Each member of the team recalls the story of an artifact all of them tried to steal on the same night five years ago.Each member of the team recalls the story of an artifact all of them tried to steal on the same night five years ago.Each member of the team recalls the story of an artifact all of them tried to steal on the same night five years ago.
Pete Robertson
- London Delivery Driver
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title comes from the Rashomon effect which occurs when the same event is interpreted differently by different people. The term originated as the title of Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon.
- GoofsWhen Sophie puts the new address sticker on the shipping slip, the date is clearly 2008. Yet this went to air in 2010. The episode is supposed to be 5 years previous so it should have read 2005.
- Quotes
Nathan Ford: If we don't find Moreau, I might go back to prison forever.
Sophie Devereaux: Oh, shush. You did fine in prison the first time.
Eliot Spencer: You got into shape.
Parker: Yeah, you look good in a jump suit.
Alec Hardison: You learned how to hypnotize people.
- ConnectionsReferences The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Featured review
One of My Favorite Leverage Episodes
This is one of my favorite episode of the entire series. I have always enjoyed episodes or movies that show various scenes from the different participant's point of view. The Rashomon Job is no exception. The writers do an excellent job of showing the theft of a rare dagger through each of our hero's eyes.
At first, we only are allowed glimpses of the story as seen by the individual characters. We see only what the story-teller saw. As each character's story is told, more of the storyline gets filled in. Only at the very end, do we get to see the whole plot puzzle and find out exactly what happened to the dagger.
One of the fun elements of this episode, is that we get to see our main characters interact with each other before they became the team that we know and love. This leads to what I think is one of the funniest bits of the entire series: Sophie's changing accent. We get to hear her accent from the viewpoint of the other characters – how she sounds according to them. We get to hear everything from cockney, to gibberish, to "dwarf from 'Lord of the Rings' " depending on whose story we are hearing.
Add in one of my favorite character actors, John Billingsley, and this is a great episode for this series. It is just a really fun episode to watch.
At first, we only are allowed glimpses of the story as seen by the individual characters. We see only what the story-teller saw. As each character's story is told, more of the storyline gets filled in. Only at the very end, do we get to see the whole plot puzzle and find out exactly what happened to the dagger.
One of the fun elements of this episode, is that we get to see our main characters interact with each other before they became the team that we know and love. This leads to what I think is one of the funniest bits of the entire series: Sophie's changing accent. We get to hear her accent from the viewpoint of the other characters – how she sounds according to them. We get to hear everything from cockney, to gibberish, to "dwarf from 'Lord of the Rings' " depending on whose story we are hearing.
Add in one of my favorite character actors, John Billingsley, and this is a great episode for this series. It is just a really fun episode to watch.
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- nannyjo
- Mar 5, 2016
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- Runtime43 minutes
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