Steal him!

I'd assume, but I was wondering more about how they'd go about doing that. Do they steal the prison? Blackmail Sterling?

Okay, more serious reply.

Unless the writers want to put themselves in the bind Supernatural did--they're wanted, no they're legally dead, no they're legally dead and wanted--they have to con him out of trouble. Nate Ford the fugitive would just be a whole different show. I think we are going to see Nate embrace his new identity of thief, but Rogers et al are pretty good at slow build up on that sort of thing.

Sterling holds the cards, so they have to give, or appear to give, Sterling something he wants more than winning the case against Kadjic. I guess the question is, what does Sterling want? I think he wants to hunt Tara Cole in a cat and mouse game that takes them around the world, new next fall on TNT, but I could be wrong.

Did Sterling ever have direct interaction with Tara this season? It would be interesting to see how that would turn out, though I doubt the crew would sell her out. They owe her- even though she got paid- she went above and beyond quite a bit. Heck, even Parker trusts her a little- death threats and all.

One of the reasons I seriously love Sterling is his insane ability to get away much better off after each and every interaction with the Leverage Crew. Promotion after promotion; I think the last we see of him is when they finally take him out. Though I have to say I don't really want that day to come soon ;p

:D Steal the prison!

I'd love to see that happen =D

The only question is which character will be the one to say, "Let's go steal ourselves a federal witness!"

(My bet would be Eliot or Sophie. They've both proven they can run jobs when they have to or want to.)

I'd say Sophie.
She might want to slap and kiss him some more. I do wonder if Eliot will punch him, he looked about ready to when he left.

There are MONTHS before we get new con artist shenanigans. Woe. (I just wanted to work shenanigans into a sentence. Really, it's so very apt.)

See, with Eliot punching him, you're totally feeding into my Sophie/Eliot/Nate ideas. Just so you know.

This entire show feeds into all sorts of shipping ideas. Just go with it =DD

The question I have to ask is how long the team will leave him in Sterling's custody? How long do we have to wait to find out?

I'm guessing till next season?
I imagine that S3E1 will be all about getting him out then yelling and hugging will follow.

They use a doppleganger that they claim is the real Nate (massive DNA scam, methinks), but who then gets let go when it turns out he's not (duh!) the real Nate.
By then the real Nate is off somewhere nice sunning himself with Sophie whilst Parker is working her way through the tourists pockets/bags/rooms, Hardison is holed up in a hotel room making them up all new id's ("grumblegrumble always stuck indoors grumblegrumble hate the sun anyway grumblegrumble") & Elliot is drinking the days away hitting on anything that moves, including
Parker (accidentally, of course - "what? she looked hot from the back, where I couldn't see all her crazy").

I love the commentary in brackets.