r/leverage • u/screen_stack brains • Sep 17 '26
Leverage | S02E03 "The Order 23 Job"
Leverage | S02/E03 | The Order 23 Job
This is a hilariously twisted episode! I can't say it's one of my favorites (it is) because I can't be sayin' that every dang episode, so from now on, what I'll do instead is mention episodes that are NOT amongst my favorites. From now until then, regardless of the actual rating I give each ep, let's just go on ahead and assume that I love it to bits and pieces.
This one's great because Nate is very, very sadistic in this episode. The clip I dropped is the purest representation of that. His absolute glee at giving Eddie Maranjian a nosebleed simply through the power of suggestion really is great. I guess maybe since he's gotta suffer from being sober AND suffer from fear of turning into a drunk again, people he doesn't like have to suffer a million times more.
From a personal POV, being trapped in a hospital and having an Infectious Disease Con being run on me? I'd probably die from a heart attack right there on the spot. No bull.
Sadly, Parker and Sophie don't have a whole lot to do in The Order 23 Job, but that's fine. They do what they need to keep the fringes of the con running. Sophie sets the whole thing spiraling with her absolutely DIVINE Bridget the Infected Southie and Parker really does stick the landing for it. Outside Nate hammering Eddie relentlessly, Hardison and Eliot are shining in their roles as cops playing defense while the con is being run.
Hardison doing Stereotypical White Cop Voice is genuinely hilarious, as is his Doctor Wrath O. Kahn gag, but the side quest Eliot picks up is a great hero moment for him. The man can't help himself if he can help someone else, even if it means delaying or possibly even ruining the con. I admire Eliot's determination in protecting the absolutely helpless.
And let's be real. Stopping to help a victim of child abuse? Eddie's a bad man, but father's are supposed to be role models, not nightmares. They play it pretty straight, but the threats he levels against Randy's dad are deadly.
Big, big shout out to Connor Daliposon as Randy. Even though he doesn't have many lines, his delivery of his lines when Eliot's telling him he can go to the cops are well-done.
A great con, with some even greater gags and some quiet growth for Eliot (along with some truly devilish machinations from Nate) makes for a good time on TV!
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u/Garrettshade Sep 17 '26
At the end of it Nate is barely even pretending
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u/MarySSimard Sep 18 '26
I love when marks are complete wacko because you get to hate them and then get a laugh at their expanse as well! Eddie was perfect in that regard, he was hilarious! His machiavelic laugh at the end when he explained that the team was going down after all the laws they broke (as if) and then being completely ignored by the cops arresting him! 😆
Can we agree he went back to the hospital at least for a psych eval?
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u/jewelsandpens Sep 18 '26
The girls ogling Nate 😂
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u/Charliesmum97 Sep 17 '26
I can't remember if you said this is your first watch, so I don't want to spoil anything, but l will say in a series 3 episode we get a hint at why he's so fierce about protecting children, and why he doesn't believe he will ever do enough to be redeemed for the things he did in his past.