One more week, here we are! Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job” picks up on Eliot’s past and brings it to a rounded conclusion as he mends a new past relationship. Ready?
Here we go!
Long Lost Relationships in Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job”
After his run-in with his past in the previous episode, in Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job” Eliot is determined to mend another decades-long broken relationship: the relationship with his father. But he wants to go alone.
He feels that he needs to do it because there are times when we have to face alone what we fear the most. But the team was not going to drop it. The team is there, by his side, for emotional support and everything he needs. They have his back because he can always count on them.
So, once Eliot, Parker, and Breanna arrive in the small town where Eliot grew up, they meet Eliot’s dad and we’re all in for a huge surprise to find out that he’s adopted. Also, there is a huge gap between father and son that is felt physically. They don’t fight but it’s not necessary because the coldness with which they treat each other and the tension in the environment speak for themselves.
It’s almost as if Eliot’s father couldn’t stand being around him. Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job” doesn’t take long to explain why. Eliot all the time wanted to be like his father, and follow in his footsteps. Eliot’s father was always his hero and Eliot just wanted him to be proud of his son. The problem is that his father never saw himself as a hero.
Being in the military came with a heavy price, one he’s not proud of, just like Eliot. So the last thing he wanted for Eliot was just that, for history to repeat itself. And somehow, he blames Eliot for repeating history and can hardly meet his eyes for the things he knows he did.
Some Wounds Take Time to Heal…But They Always Do
Of course, the father and son relationship is very fractured in Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job.” Although it is not broken, only a fine thread prevents it from breaking apart. But when Eliot’s father sees the good Eliot does in the world and how the people around him love him…he’s proud of his son. He is doing something good, helping people, and spreading hope.
And, as if this were not enough to have us with tears falling non-stop from our eyes, Eliot makes his father feel like what he is: a true hero. The medals are not important, the important thing is the people they helped, who they saved, for them, he is a hero. That’s all Eliot cares about and the reason he’s always been his hero.
Father and son are sobbing like us but we have to admit that the hug they give each other ends up killing us. The way Eliot’s father calls him “son” for the first time and doesn’t want to let go…the way Eliot gives him that picture of a happy memory together to hang on the wall, along with all the others… goodness, now we are a ball on the floor, non-stop crying.
And we love the way Sophie shows her support. Now, Eliot is fine because he got something back that he thought he could never have again: his father.
The Responsibility of a Family in Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job”
Sophie feels outside of herself in Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job.” This job feels different to her because Eliot is at the center of it and knows that if anything goes wrong, he’s going to tear it apart. All jobs have a risk of going wrong and creating collateral damage but normally, that damage doesn’t touch the team. They have the security of being able to get ahead together even if something goes wrong.
But this time everything is different because possible collateral damage touches the heart of the team… and can shatter it. This causes Sophie to act doubly mother hen to Eliot. Normally, she acts like a mother to everyone, and as such, she recognizes when someone in her family needs help. That is why she is the one who knows that, although Eliot doesn’t want company, he needs it. And it’s Sophie who carries on her back the creation of a plan without any fissures.
It’s just that the best plans are the ones that tend to turn out the worst and Leverage: Redemption 2×06 “The Fractured Job” is no exception. Sophie’s overzealousness and insecurity caused by the thought that something could go wrong makes her feel guilty that really important information was lost along the way.
It’s information she wouldn’t normally let slip, but she’s human, she carries too much on her shoulders, and it’s not her fault. But, despite all that, she feels responsible, because she feels responsible for everyone on the team. Sophie can’t be at peace getting the same if she doesn’t fix what happened. And she gets it. Mama bear, indeed. And we love her for it.
Leverage: Redemption season 2 airs on Amazon Freevee.
“The Fractured Job” is my favorite episode in the #Leverage and #LeverageRedemption series! #ChristianKane gave an absolutely poignant performance as #EliotSpencer, who is finally able to talk with his father after 30 years. Kane and #KeithDavid made an impressive, formidable, and truly believable pair! #GinaBellman’s excellent portrayal of #SophieDevereaux, worrying about Eliot becoming collateral damage as she worries about losing her own superpower, adds such depth to the story and demonstrates how much of a family the #Leverage team has become. I love the pairings in this episode: #SophieDevereaux and #HarryWilson; #Parker and #Breanna; #AlecHardison in space and the family back in space; and of course #EliotSpencer and his father Billy. I rarely cry at movies or TV shows, but the tears were flowing when I first watched this episode – and every one of the 10+ times I have watched it again and again. The original #Leverage series and this #LeverageRedemption reboot have what all shows should have: intelligent writing, first-rate actors who actually like each other, the perfect balance of drama and comedy, and the issues we are facing in real life being tackled and resolved by this family of #Robinhoodlums. If you watch only ONE show out of the 100+ episodes, please make it #LeverageRedemption season 2, episode 6, “The Fractured Job”. I think you will be surprised at the quality of the show – and may even want to see the other 100+ episodes.