The Cross My Heart Job - Recap

At the Cincinnati Metropolitan Airport, the team returns from a Caribbean job. It didn’t go as planned and most of their equipment was lost. In the main terminal, Nate spots a woman with a cooler and realizes that she switched it for another one. As she makes a call, Nate approaches her and points out that she stole the cooler and swapped it with someone. However, he figures that someone put it up to her. The woman, Linda, tries to deny it and Nate tells her that he’s there to help her. Linda explains that she didn’t have a choice because the people responsible kidnapped her daughter Tanya, and forced her to steal a human heart.



The team meets with Linda in private and she explains that she’s a transplant nurse and that the heart was due for Joshua Spin, a 15-year-old boy who will be dead within hours. The heart is viable for four hours and it’s two hours into transit. Nate insists that they rescue Tanya and find the heart in the next 108 minutes to save Joshua.

First they have to rescue Tanya and use the kidnapper to locate the thieves with the heart. Nate and Alec go over the photo that the kidnappers sent to Linda to prove that Tanya is alive. Nate realizes from a menu in the menu that Tanya is being held at a crab restaurant in the airport. Sophie goes in wearing a distracting outfit and Nate has Linda call the kidnapper. When they confirm their target, Sophie keeps the waiter occupied while Parker and Eliot knock out the kidnapper. They then move into the restaurant, have the waiter close it up, and Linda reunites with her daughter. The kidnapper is a local but has first-class tickets and a plastic gun. Eliot figures that the man responsible hired a local so there’d be no connection to him, and they’re back at square one with 93 minutes left.



Nate tells Alec to go to work, but Alec reminds him that he lost his equipment in the Caribbean. Their credit cards are maxed out, they used their remaining money to bribe the waiter, and Parker’s lockpicks are checked in the bags. Nate, remembering his dead son, refuses to yield and tells them to steal whatever they need to save Joshua. As Parker and Eliot go to get what they can, Sophie asks if Nate is okay. He admits that it’s personal, but says it doesn’t matter.

Parker finds a computer locked up in a kiosk and goes to steal a pair of sunglasses to use the bow to pick the lock. Meanwhile, Eliot steals a credit card from an obnoxious Platinum flyer and buys walkie-talkies.

At the restaurant, Nate tells Alec to steal the national transplant registry list. Alec needs an e-mail to track the information, and Sophie poses as a local transplant clerk to call the national office and have them send her an e-mail. Once they have the e-mail, Alec hacks the system and downloads the list. Using Linda’s knowledge, they narrow it down to one wealthy donor: Dean Chesney, the CEO of Vertronics Defense. Nate knows about Chesney but wasn’t interested in him because he was dying.



Chesney is in bed and receives word from his doctor that Mr. Woods has the heart and is preparing to fly it from Cincinnati to Chicago.

Nate figures that Chesney’s man will fly the heart out on a private plane, and they need tarmac access to get to it. Alec warns that he can’t hack into the tower because the computers aren’t on the Internet. That means that they need to get into the tower physically. The team goes to work and figures out they need to get three separate badges, each one leading to the next. To get the first one into the general-employee section, Sophie walks through the terminal and twists her ankle. When a worker brings a wheelchair, she steals his badge and slips it to Eliot.



Next, Eliot and Parker go to the employee lockers and steal two badges from the ground crew lockers. That will get them to the tarmac area. Next they need a tower-access badge to get into the tower. The tower workers are going off-shift and taking their badges with them. Eliot poses as a pilot and targets an attractive woman with a Level 3 badge. A pilot intercepts him and Eliot says he plans to hit on the woman. Once the pilot leaves, Eliot flirts with woman briefly and steals her badge as she leaves. He tries to call Alec, but discovers that the tower radio is interfering with their walkie-talkies. Eliot finally sends a coded page to Alec telling him where to meet and gives him the badge. He then heads for the tarmac with Parker in a luggage cart.

Alec discovers that a pin number is necessary to access the tower. He asks the security guard on duty to reset his pin number. When the guard points out that Alec’s badge shows a woman, Alec insists that he’s a man after a sex-change operation and takes faked offense at the supposed harassment and profiling. While he argues with them, he catches a glimpse of the pin number on the security screen, “confirms” his old pin number, and has the security guard reset it.



While he waits, Nate looks at a website photo of Joshua. Sophie tells him to be a drink so he’ll be clear-headed for what’s ahead, but Nate can’t forget what happened to his son. He thinks about how Sam would have been 13 now while Sophie takes his hand.

Alec gets to the tower and grounds the private jet’s flight to Chicago. However, Parker and Eliot discover that the plane is there but the thieves have left with the heart. Nate figures that the thieves went to Plan B and confirms that there’s a commercial flight boarding for Chicago. He tells Parker and Eliot to get back to the commercial flight hangers, but the luggage cart won’t go fast enough. Parker removes the spark regulator and they take off at high speed. They have no way to identify the courier so Nate calls Chesney, introduces himself by name, and tells him that he has the heart and wants $1 million. Once he hangs up, Sophie warns that he’s out of controlling and gave the mark his real name, but Nate insists he wants Chesney to know who he is.

After Nate hangs up, Chesney calls Woods, alerting Parker and Eliot. Woods has two bodyguards with him and they identify all three. To get people off the planes, Nate tells Alec to fake a tornado. When Alec tells him that the National Weather Service has to issue the warning, Nate and Sophie call in fake tornado reports and the NWS issues a warning. Alec helps sell it to the tower controller by mentioning lawsuits, and the controller cancels all incoming flights and orders everyone out. He offers to stay, but when Alec points out the dangers of flying glass, the controller quickly leaves.



Chesney calls Nate back asks why he’s toying with him. Nate suggests that there isn’t enough time to get the heart to Chicago, and Chesney admits that the odds don’t favor a wait. However, he doesn’t have a choice and has eight contingency plans in place. Nate promises that if Joshua dies, he’ll destroy anything and everything that Chesney has and then hunt him down and kill him.

A pilot calls the tower to say that he’s low on fuel and needs permission to land. The pilot ignores the tornado warning and Alec has no choice but to provide the vector.



Once Eliot is in position, Parker takes Woods’ suitcase with the cooler. She runs off and Eliot knocks out the two bodyguards while Woods continues after Parker.

Alec has no idea what to do until finally he brings up a flight simulator.

Parker runs with the suitcase and trips over a luggage cart. Woods takes the suitcase at gunpoint and leaves with the cooler.

Alec successfully brings down the plane.

Parker and Eliot tell Nate that Woods is heading back for the private jet. Nate figures that he’ll take off despite the tornado warning and let Chesney pay the fine. Alec confirms that Woods has already left. However, as Nate leaves with Linda and Tanya, Sophie meets them and hands over the real cooler. She piloted the luggage cart that Parker tripped over, and they switched suitcases. Woods has a cooler with a snow globe in it. They head for the ambulance and Nate knocks out the driver, one of Chesney’s “contingency plans.”



At the hospital, the team checks on Joshua after the operation. They realize they can’t do anything to Chesney without exposing themselves. At the airport, the police collect the kidnapper. Once the team leaves, Sophie congratulates Nate on saving Joshua.

Later in Boston, Nate is working on a model ship when Chesney calls him. The CEO wonders what is stopping him from trying again. In response, Nate brings up footage from the security cameras in Chesney’s room. He informs Chesney that he is watching him and his money, and that if he sees anything he doesn’t like, he’ll finish him. Chesney admits that Nate has killed him, but Nate says that God killed him and he’s just making sure that it took. He hangs up, leaving Chesney to nervously clutch at his chest.



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