Leverage (TV Series)

The Corkscrew Job (2012)

Aldis Hodge: Alec Hardison

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• Alec Hardison : There's the full non-disclosure agreement that Kristen's required to sign in order to get her settlement. That thing's a hundred pages longer than the one you sign for the CIA. The winery's just trying to get her to shut up.

  Sophie Devereaux : And how did you get your hands on the CIA contract?

  Alec Hardison : You ask too many questions.

• 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.

• 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.