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Leverage The Rashomon Job (2008–2012) Online

Leverage The Rashomon Job (2008–2012) Online
Original Title :
The Rashomon Job
Genre :
TV Episode / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Year :
2008–2012
Directror :
Arvin Brown
Cast :
Timothy Hutton,Gina Bellman,Christian Kane
Writer :
John Rogers,Chris Downey
Type :
TV Episode
Time :
43min
Rating :
9.3/10
Leverage The Rashomon Job (2008–2012) Online

Five years ago, Edgar Gladstone, owner of the Dagger of Aqu'Abi purported to place the piece for display at Boston Museum of Art & Antiquities. A news clip about the piece causes the team to bicker about which of them stole the dagger, Nate sifts through differing accounts from Sophie, Eliot, Hardison and Parker about the theft, (and the cornucopia of bad accents from Sophie). Might a former IYS insurance investigator have additional information about the night in question?
Episode cast overview:
Timothy Hutton Timothy Hutton - Nathan Ford
Gina Bellman Gina Bellman - Sophie Devereaux
Christian Kane Christian Kane - Eliot Spencer
Beth Riesgraf Beth Riesgraf - Parker
Aldis Hodge Aldis Hodge - Alec Hardison
John Billingsley John Billingsley - Coswell
Traber Burns Traber Burns - Edgar Gladstone
Juan Canopii Juan Canopii - Minister Robert Bioko
Riley Smith Riley Smith - Sophie's Dr. Abernathy
Charles Norris Charles Norris - Guard
Doren Elias Doren Elias - Gutman
Sophie Soong Sophie Soong - Janet Lin
Corey Brunish Corey Brunish - Nigel Hayton
Eric Stevens Eric Stevens - Dr. Abernathy

The museum shown is actually the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Since the heist in the episode takes place before the Leverage team is assembled, this is the only episode where the target is one of greed, rather than retribution.

The title comes from the Rashomon effect which occurs when the same event is interpreted differently by different people. The term originated as the title of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.

When Sophie puts the new address on the shipping label, the address is Warren Road, Ellis County UK. This is a reference to the English writer Warren Ellis.


User reviews

Little Devil

Little Devil

This is one of my favorite episode of the entire series. I have always enjoyed episodes or movies that show various scenes from the different participant's point of view. The Rashomon Job is no exception. The writers do an excellent job of showing the theft of a rare dagger through each of our hero's eyes.

At first, we only are allowed glimpses of the story as seen by the individual characters. We see only what the story-teller saw. As each character's story is told, more of the storyline gets filled in. Only at the very end, do we get to see the whole plot puzzle and find out exactly what happened to the dagger.

One of the fun elements of this episode, is that we get to see our main characters interact with each other before they became the team that we know and love. This leads to what I think is one of the funniest bits of the entire series: Sophie's changing accent. We get to hear her accent from the viewpoint of the other characters – how she sounds according to them. We get to hear everything from cockney, to gibberish, to "dwarf from 'Lord of the Rings' " depending on whose story we are hearing.

Add in one of my favorite character actors, John Billingsley, and this is a great episode for this series. It is just a really fun episode to watch.
Charyoll

Charyoll

The third series may have been rushed compared with the first two. The first thing I notice is that the background music is of less quality.

In the the earlier series, we had cool up-to-date club jazz in the background. This series drops down to more standard and less well- conceived stuff in the background.

In this particular episode, the identity conceived by Sophie, "The Duchess of Barrington-Highsworth" is way too sloppy an error for someone who is supposed to be a top grifter.

I thought everyone knew that a Duchess is a very high rank - the highest below monarch if not indeed a monarch. The Queen of England is unusually referred to as the Duke of Lancaster instead of Duchess. But the principle is that a Duke or Duchess is the ruler of a province at the least. There is actually a Viscountess Barrington Highworth - note the lack of "of" at this level. At the viscount level we can indeed expect the name to relate to an estate rather than anything as massive as a province. Note also the fact that it's Highworth, not Highsworth. Point is, a grifter that sloppy would get caught more often than not!

And then we hear that the security system, a cutting-edge "Tanuki", in the museum is run by a mainframe. I'm not sure if even when mainframes were the latest technology, back in the 50's and 60's, they would have been capable of running a security system. Mainframes are distinguished by having a separate processor for peripheral devices using synchronous I/O. Security systems have to service asynchronous interrupts.

Surely these people can afford a few bucks to consultants to avoid making such mistakes? Or do they think they already know everything and don't need to do any research.