The Rolling on the River Job Trivia Quiz

Answer: Ava and Lenore Petipas

Lenore and Ava are a grandmother and granddaughter in New Orleans who are threatened with eviction. Sophie and Harry visit them after Ava, 16, posts a message on Tik Tok about her plight. The bank created a phony line of credit in order to create a pretense for taking their home.

The company trying to take their house was called the Clamshell Corporation, which turns out to be owned by a former congressman. In the end, Sophie and Harry are able to give the Petipas family the deed to their home, as well as gaining their neighborhood historical preservation status in order to ward off future predators.

Lenore was played by Summer Selby. The Chicago native has been working in films and television since 1990. Ava was played by Emani White. Her other acting credit was in "NCIS: New Orleans" in 2020.

Answer: Austin Chaudry

Austin Chaudry is a former congressman who resigned after charges of corruption. He has a riverboat casino called The Mississippi Pearl. Chaudry hopes to expand his casino operations onto land along the river, and to do so, he is buying up homes along the river front.

Chaudry was played by Piter Marek. He has been acting since 2002, starting out as a CIA agent on "The Grid" (2004). His other credits include "Ugly Betty" (2009) and "The Blacklist" (2015-17).

Billy Barnes is the corrupt city bureaucrat who is helping Chaudry with his condemnation schemes. Lloyd Van Winkle is the honest gambling commissioner. Marc Roskin directed "The Rolling on the River Job" episode. Roskin is also one of the executive producers for "Redemption."

Answer: riverboat casino

Sophie once again gets to say the "Let's steal" line. In this case, the target is a riverboat casino owned by Chaudry. The team hopes to rob enough money from the casino so that they can't pay out to gamblers, which would threaten their gambling license. If Chaudry loses his gambling license, he cannot expand his operations.

Answer: A gun club

The meet at a gun club, where Parker has been shooting with the gaming commissioner. They set up the initial con by introducing Parker to Chaudry, who claims to be competing with him for a gambling license. They have a friendly shooting competition, which Parker wins when Harry swaps out an unbreakable pigeon for Chaudry to shoot at.

Answer: Belle Saint Clair

Parker is schmoozing with gaming commissioner Lloyd Van Winkle when we first she her as Belle Saint Clair. Harry claims she is a hotel heiress with holdings around the world, who is now seeking to set up a hotel and casino in New Orleans. Parker claims that the Saint Claires have been in New Orleans since Louisiana was part of France (over 200 years).

Parker enters the casino in a ridiculous poofy dress, under which she plans to hide the money they steal from the vault. That plan falls through when the vault has much more cash than they anticipated.
The dress was created by Lenore.

Alice Walker is a very common alias used by Parker. Blanche DuBois is from "A Streetcar Named Desire," the New Orleans based play. Daisy Buchanan is from "The Great Gatsby."

Answer: Shreveport

Breanna has to do some high speed hacking to establish Eliot's background as a police officer. The hitter claims to have lost his badge when he got too involved in the case of "The Shreveport Strangler." There is a real criminal, Danny Rolling, who committed multiple homicides in Shreveport in 1990 and did strangle several victims in Florida.

Answer: A whale hunter (gambling, not fishing)

Sophie's grifter character is Valerie Davis, who seeks out big time gamblers, colloquially known in the industry as whales. Chaudry attempts to convince her to switch over to his side, and bring some gamblers into his river boat casino. She brings the whales, but their luck doesn't go the way Chaudry hoped for.

Answer: Russian mafia

It turns out that muscle in suits are members of the Russian Mafia who are protecting their investment. Eliott discovers this from tattoos on the muscle guys when he knocks them out. Chaudry has been working for a shadowy character named Dimitri,

Chaudry has literally tens of millions in Russian mob money in his vault, far more than Parker can smuggle out under her dress. Breanna comes up with a brilliant physics based solution to their problem. They managed to steal the money by going through the floor of the vault, and floating the money using life vests.

Answer: blackjack

Sophie's players start out losing at blackjack, then shift to winning in order to force Chaudry's hand when it turns out he doesn't have enough money to cover the casino's play. According to Sophie, the whales won almost $2 million.

Sophie manages to get Chaudry to admit there was a rigged game in the casino in front of the gaming commissioner. Which is the least of the former congressman's worries, as he has a very angry Russian mob boss he has to answer to.

Answer: Parker

Who else? Parker, the greatest thief in the world.

Parker, played by Beth Riesgraf, was established as the world's greatest thief during the original run of the series. In "Redemption" she managed to steal eight Rembrandts and 20 million dollars in bearer bonds in just the first two episodes.

Stealing the pearl from the riverboat was simply icing on the cake.