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We’re Gonna Be Here a Long Time

[Episode 1.05] It’s time for the Precious Metals Job in Reno, Nevada, where Joe is the lookout at Reno International Airport, Bobby is on the road posing as a Gunther-Rimes armored-truck driver, and the rest of the team is in the tunnel where Marley knocks out the cellphone, radio, and GPS signals on the real Gunther-Rimes armored truck called Kilo 160. Inside, the driver and two guards are highly annoyed about the traffic jam.

Things never go exactly as planned, however. So, although Bobby successfully fools the dispatch officers into believing he’s driving the real armored truck, he, Tom, and Jeff are held up at the airport when the plane carrying the unrefined gold from the mine is delayed by another plane with mechanical problems, which is given permission to land first.

Their plane arrives just as Team Bobby is about to run out of time, and the three members stationed at the landing site manage to overpower the guards on the plane with gas and then steal the gold. Yet, by then, airport security is on the way because the dispatchers finally realize something’s up when the cops clear the traffic in the tunnel and the real armored truck’s GPS signal goes live again. Bobby, Tom, and Jeff escape with just seconds to spare as four airport security cars arrive with sirens blazing.

The team doesn’t have too long to relish their latest accomplishment, though, because there’s still more trouble ahead. At the meeting with Fred Cole (Ryan Cutrona, 24) the next day to exchange the gold for the $2 million dollar payment, the buyer tries to stiff Bobby out of 1.25 million dollars, insisting he told Charlie he needed more time to get all of the money. Worse, Bobby can’t sell the gold to anyone else anyway because it’s traceable.

Next thing you know, out come the guns because both Jeff and Joe are hiding nearby, as is Cole’s gunman. Bullets fly, Cole is shot, Cole’s gunman is killed, and Cole’s colleague who tested the gold for acidity is wounded but escapes.

With the ambush over, Bobby gets dying Cole to reveal they can refine the gold at the nearby farmhouse his team was going to use since they can’t transport it past the many police roadblocks that have been set up to catch whoever stole it. Unfortunately, the sneaky buyer leaves out the crucial fact that the process requires changing the gold’s metallurgical fingerprint by mixing it with other metals, which just happened to be in the vehicle his colleague used to flee.

After Team Bobby finishes a little improvised metal scrapping and melts all but the last bar of gold — Bobby intends to take it to Boston for some unexplained reason — just before Cole dies, yet more temporary trouble arrives in the form of a Forest Service Ranger. Jeff and Annie get rid of him by pretending to be there alone to have sex while on a road trip, and Bobby calls Charlie, who he understandably suspects may be responsible for the averted rip off, to arrange a meet the next morning in Reno.

Charlie, who denies all involvement with any scam, gets more than she bargains for when she arrives with Team Bobby’s $2 million, however. Bobby not only puts the tools made out of the recast metal in an unmarked van for her, but Cole’s dead corpse, as well. It’s hard to tell if Charlie is shocked or furious when she discovers the body.

The morning after the completed job is mostly lovely for the rest of the team. Happy Annie drives away on the highway, leaving Tom alone in bed with her underwear.

Matthew Marley — who looked mortified the night before when macabre Annie suggested throwing Cole’s body, or at least his head and hands, in the melted gold to get rid of it — returns home late from his “comic convention” and tells his mother he’s not going on that job interview because he’s freelancing now.

And, Cole’s poor colleague Eli Voizard, whom Cole gave up pretty quickly at Bobby’s insistence, gets out of the shower to find cheerful, smiling Jeff sitting on the steps inches away with a cup of coffee, a gun aimed right at him, and a hacksaw on the floor. Ouch! You know whatever comes afterward is gonna hurt.

Up Next on Episode Six, also known as My Favorite Episode: We begin with the best opening scenes ever and then learn all about Jeff, including his surprising background and why he really shot and killed those two dudes on that beach in Hawaii (trust me — you’ll be amazed). Plus, Macy and the Feds are back in action.