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Leverage: The 12-Step Job
The team works to recover a large amount of money stolen from a charity by an investment broker. However, the team learns the banker isn't as bad of a person as they assumed he would be. Their plan is to trick the financier into rehab, but find out it may be a suitable place for one team member as well.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 1x10 Airdate: Tuesday February 03rd, 2009 Alternate Airdates:
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Main Cast
Recap
Jack Hurley is driving to his job, eating greasy food and digging out napkins from the discarded bottles of whiskey. As soon as he arrives at his capital investments office, Jack spots inspectors going through his files. His secretary, Pam, tells him that she had no choice but to show them everything. Jack turns around runs out the door. Inside, Michelle Colby notices him leave...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Among the businesses on Jack's credit card bill is "Hutton's Hangout," a reference to star Timothy Hutton.
Episode Quotes
Alec: Don't get mad, but I may have spilled Slushie in your car.
Eliot: That's like 44 ounces, Hardison.
Alec: It's not that much.
Eliot: The lid is floating in the damn floorboard, man.
Eliot: That's like 44 ounces, Hardison.
Alec: It's not that much.
Eliot: The lid is floating in the damn floorboard, man.
Elliot: Nice job, blowing out the engine block.
Alec: I was aiming for his leg
Alec: I was aiming for his leg
Jack Hurley: I'm Jack, I'm an alcoholic.
Sophie: Thanks, Jack.
Jack Hurley: Also nicotine--the patches, not the cigarettes.
Sophie: Okay.
Jack Hurley: Internet porn. Non-Internet... well, porn, basically. Also compulsive gambling, compulsive lying, compulsive eating. tacos, I've got a big taco problem. I think it all stems from my stint in the CIA and Beirut. Not the tacos, the drinking part.
Sophie: Thanks, Jack.
Jack Hurley: Also nicotine--the patches, not the cigarettes.
Sophie: Okay.
Jack Hurley: Internet porn. Non-Internet... well, porn, basically. Also compulsive gambling, compulsive lying, compulsive eating. tacos, I've got a big taco problem. I think it all stems from my stint in the CIA and Beirut. Not the tacos, the drinking part.
Alec: Okay, pressure, pressure... okay, um, Eliot, go--go get a bag of bricks, right? Bricks, and you put it on the seat the same time I roll off.
Eliot: That only works in the movies.
Alec: Bag of bricks is a good, sound plan.
Eliot: That only works in the movies.
Alec: Bag of bricks is a good, sound plan.
Alec: It's--it's, uh, a computer bomb. I--I know computers. Computer bomb. We--we got to reboot the system. Yeah.
Eliot: You want me to kick it?
Alec: God, I'm gonna die.
Eliot: You want me to kick it?
Alec: God, I'm gonna die.
(after defusing a bomb)
Eliot: Where are you going? We gotta search the car.
Alec: I'm gonna go and freshen up a little bit. Maybe cry a little.
Eliot: Where are you going? We gotta search the car.
Alec: I'm gonna go and freshen up a little bit. Maybe cry a little.
(pretending to be a homosexual)
Alec: I am with him. See, he thinks the flirting, it makes me jealous, but it doesn't. You know, but if were like Brad Pitt, Denzel or somebody, oh girl, it would be on, seriously.
Alec: I am with him. See, he thinks the flirting, it makes me jealous, but it doesn't. You know, but if were like Brad Pitt, Denzel or somebody, oh girl, it would be on, seriously.
Nate: Listen, I don't think I need to apologize for drinking. I need to apologize maybe for not drinking. Maybe I'm a bigger bastard sober than I am drunk. Huh?
Marcy: If this is you sober, hell yeah.
Marcy: If this is you sober, hell yeah.
Eliot: You ever notice how all bad guys know at least one stripper?
Alec: You know at least a hundred so what does that make you?
Eliot: Hey, I'm a bad guy
Alec: You know at least a hundred so what does that make you?
Eliot: Hey, I'm a bad guy
Nate: Listen, the guy, okay, he's an addict. You know--he's--he knows how to manipulate people. My father was an addict. My grandfather was an addict. I know how these people operate.
Sophie: I'm just going to let you think about that for a minute.
Sophie: I'm just going to let you think about that for a minute.
Alec: Woah, woah. I haven't slept in three days. I had a showdown with two different gangs, who, now, by the way, know my face. I sat on a bomb. And all this could've been avoided had you gave the man a taco?
Cultural References
Parker: It's like Billy from The Family Circus if Billy was a drunken sex fiend.
The Family Circus is a syndicated cartoon strip by Bil Keane. Billy is the oldest of the four children, and often wanders around the neighborhood while the cartoonist indicates his path with a thick black line.
The Family Circus is a syndicated cartoon strip by Bil Keane. Billy is the oldest of the four children, and often wanders around the neighborhood while the cartoonist indicates his path with a thick black line.
Nate and Parker use the aliases of Tom Baker and Rose, references to Doctor Who. Tom Baker played the fourth Doctor and Rose was the name of the ninth and tenth Doctor's companion, Rose Tyler.
Hurley and Kwon have the same names, and the same general appearance, as Hurley and Kwon on Lost.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | John Rogers (1) | Chris Downey |
| • Executive Producer | Dean Devlin | John Rogers (1) | Chris Downey |
| • Co-Executive Producer | Kearie Peak | Marc Roskin |
| • Co-Producer | Rachel Olschan | Paul F. Bernard | Amy Berg |
| • Production Designer | Lauren Crasco |
| • Editor | Sonny Baskin |
| • Casting | April Webster | Scott David |
| • Unit Production Manager | Gary M. Strangis | Maria L. Melograne |
| • First Assistant Director | Michael Risoli |
| • Second Assistant Director | Peter Dowd |
| • Music | Joseph Loduca |
| • Music Editor | Jason Ruder |
| • Costume Designer | Nadine Haders |
| • Key Grip | Kevin Ball |
| • Camera Operator | Michael Satrazemis | Gary Camp |
| • Set Designer | Shelley Wallace |
| • Set Decorator | Andi Brittan |
| • Location Manager | Gary Kesell |
| • Transportation Coordinator | Daniel C. Quick |
| • Property Master | Eric Bates |
| • Construction Coordinator | Steven Desantis |
| • Production Sound Mixer | Erik Magnus |
| • Script Supervisor | Dawn Dreiling |
| • Production Coordinator | Jennifer Webb |
| • Assistant Editor | Ron Rauch |
| • Post Production Supervisor | Benjamin Raymond Jack |
| • Supervising Sound Editor | Christopher Winter |
| • Re-Recording Mixer | Patrick Cyccone |
| • Gaffer | Steve Brock |
| • Director of Photography | David Connell (1) |
| • Stunt Coordinator | Charlie Brewer (2) |
| • Art Director | Brian Harms |
| • Special Effects | Chris Bailey (5) |
| • Costume Supervisor | Annette Lewis |
| • Production Accountant | Susan Kong |
| • Visual Effects Producer | Marc Franco |
| • Head Hairstylist | Terry A. Robbins |
| • Visual Effects | Carey Gosa |
| • Assistant To The Executive Producer | Chase Friedman |
| • Assistant To The Producer | Christine Danahy |
| • Second Unit Director | Marc Roskin |
| • Assistant To The Co-executive Producer | Jenn Russell |
| • Makeup Artist | Beverly Jo Pryor |
| • Assistant To The Co-producer | Ryan Mitchelle |
| • Compositing Supervisor | Jennifer Law-Stump |
| • Second Second Assistant Director | Jackie C. Lee |
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