Episode 1:02 - The Homecoming Job |
| Leverage, 1.02 – The Homecoming Job Teleplay by: John Rogers Directed by: Dean Devlin Story by: John Rogers and Dean Devlin Transcribed by: Robinyj (robinyj69@yahoo.ca) Please only archive with permission. Scene: Street, Iraq. The camera pans to show Corporal Perry in camouflage combat gear on a street in a desert town, clearly being filmed by a handheld camcorder. Perry: All right sweetheart, we are near Najaf, I’m not allowed to say exactly where. Onscreen Text: Iraq, Outside Najaf Perry: (to soldier behind him) Hey Dwight, say hello to Jenny. Camera pans to Dwight, also dressed in camo gear. Dwight: He’s cheating on ya! Perry: Nice. Dwight: With a camel. A drunk, slutty camel. Perry: All right, it was one time, okay, and the camel’s been texting me but it’s over I promise .... In the background there are sirens going off like trucks backing up. Dwight: (elbowing Perry) Hello. (Indicates off camera) PSD. (A/N: I think this stands for Private Security Division) Camera pans to a truck being loaded by a bunch of soldiers wearing all black. They are clearly not military like Dwight and Perry. Camera pans back to close up of Perry. Perry: See those guys, private contractors. They make seven hundred bucks a day. I make seven. Dwight: Yeah, but you know what they gotta do? They gotta … Dwight is cut off by shouting and the sound of bullets being fired. Dwight is shot several times in the arm and chest. Background voices: Shots fired. Shots fired. Go, go! Go red! Dwight: (as his body hits the ground) Uh! The screen turns to static. Scene cut: Hospital Room As the video is rewound the camera pulls back to reveal Nate watching the video with Corporal Perry in a hospital rehabilitation room. Perry is now in a wheelchair. Dwight: (in replay) Yeah, but you know what they gotta do? They gotta … The video shows Dwight getting shot again. Nate pauses it. Nate: Is Jenny your fiancée? Perry: Well, she was but … Nate: Oh. I’m sorry. Perry: I’m not mad, it happens. Look I don’t want charity. On-Screen Title: Leverage Nate: We are not a charity. Perry: I just want my rehab. You know if I’m gonna work, and I want to work, Dr. LeRoque says I need another year and a half of hardcore rehab, maybe two more surgeries. Castleman shot me up. I just want them to pay my bills, no more, no less. Nate: Hmm. Nate looks around the room at all the soldiers receiving treatment and physiotherapy. Nate: The army investigation determined, what, that you were hit by insurgents? Perry: Yeah, that’s because Castleman refused to cooperate in that investigation. Nate: And they can do that. Perry: Nobody’s stopping them. They’re cowboys, they go off all the time, boom, boom, boom. (Perry pulls out the flash drive with the video) I just want them to do right by me. Dr. LeRoque approaches from behind Perry. Dr. LeRoque: (to Nate) Pardon me, Mr. uh? Nate: (standing) Oh, uh, Nathan Ford. (offers his hand) You’re Dr. LeRoque? Dr. LeRoque: Can I talk to you outside? Perry: Doc, he’s cool, I found him on the internet. Dr. LeRoque: Yes, that never goes badly. (Points outside) With me. Nate: Uh … (to Perry) I’ll be in touch. Perry gives him the flash drive. Nate leaves. Scene cut: Hospital exterior Nate and Dr. LeRoque exit through the front doors of the hospital onto the sidewalk. Dr. LeRoque: You can’t just come in here and get his hopes up! Nate: I’m just here to provide options. Dr. LeRoque: There are no options. Nate: The Veteran’s hospital … Dr. LeRoque: Is 400 miles away and has a five month waiting list. Everybody in that rehab room is a reservist. When reservists get out they get sent home no matter where home is or how far it is from the treatment they need. Nobody thought this through. We’re not a rich hospital, I cashed in every favor I had to take care of these kids for as long as I could but … I have to go back in there and tell Perry we can’t treat him anymore. I have to do that. Run your scam on somebody with money. Nate: It’s not a scam. I’m here to help. Dr. LeRoque: People don’t just show up to help. That’s not the way the world works. Dr. LeRoque walks away. Nate pulls out his cell phone and speed dials. Nate: Hardison, call them. Scene cut: Audition Room Sophie is auditioning in front of a camera. Her acting is rather terrible, as usual. Sophie: Why? Why? I can’t live like this anymore. With the lies and the filth. No. Help me. (extremely overdramatic) I want to be clean. I want to be clean. The two directors behind the table are flabbergasted by how terrible she is. On-Screen Text: Hollywood John Rogers: Yeah, you understand this is a soap commercial, right? Sophie: Uh huh. When I thought about Peggy I came up with this idea that the dirt was really this giant metaphor, for sin. Sophie’s cell phone starts ringing. John Rogers: You should take that. No, no you should take that. Sophie: Oh. (Opens her phone) Hello? When? (Puts down the phone, gives the directors a snarky look) Peggy killed her first husband. John Rogers: Thank you. Sophie leaves. The directors laugh in disbelief. Scene cut: A Parking Lot An unconscious man in a leather coat is laid out on a car. Another unconscious man falls on top of him. On-Screen Text: Berlin Camera pans out to show Eliot has thrown both bodies onto the car. He turns away as the last conscious man pulls a gun on him shakily. Eliot glares at him. There is the sound of a phone ringing. Eliot: That you or me? Gunman seems uncertain. Phone keeps ringing. Eliot: Could be important. Does your mama have your number? Gunman looks down for a brief second. Eliot grabs the gun and punches the man in the neck. He goes down slowly, gurgling. Eliot dismantles the gun, throws it away then checks his pockets and pulls out his cell phone. Eliot: Yeah? … Nothing, why? Scene cut: Museum A guard walks by a painting hanging in a museum. On-Screen Text: Monaco The guard looks away. The painting vanishes and a rope is seen dangling where it used to be. A cell phone rings. Parker: Parker. Shh. (the ropes flies up the wall) No, I wasn’t shushing you. Scene cut: Hallway of Leverage HQ On-Screen Text: Los Angeles Parker, Eliot and Sophie come around the corner and walk together down the hall. They have clearly been discussing their payout from the pilot. Parker: From the first job? Eliot: Yeah. Parker: I put all that money in a Swiss bank account. Eliot: Millions of dollars and you didn’t buy anything? Parker: I don’t like stuff, I like money. Sophie: I bought a little retirement home, an island. Eliot: Nice. Sophie: In Dubai. And Tokyo. Parker: What about you? There is a small envelope taped to the door with ‘Sophie’ written on it. Sophie pulls it off. Eliot: Yeah, I’m not about to tell two known thieves what I did with a multi-million dollar payout. Sophie: Don’t you trust us? Eliot is silent. Parker and Sophie laugh. There is a key inside the envelope which Sophie uses to open the door. They walk into the office where the “Leverage Consulting & Associates” sign is displayed over a small table. The camera pans to reveal most of the rest of the office, which is fairly normal. The thieves seem unsure about it. Sophie nods first. Sophie: Okay. Okay. They look around. Parker inspects a painting of a bald man. Eliot: I don’t get it. Parker: What is this? Hardison comes in from another room, rather excited, with three cell phones and three file folders. Hardison: This is our new cover story. Welcome to Leverage Consulting and Associates, founded in 1913 by the great Harland Leverage the Third. (points behind the three of them). Sophie turns around and starts laughing. The camera angle changes to reveal a painting of “Harland” which is clearly a painting of Nate if he were much older and had long white hair. Sophie: (still laughing) I’m sorry. Nate is going to kill you. Eliot: Did you paint that? Hardison: (shrugs) I’m gifted. Eliot: That’s weird. Hardison: (moving on, lays out his stuff on the table) Now Leverage Consulting Inc. is squeaky clean, all corporate taxes on record as being paid for the last ninety years. (He hands them each a new cell phone and a file folder) All your identities as partners, your payroll taxes are paid, you guys have pension plans and dental, those are employment records, case files and company newsletters. Hardison leads the rest of the team into a different section of the office as they read over their files. Parker: (excited) In 1998 I won the sack race at the 4th of July picnic. Cool. Hardison: (Pointing out the doors around him) Now these, these are your offices. Now you can bring something like a photo … you know what, a plant! I’m a big supporter of dandelions. Sophie: Hardison, I can’t believe you spent your share of the cash on all of this. Hardison: Me? No, hell no! Nate paid for all of this, you know with what he had left. I mean, you know, after he gave the rest of it away. Eliot: Whoa! What do you mean? He gave it away? Hardison: Yeah, all of it. Every last penny. It was like to some children’s hospital or something like that but this (gestures towards a closed off room we haven’t seen yet) this is my masterpiece. As he opens the doors the lights turn on automatically. There are futuristic electronic noises. There is a sleek modern table with over half a dozen chairs with a laptop on it. And an entire wall is divided into six sections of tv screens. Sophie: Nice. Eliot: My man. Hardison: Long version or the short version? Sophie: Short. Eliot: Short version. Parker: Shortest. Hardison stands proudly in front of the massive screens while Parker, Eliot and Sophie wander around the table. Hardison clicks the button on a tiny remote control and the picture changes on the screens to show examples of what he’s talking about. Hardison: Photo and video forensics programs, back doors into every electronic banking system in the world, running heuristic data crawls all over the news sites to find our clients, oh also! Parker: This is the short version? Hardison: Facial recognition database tied into CIA, NSA and the FBI. But, the real pièce de résistance(Hardison clicks the remote and the screen changes from facial recognition software to six different sports game) DirectTV HD Total Sports Package. (Sophie and Parker look bored while Eliot is enthralled) NFL, NBA and I threw in a little bit of hockey cause I know you people like that. Eliot: (practically growls) Hockey. The doors behind Eliot open to reveal Nate who joins them in the conference room. Nate: All right, stop kicking the tires. (holds up the flash drive Perry gave him earlier) Want to take her for a spin? (throws the drive to Hardison) Time lapse. Same setting. The team is now sitting around the conference table watching the video Perry shot of the shooting. It is the same as previously seen. Perry: See those guys, private contractors. They make seven hundred bucks a day. I make seven. Dwight: Yeah, but you know what they gotta do? They gotta … Dwight is cut off by shouting and the sound of bullets being fired. Dwight is shot several times in the arm and chest. Hardison pauses the footage. Nate: Our client is the cameraman. Corporal Robert Perry. He says that the Castleman contractors spooked and started firing. Eliot: 5.56 NATO rounds mixed in with some 9 mils from the sub-machine guns. Insurgents would have used AK-47s with 7.62 ammo. It has more of a... (pause as he hits the back of his hand to his palm) crack. Contractors shot 'em up all right. Parker: You ID’ed the weapon from the gunshot sound? Eliot: It has a very distinctive sound. Hardison: (Changing display picture to Castleman’s owners) Castleman Security is hardcore folks. Billion dollar company, they got fat government contracts everywhere we got troops. That’s Charles DuFort, CEO, very paranoid and very professional. Eliot: (interrupting) I want to get this clear right now. This is a private army you’re talking about taking on. They got their own intel assets, they got a lot of trigger pullers. Nate: Yes, and lobbyists in every office in Washington, DC. The problem with a cover-up is all the paperwork it takes to keep the lies straight. Hardison: Internal emails, memos. Nate: (slaps table) Exactly. Sophie: So … Nate: So let’s go to work. (Nate rushes out of conference room. The rest of the team follows) Sophie: (picking up) So, we steal the evidence and threaten to expose them. Parker: Blackmail. Nate: Ah yes but just enough blackmail to, uh, pay for Perry’s rehab, maybe a couple of million more in damages. Eliot: It’ll never hold up in court. Nate: Ah, but that’s why Corporal Perry is lucky, he doesn’t have lawyers. He has thieves. The team each smiles in turn and then walks out of the office ahead of Nate. Nate leaves last and notices the painting of Harland. Nate: Hardison. Scene cut: Formal Party Close up on a sign that reads: Castleman Security welcomes Congressman Robert Jenkins. Private party. Tickets required. Eliot walks by the sign dressed as a waiter and carrying a tray of champagne. The camera follows him through the party, there are a lot of people all dressed up standing around talking. Eliot walks by Nate who is wearing a suit, clearly there as a party guest. Eliot: (to Nate) Next time, I wear the suit. Sophie: (heard over earbud) DuFort’s here. I’ll make contact. Camera pans to show Nate’s earbud and then moves to Sophie dressed in a tight blue dress, taking a champagne flute from Eliot. Nate: See what you can squeeze out of him. (to himself/earpiece) Parker, Hardison, time to hit his office. Scene cut: Roof On-Screen Text: Castleman Headquarters Hardison and Parker are both standing on the roof of the Castleman building dressed all in black and hooked up to repelling gear. Hardison: I gotta go back to the office I just remembered something. Parker: (tightening Hardison’s harness) What? Hardison: I just remembered gravity and the squishiness of all my manly bits. Parker: I designed this rig myself. The line is carbon fiber. Five point harness. Weight support (hits parts of Hardison’s body) here, here, and here. Auto-breaking resistance on the main pulley back here. Hardison: Okay cool, so it’s tested? Parker: Not yet. Hardison: Not yet? When the hell was you gonna test it? Parker pushes Hardison off the roof as her response. She smiles. He screams. Parker: Big baby. (she holds her rope tight and jumps) At the side of the building we see Hardison scream until he stops where he was supposed to, but he is upside down. Parker appears beside him, smiling and rightside up. Hardison: Seriously? Seriously? Scene cut: Party Nate: Okay Hardison, Parker, guard sweeps are every ten minutes, that means you got nine minutes, thirty seconds. Hardison: I’m working on it. Charles DuFort and Congressman Jenkins are talking at the party. Sophie is seen approaching behind them. Jenkins: Castleman is going to be very happy with the new Appropriations Bill. Sophie: (standard British accent) Pardon me, Congressman, Lilly McCreedy, I’m with Executive Orders. DuFort: They’re a London-based Defense Contractor. (introduces himself and shakes Sophie’s hand) Charles DuFort. Executive Orders doesn’t work for the US government. Sophie: Yet. (looks to Jenkins) Perhaps we can do something about that. Jenkins: (awkwardly) Yes well, it was very nice to meet you. Now you’ll have to excuse me. (leaves) DuFort: You’re not poaching are you? Appropriations Bill 718, those are our defense contracts, don’t even bother. Sophie: Mr. DuFort, surely there’s enough war to go around. DuFort: I rather like you. (Sophie laughs) Nate is watching the conversation from around a corner. Talks into his earpiece. Nate: Hardison, Hardison what’s this, what’s this Bill they’re talking about? Scene cut: DuFort’s office Hardison is at DuFort’s computer trying to hack it while Parker searches around the office with a flashlight. Hardison: You know I’d like to give you the Schoolhouse Rock but this man has an RFID security card reader on his power supply so I’m a little bit busy. Parker moves a painting off the wall in the office to reveal a wall safe. Parker: Ooh, old school. I found a safe. You’re not going to believe this, it’s voice activated. Nate: All right, well one problem at a time. Uh, Sophie, I’m going in. We need to get an RFID card to Eliot . Sophie: (still with DuFort) My company’s focused on meeting senators, but I’m thinking congressmen. DuFort: You know the great thing about congressmen? Fifty, a hundred grand well spent will get one elected, but then once they’re in the incumbency rate is over 95 percent so you can get an average 18, 20 years’ use out of one of them. In these uncertain times buying a United States congressman is one of the best investments a corporation can make. Sophie laughs but it’s somewhat forced. Hardison: (having been listening) Oh I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. I’m a professional criminal and I find that disturbing. At the party, Nate takes a breath and comes from around the corner. He takes an appetizer from a waitress and dips it in sauce. DuFort: (still talking with Sophie) We’ve been providing military advisors, internationally, for over forty years. Nate walks behind DuFort and wipes the sauce lightly on the back of DuFort’s jacket. Sophie: Well, helping rebels overthrow their governments Mr. DuFort. DuFort: No, overthrowing the government is too harsh a way to describe it, we just, help them along. A kind of collaboration. Nate has walked over to the bar where he throws the appetizer away. He grabs a napkin and heads towards Sophie and DuFort. Sophie: Oh, is that what you call it? Nate approaches DuFort, holding the napkin and pointing to his jacket. Nate: You have a little dip on … Sophie: Oh dear. You’ve got dip all over this beautiful jacket. All three of them are trying to inspect the stain. While DuFort is distracted Sophie pulls out his wallet and removes the RFID card, with her teeth. DuFort removes his coat to look at the stain better. Nate: It shouldn’t be too hard to get out in the wash. DuFort: Can you believe this, first day I’ve worn it. Thank you. Sophie: Let me see if I can get someone to help you with that. Excuse me? (to Eliot) Yeah, garcon. Eliot: Yes, ma’am. Eliot comes over with a tray of hor’dourves, Sophie slips him the RFID card under the tray. Sophie: I was wondering if you could help us. We seem to have gotten a little stain on this jacket. Eliot: Oh, look at that. Let me take care of that for you. Sophie: If you could splash a little soda water … DuFort: (grabbing his wallet that Sophie had replaced in the jacket at some point) Let me keep this. Man in my position shouldn’t forget his wallet. That’s embarrassing. Eliot walks away with the jacket and the card. He hands his tray of appetizers to another guest at the party. Eliot: Here you go, sir. Knock yourself out. Eliot inspects the RFID card. Eliot: (to Hardison over earpiece) There’s no magnetic strip. Hardison: It emits a little radio frequency just, just put it up next to the phone I gave you. Hardison places his own phone next to the RFID reader on DuFort’s computer. At the party, Eliot holds the card up to his phone. The phone reads: Cloning. And then: Code Cloned. Hardison’s phone receives the message. Reads: Sending Code Data. The transfer finishes and Hardison types something into the computer. It starts up. Hardison: I’m in. Nate: Parker, what’s the status of the voicelock? Parker: Uh, I’ve been sampling DuFort’s speech but I still need a few more sounds. Parker is shown using a handhelp computer that seems to record and splice audio tracks. The screen reads: Phoneme Samples: DuFort. Nate: How many? Parker: Well I only need the sounds puh, tuh, oo, ah, eh, oh, ah, ke, a, ef. Nate: Ah, only those. Eliot. Camera pans to Eliot, still dressed as a waiter, prepared with two different trays of appetizers. Eliot: I’m on it. He raises the trays and makes his way through the crowd to Sophie and DuFort. Eliot: (to a guest in a mildly French accent) Pardon. Eliot reaches Sophie and DuFort and displays his appetizers. Eliot: Hello. (waves tray 1 under DuFort’s nose) Sophie: Ooh. Mmm. Eliot: (to DuFort) Appetizer, sir? DuFort: Sure, what do you got? Eliot: (indicating tray 1) I’ve got the pâté d’escargot avec beurre d'Argentine and (looks at tray 2 which is much closer to DuFort and grimaces) what looks like old duck, kind of greasy. DuFort: I guess I’ll have the first one (indicates Tray 1 which Eliot is holding just out of reach). Eliot: Of course. (Offers him tray 2) There is a moment of silence as Eliot and DuFort look at each other with raised eyebrows. DuFort: Well? May I have some? Eliot: The greasy duck? Sophie: (shakes her head) Oh, no, no, no, I wouldn’t have the greasy duck. Eliot: No I wouldn’t suggest it. DuFort: No, the other one. Eliot looks perplexed like he doesn’t know what DuFort’s talking about. DuFort: The the pâté d’escargot with the beurre d'Argentine! Sophie and Eliot have “oh that” looks on their faces. Eliot: Excellent choice sir (gives DuFort tray 1). DuFort: (to Sophie while taking food) Who is this clown? Scene cut: Office Parker: Pretty good. Got most of them. Okay, now all I need is ef, uh and kuh. Scene cut: Party DuFort spits out the appetizer he has taken from Eliot. DuFort: (to Eliot. Angry) This is shrimp! Eliot: (walks away smiling) Very good then. DuFort: (spits again) It’s shrimp you stupid F----! Scene cut: Office Parker jumps, DuFort has clearly just said a very bad word. Parker: Oh, there they are. Really loud too. Scene cut: Party Nate: (into earpiece) Okay Sophie start the walk away. Sophie: (to DuFort) I was wondering if I could I drop by your office? DuFort: Anytime. She walks away but clearly isn’t leaving the party. Nate: Where are you going? Sophie: Playing a hunch. Nate: All right, well play it fast. Hardison, what have you got, you got three minutes. Scene cut: Office Hardison: (at computer) Too much. They got all of Perry’s medical records. Which, sure is pretty normal but they’ve got psych evaluations, high school records, they’re reading his emails. Parker sits down with him with a folder she has gotten from the now open safe. Parker: Tapping his phones. I’ve got surveillance photos of Perry here from the hospital yesterday. Hardison: Why spend so much money watching our guy? I mean investigations of the shooting were done months ago. Scene cut: Party Nate looks deep in thought and has a flashback to Perry’s video. Perry: (on video) See those guys, private contractors. The flashback freezes on the contract soldiers and zooms in on them loading up a truck. Nate: Because it’s not about the shooting. The cover-up has nothing to do with the shooting, it’s about the trucks. Sophie: (approaching Jenkins) Congressman. Jenkins: Yes? Sophie: Your support on the next Appropriations Bill would be very helpful. Jenkins: We’ve already earmarked the no-bid contracts for Castleman. They deserve it. Sophie: Nobody’s perfect, look at all the trouble they had with that shooting in Najaf. Jenkins: I’m sorry, I don’t really follow that sort of news. I just review the contracts. Sophie: Of course. Jenkins: (waves to someone across the room) Excuse me. (leaves) Nate comes up behind Sophie, they are leaving. Nate: Parker, Hardison bug out, go back to the office. We’re going to the hospital. Scene cut: Office Hardison: Do you need to talk to Perry again? Scene cut: Party Nate: The shooting wasn’t an accident, Perry isn’t a victim he’s a witness. Does Castleman strike you as the kind of company to leave a witness alive? Eliot joins Nate and Sophie and removes his bowtie as he leaves. Hardison and Parker pack up their stuff and leave the office. Scene cut: Hospital hallway A door opens, Nate and Sophie rush out. Nate: He’s not in his damn room. Scene cut: Hospital hallway 2 Eliot is walking down the hallway, he grabs a doctor’s coat off a sleeping intern. Eliot: I’m checking all the corridors that are connected to the exterior doors. Scene cut: Rehab room Perry is alone using the metal handlebars to practice walking. Perry: Sorry doc I know it’s closed but … (sees who it actually is) Mr. Ford? Nate: We gotta get you out of here, now. Nate grabs a wheelchair and pushes it in front of Perry. Perry: Why? Nate: Castleman. Come on. Sophie helps Nate lower Perry into the chair. Perry: (to Sophie as he puts an arm around her) Rob Perry. Sophie: Sophie Devereaux. Ooh, watch those hands Mr. Perry. Perry: I’m in a wheelchair, I’m not blind. Nate pushes Perry out of the room. Sophie: Let’s go. Scene cut: Hospital hallway 3 Eliot walks past two big guys in doctor’s coats. He talks into his earpiece. Eliot: Nate get him clear I can’t find … Dr. LeRoque interrupts him. Dr. LeRoque: Excuse me, do you work on this floor. Eliot: (covering up the badge on his jacket that isn’t him) I uh, what floor is this? I’m in orthopedics so ... Eliot looks down, there is a close of up of Dr. LeRoque’s feet – she is wearing squishy hospital shoes. He has a moment of realization. Camera pans to the two men he passed a moment ago, they are wearing boots, nothing like what a doctor would wear. Eliot takes off after the two men. Dr. LeRoque: Hey! Hey! Scene cut: Hospital hallway Nate is leading the way as Sophie pushes Perry towards the elevators in his wheelchair. They turn a corner, the two soldiers are there looking for them. Eliot is swiftly coming up behind them. Soldier 1 pulls out a knife. Nate: Get the elevator! Nate pushes a gurney into the middle of the hallway to slow them down. Eliot comes rushing down the hall and pushes Soldier 1 into the wall then knocks Soldier 2 into the gurney, flipping him to the ground. Soldier 1 comes at Eliot with the knife. Eliot deflects and knocks him down. Soldier 2 comes at Eliot with another knife, Eliot grabs an IV pole and defends himself. Kicks Soldier 2 in the stomach, knocking him down. Hits Soldier 1 in the face with the pole. Soldier 2 comes back again with the knife. Eliot deflects it, punches Soldier 2 and then mounts him on the ground to deliver several more blows. Perry: Mr. Ford! Perry shoves a defibrillator towards Nate, who grabs the paddles. Soldier 1 runs at Eliot with a knife. Eliot grabs the man’s arm and shoves him towards Nate. Nate: Hello. Nate charges the defibrillator paddles and presses them against Soldier 1’s chest. The shock knocks the man down the hall, unconscious, right past Eliot who seems mildly impressed. The elevator chimes and opens behind Sophie and Perry. Nate: Go. Nate ushers them into the elevator. Eliot goes back and grabs a bag off one of the Soldiers then runs into the elevator. Scene cut: The office Eliot empties out the bag he retrieved from the Soldiers onto the office table. There is a money clip, a pack of cigarettes, a note, a knife, a pair of sunglasses and a gun inside. Eliot immediately unloads the gun. Hardison runs a quick check on his blackberry. Eliot: I got all this stuff off one of the Castleman hitters. Sophie: (Picking up the note, reading) I can’t live with the pain, I’m so sorry … this is a suicide note. Hardison: The gun is registered in Robert Perry’s name. The bill of sale belongs to a gunshop a mile from his house. Nate enters with a bottle of liquor and a glass. Nate: I got Perry squared away in a safe house. Eliot: Play time’s over Nate, it’s only a matter of time before they come after us. The tall one, the way he used a knife, ex-marine, probably Force Recon. Hardison: You ID’ed a guy off his knife-fighting style? Eliot: It’s a very distinctive style. Nate has poured himself a full glass of liquor yet drinks directly from the bottle. Eliot shrugs and gives him a “what the hell” look. Nate places the full glass on the table. Nate: For later. Hardison: I didn’t sign up for any of this. What I did before, nobody got hurt. Sophie: I stole paintings for a living. Parker: I never hurt anybody. Eliot: (shrugs) I actually hurt people, so … Sophie: Nate, if anything had happened to this kid … Nate: (interrupting) You know you guys called on me. You remember? You begged me to run the crew, agreed to play by my rules. Now walk out if you have a problem with that. Walk out any day if you have a problem with that. It’s simple. Shot of each member of the team looking hesitant. Eliot: We finish this one. Parker: Just one. Hardison: How do we hit ‘em? Nate looks unsure. Sophie fills in. Sophie: Congressman Jenkins, he’s our in. Looked me straight in the eye and told me he’d never even heard of the shooting. Parker: So? Sophie: Looked me in the eye? When men are telling me the truth they’re not looking me in the eye. A man only ever looks a woman in the eye when he’s making the effort to lie to her. Eliot: Well you can’t argue with that. Hardison: Noted and filed. Nate: All right, Jenkins is DuFort’s pet congressman, let’s see if we can get him to bite. The best way to get two people to reveal a secret, get ‘em to turn on each other. Eliot gathers up the materials on the table, while Parker and Hardison leave. Nate takes a long drink from his liquor bottle. Sophie gets up and takes it from his mid-swig. Sophie: May I put that away for you? Nate: Didn’t sound like a question! Nate waits a moment and takes a drink from the glass he had saved ‘for later’. On-Screen Text: Washington, D.C. Scene cut: Hallway in a federal building Sophie is walking down the hallway with Congressman Jenkins. Sophie: Congressman Jenkins. Jenkins: Oh, uh … Executive Orders, the European company from the fundraiser, right? Sophie: That’s right. Scene cut: DuFort’s office at Castleman Headquarters Nate is talking with DuFort as they enter his office. DuFort: I remember you, from the fundraiser. On-Screen Text: Los Angeles DuFort: (indicating a seat) Please. Nate sits down. Nate: Tom Abrahms. You can call me Tommy. DuFort: You don’t work for Congressman Jenkins, do you? Nate: I do not. No I work for Congressman Calloway from upstate. DuFort: We already have enough friends on the Appropriations Committee. Scene cut: Washington Sophie: European countries will aid the United States in foreign operations if they know that European companies are going to reap some of the benefits. Some help in the Appropriations bill … Jenkins: I support American companies. Sophie: Like Castleman? Jenkins: Like Castleman. And they support the country. Scene cut: Los Angeles Nate: Well I’m here because Congressman Calloway wanted me to let you know that he’s open to discussions now that Congressman Jenkins has gone soft on you. DuFort: Jenkins always delivers. Nate: Jenkins told my boss to his face that he’s tired of covering for you. DuFort: We’ve backed him for years. Nate: Well, Jenkins wanted my boss to meet this woman from a British company … er … uh … DuFort: Executive Orders? Scene cut: Washington Sophie: I didn’t pick you at random congressman. Castleman can be a fickle friend, rumor has it they’re looking for some fresh blood. Scene cut: Los Angeles Nate: I’ll tell you what, if your earmarks and your no-bid contracts are still in that Appropriations Bill then you know that he’s still your boy, but if they’re not, well, Congressman Calloway would be open to enjoying the same favors that Jenkins has enjoyed for all these years. But of course Jenkins has new friends now. Scene cut: Washington Sophie: You should look out for the signs congressman. Missed phone calls, no more little favors. Jenkins: Those are the same signs that your wife is cheating on you. Sophie: That’s right. Jenkins: What am I supposed to do when that happens? Sophie: (gives him her business card) Play the field. Scene cut: Los Angeles DuFort: Thanks very much for coming Tommy. Nate: (shakes his hand) Pleasure. (leaves.) Scene cut: Leverage Office Hardison sits down at the conference table with Eliot. Hardison: Congressman Jenkins is very careful. No direct bribes but he’s renovating his house and so far he’s received over $600,000 worth of work for a little over fifty grand. Hardison brings up pictures of Jenkins’ house and of Jenkins in a construction helmet. Eliot: Castleman owns the contracting company, huh? Hardison: I mean, he’s going through like three shell companies but yeah. And this man loves his house. Just check out his web browsing habits. Hardison pushes a button to change the image to a website that displays wood panels in varying colors. Hardison: Look here, see the man spent three weeks picking out the perfect mahogany wood panels. This site is like wood porn. Eliot: Is his house finished? Hardison: Not even close. Eliot: Can I borrow your phone? Hardison takes out his phone, dials for Eliot and hands it to him. Eliot: (on phone) Hello? Yes, I’d like to cancel delivery on some mahogany wood paneling. Please. Hardison tries to suggest something, Eliot gets irritated and stands up. Eliot: (still on phone) The Jenkins house. Yeah, you know what, do me a favor man, just go ahead and cancel the whole order. Yes sir. As Eliot leaves the conference room Nate enters with a bowl of popcorn and two beers. Nate: (Pointing to Eliot) What’s he doing? Hardison: Yanking the congressman’s chain. Hardison and Nate sit down at the conference table. Nate: Uh huh. Parker started her run yet? Hardison: Just now. The conference room screen changes to show the blueprint of the Capitol building in Washington. It transforms into the real building. Scene cut: Capitol Building Hallway Parker is walking down the hall dressed as a cop/security guard. She salutes another cop as she walks by then rushes down a hallway out of sight. Hardison: (Narrating over Parker’s actions) You know I still think it would be easier for me to just hack the bill in the printer queue. Parker emerges from the hallway instantly, now dressed in professional attire similar to a clerk. Nate: (Also narrating over Parker) No, no, no computers. The Bill is put into a wooden box on the congressional floor called the Hopper. Scene cut: Office Hardison: A woo .. whoa, whoa! A wood … a wooden box? Nate: A wooden box. Hardison: Wood? Well, we can put a man on the moon but all our laws go into a wooden box. The office screen changes to show a red dot in the building blue prints which is Parker making her way to the congressional floor. Nate: What we need to do is we need to get DuFort to believe that Jenkins is abandoning him. That Jenkins submitted an Appropriations Bill that doesn’t have any of the usual contracts for Castleman. As Nate talks we see Parker walking down the hall at the Capitol building. She purposely runs into a clerk who’s in conversation and steals his ID badge. She then prepares the fake bill, inserting new pages. Nate: Which means that we have to put our own pages into the Bill. Hardison: That means the only place that we could get at it would … ah! Ah! (Nate and Hardison laugh together) Okay. At the Capitol Building Parker flashes her badge and walks into the Senate Room. The clerk she stole the badge from is being detained by security. Security guard: (to clerk) If you don’t have a pass you don’t get in. Hardison: I mean, break a law, everybody’s done that, my mama’s done that but steal a law. Oh, she’s gonna be a legend baby. The screen cuts to a television where C-SPAN news shows the Senate floor. Parker is walking to “The Hopper” and waves at the camera. Hardison and Nate watch as she inserts the fake bill into the Hopper. Parker: (over the com line) The eagle has landed. Nate: (toasting Hardison) It’s in! Hardison: Uhn! Go ahead girl! Sexyness! Unh. Rrrnnn. Nate: Might want to ease up on that a little bit. Hardison: Just saying. Nate: Yeah. Hardison: Between me and you. Between me and you. Nate: Never leaves the room. Scene cut: Office The boys are all at the conference table as Sophie and Parker enter. It is a least a day after the previous scene. Over the speakers we hear a recording of Jenkins and DuFort arguing. Nate: (To Sophie and Parker) How was Washington? Sophie: Villians, conmen, wolves in sheep’s clothing. Felt right at home. Nate: (indicating the record) This is pretty good. Listen to this. DuFort: (recorded phone conversation) Don’t call me this is your contractor’s problem. Jenkins: Oh please. Let’s not pretend … DuFort: You pulled all our earmarks from the Appropriations Bill. Hardison: There’s about an hour of this but here’s the high point. Jenkins: Somebody screwed up. I’ve always been there for you. I called Manilla, I cleared customs for ya in Los Angeles and that was a risk. Hardison pauses the playback. Hardison: Now after that they … well, whatever you call the rich guys on telephones’ version of make-up sex, but, now we know, Castleman makes a thousand shipments a month, but one ship through Manilla, right after the shooting, linked to phone records from the congressman. The computer screen in the background shifts through several documents before settling on an image of the Los Angeles harbour. Hardison: Their shipments come through here. (indicating map of container boxes) Now somewhere in this madness is container 541. It’s currently sitting at the Port of Los Angeles. Parker: What’s in it? Hardison: No idea, but it’s moving in two days. Headed to the main Castleman storage facility in Kansas. Nate: Now that, that’s why they tried to hit Perry, right there, that’s it. Eliot: Wanted to tie up all the loose ends before they tucked this one away at home base. Sophie: What do you ship in a crate, from Iraq? Nate: Oh boy. Something worth killing for. Scene cut: Dockyard with shipping boats On-Screen Text: Port of Los Angeles There are several shots of trains moving crates. Nate and Sophie are seen waiting by a car outside the gates of the Port watching the guards. Nate: (to the rest of the team over the earpieces) How’s security? Scene cut: Inside the Port of Los Angeles Parker, Hardison and Eliot have broken inside and trying to spot container 541. Eliot: Dockyard entrance is no problem but … They are all watching the armed Castleman guards that are patrolling the area. Eliot trails off as the guards move away and reveal the crate they’re looking for. Eliot: There it is. It’s 541. Eliot starts to move towards the now unprotected crate. Hardison grabs him by the shoulder and pulls him back. Hardison: Hold up Rambo. Hardison is holding a cell phone that is set to detect any electronic protection. Hardison: So, no lasers, no motion detectors, no vibration sensors, no … whoops. Scene cut: Nate and Sophie at the gates Nate: Whoops? What whoops? Hardison: There’s a webcam, I’m picking up its broadcast on my phone. Eliot disappears out of sight. Parker: Oh, I see it. Up on that pole. Hardison: I just have to spoof the IP address and overlay a digital duplicate over the wifi … Eliot reappears with a small rock. He steps forward and throws it with extreme precision, the webcam is heard shattering. Hardison: Or that. Eliot: Let’s go, come on. The three of them jog towards the crate. Hardison: I’m sorry it was too far away for you to punch I’m sure that really frustrates you. Scene cut: Four Castleman guards are seen outside the gates of the dockyard with a truck. Soldier 1 from the fight at the hospital is one of them. Soldier1: (into shoulder radio) Position 1 what’s your status? Soldier3: (over radio) Perimeter secure, we’re ready for you. Soldier1: Copy that, I’m on my way. Soldier1 motions for the other three soldiers to follow him. They head inside the Port. Scene cut: Inside the Port at container 541. Parker is picking the lock on the container while Hardison and Eliot keep watch. Hardison: What do you think is in there? Parker: Artifacts from Baghdad museums, maybe some from the Saddam palaces … Eliot: No, I bet it’s weapons. Lot of backalley arms dealing going on in a war zone. Parker finishes with the lock. Hardison and Eliot each pull open one of the doors to reveal that the huge crate is filled with tightly packed bundles of cash. The three stand in shock for a moment. Hardison: Money’s good too. Parker steps forward in awe, hugs the money, then turns around giggling happily. Scene cut: A different part of the Port The soldiers from outside the fence are now meeting up with the soldiers that were guarding the crate earlier. Soldier1: Hey, line of sight. You shouldn’t be away from that container. Soldier3: (Holding up a cell phone) Something’s wrong with the webcam. Soldier1 looks down and sees the webcam is transmitting static. He rushes off towards the container. When the soldiers get there the area is clear, there is no sign of anyone or that anything has happened. Soldier1 seems satisfied that all is secure. Soldier1: Get some men up there to fix that webcam. I want it working in an hour. Move. Half the soldiers leave while the others stay to guard the crate. Camera pans up to reveal Hardison, Parker and Eliot hiding by laying out flat on top of another crate. Scene cut: The office. Some of the money from the crate is spread out on the table. Parker is stroking it reverently while the others talk above her. Sophie: (picking up a stack of bills) Okay, that’s worth killing for. Hardison enters with a different stack of the money. Hardison: Ultraviolet checks out, the paper checks out, the watermarks, the ink, it all checks out. Sophie: There’s a whole container of it from Iraq of all places, it’s gotta be counterfeit. Parker is rubbing a stack of bills against her cheek. Parker: No, it’s real. It feels real. Eliot: Hey, what do you got going on, you and Hardison, what is it like a creepy contest? Sophie: I don’t know what is it two, three hundred million in US currency? What’s it doing in Iraq? Nate: We sent it there. Eliot: What? Nate: Beginning of the Iraq war my old company helped insure the largest currency transfer in history. Billions and billions in ones, fives and twenties, all cash. Sent to Iraq for reconstruction. Eliot: Bribes. Nate: As needed. Nine billion went missing. Sophie: Wait, billion? With a ‘b’? Nine billion dollars of US taxpayer money just disappeared. Hardison: Castleman gets a cut of the booty. The day they go to move it, real soldiers, they see the transfer … Eliot: One of the contractors spooks, starts shooting. Parker: Yeah but Corporal Perry didn’t see anything. Nate: Well, they don’t know that. Hardison: Castleman’s a billion dollar company why would they even care about this cash? Nate: Because it’s cash. You know money is money, that’s one thing, but cash is a whole other thing. For all the money in the economy there’s only about $500 in cash for every American. Sophie: Untraceable small bills, perfect for slush funds or home improvements for US congressman. Hardison: Or small time donors, you know for re-election. No electronic trail. Nate: It’s money laundering. Sophie: How so? Nate picks up an electronic pen and writes on an electronic pad that shows what he is drawing up on the screen. Nate: All right, well Castleman uses the illegal cash to re-elect his congressman. Nate draws a picture of a castle labeled ‘Castleman’ and makes arrows with money signs pointing to the word ‘congressman’. Nate: Congressman gets him no bid contracts for government jobs, and the government pays for his services with legal money. Nate draws the word ‘no bid contracts’ and connects all three items with arrows and dollar signs. Nate: There’s the circle, right there. Hardison: They turned the entire US government into a money laundering scam. Nate: That’s right. Hardison: Brilliant. I’m impressed. Sophie: Never thought I’d say this, ever, but that is just way too much money to steal. Nate: No, you’re not gonna steal it. You don’t remember? You’re got the good guys now, you’re gonna give it back. The rest of the team seems displeased by this news. Scene cut: Inside the container yard On-Screen Text: Port of Los Angeles Castleman guards are seen scattered throughout the dockyard, all are heavily armed. Soldier1 from the hospital and the previous visit to the Port approaches behind two other Castleman soldiers. Soldier1: Check the perimeter. Soldier1 approaches another set of guards in a car. Soldier1: Start your rounds. Scene cut: Around the corner from Container 541 Two guards are talking and turn suddenly when a loud grating voice is heard yelling. Nate: The car is right over there! Nate and Sophie appear dressed as tourists complete with lais and Hawaiian shirts. They are fighting like an old married couple. Soldier4: Hey you two! Sophie: I told you we should have taken the shuttle bus. Soldier5: Stay right there. The soldiers run to intercept Nate and Sophie. Nate: I paid them $2,000 for food poisoning they’re not getting another cent! Parker peaks her head around a corner, dressed as a construction worker, she sneaks past the distracted guards towards the container. Sophie: I have to hear this again? Nate: (to approaching soldiers) Hey! Hey you! You, come here! Where’s the Pacific Cruise, the parking lot!? Soldier4: You people have to move away from this area. Nate: Yeah well I’m trying to jackass just tell me where my car is. Sophie: Yeah, that’s right, start a fight why don’t you? Nate drops his bag and yells at her. Nate: Ahh! Sophie: Oh! Scene cut: Entrance to container storage. A very nice car pulls up to the entrance to the port. Congressman Jenkins is driving the car. He stops at the lowered barricade and gets out to knock on the security glass of the guard booth. Jenkins: Excuse me. The door opens to reveal Eliot, shuffling about in a guard’s uniforms with horn rimmed glasses. Eliot: Yes, sir … Congressman! What a pleasure. Jenkins: I paid a fortune for these mahogany panels and I’d like to know where the hell they are. Eliot: I can help you with that right here sir. Eliot takes the piece of paper that Jenkins has been holding and looks it over. Scene cut: Container 541 Parker is inspecting the lock of a container. Hardison is now with her. Parker: They changed the lock. Hardison: Just do what you do. I mean, whatever, what you need, ah … uh … Parker pulls out a tiny bomb from her toolbelt, clearly strapped with C4. She is excited, Hardison is not. Hardison: Nah. Unh un. Stop all that playing. Hell no. Parker sticks the bomb to the container door and sets the timer while Hardison moves quickly behind the truck they brought with them. Scene cut: Around the corner from the container. Sophie: After squeezing out three brats for him … Nate: Ah, here we go again. Sophie: Then he treats me to a little romance. Nate and Sophie’s yelling gets so loud their words are unperceivable. Behind them a group of soldiers is approaching. Soldier1: Hey you two back to your posts. (to Nate and Sophie) What’s this? (Recognizes Nate from the hospital) I know you. Nate: What? A huge explosion erupts from around the corner prompting the soldiers to duck and take cover. A truck immediately pulls away from the explosion. Soldier1: Check the container. Nate and Sophie take the distraction to run across the street. Soldier1: Wha … whoa whoa, where’d they go? The truck passes by Nate and Sophie and when it leaves the screen Nate and Sophie are gone, all that is left are their bags. Soldier1: No. No, no, no, no, no! Soldier1 and three other guards run to the container to find the doors blown open. Fiery pieces of metal are strewn across the ground and the container is empty. Soldier1: No!!! Soldiers all run back around the corner after the truck that left. Soldier1: (into shoulder radio) Perimeter. Perimeter, there’s a white truck coming at you. Do not let it pass! As the soldiers run away Congressman Jenkins wanders into the area with a key and a map of the storage yard trying to figure out where he’s supposed to go. Scene cut: The gate of the container storage yard. A truck full of Castleman soldiers are in fast pursuit of the white truck. The white truck makes it through the security gates as they are manned by regular security guards and not Castleman soldiers. Soldier5: (in Castleman truck) Stop that truck! There is a close-up of inside the white truck, we see that Hardison is driving it by himself. Soldier5: Come on! Come on! The truck full of Castleman soldiers pulls out suddenly in front of the white truck forcing it to stop. The soldiers pull their weapons on the white truck and surround both doors. Soldier1: Get out of the vehicle, now! Hardison puts his hands up in surrender. Scene cut: The Storage Yard Gates As Soldier1 runs towards the gates with several other soldiers, DuFort drives up to the gates and meets them. Soldier1: (to regular security guard) Get out of the way. DuFort: What’s going on here? Soldier1: What are you doing here? DuFort: We’re moving the container today now what’s happening? Soldier1: The container is empty. The soldiers continue after the truck. DuFort looks devastated and drives into the storage yard. Scene cut: The road outside container storage The soldiers still have their guns trained on the white truck. Soldier1 approaches the driver’s door, armed. Soldier1: Get out of the truck. Hardison, with his hands still up, gets out of the truck. Soldier1: And just where do you think you’re going? Hardison: I’m just transporting. Soldier1: No, you’re just gonna open this truck. Scene cut: The Container Jenkins is standing in front of the container with the blown away door. DuFort approaches angrily. DuFort: What did you do? (Shakes Jenkins) Who the hell are you working for you stupid son of a bitch! I will bury you! Jenkins: Get your damn hands off me! (Pushes DuFort away). DuFort: You don’t think we kept all of your emails, all of your phone calls! You go down with us on this. Jenkins: What is this? DuFort: (Gesturing behind them) This is the container! Jenkins: The container? The container with the Iraqi money? Scene cut: Road outside Container Storage Hardison and Soldier1 are at the back doors of the truck. Soldier1: Open it. Hardison: Okay, I see what this is. This is racial. This is about my ethniticity, ain’t it? Uh huh. It’s cause I’m Jewish. Scene cut: The Container DuFort: I’m supposed to believe that you just happened to be here on the day that a couple hundred million dollars in cash goes missing? Jenkins: Don’t blame me! I helped you smuggle that money through customs. I broke laws, I could go to jail! CNN Reporter: Congressman? Is this the container Congressman? Jenkins and DuFort turn around to find half a dozen reporters and cameramen are approaching them, ready to record everything. Jenkins: (flustered) Uh … what? CNN Reporter: You called us Congressman . Jenkins: I … no, no, no, you must be mistaken about that. Scene cut: Road outside Container Storage Hardison: (cont.) Just cause a brother likes mozzaball soup, what’s wrong with that? Sammy Davis … Hardison is cut off by Soldier1 shoving a gun in his face. Soldier1: Open that door, or I open your head. Hardison unlocks the door and pushes it up to reveal that the truck is empty. Soldier1 hangs his head in frustration. Scene cut: The Container. CNN Reporter pulls back one of the blown open doors to reveal the numbers on the nearby containers which have been hidden until now. CNN Reporter: Not this one. This is 542. Jenkins: What? CNN Reporter pulls back the second door to reveal that Container 541 is completely undamaged. CNN Reporter: Your phone call said 541. Sir, you’re holding the key. Jenkins: Oh, yeah well. Scene cut: Flashback to Jenkins talking to Eliot at the gates dressed as a security guard. Jenkins: I’m just back from Washington for a day and they say I have to personally come down here. Eliot: I’ll give you a map to your container, right there, one second hold on. (Eliot gives him the map and reaches back to grab a key) Get ya the key. Jenkins takes it. Scene cut: Present time at the Container Jenkins plasters on a fake smile and goes to unlock the container. DuFort: Don’t. Don’t. Jenkins: (whisper) They’re watching. They’re filming us. (Louder) Charles, will you help me here please? Jenkins and DuFort pull open the doors to reveal the container filled with cash. Scene cut: Flashback to Parker blowing up the doors. The original shot is extended to clearly show that Parker blew up the doors to Container 542. The flashback jumps ahead to again show that the soldiers ran into the empty Container 542, believing it to be 541. Scene cut: Present time at the container. The reporters gasp and mumble amongst themselves, filming the entire thing. CNN Reporter: Congressman what is all this? What have you uncovered here? Jenkins: I have uncovered corruption. This is Charles DuFort, from Castleman Security and in the course of his company’s very patriotic work in Iraq they discovered a massive theft of US currency. DuFort: Our intel revealed that this container left Iraq sometime last month. I knew that I would need high level help unraveling this conspiracy so I called the most honest man that I know, Congressman Jenkins. Jenkins: And I want to tell you this, I for one am not going to stand by and let this sort of war profiteering continue. As Jenkins talks the cell phones of all the reporters, cameramen and Jenkins and DuFort all start ringing. They all answer their phones to see they have received a video message. The video is of DuFort and Jenkins talking minutes earlier in front of the Container. Jenkins: (On video) Don’t blame me! I helped you smuggle that money through customs. I broke laws, I could go to jail! DuFort: (On video) You don’t think we kept all of your emails, all of your phone calls? You go down with us! Recognizing the angle on the video, the reporters all glance up to see the webcam mounted above them which had filmed the two men talking. It is the same one Eliot broke earlier, which the soldiers later fixed. CNN Reporter: Congressman, is this a confession? Jenkins: There’s an explanation for everything. CNN Reporter: And sir, what is that explanation? The reporters swarm them with so many questions it is inaudible. CNN Reporter: How long have you been involved in this smuggling? Jenkins: (walking away) Oh crap. CNN Reporter: (dials phone) We’re gonna lead with crap. Scene cut: Outside St. Francis Hospital. Corp. Perry is wheeling himself down the driveway with Dr. LeRoque behind him. Dr. LeRoque: What’s this all about? Perry: I don’t know. Mr. Ford said he wanted us down here right away. When they get to the end of the driveway they find the entire Leverage team waiting in front of a white truck. Nate: Hi guys. Dr. LeRoque: What do you want? Nate: Show ‘em. Hardison unlocks the back door of the truck and opens it. The truck appears to be completely empty. Dr. LeRoque: An empty truck. Hardison: Nothing up my sleeve. Hardison walks into the truck and tears down a painted canvass that awesomely made the truck look completely empty with the use of optical illusion. Behind the canvass are two huge bundles of money, clearly not everything that was in the Container of money but at least several million dollars. Dr. LeRoque: Is this stolen? Sophie: Not anymore. Dr. LeRoque: What are we supposed to do with it? Sophie: Pay for Corporal Perry’s rehab. Hardison: And some other guys’ rehabs. Parker: Pretty much whatever you want. Perry: Doc, a cute blonde shows up with a couple million dollars I say we take the win. (to team) Thank you. Eliot: Corporal, (shakes Perry’s hand) Thank you. Thank you. Eliot, Parker, Sophie and Hardison walk away while Nate lingers for a moment. Dr. LeRoque: (to Nate) The world doesn’t work this way. Nate: So change the world. Nate walks away as well, leaving her and Perry with all the money. Dr. LeRoque: (laughing) Okay. Several other injured soldiers have wandered out to join them at the truck and see what everyone is looking at. Dr. LeRoque: We’ve got it, we can take care of everybody. Perry: (joking) I get half right? Dr. LeRoque: No you don’t get half! Perry: Yes I do, I get half! The team is watching the interaction of the overjoyed soldiers and doctors. They are all smiling. Nate: Anybody who wants to walk away can do it right now. Eliot: One more. Hardison: Maybe two. Parker: I bought a plant. Hardison: Nice. Team spirit. Parker: What does it do? Eliot: (to Nate) I can’t believe you gave all your money away. You didn’t buy yourself anything. Nate: Oh, I bought a car. Hardison: Probably a station wagon. Nate: An electric car. Eliot: Of course. Sophie: How sweet. Do you have to wind it up? Nate: Uh, just trying to be responsible. Hardison: Responsible? You know it sucks being the good guys, right? Nate: You haven’t figured it out yet, have you? Just cause you’re the good guys now, doesn’t mean you can’t have a little fun along the way! Nate punctuates his point by getting into his car – it is a shiny, very awesome looking red Tesla Roadster. The team watches him pull out, shaking their head s. Parker: Woo hoo. Sophie: Oh boy, midlife crisis. Eliot: Absolutely. Hardison: Definitely midlife. Parker: Totally midlife crisis. The rest of the team walks away. Parker doesn’t notice for a second and then follows them. The end. |
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