AUDIO AVA BARNES BREANNA CHAUDRY DEALER DENNIS ELIOT HARRY JAKE LENORE MAN MAN_2 MARCO PARKER SOPHIE THUG VANESSA VAN_WINKLE WOMAN LENORE Eviction? I don't understand. We pay on time every month. JAKE Your bank sold your loan. You should have received notification. LENORE We did. It said the new buyers can't change the terms of the loan. JAKE Your loan has a callable clause. The new lender's exercising it. AVA And what kind of bank sends a thug to deliver paperwork? LENORE Ava, no. JAKE You have one week to vacate. AVA And you have one second. This is still our property. Leave. JAKE I'll be back. With sheriff deputies. You pull that gun again... you'll lose more than your house. JAKE It's good as done. CHAUDRY "As good as" isn't good enough. JAKE It will happen. Little mice don't put up a fight. PARKER La-dee-dah. Here I am, just a casual tourist with very little street smarts or spatial awareness. Ooh! What's this? Freeze! Takin' you to jail, sucka! I'm a cop. I'm an undercover cop. BREANNA This is impossible. PARKER A tourist could totally be an undercover cop. BREANNA No, this test is impossible! I can be more than a hacker, but come on. Who wears bells? PARKER Jesters, belly dancers, elves. Fine by me if you want to stay in the van, stick to what you're good at! BREANNA Please, I can't rewrite Google source code forever. Why is my hand numb? PARKER I coated the bells with numbing cream. Lesson reinforcement. BREANNA Hardison didn't have to stay in the van. PARKER Hardison had a lot of practice before ELIOT agreed to unlock those van doors. And I still worry about him. BREANNA The numbness is in my arms. PARKER I'm trying to keep you alive here! SOPHIE And I'm headed to a client intake. PARKER Ooh! Ooh! Ooh! Okay, just give me a second. SOPHIE I'm taking our Mister Wilson. It's his first. PARKER Well, since we've been on our own, I've been doing the... SOPHIE You're busy. I got this. PARKER You're not the boss of me. Shh! BREANNA Sucks, doesn't it? BREANNA The numbness is in my legs! PARKER It'll wear off. Eventually. LENORE I still don't understand. My granddaughter posts a message on the TikTok to her friends, and you all show up here. SOPHIE It's a little more complicated. Ava was looking for help, and our friend Hardison, he has a computer program that looks for people that need our kind of help. LENORE Ah. AVA I checked the clause the guy talked about. They can only call the loan if we use the house as collateral. HARRY Yeah, that's right. Good catch. But according to this paperwork, you applied for a line of credit. AVA No, we didn't! It's a lie! LENORE Calm yourself. My grandfather built this house in nineteen ohone. It survived the Depression, Katrina. It'll survives a paperwork error. SOPHIE That is a gorgeous dress. You didn't make that, did you? LENORE I've made dresses for my daughters', my nieces', and now Ava's Sweet Sixteen. SOPHIE Well, it is stunning. You are very talented. You must have some amazing designs. LENORE Let me fetch my sketchbook. SOPHIE Oh! AVA I don't know how we're gonna have a Sweet Sixteen without a house. It's not a paperwork error. Our neighbors, one got investigated by the tax board, his place seized in auction. One got overrun with cockroaches, and the house was condemned. Somebody's doing this. HARRY Well, if we can prove the application's a fake, we can make whoever it is make a legitimate offer. SOPHIE They're not interested in the money. HARRY You just want your house. SOPHIE Mister Wilson, you did well on our first client meeting. HARRY Oh, that's not my first one. I'm just usually on the other side of the table. BREANNA Okay. So, lenore and ava Petitpas's loan got bought out by a shell company called-- worst name ever-- Clamshell Corp. BREANNA Financing goes through this whole web, mostly in Eastern Europe, so the trail's cold, but I was able to find out that the application for credit... never filed anywhere. It doesn't exist, except on one sheet of paper. Clearly they never thought anyone would look. ELIOT That's it? A shell company? PARKER Mmm... Harry could have found that out. HARRY Sure, as a lawyer... Oh, am I the low bar? SOPHIE I asked you to follow the money. BREANNA I did! And I found out the application was fake. SOPHIE Who could get a fake application into that file, and why do they want lenore and ava off the land? That's what "follow the money" means. HARRY Well, whoever it is, is pulling strings at a very high level. They would have to have someone in City Hall in their pocket. BREANNA Okay. Uh, I can find out who at City Hall is living above their means, and hack into the system, see who we're dealing with. BREANNA Although, just a fair warning, some of these municipal systems are so old, they still run on COBOL, so I may have to crash the whole city network for a while. ELIOT You're gonna crash the whole city. SOPHIE Okay. BREANNA I said might. SOPHIE Breanna, find us our overspending city official. For the rest, we're gonna go old school. I'm thinking a Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? PARKER Uh-oh. ELIOT Hey. SOPHIE It's about, you know, emotion, not detail. You draw from personal experience. You've been on this merry-go-round. HARRY Yeah. Just out of curiosity, how thorough was that background check you did on me? BREANNA Okay, first door off the stairs, you'll meet Billy Barnes, the only city employee in the permits office with a new Benz and a condo in Aspen. Whatever real estate corruption is happening, it likely flows through him. BARNES oh, the snowpack in the Rockies is like nothing you've ever seen. We went to Aspen for, like, two weeks last year. SOPHIE I won't be fooled this time, Marlon! You're hidin' somethin'! BARNES Dude, I gotta call you back. What's going on here? SOPHIE Oh, of course! You speak to the man first. How could I, a woman, have anything to say? HARRY My wife and I are divorcing. BARNES What a shame. You guys seem to make such a lovely couple. Yeah, uh, divorce petitions are gonna be handled down the hall... SOPHIE He's hidin' assets, a lien on a property he didn't disclose! And you can prove it. And I am not movin' from this spot until I prove what I know. BARNES Fine. What's the address? SOPHIE Four thirty-two Camellia Way. His name is Marlon Bellwether. BARNES No, it's not attached. HARRY Ha! You see? I told you! SOPHIE That is not possible! HARRY I told you, I'm not hiding anything! Uh, may-maybe it's 'cause, uh, I work too much. Maybe I was never home, but that was only because I was working my fingers to the bone trying to give you the life that you deserve, 'cause all I've ever wanted to do is love you, Ilsa. SOPHIE Fiddle-dee-dee! It's too little, too late! I'll see you in my lawyer's office. BARNES Ma'am, ma'am, you forgot... your phone. Awesome. HARRY Hoo-hoo! SOPHIE Your merry-go-round was very... manic. HARRY Well, you said draw from life experience. How many times have you been on the merry-go-round? SOPHIE Mmm. I've lost count of my marriages, but... I only ever had one husband. BREANNA It's fine. It's just pairing the software's just a little, uh, fiddly. PARKER If you need help, you can always call Hard... BREANNA No. No. Alec has been blowing up my phone all day "just checking in." I'm fine. I read the manuals. BREANNA I def-- I skimmed... volumes one to three. PARKER There are fifteen. CHAUDRY ...bulldoze that. Thanks. The pearl is... PARKER Ooh, pearls. Mm, I like pearls. BREANNA We're in. CHAUDRY We'll expand as planned. BREANNA Okay, Ski Boy, show me who you're talking to. BARNES Th-this-- this lady seemed awfully upset. You sure there's nothing... CHAUDRY That house and all the others are as good as mine. We take possession next week, then there's nothing for you to do but count your money. BARNES All right. BREANNA Austin Chaudry. First-generation son of immigrants and singleterm ex-Congressman. Resigned after rumors circulated he took bribes. HARRY Mm-hmm. SOPHIE Chaudry's desperate to... Whoo. ...regain some kind of status. SOPHIE No? PARKER Mnh-mnh. SOPHIE His parents were in the hospitality business, uh, well, until the Irs caught up with them, and now he's bought himself a riverboat casino, The Mississippi Pearl. PARKER It's not a real pearl? Bummer. SOPHIE Oh, there's a pearl, Parker, a big one, on display, on the boat. Think the gold nugget at The Golden Nugget! PARKER Gold nugget! ELIOT I don't understand, why would he want to take lenore and Ava's house? HARRY Where the hell is it? BREANNA Missing something? HARRY The little thumb drive that's got my slides on it. BREANNA Gosh, maybe somebody stole it. Maybe somebody lifted it right... But I took it out of his pocket. What-- what did you-- how did you--? PARKER I'm Parker. BREANNA But... HARRY Well... well, if we're all done picking pockets, may we continue? SOPHIE Please. HARRY Riverboat casinos. Used to have to ride the river to be allowed to gamble, but now the law's all changed, so if you jump through the right hoops and you apply for a new gaming license, you can expand onto land. You can open a hotel, restaurant, whole complex. BREANNA And according to Chaudry's bank records, he's put everything he has into that expansion, and then some. ELIOT If he fails to get the license, though, it's goodbye complex and hello bankruptcy. Who-- who decides if he gets it? HARRY Lloyd Van Winkle, Gaming Commission. My firm had a few dealings with him. He actually, believe it or not, is about as honest as they come. SOPHIE So Chaudry can't bribe him for the license. He's gonna have to get it legitimately, and we're gonna have to stop him from doing that. BREANNA I got it. Get him on a misdemeanor. I looked it up. You can't hold a gaming license with one of those. HARRY Uh, no. No, no, no, no, no. Uh, you see, people like the Chaudrys, they think that the laws don't apply to them because they usually don't. Back when he was accused of bribery, there were about a half a dozen pending charges that just-- poof!-- disappeared! ELIOT He's got some high-up pull somewhere. Misdemeanor would just disappear into the air. SOPHIE We're gonna have to rob the vault. PARKER Yes! ELIOT If a casino can't pay out at the end of the night, it violates their license. That means he loses the one he's got, and he can kiss the other one goodbye. HARRY Uh... I-I assume it's rather difficult to rob a casino in general? PARKER Eh, kinda. HARRY Now you want to rob one on the river. SOPHIE Fact is, if Chaudry gets his way, in one week, lenore and Ava's home, and all the others, are gonna be bulldozed into a casino carpark. BREANNA And ava and lenore end up hauling their clothes in trashbags from couch to couch, which sucks. PARKER You got a plan? SOPHIE Let's go steal a riverboat casino. ELIOT You-- you have to walk away when you s-- you gotta walk o-- SOPHIE O...kay... SOPHIE Robbing a casino is never simple. Even the seediest have stateof- the-art surveillance, Swiss watch-precision shift changes, and eyes always on the money. We have to cover every angle. eliot will work the boat from the inside. ELIOT This application is ridiculous. Hardison used to just get me the job, and sometimes a four-oh-one . BREANNA Huh. I couldn't find the "Get eliot a four-oh-one " section in the manual. SOPHIE We'll need cover when we break into the vault, cover that we're gonna convince chaudry to provide. BREANNA Curious as to how. SOPHIE The license is the most important thing to him. We're going to convince him that he's got competition for it. PARKER By getting to Van Winkle. SOPHIE Exactly. You're gonna have to get an appointment at his office. HARRY Well, VAN WINKLE doesn't do business at his office. HARRY No, if you want to get one on one with him the way Chaudry does, you should go to the gun club. SOPHIE How do you propose we infiltrate said gun club? HARRY Well, it is members only, but, fortunately, you have an in. SOPHIE Huh. MAN Pull! CHAUDRY Keep an eye out for Van Winkle. He should have been here by now. MAN Something? VAN WINKLE I wouldn't have it any other way. PARKER Maybe, uh... Okay. Why, thank you. JAKE Yeah, what's up? PARKER Oh, Lord, I'm so glad we agree. VAN WINKLE Oh, absolutely. SOPHIE I know you've been doing this for a really long time on your own, but the Southern belle is a really hard con. She has to combine traditional femininity with an iron resolve... PARKER Look, Hardison helped me with the whole system, right? It's like a flow chart. Someone says this, I do this. SOPHIE You can't plan a grift with a flow chart. You have to be able to read the mark and improvise and... Actually, this is quite good. PARKER Mm-hmm. Right? Wanna get rid of someone? Ha. Mention a personal bodily function. Avoid something? Say nothing and smile. Need to change the subject? Feign an injury. SOPHIE Parker, are you using a flow chart for all your interactions? PARKER You're right, so right. CHAUDRY Lloyd. VAN WINKLE Oh, Mister Chaudry. CHAUDRY It's Congressman. I was hoping to catch you for a quick round before you... VAN WINKLE Sorry, I've already shot my pigeons for the day. CHAUDRY Ah. VAN WINKLE Miss St. Claire, it has been a genuine pleasure, though I suspect you let me win just to charm me. PARKER Oh, nonsense. I know how you feel about cheatin'. VAN WINKLE Uh-huh. PARKER Now, we'll see you at the party, and we'll talk more about gaming licenses, you hear? VAN WINKLE Yes, ma'am. PARKER Oh, my goodness, harry Wilson! HARRY Ahh! Belle, I thought that was you. PARKER Mwah. HARRY Sazerac? PARKER You remembered. HARRY You are memorable. PARKER That's my secret weapon. Valerie Davis. You heard about my party. Event of the season. HARRY I wouldn't miss it. PARKER Oh, Valerie. Mmm. Thank you for meetin' me here. Now, the guest list is... SOPHIE Uh, you're jumping the gun a bit, Belle. We have to agree my fee first. PARKER Oh. Walk with me. Do you shoot? CHAUDRY Excuse me. Congressman Austin Chaudry. Who was that woman you were talking to? HARRY Oh, I didn't think there was a soul in New Orleans that didn't know Belle St. Claire. Kinda Miss Richer Than Midas. CHAUDRY Why can't I get verified? HARRY Belle's traveled for years, looking after her family’s hotel interests. Dubai, Tokyo. But now that her, uh, trust has matured, she's more interested in starting up a little gaming enterprise here at home. CHAUDRY Gaming? What, she wants to put video poker machines in her hotels? HARRY No, Belle thinks a little bigger than that. About the size of a casino complex. CHAUDRY Could you introduce me? DENNIS I know what you're thinkin'. The prison outside of town pays more. ELIOT Yeah, well... I'm lookin' to slow down a bit. DENNIS We're not lookin' for somebody tryin' to slow down. This is a casino. It might look quiet, but trouble lurks around every corner. You gotta be alert. A renegade! ELIOT Renegade. That's what they used to call me on the job. DENNIS You were police? BREANNA Wait, wait, wait, wait! I didn't put police on your resumé! DENNIS It's not on your resumé. Where were you stationed? BREANNA Ahh... Ah, okay, okay, you were stationed out of... ELIOT Shreveport. You know, people don't know what it takes to be on the job. And I got too close to a case. You ever heard of the Shreveport Strangler? ELIOT Yeah. I may have lost my badge... but he lost a lot more. SOPHIE If you don't pay me what you promised, I'm just going to fly everyone to Monte Carlo for the weekend. PARKER Well... SOPHIE Hello? HARRY Belle. This is Mister Chaudry. CHAUDRY Congressman Chaudry. PARKER You're a Congressman? I thought I knew all the local representatives. CHAUDRY A former Congressman. I wondered if you'd be interested in a little friendly competition. PARKER Mm... yeah. I would love it. Harry! Could you be a dear, run the launcher? Pull! CHAUDRY Mmm. I hear you're having a party. Pull! PARKER Oh, it will be spectacular. Private card tables, best of everything. Guest list is full, but... I'm sure we could squeeze you in if someone more established can't come. Pull! CHAUDRY Mmm! CHAUDRY Rumor has it you're interested in casinos. Are you lookin' to invest? I own a riverboat, the Mississippi Pearl. We're expanding onto land, becoming a destination. Pull! PARKER Mister Chaudry, the St. Claires don't rent-- we own. CHAUDRY Oh, well... You need a gaming license for that. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Louisiana doesn't have a spare license to give. Good lawyer would have told you that. Pull! PARKER I have a good lawyer, and he tells me that just because all the licenses are spoken for doesn't mean they always will be. Pull! PARKER Whoo! CHAUDRY Do you really think you can compete with me? I don't miss. Pull! CHAUDRY My sight must be, uh, off. PARKER 'Course it is. Either that, or the target jumped out of the way. Don't feel so bad, Mister Chaudry. Honestly... you didn't stand a chance against a St. Claire. We been here since New Orleans was part of France, and, well, you haven't. See you at the party, Harry. HARRY Always a pleasure to watch you shoot to kill, Belle. PARKER Uh, Mister Chaudry, good luck with your little boat. Valerie! CHAUDRY Follow her. Tell me where she goes. JAKE The blonde? CHAUDRY No. Her. The secret weapon. ELIOT Hey. Who are these guys? DENNIS A separate security detail handles the money. They don't allow anyone near it or the count room. ELIOT Huh. What do we do? DENNIS We look for trouble and give directions to the bathroom. ELIOT Okay. ELIOT I don't like these suit guys. They don't look like casino security to me. PARKER Yeah. Chaudry's got his suit guy, too. Jake. Frowny forehead lines. ELIOT All right, we need to know exactly where that money is moving through the ship, and if I can't get near the money... BREANNA Guys. Why bother following the money when you can be the money? CHAUDRY Miss Davis. Won't you join me? BREANNA No wonder chaudry needs help getting players in here. This place is dead. So, I been thinking about my character. Think I'm a silver spoon rich kid tryin' to front like she's tough. PARKER That's too many layers. BREANNA Says the undercover tourist cop. PARKER Drop one of our tagged bills into the system and get out. The money will do the work for us. SOPHIE What can I do for you, Congressman? CHAUDRY It's nice to be recognized. What makes Belle St. Claire think one party's gonna earn her a gaming license? I saw how she treats you. You have all the power. What exactly is it that you do? SOPHIE I'm a whale hunter. I work casinos from here to Monte Carlo. When I call, the biggest gamblers in the world come running, and they have an absolute blast losing a fortune. CHAUDRY So, you bring in the big fish, they drop cash at her tables, shows van winkle she'll attract high rollers. SOPHIE Then, should your new license not get approved and you're so overextended you have to shut down, she can just sweep in and take it from you. CHAUDRY She can't stop van winkle from approving my application. SOPHIE She can... whisper in the right ears that if someone with your history were to get the license, then maybe that would look... bad. CHAUDRY They'll assume I bribed my way in. These people. Everything handed to them. My parents came here, scraped to build a hotel, but there were always extra palms to grease. But it's never the St. Claires of the world who get caught. I'm building my empire... CHAUDRY ...and no one's going to stop me. SOPHIE Empire! CHAUDRY Oh, I'm not stopping at one casino. I want dozens up and down the river. Everyone is going to know my name. SOPHIE How you gonna get the land? CHAUDRY Land is cheap when you don't know how to protect it. I think you should bring your whales to me instead of Belle. Let's show these bullies they can't push us around. DENNIS So, you know the surveillance room. ELIOT Yeah. What does this button do? DENNIS Never touch that. It seals the vault so it can only be opened by the master code, which we do not have. ELIOT There's no cameras in the vault? DENNIS Camera's in the count room. It's the only way in or out of the vault. ELIOT You smell chicory? DENNIS Coffee. ELIOT Oh. Dang it. DENNIS Sometimes I dream somebody's trapped in the vault, runnin' outta air, and I have to save 'em. Yes, indeed. Mmm. Crazy dream. Yep. You know, I took the police exam last year. Didn't pan out. ELIOT Smart guy like you? That's hard to believe. DENNIS I know, right? PARKER Mm-mm. PARKER Ooh. Eliot, we are in and recording some nice empty hallway footage. RFID tape on the bills is working. PARKER Breanna, you're good. BREANNA Remember the pearl? They just took the sensors off to clean it. PARKER Really? Breanna, no. Stay on mission. BREANNA I took that drive off Harry. PARKER No, you were spotted. ELIOT Don't do it, kid. PARKER Wh-wh-wh-whoa. No. No. Breanna! ELIOT Hey, nice collar, man. I already called the cops. They're on their way. Good job, buddy. This little punk is gonna get what's comin' to her. ELIOT Back to the truck. Find an alternate route and make sure nobody spots you. DENNIS What's going on? ELIOT Aw, ju-- guys in the suit were manhandling some kid. DENNIS Huh. ELIOT They're not exactly friendly, huh? DENNIS Uh, they don't mix with the rank-and-file, but I got my eye on 'em. I have a spreadsheet. ELIOT You have... DENNIS Spreadsheet. PARKER I told you not to do it. BREANNA You would've. PARKER Yeah. I'm Parker, the greatest thief in the world. ELIOT Hey, kid. ELIOT It just takes time. You gotta know when to and when not to. I wouldn't have gone for it. Your brother sure as... BREANNA I'm not my brother! PARKER Yeah, no kidding! SOPHIE Listen! Every person on this team has made mistakes. Having said that, we can't risk you being recognized from today. I'm sorry, Breanna, you're back in the van. So... SOPHIE Chaudry, he's not stopping with ava and Lenore. He's gonna be stealing homes up and down the river if he gets his way. What do we know about that boat? PARKER Well, the money's run from the floor to the counting room every twenty minutes. Then, it's counted for ten minutes before being loaded into the vault. SOPHIE So we have ten minutes to crack the vault, grab the money, and get out. ELIOT Mm-hmm. Only way on and off is the gangplank, unless you want to jump in the river. Gettin' off with the money's gonna be harder than grabbing it. SOPHIE I have an idea about that. BREANNA Let me guess-- you've come to try to make me feel better. HARRY Oh, I think I'd be about the worst person in the world for that job. BREANNA Why? Because you get to sip cocktails at the club while I'm stuck in the van? HARRY I had that life. I left that life. Now it would appear that's all I have to offer. BREANNA Hmm. Poor baby. All you have is, uh, money and good looks and privilege and access. HARRY Well, what about you? It seems like you could do just about anything, and all of it's scary. What do you want? BREANNA I want the world to stop sucking. 'Cause it sucks. For me, for people I care about. for ava and Lenore. I don't want them to lose their house. This team, it says it can make a difference. Okay, fine. I'll give it a shot. But because I love my brother and because I'm desperate, not because I believe in hope or something stupid like that. HARRY Well, look... I haven't really relied on anybody for a long time, but I'm relying on you. And so are they. And if you want to be part of the team, you actually have to be part of the team. PARKER Ohh. BREANNA Time. PARKER Ohh! These bundles are ridiculous. BREANNA Hey, don't blame the bundles. SOPHIE breanna made exactly what I asked for, three million worth. It means you'll be able to waltz out of the party with everybody else. No one's gonna look under the dress. No, taping these under my dress eats up so much time. It can't be done. BREANNA Might even say it's impossible? PARKER That'll be all for now, Breanna. BREANNA Okay. SOPHIE You know she took that pearl to impress you. But, for better or worse, she's with us now. We have to help her grow. PARKER Like you did with me? SOPHIE The way we all did with each other. PARKER If I could do this... it might work. SOPHIE It's a shame the dress isn't bigger. WOMAN Wow! WOMAN Wow, look at that dress! MAN Oh, my stars. MAN 2 Who is that? WOMAN I know how I'd feel in that dress. HARRY Correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't you not want to attract attention to yourself? PARKER You don't like my dress? LENORE I made the modifications you asked for. And there are straps and pockets on the inside, and... are you sure you want the hoops that wide? SOPHIE Sounds perfect, Lenore. Ohh. SOPHIE Sometimes the best way to hide is to blind them with your brightness. PARKER Excuse me. Hoo hoo hoo hoo, you handsome devil! SOPHIE Congratulations! You're a big hit. PARKER Got room for one more? Ohh! AUDIO Little chair. Ooh, I like your ponytail. CHAUDRY Remind me again why we invited her. Well, you want Belle to know she's never gonna get your license. When she sees how much money you rake in tonight, she's gonna fold her cards for sure. PARKER Sorry 'bout that. Little too much champagne. CHAUDRY Your whales will lose that much? SOPHIE Not here. In the high rollers room. CHAUDRY These whales aren't very exciting. DEALER Players, the game is blackjack. Buy-in is fifty thousand. SOPHIE They'll lose a million at the tables without even flinching. That's pretty exciting. ELIOT You made this? DENNIS Mm-hmm. ELIOT You got a gift. DENNIS Thank you. ELIOT Is that... is that... DENNIS Lemon juice! ELIOT Lemon juice! ELIOT Are you? ELIOT Okay. The drop car is leaving. And the count room is clear. You're gonna go write that down? I thought you had a spreadsheet. DENNIS It's in the car. ELIOT Go get it! DENNIS All right. ELIOT Dude. DENNIS I know. ELIOT All right, dennis is gonna be back soon. Now's our window. DEALER Dealer has twenty. WOMAN Come on, not again. MAN It's incredible. This one won. SOPHIE Breanna, deploy the loop. BREANNA Pushed a whole button and looped the empty hallway footage that parker recorded earlier. Anyone looking will see a big, fat nothing in the hallway. HARRY See? You contributed. SOPHIE Eliot, Cinderella, you have ten minutes. Happy? VAN WINKLE Oh, Miss St. Claire, may I escort you to the high rollers room? PARKER Mister Van Winkle, I need to attend to a personal bodily function. VAN WINKLE Well, I'll wait right here for you. PARKER But it's a personal bodily function. It could take hours. I'll meet you there. CHAUDRY This is great. SOPHIE Mm. CHAUDRY You're a genius. SOPHIE Oh. DEALER We have three winners. SOPHIE You know what to do. When I give the signal, you start winning. MARCO Like with Nate in Budapest. Sorry to miss the funeral. Vegas prisons don't give vacations. SOPHIE Well, you're here now, and that's what counts. VANESSA Anything for Nate. And you. CHAUDRY They just won. SOPHIE It's just one hand out of ten. Don't look so nervous. It keeps them playing. MAN What are you guys doing in here? This is a restricted area. PARKER A Boyle & Kim Five Hundred. How adorable. Um... guys... there's a lot of money in here. BREANNA Isn't that kind of the point? PARKER No, like, too much money. Like, tens of millions too much. Um, there's no way it's all gonna fit under this dress. ELIOT Guys, we got another problem. These guys are Russian mob. HARRY Russians? How do you know they're Russian? ELIOT Because it's a very distinctive... THUG ELIOT Hang on. JAKE Is this going to be a problem? CHAUDRY No, no, no, everything's fine. Dmitri's money's safe, don't worry. JAKE It's my job to worry. SOPHIE Chaudry must be laundering money for the Russian mob. That's how he's financing his empire plans. HARRY Jake's not an employee. He's protecting money for a Russian oligarch. SOPHIE The plan depends on us emptying the vault. We may have to regroup. HARRY Yeah, if we leave now, though, Lenore and ava are gonna lose their house. BREANNA Uh, guys... I have an idea. MAN Yeah! JAKE They keep winning. CHAUDRY Well, it's just a hand here and there, right? Keeps them playing. Whiskey. JAKE If you lose Dmitri's money, it's not me you have to answer to. HARRY Will that work? BREANNA Did the math twice. ELIOT Kid, this ain't a dry run. SOPHIE If breanna believes it can work... BREANNA It'll work. And we won't sink. SOPHIE Parker, what do you think? PARKER Trust the newbie. BREANNA Yes? Yes? Yes, yes! Okay, okay, all you have to do is maneuver through some heavily patrolled areas and grab what you need. JAKE Ivan, check in. Ivan. Ivan? SOPHIE And Eliot... you'd better hurry up too. ELIOT I always get the fun job, don't I? PARKER Ah, that's nothin'. You cut your way out of an ice cave. MAN Hey! You're not supposed to be here! PARKER You escaped a gorilla enclosure. PARKER And... you catered a wedding for the Mob. ELIOT It wasn't catering. It was a food sensory experience. PARKER Whatever. It was really good. MAN Hey! ELIOT Hey, what's up? ELIOT Yeah. Which door's the workshop? BREANNA Third door on your right. DENNIS There you are! I grabbed my spreadsheet and more carrot cake. ELIOT Go back upstairs. DENNIS W-w-wait. Are you, uh, goin' renegade? ELIOT Yeah. Yes, I am. DENNIS Yeah. ELIOT Those guys in the suits, they're Russian Mafia. DENNIS I knew it! I-I knew it! ELIOT Go back upstairs and... DENNIS Oh, look out! ELIOT That was a big mistake, buddy. Look at me. Look at me. ELIOT Dennis. Dennis, put your head here, buddy. Hey, Dennis, Dennis. You all right, my man? Huh? ELIOT You get-- what? Ooh, thumbs up. All right. Huh? Thumbs up. You're gonna be just fine. Okay. DENNIS What happened to your tie? JAKE Ivan, where are you? JAKE What? MAN Yes! SOPHIE It's a small hot streak. It just makes them bet more-- and lose more. It's... it's good. JAKE Got an emergency. One guy knocked out in the count room. We have thieves in our vault. CHAUDRY Seal it and call the cops. JAKE Cops? But the money... CHAUDRY These local yokels don't know how much is in that vault. Dmitri's money is safe. PARKER That's it. Next time that door opens, cops'll be on the other side. CHAUDRY Police'll be here any minute. JAKE Yeah? Where the hell are they? SOPHIE Eliot, Parker, are you out? CHAUDRY Make sure these guys start losing. I have to deal with something. MARCO We're gonna cash out. DEALER Pleasure. That's quite some run you had. SOPHIE Eliot. Parker. The police are on their way to the vault right now. JAKE Ivan? CHAUDRY You have to stop them. You have to stop them! SOPHIE Stop who? CHAUDRY The players from cashing out! VAN WINKLE Why? Is there something wrong? CHAUDRY No! Of course not. SOPHIE Oh, good, 'cause the high rollers are very eager to collect. Do you know, they won almost two million dollars tonight! VAN WINKLE Well, you can pay out, can't you? CHAUDRY Uh... VAN WINKLE Very disappointing. CHAUDRY It was you. You did this! Officer! She brought in the high rollers. She ran a rigged game! She knew we wouldn't be able to pay. SOPHIE Are you saying that your casino ran a rigged game directly in front of the most honest gaming commissioner this side of the Mississippi? VAN WINKLE Yeah, Congressman, is that what you're saying? Officer, I don't know what's going on here, but if my office can be of any help, please be in touch. SOPHIE I suspect your Russian friends aren't going to be very happy with you... Congressman. But look on the bright side-- now everyone's gonna know your name. JAKE Dmitri would like to have a word with you. DENNIS I'm telling you, the security detail is Russian mob! I have a spreadsheet! BREANNA I have an idea. If you make the vault as airtight as possible... and then release the nitrogen from the air tanks... PARKER Smell that. BREANNA You pressurize the room and-and create enough force to keep the water from coming up. It's the Ideal Gas Law. Push the money through, river current will take care of the rest. HARRY Whoo! Looks like you caught a big one! BREANNA Ow! What? PARKER Good job. SOPHIE You too, Parker. And the dress was amazing! BREANNA A little water probably came in once the vault wasn't airtight. HARRY Yeah, that was your big mistake, ruining Chaudry's throw rugs. Very disappointed in you. SOPHIE The deeds to your house, free and clear and completely paid off. LENORE I can't accept this. This is too much. AVA Sure we can, Grandma. SOPHIE We've also arranged the same for any neighbors still in the area. HARRY And anybody that got forced out is gonna get fair compensation. LENORE Ohh. HARRY And... one more thing. AVA Historical status? HARRY For the whole neighborhood. Now nobody can tear these houses down. LENORE This is more than I could have ever hoped for. You people are angels. SOPHIE Ava, I want you to have the best Sweet Sixteen in history! You're gonna need a new dress, though. I think I could take care of that. DENNIS I don't know what I'm gonna do without my spreadsheet. ELIOT Dennis... Dennis, you're gonna pass the entrance exam this time, all right? I'm gonna help you study. DENNIS All right, man. Coming over to play cards? ELIOT I... I'll see you at game night. BREANNA Aw, you made a pal. ELIOT Don't do that. This guy got punched in the face. He lost his job. He deserves a break. PARKER And he makes really good carrot cake. ELIOT That was... my cake, Parker! He made it special for me! BREANNA Why did you decide to trust me on the boat? PARKER Hardison, uh, he put it in the binders, volume ten, "When in doubt, trust the person stuck inside the van. They can always see the big picture." BREANNA Sucks he's not here. PARKER Yeah. Really does. PARKER But we have you. BREANNA More suckage for you. PARKER No. Mnh-mnh. I'm glad you're here. You're an incredibly gifted hacker, and we need you. Why not leave the other stuff to us? BREANNA I want to take on the bad guys. I have to learn everything. PARKER Yeah, but these bad guys are worse than ever, okay? Hardison trusted me with you. If something bad happens because... BREANNA Parker. My first memory is of Nine-Eleven. I've lived through endless war, two economic collapses, and the return of actual Nazis. So this "worst world ever" thing you see... it's the only world I've ever known. I'm not scared. I'm kinda ready to kick it in the junk. PARKER Okay. Training starts tomorrow. Ooh. Almost forgot. Your first trophy. You earned it. BREANNA But you were nowhere near the... When did-- how did you...? How did you...? PARKER I'm Parker.