#The Bucket Job

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The Bucket Job Leverage: Redemption

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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"

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

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[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).

[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.

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Leverage Redemption s1e9: The Bucket Job

[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

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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.

[an-undercover-bi]

Hey, how sweet is it in The Bucket Job, Mr. Blanche was reading a book by that state cop, Bonanno, while Breanna was using the library computer?

[glassofpumpkinjuice]

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

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Happy Holidays from the Leverage Crew

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@laser-tripwires: #honestly it's my favourite bit as well#like#i enjoy just how much that episodes takes the chance to lightly poke fun at eliot's character archetype#because as much as we joke about parker... eliot's core conciet is that he used to be the guy standing next to the bond villain#(y'know. the henchman who has to be distracted and/or booked on a flight out of the country before the hero can get a shot at the bad guy.)#and even IGNORING THAT#eliot was CANONICALLY an assassin for the us government at one or possibly several points and was in deep millitary shit#he essentially WAS a spy#(maybe not in the same way as tara or robert blanche but he WAS)#and yet#AND YET#bucket job has him playing essentially himself only far less and far more cool.#it's an INSPIRED writing choice#plus plus plus that torture scene? best eliot moments in redemption hands down. i love this episode.

My favorite part of The Bucket Job is that Blanche had to have thought Eliot was such a shitty spy.

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"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