- While Nate and the team try to uncover an embezzler by infiltrating an office, they get roped into participating in a documentary of the company.
- A parody of "The Office," this episode is centered at Good Cheer Greeting Card Co. Good Cheer is run by CEO, Fred Bartley, who speaks fluent pigskin. The team infils Good Cheer as an efficiency consulting outfit, pending a buyout by Heartfelt. There is Gunter, a stoic German filmmaker who is making a documentary and is smitten with Parker. Has the team uncovered illegal activity at Good Cheer? How stupid is Sophie to confide in HR ... and to try to talk froufrou with a helmet head? Nate and the guys get the picture.—LA-Lawyer
- Good Cheer Greeting Card Company, Montvale, Mass. Hal goes to see HR. He's very calm until the woman Felicia gets choked up and he realizes he's being fired. He starts shouting that it's all Bartley's fault. Security forcibly removes Hal from of the building. Fred Bartley (Josh Randall) updates his fantasy football roster.
Cut to Hal meeting with Nate. He's sure Barley is embezzling. He noticed some accounting irregularities, brought them to Bartley and a week later he was fired. He thinks the company will go out of business before the company can get bought out by Heartfelt Cards, which would save them.
Hardison briefs the team. Good Cheer was already going out of business before Bartley started embezzling. Montvale's entire economy depends on the company. Fred Bartley inherited the company from his grandfather. He's a washed up jock.
The books show Bartley buying equipment that never shows up, they figure he's pocketing the difference. They want to expose Bartley before the buyout so Heartfelt can take credit for cleaning house.
The team heads to Good Cheer, posing as efficiency experts. They're not the only ones visiting. "Noted Documentary filmmaker Gunter" (Peter Stomare) is transfixed by the water cooler. He's doing a documentary about America's small businesses. He thinks a company that sells joy struggling to survive is a great metaphor for America. He's a little kooky.
Sophie wants to delay until the cameras are gone. When Nate disagrees, she takes out a red notebook and scribbles furiously. Nate thinks there's only one thing to do. He sits down in front of the camera. And now it's an episode of "The Office."
The camera style switches to faux documentary, including Fred as a bumbling boss. Sophie is posing as an "emotioneer". She tells the employees to stick their fingers in their coworker's ear to break down barriers.
Felicia thinks efficiency mean more employees are getting fired.
Nate takes Fred in to see Sophie, who passes out blindfolds and tells everyone to get down on all fours and hop like monkeys.
With everyone distracted, Hardison and Eliot check out Bartley's office, with the documentary camera crew right behind them. They use code words to talk about what they are searching for.
Sophie talks to the camera, telling us she's started keeping a record of every time Nate disrespects her contribution. That's what she was writing in the red book.
Hardison and Eliot are beefing about something. Hardison takes a chocolate bar out of the fridge and Eliot yells at him. Eliot tells us that Hardison ate a sandwich he left in the fridge. Hardison denies it.
Parker scribbles all over the cards, saying they're too cheery. She catches the attention of Gunter and the documentary crew. She gets angry and threatens to break the camera. Gunter finds her fascinating.
Nate and the team meet and try to report in code. Hardison and Eliot didn't find anything. Then Nate looks at the inventory and says Fred is printing "fake cards" with "important people's faces" on them. He's counterfeiting.
The team meets alone, but the crew listens in. Nate thinks he's counterfeiting the Euro based on the ink he's using. They want to find the paper.
Nate is getting some coffee when Felicia joins him and asks if he wants to talk about his relationship with Sophie.
Sophie tells the camera that Felicia explained a concept called reverse favoritism, which is common in workplace relationships. She thought it was a great idea for Felicia to talk to Nate. Eliot and Hardison keep bickering about the sandwich as they go look for for the special printer. They run into the warehouse crew. Eliot thinks they're guarding something.
Nate asks them what "sandwich" is code for. Someone mentions the copier is broken and Hardison thinks to check in it. They find the money printer. Sophie reports back from using her best mind tricks on Fred. She's sure he's not part of the scam.
They have to look for whoever last messed with the copier. The security cameras erase themselves after 12 hours. Enter the documentary crew.
Nate and Sophie watch the footage with Gunter. They each give him questions to ask the other to tweak them, getting under their skin. Nate says Sophie's acting career fizzled. Nate insists he's a functioning alcoholic and loves foreplay.
They find the warehouse crew fiddling with the copier. Hardison fixes Eliot up with a tie camera. Gunter is impressed. He asks if Hardison has more.
Cut to Gunter sidling up to Parker, belt buckle first. The camera pans down to her legs as she is sitting at a desk. She catches on to his general weirdness and rips his belt off.
Eliot confronts the warehouse workers/counterfeiters and tackling them. One guy insists he did nothing and Bartley told him to change the ink.
Nate thinks someone is setting up Bartley. Hardison says the money is remote printing and he traced it. Cut to Felicia from HR.
Hardison says there's another document set to print in two hours, in the middle of the Heartfelt meeting. It's a suicide note from Bartley.
The Heartfelt people show up. Eliot can't find Bartley. The employees panic and Nate talks them down.
Sophie tells Gunter that for all his faults, Nate gets the job done, but everything else comes second. Nate and Sophie go stall the Heartfelt employees while Eliot and Hardison look for Fred. The camera guy keeps pointing to the pack of cigarettes on Bartley's desk. Gunter mentions that Bartley told him he quit two months ago. They think he's sneaking a smoke up on the roof.
Up on the roof, Bartley gets manhandled by goons. Eliot confronts them. Gunter joins in when they go for the camera.
Hardison gets tossed over the side of the building, but holds on until Eliot comes to get him.
The Good Cheer team leads their presentation for the Heartfelt people. They don't seem impressed so Sophie suggests Parker. She does a presentation on her card line, Eskimo Kisses, including a Thank You card of a body with a toe tag. Everyone is horrified, except Gunter, who finds it exquisite.
Eliot tells Fred to get downstairs to save his company. He runs in at the last minute. Felicia sends a message on her phone. Someone hears the copier print and goes to check it out. She comes into the meeting and announces the copier is printing money. Felicia stands up and accuses Bartley. She points out the counterfeiting equipment and ink was bought in his name. And he had her fire Hal. He says she told him that Hal tried to grope her, but she keeps accusing.
The Heartfelt woman says they withdraw their offer. Nate stands up and says Felicia is guilty not Bartley. She denies it, but he has video of her sending the print command from her phone -- thanks to a tiny camera.
Flash back to Parker planting the camera on Felicia's lapel.
Felicia makes a run for it, but Eliot kicks over the water cool to trip her. Fred is profoundly confused. Sophie explains, but he still doesn't get it. So Nate uses a sports analogy. Sophie writes in her notebook again. Fred makes a football reference that catches the ear of one of the Heartfelt people and he's won over. Nate prompts Fred to introduce his new card line.
Cut to Fred showing us a football card that says "When it's crunch time, you can always call my number, Dad." Fred says it's how real men emote.
Later, Gunter has a screening for the Leveragers. They love it. But he explains it's supposed to show the futility of life. He wants to know what Parker thought of it. She says she didn't get it. Gunter takes out the disc and snaps it into pieces. If Parker doesn't like it, it's not worth showing to anyone else. Gunter thanks them and leaves. Nate checks that Hardison erased all Gunter's other footage.
The Leveragers head for dinner. Sophie tries to talk to Nate about what she said about him. He hands her a card. It seems to say the right thing. He pours her a drink. They both look in the general direction of the camera, documentary style.
Back to an interview with Gunter, Hardison admits he ate the sandwich. It was so good, if Eliot wouldn't beat him up for it, he'd go thank him.
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