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There are several references throughout the show to Doctor Who (UK). In "The Bank Shot Job," Hardison expresses his frustration at the amount of time it took him to torrent the latest episode of Doctor Who. In "The Mile High Job," the aliases given are all references to Doctor Who; Nate's aliases are Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Tom Baker who are actors that all portrayed the Doctor. Sophie's alias is Sarah Jane Baker, a reference to Sarah Jane Smith who was one of the Doctor's companions in the classic series. In "The 12-Step Job", Nate again uses the alias Tom Baker, while Parker uses Rose, the name of another one of the Doctor's companions. In "The Three-Card Monty Job," Hardison and Eliot assume the aliases Detective Moffat and Detective Davies. Steven Moffat and Russell T Davies are two of the executive producers and head writers of the rebooted Doctor Who series. In "The Radio Job," when Parker is theorizing about how Nate's dad went back in time to 1963, a version of the 1960s Doctor Who theme plays in the cutaway scene; 1963 is the year that the original Doctor Who series began. Just after the cutaway scene in the same episode, Parker points to Hardison's bow tie and asks what he's wearing. Hardison answers, "It's a bow tie, bow ties are cool," which is a catch phrase of the 11th incarnation of the Doctor. In the second part of the season 5 summer finale, "The Frame Up Job," Sophie and Jim Sterling go by the aliases "Agent Tennant" and "Agent Smith" which are references to actors David Tennant and Matt Smith who play the 10th and 11th incarnations of the Doctor respectively. Sophie also says "Spoilers!" which is a catchphrase of Doctor Who character River Song. In "The White Rabbit Job," Sophie refers to herself as Sally Sparrow, a character featured in the Doctor Who episode "Blink." In the season five finale and overall series finale, Parker uses the alias Detective Tennant, again a reference to actor David Tennant, the 10th incarnation of the Doctor.
Christian Kane, who plays Eliot Spencer, played Lindsey McDonald in Angel. Sam Anderson, who played his boss in Angel, plays Henry Retzing, one of their marks, in the episode "The Snow Job." Kane and Anderson say that they exchanged a wink on camera as a reference to this in one scene.
In Season 1, The Juror #6 Job, the actor Brent Spiner who played the defendant, wore yellow-tinted glasses. A nod to his character Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation, who had yellow eyes.
Though the show is set in Boston, it was actually filmed in Portland, Oregon. In The Three Strikes Job when Eliot is impersonating a baseball player he makes a reference to having played in Portland. Moreover, the ballpark they are stealing, PGE Park, and the Beavers are in fact Portland's baseball team. In season five, the Leverage team finally makes their move to Portland in the show as they film there anyway.
While running the wire in The Bottle Job (Season 2) the announcer refers to one of the basketball players as Arnie Risen. There is a real Arnie Risen, who played for the Celtics in the 1950s. He was a center, and is a member of the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
At the beginning of the Two Live Crew Job, when Nate and Sophie are masquerading as two police detectives, they introduce themselves as Marlowe and Archer. These are the last names of two well known fictional detectives, Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe and Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer.
The number 42 is often used - a nod to "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" franchise.
The episodes "Leverage" (2008) {The Boys' Night Out Job (#4.14)} and "Leverage" (2008) {The Girls' Night Out Job (#4.13)} were shot simultaneously.
Hardison always using the name Lucille for his vans is an homage to blues great BB King, who always calls his guitars Lucille.
Saul Rubinek also starred with Timothy Hutton in the Nero Wolfe (1981) mystery series.
At the end of the first episode, the checks given to the team are from Credit Dauphine, which was the front company for SD-6 in the TV show Alias.
The door pass code that Hardison's gadget cracks during the first heist begins with 8675309 - a reference to the 1982 hit song "867-5309/Jenny" by Tommy Tutone.
The cheque that the team receives at the end is for $32,761,349.05.
The lobby of the building through which the team exits after their first job together is 1301 2nd Ave. in Seattle - the former and at the time recently gutted headquarters of the failed Washington Mutual Bank.
John Rogers, one of the creators and executive producers of the show, makes an uncredited cameo as the casting director for Sophie's soap commercial auditions.
This was production number 104, but is the 3rd episode to air in the series. The entire season was shot out of order.
The song "More Than I Deserve" heard during this episode, was written and performed by Christian Kane who plays Eliot Spencer.
Nate (Timothy Hutton) wins a poker game in order to get a mark on the hook. This is similar to The Sting where Gondorff (Paul Newman) wins a poker game to also get a mark on the hook. Both times the final hand was four Jacks winning over four nines and the winning hand was gotten through cheating.
Sophie correctly identifies Saint Nicholas as "the patron saint of thieves", referring to Saint Nicholas of Myra who, because of his reputation for secret gift-giving (such as putting coins in the shoes of those who left them out for him) is also the model for Santa Claus, so both Sophie and Parker are right.
This episode was 101 for production, but 107 to air. The entire series was shot out of order.
Parker and Alec take their FBI agent names of Elmore and Leonard respectively from Elmore Leonard.
This was 108 in production, but is 109 to air. The entire season was shot out of order.
Belgrade was "played" by Budapest. When the team goes to Belgrade, the images shown of the Statue and the river with the bridge, that's actually the Statue of Liberty and the Lánchíd (Chain-bridge) overlooked by the Royal Castle, all in Budapest, Hungary.
The line where Eliot says 'How was I supposed to know it was a lesbian bar' had to be inserted to explain actual injuries that Christian Kane had sustained. He was throwing a football with Timothy Hutton after a late night poker game when he slipped and fell on asphalt, grazing his cheek and splitting his lip
When Hardison and Parker introduce themselves to the FBI agents in front of Mosconi house they give names 'Thomas' and 'Hagen'. Thomas Hagen is one of main character in "The Godfather" books by Mario Puzo.
Even though this was the 7th episode to air, it is the 3rd episode on DVD.
All the fake names that Nate reads off in the airport are of actors who have previously portrayed The Doctor in the British sci-fi series Doctor Who (UK) (1963). Nate's aliases are Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy and Tom Baker all of whom portrayed The Doctor. Sophie's alias is Sarah Jane Baker, a reference to Sarah Jane Smith, one of The Doctor's companions (portrayed by Elisabeth Sladen). This is most likely due to the fake ID's being made by Hardison, who in an earlier episode remarks about 'torrenting' Doctor Who episodes.
The film clip shown very briefly on the airplane was from The Librarian: Return to King Solomon's Mines (2006) (TV), which was directed by Jonathan Frakes, who also directed several episodes of Leverage, and was produced by Dean Devlin, the executive producer of Leverage.
The names of the baddies in this episode were taken from those involved in Watergate.
CAMEO(Jonathan Frakes): A patient in a neck brace with a bemused look on his face as Nathan is talking on his ear bud to someone who is not there.