- When Parker is trapped in an unknown location while working a theft for her mentor, the LEVERAGE team must race the clock to find her and free her.
- The epic battle of Parker v. Steranko wages at Wakefield Industrial Co. Archie Leach calls Nate to give him the heads up. The team cannot believe Parker took a job without them, especially, against Steranko (whose personality Eliot describes as a p'oed Rottweiler). For Parker, Hardison hopes to spoof a ruthless security system that rewrites itself, but only from inside of Wakefield. Eliot is prepared to despise Parker's surrogate pop until the guys learn Archie's other family was threatened by Wakefield. Parker is nothing if not very, loyal. Sophie plays in the boardroom as Nate and Archie figure out the real agenda. Eliot has an exit ready, but Parker refuses to leave until the bad guys are exposed. Hardison makes points with Archie; Nate schedules an important press conference.—LA-Lawyer
- Wakefield Agricultural Corporation - 7 a.m.
An alarm goes off, and Parker races through an upper floor followed by a horde of security guards.
At home/HQ, Nate makes breakfast and has an early morning cocktail. Sophie (or whatever her name is) stops by. He asks if they're ever going to talk about their kiss. She tells him he's still working off the slap.
Someone calls Nate telling him Parker's in trouble; she went into a building with a Steranko security system. Whoever he is can't help her, he's on the roof of the building across the street.
Sophie takes a minute to be irritated, since Parker took an outside job. Sophie and Nate head to Parker's place.
Sophie guesses the keycode -- it's her real name -- and still doesn't tell Nate. Parker's place is a cavernous warehouse with a bedroom set up in the middle of it. A board has the name Archie on it.
The rest of the team shows up. Hardison explains Steranko is the toughest security system in the world -- it learns as it hunts. Nate looks at her plans, trying to guess what she's up to. Hardison says he can't crack it remotely. "So, let's go steal us a Parker," Nate says.
At the building, we learn Wakefield does biotech research in wheat and corn. The CEO, Charles Rushin, avoided two takeover attempts. The lobby is the only way in.
Inside security, Rushin, and a research doctor, Hannity, freak out about the break in. They won't let the security guy lock the building down because it'll panic investors. Instead, guards will go through the building comparing ID badges with retinal scans. It'll take 50 minutes.
Sophie and Hardison go in as auditors named Emma Peel and John Steed, aka The Avengers. But no one catches it!
Nate and Eliot find Parker's partner on the nearby rooftop. He's Archie Leach (the real name of Cary Grant!), the world's greatest thief. Two guys with guns come up behind them and Eliot takes them out. They were holding Leach hostage.
Parker's helping because he's her father -- although he later explains he met her when she picked his pocket as a 12 year old. He taught her how to be a great thief.
He tells Nate people forced him to break in to Wakefield by threatening his family and he called Parker just to consult, but she went in on her own.
In an office inside, Hardison starts work on the security system as Sophie holds a meeting to create panic. She tells a boardroom of people that they're fired and keeps them there by getting each of them to explain why they shouldn't be.
Hardison tells Nate he can't use the system to search for Parker because it'll tip them off. They have to wait for her to send up a signal.
She comes out a ventilation shaft and puts on a lab coat, lifts someones ID, and sits down at a desk. Her cell phone signal is jammed. She calls Hardison. He tells her to get to cubicle 27.
Nate finds Leach's blueprints have the company watermark, which means they're from inside. Sophie notices that Dr. Hannity is calm amid the chaos. They realize an inside job means Parker is a loose end and they'll kill her if she's caught.
Hardison sends Parker an earbud via interoffice mail.
They find a hole in the security in the CEO's office.
Hardison finds Dr. Hannity lost the company $60 million last year. Nate tells Sophie to let everyone but Hannity go and make her very angry. Sophie needles her about her spendy wheat. She tells Sophie she developed a wheat resistant to a blight. She implies she's going to spread the blight because they'll have the only wheat resistant to it.
Nate realizes Hannity forced Leach to steal the blight so she could spread it.
Leach tells Parker to run for it while Nate tells her to stay put. She's stuck in a severance good bye party. Nate sends her to the CEO's office on the 37th floor. Eliot is outside it on a window washing platform. But she realizes Hannity could just retrace her steps and get the blight out and it could cause famine. Nate gives her the go ahead to go back. Leach thinks he's going to get her killed.
Parker walks into a security guard but Eliot's there to knock him out. Hardison clears a path but they run into more security. Hannity confirms Sophie and Hardison are fakes. She wants to get Parker, then them.
Hardison clears Parker a path, but the Steranko system has finally locked him out. Eliot lifts a guard's retinal scanner, and he and Parker use it to get into the biohazard vault. The hazmat alarms go off. Outside, there's a rush of police and news crews. Nate enters the building in a hazmat suit and hands one to Leach. Hannity and the security guy go to intercept the team getting off an elevator.
They walk four people in hazmat suits to an empty floor. Leach takes his mask off and is holding the blight container. Hannity explains how they going to kill them all and use the police for cover. The other three hazmat suits takes their masks off. It's a news crew.
Flash to Nate asking Hardison to trigger a hazmat alarm. Then telling a TV reporter about Hannity's plan and handing them hazmat suits, assuring the reporter the alarm is a fake and a Pulitzer-winning story awaits her.
Cut to the team taking the window washing cart outside to safety.
Leach says goodbye to Nate, then Parker. He tells her he wishes he could have taken her home, but she says she wouldn't have fit in with a real family. He tells her she went out and made her own. She lifts his wallet for old time's sake.
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