“	We go and steal the future.	”
— Nathan Ford

Nate's team conjures up a plan to shut down fake psychic Dalton Rand, who's scamming his clients.

The Clients

Ryan Mitchelle and his sister, Jodie McManus.

Jodie, a recent widow and close to the birth of her first child, has begun consulting Dalton Rand in an effort to communicate with her deceased husband. Jodie is entirely in his thrall, and plans to sell her house to continue seeing him. Ryan learns what his sister is prepared to do and approaches the team to expose Rand as a fraud.

The Mark

Dalton Rand, a television "psychic" with a show on a small, local cable station. Rand uses a combination of methods to create the illusion he is a psychic

Locations

• Boston, Massachusetts
  • Jodie McManus's home
  • John McRory's Place
  • MetroEast Community Media local access cable studio
  • Nate's Condo
  • Dalton Rand's office
  • unnamed coffee shop
  • Wong Kee Seafood Restaurant
  • Union Wharf warehouse
  • parking lot
  • PJ's Storage Facility

The Con

The Television Psychic's Techniques

• The Hot Read
• The Cold Read

Guest Cast

• Jeri Ryan as Tara Cole
• Luke Perry as Dalton Rand
• Wade Williams as Nickolas Kusen

Aliases

• Tara: Bethany Noble
• Nate: Phil

Episode Notes

• Tara mention the Maltese Falcon in this episode, which foreshadows "The Maltese Falcon Job."

Trivia

• On the DVD commentary, writer Amy Berg notes that she named all the supporting characters after the numerous assistants on the show's production team.
• Lana Veenker who plays the network scout for WMN, is the casting director for Leverage.
• The name Peggy Milbank appears on the cell phone Parker lifted. She was Alice White's friend in The Juror #6 Job.

Differences in the Spanish dub

• The title El Caso de la Predicción del Futuro translates to The Predicting the Future Case.