#The Gold Job

[sapphichymns]

[independent-fics]

Nathan Ford Being a Dad™ Parallels

Leverage (2008-2012):

04x16 The Gold Job

05x05 The Gimme a ‘K’ Street Job

05x08 The Broken Wing Job

[amazzyblaze]

I aspire to Hardison's level of pettiness. He really set things up so that if anyone else on the team so much as tries to pull up a YouTube video on his system in Nate's apartment, they get jumpscared. So unnecessary. So Hardison.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

No one asked for it, but here are the clip art sources for Hardison's superhero code names in "The Gold Job"

Gold

Silver

Mercury

Mr. Punchy

Hardiman

[chungledown-bimothy]

I'm in love with this video game con, btw. I'd ask for Hardison's hand in marriage but Parker and Eliot already are holding both of his.

[morningstarbee]

hardison taking point on this job is so epic,, i know he's wanted to become the new leader for a bit

also

him animating these little characters ,, and calling parker Gold, and Eliot Mr. Punchy. and eliot being mad until he sees hardison animated his character and then smiling I Hate Them

"Okay that's pretty good." you're gay

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

UNAPPRECIATED JUMP SCARE IN LEVERAGE!!

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

Ohhhhh so not running the job just yet I do like him making them understand just how much work he does and how lost they’d be without him

[richardsphere]

Leverage Log: The Gold Job

Ok, with a name like that im hoping we either steal an olympic games, or get to see Parker actually do a proper heist again.

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Oh we're dealing with shady gold-buying companies... Those suck almost as much as the fake-rapper in the ad does. (serioulsy, who is he supposed to parody? Cause it feels like its meant to be a specific parody but it came out too generic for me to tell. I mean his name is "little pusher" which sounds like it might be either Lil Wayne or Usher but it doesnt work.)

Hardison decides that this is his time to try and be the designated Nate (Sophie already had her episode). In his defence he's at least thought ahead to call dibs on a relatively low-stakes seeming mark.

Im gonna be honest, im kind of sick of this "Hardison feels underapreciated" arc, this is not the first time we see an episode about Hardison being insecure (IE: The boys night out job) and the gag is getting a bit long in the tooth.

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Wait is Hardison "on strike" or "playing nate" cause he cant be both.

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OK, strike is over, we have succesfully wasted a total 2 minutes of episode on a badly written lesson on the importance of Hardison.

Im gonna be honest, if the gag here is gonna be that Hardison overdesigns his cons. I get what they're going for but Nate's cons are kind of convoluted from time to time as well. (setting up an entire scam involving fake cocoa futures as a distraction is not a straigthforward con)

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Hardison created an entire graphics package for "Mr. Punchy", but im gonna have to say, using "Gold" as a codename when dealing with a Gold treasure for Gold Merchants is gonna get confusing. Remember this is Parker we're talking about. Last episode she couldnt understand the context clue of "fight" meaning argument and now you want her to pick up on which mention of Gold in a conversation about Gold and piles thereof refers to her?

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Ok if this is where it is supposed to get more complicated then a Nate plot. I think the show is forgetting a good 70% of nate's scams involve tricking a person into leaving so he can have one of the team steal their room to pretend to be them. Calling a woman to get her to leave so Sophie can pretend to be her is not more complicated then breaking a skilift so Eliot can pretend to own the resort. (if anything, its simpler)

Nor is a "fake rival" that different from a fake deadline. (its both just weaponised FOMO)

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All this episode has sold me on so far is that Hardison wants to run an escape room.

I do agree with Sophie, this is overdesigned. You have brainwashed one of them with subliminal ads, hacked their gold-purifying company to force them to take half a week off from work and all you use it for is a fiddlegame. (the land above the alledged treasure being the overpriced fiddle). You would've been easier off impersonating the truckdriver and just letting them hand you the gold.

--- or drilling into the vault, that works too.

[renew-leverage]

LEVERAGE REWATCH MARATHON Streaming today: The Gold Job

It’s Sunday, Leverage Marathon folks, time for another episode!  This week we’re watching the 16th episode of season 4, The Gold Job, in Hardison runs a con and Nate is a jerk to him.  Watch the episode with us on our Sunday Leverage Marathon discord server and post all about your feelings, thoughts, comments, anything & everything.

Come on in, say hi to your fellow fans, get comfortable.  We’ll be starting in about 15 minutes at roughly 3:30 PM Eastern U.S. Time.

[leverage-ot3]

op's tags go HARD

#AND TO BE PERFECTLY CLEAR. I *CALLED* THE BREW PUB AS A RESPONSE TO THE VENUS FLY TRAP IN MY NOTES. THE PHYSICAL NOTES I TAKE#WHENEVER I WATCH LEVERAGE. I JUST DIDN'T REALIZE IT WAS THIS IMMEDIATE#my notes literally go girls/boys night out job 'parker is the only one playing 4d relationship chess so far. when does hardison join in &#what makes parker sure enough to push eliot more or is it just inevitable eliot's a part of the relationship conversation p&h have btween#seasons?' and then the lonely hearts job immediately afterwards is like. romantiv love exists. look at this very meaningful gesture eliot#made on hardison's behalf. answering the how does hardison clue in and what makes p&h confident enough to push question at the exact same#time. and then in the gold job. 'portland restaurants'. being searched. i swear to god.

in the lonely hearts club job leverage asks the question "does romantic love exist?" and answers it by having eliot buy parker a venus fly trap on hardison's behalf, expecting no recognition and revealing eliot remembers a throwaway comment parker made on their second job together.

we all know this.

but was anybody going to tell me hardison already had a browser window open looking for restaurants to buy eliot in portland in response at the start of the episode immediately after that? or was i supposed to figure it out on a rewatch all by myself?!

[independent-fics]

Leverage OT3 Casual Touches

(Cont.)

This is mainly for @werewolfsmile and anyone else who wants to shout into the void with me about this ot3!

So far season 4 started off strong with lots of little ot3 moments I’ve been clocking on my latest rewatch. Today I watched “The Office Job” through “The Gold Job” and wanted to recap. Ngl it isn’t much…

Still good things but it was a lot of what we already see which is still beautiful. But mainly it was a lot of leaning, being in each others spaces, and a lot of the handshake. (For the purposes of this post I’m skipping “The Girls Night Out Job” and “The Boys Night Out Job” simply because those two are a whole other beast of ot3 moments that I would like to gif separately and also not a lot of touching (besides the handshake in the boys night) which is what we’re focusing on here.)

“The Office Job” is my favorite comfort episode of Leverage. Everything about is pure gold. Despite Hardison and Eliot arguing the whole time about a sandwich they still manage to pull together in the end and have one of the funniest moments in the episode which is of course topped off by the handshake. Once again mainly in each other’s spaces or leaning this episode.

“The Lonely Hearts Job” also such a great episode of basically the ot3 parent trapping Nate and Sophie and Eliot out here doing the absolute most showing he knows his team in the end of the episode.

As for casual touches a lot with Eliot and Parker (I feel like there’s always more with Eliot and Parker in trying to find more with Eliot and Hardison but mainly they just always lean in each others spaces and orbit each other, compared to Eliot and Parker which sometimes have a similar but different dynamic due to comparing how Parker in the beginning of the series was very adverse to touch. Not from Hardison and Eliot now though:)).

This scene starts out with them with a gap but they gradually get closer (I know this can happen when scenes are reshot. As I always say though let me read the subtext how I want. They were further apart then they got closer soooo)

My favorite thing is the shoulder bumping as they’re walking out. All I have to say.

Here they’re betting whoever gets the highest bid gets a steak which is super cute later because Eliot loses and puts up a fight about making it but then totally has heart eyes and smiles when he “loses” that argument too. Why wouldn’t he make his boyfriend a steak. There’s also a later scene I totally forgot to gif when they’re getting the guy flirting with Sophie out of the way and he calls Hardison (who’s in character) an idiot and I know Eliot did not need to take him down as hard as he did all I have to say.

And once again we have the leaning in each others spaces, shoulder touching, and once again the handshake. None of the other bachelors were standing this close on stage just saying.

Then we have “The Gold Job” where Parker literally gets up to sit next to Eliot? Wonderful. But then there’s some shoving but for context the whole scene was kinda tense because Hardison was running his first con. But then right before the camera changes Eliot moves closer!!!

But then they end up further apart again which I’m assuming may be due to reshoots.

Just generally the comfort between all of them gets me in these scenes. They’ve come a lot way and even though the beginning of season four I feel like shows this a lot more I’m still glad I’m finding scenes with their casual touches as I’m finishing out season 4.

That’s all I have for tonight :D I’m finishing up season 4 tomorrow so I’m sure I’ll be adding to this later.

Hope you like my gifs :) haven’t gifed in so long but I’m happy I’m learning again. Quality still needs work though.

Bonus:

Here’s a bonus gif of Eliot looking like he’s blowing a kiss in the button cam footage in “The Office Job” because I thought it was funny. This is once again getting added to my “why didn’t I notice this before” list. I just wanna know for whom Eliot. :)

[amazzyblaze]

"The Gold Job" doodles

[seren-dipitous-art]

I’ve been obsessed with the Olympics for the past week, and obsessed with Dick Grayson for longer, so here’s the crossover we all deserve.

Plus, gorgeous sweaty acrobat in gymnastics poses? Only positives.

[chungledown-bimothy]

Voodoo Donuts is four tourists Eliot you're better than that. Go to Blue Star.

[misterpseudonym]

you said forever / tell me why can’t you stay?