[the team walks up to a mansion]
NNate
Hardison, what is this?
Yeah, well, since Sterling blew our covers, I had to find a new safe house. Lay low.
This is your idea of laying low?
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Who ripped out the toilets?
This was an IRS foreclosure. I got it cheap.
IRS doesn’t take toilets.
They do when they're solid gold. This used to be MC Hammer's place. I guess you can touch this, with a S.W.A.T. team and a federal warrant.
How'd you know we'd be there?
NNate
Last week before the exhibit opens, security almost in place, but not fully staffed. Best time to case the joint. Plus, I did chase all of you at one point or another.
NNate
Why'd you come back? We agreed to scatter for six months. All of you–all of you—made an amateur move being there.
It's too hard to leave a job undone. It's like an itch.
I put a lot of work into us, into that office. It was like my second home. I blew up my second home.
As annoying as you people are, I quit this crew when I quit this crew. Nobody makes me leave.
I just, I really wanted to hurt Sterling.
It's going to be twice as hard to steal those statues.
NNate
Oh, no, no. It'll be four times as hard. They know we're coming.
And how do they know that?
NNate
I went to their office and told them.
I can get around those.
Really? And end up on one of the new 20 cameras they got down there from our last little trip to the basement?
That was fun.
Yeah. Could we talk about that?
Talk about what?
NNate
Grifter, hitter, hacker, thief. You were all trying to solve your version of the crime instead of just trying to...solve the crime. There’s a reason we work together.
We can't run a con. They know our faces.
What about Maggie?
Exactly. I mean, most of the museum people aren't gonna recognize us, But Maggie. She works down there.
No, what about Maggie? She's inside.
You just said that. She just said--
No, wait. No, hold--Listen. Listen, I get--I get it. Just have Eliot call her as Dr. Sinclair. We won't play her. He'll just feel her out.
NNate
Have Eliot...feel out my wife?
Ex, Nate. Ex-Wife.
Okay, look, you always have a Plan B right? So, fine. Without Maggie, what's the Plan B?
Dr. Lloyd, this is no longer a museum. It's a vault with visiting hours.
She probably just really wants some hot coffee.
NNate
Shut up!
It's not like a date. [pulls his hair back]
NNate
Are you kidding me? You're fixing your hair?
Because I’m playing the Professor Sinclair dude!
You come here a lot?
No. I just wanted to see you.
[the rest of the team is sitting around a laptop, watching the display]
That's a date.
Did we really need to put a button cam on Eliot?
NNate
Safety issue.
I haven't dated a lot since my marriage broke up.
I'm sorry to hear that.
No, don't be. He was obsessive, perfectionist, controlling.
[Nate, Sophie, Hardison and Parker are listening in Lucille]
NNate
Organized! She used to say I was organized. And punctual.
Mm-hmm.
He must have had some good qualities.
No, not even in bed.
Ooh!
Every night was prom night. You know what I mean? But worst of all, he completely forgot that I gave him that same button camera for Christmas three years ago.
[everyone looks at Nate as the doors open. Maggie and Eliot look into the van]
NNate
I can explain.
That whole sob story about being broke, and sleeping in your car, and being a drunk.
NNate
Was! Was broke. Was sleeping in the car. The drunk thing, not quite in the past tense.
Blackpoole's a bastard, Nate. He was a bastard when you worked for him. What's changed? Just help me understand.
NNate
I have to tell you something, Mag. [sits down on a bench] Please.
What?
NNate
Mag, when Sam was in stage 4, I found a treatment that would've helped him. And I went to Ian to pay for it, and he wouldn't.
He wouldn't?
NNate
He wouldn't. I told him we had mortgaged the house, sold the car, that we were broke, and he still wouldn't pay the claim. 20 years at that company, and they wouldn't help save our son.
Why didn't you tell me this? I work with these people, Nate. I am friendly with them. You just let me walk around like an idiot. He’s my son too! [wipes tears]
NNate
I know, I know.
Why have you just been carrying this around all this time?
NNate
I didn't want you to hate me, Maggie.
Why would I hate you?
NNate
I do. If I had ever seen you look at me the way I looked at myself in the mirror, I would've blown my damn brains out.
You actually expect this to work?
NNate
Um...
No, you're supposed to say "Wow, that's just crazy enough to work!"
Incredibly, chance does seem to bend itself to his bizarre machinations.
[whispering to Maggie] That's his superpower.
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