- The team follows Moreau to San Lorenzo only to find that Moreau is the chief advisor to the current President. In order to take Moreau down, the team must first take over the country.
- Hot on the trail of Moreau, the team goes to San Lorenzo, with help from the Italian spy, who mourns that Damien Moreau will never leave SL. Gen. Flores, an old friend of Eliot, was running for President against Moreau puppet, Ribera, when the General was suddenly imprisoned as an enemy of the State. In the last days of the election, UN inspectors are everywhere, and Nate is determined to find a candidate and run an American-style election. Enter innocent schoolteacher, Michael Vittori. On Nate's side: a 24 year old genius with a smart phone and a problem with authority. Do Moreau and Ribera even stand a chance?—LA-Lawyer
- Nate gets thrown around the room and walloped by Damien Moreau, who asks Nate if he really thought he had a chance. Nate says they didn't have a chance in hell.
One week earlier
Nate asks the group to please go with him after Moreau.
Up in loft HQ, Hardison gives the San Lorenzo rundown -- it was British Colony so people still speak English, less than 300,000 of them on the tiny (fictional) island.
Moreau has a cache of jewels and gold bars stashed in his house.
They try to decide what con to use on Moreau, who has seen them all. Eliot talks to an old friend in San Lorenzo, General Flores. The General knows Eliot as Commander. He explains they haven't had free elections since 1969, since President Ribera took power.
The General is running against Ribera.
The General says Eliot saved his life twice (once and a half, Eliot corrects -- one time he was the guy sent to kill him.)
They're watching the General on the screen when he hears noises where he is and armed men bust in. Suddenly, Moreau is standing in front of them. He says he wouldn't have found General Flores if they hadn't contacted him.
He'll toss him in prison til after the election and then he'll have an accident.
Nate makes a call to the Italian chick.
Cut to Nate arriving at the San Lorenzo International Airport, where he's met by the Italian chick with papers for him. She says his plan will never work.
San Lorenzo Parliament Nate, Sophie and Hardison breeze into Gen. Flores' campaign HQ as campaign advisers. They introduce themselves to Michael Vittori, a Flores staffer.
Flash back to loft HQ, the three of them looking for other candidates who could stand in for Flores and finding pretty much everybody but this guy are drug addicts or dealers.
President Ribera comes into his office to find Moreau waiting for him. He wants the banking laws changed so he can move his money there.
Nate and the team prep their new candidate, Michael Vittori. He takes the stage for his press conference as Eliot and Parker go look for the General in his basement prison. Eliot says getting Flores out will be noisy.
Parker finds the pipe they were looking for in the prison.
Watching the press conference, Moreau thinks something seems odd about it. He sees Sophie on TV.
Sitting in his cell, Gen. Flores is surprised to see a cell phone in a Ziploc bag bubble up through his toilet. It rings and it's Eliot. The Gen. doesn't want out without his team. He tells Eliot to leave him there.
The press conference takes a turn when the press notices him talking to Sophie and asks who she is. She takes the stage and does an accent, introducing herself as Michael's fiancée.
Nate and Hardison are reviewing the situation when Moreau joins them, defending working with dirty money.
Nate tells Moreau that Hardison has hacked into all the security in the Parliament and if anything happens to him it'll go to Interpol. After Moreau leaves, Hardison goes to start the hacking.
Back in election HQ, they watch the polls, where Vittori is gaining, but still behind.
Sophie and Nate try to convince Vittori to go along with the Sophie fiancée line.
Nate tries to figure out how to get the rest of the vote in the week they have left.
Sophie and Vittori hit the town and they mold him into a candidate.
Hardison shows Nate an internet campaign ad he emailed everyone, saying the president is for child labor, etc.
Parker shakes the president's hand and lifts his watch.
Nate tells Vittori his plan to stir up a scandal about Ribera.
Cut to Eliot on TV, holding an adorable puppy and claiming Ribera hosted dog fights on the palace grounds.
Moreau laughs it off, telling Ribera to suck it up for the debate that night. He thinks the close election margin will legitimize him as a leader.
Backstage at the debate, Sophie tries to prep the nervous Vittori.
In the middle of the debate, Ribera is in the middle of answering a question when he starts hacking and chugging water. Nate explains they put Nicotine cream under his wristwatch.
Flash back to Parker lifting it, then replacing it.
The cream goes right into the bloodstream and leads to rapid heartbeat, sweats and other things that make it look like he's been drinking.
The debate ends well, with the crowd cheering for Vittori.
On election day, Nate tells Hardison that he expects Moreau to kill them after the election, but just hasn't so far so as not to taint it.
Everyone heads to the polls. There's a record turn-out. Nate comes to campaign HQ and tells Hardison to get on something. Nate tries to tell Sophie to cut Vittori loose if things get hairy, but she feels protective. Nate asks if she'd take a bullet for him.
Moreau is angry about the possible upset and reminds Ribera that his troops provide security for the candidates.
In campaign HQ, as the TV announces Vittori might have pulls the upset, Nate says "here we go."
Back down in the prison tomb, Flores makes a call from his cell phone to the TV station announcing he has been freed and is on the way to Parliament. Ribera calls to have someone check on the general and his men and finish them -- and Vittori.
Troops stop Nate in the hall and punch him out.
Masked guards head down the elevator to the prison.
Troops come for Vittori, claiming they're going to escort him to the presidential palace.
Nate is brought into the president's office in the scene from the opening.
Sophie sees Vittori being taken away and stops the troops with a champagne bottle. She drags him down to the gathered crowd below and in front of the TV camera. She urges the people to find their voice and take their freedom.
She looks up and sees masked troops in the balcony above, aiming at Vittori, she steps in front of him as they fire and Sophie goes down.
Vittori cradles her and announces she's dead.
In his office, Ribera swears he had nothing to do with Sophie getting shot and has UN inspectors calling for his head.
Nate helps himself to a drink and gives Ribera a warrant for Moreau's arrest and says Ribera will sign it before he finishes his drink.
Nate tells Moreau he's seen his like before. Nate calls himself a thief and says they don't win elections, they steal them. There's cheering in the streets and the TV reports that everyone just got a government email declaring Vittori the winner. Moreau is upset because he told his TV stations not to report the results. Nate points out they're not, they're just reporting rumors.
Moreau doesn't understand how he's at the disadvantage with all the money, guns and the government.
Nate explains he as a "24 year old genius with a smart phone and a problem with authority. You really never stood a chance."
Flash back to Hardison showing Nate his campaign ad and then emailing everyone announcing Vittori won.
Suddenly, Flores is on TV and talking to the TV cameras. Ribera calls his men. Nate says they stool his security forces, too.
Parker busts out of a steam vent down into the prison and lets Flores and his men out.
We see the masked troops get off the elevator and the two in the front are whacked down by the two in the back -- Hardison and Eliot.
Then flash to Sophie standing in front of Vittori as the troops fire (and we see the troops are Flores and Eliot).
Vittori makes a moving speech about standing up to tyranny and wins the support of Ribera's remaining troops. Lying "dead" on the floor, Sophie smiles a little.
Back in the office, Nate lays out the situation for Ribera, explaining that the people are rising up and no matter what a recount shows, the people are always going to believe they won the election. So he could stay and deal with all that, or have an estate in the country- Moreau's.
Nate points out the law that says anyone declared a political prisoner by the state can have their assets seized.
Ribera signs and Moreau is taken away.
Flores and Vittori come into the president's office and he announces he's retiring.
Moreau is taken down to the basement prison, where the Italian chick is waiting to close his cell. She's joined by Nate, thrilled that Damien Moreau will never leave San Lorenzo.
Back in Parliament, Vittori lays flowers at a shrine for Sophie, his late fiancée, who is neither his fiancee nor dead.
Watching from above, Sophie is thrilled they're putting her face on a new currency. She's proud they built something. She thinks now she an Nate are true partners in crime.
Hardison packs up to leave the country. Eliot knocks on Nate's door to get him for the airport. Nate's still in bed, and claims he had a few last night.
Eliot leaves and then Sophie pops up from under Nate's covers.
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