5.04 At What PriceNeal’s back! Neal’s back! :DDD After seven months and twelve days, our

5.04 At What PriceNeal’s back! Neal’s back! :DDD After seven months and twelve days, our favorite conman is back! With his perfect hair, impeccable style, and big blue eyes! *u*But it’s not a happy celebration because last we saw, Peter was getting arrested for the murder of Senator Pratt. And six weeks later, he’s in jail awaiting indictment, with the only person to clear his name in the wind. Even Neal was already out of ideas, which is not a good sign. Neal always has ideas.Enter Crowley Curtis Hagen. Lol, Mark Sheppard. If Leverage was still on, you’re a recurring bad guy on three of my shows. XD Coming from all the way back in the pilot, Curtis makes a return. Having only been arrested for forgery, he had struck a deal to be an art curator but still in the orange jumpsuit. He offered Neal a deal to help Peter get out of jail: he gets the federal prosecutor to drop the case, while Neal has to do a ‘simple smash and grab’ in return. Oh also, to get the prosecutor to walk away, he needs Bennett’s confession.Neal cares a lot for Peter (and also, he wants to keep his arrangement with the FBI in place, but I’d like to think this is just a second priority), so he goes ahead commits a few felonies to record the fake confession and get Peter’s name cleared. So yay, Peter’s out of prison!Next comes Curtis’ request. Steal a bunch of gold coins from a security fortress. Nothing Neal and Mozzie haven’t done. With Mozzie’s nifty little anklet hacker, Neal was able to pull of the heist. Mozzie plays the (hilarious) distraction while Neal sneaks in the adjacent building (in a fireman’s outfit! *q*) and steals the goods from the other side. Mozzie struggling to keep cover while the negotiator rambled on about conspiracy theories was gold. It must have taken all of his self-control to not take the bait right there. :))Everything went according to plan until another fireman took Neal’s compressed air tanks (with the gold coins). So now they have to get it from the firehouse. Add to that the fact that Peter’s team had just been assigned the gold coin heist. XD I literally went 'OH HAHA’ when Peter said it. Neal’s face too. He did a good job of keeping the suspicion away from him though.Then at the firehouse, Neal started a grease fire as another distraction while he ran upstairs to get the tanks. I thought using the hose to transport the coins was genius, but it woulda taken a lot longer than what they made it appear to be. A probationary fireman, no matter how panicked, should be able to put out a fire in a firehouse rather quickly. But okay, it was cool. XDDelivering the goods to Curtis prompted Neal to mull over the deal. It wasn’t just a 'simple smash and grab.’ Curtis was fully prepared to record Neal in the act of stealing and blackmail him into helping him win his appeal. Sneaky bastard. So we’d be seeing a lot more of him in the future then.Neal’s problems only start there because now, he’s expecting a new FBI handler (with Peter taking the reins in the WC division), he got a new anklet (one which they have to re-hack), and Peter is suspicious of him again. Not for the fake confession but for the gold coins. That’s a lot of things to juggle.At least one of them is bound to blow up in his face. -- source link

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