Leland Healy "Lee" Turbo is one of the two overreaching protagonists (alongside Rod Redline) of Disney•Pixar's 49th full-length animated feature film Cars 2: Escape To World. He is one of many agents and the ex-partner of Finn McMissile.
He was voiced by Jason Isaacs who also voices Siddeley in the same movie. Isaacs also plays Lucius Malfoy in Harry Potter and voices The Inquisitor in Star Wars Rebels.
Biography[]
He is seen in the beginning of Cars 2 in a room on one of the Lemons' oil rigs, sending Finn a video message that he has uncovered crucial information about their destructive camera device. Leland stops recording his video when he sees the shadows of Grem and Acer about to enter the room. When Finn arrived at the rally point, he tried to contact Leland saying that he had arrived but Leland doesn't say anything and all Finn gets is static from the other end. All of the sudden, Grem shows Professor Z a compacted red metal cube, revealing (as Finn watches) that they have crushed the spy after discovering him.
The crushing of him is likely part of the Lemons' crimes after their arrest in London.
Quotes[]
- "This is Agent Leland Turbo. I have a flash transmission for Agent Finn McMissile
- "Finn, my cover's been compromised. Everything's gone pear-shaped"
- "You won't believe what I found out here. This is bigger than anything we've ever seen, and no one even knows it exists! Finn, I need backup, but don't call the cavalry, it could blow the operation. And be careful. It's not safe out here."
- "Transmitting my grids now. Good luck!"
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Trivia[]
- He is the first character whose "corpse" has been seen after his death, with the second being Fred Pacer.
- He is also the only secret agent whose weaponry and gadgets are not seen.
- It is possible that his death is a reference to the James Bond film Goldfinger in which a man is shot inside a car, which is in turn compacted into a cube.
- According to his official biography, Leland's model is the fictitious 1965 Runwell-Type SR. His design suggests the early-1960s hardtop Jaguar E-Type and the Austin Healey roadsters from the same era. As such, he largely resembles David Hobbscap and other E-Types appearing in the film.
- When Leland's remains are shown, his license plate is revealed as 63 TRBO, a likely reference to the year Jason Isaacs was born. It also includes most of his surname, excepting the "u".
- While both Leland and Professor Z pronounce his name as "Lee-land," Finn pronounces it as "Lay-land."
- His destruction recalls WALL•E's compacting and the trash compactor at Monsters, Inc.
- LEGO included a cubed version of Leland in its 2012 playset "Oil Rig Escape." In Cars 2, he dies when Acer and Grem compact him. However, the LEGO version shows his eyes, suggesting that he survived his compacting in the LEGO universe.
- His name is most likely based on Leyland Motors, a now defunct British vehicle manufacturer.
- There was a deleted scene where Leland's death was shown. In it, he was named "Agent Healy" and has a different design.
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