Pilot

Season 1, episode 1

*Pilot* is the first episode of the first season of Sneaky Pete. It aired on August 7th 2015.

## About

After leaving prison, Marius takes cover from his past by assuming the identity of his cellmate, Pete. He moves in with Pete's long-estranged, unsuspecting family and is roped into the family's bail bond business. He's a criminal taking down other criminals and, in the process, he'll discover the family life he's never had.

## Summary

In prison, Pete recounts to his cellmate Marius stories about his childhood on the farm. Marius complains about having to have listened to the stories for the past three years. Before being released, Marius calls his brother Eddie who warns him that Vince is still mad at Marius and expects $100,000 from him. Eddie tells Marius to hide.

Upon release from prison, Marius manages to avoid two of Vince's goons sent to capture him from the prison bus. After pick-pocketing a bar patron, Marius makes his way to Pete's childhood farm. Encountering Audrey and Otto first, he announces himself to be Pete. He regales them with the Real Pete's childhood memories of life on the farm. Seemingly convinced, they arrange for the whole family to have dinner to celebrate the arrival of their long-lost cousin.

At dinner, Marius (as Pete) meets his "cousins" Julia and Carly. Marius notices Carly's blouse still has a tag on it, indicating it was likely shoplifted. He quietly brings the tag to her attention before anyone else notices it. Marius also learns that the family business is not bonds and mutual funds as he had assumed, but merely a bail bond business. He also meets his police officer "cousin" Taylor, whom he had never heard any stories about from Real Pete and is thus unprepared. Otto insists on "Pete" staying over longer, and Audrey asks him to help out the business, as their last skiptracer quit.

Marius calls Eddie to confirm that he is safe and hidden, but Eddie now wants Marius to meet up with him. Sensing trouble, Marius does not give his brother an exact location but says he will meet him. Tailing Eddie, Marius sees he is under the thumb of Vince's goons. Marius visits his friend Joseph, an identity forger. He arranges for a drivers license bearing Marius' face and Pete Murphy's name. Joseph also gives his friend a device for his cell phone that renders it untraceable. Marius then meets up with his old colleague Marjorie, a fellow con-artist, who wants revenge on Vince for the death of her friend Charlie. She tells Marius that she will help him pull off a con known as **The Turk**

Marius tells Audrey that he will take the job. Arriving at the shop, Julia tells Audrey that there is a bail skipper, and Audrey assigns Julia with recovering him, and taking "Pete" with her so he can learn the job. As they leave, "Pete" learns that they are not tracking the original skip but another one named Abraham Persikof. They head to the house of Abraham's mother, Connie Persikof, Julia meeting with the mother directly while "Pete" interviews the neighbours, then later sneaks into Persikof's room and steals his laptop. Connie claims she has had no contact with her son, but her neighbours told *Pete* that he was there several nights in a row. Abraham's laptop leads the two to the racetracks, where they locate him.

Julia confronts Abraham, who flees, but "Pete" lets him get away. He reveals to Julia that he knows Abraham Persikof as a violent mobster named "Max Peron" and was trying to protect Julia. She insists on catching Persikof to avoid the bank seizing the assets of the family business, such as the family farm. They enlist a favour from Taylor, who looks up the credit card records of both Persikof and Peron. A recent plane ticket purchase leads the two to the airport, where Pete and Julia buy tickets for themselves in order to access the terminal.

Pete and Julia ask to board the plane posing as Abraham's uncle saying that they need to give him his insulin because he's diabetic. The flight attendant calls out his name, causing Pete and Julia to change their plan assuming that he must have saw them. Julia gets a phone call from Taylor who tells her that Abraham just used his credit card to buy another flight ticket to Detriot. Pete discourages Julia from going to the plane station assuming that Persikof wanted them to know he bought the ticket. Julia mentions to Pete that Peron's credit card receipts shows he donated to the Harvard County Nursing Association, which is honouring his mother today.

Pete and Julia show up pretending to be a couple and get in by staging a fake argument. Pete walks up to Abraham's mother pretending to be the PR of the event and stealing her phone when she isn't paying attention. Pete tells her to follow him to the green room which is when Pete passes Julia the phone who calls up Abraham telling him to come quick because his mother's having a heart attack. Abraham runs up and Julia points a gun at him and attempts to detain him, but Abraham can tell she isn't gonna shoot and gets the upper hand on her.

Julia phones up Pete telling him that Abraham has her own gun pointed at her and how he needs to bring his mother to the kitchen. Pete brings her there and walks away. Julia assumes that Pete ran away like a coward and Abraham's mother tells him that he has to kill Julia. Pete uses this as a distraction to push Abraham over. Pete tries to take his gun but Abraham punches him and goes to shoot him but Julia stops him. Pete gets up and points Abraham's gun at him. Abraham tells him he's gonna remember his face and if he sees him again he's gonna kill him. Outside Pete lies and says he's surprised Abraham didn't recognise him.

Audrey asks Pete over dinner what happened to his face and Taylor covers for him saying that he did it when they were play fighting. During dinner, Marius thinks back to when he was younger and had to make food for his brother because his mom was always too drunk. Pete apologises to Carly in the kitchen about how they got off on the wrong foot. Marius rings up Eddie and tells him how he saw the goons he was with. Eddie tells him that they said if he helped them find Marius they wouldn't kill him. Marius gets mad at him and Vince takes the phone from Eddie. Vince tells him that he stole from him and he wants his money back in a week or else he's gonna take a bowlcupper and snip off his finger, then do it again the next week and so on.

Marius hangs up the phone and Audrey who came over to take the eggs out of the farm before the foxes come and take a claim to what isn't theirs.

## Quotes

"*You're a conman*"

"*Yes, I'm a confidence man. I give people confidence, they give me their money.*"

- Marius to Pete