History Recap / LeverageS03E11TheRashomonJob

The scene starts in [=McRory=]’s Bar where Hardison, Sophie and Eliot are arguing during closing hours. Nate, who was brought in by Parker, asks what's going on. Sophie plays a recording of a stolen artifact called the Dagger of Aqu'abi, which was stolen from the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities five years ago, and has recently been put for displayed at the same gallery. However the reason of their argument was because they each claim they have stolen it. Unsure who's telling the truth, Sophie suggests that each of them tells their side of the story; Nate reluctantly agrees.

* GambitPileup: What turned out to have happened.
* MacGuffin: The Dagger of Aqu'Abi.

* RetroactiveReconition: A rare in-universe example. Since they all had brief encounters with each other, none of the crew remembered that they all met at the gallery. When each crew member tells their version another actor replaces the others until they have been identified in the story. Since Sophie goes first, another actor doesn't replace her.

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team - when they were uncertain which part others played - perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy"(played by soap-opera heartthrob Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye - despite him shamelessly flirting with her (humorously, after she hears him depicting her accent as godawful Cockney, Sophie demands the chance to revise her story in order to frame him as a beer-swilling hick). Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by the powerfully built multi-athlete Juan Canopii) was intimidating even to ''Eliot'' (and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate. WordOfGod [[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/12/leverage-311-rashomon-job-post-game.html is;]] "Nate is still an unreliable narrator, although about 80% accurate. He's not making up the crush, or the crime plot, or how they interfered with each other." The remainder is most likely him being annoyed at Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." Instead, no-one except ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time -- ''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!'' He just pieced together the four stories after hearing them to figure out who did what when.

The scene starts in [=McRory=]’s Bar where Hardison, Sophie and Eliot are arguing during closing hours. Nate, who was brought in by Parker, asks what's going on. Sophie plays a recording of a stolen artifact called the Dagger of Aqu'abi, which was stolen from the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities five years ago, has recently been put for displayed at the same gallery. However the reason of their argument was because they claim they have stolen it. Unsure who's telling the truth, Sophie suggests that each of them tells their side of the story; Nate reluctantly agrees.

In her story, she first poses as the Duchess of Barrington-Highsworth, a patron of the arts who donated artworks to gain admission to the gallery. She then introduce the current custodian of the dagger, Edgar Gladstorn, who flirts with her and the head of the museum security, Coswell, who she tells everyone to be careful of him since he's quite skilled. Her plan was to cause a commotion by spiking a drink and ask a waitress to give it to the Zimbabwe's art minister, Robert Bioko, whom she knew Bioko's allergic to shrimp. While she waits for it to happen, she met with a surgeon, Dr. Wes Abernathy and have a little chat. Just as Bioko's allergic reaction kicks in and Abernathy deals with him, Sophie secretly slips into the storage room and changing her dress and identity to Dr. Karen Ipcress, who works in the restoration department for the past 4 months.

Just as she pretends to work, Coswell came down and questioned her since she doesn't do late nights. As Coswell suspects her and the Duchess of being the same, he leaves the place. Worried that her cover's blown, she quickly switches the shipping details on the dagger's crate so it will deliver to one of her safe-houses in London before she makes her escape. Despite her plan being perfect as she claims, she didn't get the dagger in London.

Eliot decides to tell his side of the story, which he steals it as a 'favor'.

Eliot is doing what he normally does - beating crap out of some mooks- when he gets a call from a man named Gutman. Gutman is rather annoyed that Eliot never retrieved the sapphire monkey from North Korea, so he offers him a trade: If Eliot manages to retrieve the dagger, then Gutman will consider the debt repaid. Otherwise he promises to keep sending men after him until one of them gets lucky. So on the night in question, Eliot manages to steal the real Doctor Abernathy's identity and get into the party. He bumps into Sophie, but instead of her normal British accent, she has a Cockney accent.

Skip to the part where Bioko is choking: Sophie urges Eliot to save him, and Eliot hesitantly obliges. Eliot would have performed an impromptu tracheotomy with a pocketknife handed to him by one of the waitstaff, but the minister has some pills that miraculously heal him. Eliot uses him as an excuse to get further inside the museum - specifically, he leaves the minister at the first-aid station. After that, he sneaks into the basement, knocks out a security guard and steals his uniform. He's confronted by Coswell, bluffs his way past, and ends up working with the crew doing the shipping. He disguises himself appropriately and swap the shipment so he could retrieve it.

Sophie blames Eliot for ruining her con but Eliot later claims he didn't have it as the moment he open the crate, he finds a mug instead. In the end, Gutman's heat on him was off as Gutman was arrested a couple of weeks later for something he wasn't so sure. Just then Hardison laughs as it was his turn to tell his side of the story. Hardison's motive of stealing it was because the museum has installed the Tanuki security system from Japan and anyone who manages to hack it would be legendary and shows proof that he steals it.

-->'''Sophie:''' You really can't tell? Americans! [[LampshadeHanging Every accent sounds the same to you]]. ''(gives up)'' Go on. I... I sound like one of the dwarves in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', but please continue.

As Hardison is confused at his fake identity's allergy, Eliot plays the overenthusiastic doctor, who nearly performs the tracheotomy with an enormous knife. Hardison quickly pretends his breath mints are anti-allergy pills. Eliot gets him to the first-aid room, but Hardison [[CrossesTheLineTwice adds that Eliot acts like a slasher killer, holding a knife and telling him not to leave]] as he exits. Once he leaves, Hardison gets into a nearby computer and hacks the system to make sure that the dagger stays in the museum instead of leaving it. He disguises himself as a security guard and tries to hack the door when Coswell shows up. Suddenly, the guard that Eliot took down, now in his skivvies, exits the janitor's room and Coswell checks on him. With no other choice, Hardison pushes both men back inside, steals Coswell's radio and locks the door. While he manages to enter the Shipping department, he opens one of the vaults and holds the dagger...

Parker is actually the waitress, though she's doing a horrible job. She ignores Hardison, who was hording big amounts of hors 'doerves into his pockets, then runs into Sophie, who is just speaking gibberish.

-->'''Parker's version of Sophie''': Ah wai'er. I'd very wondering if you could yea un'd my Dingaling! (Parker turns around making face, confused)\\

She's serving drinks, but doing a terrible job. Coswell points out that she needs to do her job better, and asks for her name--which she can't give him, since she "lost" her name tag. Once she realizes someone hacked into the security system, the story about Hardison choking is much the same, except for Sophie's gibberish.

-->'''Parker's version of Sophie''': Ugck! Eniminimine? Eniminiminere?\\

Nate's story starts with him speaking to Coswell. Everyone else remembers Coswell as a tough, wary, skilled security expert, but he's actually a shy, bumbling guy who's pretty sweet. Nate chats with him, as he's there to investigate the recent thefts from the museum. He tells Coswell that IYS most likely will not insure the dagger. Coswell never actually caught on to Sophie's cons, he just thought she was pretty and wanted to ask her out. In reality, the drink Sophie spiked found its way to Eliot, not Hardison, and it was the glass of wine that he accidentally spilled on her due to tasting the shrimp in it. Coswell meets "Dr. Ipcress" but can't work up his courage to talk to her, and leaves. He tells the guards to find her, but while the team wrongly remembered it as him knowing she was a fake, in reality, he wanted to give her some roses at it's her last day working. (He ends up giving them to Nate.) He even asks Eliot but fails to notice that he's a fake guard. He then meets Hardison, disguised as a worker, and sobs about how he missed his chance to confess his love to Ipcress. He notices the guard Eliot mugged, but gets pushed inside by Hardison. Inside the storage room, he tells the guard that he'll get them out. He opens Parker's bag, filled with rappelling rope, assumes it's the janitor's stuff and uses it to climb inside the air vent. He bumps into Parker, who punches him in the face. The dagger drops down the shaft… and falls out of a ceiling vent, directly into Nate's hand.

Back at the museum gallery, Gladstone is yelling at Coswell for screwing it up and letting Parker get away, saying it's his worst loss ever. Nate walks in with the dagger… and snaps it in half. It's a fake. Nate explains that he's here to figure out why Gladstone has had so many expensive items stolen that IYS had insured. He realizes that Gladstone was selling the originals on the black market, while putting the fakes on display and staging a public theft to get the insurance using the double-dipping scam. Gladstone begs him not to tell anyone or he'll be in ruins. Nate then tells him that he's small potatoes; he came to the museum to hunt down a ''dealer'' capable of moving so many high-value items. Gladstone gets off with refunding the insurance money paid him by IYS - along with the dagger, for Nate to use as bait to arrest the dealer. So as of that moment, the Dagger of Aqu'abi has officially been stolen.

The scene starts in McRory’s Bar where Hardison, Sophie and Eliot are arguing during closing hours. Nate, who was brought in by Parker, asks what's going on. Sophie plays a recording of a stolen artifact called the Dagger of Aqu'abi, which was stolen from the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities five years ago, has recently been put for displayed at the same gallery. However the reason of their argument was because they claim they have stolen it. Unsure who's telling the truth, Sophie suggests that each of them tells their side of the story; Nate reluctantly agrees.

We open with Hardison, Sophie and Eliot, who are all arguing in the bar. Nate and Parker walk in, and he asks them rather pointedly why they're sitting around arguing instead of investigating Moreau. Sophie plays them a recording, which tells them about an artifact called the Dagger of Aqu'abi. This dagger was stolen from the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities five years ago, but has been returned and is now on display again. However, Hardison, Sophie and Eliot all claim to be the original thief. Sophie suggests that each of them tells their story in turn, and Nate reluctantly agrees.

Sophie has managed to successfully work two identities for four months. The first is the Duchess of Barrington-Highsworth, a patron of the arts who donated artwork to gain admission. She meets the current custodian of the dagger, Edgar Gladstone, who flirts with her, but she's careful to avoid the skilled, wary, ferocious head of museum security, Coswell. She acquires a drink, spikes it and asks a waitress to give it to Zimbabwe's art minister, Robert Bioko. Bioko is a douchebag who is very allergic to shrimp, but while she waits, she bumps into a surgeon, Dr. Wes Abernathy, and flirts with him. Bioko starts choking and Gladstone checks on him. Sophie helpfully tells him that the minister is allergic to shrimp, and as a doctor, Abernathy helps him out. Distraction achieved, Sophie slips into the shipping and storage part of the museum, using Gladstone's key card. Her other identity for this con is Dr. Karen Ipcress, who works in the restoration department. Coswell suspiciously asks about her, and makes the connection that she and the Duchess look alike. Sophie overhears Coswell, realises that she's screwed and switches the shipping details on the dagger's crate so it will go to her safe-house in London. It worked beautifully, but when she received the crate, there was no dagger inside.

After her story, she insists that she's the real thief, even though she technically never ''attained'' it. Eliot steps up, putting two shot glasses over his eyes to imitate glasses. Sophie instantly recognises him as the good doctor and is shocked, and Eliot tells his story.

Eliot is doing what he normally does - beating crap out of some mooks- when he gets a call from a man named Gutman. Gutman is rather annoyed that Eliot never retrieved the sapphire monkey from North Korea, so he offers him a trade: If Eliot will retrieve the dagger, then Gutman will consider the debt repaid. Otherwise he promises to keep sending men after him until one of them gets lucky. So on the night in question, Eliot manages to steal the real Doctor Abernathy's identity and get into the party. He bumps into Sophie, but instead of her normal British accent, she has a Cockney accent.

Skip to the part where Bioko is choking: Sophie urges Eliot to save him, and Eliot hesitantly obliges. Eliot would have performed an impromptu tracheotomy with a pocketknife handed to him by one of the waitstaff, but the minister has some pills that miraculously heal him. Eliot uses him as an excuse to get further inside the museum - specifically, he leaves the minister at the first-aid station. After that, he sneaks into the basement, knocks out a security guard and steals his uniform. He's confronted by Coswell, bluffs his way past, and ends up working with the crew doing the shipping. He disguises himself appropriately, opens the dagger's crate and finds a mug...

Sophie blames Eliot, who maintains that he never actually acquired the dagger. In the end, since Gutman had a lot of enemies, he was arrested for racketeering a couple of weeks later, and Eliot was fine. Hardison then steps up to tell his story. Nate is surprised, since simple theft isn't Hardison's thing, but Hardison explains that the museum had installed a new security system called Tanuki. At the time, the first person to hack it would become a legend, so Hardison decided to be that person. But, he'd need proof, a trophy. A dagger.

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-->'''Sophie:''' You really can't tell? Americans! [[LampshadeHanging Every accent sounds the same to you]]. *gives up* Go on. I... I sound like one of the dwarves in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'', but please continue.

As Hardison was confused at his fake identity's allergy, Eliot plays the overenthusiastic doctor, who nearly performs the tracheotomy with an enormous knife. Hardison quickly pretends his breath mints are anti-allergy pills. Eliot gets him to the first-aid room, but Hardison [[CrossesTheLineTwice adds that Eliot acts like a slasher killer, holding a knife and telling him not to leave]] as he exits. Once he leaves, Hardison gets into a nearby computer and hacks the system to make sure that the dagger stays in the museum instead of leaving it. He disguises himself as a security guard and tries to hack the door when Coswell shows up. Suddenly, the guard that Eliot took down, now in his skivvies, exits the janitor's room and Coswell checks on him. With no other choice, he pushes both men back inside, steals Coswell's radio and locks the door. While he manages to enter the Shipping department, he opens one of the vaults and holds the dagger...
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Hardison laughs at them, claiming that he beat both Sophie and Eliot. He says that nothing else matters, and Nate picks up on that and asks him why he says that. Hardison eventually admits that when he opened the vault, nothing was inside. Nate says that neither Hardison, Sophie or Eliot has it… and turns to Parker, who indignantly points out that, you know, ''I'm a thief.''
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Everyone keeps arguing, believing that somebody lied. Parker suddenly realizes Nate's expression and immediately questions him if he knew something. Nate then simply asked the others if they knew that the insurance company insuring the museum at the time of the theft was ''his'' old company, IYS. Nate finally tells them what happened to the dagger...
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* GeniusBonus: An alert viewer would recall that Dr Wes Abernathy was the alias Eliot used in The Jailhouse Job, hinting that the doctor Sophie bumps into is actually Eliot before we get to his part of the story.
** A blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, but everyone sees the object Coswell was carrying down the stairs as a gun -- except for Eliot. Even though he misread Coswell as a dangerous, competent head of security, but he would never mistake a box of roses for a weapon.

* RunningGag: Sophie's accent; each version has her sounding more ridiculous than the previous. (except Nate's)

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team - when they were uncertain which part others played - perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy"(played by soap-opera heartthrob Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye - despite him shamelessly flirting with her (humorously, after she hears him depicting her accent as godawful Cockney, Sophie demands the chance to revise her story in order to frame him as a beer-swilling hick). Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by the powerfully built multi-athlete Juan Canopii) was intimidating even to ''Eliot'' (and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate. WordOfGod [[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/12/leverage-311-rashomon-job-post-game.html is;]]
-->Nate is still an unreliable narrator, although about 80% accurate. He's not making up the crush, or the crime plot, or how they interfered with each other.
** The remainder is most likely him being annoyed at Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." Instead, no-one except ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time -- '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories after hearing them to figure out who did what when.

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team - when they were uncertain which part others played - perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy" (played by Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye - despite him shamelessly flirting with her (humorously, after she hears him depicting her accent as godawful Cockney, Sophie demands the chance to revise her story in order to frame him as a beer-swilling hick). Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by Juan Canopii) was powerfully built and intimidating even to ''Eliot'' (and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate. WordOfGod [[http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2010/12/leverage-311-rashomon-job-post-game.html is;]]

* TamperingWithFoodAndDrink: Sophie spikes a glass of champagne and sends it to "Minister Bioko" intending to trigger his allergy to shrimp and create a diversion. Subsequent flashbacks show that the glass was unwittingly intercepted by Eliot, who in Nate's version of events spits it out as soon as he tastes it because it "tastes funny."

The team is a bit sad that after all they did, none of them got it. Sophie asks about the dealer, and we get a flashback: the dealer Gladstone used was Gutman, who Nate had arrested. Eliot's quite surprised. Hardison's depressed that they all did so much work for nothing, but Nate reminds them that it's easy to forget why they stopped working solo and now work as a team, and turns the sound on the TV back up. It's showing an interview with a man called Nigel Hayton, the C.E.O. of Baron Oil, an oil company who spilled tons of oil over American waters. Hayton is a quintessential bastard, down to his posh accent, use of the phrase "the little people" and reassuring the public that he cares, as does his company. The team leaves the bar in a hurry claiming to get it first, leaving Nate behind. Nate eventually follows after as the episode ends.

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'''Grifter'''

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'''Hitter'''

'''Hacker'''

'''Thief'''

-->'''Parker's version of Sophie''': Ah wai'er. I'd very wondering if you could yea un'd my Dingaling! (Parker turns around making face, confused)
-->'''Present Sophie''': I hate you all...

-->'''Parker's version of Sophie''': Ugck! Eniminimine? Eniminiminere?
-->'''Parker's version of Hardison''': Yes, yes, I'm allergic to shrimp!
-->'''Parker''': Oooh! You said "shrimp"! That didn't sound like shrimp.

'''Mastermind'''

Back at the museum gallery, Gladstone is yelling at Coswell for screwing it up and letting Parker get away, saying it's his worst loss ever. Nate walks in with the dagger… and snaps it in half. It's a fake. Nate explains that he's here to figure out why Gladstone has had so many expensive items stolen that IYS had insured. He realizes that Gladstone was selling the originals on the black market, while putting the fakes on display and staging a public theft to get the insurance using the double-dipping scam. Gladstone begs him not to tell anyone or he'll be in ruins. Nate then tells him to pay back the settlements of the previous items and since he didn't sell the dagger yet he asks him to give it to his company as an asset. He also wants the dealer he'd hired to stage the fake theft. Nate then announces to them they should keep this a secret and as of this moment the Dagger of Aqu'abi has officially been stolen.

* UnrequitedLove: Coswell for Sophie. It's implied that Nate made that up out of whole cloth in retaliation for Sophie believing Coswell was smarter than Nate.

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team - when they were uncertain which part others played - perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy" (played by Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye - despite him shamelessly flirting with her (humorously, after she hears him depicting her accent as godawful Cockney, Sophie demands the chance to revise her story in order to frame him as a beer-swilling hick). Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by Juan Canopii) was powerfully built and intimidating even to ''Eliot'' (and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate.
** WordOfGod claims that Nate's version is about 80% accurate. 10% of the remainder is implied to be his view of Coswell as a lovestruck fool who has ''absolutely no idea'' that four of the best thieves in the world are playing [[GambitPileup bumper-car burglary]] in his museum - or that one of the museum patrons is selling artifacts, replacing them with fakes, then declaring them stolen; retaliation for Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." The other 10% is most likely how ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time, '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories to figure out who did what when.

Eliot is doing what he normally does- beating crap out of some mooks- when he gets a call from a man named Gutman. Gutman is rather annoyed that Eliot never retrieved the sapphire monkey from North Korea, so he offers him a trade: If Eliot will retrieve the dagger, then Gutman will consider the debt repaid and he will stop sending men after Eliot until one of them gets lucky. So on the night in question, Eliot manages to steal the real Doctor Abernathy's identity and get into the party. He bumps into Sophie, but instead of her normal British accent, she has a Cockney accent.

Skip to the part where Bioko is choking: Sophie urges Eliot to save him, and Eliot hesitantly obliges. Eliot would have performed an impromptu tracheotomy, but the minister has some pills that miraculously heal him. Eliot uses him as an excuse to get further inside the museum- specifically, he leaves the minister at the first-aid station. After that, he sneaks into the basement, knocks out a security guard and steals his uniform. He's confronted by Coswell, bluffs his way past, and ends up working with the crew doing the shipping. He disguises himself appropriately, opens the dagger's crate and finds a mug...

* MuggedForDisguise: Eliot does this to a guard.

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team - when they were uncertain which part others played - perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy" (played by Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye - despite him shamelessly flirting with her. Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by Juan Canopii) was powerfully built and intimidating even to ''Eliot''(and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate.
** WordOfGod claims that Nate's version is about 80% accurate.
*** 10% of the remainder is implied to be his view of Coswell as a lovestruck fool who has ''absolutely no idea'' that four of the best thieves in the world are playing [[GambitPileup bumper-car burglary]] in his museum - or that one of the museum patrons is selling artifacts, replacing them with fakes, then declaring them stolen; retaliation for Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." The other 10% is most likely how ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time, '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories to figure out who did what when.

*** 10% of the remainder is implied to be his view of Coswell as a lovestruck fool who has ''absolutely no idea'' that four of the best thieves in the world are playing [[GambitPileup bumper-car burglary]] in his museum - or that one of the museum patrons is selling artifacts, replacing them with fakes, then declaring them stolen; retaliation for Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." The other 10% is most likely how ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time, '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories to figure out who did what when. The [[PullingTheThread thread]] that gives it away? At the beginning of the episode, Nate confirms "Robert Bioko" identity, says he's an embezzling Film/BloodDiamond dealer whom he's dealt with in the past and that he's "Quite nasty." He considered one of Hardison's ''cover identities'' to be a world-class threat to IYS.

*** 10% of the remainder is implied to be his view of Coswell as a lovestruck fool who has ''absolutely no idea'' that four of the best thieves in the world are playing [[GambitPileup bumper-car burglary]] in his museum - or that one of the museum patrons is selling artifacts, replacing them with fakes, then declaring them stolen; retaliation for Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." The other 10% is most likely how ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time, '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories to figure out who did what when. The [[PullingTheThread thread]] that gives it away? At the beginning of the episode, Nate confirms "Robert Bioko" identity, says he's dealt with him in the past and that he's "Quite nasty." He considered one of Hardison's ''cover identities'' to be a world-class threat to IYS.

*** 10% of the remainder is implied to be his view of Coswell as a lovestruck fool who has ''absolutely no idea'' that four of the best thieves in the world are playing [[GambitPileup bumper-car burglary]] in his museum - or that one of the museum patrons is selling artifacts, replacing them with fakes, then declaring them stolen; retaliation for Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." The other 10% is most likely how ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time, '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories to figure out who did what when. The [[PullingTheThread thread]] that gives it away? At the beginning of the episode, Nate says he's dealt with Robert Bioko before; and that he's "Quite nasty." He considered one of Hardison's ''cover identities'' to be a world-class threat to IYS.

*** 10% of the remainder is implied to be his view of Coswell as a lovestruck fool who has ''absolutely no idea'' that four of the best thieves in the world are playing [[GambitPileup bumper-car burglary]] in his museum - or that one of the museum patrons is selling artifacts, replacing them with fakes, then declaring them stolen; retaliation for Sophie believing that Coswell, "[[GreenEyedMonster ...could be even smarter than Nate]]." The other 10% is most likely how ''he'', Nathan Ford, knew ''exactly'' what was going down the entire time, '''but failed to finger any of the four at the time!''' He just pieced together the four stories to figure out who did what when.

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team - when they were uncertain which part others played - perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy" (played by Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye. Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by Juan Canopii) was powerfully built and intimidating even to ''Eliot''(and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate.

* UnreliableNarrator: All over the place! Each one is more unreliable than the last it seems, except for Nate...we think. Perhaps the best part is that each of the Team, when they had ''no idea'' that everyone else was there, perceived their future teammates as magnificent; Eliot's "Dr. Wes Abernathy" (played by Riley Smith) was soft-spoken and charming even to Sophie's trained eye. Hardison's "Minister Robert Bioko" (played by Juan Canopii) was powerfully built and intimidating even to ''Eliot''(and was ''[[SarcasticConfession sarcastically thanking him]]'' for smuggling him past security!). And the socially-awkward Parker blended in so well that she was ''invisible'' to all of them save Nate.
** WordOfGod claims that Nate's version is about 80% accurate.