#The Bucket Job

[reflectingiridescent]

The Jackal Job is as big a clue for us to Sophie's future as The Bucket Job is for Eliot's future. Both episodes involve a person with a terminal disease who shares a lot in common with Sophie and Eliot, respectively. It's also heavily implied that their respective episodes are Stella and Robert's last jobs.

Stella is a woman who dares to be everything a woman of her time shouldn't be: queer (AND a mother), a liar, a thief, secretive (because she was willing to take Jo's secret to the grave). She's largely successful, but it costs her - but not enough to regret her life in its entirety. Stella suffers a huge loss and continues living, because life is not about the destination. It's about the journey. However, her greatest score is her family, no matter how much time as passed. Nothing she has stolen is more precious to her than that. And at the end of the day, they're the people who are going to be there for her until the end. In the end, our bodies and even our wits will fail us. It's so much better to not be alone. Stories will be told about The Jackal after she's gone, but the thing that makes her life worth living is her family.

Robert's background of a spy is just that - background. What defines him in our eyes and the eyes of the team is how after that, he devoted decades of his life to protecting people - all people, but the show specifically shows us the smaller town of Kenner. We know Eliot has always had a special relationship with small towns. Robert is ready to devote the rest of his life to a single cause, because someone has to hold the line. May as well be him. He's a warrior. He's a detective. He only leaves his post when someone comes along to change the guard, but he had no way of knowing that would happen. He's devoted and he is prepared to die in his role, helping every child he can along the way. The patrons of his library are his legacy.

[bananaphone---t]

The only things that can defeat Eliot:

- RIZ (using their "Red Haze" drug)

- A carnival ride

- The occasional taser

- LESBIANS ("How was I supposed to know it was a lesbian bar?")

- Pipes

- Coffee (drugged)

[werewolfsmile]

C'MON JUST IT DO DO IT

Leverage: Redemption S1 E9 The Bucket Job

Parker's pout + the savagery with which Eliot smacks the sticky note onto his face 😂😂 I can't even.

Bonus:

[leveragecentral]

The Bucket Job Leverage: Redemption

[whump-my-dear-watson]

"they call it ptsd in a bottle"

WHUMPTOBER 2024 NO.23 ALT. PROMPT "NO-HOLDS-BARRED BEATDOWN"

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

Lololol

Literally JUST noticed! In The Bucket Job (Leverage: Redemption), the librarian is reading a book by Captain Patrick Bonanno! 😂 It's called "Motive to Strike." Whaddya wanna bet that it was inspired by one of Nate's little perfect cons?

Oh, man. I need to watch Redemption more often. It's funnier than I remember.

[amazzyblaze]

Coloring page of Harry and Parker in "The Bucket Job"

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Split sketches in blue, red, and greyscale of Alexandra Blighe and Eliot Spencer from The Bucket Job interrogation scene from Leverage Redemption. Both are seen in profile, with Bligh at the top left and Eliot at the bottom right, with blood on his temple and lip starkly contrasting with the blue-grey elsewhere in the image. End ID]

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Day 9: Interrogation

Just fun drawing the interrogation scene from the bucket job (I love the lighting and colouring in that scene so much).

[independent-fics]

Inde Watches Leverage: Redemption

S01Ep09 “The Bucket Job”

Love Eliot and Parker bickering about Hardison and Eliot cooking

Ugh I know I’m gonna love this episode but imma cry

Eliot that is not how you answer a door but now I wanna know how he found him

Ahhh the book he’s reading I love that they honored the actor

Breanna is so funny over the computer i love her

Not Eliot’s little smile at them talking about Harry’s kimono

I literally hate peoples I pay my taxes argument

Even Parker can con an automatic voice message

Eliot I love the Christmas attempt with the car

Eliot wants a cool fight so he needs six people hahahaha

Eliot’s just playing himself just more dramatic I can’t this man

Eliot cannot hate this he pretends he does but Eliot I know you’re loving all these roles you’re getting lately

But dang stealing the car I can’t

Omg Parker I can’t

NOT THE THROWBACK LINE TO THE NIGERIAN JOB MY BELOVED

NOT THE STORK JOB REFERENCE TOO OH MY GOODNESS

Harry no not the eyepatch

Not my baby Eliot being kidnapped (I actually love it though yes beat him up)

The stealing of the bike I can’t

WHAT A TWIST

Not the mall cops squeaky voice talking to Eliot hehehe

Ooof I thought this happened later in the season not my baby Eliot

I feel like that Eliot flashback moment could have been acted out differently. Like why they gotta speed him up.

I thought they knew Harry knew RIZ the guy he was defending in the first episode had them as security?

Bro I hate this lady

She does know her vents

Eliot bro why are you drinking while getting off drugs

Subtle Nate Harry church parallels?

IM NOT CRYING ABOUT ELIOT ROBERT TALKING ABOUT THEIR PAST AND BONDING YOU ARE

I feel bad for all of these books rn getting shot

I JUST SCREAMED but now I’m realizing this might be the plan

Dang I kinda feel bad for the RIZ guy

HARRY YOU SMARTICLE PARTICLE

YES LIBRARIANS MY HEART

Sophie it’s Christmas there is no budget hehehe like they thought if they used the car they would get it back to the rental place in one piece

Ahhh Hardison of course

I have so many questions oof

I thought it was his dad’s friend from Vietnam for Christmas but also I’ve heard spoilers of a step brother? But also he’s still in Louisiana instead of Oklahoma?

Loved this episode though

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

The Big Bang Job vs. The Experimental Job vs. The Bucket Job

All episodes where Eliot had to deal with his past. All episodes where he shows some sort of weakness.

🥺

Eliot. Honey. You deserve the world.

[richardsphere]

Leverage Redemption Log: The Bucket Job

Title makes me think "bucket list"? either that or Keeping Up Appearances? (had to google "that show with the bucket woman" to remember the name) --- bells are playing and there is a giant semi-hollow pipe-structure of a snowman outside the building we're in. Its Christmas Special Time.

Librarian is giving the children some classic reading recomendations based on his knowledge of their likes (the girl likes pirates, which is a nice little gender-stereotype breaking to sneak in there without drawing attention to the subversion. Love it when shows feel confident doing that without the need to detract by boasting about it.) Young Man used to get Sherlock Holmes.

And the librarian is having a heart-attack... --- Harry is calling his daughter. His daughter doesnt want to spend the holiday with him because Mom is going on vacation to some resort (I think Aspen is a resort town in the states?) Ok either he has a son as well as a daughter, i am misremembering him as having a daughter, The daughter might be trans, or Nick is short for Nikita/vero-Nic-a, or Nick is more gender-neutral as a name then i thought (wouldnt be the first time, i went years thinking Sam was exclusively a female name because the only "sam" i ever heard of was from Totaly Spies). I am not sure which is the case. (im gonna place money on its a shortened-nickname though) Ok Sophie confirms its a daughter.

Elliot has been cooking, Parker is taking the long-distance part of Long Distance Relationship a bit hard around the holidays.

Knock on the door: its Doyledude. He's asking for Elliot by full name (sus). --- Doyledude's gay and his dads a preacher who didn't aprove of "woke" books like Charlie and the chocolate factory. (Yes Christians are that bad. Source: My dad got a chainletter that refered to the antichrist as an "avatar" of satan once and "The last airbender" and the blue smurfs were both insta-banned from the household forever).

--- "I am totally fine with revenge it allows us a range of outcomes the mark deserves". good line.

"Guess theres a lot of maurice's out there" KNEW IT, the moment they named him "blanche" i suspected we were gonna be getting a Maurice Leblanc reference. (of course they'd go for Arsene Lupin in an episode about the importance of libraries)

Harry's "so do I" is a simple joke but it lands well. 8/10.

I think we found todays villain: Its the guy harassing a homeless man for using the library. (fuck that guy) Ok ominous cut of someone taking pictures of Elliot. --- Sophie is walking around the theatre loading 100 checkov's guns at once (confetti cannon, Parker is booking a helicopter, red sportscar, Harry has a cane)

Sophie does a speech about the team needing to remember that this is a good person.

Elliot has gotten some of his old budies to work stuntmen. Parker is asking the very crucial heart-attack related question. Our safeword is Winnebago (google says its a campervan? Honestly, if it werent for the whole "automobiles are deathmachines I dont trust myself with" angle, i'd like one.) --- Librarian dude takes one look at the red sportscar and just thinks "dafuq kinda spy are you?" before stealing a regular car like a sensible person on the run from crooks would.

So, clearly the guy is either a someone bad upbringing who brought himself around, or an actual retired spy himself, who reads those books primarily out of nostalgia.

Ok its misspent youth, also the way he casually tosses the phone out the window. Love this guy. --- Im gonna be honest, while i apreciate the consistency of parker still being the Christmas Monster, the way her characterisation has mellowed out to using store-brand santamugs after she was first introduce as off-the-wall enough to use priceless jewelry as garlands is weird to me.

Breanna carelessly dismisses an attack on their own firewalls and servers. Harry's moustache is bad but the eyepatch is worse. --- Four stars? Comeon man. (good improv)

Actual Goons are here! "take spencer" knew it! no way that Doyledude would know Spencers full name. Mr Blanche has stolen a sportsbike. --- Turns out yeah, he was a former spy. Its RIZ bitch (did we get a name? I dont remember) she's looking for "the ledger" (presumeably a list of secret identities. We're looking for a book kept by a librarian. Its in the library. Probably that book samurai book he's been reading regularly) Ok so this is definitly becoming a recurring thing with the way she first used Elliot to find which guys to hire and is now talking about making him an instructor. Is she the secret person he's been phone-ing that breanna was asking about this whole episode? (i thought it was the Supercop from Arlo) --- Blanche has a gun pointed at our heroes. PTSD in a bottle, cause thats a thing that exists now. Wilson is still holding old job secrets from them? Thats... weird. --- Wait, Elliots dad is alive? But I thought that the episode ending implied otherwise? (Might be me being bad at understanding the subtext of that scene, might be a retcon) --- Mr Blanche has already beaten all the guards in the time it took a drugged out Elliot to break a chair. (Pretend to be the new guy, classic "heavy object in a sock" prison-improv weapon. 8/10, guy knows what he's doing, but is also a bit rusty and forced into improv mode) --- Turns out, he didnt retire because he wanted to retire but because no one would believe the ledger was destroyed. Luckily floppy disks suck at long-term storage.

Harry is talking with his old boss, trying to be the angel on his shoulder while the boss is trying to be the devil on his. (still really odd that we went through the trouble of establishing our heroes broke in to find Harry's ledger of old sins and that we're now going the "Harry wont tell them his old sins" route.) --- Copperhead and Elliot are talking. Copperhead does not want to go out by cancer. (we're faking his death and assigning him to International arent we?) --- Confetticannons are a go-go! (they're meant to simulate pages being shot by guns)

Blanche got disarmed and shot with his own gun. (definitly a death-fake) --- Huh, RIZ-woman doesnt actually kill the guards who fail her objectives. She just blackmails them into following their NDA's. (profesional)

Yup it was in the big samurai book. (obviously) and he's getting the rental.

OK so Hardison sent the library boy. (explains why he knew Spencers name)

Ok So Elliots dad is alive just not around for the holidays ever.

[arretoskore]

Omg in the bucket job Mr Blanche is reading Bonanno's book 🤣 I'm dead

[glassofpumpkinjuice]

since it's summer it's the perfect time to listen to summer days feat. patrick stump :)

[shitpostingkats]

"Real lawyer plays Ace Attorney" but it's just me playing Turnabout Reclaimed, and instead of being an irl lawyer, it's just me pointing out all the animal resort violations in Shipshape Aquarium

[wild-fleurs]

Leverage Redemption Season 1 The Bucket Job

I’ve figured out what was weird to me about this episode

There was no follow up with the client

The kid who somehow got in contact with Hardison to hire a group of moral criminals (did he know who they were or think they were actors or what?) to make his childhood librarian & friend feel awesome before he dies of cancer

Then nothing?

Even after that friend seems to die in a shoot out mid adventure experience

There’s no funeral for the librarian/ex shot spy now technically on the run still with cancer where everyone he helped/the community were there to honour him

Also the library is shown to easily be able to slip from being such a welcoming safe haven without him there

There was no scene of the kid saying I’m going to work at the library or we’re going to rebuild from the attack on the community centre & the library is now named in his honour (don’t act like that’s outside the leverage crew’s ability or something that wouldn’t happen in the leverage world)

It felt half done

The wrap up of “the kid” was that Hardison sent him as a present to Parker specifically which was sweet but seemed a bit tacked on

Like Hardison wouldn’t have sent her a robot friend for Hardy lol or a tour of the catacombs because they’re history’s vents before vents or something like that

Anyway I didn’t hate the episode I liked it & even not being American or a fan of Star Trek I got a couple of Easter Eggs about the actor & wasn’t he involved in a library show or program for kids too? I’m sure there’s a bunch I missed too but that was fun

I assume RIZ will be a big bad guy & come back or if not RIZ as a whole that lady who hates Eliot go solo to go after the team because Briana definitely got stuff off the floppy disk right? & Sophie knows it so that’ll be probably come back up

Also I assume Eliot’s dad will play a big role if not this season then season 2 but for real why would Eliot tell his dad’s friend be there in 20 then no call no show because his dad’s not there

I fully get that he’s disappointed but now he’s just abandoned some old dude war buddy/family friend on Christmas - ouch

But I LOVED that the librarian was reading a book by the Leverage cop friend such a cool fun call back

I assume all this is either me being picky or just season 1 finding its footing but even if it’s not I still like the show

[phoenixwithapencil]

ok ok so- in finally at least watching the ep gladio cutscenes I finally got the damn plot (and I have my thoughts and opinions about that, but that's for a different post)... I want to focus though on the fact that Gladio's ultimate triumph is that he's no longer afraid of if or not he will be able to succeed as noct's shield. And then Gilgamesh says this: "Now, hasten forth— with mind unclouded by doubt and will unmoved by fear. The Last King of Lucis is ill fit to fight without his Shield."

Gladio really doesn't react to this line despite the fact that he totally absolutely should. Because the verbiage is not just 'king' nor even 'chosen king', but 'last king'

Gilgamesh knows something about the future and Noct's fate- that Noctis is going to die. Okay, sure. it's not necessarily that he'll die. there's wiggle room in there. But at the same time, Gilgamesh is all but a demigod, who's using 'last king' the same way everyone else in on the prophecy shenanigans use 'chosen king'. it's doubtful Gladio would take that as a sign that Noct and Luna are fated to dismantle the monarchy. He'd take it as 'noct is fated to die.'

Gladio doesn't get the context of a vision the way Ignis will during his dlc. He doesn't get to know how the man he swore to protect will die.

Gladio's job is to make sure Noct Does Not Die and Gilgamesh is looking him in the eye and saying 'glad you got over your fear that you will fail... but for the record, you will never be good enough. you are destined to fail.'

And then gladio doesn't react at all to gilgamesh's words or the massive implications. because im convinced that the writers room hated this man personally.