3.11; The Rashomon Job / 4.17; The Radio Job

elenitahb:

SOPHIE: Wait. Wait. What’s that voice? That’s horr- What is that?
ELIOT: That’s your accent.
SOPHIE: That’s what I sound like to you?
ELIOT: Yeah.
SOPHIE: All right. OK, fine. I wanna go back and change my story.

Leverage; 3.11 - The Rashomon Job

#at a certain point nate ford just resigns to the fact that none of his team members are actually human beings

elenitahb:

Leverage; 3.11 - The Rashomon Job

Rashomon effect; The Rashomon effect is the effect of the subjectivity of perception on recollection, by which observers of an event are able to produce substantially different but equally plausible accounts of it.
[….]
It is named for Akira Kurosawa’s film Rashômon, in which a crime witnessed by four individuals is described in four mutually contradictory ways.

As @milpalabras said, THIS is how you do a filler episode.

fuckyeaheliotparkerhardison:

At this point, Hardison has enough material in his cellphone to blackmail Eliot for life.

panicman:

5 Episodes Of Leverage You Can Watch On Their Own That Will Show You How Awesome This Show Is Without Having To See Any Season At All Even Though You Clearly Should . Five.  The Roshomon Job (3X09)

If you’re following this list I recommend you watch the episodes in the order I’ve arranged them. This is the last and MOST WONDERFUL THING TO HAPPEN IN MAYBE EVER. No. Really. I am a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa and normally I’m a spoiler hound but I’ve never read spoilers for Leverage. I just knew of the title and when I read Roshomon in one of them I did about a hundred FUCK YEAHS. Because for fucking real, Roshomon style is amazing. It’s a way to get into a characters point of view without taking a whole episode. So this episode is twice awesome because a) ROSHOMON STYLE (FOR THE FUCKING WIN) and b) FLASHBACKKKKKK. I watched Lost, okay. I am a graduate of the School of Backstory Fuckery. Here we get The Team (or OT5, whichever) before they were a Team being a Team without them knowing they were a Team. Can the Leverage writers get a standing ovation?

I love each character so fucking much. They’re valuable to the team and taking one out negates everyone/everything about this show. That’s why this episode is one of my absolute favorites. Every episode uses them effectively but the way this episode does it, in ROSHOMON style, which I will never shut up about, is so fucking badass.

IT’S LOADED WITH SEA ROACHES!

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NATE: What is this? I thought we were supposed to be, uh, finding Moreau.
SOPHIE: This is more important.
NATE: More important? We don’t find Moreau, I might go back to prison forever.
SOPHIE: Oh, shush. You did fine in prison the first time.
ELIOT: You got into shape.
PARKER: Yeah, you look good in a jumpsuit.
HARDISON: Learned how to hypnotize people.
SOPHIE: We’re talking about the dagger of Aqu’Abi.
NATE: Oh.
SOPHIE: The dagger of Aqu’Abi… 10th century, four perfect emeralds, six rubies, gold filigree.
HARDISON: It was a gift from a shah of Persia to a sultan.
ELIOT: Two dead guys. Whatever.
NATE: And why are we…
SOPHIE: shh, shh, shh, shh! That’s why.
WOMAN ON TV: The dagger of Aqu’Abi is on displayhere at the Boston Museum of Art and Antiquities for the first time since it was stolen from this very gallery five years ago.SOPHIE: That. Stolen. Five years ago.

HARDISON, ELIOT AND SOPHIE AT THE SAME TIME: I STOLE IT!

Leverage - 3.11 - The Rashomon Job

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@Anonymous: Let’s get right down to the important stuff. :) Did Sophie imagine Nate unzipping her or did he imagine doing that to her? Is it a little preview for a future episode?

John Rogers: Sophie flirts even in a narrative device.[x] 

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