| “ | Let's go steal a stolen Rembrandt! | ” |
— Sophie Devereaux | ||
When the team comes together to help Sophie, they intercept guilt-ridden corporate fixer Harry and decide to help him take down an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis.
The Client[]
There was no client. Instead, Parker, Hardison, and Elliot were trying to get Sophie back on the con after her loss, where they discovered Harry Wilson, who joins the group mid-heist.
The Mark[]
Fletcher Maxwell, a billionaire client of Harry Wilson's partially responsible for the opiod crisis.
Summary[]
The Boston art musuem. A series of flashbacks leading up to the current moment, as lawyer Harry Wilson barges into the musueum.
3 Days Earlier
Eight years after Sophie and Nate left the Leverage team, Sophie begins to get texts from Eliot, Hardison and Parker, all of which she ignores. Later she goes to Nate’s gravestone, where the others meet up with her. The group is meeting up to mark the 1-year anniversary of Nate’s passing. The others tell Sophie what they’ve been up to and how they’ve set up twelve Leverage International teams. Parker tells Sophie that she and Eliot do most of the travelling. Eliot started a food truck company called Brick & Basil to give jobs to the ex-military. Hardison is working with refugee groups. They spend most of their time supervising other crews and don’t do jobs themselves as often.
They are concerned for Sophie as she wasn’t returning any of their calls. Parker suggests they steal something. Eliot says it might be a nice distraction.
The Con[]
They go to the Boston Museum of Art, which has a group of protesters outside. Sophie’s a bit apprehensive as it’s been years since she stole anything or was on the con. While perusing the gallery, Sophie notices someone else is about to steal one of the paintings. Sophie and the others stick around to watch the thief. He triggers the security alarm, alerting the police who will override the fire door lock out before he can escape with the painting. Eliot knocks him unconscious and the team make their getaway through the employee access door the man was planning on using, and the team takes him back to Sophie’s.
Discussing Harry's situation.
The team learns his name is Harry Wilson, and he is a lawyer, who prided himself believing he was "never picking a side". Harry worked for Fletcher Blackwell, an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis, whose Rembrandt is hanging in the museum. Harry had intended to steal the painting as a way to get back at Maxwell after seeing the people he was hurting by defending Maxwell. Having heard that the owner of the painting was "vermin", the team agrees to help Harry take Maxwell down.
The team then creates a fake Rembrandt to sell to Maxwell. Believing him to be working for the next big score, they concoct a supposed "lost Rembrandt" to lure the Mark. Anyone who claimed to return one of these paintings that later turns out to be a fake would be ruined in the art world forever. Parker ropes Maxwell into a fake, private auction, where he attempts to bid on a Rodin Minotaur owned by Monet.
The Reveal[]
While Maxwell had thought Harry had burnt his Remembrandt, in actuality, the team had swapped that and all of his other art pieces in various galleries with fakes in order to discredit him. Maxwell ultimately goes on the run to Panama to avoid getting arrested.
Harry and the team realize the job isn’t done...
Locations[]
Guest Cast[]
- Aldis Hodge as Alec Hardison
- Reed Diamond as Fletcher Maxwell
- Lucy Taylor as Alexandra Bligh
Aliases[]
- Alice White (Parker)
- Katherine Clive (Sophie)
- Will Gallagher (Elliot)
- Michele Baptiste (Hardison)
Episode Notes[]
- Noah Wyle's character attempts to steal the same painting Sophie did in 2002 in London. She admits it was a rush job.
- Sophie takes over Nate's "Let's go steal a .... " in this episode
- The team has forgery of a painting the mark has in his office.
- Nate is revealed to have passed away one year earlier.
- Hardison does not like that Eliot refers to 'Plan M.' In Nate's 'Plan M,' Hardison frequently dies.
- Each of the character's repeats their trademark phrase.
- It is unknown how the team managed to break into eight museums across the country in 24 hours. They would have had to travel to each one, after Hardison took two hours to fake eight other paintings. At least one museum was in Los Angeles.
- Sophie refers to Hardison as Nate's son.
- Sophie says that she'll do one job, just like Nate said at the start of season two in The Beantown Bailout Job.
- It's been eight years since Sophie stopped grifting.
- Hardison and Eliot have worked together for twelve years.
- Sophie is wearing the ring Nate gave her in The Long Goodbye Job when he proposed
- Parker sees a child psychologist. She likes the puppets
- Eliot’s food truck holds all of Hardison’s tech for Leverage international inside
- This is the first time RIZ appears in the series, cementing them as the big bad guys for the season
- Hardison tells Harry that his Nana leads a multi-denominational household
- Eliot makes Star Trek references, saying he can’t believe he knows that
- Hardison made vents in their house for Parker
- Eliot knows Hardison is a lightweight when it comes to alcohol
Trivia[]
- Aleyse Shannon is credited in this episode but does not appear.
- The Maxwell family is based on the real life Sackler family, which is also in a controversy for producing highly addictive opioid medications and allegedly knowingly creating and fueling an addiction epidemic. The Sacklers are also well known for being patrons of the arts (as with the Maxwells, similarly suspected to be an attempt at reputation laundering) and recently had their name taken off the Sackler Gallery in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.