Leverage

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You know, technically, these are our offices.

Well, you know, I sleep upstairs.

What am I supposed to do, cook on a hotplate?

Try this.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Prison kitchen, six months.

I should've had you cook me breakfast a long time ago.

Are we ever gonna talk about that kiss?

Kiss?

Yeah.

Oh. I don't remember a kiss.

I remember a slap.

You're still working off the slap.

This had better be good.

Parker's in trouble.

Who the hell is this?

No time for that, Ford. She went in without me.

She's alone, and they have a Steranko Security System.

You of all people know what that means.

A-a Steranko? Parker tried to crack a Steranko?

You've got to help her, Ford. I can't get to her.

I'm on the building across the street.

Okay, let's fan out. Check the roof.

What? Parker took an outside job?

Okay. I'll call Eliot. You call Hardison.

Tell him to meet us at Parker's place right now.

Is she in trouble?

Way more than trouble.

No sign yet, but we're close.

It's only a matter of time.

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This can't be Parker's place.

Oh, the address on, uh, Central Square?

That's a dummy. She's got six of 'em.

What?! She still doesn't trust us?

Well, yeah, she took an outside job without telling us.

I don't think any of us knows what goes on in that girl's head.

Oh, great, a keypad.

Oh, wait. This is Parker's place.

Parker picked the code.

Unbelievable.

Maybe I do know her after all.

You're not gonna tell me what it is, are you?

Sure.

It's my real name.

Oh, my god.

I didn't expect this.

This is surreal.

She lives here?

"Archie"? Who the hell is Archie?

Parker!

Okay. This is a little freaky.

Really? This is exactly what I expected.

What happened to you guys? You should've beaten us here.

We went to the wrong address.

Oh, the Central Square address?

Yeah, yeah, the Central...

Yeah, the Ce- Central Square...

I tracked your phone.

All right, listen.

She left timetables,

security codes, schematics.

Now, let's look at all this stuff

and see where she went and what she's after.

God, this is so well-organized.

She's got everything laid out just so.

This is as clean as one of your plans.

Yeah. Maybe you're rubbing off on her, Nate.

Well, I doubt I'm rubbing off on her.

She would have never tried to beat a...

Steranko? A Steranko.

On her own? Has she lost her mind?!

Okay, please, please. Somebody explain to me...

What the hell is a Steranko?

Steranko's the toughest security system in the world,

In the universe, in the multi... whatever.

How do you not know this?

I am a grifter.

If I'm doing my job right,

Then the mark just

turns off the alarm for me.

Look, Soph, you take one of those computers

that can beat like 100 people at chess,

It's got a brain the size of a building,

You hook it up to military-grade, infrared,

ultrasound, motion sensors...

Yeah, and then give it the personality

of a pissed-off rottweiler.

That's a Steranko.

It has a heuristic algorithm. Okay?

It adapts to your moves and evolves a strategy

based on your response.

It learns.

It hunts.

Can you crack it?

Can I crack... Nate...

Steranko's like Mount Everest.

You don't just jump on it.

You... you gotta train, muscle up.

No, no, no, no. Hardison. No, no.

For Parker, can you crack it?

Yeah, I-I can...

Even if I tried... just tried...

I can't do it remote.

I'd have to get in that building.

Okay, so, we get you in,

You open the doors for Parker, she goes out.

Through what? Where?

I mean, we don't even know where she's at.

The Wakefield Building, downtown.

So...

Let's go steal a Parker.

Wakefield Agriculture, Worldwide Incorporated.

Now, Wakefield's a big player in the world cereal market,

And by "Cereal" I mean wheat, corn, rice...

So it's a grocery store.

Yeah, if Godzilla's a gecko.

They do $200 million a year in biotech research

and third-world infrastructure.

All right, so it's a massive grocery store.

Yeah, but even they weren't immune to the financial crunch.

The last two years, they did a bunch of bad investments,

research that turned up empty.

This guy right here, CEO Charles Rushing?

The board's after his head.

Now, he avoided two takeover attempts,

but he's running scared.

I just swept the perimeter.

Lobby's the only point of entry.

Everything else is locked down.

And I gotta tell you, man,

I ain't big on taking this place in broad daylight, on the fly.

What you mean you ain't big on taking...

No, no, no. You just want to throw Parker under the bus?

Take it easy. I didn't say that.

- Yeah, but you are saying just walk. - That's not what I said.

I'm saying, "What happened to having a damn plan?" Hardison!

Okay, guys, guys. Listen.

If you're gonna do a job like this,

you'd need a... a base camp, right?

Something kind of private with good visibility?

And a partner, 'cause I ain't insane.

Yeah, exactly. you'd want a partner, right?

But, I mean, all the shots from Parker's place,

They were taken from a single location up high.

Look at the way the sun's going off the windows there.

According to this height... wait.

"On" the building.

He said "On... on the building across the street."

Not "In."

All right, Eliot, you're gonna come with me.

Sophie, walk Hardison into Wakefield

so you can get your hands on the Steranko.

That's the plan? It's all I got.

Nate, I keep telling you, man, this...

Fine. Whatever. Forget it. Forget it.

It's fine. We can do this.

Parker's gonna be okay.

Yeah, I know. Quiet and sneaky... standard.

Quiet and sneaky is fine

if you're thinking like a thief.

Thieves find entrances, but grifters?

We make them.

This thing was supposed to be foolproof.

This intruder made it all the way up to my laboratories

before he tripped an alarm.

Mr. Rushing and Dr. Hannity, please.

The Steranko has got the intruder trapped,

here between the 25th and the 40th floor

in the biotech levels.

Now, if I can lock the entire building down... no.

This company is bleeding red ink.

We're being audited every week.

I have bankers calling me

from countries I've never even heard of.

Do you know what'll happen to our stock prices

if there is even a rumor of a break-in?

Great.

I've got two more from the London office downstairs.

Get this done, Vorhees...

Quietly...no alarms, no panic...

Not while these auditors are here.

I can have my men go floor to floor.

Match retinal scans with ID Badges.

Once a floor is clear, we lock it down.

There is no way out.