While working a con on a corrupt county judge Judge Roy in the small desert town Juan, the team gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery. Nate and Sophie are taken as hostage, along with their mark. Now, they must not only find a way to keep their own con going without being discovered, but also figure out how to help desperate - and very amateur - armed robbers Derek and Michael Clark.
The fictional small town, Juan, is located in California's Imperial Valley, located along the California/Mexico border, east of San Diego. The Imperial Valley is a rich agricultural area, as well as popular recreational and tourist destination. Naval Air Field El Centro is the winter home of the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, The Blue Angels.
This episode was originally intended to run mid-season, and was designed to show how the team had become a cohesive unit.
The episode contains the iconic line "Sometimes bad guys are the only good guys you get." which is delivered by Parker.
The episode also features the introduction of hapless FBI Special Agents Taggert and McSweeten. Originally, we were to meet them in "The Wedding Job", which was produced to be broadcast before this episode, but was later moved back in the schedule.
This episode was the series first "bottle episode", where the majority of the episode takes place on one set, in this case, the bank interior and exterior. This is also the first episode where Parker, Hardison and Eliot operate on their own while Nate and Sophie are trapped in the bank, eventually off comms.
activity" along the Mexican border. A chupacabra is a mythical bi-pedal dragon-like creature believed to drink the blood of goats and other livestock (thus the name, which means "goat sucker".) Chupacabras are said to be roughly the size of a small bear, with a forked tongue, dark spots, and long spines down the back. Much like reports of the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot in other regions, reports of chupacabra sightings occur regularly from the southwestern US and Mexico to Central and South America, but cannot be substantiated.
This episode gave rise to a Leverage in-joke, known as "black box/ledger". It is designed to identify elements used in the show that are not real but seem to be (ledger) versus those are real but don't seem likely to be (black box). In one scene, Parker is able to get into the old bank building by crawling through a night
depository conduit that supposedly was large enough for customers to submit ledgers with their night deposits -- except there never was such a practice and therefore, no need for such large conduits, much to the writers' surprise. In a later episode, they featured a jet's flight data recorder (aka its "black box"), which was colored orange. Many viewers believed the coloration was erroneous, but it is accurate (the color improving the box's visibility in deep water.) The black box/ledger joke developed in the writers room and was eventually passed on to fans via Rogers' blog.
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