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However, when he tries to call the heads of the crime families, he finds that they are not interested in talking, and one even attempts a drive-by on him. Nate explains that he called the families first, claiming to represent Jimmy and asking an absurd amount of ransom money for Jimmy not to return the evidence to the police. Having made sure that Jimmy will no longer be welcome in Boston. Jimmy admits defeat and says he's proud of Nate, who gives him ticket to Ireland. The team comments that this is the nicest thing they could have imagined Nate doing.
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However, when he tries to call the heads of the crime families, he finds that they are not interested in talking, and one even attempts a drive-by on him. Nate explains that he called the families first, claiming to represent Jimmy and asking an absurd amount of ransom money for Jimmy not to return the evidence to the police. Having made sure that Jimmy will no longer be welcome in Boston. Jimmy admits defeat and says he's proud of Nate, who gives him a ticket to Ireland. The team comments that this is the nicest thing they could have imagined Nate doing.
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* ChekhovMIA: Jimmy Ford, first mentioned last season in [[Recap/LeverageS02E11TheBottleJob The Bottle Job]] finally appears in person.
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* ChekhovMIA: Jimmy Ford, first mentioned last season in [[Recap/LeverageS02E11TheBottleJob The Bottle Job]] Job]], finally appears in person.
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* SmokescreenCrime: Jimmy Ford triggers alarms at three different banks to make the police think that all three banks are being robbed. The Leverage team initially believes that Jimmy's intention is to spread the police thin by obscuring which bank is being hit, allowing Jimmy's team to get in and out with ease. Nate then recalls his father trying to teach him how to play Three-Card Monte, and [[EurekaMoment finally realizes the trick to the game -- the Queen of Hearts card is never actually on the table]]. This principle is being applied to Jimmy's plan; his goal is not to rob any of the banks, but to steal a key piece of evidence in that could bring down several Irish mob families from a precinct's evidence locker, which is now vulnerable thanks to the chaos caused by the three false alarms. Nate turns Jimmy's plan on its head by allowing him to steal the evidence, but then contacts the Irish families and tells them that if Jimmy isn't paid a hefty sum, it goes right back to the evidence locker, effectively putting a death mark on his father's head. Nate does show mercy by sending his father to Ireland on a steamer under an assumed name.
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* NotSoDifferent: Nate plays into his dad thinking of him as being just another thief to gain his trust, although he resents that his dad thinks this.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Possible variant. Nate keeps Jimmy from using the ledger to get into the good graces of the Irish crime families by calling them first with an absurd blackmail request, claiming that it's Jimmy's offer.
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* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Possible variant. Nate keeps Jimmy from using the ledger to get into the good graces of the Irish crime families by calling them first with an absurd blackmail request, claiming that it's Jimmy's offer. The mob puts a hit out on Jimmy over this, causing him to flee the country.
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* ChekhovsClassroom: Nate's flashbacks of his father teaching him Three-Card Monte. At first, it just serves to establish Jimmy as a crooked dealer and young Nate as naïve and rule-abiding, since he never seems to understand the lesson (to Jimmy's frustration). But adult Nate—himself now a thief—understands what it means to run a ShellGame.
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* ShellGame: Nate says his dad's "game" is Three-Card Monte. We see in flashback that he can literally run a Three-Card Monte scam, but Nate means it more broadly: Jimmy Ford's entire M.O. is based on this kind of misdirection.
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->''Hey dad.''
-->--'''Nate'''
The team are asked to help a man who's being blackmailed by the Russian Mafia. He's been given a phone and told to do whatever he's told when called. With no idea why he would have been picked on, the team taps his phone and gets to work investigating.
Eventually they discover at least two other people have been cooerced with similar offers and given similar phones, but are still no closer to understanding why. The team are shocked to see the Russians entering [=McRory=]'s pub and think their cover's been blown, but it turns out the situation is actually worse: an old [=McRory=]'s regular has set up shop in his old office: Jimmy Ford, Nate's estranged, criminal father.
As far as Jimmy is concerned, Nate is just another criminal, which Nate is unhappy about, but uses to get in on the old man's scam. Their client is a phone company employee who the Russians are planning to use to hack the police precinct alarm system, so the team do it for him, keeping their client from having to commit a crime, and giving Nate control of the system to further embed him into his father's plan.
Although he's gained his father's trust, he still doesn't know the actual target, just the three banks whose alarm signals the Russians plan to fake as a distraction to the cops. Jimmy tells Nate that with a score this big, he plans to retire to Ireland. On the day of the heist itself, Nate realizes that his father pickpocketed the remote control for the alarm system and has cut him out of the plan entirely.
Remembering his father's favorite "game" (con), Three-Card Monte, Nate surmises that, rather than using fake bank robberies to distract the cops from real bank robberies, he's clearing the cops out of the police station to rob the evidence locker, where the Russians have millions in merchandise, taken in a recent bust.
The team is ultimately able to stall them by hacking the barcode scanners they're using tpo find the evidence boxes, long enough that the evidence locker's door timer locks them in. Meanwhile, Nate surmises that his father is really after a key piece of evidence against the Irish mob, which he plans to use to get back into their good graces. Nate threatens Jimmy, but is ultimately unable to shoot him, and Jimmy leaves.
However, when he tries to call the heads of the crime families, he finds that they are not interested in talking, and one even attempts a drive-by on him. Nate explains that he called the families first, claiming to represent Jimmy and asking an absurd amount of ransom money for Jimmy not to return the evidence to the police. Having made sure that Jimmy will no longer be welcome in Boston. Jimmy admits defeat and says he's proud of Nate, who gives him ticket to Ireland. The team comments that this is the nicest thing they could have imagined Nate doing.
!Tropes stolen in this job:
* ChekhovMIA: Jimmy Ford, first mentioned last season in [[Recap/LeverageS02E11TheBottleJob The Bottle Job]] finally appears in person.
* CrazyPrepared: Nate did apparently plan to kill Jimmy or turn him in to the authorities, but he also had a complete backup plan in place in case he wasn't able to go through with it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sophie—a professional criminal—cannot conscience the idea of coercing innocent people into committing crimes.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Jimmy Ford doesn't see any difference between his self-serving crimes and what Nate does. Depending on your perspective, of course, he might have a point.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Possible variant. Nate keeps Jimmy from using the ledger to get into the good graces of the Irish crime families by calling them first with an absurd blackmail request, claiming that it's Jimmy's offer.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The team actually does this on purpose, hacking the police precinct alarm system ''for'' the bad guys, both to keep their client of the week from being coerced into doing it, and also to convince Nate's dad to let Nate in on the gig.
** Then PlayedStraight when Nate realizes too late that Jimmy pickpocketed the remote while Nate was distracted.
* NotSoDifferent: Nate plays into his dad thinking of him as being just another thief to gain his trust, although he resents that his dad thinks this.
* OneLastJob: What Jimmy claims to be doing. Nate doesn't believe him.
* TakingTheHeat: Jimmy Ford did time to protect the Irish crime families, but someone else snitched on them, so they're still in hot water and aren't compensating Jimmy for keeping his mouth shut.
* WhamLine: "Hey dad."
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Nate gets his dad's approval at the end. Although he doesn't say it, he's obviously unhappy with this being the thing that made his dad proud.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Jimmy (correctly) guesses that Nate wouldn't shoot him. Parker also seems unsurprised that Nate was unable to go through with it. Luckily, Nate's plan doesn't require it.
-->--'''Nate'''
The team are asked to help a man who's being blackmailed by the Russian Mafia. He's been given a phone and told to do whatever he's told when called. With no idea why he would have been picked on, the team taps his phone and gets to work investigating.
Eventually they discover at least two other people have been cooerced with similar offers and given similar phones, but are still no closer to understanding why. The team are shocked to see the Russians entering [=McRory=]'s pub and think their cover's been blown, but it turns out the situation is actually worse: an old [=McRory=]'s regular has set up shop in his old office: Jimmy Ford, Nate's estranged, criminal father.
As far as Jimmy is concerned, Nate is just another criminal, which Nate is unhappy about, but uses to get in on the old man's scam. Their client is a phone company employee who the Russians are planning to use to hack the police precinct alarm system, so the team do it for him, keeping their client from having to commit a crime, and giving Nate control of the system to further embed him into his father's plan.
Although he's gained his father's trust, he still doesn't know the actual target, just the three banks whose alarm signals the Russians plan to fake as a distraction to the cops. Jimmy tells Nate that with a score this big, he plans to retire to Ireland. On the day of the heist itself, Nate realizes that his father pickpocketed the remote control for the alarm system and has cut him out of the plan entirely.
Remembering his father's favorite "game" (con), Three-Card Monte, Nate surmises that, rather than using fake bank robberies to distract the cops from real bank robberies, he's clearing the cops out of the police station to rob the evidence locker, where the Russians have millions in merchandise, taken in a recent bust.
The team is ultimately able to stall them by hacking the barcode scanners they're using tpo find the evidence boxes, long enough that the evidence locker's door timer locks them in. Meanwhile, Nate surmises that his father is really after a key piece of evidence against the Irish mob, which he plans to use to get back into their good graces. Nate threatens Jimmy, but is ultimately unable to shoot him, and Jimmy leaves.
However, when he tries to call the heads of the crime families, he finds that they are not interested in talking, and one even attempts a drive-by on him. Nate explains that he called the families first, claiming to represent Jimmy and asking an absurd amount of ransom money for Jimmy not to return the evidence to the police. Having made sure that Jimmy will no longer be welcome in Boston. Jimmy admits defeat and says he's proud of Nate, who gives him ticket to Ireland. The team comments that this is the nicest thing they could have imagined Nate doing.
!Tropes stolen in this job:
* ChekhovMIA: Jimmy Ford, first mentioned last season in [[Recap/LeverageS02E11TheBottleJob The Bottle Job]] finally appears in person.
* CrazyPrepared: Nate did apparently plan to kill Jimmy or turn him in to the authorities, but he also had a complete backup plan in place in case he wasn't able to go through with it.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Sophie—a professional criminal—cannot conscience the idea of coercing innocent people into committing crimes.
* EvilCannotComprehendGood: Jimmy Ford doesn't see any difference between his self-serving crimes and what Nate does. Depending on your perspective, of course, he might have a point.
* FramingTheGuiltyParty: Possible variant. Nate keeps Jimmy from using the ledger to get into the good graces of the Irish crime families by calling them first with an absurd blackmail request, claiming that it's Jimmy's offer.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The team actually does this on purpose, hacking the police precinct alarm system ''for'' the bad guys, both to keep their client of the week from being coerced into doing it, and also to convince Nate's dad to let Nate in on the gig.
** Then PlayedStraight when Nate realizes too late that Jimmy pickpocketed the remote while Nate was distracted.
* NotSoDifferent: Nate plays into his dad thinking of him as being just another thief to gain his trust, although he resents that his dad thinks this.
* OneLastJob: What Jimmy claims to be doing. Nate doesn't believe him.
* TakingTheHeat: Jimmy Ford did time to protect the Irish crime families, but someone else snitched on them, so they're still in hot water and aren't compensating Jimmy for keeping his mouth shut.
* WhamLine: "Hey dad."
* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Nate gets his dad's approval at the end. Although he doesn't say it, he's obviously unhappy with this being the thing that made his dad proud.
* YouWouldntShootMe: Jimmy (correctly) guesses that Nate wouldn't shoot him. Parker also seems unsurprised that Nate was unable to go through with it. Luckily, Nate's plan doesn't require it.
