Leverage

Man on P.A.: Your attention, please.

All international arrivals must pick up their luggage

before proceeding...

It's taken us four months to get even this close

to one of Damien Moreau's guys.

Now we have a chance

to hit him and get closer to Moreau.

Hardison, take us through it.

Flight manifest

for global transit airlines 485 out of Baghdad

shows John Douglas Keller in business class.

Now, Keller... he moves antiquities

for our primary target, Damien Moreau.

It shows he has no checked luggage,

just probably a carry-on.

Y-you know what, guys? I-I don't get this.

I-it'd be a lot easier to intercept him

out in the terminal.

No, if this guy is as strapped as I think he is,

he's gonna have a gang of security

waiting outside the airport for him,

one bodyguard on the plane.

You want to get close to him, you do it in here.

Sounds good.

Parker?

While Eliot distracts the bodyguard,

I'll lift Keller's wallet and phone

and do a briefcase switch.

Hardison intercepted an e-mail.

Hardison: And decrypted it.

These guys use... use a variant of Larry Duberman's algorithm.

I-it's not as easy as baking a cake.

Nate: Moving on, yes.

So, Keller has something valuable on this flight,

probably Iraqi antiquities.

Now, if we get him from all sides,

one of us can grab the goods,

and then I'll put our hooks into him.

There he is.

I've got him.

That's the bodyguard. I'm going in.

This way, Mr. Keller.

Parker, he's got a black briefcase, silver hardware.

Silver hardware?

All right, I'm on it.

We're right on schedule, Mr. Keller.

Nate. Got him.

Can I see?

Hi, A'Yan! Welcome!

He hasn't talked to anyone.

He hasn't, uh, exchanged his bag with anyone.

So whatever he's smuggling

is probably in cargo and probably under a different name.

Just come right this way, sweetie.

Nate: All right, I'm out.

Here you go.

Thank you.

Hardison: Sorry for the delay, sir.

We, uh... we've had a yellow alert issued. Oh, no trouble at all.

Mr. Keller. What are your reasons for visiting Boston? Business, I'm afraid.

Just a quick dinner meeting. Then I'm off home to London.

Okay.

Can't see much of Boston in three hours, can you?

No, more's the pity.

Anything to declare?

No, nothing at all.

No time for shopping, really... not even duty-free.

Woman on p.A. : security to customs. Code 4.

Security to customs. Code 4.

Block area. Move it!

I'm sorry. She... she... she doesn't speak the language.

Uh, guys, we have a problem.

Uh, they're arresting the wrong smuggler.

Keller: May I, uh...

I'd hate to miss my appointment.

Oh, uh, yeah, yeah, you're, uh...

you're clean.

Good to go.

Thank you.

Man: Was that the only bag?

Woman: That was the only bag, yes.

Come along with me.

Excuse me. Excuse me.

Excuse me. Where are they taking the girl?

I represent her. I have papers from the consulate.

She has refugee status. Please! Listen to me!

Officer: They have to talk to her first!

Did the, uh, other girls make it?

Yes. 10 flights over the course of the day.

9 out of 10.

She's an acceptable loss.

[ Man speaking indistinctly on p.A. ]

Okay, Hardison, Eliot, I want you to tail Keller...

discreetly. No contact. Surveillance only.

Parker, if you get an opening,

I want you to lift, uh, Keller's cellphone and clone it.

Nothing else.

I need access to that girl. No, no, it's too risky.

What? Hardison has TSA badges.

For this gate only.

They just played us. No, I'm going in.

No, you're not. No, no.

No, w-we can't have access to one of those holding areas.

It's deep security.

We can talk to the family. It's a start.

Let's get this little girl home.

The rich and powerful take what they want.

We steal it back for you.

Sometimes, bad guys make the best good guys.

We provide...

Sophie: So, you're an immigration advocate?

I have spent the past six years

trying to reunite wartorn families.

I meet people off the plane

and hope the smugglers and drug dealers

haven't gotten to them first.

But she's innocent.

Well, there must be something you can do.

I can file paperwork. That is all I can do.

She's sitting alone in a holding cell,

and I don't know what to tell her family.

She could be kept in the system for months

without being processed.

The laws haven't caught up with this type of crime yet.

I deal with a lot of children seeking asylum.

These tactics are not uncommon.

A man with a gun forces

a statue or a necklace into a kid's bag and says,

"take this onto the plane or I'll kill you."

Nate: And it usually works.

The TSA is looking for guns and weapons, not statuary.

But the artifacts more than pay for drugs and weapons.

It's...

art for blood.

Well, we will do our best to exonerate A'Yan, all right?

Now, you just, uh, keep... keep filing the paperwork,

cross your T's, dot your I's, and we'll be in touch.

Thank you.

Thank you both.

If I just take Keller out, it there another way to Moreau?

Not a fast one.

Moreau got his start smuggling antiquities from war zones.

Statute of limitations is way past on those crimes.

No, no, that doesn't matter.

The more experienced a criminal becomes,

the more sophisticated he gets at covering his tracks.

You go back to his first crimes,

and that's where you see the rough edges.

It's sort of like... archaeology. Archaeology of crime.

The further back you go in a criminal's career,

the more primitive his methods,

the more mistakes you can find as a way in...

a lot more mistakes.

Hardison: Since Moreau started with antiquities,

these companies and these bank accounts

are the closest ties to his real life.

And since he's moved up, Keller's started running that part of the business.

And it's a cash cow.

The valuables from the looted Iraqi museum

or an archaeological dig...

they fetch millions on the black market in the west.

Yeah, but unlike a stolen Monet or the Rosalind diamond,

these pieces aren't registered or insured,

so they're impossible to track.

Man, I should've got into that years ago.

Parker: Yeah.

I mean before we went straight, of course.

So, Keller steals a statue from a dig in Iraq

and he mules it through customs using a little kid

and he sells it to rich Americans for 5 million bucks.

That $5 million funds terrorist training camps,

weapons sales.

The one thing that's got me stumped

is that little girl's arrest

didn't break Keller's stride at all.

I mean, he's already off on a flight to London.

Apparently he's a-a regular at Claridge's auction house.

Because you don't just sell on the black market.

The real payoff, the big money,

is when you move it through legitimate auction houses.

You fake up the papers,

you scrub off the blood and dirt,

and you clean it up so that all the pretty people

can show it off in their pretty bloody houses.

Oh, I'm sorry.

Are you the only one that's allowed to brood down here,

or is it an open bar?

I know what you're thinking, but it's not the same thing.

Oh, no. Of course it's not.

I stole from one rich man to sell to another rich man.

No one got hurt.

That I know of.

How do I know that innocent children

were never used to shift my merchandise?

You want to talk about collateral damage,

we'd be here all day. Yeah.

"Tread lightly"? I mean, who treads lightly?

Well, certainly not us.

Listen, Sophie, this guy Keller

is one of Moreau's top lieutenants.