The Long Way Down Job - Recap

On Mount Kibari, Alaska, Alan Scott records a message to his wife Kate before proceeding onto the basecamp.

Three months later, Eliot arrives at the Mt. Kibari basecamp at 8,000 feet. He meets Nate and complains that they were support to stay low after San Lorenzo. Nate says that the new job has a specific window of opportunity.



Nate meets with Kate, who explains that Alan died in a storm after sending her the message. He formed an investment firm to handle small-business loans. Five years ago, he partnered with Merced Financial Services, earned by John Drexel, a millionaire who races car and climbs mountains. He took Alan on a number of mountain climbing investments. Alan had discovered that Merced was seizing properties that they didn’t own and signing foreclosing forms. Nate recognizes that the company was buying up foreclosures in the hopes that the owners won’t sue. The courts would stop them if someone brought them proof. Karen admits that someone broke into their house and took all the computer files, but says there’s one place where no one would have looked.

The main tent is filled with rich men who have come to Kibari to climb. Sophie is already there, and accuses Nate of trying to avoid her so they don’t have to talk about when they ended up in bed in San Lorenzo. Parker and Alec come in, and Alec hugs Eliot to stay warm. Parker refuses to hug Alec. Nate and Alec have already checked Alan’s climb path and know his approximate last location. He died just as a winter storm set in, and the mountain has been closed to climbers ever since. Nate plans to find the notebook that Alan had that contained his findings on the mortgage fraud. The others disagree, saying it’s a treasure hunt, not a con. Drexel arrives and Nate tells the team that Karen needs them because it’s a race to get the notebook before Drexel does.



Alec pretends to be working for the government and gets access to the Internet systems so he can monitor all communications in and out of the basecamp. The forest rangers are keeping Drexel’s team from going in until they have official permission, so Parker and Eliot will go up unofficially.

Drexel addresses the other millionaires and says that he’s making the climb to honor Alan, and turns it into a PR speech for his company. As Eliot leaves, he tells Nate that he shouldn’t even be there, and that the effects of altitude-sickness are similar to alcohol withdrawal. He warns Nate that he can’t con a mountain. Meanwhile, Alec suggests that he climb the mountain with Parker. She points out that he’s not very good at climbing, and wonders if they have a “thing.” Alec insists that it isn’t, and she immediately walks away.



Karen arrives and tells Nate that she’s there to help. She wants to find her husband’s corpse, but Nate warns her that if Drexel sees her there, he’ll know that something is up. Nate figures that they’ll find the notebook and send pictures back, but Alec warns him that after a certain point, the signal will be too weak and they’ll have to actually bring the notebook back. Drexel’s team gets ready to leave and Sophie asks for personal information on Drexel’s team and the others. Karen provides information on Hans Schausse, the head of the German team, and Hiro Miyashta, one of Drexel’s competitors. She notes that it’s odd that they are in Alaska rather than the Alps as they usually are. Sophie steals Drexel’s cell phone and gets a Paris phone number redirected to her phone. She then takes a photo of herself and puts the information on Drexel’s cell phone. Sophie asks Nate for help but he insists on staying with Alec and Karen.

Sophie takes a photo of herself and puts it on Drexel’s phone, and then slips it back into his pocket. She then slaps him and claims that they had sex and he dumped her. Sophie says that she put her number in his cell phone, and Drexel confirms that it’s there. Drexel figures that they’ve met and Sophie tells him to buy her a drink.



Eliot and Parker find a supply depot as they go up. Alec doesn’t get a signal from Alan’s GPS and says that they need to send up another receiver. Nate sets the receiver down and says that they can’t spare anyone. Eliot finds the footprint of a Russian Spetsnaz commando and warns the others that Drexel had the same idea.

Sophie continues to stall Drexel, and notices that he’s texting someone. Alec tracks the text message and discovers that Drexel is texting to Miyashta. When Sophie asks for suggestions, Nate tells her that he has a bigger problem: Karen has left with the receiver. Nate insists on going after her, and tells Alec to cross-reference the financials between Drexel and Miyashta and find the connection. Alec learns that there have been some big stock transfers that signify a buyout. All of Miyoshta’s men are on the mountain for the first time, and Sophie realizes that they are lawyers. She figures that it’s a buyout and the basecamp is the perfect place for secret negotiations. Drexel will sell his company and the mortgage records will be locked up under Japanese privacy laws. She tells Alec to shut down Drexel’s communication so he can’t check the stock market and make the buyout, and then starts spreading rumors with Hans that there is a buyout underway.



Nate climbs to the supply tent but collapses from altitude sickness. He manages to get the tent’s air and calls Alec. Alec confirms that Karen is high enough that he’s found Alan’s signal, but she is still climbing. Nate realizes that she has to climb and goes after her.

Eliot and Parker go to the indicated location but find no sign of Alan’s body. The snow cracks beneath them and they fall into a crevasse. Alec loses their signal, and is unable to make contact Nate.

Nate finds an unconscious Karen lying in the snow. He goes to her side and starts to administer oxygen, but collapses himself. Karen wakes up and gets Nate to the high camp tent. She explains that she twisted her ankle but kept on going, hyperventilated, and passed out. Kate talks about how she never got to say goodbye, and Nate says that he’s been through the same thing. When it happens, the anger feels better than the grief, but he let the anger take over just so he could feel.



Eliot and Parker wake up in the crevasse and find Alan’s corpse. When he fell, he broke his leg so that he couldn’t climb out. The rock walls blocked the GPS beacon so that no one could find him. Eliot gets the notebook and prepares to leave, but Parker angrily insists that they have to take Alan’s body with them.

The Germans are buying up Drexel’s stock and the CEO has no idea what’s going on. To keep things rolling, Sophie tells Miyashta that she’s a business reporter and asks him about the Merced buyout. He claims to know nothing about it, but quickly checks the stock prices and goes to meet with his lawyers.

Parker finds a message on Alan’s cell phone, but Eliot says that it’s for Karen, not them. He has Parker climb up and belay him, and then they’ll put a rigging on the corpse and pull it up. Parker insists on calling the corpse by its name.

Alec calls to tell Sophie that Nate and Karen are heading back. Drexel grabs Sophie and demands to know what is going on. She tells him to check his stock price, and he realizes that Miyashta has pulled out, meaning the Germans will pull out. Sophie says that her people are going to buy his company. Nate and Karen come in, and Sophie secretly tells Nate to play along.

Eliot warns that it’s going to be difficult to dead-lift Alan’s body down the mountain. She starts to climb up but the rope snaps. Eliot says that they have to use the rigging rope to get out, but Parker angrily insists that they’re supposed to get Alan back to his wife. She says that the others would do the right thing and she wants to do the right thing.



Nate tells Drexel that he has the notebook fro Karen, and threatens to gut Merced and pick up the pieces later. Drexel figures that he’s bluffing, but Nate says that he knows about the CEO’s Russian mercenary. Drexel agrees to stall when Nate says that they are moving into position to take advantage of Miyoshta’s announcement.

As they remove the rigging rope, Eliot says that it was a good thing they were there, because the others would die trying to get Alan’s body out. Parker wonders if that’s a good thing, and Eliot says that it simply makes them themselves. Before they go, Parker insists on playing the last message on the cell phone to see if there was anything that Alan wanted done. They get out and call Alec, who breaks into tears when he hears that Parker is alive. They play Alan’s last message to him.

Nate complains that Sophie went much further than a simple stall, and Alec calls to tell him he has Alan’s message. As Nate goes to see him, Drexel punches him and demands to see the notebook. When Nate can’t produce it, Drexel figure that he’s bluffing and tells Nate to tell his team to turn it over to his man, Dmitri, and in return he’ll give them a ride down the mountain. Nate gets to the Internet tent and tells Alec that they now know that Dmitri has a snowmobile.



Parker and Eliot get to the supply tent and find a seemingly abandoned snowmobile. Eliot approaches the tent, but realizes too late that Dmitri is buried in the snow. He jumps up and grabs Parker, and uses her as a hostage. Eliot turns over the notebook and Dmitri burns it with a flare before leaving.

Drexel goes to the Internet center and tells Alec to contact Dmitri. The Russian confirms that he destroyed the notebook and the CEO leaves.

At the main tent, Drexel assures Miyashta that the deal can go ahead as planned. Nate and Karen enter the tent, and Alec broadcasts Alan’s last message on the monitors. He states that Drexel cut his rope and let him fall. The message is coming from Alan’s phone. When Dmitri grabbed Parker, she turned on the phone and secretly put it in the mercenary’s pocket so that he would bring it down below the cutoff line on his snowmobile. Dmitri comes in and Drexel realizes what’s happened. The park rangers arrive and arrest Dmitri and Drexel as Parker and Eliot come in.

Sophie wonders how the message is running, and Alec explains that it was in Alan’s email queue. Once it came in range, it mailed his dying message on its own. On the recording, Alan tells Karen that he loves her and will be at her side in spirit no matter what. As the message ends, Eliot tells Parker that she brought Alan back to Karen after all. As Alec comes in, a tearful Parker hugs him.

Back in Boston, Parker warns Alec that their relationship won’t be normal, and suggests she meet his Nana. Eliot congratulates Sophie on pinning down Drexel, and she explains that she used psychological tells to figure out that he forgets his sexual conquests. Nate comes in and is surprised to see them all eating at his home. Sophie draws him to the side and they both agree that it never happened. She suggests that Nate call her by her real name, when he learned it that night. Nate gives off the same psychological tells that Drexel did and says that he should avoid using her real name so the others don’t figure what they had between them.

Sophie starts to ask Nate if he remembers her real name, but Alec says that he’s found a passive-transmit bug in the room’s lamp. They figure one of their many enemies is after them, and that their on the top of a lot of enemy lists.



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