#The Zanzibar Marketplace Job

[leveragecentral]

Leverage (2008-2012) The Zanzibar Marketplace Job (S02E12)

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 2x12 - "The Zanzibar Marketplace Job"

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Honestly best part of The Zanzibar Marketplace Job is the fact that Sterling came with his own PowerPoint to present in front of the crew. Obsessed with this man.

[sugarandspicer]

ok I need to know: has Eliot Spencer tried the curly girl method and how did it go? because I am convinced that his hair is naturally curly and I need them to stop straightening it/brushing it out. every time it gets wet, it gets wavy and I just… ::fans self:: imagine if his hair looked like this ALL THE TIME

FURTHERMORE, what am I supposed to do with the knowledge that sometimes this man puts tiny little beads in tiny little sections of his hair just because. he likes to feel pretty.

[chungledown-bimothy]

Hardison having the cash out to pay off the bartender in the same second Eliot throws the first punch. Iconic behavior from both of them, really

[leverage-ot3]

it’s been over ten years and there can still be no other way to describe parker and hardison’s reaction to eliot kicking the shit out of sterling other than pleased and horny

[irritablegallowglass]

Leverage gifs that no one asked for but I made them anyway (15/?)

[kcdahippie]

I'm obsessed with Parker's fun thief facts every episode. I'm like go off pro.

[amazzyblaze]

"The Zanzibar Marketplace Job" doodles (with bonus sketchbook money Marge)

[anarchypumpkincowboy]

“Eliot I’m gonna ask you not to get violent” “What? What are you talking about? I only use violence as an appropriate response.”

And you know what punching Sterling is an appropriate response to him opening his mouth

Hardison paying the bartender off lmaooo

[independent-fics]

Eliot’s beads and braids in The Zanzibar Marketplace Job. That’s it. Send tweet.

[crazyneutral]

Still on the rewatch and god Sterling and Nate must have made such a funny fucking pair when they were at IYS

That drunken distraction was amazing. And also implies that one of them learned it from the other, because Nate pretty visibly was doing the same thing in the Two Live Crew Job

(And god I LOVE Parker's dress in this omg, it's so 2000s)

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 2x12 - "The Zanzibar Marketplace Job"

[ID: A Leverage gifset. Sterling walks into the bar that the crew is in, and and Nate briefly looks up to meet his eyes before saying, “Eliot, I’m gonna ask you not to do anything violent.” Eliot frowns, “What? What are you talking about? I only use violence as an appropriate response.” Sterling is revealed standing behind Eliot.

Sterling smiles and says, “Hello, Nate,” and Eliot’s expression freezes before slowly gaining intensity. Eliot shoots out of his seat and delivers a strong right hook to Sterling’s cheek.

Eliot looks furious, and the camera freezes over Sterling’s shocked face before swiveling to Parker and Hardison standing at the bar. The bartender starts to move away, but Hardison hands him a wad of dollar bills and shakes his head. The camera stays on Parker and Hardison, who smile with clear amusement and appreciation. End ID]

ID courtesy of @princess-of-purple-prose

[lehdenlaulu]

Okay, getting back into the liveblogging early on the morning of Christmas Eve, nbd.

Oh hi Maggie. Getting into trouble already?

Aw Hardison.

Oh Parker.

Oh Eliot. 🙄

Oh Nate...

...hi Sterling.

Oh! This scene! I know this scene!

Eliot: Appropriately Violent Response. Hardison and Parker: Instant Proud/Horny Mode. 😂

Hardison paying off the bartender. 😂😂

The very unconvincingly scandalized extras. 🤣

Ukraine. Not the Ukraine. No article. Ugh.

And while we're here, it's Kyiv, not Kiev.

Beaded braids! 💙

Your wife, huh? Not ex-wife?

...yeah even I know that is not the Kyiv Police HQ.

And since I had to check... the first bit was stock footage from fucking Moscow. 😑 Do better, show.

Pretty sure the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv doesn't look like that, either.

Very Scandinavian-looking dude, huh.

"Nyet" is also Russian, not Ukrainian jsyk. But I guess I can let that one slide.

Okay, trying not to nitpick. American show from late 00s, after all.

Sterling you fucker.

Who chose their ties?? They're both atrocious.

Uh. That's an interesting look for Parker. Seriously, was the costumer perhaps high?

I see. 🙄 I mean, that is spot on for what it's trying to convey, so apologies to the costumer.

Oh yay, transphobic joke.

By the way, that's not Ukrainian either. Since we're keeping count.

Eliot's hair oh my god. 🤭

Well done, Tara.

Okay, that was an interesting cognitive jump there, Eliot.

Another horrifyingly ugly tie! There has to be a story there.

A very Melania Trump look for Tara. Probably intentional.

Well, Maggie, at least your standards have risen in some respects...

Parker really likes it when her boys mess with Sterling, huh? 😏

She looks fantastic in that dress, by the way.

...but she does look much more like herself in flannels.

Sterling, mate... you're not the alpha in this room. So to speak. Or the brains.

Yeah girl, I would have divorced him too for constantly condescending to and underestimating me...

Well, at least the city's name is written correctly in Cyrillic.

Shocker.

Honestly, though, it couldn't have been that difficult to get some stock footage from actual Kyiv.

Girl, no.

Hell yeah, team.

Seriously, what's with the ties?

[geeky-nightphilosopher]

Can we appreciate that Eliot judges Hardison for having a blacklight at the ready?

Like- Parker and Eliot are the two "always be prepared." But he's all like; "You just have one at the ready?"

Also- why does Eliot look good with beads in his hair? (Okay, I'll stop.)

[richardsphere]

Leverage Log: Zanzibar Marketplace Job

New format: Always write the name of the episode in the title of the log. Jim (not to be confused with Stephanie) Sterling is back. Elliots response is appropriate.

Always love the old "you will get what's coming to you". Some may call it a cliché, i think its a classic.