Leverage: Redemption - The Cooling Off the Mark Job
Although the pieces of the story feel about awkwardly stitched together, "The Cooling Off the Mark Job" offers fun moments as Hurley (Drew Powell) returns after his own con went sideways to help the team deal with their own mark (Alex Boniello) who stole $3 million from a church including $1 million the team hasn't yet recovered. While initially there to just help Clay cool off, and recover the rest of the church's missing funds, Hurley empathizes with Clay especially after learning what, or more specifically who, the stolen money was for.
The episode is notable with various members of the crew play patsies for Clay in attempting to cool him off and defuse any vengeful plans. We also get Eliot (Christian Kane) taking out two hitters and Hurley playing cupid with Clay and the woman (Nicolle Ashley) he stole all that money to save. In the end all works out for everyone as Clay and Denise's boss takes the fall for laundering money for a cartel and the guy who stole $3 million from a church (albeit for somewhat good reasons) gets rewarded with love. Also worth noting, we learn one of the international crews of Leverage used to specialize in love cons, something both Hurley and Parker (Beth Riesgraf) muse about bringing back at the end of the episode.
- Title: Leverage: Redemption - The Cooling Off the Mark Job
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