#The Bucket Job

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The Bucket Job Leverage: Redemption

[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:

[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.

[wolviesgal]

Okay, so I'm watching Leverage: Redemption and I have some thoughts about S1E09: The Bucket Job.

Library-related thoughts.

First of all, we're underfunded, but we're not underfunded enough to still be running 386 PCs.

Second, usually you can't access the library system from a public access computer.

Third, what the hell ILS are they running that it's still DOS based?

Fourth, no librarian has time to sit down and read while they're working.

Fifth, it's not a big library. So Eliot standing there staring at him is not at all subtle.

Yeah, librarians aren't really that gullible lol. Although I do admire the utter reluctance to help Eliot.

Librarians are full of all sorts of information, like how to hot-wire a call. Or get rid of the cell phone so it can't be traced. (The look on Eliot's face was epic).

"The librarian's actually a spy?" There's more to us librarians than meets the eye. ;)

The kind of man nobody sees - a small town librarian. Yeah, we're not that invisible.

Non-library related thoughts:

Loved Levar's character asking, "What's TNG?"

Dude's a total badass.

Oh God, Eliot got tazed. I don't think that's ever happened before.

And now dude's stolen a bike.

Fucking RIZ. They're such a pain in the ass.

Well, that wasn't what I expected with the truth serum.

I really hate this bitch.

Yep, Eliot is a certified badass who can fight his way out.

"Uh, I bought it" looks around shiftily. lol, yeah right Parker.

"Your team of misfit toys" - nice Christmas tie-in (and I may have used that term extensively for my old department at work lol).

Parker's wearing red and green converse and I love it. In fact, I may have a new idea for next Christmas.

Poor Eliot. This is the second time that we've seen him try and reach out to his dad and it fell through.

[arretoskore]

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

[asphyxiatedredherring]

Just thinking about when Parker pretended to be a hacker

ft Hardison's orange pop

[wheelybard]

If I had a nickel for when a Star Trek actor plays a librarian in a John Rogers show I would have two nickels , which isn’t a lot , but it’s weird that it happened twice.

[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

[opal-owl-flight]

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS SPLATFEST THEME HELLO? ARE THEY GONNA KILL EVERYONE???????