Inconvenience discovers Rip and Sara when they attempt to grab Savage’s budgetary assets. Snart and Rory attempt to take an extremely valuable emerald. Stein guides Ray.
When the Machine spits out five numbers, naming the Don of each of New York’s crime families, Reese and Finch suspect Elias is planning to eliminate his competition, and Carter wants them in protective custody.
Reese works to save the life of a local taxi driver who is put in danger when a passenger leaves behind a laptop that is wanted by the Estonian mafia. Reese and Finch eventually realize the laptop contains valuable information that could enable terrorists to enter the country undetected
Flashbacks illuminate Finch’s dealing with survivor’s guilt, Reese’s time doing wetwork, Shaw’s former life as a technically excellent surgeon but completely indifferent to the people she helped, and Fusco’s recounting of exacting vigilante justice to a crook that slipped through the system .