"What's with all the secret passageways, man?" "We confiscated this place from a gang of freaks." "Oh, you mean people like me?" "Your words, not mine." "Can we get started?" "Same old artie." "You switched teams, but it's still just business as usual, right?" "Uh huh." "So, uh, how long's this going to take?" "Once i get my hands on the vaults... thirty seconds tops?" "The trick is getting to the vault." "We'll take care of it." "These systems are all independent." "There's a separate pilot source for the lasers, touch sensors, heat reactors." "I mean, the whole works." "Which part of "we'll take care of it" didn't you understand?" "Okay." "Let's see." "There's a four-sided locking mechanism that's going to be loaded with booby-traps." "If you cross them, you're never going to get this box open." "Look, artie, forget it." "I mean, this is way out of your league." "Like, the last thing i kneed is more prison time." "Like, thank you for inviting me to the dance, but i'm going to have to politely decline." "Yo, zack." "You're not going anywhere." "Not 'til you get me in that vault." "Just because you're a cop now instead of a criminal doesn't mean you can tell me what to do." "Anyway, i can still whip your ass." "You guys spend more time in our hideouts than we do." "I'm getting pretty sick and tired of uninvited guests." "Shall we ask them to leave?" "I think we shall." "What?" "You don't want to stay and play?" "Some kind of ride." "So, who's doing the flying?" "It flies itself." "Wow, now this is the kind of get-away car i could live with." "You don't have to worry about your wheel man turning yellow and leaving you high and dry." "Shal, we're pit-stopping at safehouse 6 with the new mutant." "Hey, you got a name?" "I can run it through the database?" "Zack." "Zack lockhart." "Hey, shal, long time between drinks, huh?" "Not long enough." "You know, it's the good thing the gsa didn't kill you." "Maybe now i can have my shot." "Aw, hasn't changed a bit." "Look, i don't care what he told you, zack is bad news." "Shalimar... no." "We have to walk away from this one." "Shalimar, you haven't seen this guy in six years." "People change." "Yeah, well, zack's not exactly people." "Trust me." "Thanks to him, i got to spend a week in jail after he stashed the loot from a job - in my freezer." "Still, we gotta find out what this guy has to say." "Fine." "Then i'll smoke him." "I downloaded zack's file from the database." "You sure know how to pick 'em, don't you?" "Knew." "I've gotten a little more selective since then." "Well, he is definitely cute." "In a 'this is one you don't want your parents to meet' kind of way." "Well, zack can charm the pants off of anyone, so you better be careful." "And you better be careful, too." "Keep your eyes open and your hands on your wallet." "Yeah, wait a minute, where are you going?" "What?" "Like you said, i mean, i haven't seen this guy in six years." "I thought maybe it's time for us to get reacquainted." "No." "I need a little objectivity here." "I can be objective." "You just said you were going to smoke him." "Ach." "Please." "What..." "what am i going... i'm going to smoke him?" "No." "Come on." "Tha..." "that was a... figure of speech?" "Exactly." "Figure of speech." "We need to find out what this guy has to say." "So you have to keep your emotions out of it." "Absolutely." "All right?" "I want it clean, i want it simple, i want it professional, all right?" "Okay." "Okay." "Simple and professional." "This place is exactly the same as the other safehouse behind the bookstore." "Well, not exactly." "Gsa hasn't found this one, for one thing." "And, for another thing, there's not another safehouse in town that makes a better sausage and pepper sandwich." "So, this old pal of yours... artie hill." "Hmm." "He had a... he had a crew i used to run with." "And you had no idea he was working with the gsa?" "No, i never even heard of the gsa." "What am i going to do?" "A background check?" "Well, someone pays him, he pays me." "No questions asked." "The end." "What's this?" "Oh, it's probably just mutant power." "Cheap party tricks." "How are you with the rabbits and hats?" "Very funny." "This is just simple sleight of hand." "This is my mutant power." "Eight gallons of bottled water." "Five cans of pop, three regular and two diet." "Twelve fruit juices, six grape, six orange." "Two hundred and twenty volt multl-air unit, motor model number 323sl." "Missed one." "That must've come in handy in high school." "Well, i used to charge the guys lunch money to hang outside the girls' gym." "That's all right." "I phased through a few inconvenient walls on my own in high school." "Huh." "From lechery to larceny in just a few short years." "Wow, imagine that." "You assured me he was the best safe man in the business." "Yet, at the first sign of adversity, mr." "Lockheart turns tail and runs straight into the arms of mutant x." "Look, if i had a clue... zack no longer had the stomach for this... that's precisely the clue i'd expect you to have." "So i wouldn't be sitting here empty-handed." "Zack just got a case of cold feet." "Well, then, for both your sakes, between now and tomorrow night, you'd better figure out how to warm them up." "Not to mention how to get him back from adam and his people." "I've changed, but shalimar doesn't want to believe that." "Yeah." "You're still pulling jobs for a living, aren't you?" "Yeah, but like i told you, that was supposed to be my final one." "Zack." "Yeah." "What were they after?" "I don't know." "Beats the hell out of me." "I was supposed to... get into the vault and then artie hill and his boys were on their own." "Come on, i mean, you have to know more than that, right?" "Nobody pulls a job blind." "Well, i did overhear something about art shipment." "Art?" "Yeah." "Uh-uh." "Nah, there's got to be something more in that vault than that." "Look, i'm just telling you what i heard." "Why would i lie?" "For practice." "Hey, shal." "Looking good." "Hey, shal." "Save some for the bad guys, eh." "Hey." "Hey, that's enough." "Sorry." "Lost my temper." "You always did take my breath away when you came into a room." "Hey." "Hey." "Now the only problem is your breath keeps coming back." "Ohh." "Agh." "Look, when i hung around with shalimar, it's not exactly like she wore a halo." "I never bailed on her." "I never bailed on her." "She bailed on me." "Huh." "Way we heard it, you set her up to take a fall." "Look, it's convoluted." "The facts are always way more complex than they seem." "Huh." "Spoken like a true jailhouse lawyer." "Adam." "It looks like zack was telling the truth." "Segal's fine art auctions store their pieces at dombey  sons security." "I can't access much more than half of their security layout." "Keep trying." "Any idea what's in those vaults?" "There's an auction at segal's tomorrow night featuring one of henrik wigstrom's faberge eggs." "Faberge egg." "They're beefing up their in-house security." "What would eckhart want with a faberge egg?" "Beats me." "Well, now we know what they're after." "Now the question is why." "Any chance you can trace the egg's ownership?" "Yeah." "Just give me a minute." "I'll keep you posted." "All right." "Do that." "You know what?" "I think i'm just going to... i'm just going to fade away." "Well, where are you going?" "I mean, the gsa's still after you." "Not to mention shalimar's still on the warpath." "Look, i think i'll take my chances with the gsa." "I don't want to cause her any more grief." "I don't know about this." "Hey, if he wants to go, just let him go." "Well, thanks for your help and if the egg is really what you're after, i wouldn't worry about it." "There's only two people in the world that can get into that vault." "The guy with the combination... and, uh... wait." "Let me guess." "You?" "Yeah." "Yeah, we'll see about that." "Oh, yeah." "The most elaborate and expensive of the faberge collection." "Encrusted with gold, platinum and laced with rose diamonds." "It could be made of lead, cut glass and paste for all i give a damn." "I will get you your egg, mr." "Eckhart." "You can count on it." "Optimism's never been one of my strong suits, mr." "Hill." "Do you need mr." "Lockheart to complete the mission?" "I can only presume from your squirming that the answer is yes." "Find mr." "Lockheart and persuade him, mr." "Hill." "I do not have the time or patience for prima donnas." "Where's shalmiar?" "She's licking her wounds in the garden." "This zack guy's really gotten to her." "Yeah." "So what did you emma find out about the faberge egg?" "Well, after the collapse of the russian monarchy, all of the eggs fell into the hands of private collectors." "And this one belonged to sasha kandinski." "Sasha kandinski?" "What?" "You know the guy?" "Yeah, he was a biogeneticist." "He was director of the soviet antl-genomex program." "Huh." "Sounds like eckhart, but with a fur hat and a vodka hangover." "Yeah." "Well, it's closer than you think." "No, he this weird communist diehard, right, but with a secret nostalgia for the old czarist days." "His passion was for faberge eggs." "So you think eckhart wants to steal the egg because it was cherished by his rival?" "No, i think it goes deeper than that, but listen." "Keep digging." "So are you going to sit here all day and brood?" "Or are you just practising intimidating the plants?" "I don't know how adam can take zack at his word after what i told him." "Zack made my life a living hell." "Then you'll be glad to know that he's gone." "I guess he got the message." "Guys like zack never get the message." "Maybe he's changed." "People do, you know." "Look at brennan." "Or me." "okay, i'll give you that." "And i guess i've changed, too, because i'm not going to let anyone hurt me like that again." "Wounds that heal are one thing, but building a wall around yourself, that just sucks." "You reading me?" "Don't have to." "Am i that obvious?" "Sasha kandinski was born in 1948 and died in 1994 from what sounds like a diet of coffee, cigarettes, vodka and fried foods." "Yeah, baby." "Four horseman of the apocalypse." "What was he working on before he died?" "The usual thing." "And that would be?" "Oh, you know, this and that." "Hey, proxy, you do realize that we logged on for your search function, right?" "Yeah, so?" "Who says i have to make things easier for you?" "Okay, okay." "But only because you're both so adorable when you're angry." "Kandinski was working on genetically manipulating the dna strand that controls free will." "There's a dna strand that controls free will?" "How far'd he get with that?" "Since the records were burned when the soviets went belly up, your guess is as good as mine." "Okay, proxy blue off." "Look, regardless of what proxy blue thinks, i wouldn't be surprised if the soviets poisoned kandinski." "Why?" "For failing?" "Or succeeding." "You're thinking his secret didn't die with him." "I got a feeling that he hid a data chip somewhere for safekeeping." "And you're thinking that he might've hid that data chip in one of his faberge eggs?" "Bingo." "That explains why eckhart has a sudden jones for russian relics." "Right." "And there's only one guy we know who can get to that egg before eckhart." "No." "Yes." "No." "Absolutely not." "Yes." "Look, we don't have a lot of choice here." "He's the only guy who can break into that vault." "And he is also a complete bastard." "You're just going to have to put your personal differences aside." "Don't come crying to me when you find the silverware missing." "Look, look, look." "I have no personal illusions about this guy, but we have to get into that place, grab the egg." "We have to steal the formula and we have to replace it without anybody being the wiser." "That's great." "Because when it comes to grand theft, zack is your go-to guy." "Well, look fine." "I am no happier about getting into bed with this guy than you are." "allright." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry, i'm sorry." "Look, can i rephrase that... no, you don't need to." "Okay, look, i'm sorry." "All right." "But i've got brennan, jesse and emma." "They're already out there casing the secured facility, making sure that we know what we're getting ourselves into." "Now, you have to tell me:" "Are you going to be okay with this?" "I'll deal with it." "Well, i still don't know why i'm not the one that's going in." "I'm a reformed professional criminal, right?" "Absolutely." "As soon as you learn to walk through walls, you can go." "'Til then, this one's mine." "I'm in." "All right, we got you on infrared." "Okay, fifty feet ahead of you there's a t in the corridor." "Okay, make a hard left and watch out for the guards that are on patrol." "All right." "You're headed towards the mainframe." "Good." "Be careful, huh?" "Keep an eye on those security patrols for me, okay?" "Nah, you're okay for now." "They're on their rounds." "All right, heads up, jesse." "Coming back towards you." "Must've set something off here." "Come on, man, you've got to get out of there." "Look, just a couple more seconds." "I'm almost through." "Come on, jesse." "They're almost on top of you, man." "Nothing." "Gotta go." "Come on." "Go." "There's nothing here." "We got it, jess." "Let's go." "Come on out, zack." "I know you're here." "Since i spent the entire day checking out every other rathole you like to hide in." "Can't get enough of me, huh?" "You look great." "Look, about what happened between us." "I behaved like a jerk." "I was a jerk and i'm genuinely sorry." "Okay?" "Look, if you don't believe i've changed, what are you doing here?" "Actually, it doesn't really matter what i believe." "Adam seems to think you're the only one who can help us get that egg." "Well, that might be right." "But i'm not going in there." "It's too dangerous." "We're not talking about ripping off some precious heirloom." "The genetic code to manipulate free will is in that egg." "Amazing what they can do with eggs these days." "You know, if eckhart gets his hands on that code before we do he can control any new mutant that he wants" " and that includes you." "Please." "Same old zack." "And you have the nerve to tell me that you've changed." "I never meant to hurt you." "To hell with what you meant." "You..." "you gutted me." "I'm sorry, shalimar." "I mean it." "I'd give anything to go back and change things, but... what do you think i'm offering you here?" "If you do this for me, then we can put the past behind us." "I'm in." "Thanks." "Now i know why zack wants to bail in this job." "We're screwed." "No." "There's gotta be a way in." "Maybe." "But even if we can get through to the vault, we still need zack to crack that safe." "Well, shalimar's working on it." "She's gone to convince him." "So worse comes to worse, she can beat him into submission." "I forgot how much i missed you." "Yeah, me too." "But... but...?" "It's time for us to get to work." "All play and no work makes zack a dull boy, is that it?" "Something like that." "What?" "We've got company." "Hey." "What are you guys doing here?" "Well, nice of you to drop by, but i got a better offer from the other side." "No hard feelings?" "You always did have perfect timing." "So, adam, zack is on board." "Good." "Adam, we've got a problem." "Yeah, the gsa's beating us to the punch." "What?" "They're breaking in?" "As we speak." "They've bypassed the central alarm system." "They're on their way to the vault floor." "Okay." "All right." "Now." "Brennan." "Send me the surveillance data from the double helix." "Okay, it's on the way." "They're moving again." "They just made it through the quadrant perimeter and circumvented the alarm." "Yeah, but there's no way they're going to make it past the laser web, is there?" "Those bastards are going to get the egg unless we do something about it." "We gotta stop him without letting him or the security team know that you're on the job." "All right, well, i don't think that's going to be a problem." "What do you say we make it hurt a little bit, huh?" "Just as you're so close... good work." "Are you always this cruel?" "well, it is fun, isn't it?" "Time to go." "Arrested?" "I'm afraid so." "I take it you're in the market for a good lawyer." "Yeah, you could say that." "Then i'd suggest the yellow pages." "Starting with a." "So you and yours are up against it." "That's right." "The only way we're going to get our hands on that egg is if we all go in as a team." "That includes you." "Sounds good to me." "All right." "We have to move tonight because the egg goes on the auction block tomorrow morning, 11:00 a. m." "So what are we waiting for?" "Come with me." "Hey." "Hi." "How's shalimar?" "She's good." "She's with zack." "They're getting ready." "what?" "Nothing." "I'm just... yeah, i'm just concerned about her and this guy, you know?" "I don't know zack at all, but i can read him like a book, if you know what i mean." "Guy's just out for himself." "Yeah." "Well, maybe you should cut this guy a little slack." "I mean, look at you." "Look who you were." "Look what you've become." "I'm not saying people can't change." "Okay, i just don't think that zack's the right guy for shalimar." "This is spoken as a friend, of course." "Yeah, what else?" "So what have you got for me?" "Well, i hacked into the auction house computer system." "They received a seven-figure absentee bid from a guy named henry purcell." "Henry purcell." "Henry purcell was a sixteenth century composer of the baroque school." "He's eckhart's favourite composer." "Hm." "That's funny." "I always figured him for a speed metal kind of guy." "Huh." "Huh." "So eckhart's our absentee bidder." "Where's he get that kind of green from?" "Well, he's probably just digging deep into the black bag slush fund." "He's trying to preempt any other bidders." "Right." "So if we're not successful tonight, the egg's his." "Okay, i'm in." "Jess, you make it?" "Yeah." "Shal, you get zack in okay?" "Don't worry about us." "Emma?" "You're on." "They won't remember a thing?" "Not a thing." "I'll take care of things here." "You better get going." "Right." "Brennan?" "Jesse's on his way." "All right, zack." "Show us how the vault works." "Let me check the other side." "Looks like a series of booby-traps built into the system." "Why don't you just phase through the door, grab the egg and then, uh, we can get out of here?" "Well, because it might be a little impossible for me to take anything with me when i phase back through." "Oh, yeah, that's right." "Yeah." "So you do need me after all." "We all need you, brennan." "Step aside, son, it's about to get a little hot in here." "Here." "Thanks." "What would you guys do without me?" "Time for security shift to check in" " and for us to check out." "All right, we got the chip." "We're on our way." "I'll meet you all back at the safehouse." "Going somewhere?" "I just pit-stopped here to grab my stuff." "I was gonna meet you guys over at the safehouse." "You know, you are very, very good." "Thank you." "It's too bad you're the same lying low-life scumbag you always were." "What are you talking about?" "Well, you might have fooled the others with your little butterfingers act in the vault, but i've seen you pick a hundred pockets with that same gag." "Mind telling me why you have this?" "Shalimar, it's not what you think." "What i did, i did for us." "You know, there was a time i would have given anything to believe that." "Agh." "And if you so much as think of me again, you're going to live to regret it." "But i promise you won't live very long." "Thank you." "That will be all." "You sure that was a good idea?" "Last thing we want is that kind of power getting into the wrong hands." "You okay?" "I don't know." "I mean, i didn't let zack pull one over on me this time, but, man, the for some reason i just feel empty inside." "Maybe after all is said and done you're a little disappointed to find out how just how right you were about him." "Yeah, maybe." "Remember when you said that i build up walls?" "Keep people out?" "I think maybe you were right about that." "No." "You're not so tough." "But don't you tell anybody." "Your secret's safe with me." "So zack must've been one hell of a... oh, honey." "you have no idea." "Actually, i just might." "Mmmm." "You're in my head." "Get out of there."