The Bad Influence Speaks

Leverage: The Last Dam Job

 

Season 4, Episode 18

To bring down Dubenich and Lattimer, the Leverage team are going to have to think outside the box and bring in ringers to help them along. Wil Wheaton, Clayne Crawford, Richard Chamberlain, Saul Rubinek and Kari Matchett guest star.

Hardison: Well, he upped the crazy. I didn't think he could do it.

 

Chaos: Say my name.
Hardison: Chaos.

 

Hardison: You already packed?
Chaos: Who else are you going to call? I want my usual fee plus expenses and Parker dresses up as Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica.
Hardison: That's not going to happen.
Chaos: I'll accept Sophie as Councillor Troy.

 

Hardison: You got me a Batcave? A Batcave!

 

Quinn: Can I hit him?
Eliot: Which one?
Quinn: Either one.
Eliot:See it's not just me.

 

Nate: The Gambler? You're basing your life philosophy on a Kenny Rogers song?

 

Quinn: How many fingers do you need to type? Round down.

 

Chaos: They are ready for your kung fu, but they are completely unprepared for my drunken mastery.

 

Hardison: Wow, this must be how Eliot feels. I just realized this is how he feels all the time. You just want to hit something.

 

Eliot: You know a lot of things Nate, but you don't know how this is going to change you.
Nate: You handled it.
Eliot: You have no idea who I was before all this started. That guy, kid, he had God in his heart, and he had a flag on his shoulder, clean hands, and I ain't seen him in the mirror in over 10 years. And believe me, I get up every morning looking for him. So you can trust me when I tell you when you pull that trigger and two men die. The guy you kill and the guy you used to be.

 

Sophie: The last time I underestimated you I was right.

 

Quinn: Well, next time give me the gun. I'm your huckleberry.
Eliot: Here.
Quinn: A little late now.
Eliot: I love that movie.
Quinn: Who the hell doesn't?

 

Hardison: I hate you with the white hot heat of a thousand suns.
Chaos: I dream you died and I wake up laughing.
Hardison: Sci-five?
Chaos and Hardison: No.

 

Thug: You know I have a gun.
Eliot: I know. That's what makes it fair.

 

Victor: You didn't kill the man responsible for your son's death!
Nate: My son would be ashamed of me if I was a murderer. My father, on the other hand, he'd buy me an ice cream.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Warehouse 13: Elements

Season 1, Episode5

 

Claudia is welcomed into the warehouse fold (though not easily) while Pete and Myka are on the trail of an artifact that allows people to pass through walls. Joe Flanigan guest stars.

Artie: Things rarely shout warehouse. They usually whisper.

 

Artie: I'll be damned.
Claudia: Well, maybe, but I'm not one to judge.

 

Artie: At the risk of sounding dramatic....
Leena: That's never stopped you.
Artie: That's true.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Hawaii Five-0: Ka Ho'oponopono

Season 2, Episode 13

 

A teenage girl is found murdered in her room by friends who snuck in to visit. Does her murder have something to do with the secret she was keeping from everyone?

Danny: Where did you get that thing?
Lori: In the trunk.
Danny: How'd you know that think was in there?
Lori: How'd you no know it was in there?

 

Danny: Let me hit him once. Please.

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Hump Day Quote: Steve Jobs

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address 2005

Leverage: The Radio Job

Season 4, Episode 17

 

 

Nate is pulled in to save his father who is trapped in the U.S. Patent Office during a heist. The team comes along to help, but what if the theft isn't the point? Tom Skerritt and Saul Rubinek guest star.

Hardison: Why y'all always pushing me off of stuff? Don't I get a say? I vote no.

 

Hardison: This is the entire security system? Budget cuts were the best thing to happen to thieves.

 

Hardison: Hello and welcome to the island of misfit inventions.

Comments:
I can't believe Leverage went all Die Hard on us. That was fantastic. It was played beautifully from the detective's desire to believe to Eliot's slight look of disbelief that he was going along with the plan. I could kiss Chris Downey and John Rogers for writing this episode. We even had the "Yippie ki-yay" line though cut off so not to disturb the censors. One of the things I've always loved about Leverage, besides the acting, are the pop culture references. They warm my geeky little heart.

Next week's season finale with Wil Wheaton as Chaos, and Clayne Crawford as Quinn should be an amazing geeky, fight filled extravaganza.

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Leverage cartooned

I was playing around with instructions from How To Geek on "How to make Photoshop cartoons in about one minute" and was practicing on multiple photos and screen captures to make sure I had the process down (and wouldn't need to look it up again). I gave it a try with a Leverage screen capture and decided to do it with a shot of each of the principal characters. Here they are:

Nathan Ford (Timothy Hutton) from "The Mile High Job"

 

Sophie Devereaux (Gina Bellman) from "The Queen's Gambit Job"

 

Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) from "The Runway Job"

Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) from "The Studio Job"

 

Parker (Beth Riesgraf) from "The Morning After Job"

 

Alec Hardison (Aldis Hodge) from "The Van Gogh Job"

 

James Stirling (Mark A. Sheppard) from "The Queen's Gambit Job"

 

 

Note: As usual, the rights to these images are retained by the creators and producers of Leverage and TNT.

Leverage: The Gold Job

Season 4, Episode 16

 

Hardison takes over the con when the team goes after crooked gold processors.

Nate: Pattern of perfidy?
Hardison: Uh-hmm.

 

Parker: That's his very serious arm cross.

 

Nate: Okay, guys, we're going to do this the plain and simple way. Let's go steal some gold.

 

Eliot: So you knew the vault was empty? Hardison, I'm going to tell you something and I want you to listen to me very carefully. You ever pull this again and I'm going to personally make sure you're off this team because I'm going to break every bone in your body.

 

Parker: I had a lot of psych exams as a kid. They're actually pretty easy. Well, sometimes I made my doctor's cry, but....

 

Hardison: You're just jealous of the puppet master.

Comments:
I think Beth Riesgraf said she ate 3 or 4 of those Fruit Loop covered donuts filming that scene. I think I'm jealous of that fact. They look pretty tasty.

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Leverage: The Lonely Hearts Job

Season 4, Episode 15

 

When a wealthy man comes to the Leverage team for help, they discover a grifter ring pulling a sweetheart scam and step in to shut them down. David Ogden Stiers guest stars.

Sophie: And you're one to laugh. You don't even bother to learn their names. They're just waitress, nurse, stewardess.
Eliot: First of all, it's flight attendant, all right? They don't like to be called stewardess. And, second, I know their names.

 

Nate: All right. All right. Listen. Next time I promise I'll use the word argument instead of fight. Promise.

 

Eliot: Sometimes it's fun to kick a man when he's down.

 

Eliot: Want me to teach you about the wines again?
Hardison: Just hurtful. Just making assumptions and presumptions that I don't know what I'm...yes, I need you to teach me about the wines again. Yes.

Comments:
This one of those episodes where we see so much more from Eliot and the vastness of his skills. Is there anything the character can't do (besides understand computers)? The flowers were a great touch at the end. I'd mock Eliot and Nate getting twitchy over the man crying, but I'd have the same response (to anyone crying). Nice argyle socks by the way.

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Hump Day Quote: NCIS: Los Angeles

Forget diamonds. In this business, plausible deniability is a girl's best friend.

-Hettie Lang (Linda Hunt), NCIS: Los Angeles "LD50"

Dragon*Con: The Panel

I have been so lax in finishing up my Dragon*Con 2011 posts. I can't even remember specifics of most of the panels at this point. However, this past Dragon*Con was the first first year I took part in a panel. It was "Superheros on the Screen" with the American Science Fiction Media track and included Gary Mitchel, Bill McIntire, Stephanie Souders, and Michael Falkner. A recording of the panel is now up at The Chronic Rift if y'all would like to hear it. There were some entertain moments when the alarms went off. What can you expect when your panel room is in the middle of the blood drive. That almost ping pong like clicking noise in the background is the alarm strobe going off.

Holy crap, tell me that isn't my laugh that sounds like that. I see test recordings in my future.

Other Dragon*Con 2011 posts:
Dragon*Con 2011: Costumes at the Con
Dragon*Con 2011: The Steampunk Exhibition
Dragon*Con 2011: Zombie Walk
Dragon*Con 2011: Panel Pictures
Dragon*Con 2011: Night at the Georgia Aquarium
Dragon*Con 2011: Random Pictures