| “ | I mean, look at that side part. That is such a "I'm a bad guy" side part. | ” |
— Breanna | ||
The team must go after Harry Wilson's ex-wife's new husband, a crooked oil CEO whose oil spill is poisoning the gulf. They must prove his company's liability before the case against them gets dismissed, requiring Parker, Elliot, and Breanna to infiltrate the drilling site to gather the data in time.
The Client[]
Becky Wilson
The Mark[]
Ethan Bradford
Summary[]
The episode starts with Harry bringing the team their mail. Sophie got an offer as artistic director of a theatre in London.
Becky, Harry’s daughter, was grabbed outside of her house, and the guy who grabbed her got into a car accident while fleeing. Becky goes to Harry to ask for his help. She believes someone is after her stepdad, Ethan, as they’ve noticed people watching them. Ethan is an oil company CEO. Harry thinks he’s a good guy. Breanna takes a strike from the team, not wanting to work the case. Eliot calls Maria to find out what hospital the guy who grabbed Becky, Jerry Vanton, is at. Maria reveals she sent the letter addressed to Teddy Bear to Eliot, as she thinks he’s cute when he’s angry. Jerry’s lawyer, James Lowe, tells them that Jerry has a granddaughter with leukemia from exposure to crude oil. Jerry has been after Ethan trying to expose information that he didn’t clean up after his company, GulfPetrol’s recent oil spill. GulfPetrol tried to take Jerry out for revealing their secret.
Harry realizes that Ethan is lying and wants to take him down, which is when Breanna rejoins the team, as she called Ethan being evil all along. Breanna, Eliot, and Parker infiltrate the oil rig.
Eliot feels as though his secrets and his job are keeping him from getting close to Maria. He asks Parker for relationship advice as he admires her and Hardison’s relationship. Parker tells Eliot he can’t have secrets for it to work; he has to let Maria know him.
While on the rig, the court case is pushed up, shortening their con to expose Ethan and GulfPetrol. Breanna uploads live footage of the leaking pipes onto the company site. When Harry confronts his ex-wife, she tells him that she’s still going to stand by Ethan, despite what he’s done. Sophie wants to take the job she was offered, saying that rejoining the team was just a stopover for her and that she wants to find herself. On the news, the team sees that GulfPetrol blew up their oil rig to cover their tracks, and Ethan is going to get away. At the end of the episode, Harry is interviewing for RIZ, saying he’s had a change of perspective.
Locations[]
Aliases[]
- Alice White - Parker
- Teddy Bear - Eliot
- D. Tennant, Tom Baker, River Song - Hardison
- Armus Vagra - Eliot's alias while undercover as an oil rig worker
Guest Cast[]
- Andrea Navedo as Maria Shipp
- Lucy Taylor as Alexandra Bligh
- John Hans Tester as Ethan Bradford
- Amy Motta as Grace Bradford-Wilson
- Auden Wyle as Becky Wilson
- Frank Duffy as Jerry Vanton
- Charles Green as James Lowe
Episode Notes[]
- The beginning of the episode makes brief allusions to several of the crew's former aliases (which is odd because in S5 Hardison said they were all burned). Harry Wilson has mail for Alice White (Parker), Tom Baker (Nate, then Hardison), River Song (ironically Hardison), and a new alias called Teddy Bear (Eliot).
- All of Hardison's aliases on his mail are references to Doctor Who. "D. Tennant" references David Tennant who played the Tenth Doctor; "Tom Baker" is the actor who played the Fourth Doctor; "River Song" is a recurring Doctor Who character who became the Doctor's wife.
- Eliot's alias on the oil rig, "Armus Vagra", references the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Skin of Evil which featured an alien named Armus who inhabited a planet called Vagra II.
- Parker’s sad that Sophie’s leaving
- Parker feels tight with Maria now.
- Sophie thinks it’s getting serious between Eliot and Maria
- Harry’s ex-wife’s name is Grace
Trivia[]
- Harry's daughter Becky is played by Auden Wyle, Noah Wyle's real daughter.
- Sophie's cover name, Darby Shaw, is taken from author John Grisham's "The Pelican Brief" where the main character, Darby Shaw, is a Tulane law student in New Orleans. This episode involves a law firm in New Orleans.
- The name of the oil platform is "Hyperion". The Hyperion Hotel was the main setting for the main characters of the TV series "Angel" (from Seasons 2 through 4) on which Christian Kane (Eliot) was a recurring guest star.
- During the scene where Harry is being a lawyer in this episode, the suit he wears and his mannerisms as extremely similar to one worn by Gregory Peck in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) (playing Atticus Finch, a lawyer who helps those who cannot help themselves).