Leverage (TV Series)
The Corkscrew Job (2012)
Timothy Hutton: Nathan Ford
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Quotes
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Alec Hardison : Charmer we heard, that's Frank Madigan. He recently bought the Bee Meadow Winery. Basically, he fired all the staff and hired a bunch of part-timers.
Sophie Devereaux : Where'd he get his money?
Alec Hardison : He used to run a chemical manufacturing company. They made acrylics, adhesives, dyes, epoxies, fertilizers.
Nathan Ford : What's his safety record?
Alec Hardison : He's got several worker fatalities. He... he's basically trying to pull the same thing he did there; paying for silence. I mean, if his old company was a person, he'd be doing time for murder one.
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Alec Hardison : Okay, so here's the loan that Madigan took out to buy the winery. Now, it says here he put up his wine collection as collateral. Can he do that?
Sophie Devereaux : If you have a strong collection made up of certain vintages, it can easily be worth millions.
Nathan Ford : Yeah, some of the biggest cases I investigated were wine insurance payouts.
Sophie Devereaux : What is the jewel in his crown?
Alec Hardison : That would be a bottle previously owned by Thomas Jefferson.
Sophie Devereaux : Excuse me?
Alec Hardison : It's the only one of its kind. Appraised value is... priceless.
Nathan Ford : When Eliot and Parker find out Madigan's secret, that bottle is what we'll use as leverage.
Sophie Devereaux : Let's got steal a bottle!
Nathan Ford : No, no, no, no. We... not steal. No, no. I mean, a wine like that, a Thomas Jefferson bottle, that collection is gonna be heavily insured. So if we steal it, I mean, we're just gonna be handing him a fat insurance payout. No, I think we need to maybe ride with him through the loan. If his wine collection is the collateral, let's make the collection worthless.
Sophie Devereaux : If the bank finds out the collection's a fraud, Madigan loses the winery.
Alec Hardison : Yeah, we just take a two hundred year old bottle of grape juice and turn it into two-buck chuck.
Nathan Ford : Let's go fake a bottle.