Trapped in the art museum, surrounded by police, and pursued relentlessly by Astrid, the team is pushed to its limits as they struggle to escape from Arthur's trap.
Tropes stolen in this job:
- Batman Gambit: Arthur tries to set up the Leverage team so that regardless if they escape the museum or not, they'll be framed for the crown's theft. Sophie turns it around on him by pretending to solve his "almost-to-miss-clues" and even made the arrest look real to lure him into revealing the crown's location.
- Bavarian Fire Drill: Breanna persuades the police to leave the garage for a few minutes by claiming that she needs to escort a cooperating criminal through the room and he won't come down if police are there.
- Boxed Crook: Arthur's cover is implied to be this.
- Call-Back: Several pieces of dialogue from the previous episode are shown.
- The Cameo:
- A verbal one as Astrid reveals that she's been offered a promotion for her work from Section Chief James Sterling. Not five minutes after searching Sophie's name in Interpol's database, coincidentally.
- Hardison appears briefly at the very end to ask his teammates to get him off the satellite.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Team Leverage (especially Sophie) are severely tested in this episode. However, they prevail through a combination of Xanatos Speed Chess, help from Leverage International, and Sophie restoring the bond between herself and Astrid.
- Evil Can Not Comprehend Good: The one flaw in Arthur's plan is that Astrid's love for Sophie makes her enough of a Reasonable Authority Figure to hear her out and come up with a plan to expose him.
- Freak Out: Harry does not react well when he's forced to join Parker in the Air-Vent Passageway. Parker just resolves to give him more training.
- Impersonating an Officer: Breanna gets rid of the cops in the garage and replaces them with members of Leverage International.
- Off Screen Moment Of Awesome: The team's next job at the end of the episode: rescuing Hardison from the satellite he's been on which includes Breanna getting a astrophysics degree and Parker breaking into NASA.
- Parental Substitute: Astrid calls Sophie "Mum."
- Refuge in Audacity: Arthur takes a job as a Boxed Crook after he was released from prison and if this episode is any indication, he uses the position to commit crimes he then helps investigate.
- Shout-Out: When impersonating an FBI agent, Parker uses the alias Clarice Starling, as well as the character's voice.
- Slipping a Mickey: Breanna neutralizes the cops in the garage by using the food truck to give them free tea with their crumpets. The tea includes knockout drops, no extra charge.
- Trailers Always Spoil: Watching the "Next time on..." trailer at the end of the previous episode spoils the fact that Arthur hid the crown in the display case.
- Troll: The team seemingly leave to have dinner while Hardison is begging them to come save him from the satelite as he's sick of staying there. However, they're just playing a prank and they return a moment later to help him.
