Title	The Two Live Crew Job
Season	2
Episode	7
Airdate	August 26, 2009
Written by	Amy Berg John Rogers
Directed by	Dean Devlin
Guests	Griffin Dunne Wil Wheaton Noa Tishby Apollo Robbins
Previous episode	The Top Hat Job
Next episode	The Ice Man Job
Episode list	Season 2

“	It's still your city, Nate. I'm just going to take her out for one night of cheap fun.	”
— Marcus Starke

When Nate and his crew try to recover a piece of holocaust artwork, they must by square off against a band of thieves (Marcus Starke, Colin "Chaos" Mason, Mikel Dayan and Apollo). Complicating matters: Sophie must fake her own death when one of the new crew in town sends her a bouquet of flowers hiding a bomb.

Contents 1 Clients 2 Marks 3 Aliases 4 Cons and Scams Used 5 Artwork Featured in the Episode 5.1 Painting of a woman (Gustav Klimt) 5.2 "Café on a Moonlit Terrace" (Vincent Van Gogh) 6 Notes 7 Trivia 8 References 9 Comments

ClientsEdit

Ezra and Olivia Mercer, who are the children of a holocaust victim, attempting to recover a painting by Klimt that was stolen from their family during World War II. The Mercers have tracked the painting for a lengthy period of time, before attempting to recover it. Now in the possession of a wealthy Boston businessman, their attempts to assert ownership of the painting have failed as the businessman is able to use money and influence to retain ownership.

MarksEdit

Initially, the businessman in possession of the Mercers' painting. When the painting us is stolen by a crew headed by Marcus Starke, who also plans to steal a Van Gogh painting from a Boston auction house, they become the team's marks.

AliasesEdit

• Nathan Ford - Detective Marlowe
• Sophie Devereaux - Detective Archer/Katherine Clive
• Marcus Starke - Nathan Ford
• Parker - Officer Williams (Massachusetts State Police
• Alec Hardison - Officer Pierce (Massachusetts State Police

Cons and Scams UsedEdit

• The Mona Lisa Con

Artwork Featured in the EpisodeEdit

The episode features two paintings, one a fictional Klimt and the other a genuine Van Gogh. The Klimt is a piece of Holocaust art, a painting stolen from a wealthy Jewish family during World War II.

Painting of a woman (Gustav Klimt)Edit

Gustav Klimt, an Austrian painter active in the late 19th and early 20th century, was known for his paintings of women in the style of the symbolists. Klimt was a founder of the Vienna Secession, a loose confederation of young Viennese artists, who painted in a variety of styles. By 1900, Klimt's work largely featured women, often portrayed as mythological or allegorical figures in the manner of the day's Art Deco movement. Klimt favored a mixed media approach for many of his works, blending oil paint and gold leaf, giving the appearance of mosaic to his paintings.

Although the painting featured in the episode is not a real one, it borrows from such works as Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I (painted in 1907) one of Klimt's known works. Like the painting Nate and the team recovered in the episode, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I was stolen from Bloch-Bauer's widower by Nazis in the opening days of World War II. The painting eventually passed to Block-Bauer's niece along with four other looted Klimt paintings. Although Block-Bauer's wishes were that it be donated to a museum in Austria and remain available to the public, the painting was exhibited in Los Angeles in early 2006 before being sold in June 2006 for $135 million to the son of cosmetics magnate Estée Lauder. In November of that same year, the painting was sold again for $88 million to an anonymous buyer, and remains out of public view.

"Café on a Moonlit Terrace" (Vincent Van Gogh)Edit

Café on a Moonlit Terrace is one of Van Gogh's best known works. Painted in Arles, France in 1888, it features a small cafe on Arles' Place du Forum, which can still be visited today. This is the first of a group of paintings to feature starry night skies, the best known of which was his iconic "Starry Night", painted a year later. The painting currently hangs at the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands.

In a letter to his sister, Van Gogh described the setting:

“	An immense yellow lantern illuminates the terrace, the facade, the side walk and even casts light on the paving stones of the road which take a pinkish violet tone. The gables of the houses, like a fading road below a blue sky studded with stars, are dark blue or violet with a green tree. Here you have a night painting without black, with nothing but beautiful blue and violet and green and in this surrounding the illuminated area colours itself sulfur pale yellow and citron green.	”
— Vincent Van Gogh

NotesEdit

• This episode was originally intended to be the summer-season closer. However, TNT moved The Ice Man Job and The Lost Heir Job to summer because of the popularity of Leverage, and The Lost Heir Job became the summer finale instead.
• When Eliot and Mikel Dayan encounter one another for the first time in the gallery, the episode uses traditional imagery from Hong Kong-style martial arts films to show them fighting.
• This is the last episode where Sophie Devereaux plays an active role in the con prior to Gina Bellman's maternity leave.
• This was the first episode where a mark does not appear on screen. The mark was a "Mr. North", and his only appearance was a photo in a magazine article.
• Elle Poindexter, who plays the receptionist at Montcraft and Associates, is Timothy Hutton's assistant on the show.
• The headstone on Sophie's grave originally read "Katherine Clive". She had it changed to "Sophie Devereaux" when she decided to leave the group to find who she really is.

Trivia Edit

• Nathan and Sophie use alias of Detective Marlowe and Archer, an homage to fictional literary detectives Phillip Marlowe and Lew Archer.
• Eliot wears a hat early in the episode to cover an injury to Christine Kane's forehead sustained while filming an earlier episode. During his fight with Mikel Dayan, Eliot is seen to injure his forehead, explaining Kane's very visible injury.
• Hardison mentions that Colin "Chaos" Mason (played by Wil Wheaton who was a regular cast member in Star Trek: The Next Generation) is referred to, in the CIA, as the Kobayashi Maru, referring to Star Trek's legendary unsolvable problem.
• Sophie points out that while Nate is the closest thing to a friend, he does not even know her real name.

References Edit