| “ | "Life's a journey, not a destination." | ” |
— Parker | ||
The Leverage team explores the failing memory of a legendary grifter to try and find her greatest score before her abusive elder guardian gets his hands on it and takes over her life.
The Client[]
Stella Voleur “The Jackal”
The Mark[]
Phil Hinkley and Judge Linus Clark
Summary[]
Breanna has to do community service for trying to steal a councilman’s watch. The old lady Breanna delivers food to, pickpockets her phone. The old lady, Stella, tells Sophie and Breanna that her guardian is selling off all of her things without her consent, but there’s nothing she can do as she’s under a conservatorship. Sophie then soon finds out that Stella was the famous criminal, the Jackal. Stella has Alzheimer’s, which is why she’s under a conservatorship, and she can’t remember where she put her power of attorney papers. All she remembers is that it’s with her greatest score. The team believes the papers are with the famous Turlington gun, which Stella stole back in the day. Sophie and Breanna get Stella to recount the story of why and how she came to live in New Orleans when she fell in love with a mark.
Back in the day, Stella was going to rob a stack of gold bars from a gangster’s safe. But not being good at safe cracking, she needed the combination, so she got a job working at the bar. Stella fell in love with the gangster’s wife, Jo. Stella and Jo ran off together to escape Jo’s husband, Earl. Stella didn’t end up stealing the gold but took the Turlington gun from Earl. Jo is revealed to be pregnant with Earl’s child and gives birth to a girl. Jo and Stella stay together, raising Jo’s daughter and becoming a family. Eventually, they got as close to being married as they could in those days and signed power of attorney papers. Earl finds them after. Jo ends up shooting Earl to save Stella, and Stella tells Jo to take her daughter and go. Stella hasn’t seen either since then.
Meanwhile, for the con, the team finds out that Phil, Stella’s appointed guardian, has the Turlington gun and swaps it out with a fake, calling the cops on him and the Judge he was working with. The papers aren’t in the gun case, unfortunately. Sophie realizes that Stella’s power of attorney papers are in the painting Jo made of Stella. Stella is then reunited with Jo and her daughter.
Locations[]
Guest Cast[]
- Joanna Cassidy - Stella Voleur / the Jackal
- Kraig Dane - Phil Hinkley
- Gabriel Myles - Antonio Alvarez
Episode Notes[]
- Sophie plays Stella in the flashbacks of the episode. Other episodes where characters played people in flashbacks are in "The D. B. Cooper Job" and "The Van Gogh Job".
- Before Nana’s, Breanna was put with her grandmother, who had Alzheimer’s.
Trivia[]
- Brianna is revealed to be gay. It is also revealed that her grandmother had Alzheimer's, and that's why she was put into foster care.
- Hurricane Juan hit the USA in 1985.
- The D.B. Cooper song from Leverage Season 5's "The D.B. Cooper Job" can be heard playing in the background of a flashback bar scene.
- Guest star Joanna Cassidy played Dwayne Pride's mother on NCIS: New Orleans. Leverage: Redemption is taped on the same set as NCIS: New Orleans was.
- Stella was a notorious grifter active in the 70's and 80's, known as the Jackal. In the 1988 film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, there was a notorious female grifter, active in that same period, (played by Glenne Headley) known as... The Jackal.