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An old friend of June's late husband, Ford, has returned after a stint in prison. Neal suspects the man is dangerous and fears for June.

Despite Burke's incredulity, Neal has the FBI investigate the potential danger to his landlady June after the release of her slick ex and late husband's friend, Bradford 'Ford' Toman. Burke is all the more interested when fingerprinting shows the presence of elusive master forger Jonas Ganz, never convicted but presumed extremely dangerous. Neal still takes the front in an elaborate dollar counterfeiting trap.—KGF Vissers

Opens with a New York City montage. Neal touches base with Mozzie, who is working on the fractal.

At June's, Neal meets a man who calls himself Ford. He is friends with June. She's given him things and this bothers Neal. Ford says he's an old friend of June's husband but doesn't elaborate.

Neal goes to Diana for help fingerprinting a coin Ford tossed him.

Peter and Elizabeth return home from the vet after Satchmo swallowed a handcuff key. Elizabeth thinks Peter needs to apologize for leaving the key out for their dog to swallow. Diana calls Peter about the fingerprint.

The coin comes back with the fingerprint of a murder suspect and career criminal named Jonas Ganz. The only problem is the man in the file is not Ford.

It turns out Ford was a real estate crook and roommate of Ganz' in the joint. Twenty years earlier, Ford did time with June's husband for running an illegal casino on the floor of June's house where Neal now lives.

On a stakeout, Diana snaps pictures of Ganz meeting with suspicious friends along the street of a poor neighborhood.

Neal finds June in his room looking through some old pictures. She says Ford had been asking about a suit her husband wore in one of them. When she leaves, Neal finds the suit and grabs a receipt out of a pocket. Ford knocks on his door and tells Neal he hopes he would be understanding of an ex-con. He says he ran several poker games in the room Neal lives in while also being a crooked dealer. June comes up and they ask Neal to dinner. She leaves. Ford says he's looking for a second chance.

Mozzie tells Neal he thinks Ford is trying to scam June and agrees to hang around the house. Peter calls with word Ganz is putting together a crew for a new heist. Peter wants to question Ford, but Neal thinks the better way to play it is for him and Elizabeth to join them at dinner. Peter says no, so Neal calls Elizabeth to get a yes.

Peter is at dinner under the pretense of being a former criminal partner of Neal's. After dinner, and some music and singing, Neal leaves to answer a call from Mozzie. Word on the street is Ford is well-respected and smooth. Mozzie has enhanced the receipt. It is for one of June's coffee tables and it has had some custom work done. While Neal's gone, the rest start looking through photo albums. Upstairs, Neal opens a secret compartment in the table and finds what looks like plates for making counterfeit $100 bills. Ford comes upstairs looking for an old record collection. Neal brings Peter up to see the plates, but the plates have gone. They walk downstairs and learn that Ford is gone as well, smooth as can be.

In Neal's room (where they find Mozzie waiting to join them for dinner), Neal and Peter discuss that Ford would need to steal paper in order to make the bills.

At the bureau, with three treasury agents breathing down Neal's neck and wondering what Ganz' crew was going to do, Diana enters with Ford nabbed outside Ganz' place.

Ford tells Neal and Peter he told Ganz about the plate while they were inside prison in exchange for protection. June's husband stole the plate from Ford in order to protect him from getting into trouble. Ford said all he was doing was giving the plate to Ganz so he wouldn't go near June looking for it. He also told Ganz what he'll need to print the bills. As to his absence of fingerprints, Ford rubs his fingertips every morning with a pumice stone, a habit.

Peter doesn't trust Ford. Neal isn't sure. Peter wants to put Neal and Ford undercover to derive a spoken confession out of Ganz.

Under the pretense of Neal being a replacement forger, he and Ford meet with Ganz. All goes well (Neal is asked to pick the fake among some IDs and passes the test) until Ford makes a comment which reveals he knows more than he should about Ganz' last forger. A gun comes out. Peter's team prepares to move in but Neal quickly covers. Ganz says Neal will be handling the job without Ford.

Peter and Neal determine that Ganz' next move will be getting paper. Using a name from one of the fake IDs, they locate a likely spot where Ganz will look to steal the paper.

Mozzie and Neal doubt Ford will be able to resist the temptation of a last big score.

Cut to the bureau, where Jones and Diana tell Peter that Ganz and Ford are off the grid. Peter hears that the paper they believe will be stolen is in transit.

Ganz shows up at Neal's place and grabs him. Burke phones, but it's Mozz who answers to say it's too late.

Ganz (without Ford) wants Neal to ID which paper they should take off the truck. They pull over the truck and Neal takes the paper.

Peter supposes Neal was one of the five masked robbers, but Ford wasn't among them.

Ganz and Neal show up at the counterfeiting location where Ford waits for them. He's been in on everything from the beginning. He and Neal starts making money.

Peter asks Mozzie for help finding Ford. Peter remembers there was a photo album Ford seemed nervous about during dinner. They spot a likely location.

Cut to a police car showing up outside the Lenox Lounge (the counterfeiting spot). Inside, Neal spots Ford working a flipping tabletop with identical briefcases. Ford was filling one with scrap paper when Neal and Gantz arrived. Neal flips it back before a nervous Ganz leaves and Ford reveals he called a cop for a cat-in-tree call. This was Ford's way of getting rid of Ganz. He meant to give Ganz a case without the plates, but after Ganz leaves, Peter and his team show up.

Ganz is arrested; his case contained the counterfeit money.

Inside, Ford grabs a gun and a case, presumably containing the plates. Neal tells Ford it's not too late for him if Neal backs his story. Ford says to tell June he's sorry and leaves out the back. Peter and his feds enter but Ford has escaped.

Cut to Ford opening the case in a nearby alley and seeing it contains only his blank paper cutouts.

June tells Neal she knew what kind of man Ford was. She thinks she gave him another shot to recall the past. As jazz music plays from a phonograph, they slow dance.

Neal and Mozzie talk about the future and it's revealed the plate may have found its way back into June's table (something for a rainy day).