#leverage season 5

[ziorite]

which fucking queer sat down in the writer’s room for leverage and wrote the rundown job huh ??? HUH ???

why is hardison fist bumping his “best friend” about how hot his girlfriend is ?? why is eliot grabbing hardison by the back of neck, pulling him in with the most intense stare ever, and then doing the verbal praise equivalent of making out with him ??? eliot is an obviously traumatized self reliant prickly bastard, and yet he decides to throw away his crutches and completely rely on the other two for support ???

god take me now. leverage writers had absolutely zero business drenching this episode with all this polyamorous energy in the year of our lord 2012– hell gay marriage wasn’t even federally legal yet. they knew exactly what the fuck they were doing and i am kissing them on the mouth for it.

[sapphichymns]

What? Wait. Is college credit code for “you’re not gonna pay me”?

[leverage-ot3]

no but y’all don’t understand

so I’ve been getting a lot of my photos for memes off of the IMDb website and most of the photo ratios are 16:9, right? but every once in a while there will be something in another ratio

there are never any edits or anything

so WHY is there an edit of the tragic ot3 death scene in the photo gallery for the long goodbye job???

like as far as I’ve seen that’s the only edit out of any of the episodes throughout all seven seasons of the OG series and reboot

the only plausible answer: IMDb page editor secret leverage ot3 truther

[shae-la-hyene]

See this is why The Rundown Job is my favorite episode ever ! They are so IN SYNC ! Twelve minutes in we have this beautiful shot of them three being surrounded and instinctively, without having to think about it, adopting a position with their back to each other. And despite Parker's (rightful) instinct of 'too many cops' that would have made her run away and disappear just a few years ago, she sticks with them and trust them to have a backup plan and not let her end up in jail even if it means trusting Eliot's shady military friend. And when Hardison looks pissed of having that trust betrayed, he's pissed at the friend, not at Eliot, because he knows Eliot doesn't have many friends whom he trusts and how DARE YOU betray that ? Truly the ultimate OT3 episode

[reinanova]

Leverage OT3 AU

a half baked idea inspired by my rewatch of s5e7 The Real Fake Car Job

parker and hardison are in the witness protection program. eliot is the us marshal assigned to keep them safe. parker and hardison are dating when they go into witsec and spending so much time with eliot leads to him falling for them and them falling for him

(i’m aware that the us marshal in the real fake car job wasn’t romantically involved with the mark but the fact that they were living together meant forced proximity and the fact that they hatched a plot meant they talked to each other and probably shared personal details and things which got me thinking of this. shhhh let me have this au—don’t sweat the details)

[vinx909]

the finally of Leverage

i want to talk about the finally of Leverage. ep15 of season 5. so obviously spoilers. BE WARNED i'll get into them quickly.

now this episode is different from the rest. it starts with saying everyone but Nate is dead, and then begins to tell the story of how that happened. but then it gets revealed that this is a lie, a story that's told as part of the con. and then they show more and more how the con actually works. now this feels like every other episode, except with one big difference: nothing goes wrong.

you see in every episode things go wrong. it has to. it's implied there are cons where nothing goes wrong in between episodes, but those wouldn't be interesting. after all if everything goes according to plan it's boring. but this episode says "everything went wrong" and then reveals that it didn't. now this isn't new for the show. that's how it basically always goes. it seems like everything goes wrong, then reveals that that was actually part of the plan and shows how that was their plan and how they made it work.

now i was onto this from the start. for one because i know this show, been watching all seasons of it within a month. and in part because i know there was a follow up show that has everyone but Nate, so they couldn't die. but then still the episode works, because instead you get to guess how the episode works, and that's highly engaging. instead of being in the head of the crew you are in the head of the villains, but knowing the crew, figuring out how what their actual plan is. you see the actions Sterling takes, how they make sense, and guess how they're playing into the hands of the crew.

and one could thing about the episode: nothing goes wrong. now this is a very cool thing to do, especially since it's the finally: it's basically a victory lap. this is how you'll say goodbye to the show, and you say goodbye by seeing them be awesome in their element. this isn't them struggling and making it by the skin of their teeth, this is them dancing circles around the enemy and everything coming together perfectly.

[tungle-squentacles]

Ok freak

[therealladylucifer]

Eliot Spencer saying that working a minimum wage retail job at a discount department store "reminds him of North Korea" so valid of him

[richardsphere]

Leverage Log: The Real Fake Car Job

Well with a title like that, im left wondering the syntactical ambiguity. Is this a job about a fake car that turns out to secretly be real, or was there a "fake" Fake Car Job that its being contrasted against? Guess we'll see. --- No way this show starts with mistaken identity, so im betting its Witnes Protection covering a criminal's ass like usual. --- Parker looks at this guy's track record of gettign in with the maffia as a get-out-of-jail freecard and just makes a note. --- Since when do libraries charge for wifi? --- Hardison should invest in like, a small trailer for behind lucille. Keep Lucile clean. --- Oh thats bad... the show is seeding the question of "can Nate live a normal life without these high-stakes heists all the time", which is not a good indicator of his surviving the season finale. --- So he's selling the free wifi to afford his mini-cars. (good scam, low level enough most people wont even bother, allow himself to continue his hobbies a little without getting authorities called on him. Its a good con. Small scale, practical.) This guy is good at being bad. --- So the fake car is the Mussolini's car, which is gonna turn out to be the actual car they're looking for by accident? Is that what the title is about? --- Parker sold the "doesnt know about cars but found the Musselcar in her gramps' shack" character well enough, but if she's meant to play the "doesnt actually know what cars are what" character, maybe throw in a line asking about the colour of "Phil's" Alpha Romeo --- Witness Protection Bodyguard's got a good play with the GPS Tracker on the phone. (is the serving tray a bug or is it a bomb? Who knows? At this point i dont see a reason it couldnt be both) --- So he calls his car friend, from his old life. His old life, laundering money for the Maffia. Guess who's about to be assasinated! --- Is it the Wifi Money? Couple months as a librarian, couple dozen people using the wifi a day on average... Maybe a couple other minor side-hustles round town, could really add up. Especially if he suspects Italian-Parker to be naive enough... (turns out im right, i stopped the episode the moment Hardison said he hadnt accessed any banks for the money) --- Oh God, Hardisons gonna kill this guy with the implication that this "strange artist fellow" bought his prize cars and dismantled them for art supplies. ("aquired at a government auction last year) Like i love the powerplay here, tell him I murdered your babies and if you dont stop me, This baby is next. Like this is full on Dubenich invoking Nate's Son levels of emotional manipulation. --- "are we being suspicious enough" You are buying garbagebags, Axes and shovels "dont use that rope, for future reference, you can chew right through it". Well thats ominous foreshadowing --- Oh... The bodyguard thinks Team Leverage are hitmen working for the Mark to kill HER. In her defence i could definitly see him do it, kill his handler, flee the country dig up his missing money abroad. --- "i did not sell out the Marshal Service so you could throw away all of our planning on a car". shit, she's not witness protection, SHE'S MAFFIA? Oh no she isnt maffia, she's just corrupt. (5 MIllion dollars... thats good money) --- Mobster- You called our mutual friend Charlie Corrupt Bitch- You're an idiot! Mob- Then we tracked you down cause you left your GPS tracking on CB!- Ok that one is on me. Honesty! --- So they're not even going to be taking down the maffia? (most episodes, they'd somehow end up pulling those guys down as well) But hey, the Maffia seems to genuinely respect Nate. (in their defence, they've seen the damage these guys do) --- I only knew three of the five. (car would drive him crazy, Access the accounts, Turn on babysitter. Those are the ones he knew. The car friend who got the Maffia involved are obviously the ones he didnt plan on) --- "we matter". Well, this entire episode about the looming threat of retirement ends on a sweet note. But dang if it isnt an ominous plotthread to add to the final season.

[maker-az-is]

...and then they all held hands in the back of the van while bleeding out

*gasp* oh my god, they all held hands in the back of the van while bleeding out

[kajaono]

Sometimes I rember that one really dark scene exists where not-Parker kisses not-Eliot and i feel pure happines

[ladyelainehilfur]

OH IT'S AN ENTIRE EPISODE FOR AGENT MCSWEETEN NICE!!

[leverage-ot3]

you ever just think about how the leverage writers gave us a (basically) canon polyamorous relationship confirmation in the long goodbye job?

like, they didn’t have to go that hard

but they did

parker, hardison and eliot are seen as a unit, working together in sync. there are callbacks to the pilot episode multiple times that are centered around their interactions.

and then there’s the “death” scene: aka, the scene that proves just how ride or die they are for each other. they die in each other’s arms. they die holding hands. what’s even more- the two in a canon established relationship are not the ones holding hands. no- instead, it is eliot who is in the middle. eliot, their hitter, their protector, their best friend. he was the one that was in the middle, holding hands with hardison and then parker. he is the one that reaches out and grabs hardison’s hand, reassuring him one last time and referencing an inside joke. parker then makes a point to move and grab eliot’s hand in her own- her literal last act before dying. you CANNOT tell me that is anything but pure, unadulterated love. they lived together. they breathed together. they died together.

AND THEN, as if that wasn’t enough, we had this scene in the final minutes of the show:

sophie: promise me, (looks at parker and hardison) you'll keep them safe.

eliot: till my dying day.

let's take a minute to acknowledge that literally a minute after nate proposes to sophie eliot says THIS??? something reminiscent of marriage vows about parker and hardison? he will protect them until his dying day and not a second before.

and then we have this:

nate: you know, eliot, I'd say call if you need anything, but you never... never need anything.

eliot: yeah, I did. (looks at parker and hardison) and thanks to you, I don't have to search anymore.

parker never had a family, not really, but it's been established that she knows she's not alone, that she has people that care about her, that she is loved (the white rabbit job). hardison had his nana and his family, but we saw at the beginning of the show he was eager to slide into this new found family of his. he cares deeply, loves deeply. and now, at the end of eliot's arc, he admits that all that time, he was missing something. he looks at parker and hardison and states with conviction that he doesn't have to search anymore.

they all have what they were missing at the beginning of the show- each other.

[shae-la-hyene]

Love Parker's 'I ❤️ food carts' t shirt in season 5 when in Redemption they hide Leverage Inc behind food carts

So much foreshadowing on stuff the writers probably didn't even know yet

[reinanova]

the corkscrew job glitching?

this is the second time i’ve watched this episode and noticed there being quite a few glitches to it. when sophie’s talking to madigan in the wine cellar, there’s an overlay of a later scene. there are several times throughout where the scenes are blurry/doubled but slightly off (but not intentional like the scene with eliot that i think is supposed to be like that)

is that the case for everyone? is it just amazon being weird? is this fixed in the dvd?