of the shadows and into the line of fire.—USA Publicity
- Open with Neal (Matt Bomer) making fun of Mozzie (Willie Garson) for wearing an ascot. It turns out he's wearing to see a waitress named Gina (Diane Farr) on whom he has a crush. While sitting in her section Mozzie and Gina talk about an author they enjoy. As shady looking characters enter the diner, Gina asks Mozzie if he still has FBI connections. She makes an awkward comment about a book Mozzie she should read and leaves with them.
Peter (Tim DeKay) leads a discussion on finding an identity thief. Afterward Neal gets into the elevator. One floor down Mozzie sneaks in and tells him about Gina. Mozzie eventually sneaks away and Neal walks out of the elevator to everyone from Peter's department, including Peter himself.
Neal talks an agent into running Gina's records, saying it is for the identity theft case. They find she's stopped all phone and credit activity.
Mozzie and Neal knock on Gina's door but get no answer. They look through the peephole and see the place has been searched.
At lunch with Elizabeth (Tiffani Thiessen), Peter gets a call about Neal running Gina's name.
In the apartment, Mozzie discovers she saved a flirting word play note he made for Gina, as well as pictures of her with an apparent boyfriend. Though the place has been wiped-down, Neal finds the word "SALS" written in fingerprints on the top of a dresser. It is a cigar bar near Mozzie's chess club.
Peter sees Mozzie in the elevator's cameras and he has now looked up Gina with Jones (Sharif Atkins) and Diana (Marsha Thomason). After a long lull in the record there was a call made from her cell phone to a man named Tommy (probably the boyfriend) who has a record. They see Tommy has been working as a driver to Christopher Navarro (Jacinto Taras Riddick). Seeing Navarro linked to the situation causes Peter to demand Neal is located.
Neal sneaks upstairs at Sal's and overhears Navarro talking about getting $100,000 back from his driver and not "caring about any girl." Diana (Marsha Thomason) sends Neal a text and the vibration alerts Navarro someone is in the room. Neal hides in a humidor and is only saved when Peter himself arrives and helps Neal leave.
Peter brings Neal and Mozzie back to the bureau. There he tells them how dangerous Navarro is -- arms sales, racketeering. They tell him about Gina and he says spooking Navarro was a mistake. The sense is Tommy (Jayce Bartok) must have ripped off Navarro and is using Gina to get back his money. Gina's credit card pops up at a local park.
They don't find anything at the park, but Peter elects to borrow the cameras of a dozen tourists. Using the video, they find Gina had asked Tommy to meet her in the park but signaled him it was a trap at the last minute. They see Tommy dump his cell phone in a trash can on the way out of the park.
They grab a park and find a voicemail received after the phone was dumped. It is message telling Tommy if he does not show up the following day with the money Gina is in trouble. Tommy never got the message.
To find Tommy, the plan is to search taxi cabs. Peter sends Neal and Mozzie home and has Jones watch them.
At Neal's place, the guys determine Tommy must have sought a new identity. Mozzie knows a guy named Devlin who Tommy would almost certainly have used.
Neal and Mozzie use Jones to help con Devlin. They pretend Jones works for Navarro and get him to give-up the name he gave Tommy - Sam Brennan.
Peter organizes teams for a potential drop. A taxi driver said Tommy stiffed him using sequential bills. Navarro has been laundering money through Sal's and needs that particular $100,000 back. Jones calls to tell them about the Sam Brennan alias.
With the fake name, they are quickly able to bring in Tommy and the cash. A drop location is planned, with only one blind spot near the subway. Tommy begins to balk at meeting Navarro, afraid he will be killed. While they argue with Tommy, Mozzie himself sneaks down to the street and starts talking with Navarro and his men.
Mozzie convinces Navarro that he represents of Tommy's and is there to broker a meeting to exchange the money for Gina. Mozzie tells Navarro the feds are watching and helps lead them to the subway. During this conversation, Mozzie references page numbers from the FBI manual. Neal learns the pages are off and realizes the references are from the book Mozzie and Gina have read. One of passages has the phrase "perfect exchange."
At Navarro's lair Mozzie begins to broker the drop. Just Tommy and Navarro, no weapons. This is spliced between Neal telling Peter that he and Mozzie had developed the "perefect exchange." Basically, it consists of a certain kind of library during work hours since there are metal detectors, no scanners and some guard presence. Navarro agrees to the deal, and Peter points out "nothing is perfect." Since they are aware someone will attempt to plant a weapon for Navarro, they can simply follow that person back to the hideout.
Peter and Neal stake out the library. While watching Navarro's man, they realize as soon as he contacts Navarro Mozzie will become irrelevant. To counter this problem, they grab the henchman right there.
When Navarro is about to kill Mozzie, Peter and his men break into the hideout and grab Navarro. Game over.
Back at the diner Gina tells Mozzie she has broken up with Tommy but plans to go to California. She hands him a flirty word play napkin of her own.
Neal tells Peter he doesn't like being in his shoes for once as the episode ends.
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