Leverage 3×08 – The Boost Job
August 4, 2010
The Leverage team hit the racetracks as they take on car thieves, while Parker reveals more hidden talents from her youth.
We’re finding out a lot more about Parker this season, from her childhood mentor to former occupations… Parker as a former car thief! Awesome! Love that she was a getaway driver and car thief before the tender age of 12! She has lots of great lines this episode.
*mockingly* I got hit by a car! *annoyed* GET OVER IT!
WE’RE THE GOOD GUYS! *Swerves*
*blasts horns* GET OUT OF THE WAY YOU OLD BAT!
She also takes pity on the young girl Josie, seeing something of herself in this kid just trying to fit in, teaching her some tricks. She tries to save the girl by telling her not to turn up, but silly young girl sells them out and nearly lands them all in trouble, with poor Eliot getting shot at, banged up and dumped in the water.
Poor Eliot seems to be getting banged up a lot lately eh? He did have fun plaing with the EMP gun, blowing it off like an old western, hee.
Our Leverage team seem to be a bunch of gear heads, Eliot owns the hot rod which they jazz up, Parker obviously has had lots of car boosting and mechanical experience while Nate absolutely LOVED the racing bit. Sophie is well, Sophie – she’s really good at selling cars while Hardison probably only really likes driving Mario-Kart.
How they each grift is really quite interesting – it usually plays on their own personalities. Sophie is usually the beautiful distraction, the bombshell you can’t take your eyes off. Nate’s grifts are always of the conspicuous annoying man, providing the distractions that allow the rest to do their work conspicuously, the jerk. Hardison plays roles where he can get away with spouting a little nonsense and Parker plays a kookier sort of role, where it’s not so conspicuous if she’s not so convincing. Eliot is a little different, usually playing someone a lot meeker and weaker than he really is.
Some other noteworthy points:
- Eliot watching Sophie play out her neurolinguistic programming on the mark, hee. Making sure he doesn’t fall prey to that anymore?
- I liked the end scene, circling the team as they sat together joking post-con. That’s something they did a lot more of in Season 1, reminds me of that episode where they ended up eating dinner in the Italian diner.
- Loved Parker just totally trusting Hardison to get the job done. You now have one and a half minutes left!
Anyway, Leverage is getting renewed for Season 4, whoopee to one more season of cons and our Leverage team!
