Disturbing headline o' the day:

Tearful Atlanta Cops Express Remorse for Shooting 92-Year-Old Kathryn Johnston, Leaving Her To Bleed to Death in Her Own Home While They Planted Drugs in Her Basement, Then Threatening an Informant So He Would Lie To Cover It All Up

Tesler said when he joined the narcotics unit, he was told to “sit, watch and learn” from superiors who cut corners to meet performance quotas for arrests and warrants. “I was a new part and plugged into a broken system,” Tesler said.

Tesler said when he saw Smith about to plant baggies of marijuana inside Johnston’s home to make it look like a drug house, he shook his head in disapproval. Tesler said he falsified the police report and later lied about the raid because Smith told him to follow the cover-up script. Tesler said he wasn’t about to “rat” on a senior officer.

Okay, I think I'm starting to like Leverage. Nate definitely rocks my world.

Nate's actually the least favorite of the characters for me, even though I do think he's very interesting. Something about the father figure who kind of wants to drink himself to death even as he helps people just grates.

I think that's kinda spoilery, Perkins, because it states or implies that it persists through the season. I think. Fine line.

Sophie's my least favourite. She's a nag who lacks self-awareness, when she's not being cool. Hardison, Parker, and Eliot don't stop being cool.

You're right ita, and I edited it.

Sorry about that.

Sophie's my least favourite. She's

How much of that is because of the Nate/Sophie relationship? Because's that's always seemed to me the weakest part of the set-up, so I wonder if forcing it has negative effects on their characters more generally.

Hmmm. I see what you're saying about Nate, but those are the characters I like. It's one of the reasons I like Mad Men. Everyone is so thoroughly broken. And I agree about Sophie.

I think it's mostly that I feel like I've seen Nate before, and Sophie, but I haven't really seen the others, or at least not as often.

I'm assuming Sophie is like that, but it's true that the only time the parts of her personality that I don't like come up is when she's nagging Nate because of their relationship. Or maybe she'd nag any of the team members to fix them. She probably would. But it would probably go better, and it just hasn't come up.

Oh, something RL I remembered because The Stork Job just started: the wound on CK's face at the start of this episode is real--he messed himself up playing football on concrete in cowboy boots. And healed up lightning fast. Paid off with a great one-liner and a hell of a visual.