Kaleidoscope recap guide: All 8 episodes explained

Kaleidoscope recap: Blue: 5 Days Before the Heist

Episode “Blue” takes us five days before the big heist goes down at SLS. Leo tells his crew it will take seven specific jobs to accomplish the heist altogether.

The seven jobs are as follows:

• Job #1: Copy the RF transmission codes encoded into their armored trucks so they can clone it and drive the getaway truck into the loading docks.
• Job #2 and #3: Get passed the SLS elevator, 24/7 security cameras, and armed military guards.
• Job #4: Use the keycard Leo has already secured.
• Job #5: The vault hallway, which features a biometric unit, motion detection, infrared technology, and more. This multi-matrix tech can recognize a person’s walk and everything. You need to become invisible.
• Job #6: Open the vault door and turn off the temperature sensor. Leo installed a backdoor years ago, a software patch that will allow them to disable the sensors.
• Job #7: Crack the safe, extract the bonds, and haul them into the truck.

Once the job list is detailed, RJ asks Bob and Judy if he can get strapped before the heist. He wants a gun to protect him in case something goes wrong, but the group tells him he doesn’t need it.

Meanwhile, Leo sneaks into Roger’s home while he’s gone to get his fingerprints and other things to fool the biometric scanners. For Roger’s eyes, the team gives him a bacterial infection. Hannah makes him an eye appointment and Stan happens to step in, impersonating the optometrist, to get scans of Roger’s eyes and face.

At the warehouse where the group is making their plan, the team starts discussing how they plan to use the money. Stan wants to buy a vineyard, RJ plans to purchase a special drum set, and Bob wants to take a trip to the Bahamas. But Judy wants to go to a small town in Mexico with special meaning to her. Upon hearing this, Stan jokes that Bob will have to spend his time in the Bahamas alone and Bob flips out.

Judy manages to calm him down, but Bob says something about how they should take the bonds for themselves.

While Leo’s crew is planning the intricacies of the heist, Roger is dealing with his own drama unrelated to Leo. The triplets are nervous about keeping their bonds at SLS because the SEC and FBI have been closing in on them. Since they obtained the bonds illegally, they want to move them elsewhere and replace them with a different asset. Roger isn’t thrilled to hear this since it will be difficult to make that happen quickly.

On top of that, Roger is getting blackmailed by a former associate who he fired for being a thief. The blackmailer is a guy named Andrew working a low-paying job at an electronics store. Andrew claims he never stole anything, and he’s pissed at Roger for taking everything from him. Andrew threatens to expose Roger’s shady past to the triplets if he doesn’t give him $4.3 million in three days. Well, Roger doesn’t take kindly to threats and has one of his goons kill Andrew.

But the threat of blackmail makes Roger extra antsy, and he has his team run extra security checks on the vault. One of the guys finds Leo’s backdoor and removes it. Without the backdoor and a way to trick the temperature sensors, the heist could be completely ruined before it even starts.

Leo is pissed, especially now that he’s seen how Roger is living the high life these days while Leo has lost virtually everything due to Roger’s decisions. All he wants is to complete the heist and make them “even.” He visits a sauna where Roger happens to be and comes close to strangling him, but then it’s actually Roger who gives Leo an idea on how to trump the sensors after all (without realizing it, of course).

With Judy’s help as the resident chemist, Leo comes up with a new plan to use the incoming hurricane to the team’s advantage. If they wait for the subway tunnel to flood, they can use C4 to blow the ceiling of the vault and transfer the water to where they need it to blow the censors. Something about cesium and ionization levels.

Now that they’re back in on the heist, Leo makes it clear to his team that they can’t go home after this is over. They’re all going to get new identities. The only potential problem now is Bob’s hand, which he injured in a different episode. He and Stan might end up having to work together to crack the safe.

Kaleidoscope Blue episode ending explained

Nazaran tells Toby that she’s received a text from their “favorite mole.” If you’ve seen the episode, “Orange,” then you’ll know who the mole is already, if not I don’t want to spoil you. But thanks to this mole, Nazaran knows where the heist is going down and wants to head there fast to stake out the location and catch the group in the act.

In the final moments of “Blue,” Roger gets a call from one of the triplets, Stefan Thiele. It turns out that Stefan knows what kind of man Roger was before he started working at SLS and implies that if Roger doesn’t help them move their bonds, there will be consequences. Stefan tells Roger they will speak after the storm.

As the city is evacuated for the hurricane and things start happening, the episode builds to the final moments before the heist and Leo’s decision for them to go ahead and get going. Judy does end up giving RJ a gun before they go, just in case.