... Or Mozzie can just turn up drinking Neal's wine with some Mongols. That works.

I laughed *so* hard at the El-eee-ot line in the preview for next week's Leverage that I had to ask John if they've been sitting on that, or it was a surprise.

I've been getting my Leverage eps off Amazon, so I don't see the previously- what was the line/word? (I have indeed seen the episode in question. Hello random Russian dude and a... turtle.)

The word was "El-eee-ot" said ET-style.

So I finally started watching the Leverage premiere, and at 20 minutes in, I have 2 comments.

1. That's the Bridgeport Brewery! They make their pizza crusts with beer yeast! I've been there! OMG they put the Leverage Inc. offices behind the Bridgeport! Hah!

2. Nate, the NHPA does not say anything about non-Americans being forbidden from purchasing historic artifacts! WTF. Figures the show would cite one of the laws I know a great deal about, and still get it wrong! (Although it was a kick to see him say the whole thing "National Historic Preservation Act of 1966"...)

Okay, and I also love the way Eliot's completely spun up about the restaurant business.

That only came up as part of Nate's tale to the mark, though, as I remember it. Not a context in which he needs to be accurate, exactly.

Not a context in which he needs to be accurate, exactly.

You are of course correct.

I was more concerned about a certain very entertaining lawyer-centric show in which bitcoin was portrayed as illegal. It is possible that if treasury cared they could make a case (though more likely as a security than as a currency) but the U.S. Treasury, quite sensibly, has other priorities than fringe alternative currencies in limited circulation. Same reason they don't go after labor banks. IANAL, so I don't know whether or not they have a basis to go after them if they want to. But I'm pretty sure that they simply are not that interested.

So Michael was being a massive asshole, including towards his brother. I'm assuming that was to set up extra guilt at Nate's death and Fiona's release and its price (did she go into prison in that dress? Does she own underwear?) but there's this never-ending escalation of people behind the people who're behind the people who are controlling the people...is he working his way up the chain to the devil?

I do not buy Jeffrey Donovan's emotional acting--he seems to redden in place of emoting, pop blood vessels instead of using facial muscles. On the other hand--Sharon Fucking Gless. That was perfect grieving mother with a son who got in over his head getting involved in the shady life of her other son.

eta: What are they talking about on Royal Pains? Didn't Worf get married to Dax on DS9?

Does she own underwear?

She probably had to use it to construct a weapon in prison.

ita I don't watch Royal Pains, but yes Worf and Dax married on DS9.