LEVERAGE: The Low Low Price Job

Welcome back Leverage!

Looks like our client of the week is a small-family owned grocery story fighting against a big corporate store, Value!More. It seems that the town is working with Value!More to push out the small grocery stores.

The evil businesswoman of evil wants to stop working as a regional director for the store and instead have a place in the corporate headquarters.

Value!More (oh hey nicely veiled Walmart cover) has some really horrible practices, even if they do offer low prices to families who need it.

The team has a day to try and stop this store from opening in a day or two. Good luck team!

Sophie starts the con by suggesting that everyone near that store is going to be poisoned to death. Turns out that Value!More has flagged her aliases to keep the people from trusting her. Seems that Value!More created fake articles to sour Sophie’s name. It’s horrible when the team gets played by their own tricks.

Now up, the team is going to raise some Union issues (good luck with that if anything I know of the “real” store is true).

So far, it seems that the employees are there until they can get something better and also that the store is trying to get Eliot to work off the clock. Eliot’s trying to get some unionizing going, but I don’t think Carolyn is going to like that very much.

Nate and Eliot have just planted the seed that they want to make Union history for the Value!More. Good luck to them both.

So it turns out that the story Eliot told about his dad owning a hardware store was true. Hardison at least got that information out of him, even if it sounds like Eliot’s family and he didn’t leave on good terms.

Carolyn has decided to throw discounts at her employees for the year and have a Bar-B-Que to try and win over their support away from the union.

Two failed plans, the team now is going to try for the last one–just plain bad luck for the store to shut them down.

I really like the foreboding music to start the last plan, along with lots of eager shoppers who want all of the big ticket items.

A nearly $1000 television selling for $100, I love Hardison’s brain. Sophie has all of her acting students doing the opposite of what she taught them is also great. All of those students are not wearing Value!More outfits but don’t actually work here. This is the best sort of organized chaos to bring down a store. Even more so with electronic carts moving randomly.

The poor guy that Eliot bonded with just had to be led off in an ambulance for something. Now Eliot is just going to take down this middle management guy and that brings me joy. But Eliot being fired doesn’t bring me joy.

Carolyn takes all the credit for the good sales day, even if she did nothing. The CEO is coming to visit now, but that doesn’t bode well for the team at all. Now they want to destroy Carolyn to get to the CEO. That seems right for them. (I hate to say that I love watching the con take a few turns before it ends up right, but oh well.)

Eliot and Hardison are now sabotaging Carolyn’s hotel room, which can only lead to bad things later. Of course she’s not sleeping, and being interrupted by that beeping from the phone, and the lights that won’t stay off. Of course! They also got her eyes and ruined her shower, which is inspired.

Parker walks into Carolyn’s office with all the symptoms of the Cadmium Blues, and now Carolyn should be worried about it. Her calls to the Mayor are going unanswered too. I wonder what the team did there?

Carolyn’s getting her wish for corporate, but after six months to see the long-term influence of her methods. Now the team’s going to broadcast her conversation with the CEO to all the televisions, which I’m pretty sure is going to scare everyone away from her store.

How does Carolyn recognize Hardison? I didn’t think he did anything in the con. But it’s nice to see the store shut down after two weeks.

Eliot’s asking out the client now? Is he finally going to be with someone? I’m all for this, actually. But he had to hold off to go out of town–to visit his family in Oklahoma City. This is all too touching for me at the end of an episode. Or maybe not, as no one answered the door at his house.