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Leverage Season 5 Episode 9

The Rundown Job

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AIRED: Sep 16, 2012

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The team joins forces with a colonel to stop a terrorist who plans to use a biological attack on the nation's capital.

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Leverage's Summer Finale: Too Much Awesome for Just One Episode

Leverage's back-to-back summer finale was the best, and maybe only, way for the show to squeeze all of its awesomeness into one sitting.

By Julia Bergen, Sep 17, 2012

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The Rundown Job

8.0

By thefanof, Oct 02, 2012

Just Parker, Hardison and Eliot today, and it worked better this way. A trio comparable to the originals from Burn Notice, and you really had a fast-paced, high-action season finale, the kinds of scenes these characters are usually in for the whole show, instead of just when Nate and Sophie were not on.

A great premise, and some cool moments. Definitely a quality episode.
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HARDISON AND PARKER SHOWING THERE LOVE

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By loveyou26, Sep 22, 2012

I LOVED HOW HARDISON AND PARKER FINELY SHOWING THERE LOVE FOR ONE OTHER THIS WAS ONE OF THE BEST EPISODE. I LIKE ELIOT HE IS SO SEXY. LOVE THIS SHOW.
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The Rundown Job

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By tmg, Sep 22, 2012

I loved this episode!!!
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Eliot, Parker, and Hardison fight terrorism in the nation's capital for a thrilling season finale

9.5

By JT_Kirk, Sep 18, 2012

This was a very different type of episode from rest of the season: It was entirely serious. It only had Eliot, Parker, and Hardison. It focused considerably on a guest who wasn't the villain, Firefly's Adam Baldwin as a government security agent Col. Vance who works outside the confining rules. And it really wasn't meant to trick or fool the villain, a frustrated scientist who wanted to prove that terrorism was a threat by committing an act of terror - just stop him before he killed everybody.

I really was surprised by the episode, it worked very well, it looked great most of the way (only Parker on the subway didn't hold up for viz FX), had good pacing and editing, it was quite suspenseful. Characters were smart, afraid, clever, selfish, concerned, loyal and eventually selfless - it wasn't quite my favorite episode of Leverage since there wasn't a heist in the main storyline, but if more episodes were like it, I'd definitely enjoy them quite a bit - if there was more conning and Nate & Sophie, that would be the type of thing I'd like to see Nate be building, using bad guy tricks to take on more serious criminals, to help people on a bigger scale, to open up Leverage to a larger need than just 1 at a time.

Ultimately, watching our heroes use their skills at a higher level for greater stakes made for a very compelling episode and gave a greater sense of risk to a show that too often feels like its heroes are invincible. Eliot, Parker, and Hardison got to show dramatic range beyond what was expected. So thumbs up on this one for me.moreless
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Christian Kane	Eliot Spencer
Beth Riesgraf	Parker
Aldis Hodge	Alec Hardison

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Adam Baldwin	Colonel Michael Vance	Guest Star
Monte Markham	Dr. Everett Udall	Guest Star
Dennis Adkins	Congressman Jason Yount	Guest Star

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- Senator Yount: These slow, giant agencies you mock were designed by very smart people.
  Vance: So was the Titanic.
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- Hardison: Look, you got a minute forty.
  Parker: Cool.
  Hardison: Kiss for luck?
  Parker: Who needs luck?
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- Eliot: I'll find a way to keep her alive, you guys find a way to get her out of here.
  Hardison: With what?
  Eliot: You stole a Michelangelo with tin foil and chewing gum, figure it out!
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- Hardison: Y--you're talking about stopping a terrorist attack in an afternoon. We need all your intel.
  Vance: That truck back at the crime scene. It's a NSA mobile-response intelligence unit.
  Hardison: With the Schneier cryptography and a J-dam satellite uplink? That... I know nothing about 'cause that would be treason and wrong.
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- Hardison: And you expect us to go kissing psycho with a city killer? A country killer?
  Eliot: You scared?
  Hardison: You damn right.
  Eliot: I'm not. I got the best thief and the smartest guy I know chasing this guy.
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- Hardison: Call up the NSA satellites.
  Computer: Calling up NSA satellites.
  Hardison: Thank you, creepy spy truck.
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- Vance: World can always use some more good guys.
  Eliot: Yeah, well, too bad we're the bad guys.
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- International Airdates:
  Canada: January 7, 2013 on Super Channel 1
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- The subway station featured in the episode is not actually the DC Metro, but the Portland Max (light rail service).
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- Injoke: The farmer is named Casey, a reference to guest star Adam Baldwin's recent role as John Casey on Chuck.
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- Injoke: As Eliot and the others go into the subway, there's an exhibition sign referring to Rachel Olschan in the background. Olschan is the series' co-executive producer.
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- Timothy Hutton and Gina Bellman are credited but don't appear.
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