That is the question, isn’t it? When the team organizes the intervention for Nate, whose drinking problem was getting worse, Sophie says that he doesn’t need rehab — Nate needs revenge. So they plan to screw over Blackpoole, the CEO of IYS (the company Nate used to work for) and the man responsible for denying coverage of the treatment that could have saved Nate’s son’s life.
The key to the whole deal, though, which should have clued the team in to Sophie’s deception, is Sophie saying, “We’re all addicts; we’re addicted to our pasts.” And Sophie just couldn’t help herself; she wanted the first David because she had stolen the second David ten years ago.
And Nate knew it. His addiction to his past as an investigator, and his past with Sophie, led him to know that she was trying to con the team. He recognized the voice she uses on a mark several times in this episode, and he was right. It seems to me that Nate’s addiction to his professional past far outweighs the affect his personal past has on him as an alcoholic. In fact, I must agree with him — he is a functioning alcoholic and it doesn’t seem to affect his work at all. I know Nate is drinking because of his son’s death, but he’s still a sharp one.
And in the end, the other “addicts” on the team weren’t affected by their addictions either; they were able to think outside the box to save themselves and best Sterling (a character I love to hate!). They’ve gotten out of their egos enough to not only work as a team, but to be able to think like each other. Sophie escaped from Sterling by repelling Parker-style from the roof, taking Parker with her. Eliot was able to think like Hardison and use technology to disable six of Sterling’s men, and the whole team escaped.
Perhaps, then, it is their addictions that make them the perfect team.
Oh, and eat your hearts out, Leverage fans: I’ve seen the finale and you don’t want to be anywhere but in front of your television set next Tuesday at 10 PM.
Clacked by Debbie McDuffee
on Feb 18, 2009 @ 13:00 EST5EDT
Debbie: Its taken me a this long to come around, but after last night’s episode, Leverage has got to be considered one of the best shows on TV right now. I’ve liked it from day one, but last night’s showing was phenomenal.
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Just wait until part two! ;-)
I’m glad you are finally loving it. You will not be disappointed next week, I really think it is one of the best season enders ever — it is so well done!
No, don’t get me wrong. I’ve been hooked from day one…
But DAMN Part One was good, and I’ve gone back and watched the first half of the season again this week (one of the days, I won’t live in a hotel, and won’t be attached to a computer/TV, but until then, eh).
wow, if it is better than these one then is official, these is the best show ever! :)
Dear Debbie,
Having not seen part two, and avid fan of the show, I think we saw a ship in a bottle. There is something we have not seen yet, but defintitely is connected to Sterling permanently shadowing Nate. That was not an issue until Nate cracked down on a case relsated to his personal past that got him into drinking. It was then that Sterling decided to destroy his preecessor forever and proposed to Blackpool to present the David statue as a promising chance for Nate trying to destroy him. In what he was overconfident is that he underestimated them as a team as they knew they were shadowed, most probably even surveillanced the whole time.
Instead of fleeing they proposed the plan just as Sterling predicted to lure out Sophie’s possession. They had to lose the bout because Nate knows Sterling and albeit underhanded, he still profiles his enemies. Now I won’t spoil the fun, but I have a pretty strong guess, that Nate’s ex-wife only confirmed that the mold having been the same not that either of them are original;)
And out of the bottle we will see what has not yet been shown and if Ijust predicted what happens you may personally send me a pipe bomb:d