This is my favorite Leverage episode. It's a murder mystery in the urbane comedy style of The Thin Man. Nate and Sophie (the rest of the team is away) put on a Nick and Nora Charles act at the scene of an art theft, tormenting straight-man Spencer who just can't get them to take him seriously as the Interpol agent he now is
The plot is as convoluted as a Dashiell Hammett mystery, further exasperating the put-upon Spencer with its multiple false "solutions", each of which undercut his having triumphantly taken credit for the previous "solution"
It's a fun and charming tribute to the urbane comedy-mystery genre that nicely advances the theme of Sophie and Nate becoming a couple.
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