Leverage: Redemption – The Cooling Off the Mark Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Cooling Off the Mark Job
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Although the pieces of the story feel about awkwardly stitched together, “The Cooling Off the Mark Job” offers fun moments as Hurley (Drew Powell) returns after his own con went sideways to help the team deal with their own mark (Alex Boniello) who stole $3 million from a church including $1 million the team hasn’t yet recovered. While initially there to just help Clay cool off, and recover the rest of the church’s missing funds, Hurley empathizes with Clay especially after learning what, or more specifically who, the stolen money was for.

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Justice League Unlimited #8

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With the world in peril and Gorilla Grodd, now enhanced with Darkseid’s Omega Energy, and his Legion of Doom near victory, Air Wave recruits heroes from across time and space to help stop the villain offering an enjoyable end to the arc (although there will apparently be plenty of aftermath to clean up in the issues to come). This leads to an overload of heroes hitting the Watchtower leading to some fun comic panels.

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Countdown – Teeth in the Bone / Dead Lots of Times

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  • Title: Countdown – Teeth in the Bone / Dead Lots of Times
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The death of a Homeland Security Officer (Heroes‘ Milo Ventimiglia) with access to the Port of Los Angeles launches a joint task force made up of LAPD, FBI, and DEA who are brought to get to the truth of why the officer was killed and what has just been smuggled into the United States. Believing anyone could be corrupt, FBI Special Agent Nathan Blythe (Eric Dane) puts together a crew of talented agents known for doing the right thing even to the detriment of their own careers including LAPD Detective Mark Meachum (Jensen Ackles) and DEA Special Agent Amber Oliveras (Jessica Camacho) for their undercover experience and connections, FBI Special Agent Keyonte Bell (Elliot Knight) for his experience with terrorist threats, LAPD Detective Lucas Finau (Uli Latukefu) for his experience with narcotics and smuggling, and fresh-eyed FBI Special Agent Evan Shepherd (Violett Beane) for her technical skills.

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The Holcroft Covenant

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  • Title: The Holcroft Covenant
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Adapted from the Robert Ludlum novel, 1985’s The Holcroft Covenant is a convoluted affair starring Michael Caine as the American son of one of Adolf Hitler’s top aides. Noel Holcroft’s birthday triggers a plan his father, and two other Nazi officers, created in the wanning days of World War II. Money put aside in 1945, along with four decades of interest, is to be turned over to Noel and the sons of the other two officers (Anthony Andrews and Michael Lonsdale) to disperse as they please as reparations for WWII.

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