The Order 23 Job (S02E03)
- Interesting opening with the client trying to take matters into their own hands to get revenge. I can't think of another time we see this? I like that he still gets his punch. I also appreciate that they show that financial crimes against individuals have incredibly profound knock-on effects and do in fact kill people.
- Weird seeing hand sanitizer being the telltale sign of a germaphobe now, in the covid era.
- Weirdly specific thirst of the ep: Eliot catching the sanitizer. I told you I'm SO weak to throwing and catching! One day I'm gonna learn to make gifs and do a gifset of every Eliot throw/catch.
- So the initial approach relies on the mark opening his water bottle directly below the vent and not recapping it. Come on.
- God forbid they have anyone other than the youngest woman playing the nurse and making the beds.
- Relatedly, I hate how they made Parker look so ignorant in this episode: first the obstetrician reference, then the conversation about NLP (don't get me started).
- And the nurse in skirts and stockings, really? I take back anything positive I've said about the guys' attitudes to women. Canonically, they suck. (I will continue to pretend they don't so I can continue to love them.)
- I've always felt that Eliot threatening to break Hardison's fingers over a shirt was skirting close to the line of too much of an asshole, but I interpret it as a playful threat. Hardison definitely doesn't feel threatened, even if he is genuinely annoyed about the shirt. I notice later on that Eliot's shirt seems to fit perfectly and Hardison's does look a little tight to me - enjoy that attention to detail.
- I wonder whether Eliot really doesn't have a tv or if he's just saying that to dismiss/annoy Hardison. I tend to think the latter. He mentions elsewhere in the series watching hockey fights alone, which could be on a computer or not at home, but a tv seems most likely.
- It's funny how when the hospital staff sees there's not a real patient in the MRI, it's the shoe that she gestures with to the cops, as though the shoe is the suspicious part, not the plastic foot.
- There are so many tip-offs in the resuscitation scene that it's not real and they're definitely not medical professionals, but it only has to look good enough for a panicked non-medic to believe it in the moment, so I think we can let it all slide.
- Sigh, I never get tired of Eliot in scrubs... Or all sweaty and out of breath after a fight. Leverage understands the concept of fan service.
- I like that they have the abusive dad give his (messed up) worldview. Nobody thinks they're abusive.
- "You're gonna pay for what you did. Right now!" (Runs away, slips going round the corner) Leverage is really good at the little comedy beats like that.
- When Eliot is waiting outside the kid's home at the end, I don't think they intended to imply Eliot was going to take matters into his own hands once the fed left (if they had, I think we would've got a different facial expression from Eliot and a move to leave the car in the final frames), but I like to imagine he did go beat the shit out of the guy.
