6. Pretenders

Complete story — includes the ending

The team receive the number of Walter Dang ( Erik Jensen ), a worker at an insurance company. Finch has to travel to Hong Kong to present a paper at a conference. Walter is investigating the death of truck driver Abel Mindler, who apparently committed suicide. He gets dragged into a gang war between Elias and the unknown adversaries. It is later shown that Abel was smuggling high explosive weapons to the same gang. The gang abducts Walter for the location of the truck which Abel drove and then ditched, once he realized what he was smuggling; but the team intervenes. Elias meets with Dominic, and it is shown that Dominic was the mastermind behind the guns as he wanted to shift the balance of power. At the conference, Finch meets Elizabeth Bridges ( Jessica Hecht ), a small tech company owner, and the two bond. They are mugged on the way to the hotel. Discovering the thief's workplace, they go there, where Finch incapacitates him. As the conference ends, Finch pays him, revealing that he staged it to place a software on Bridges's laptop. As Bridges leaves, she calls a potential investor, who is revealed to be a Samaritan operative.