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Leverage - 05x09 The Rundown Job

5x09 The Rundown Job

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First Aired: Sep. 16, 2012 on TNT
Summary: When Sophie is implicated in the theft of a valuable painting, Nate must use all his skills as an investigator to find the real culprit and clear her name.

Main Characters in this Episode



Guest Stars

Colonel Michael Vance played by Adam Baldwin
Dr. Everett Udall played by Monte Markham
Congressman Jason Yount played by Dennis Adkins (III)
Parkgoer played by Lori Lamb (III)
Woman played by Angel Goulet
Teresa Darnell played by Christa Campbell
Congresswoman Caballo played by Ginny Burdick
Riley played by Richard Turner (XXVIII)

Mistakes/Goofs

  • Goof (factual errors): When trying to identify the unknown sniper, Eliot tells Hardison to search the US Navy SEAL, Enlisted Database 91-95. They find the guy there but he's wearing a US Army uniform. He wasn't a SEAL and wouldn't be in the database searched.
  • Goof (errors made by characters, possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Hardison send SOS by using Vances car headlights he did 3 long 3 short 3 long but its actually 3 short 3 long 3 short ...---...
  • Goof (errors in geography): The signs in the subway station are marked "DC Subway". The commuter rail and subway system in the District of Columbia/Arlington area is called the Washington Metro, or just the Metro, and its logo is a black rectangle with a white 'M' and the word "metro" in lower case.

Trivia

  • When being questioned by the Senate Committee, The Senator describes a former team used by Colonel Vance. the description of that team perfectly describes the team on "Chuck" which starred Adam Baldwin's character on that show Colonel Casey.
  • Eliot asks for directions to the Mandering Hotel, later when Eliot and Hardison steal the car you can see the Mandering Hotel behind them.
  • The subway scenes, though set in DC, do not feature the characteristic Rohr and Breda train cars, and the architecture of the stations does not match the Washington Metro style.
  • Hardison said that the Spanish flu killed 50,000,000 people, which was approximately 3% of the world's population at the time. Some estimates place the death toll as high as 130,000,000 which was 7% of the population, and that a total of 500,000,000 - 27% - were infected. Projecting those figures onto current population estimates, a similar pandemic would kill between 210,000,000 and 483,000,000 people, with a total of 1,865,000,000 infected. This does not account, however, for advances in medicine, public health and mass communication, all of which would mitigate the numbers.