Leverage (TV Series) The Rashomon Job (2010) User Reviews

One of My Favorite Leverage Episodes

[nannyjo · 10/10 · 6 March 2016]

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.

Easily one of the best eps

[trevorgensch · 10/10 · 25 January 2022]

An ep that plays with the tropes and style of the series in such an amazing way.

If you ever wanted to see an ep before the team worked together this is the one.

The delightful irony is you realise they have always been working together.

Deteriorating from before this episode

[simondclinch-1 · 9 September 2014]

The third series may have been rushed compared with the first two. The first thing I notice is that the background music is of less quality.

In the the earlier series, we had cool up-to-date club jazz in the background. This series drops down to more standard and less well- conceived stuff in the background.

In this particular episode, the identity conceived by Sophie, "The Duchess of Barrington-Highsworth" is way too sloppy an error for someone who is supposed to be a top grifter.

I thought everyone knew that a Duchess is a very high rank - the highest below monarch if not indeed a monarch. The Queen of England is unusually referred to as the Duke of Lancaster instead of Duchess. But the principle is that a Duke or Duchess is the ruler of a province at the least. There is actually a Viscountess Barrington Highworth - note the lack of "of" at this level. At the viscount level we can indeed expect the name to relate to an estate rather than anything as massive as a province. Note also the fact that it's Highworth, not Highsworth. Point is, a grifter that sloppy would get caught more often than not!

And then we hear that the security system, a cutting-edge "Tanuki", in the museum is run by a mainframe. I'm not sure if even when mainframes were the latest technology, back in the 50's and 60's, they would have been capable of running a security system. Mainframes are distinguished by having a separate processor for peripheral devices using synchronous I/O. Security systems have to service asynchronous interrupts.

Surely these people can afford a few bucks to consultants to avoid making such mistakes? Or do they think they already know everything and don't need to do any research.