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Geek Girl Authority
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Geek Girl Authority
LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION Recap: (S03E08) The Cooling Off The Mark Job
Fans of Leverage: Redemption and the O.G. series are pretty familiar with the various roles in a con — the mark, the roper, the inside man. However, in 'The Cooling Off The Mark Job,' a contingency role, 'the cooler,' comes into play when a mark gets away and finds the crew's HQ. The twist here is that the crew is still out on the con. Instead, he finds their old friend Hurley (Drew Powell), and things get complicated. RELATED: Catch up with our recap of the previous Leverage: Redemption episode, 'The Shakedown in Clone-Town Job' Hurley's coming off a con-gone-wrong, and that's a novel situation as well. After all, he's a bit of a jack-of-all-cons, lending a hand to various crews across the global Leverage organization. What does a Mr. Fix-It do when he feels broken? This is what Leverage: Redemption is all about. Image Credit: Prime Video Leverage: Redemption, 'The Cooling Off The Mark Job' Hurley arrives at Leverage headquarters and looks up at the Val's Juke Joint sign with a somber expression. Flashback to a con in Rio. As he and his team enjoy 'The Gloat,' the mark escapes the police and runs into traffic. Hurley jerks back into the present and heads inside. The space is empty. He shouts a greeting, setting off the intruder alarm. A laser cage appears, and Hurley passes out from the knockout gas. Out on a con involving cowboy hats, Breanna (Aleyse Shannon) checks to see who tripped her alarm. When she realizes it's Hurley, she calls him to apologize. After turning off the cage, she hands the phone to Sophie (Gina Bellman). RELATED: Falling Skies Season 4 Premiere Thoughts and Recap Sophie explains to Hurley that their mark ran off before they could close him for the full take of three million. They only got two. As she's inviting him to make himself at home, a gun-wielding man runs in and threatens to kill Hurley unless the con team gives him back his money. Thinking quickly, Hurley claims to be looking for them too because they stole his money. He throws his phone away, killing the line, leaving Sophie stunned on the other end. The Cooler Hurley introduces himself as 'Mark' (lol). The other man says he's Clay (Alex Boniello). Out on the job, Sophie tells the team that Clay found Hurley at the headquarters. Parker's (Beth Riesgraf) confident that Hurley knows what to do to cool off the mark. Harry doesn't know what that means. Sophie explains, 'In the very unlikely event that the mark finds the crew after the blow-off, someone has to stay behind and convince him to accept his losses and move on.' Elliot (Christian Kane) tells Harry that everyone has a different technique to cool off a mark. Sophie comforts people. Elliot gives them a win. Parker shoves them off buildings, telling them, 'You can't grow until you go.' RELATED: Read our Fallout recaps At headquarters, Hurley's pouring shots for Clay and himself. Hurley puts in a team com earpiece and chats him up. Breanna and Sophie inform Hurley that Clay embezzled his three million from their clients, a church. Sophie advises Hurley to start cooling Clay down. Breanna wants him to find the last million so they can go home. Harry goes to visit Reverand Dupree (Taprena Michelle Augustine). The church needs the money to turn the lot across the street into a community center. They trusted Clay with their nest egg. Now, the real estate company plans to sell to a developer unless they come up with all the money by midnight. Harry urges her to have faith. The Next Move Clay asks Hurley how far he's willing to go to get his money back. Hurley says he's all in, with nothing left to lose. Clay warns him that things might get ugly. He heads downstairs. Left alone, Hurley tells the team he wants to run another con on Clay and take him on a quest. He doesn't believe Clay's willing to accept his losses and move on. RELATED: Geek Girl Authority Crush of the Week: Leverage: Redemption 's Parker Elliot sneaks into headquarters. Hurley hits him over the head with a bottle. Clay's got a gun pointed at Elliot and demands to know where his money is. Elliot claims the con crew stiffed him, too. He grabs Clay's gun and tells Clay that Parker is on her way to his office to take the million he held back. Clay runs out. Elliot switches the gun's bullets for blanks. He smells the booze on Hurley, a recovering alcoholic, and warns him against making poor choices. Elliot gives him the gun loaded with blanks and tells him to give it back to Clay to build trust. Clay brings Hurley to the Bayou Bluffs Real Estate offices. He explains they were just getting into development when things went south. He introduces Hurley to Denise (Nicolle Ashley), a deaf property salesperson. It's her last day. Clay signs fluently in conversation with her. A sound from the manager's office attracts his attention. He and Hurley go to investigate. The Near Miss Parker breaks into Eiger's safe and steals a folder randomly to make the theft look convincing. Clay sees her leaving the office and pulls out his gun and chases her. She escapes through a ceiling panel into the vents. Clay insists on following. While crawling through the ventilation system, Hurley freezes, imagining a widow pointing an accusatory finger at him. Coming back to himself, he realizes that Clay has fallen through a hole in the vent and pulls him up. RELATED: TV Review: Leverage: Redemption Season 3 Giving up the pursuit, they return to the office kitchen where Hurley starts cooling Clay down. He offers Clay another scam, promising him that a big score is just around the corner. Clay doesn't look enthused or convinced. Sophie, Harry, and Breanna listen in from the mobile headquarters, urging Hurley to rope Clay in for the missing million. Clay tells Hurley they're not the same and walks away. Hurley follows him, asking where he's going. Clay says he's going to the police. The team gets there first. Dressed like detectives, Breanna and Harry head into the Economic Crimes Unit and convince Detective D. Lancer (Robert Walker-Branchaud) that they're from Internal Affairs. He offers to meet them in the backroom of a nearby bar. Once he's gone, they set the office up to look like Breanna is Detective Lancer. Harry clears out before Clay arrives. What They're Not Seeing Clay comes in, claiming to be a victim of fraud. Breanna says the con crew is well-known to police and pulls out a folder on Sophie and Harry. When the phone rings, she turns her back, and Clay steals the folder. RELATED: Read our Cross recaps In the mobile HQ, Sophie prepares. She mentions to Parker that Hurley is drinking again. Whether he internalizes or externalizes the feelings he's dealing with, things could go wrong. She advises Parker to tread lightly as she's his Leverage manager. Parker has faith in Hurley, but accepts the advice, seeing as Sophie's experience with Nate (Timothy Hutton) gives her expertise in these matters. Clay finds Sophie alone in a motel room. When he demands his money, she throws a duffel full of shredded paper at him, claiming Harry double-crossed her. She tells him Harry got all three million, causing Clay to panic. He calls his Swiss bank to check the balance. Breanna intercepts the call and uses his password to transfer the last million back to the church. Once they've confirmed the transfer, Sophie offers Clay a chance to get Harry. Instead of rising to the opportunity, Clay breaks down in tears. Hearing this, Hurley runs out of the mobile unit. He bursts into the motel room, claiming to have followed Clay to protect him from Sophie. Clay tells him he didn't steal the money for himself. He was trying to help Denise. Saving Clay Back at headquarters, Hurley appeals to the team to help Clay. He sees himself in Clay. Hurley wants them to run a con to keep Clay and Denise from losing each other. While Elliot protests that they don't do love cons, Parker urges Hurley to run it. Clay feels guilty about getting Denise the job in real estate, moving her up from the valet parking desk. Because she sold a penthouse unit in an uninsured development destroyed by a hurricane, her client lost their investment. The Bayou Bluffs manager, Barry Eiger (Jonathan Gregg), threw her under the bus, and she plans to move to Seattle to live with her mom. RELATED: A Leverage: Redemption Primer: Get Ready to Steal Season 3 Elliot caters the cake for Denise's last day party. Hurley convinces Clay to talk to her, offering to be his Cyrano with an ear com on a separate channel from the team. Sophie and Harry arrive as Veronica and Carl Lundermeyer, real estate tycoons. They interrupt the party to whisk Denise away. Informing her that because she's a sales associate, not a licensed broker, the non-compete clause doesn't apply to her, they urge her to come work for them, as she can bring all the clients with her. As they leave, Sophie spots Eiger eavesdropping from a nearby cubicle. Clay's frozen with anxiety despite Hurley's help. Hurley gives him a pep talk and shoves him out the door. Elliot's got his feet up in the break room when he spots a custodian pushing a cart by the door. He leaps to his feet and follows. Complications Clay finds Denise and starts to confess his love to her. Elsewhere, Elliot shadows the custodian. From a different direction, a woman in a yellow dress, carrying a huge balloon arrangement that obscures her face, enters the office and turns. Elliot informs Parker and Breanna that he's spotted two contract killers in the office. RELATED: The Librarians Sequel Coming to the CW Breanna learns they're known as The Party Girl, identity unknown, and The Janitor, aka Nathan Clegg. Going through the decoy folder Parker stole, Breanna discovers that Denise's client is a front for a cartel. Elliot prepares to take on the assassins. He starts with The Janitor, who has a Japanese blade hidden in his mop handle. At Hurley's insistence, Clay tells Denise that she can't leave. He needs her to stay, but before he can express that, he blurts out that there are killers looking for her, repeating what Hurley is saying. Hurley appears and suggests they leave. Clay and Denise argue in sign language as to whether to escape down the stairs or the elevator. Sophie and Harry approach the other office staff and offer them each a $50,000 signing bonus. This gets them all out of the office. The boss follows. Cleaning House Elliot beats The Janitor with a roll of bubble wrap. Leaving the fight room, he sees the balloons. It's a trap, and The Party Girl ambushes him, jumping on his back, laughing maniacally. Hurley makes it to the parking garage alone. A third assassin appears, but Hurley refuses to give up Denise's location. As the assassin prepares to shoot, Sophie warns Hurley it's going to get loud. All the car alarms simultaneously go off. Hurley punches the assassin. Parker appears out of nowhere and hits the assassin with a taser, knocking him out. Flashback to Sophie and Harry escaping to the parkade with Clay and Denise. They find the valet station, and Denise hands out keys. Everyone punches the alarm buttons. RELATED: Read our Leverage: Redemption recaps Cut to Elliot in the office, lifting the unconscious Party Girl over his shoulder. He reassures everyone that he's okay. 'Can't Grow Until You Go' At headquarters, Clay and Denise have a candlelit dinner. Parker and Hurley watch from a balcony. Hurley regrets they weren't able to take down Eiger. Parker hints that they might've. Flashback to Harry and Breanna in Detective Lancer's office, handing over the green folder full of incriminating evidence of a money laundering scheme. Lancer storms off, insisting he'll arrest Eiger immediately. Hurley laughs delightedly at the news. He asks Parker how Clay found the headquarters in the first place. Flashback to Clay during the first con. Parker bumps into him and slips the address into his pocket. In the present, Hurley looks confused. Parker explains that she'll never give up stealing stuff and that she's gotten good at running the crews. However, she's never done the feelings piece well. She admits that she sensed that Clay wasn't really a bad guy, but she was more concerned about Hurley. She sent Clay in his direction to help him find his way after Rio went bad. Hurley chuckles, realizing he was the mark she wanted to cool off. He hands her his beer bottle and thanks her. Leverage: Redemption Season 3 streams on Prime Video with new episodes every Thursday. Prime Video Renews FALLOUT for Season 3 Diana lives in Vancouver, BC, Canada, where she invests her time and energy in teaching, writing, parenting, and indulging her love of all Trek and a myriad of other fandoms. She is a lifelong fan of smart sci-fi and fantasy media, an upstanding citizen of the United Federation of Planets, and a supporter of AFC Richmond 'til she dies. Her guilty pleasures include female-led procedurals, old-school sitcoms, and Bluey. She teaches, knits, and dreams big. You can also find her writing at The Televixen, Women at Warp, TV Fanatic, and TV Goodness.
Axios
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Axios
Actor Drew Powell's best day ever in Indianapolis
Drew Powell, a native Hoosier who's been making a name for himself in Hollywood for the past two decades, was back in Central Indiana last weekend to support the IU Health Foundation at its annual fundraiser gala Rev. Driving the news: Powell, who just finished a powerful storyline as Doug Driscoll on the hit show "The Pitt," starred in "Gotham" for four seasons and had guest appearances on "The Office," "Grey's Anatomy," "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and more. Zoom in: Before Powell returned home to L.A., we asked the Lebanon High School graduate how he'd spend his Best Day Ever in the Circle City. 🥯 Breakfast: A pershing and glazed donut from Titus Bakery — a Lebanon original. "Everyone wants to talk about Long's," Powell said, "but that's not where it's at." 🚲 Morning activity: A bike ride on the Monon Trail in Hamilton County, where his parents now live. "We did this a lot during COVID," he said. 🥪 Lunch: Patachou, for the chicken salad sandwich. 🚤 Afternoon activity: Taking a boat out on Geist or Morse Reservoir for a little tubing and water skiing. 🖼️ Second afternoon activity: Popping into Newfields for a bite in the museum cafe and a look at the Robert Indiana "LOVE" sculpture, something special to Powell's family. Powell said he's been going to the museum since he was a kid, and it may or may not be where he learned what happens when you open an emergency exit door. ⚾️ Evening activity: Baseball game at Victory Field. "Or Pacers, or Colts. Fill in the blank for whatever season it is," said Powell, a huge Indy sports supporter. He said keeping up with Indy sports has helped him feel connected to his Hoosier roots while living in L.A. 🥃 Dinner: St. Elmo Steak House "And I'm having one of those cherry coke things," Powell said, referencing the restaurant's signature "Elmo Cola," which mixes a glass-bottled Coke with its own St. Elmo cherry vanilla whiskey and drunken cherries. 🎸 After dinner activity: After dinner, Powell's running back up to HamCo to catch the encore of a Dave Matthews Band show at Ruoff Music Center… er, Deer Creek. "One of my favorite places in Indy is Deer Creek," he said. "It'll always be Deer Creek to me, don't give me any of this bullshit Ruoff, or whatever." What's next: Powell just finished filming for the four-episode reboot of "Malcolm in the Middle," set to air on Disney+ later this year.
