Charlie Lawson, the client in The Van Gogh Job, is an African-American WWII vet who found the lost Van Gogh while serving as a supply truck driver in France late in the war. After Owen, an obsessed former I.Y.S. Insurance investigator tracks the painting to him, Charlie is threatened by retrieval specialists looking for the painting. The Leverage team agrees to protect Charlie and look for the painting but he will only talk to Parker. He tells her the story of his lost love Dorothy and how he wanted to run away with her. He went to war to prove to her father that he was good enough for her and found the painting on the body of a German sniper he shot. He decides to use the painting to fund a trip to Paris for him and Dorothy so they can get away from her father and be together, but Dorothy