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Television Review: Leverage, "The Experimental Job"
by R.J. Carter
Published: November 26, 2011

Jonathan Keltz plays Travis Zilgram, a college student with friends in high places. He's also the current head of a secret society at the college, whose former members have included senators and presidents.

Jonathan's current program involves working with homeless vets, ostensibly to study post-traumatic stress disorder. But when one of his test subjects dies, and is summarily dumped, the subject's daughter comes to the Leverage team for help. But the con isn't without its price.

The team embeds itself on three levels: Nate Ford (Timothy Hutton) enters as a teacher, Alec Hardison and Parker (Aldis Hodge, Beth Riesgraf) as students -- and believe me, frat-house Hardison is just what you'd expect him to be! Meanwhile, Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) shows us the scariest side of him ever as he takes on the role of a homeless vet who gets tapped to participate in the experiment, and Sophie (Gina Bellman) teams up with a frustrated female police officer who is eager for Travis to go to jail and stay in jail. But Travis is well-protected, and his experiment isn't about resolving post-traumatic stress disorder at all, but is in fact something far more disturbing -- and for some very powerful people who are primed to become a very powerful enemy for Nate and his crew.

Leverage, "The Experimental Job" debuts on TNT, Sunday November 27 at 9pm ET.


 
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