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Episode cast overview: | |||
Timothy Hutton | ... | Nathan Ford | |
Gina Bellman | ... | Sophie Devereaux | |
Christian Kane | ... | Eliot Spencer | |
Beth Riesgraf | ... | Parker | |
Aldis Hodge | ... | Alec Hardison | |
Steve Valentine | ... | David Lampard | |
Marshall R. Teague | ... | Rampone (as Marshall Teague) | |
Allen Nause | ... | Toby Heath | |
Armando Pucci | ... | Jean-Luc | |
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Mike Dunay | ... | Leo |
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Sapphire L. James | ... | Whitney (as Sapphire Lichelle) |
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Patricia Ferguson | ... | Hope |
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Matt Barnett | ... | Zachary |
Charissa J. Adams | ... | Agent Palmer (as Charissa Adams) | |
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Elden Nelson | ... | Bike Messenger |
The team targets David Lampard, a failed chef turned businessman. Lampard fires Eliot's first mentor, Toby Heath, and turns Toby's culinary school into a tuition mill for celebrity TV chefs when Toby interrupts a shady deal at $12,000 per kilo. Eliot does double duty, cooking at Hardison's brew pub and as the new teaching chef at the culinary school and restaurant. Hardison plays with menus, lasers and safes while Sophie plays with her new theatre and Nate plays with minds and mushrooms. Parker feels left out and yearns to discover her passion. Eliot shares his philosophy: Food is Life with appreciative audiences. Written by LA-Lawyer
Usually Leverage is one of my favorite shows. However, the stereotypical scenes that the only black character refuses to tip was unnecessary for this episode. They have done this with Hardison's character often.
In The Boys Night Out Out Job, Elliot asks Hardison if he said "thank you".
The one time Hardison led a job, Nate did not even respect him and it didn't go as planned. Nate's job never go as plan, they just finally work out but everyone on the team at least always shows him respect. When the others led a job, Nate respected him. All of this was because of how the writers decided to write the show.
All of the characters have stated on more than one occasion that Hardison is the smartest person they know. There are plenty of black smart people in the world. It did very well showing casing a black male as hacker and an intelligent person.
However, it fell short by including stereotypical things like he did not tip or he was the only one on the tram that did not know how to lead (run a successful job).
I hope this stereotypical attributes are removed with the reboot for Alec Hardison and his sister.