| “ | I think the law just sucks. | ” |
— Parker | ||
A failed job in Paris forces the Leverage crew to hide at an exclusive auction where corrupt elites sell off national treasures. They quickly devise a scheme to stop the mastermind and protect an activist.
Client[]
Isabelle Dulotte
Mark[]
Arizona Mike
Summary[]
The team is in Paris, with Sophie attempting to reconcile with her stepdaughter, Astrid. They steal an ornate owl from a Russian money launderer: Gustav Ekimov. To avoid getting caught, the team runs away. While beating up goons, Eliot’s arm gets sliced, leaving him injured.
Seeking refuge, the team stumbles upon an exclusive estate hosting a covert auction. Parker and Hardison go undercover as wait staff. The team’s main goal is to find the catacombs under the house to escape. The auction is orchestrated by "Arizona Mike," an American businessman profiting from water rights. Isabelle Dulotte, an activist from Neddleton, Mississippi, barges in, confronting Mike about stealing her town's aquifer. Security detains Isabelle, taking her away to “the vault”.
Hardison and Parker cut through the limestone of the vault with water to free Isabelle, but she refuses to leave. The team then manipulate the auction participants to their transfer physical valuables into the vault. The team stages things to make it appear that Arizona Mike set the whole thing up to steal the people’s valuables. They do this by swapping Sophie's security photos with Isabelle's. They then escape through the catacombs, leaving Mike and his associates to face the consequences. The team leave Astrid to take the credit for taking him down.
After the team returns home, Hardison announces that he wants to take a break. Hardison and Parker share pretzels, stating they will never change.
Guest Cast[]
- Jack Coleman as Arizona Mike
- Artur Zai Barrera as Gustav Ekimov
- Tyla Harris as Isabelle Dulotte
Aliases[]
Episode Notes[]
- Hardison references the movie Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
- Eliot mentions that he’s reconciling with his dad, like Sophie is with Astrid.
- The Leverage Paris team is mentioned.
- Sophie's dating profile alias, Violet Cesario, is a play on the character Viola from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, who uses the name Cesario as a disguise.
- Star Trek is mentioned in passing: Hardison tries the Vulcan nerve pinch on the guard to the vault.
- Becky is mentioned in this episode: she and Breanna are visiting campuses together.
- Sterling is mentioned: he gave Astrid a commendation.
- Hardison mentions that he doesn’t like seeing Eliot get hurt
- Hardison brings up pretzels to Parker as something that will never change, as an analogy for their relationship. Pretzels was first used as an analogy for their relation in "The Double Blind Job", then in "The Big Bang Job".
Trivia[]
- Harry's new beard is due to Noah Wyle's bearded character on The Pitt, Wyle's new medical show that was shot at the same time.
- The numberplate on the van being driven away from the auction house is meant to be French however the font, number style and colour are all wrong. The font and colour are similar to UK numberplates. French rear numberplates are normally white like other EU countries.