Leverage 4x10 – The Queen’s Gambit Job

Jim Sterling asks Nate and his team for help taking down a researcher who designed a nuclear weight that will help terrorists to manufacture enriched uranium.

*Spoilers ahead!*

★★★★★

When Sterling asks Nate for help it’s clear you still can’t trust him. However they still agree to help since they can’t risk having the nuclear weight in terrorist’s hands. While Nate has to take part in the chess tournament to play against the researchers stepdaughter, Sophie get’s arrested. Sterling drugs Elliot. And it soon becomes clear, that Sterling has an ulterior motive. Hardison prepares Parker to still steal the nuclear weight. It’s not an easy mission due to the fact that the security system is set to the researchers movements and weight. As soon as it’s clear that Sterling has other motives he triggers the security system. Parker gets out through jumping onto the elevator and jumps with a parachute from the roof. Elliot and Hardison break out Sophie while Nate races after Sterling. The researcher’s stepdaughter is Sterling’s daughter and he needed to get her out.

I’m really a sucker for the Hardison and Parker moments. The scenes are always so beautifully written. Parker gets all frustrated since she is used to be light and now has this heavy backpack and heavy boots and she isn’t able to mirror the researchers movements and Hardison just starts dancing with her and humming into her ear and suddenly it works. So nice. Especially after she is in the fault and asks him to hum the melody. It’s such a big step for Parker to ask someone for help. After all she has been on her own for most of her life. Plus the way Hardison tells her that she isn’t alone anymore and that she has a team now, that she got him and later when she is on the roof with no way to escape and then Hardison tells her to get the parachute out of her bag, which she had no idea was in there and she realizes that it’s true she’s got him… awesome scene. :D Totally loved the Parker/Hardison Moments in this Episode.

Elliot was awesome as always. Love the way he got all pissed off after Sterling drugged him and he takes it out on the guards in front of Sophie’s door. Also loved the way Hardison asks him if he wants to take out his anger on some bad boys.

I also really like all the Sophie and Nate Scenes. Sophie dazzling the one player with the mirror and luring the other one in giving up, was just great. Nate telling her he can win without her… always fun. Too bad he doesn’t really realize yet how much he actually depends on her and his team.

I know, I know… only praise and no critic for this Episode. What can I do when Leverage is so marvelously written? Blame Dean Devlin for it because he is the genius behind Leverage. ;) Oh and always a pleasure to see Mark Sheppard on the Show.

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Quotes:

Alec: This thing is like the nuclear equivalent of the One Ring.
Sophie: Ring? What ring?
Nate: Oh, please. Don't get him started.

Elliot: I'm not letting Sterling slide on this.
Parker: Well, at least I got to jump off a building that was like eight other buildings on top of each other.
Elliot: Good for you. I ain't letting him slide.

Sophie: So, what, the salt was Plan B?
Nate: No, no, that was Plan M.
Alec: Don't I die in Plan M?
Nate: Yeah, usually. Yeah.
Alec: What you mean, "usually? How many plans do I die in?
Nate: C, F, and M through Q.