Leverage: unknown episode

I watched a bit of this on Channel 27 - it was supposed to be an episode of Bones but instead it's leverage.

Leverage is a reboot of Mission Impossible - you've got the fight expert, male and white, the electronics expert, black, the thief, blond white woman named Parker, the bad actress on the stage good actress in real life conwoman, and the mastermind played by Jim Hutton.

So the black guy is buried alive in a coffin in a cemetery.  The mastermind and the fighter drive up to a van that has two villains. The fighter knocks out one guy, removes the clip from his auto-pistol...and then drops the pistol on the ground to go fight, bare-handed, against the second of the two goons, who is apparently also a good fighter.

SO mastermind and the two women run around looking for the newly turned earth. The guy who'd been knocked out wakes up, takes a clip from his pocket, reloads the pistol that the idiot fighter had just dropped on the ground, and goes after them, forcing them to take cover behind some headstones.

So Parker, the blond thief, runs out of cover, turning somersaults and various gymnastics as she dives from cover to cover before coming up behind the guy with the gun and knocking him out. What utter, utter bilge water.

There's a reason why people sprinting in a race do so on their two legs, not turning somersaults along the way. That's a tremendous waste of time and would make her a sitting duck more than anything else.

But the major problem with this episode is of course the gun. If you have a villain with a gun, and you take the gun away from the villain, don't just take out the clip and drop the gun on the ground. No! You keep hold of the gun, and turn it on the two villains and tell them to put their hands up.

But, of course, if our character had been smart enough to do this - there would have been no "exciting" fight scene, and no "exciting" shooting scene, and no opportunity for Parker to do her gymnastics stuff.

Still, it was stupid.