The Perfect Mark

Finch (Michael Emerson) has infiltrated as a patient for their newest number: Hayden Price (Aaron Staton), a hypnotherapist. He discovers that Price uses the therapy sessions to con his clients and gain access to their accounts. Reese (Jim Caviezel) and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) follow Price to a meeting with a client when a police officer arrives to arrest Price but both Price and the officer shoot each other while the client escapes. This is part of another scam where Price and the officer took the client's money and split it, with Price even scamming the officer with a higher fee.

Carter (Taraji P. Henson) meets with Alonzo Quinn (Clarke Peters), unaware of his HR association. He offers to help in Beecher's murder but Carter declines, which causes Quinn to consider that Carter may be investigating on her own. Laskey (Brian Wiles) later meets with Simmons (Robert John Burke) and Terney (Al Sapienza) and is ordered to kill Sven "The Swede" Vanger (Carsten Norgaard), a HR member that laundered money and bids fake items at auctions. Vanger is actually one of Price's patients, connecting both cases. At an aution, Vanger bids $900,000 on a Honus Wagner baseball card, which he carelessly tosses into a cabinet. By accessing Vanger's accounts, Price became the new target of HR as he interfered with their money operations.

Price intends to leave town with his girlfriend Natalie (Jennifer Ferrin) and starts shredding evidence of his activities before his office is gunned by two HR hitmen, which are killed when Reese and Shaw arrive. Seeking answers, Carter asks Elias (Enrico Colantoni), who explains that HR used Vanger to launder money and deviate it in offshore accounts to avoid suspicion. In another auction, Vanger bids $4.4 million on a baseball signed by the 1927 New York Yankees and later sells it for $5 to a kid. Elias states that all items that Vanger bids are fake while HR keeps the laundered money.

Carter and Fusco (Kevin Chapman) confront Vanger in his office and find that Price got into his e-mail and made him bid on a different item, therefore the baseball was actually $4.4 million worth and he traded it away for $5. They then stage him to look like he was murdered and send a photo to Laskey, which he sends to Simmons. Price uses his own girlfriend to escape and meets with the kid, buying the baseball for $20. Quinn is angry at the auction incident and demands the baseball to be returned. Reese and Fusco intercept Price before he flees with his girlfriend but they discover that HR has kidnapped Natalie, demanding the baseball at the auction house.

Simmons then gives orders to Laskey to kill Natalie even when Price delivers the baseball. Price arrives with the baseball and is taken by Terney and other HR members to the auction house. However, the baseball is a fake one and Terney is about to kill Price before being knocked unconscious by Reese and Shaw. Carter and Shaw then help Natalie escape and give Laskey a punch to get an alibi. However, Natalie reveals to Price on the phone that she is a con artist and the kid worked with her, she has the real baseball. Reese and Shaw advise Price to continue hypnotherapy but on another city.

Finch has a talk with Root (Amy Acker), where she says she is concerned for him and the Machine. An injured Terney meets with Simmons, who angrily demands him to find Laskey and the baseball. Laskey shows Carter the pictures he has taken of Simmons' activities when Terney arrives. Terney kills Laskey but Carter fatally shoots Terney. She then asks him to tell her the identity of HR's boss. With his dying breath, Terney puts his bloodstained finger on a photo, pointing at Quinn.

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