It seems like this explanation of how the team makes money just evaporated during the first season. Actually it never made complete sense to me. After Hardison shorted the mark's company and scored a huge insider-trading payday, Nate gave away all his cut except enough to buy "an electric car" (a Tesla/Lotus roadster), but still has enough money two season later to bankroll a big con. Hardison and Sophie spent at least a big chunk of theirs. Occasional references are made to the individuals taking private jobs between episodes, but nothing concrete really. We see some evidence that Sophie could be slowly selling off her old thefts. Hardison must collect some rent from McRory's (and, perhaps, from Nate), but it can't be much compared to expenses.

They give money back to their clients as part of almost every job. They paid Tara a "cut" of every job she worked. Hardison appears to spend big money on toys (and Lucille, and Lucille 2.0) Did I just miss it when they've told us where all the money is coming from for equipment, vacation-bribes, and Nate's booze budget ?

In Season 2 - Episode 3 - The Order 23 job - When the mark is trying to escape from the hospital, he tasers Parker in the back. It is later showed that she was wearing protective gear and was not affected. The protective gear is only around her middle back. What would they have done if the mark decided to taser her in the neck or butt or someplace else? 😂😂

Yes I know, its a stupid question. But I got this in my mind, when I was rewatching and cannot stop laughing. Also, I have no one who shares my love for Leverage.. So tag, you guys are it!

"I come here, with the hopes and dreams of the Venezuelan people, to trade" he's so sweet, so earnest, if not a little naive, we need more people like him in real life

Hi all! I love the original Leverage, I rewatch it yearly but I get nervous about watching revival shows because I’m worried it will ruin the OG show for me. Without any spoilers please, would someone who watched both let me know if they think it’s worth it to watch both or leave my Leverage knowledge as it is? Thank you!

First know that people have probably asked this before, but what is reddit for if not for fans of things to argue about things they love.

I know it would be a bit dark for the show. What is someone, say a member of one of the international team, goes off the reservation (do people still use that term or am I just old?) and starts killing. They use the contacts and resources of the organization to hunt down and kill people instead of just robbing them.

It would be a pretty easy set up. One of the teams gets caught of killed. The remaining member or members decide, "Fuck it, I'm going to kill the guy." Could have it be Quinn or someone they helped in the past as a fun throw back. It would also be a way to look at the long-term effects of what they do.

I just think it would be an interesting couple of episodes story, but what do you think?

What is your bad guy pitch?

I have done multiple rewatch marathons but sometimes I have to skip the opening scene because I hate the part where someone is getting pushed around or stolen from. Does anyone else do this?

Wouldn’t they have heard him in the scuffle killing Beck over the earbuds if it was him. Is this just an oversight by the writers?

We saw one of Sophie's apartments (before Chaos blew it up), and saw her house in Redemption.

In the moldy episode, we saw Parker's place. I don't think she still lives like that, but I'm sure it's something similar. Just maybe with windows now.

And Hardison seems to live in the buildings they use as HQ. IIRC their first HQ before he got them the office in Boston was his apartment.

But did we ever see any place Eliot lived? I'm just curious what the aesthetic is. I'm sure it's got a large kitchen. But is he the type to display his swords, or keep them in a hidden room behind the closet? Is there a gym bag in his living room? Is it an industrial loft or would he want something more rustic? And smaller windows so a sniper can't get him.

I'm rewatching Leverage TOS (realized I missed some S2 eps along the way, so glad I'm rewatching).

In this episode, Nate is right in the mark's face early on (during the TV show taping) but later on at least two occasions Nate plays other roles and escapes being recognized (by the mark) when he most certainly should have been recognized. (example, the fortune-teller-in-the-alley scene with Tara)

I suppose I could go back and look at the credits for this and various other eps, to compare writers/directors/etc. but I'm curious about opinions here as to why this aspect was so sloppy in this particular episode.

EDIT: Maybe I should have written "Big head scratcher" instead. The writers are usually *very* good at showing us that every little thing is important, i.e. there are no "little things".

Watching a Sterling ep (Queens Gambit job) and it got me wondering, would Sterling work as either an advisory or reluctant partner with the crew we have now?

For me as an advisory, he is a bit to OP and really would not take all that much for him to come out on top. For a win would take everything that got to just scrape themselves a win. It would need to be a season long arch for it to work.

As a reluctant partner, it would fall apart right away, He really needs someone like Nate around to be the buffer. There is no way that either Eliot or Harry could bride that gap as personalities are vastly different.

But, for me, there is no way that his character could work as the feel that made him work in TOS is nowhere near the feel that has been created in LR are noticeably different. Where it would be nice to see him again

I often go to NOLA and have walked through multiple sets of Leverage in town and in Algiers. i don't know why the show doesn't appeal to me but it seems that those who watch it love it. Is it worth the investment in time? Shoudl I skip a season/seasons and go straight to Leverage?

Sorry if this is a common theory; it just occurred to me and I found it really satisfying to think about.

In S2E6 of Redemption, Eliot tells his dad that when he was in the military, "They put me in a special unit," which seems like a super-weird way to describe making it into a normal special operations unit.

It's a TOTALLY NORMAL way, however, to say that you got Treadstoned when the Army figured out you were unusually athletic and not really in touch with anyone outside the military. It would explain why Eliot can dodge bullets, take on multiple trained fighters at once, learn how to play hockey in a week, never need a hospital, not have CTE from all the head trauma, and, most unbelievably to my decript 39yo ass, do that stuff into his LATE FORTIES without needing help getting out of bed in the morning and being completely unable to get his arms higher than his shoulders. He should be hobbling around the little cabaret headquarters chasing his painkillers with bourbon and bragging about all his joint replacements. Makes no sense if he was just in Delta Force or w/e, makes buckets of sense if he got some kind of fifth-generation version of that shit they gave Captain America.

Idk it fits with my theory that Hardison can do actual magic but doesn't know it. It's canon to me now.

I never watched Homeland but recently a friend recommended it. About 11 minutes into the first episode, Morena Baccarin's character enters her daughter's room and there is a poster on the wall that looked oddly familiar. I had to stop it and find the image. It must be a promo shot for Kane band, but it is definitely him. How did this happen? :)

I know Leverage can kinda get fantastical with some of the ways the team handles the bad guys. But, I guess I never really questioned how real the bad guys are?

I recently saw a tiktok where a farmer confirmed that he owns the right to plant his corn seeds but he doesn't own the genetics to his corn.

He said that a company could rightfully come, dig up the corn, test to see if it's their strain and then sue the farmer😀 like whattt?

so just finished my first binge of Leverage/Redemption,and damn this is such a good show..idk if it’s the little thief in my younger life that wants to come out(it was minor stuff like phones..but the students always got it back!) So I guess I’m Parker🤣. But in all honesty I’m glad they take breaks between seasons cause if this was ended sooner like nah I would break down

I started rewatching the show "Leverage" and I remember why I love this show so much. Getting back at greedy corporations and corrupt governments. A refreshing watch during these times

Censored because that word can flag. I can literally hear her say it but I cannot for the life of me remember where/when. Now I'm doubting she ever said it was Nate.

hi all, does anyone have a link to an active leverage discord server? if not, would anyone be interested in joining one?

Does anyone know if a practical real life system for endless communication like the leverage team uses?

I'm not talking about Bluetooth headphones, or walkie talkies. Anything noticeable.

Over half of the disc's won't load. I got all 5 seasons, and disc's 2&3 of season 2 and all of seasons 4&5 won't load. Season 2 ones will at least show the dont copywrite screen and then get stuck with black screen, unable to go to menu. Seasons 4&5 won't even load at all. And the dvds aren't even damaged, no scratches or anything I can tell to explain why. It's not my player (xbox) bc the other disc's work fine.

So frustrated, I just wanted to see deleted scenes and gag reels and commentary and have a physical copy of my favorite show. And now there's nothing.

Just needed to vent. Anyone else wanna commiserate? Talk about favorite eps, scenes?

//edit: potentially found the problem. All dvd cases show region 4 and I'm in the USA, however I would think if that was the problem, all wouldn't work instead of some?

Parker has a lighter and holds it up to a wall. The paint is revealed to be fresh. Parker then breaks open the fresh drywall to ahidden space.

Which episode is this?

I keep getting this ad on Instagram and I can't get over this mans last name. It sounds straight up like an alias that Nate would have had on a job. It's giving Jimmy Papadokalis.

This show came out when I was in high-school and I became obsessed. I've rewatched it a million times and I swear it's rewritten my brain chemistry. For example I use a 'Roman room' for all of my passwords. I also always look down at shoes when meeting strangers to see if they put the vibe they're selling. I want to know what ways this show has influenced you in how you protect yourself.

Asking for personal reasons because A. it's hard to find shows on physical media these days, B. I want a way to give it to my friends who've seen Leverage but not Redemption yet but not have to buy them a Prime subscription or something and C. it took stumbling upon it on ION for me to have the opportunity to watch it because back when S1 originally came out I didn't because back when Freevee was IMDB TV I didn't understand that it was a free streaming service and if I could get Leverage: Redemption on physical media then I'd have it more easily accessible to watch and rewatch (and that'd be true even if my family wasn't debating stopping using Prime, as imho if you have the choice it's easier to notice and potentially watch a DVD taking up physical space than to make the effort to navigate the interface of a streaming service to find a show)

I'm sorry if I'm rambling but TL;DR is there or is there going to be a way I can watch Leverage: Redemption via some sort of physical release?

The five seasons actually took almost five years to finish, but we just completed the last episode.

To be honest, I started when she was too young to really understand what was going on. But I guess I couldn't wait to share it with her, so we watched a few episodes here and there.

Eventually, she started asking for it. Then she started asking about what the all the characters did and how they did it. Then she started getting invested in the episodes. Then she started asking for the show as a thing for us to do. We ended up watching the first two seasons through twice before we could move on to the third because she kept wanting to go back.

She full on sobbed during the finale. She kept asking if they were really dead, if this was how it ended, and why would they kill all of them. Then she was so excited by Parker taking over as the mastermind!

We haven't watched Leverage Redemption yet. I didn't want to watch it until we finished our watch through, but I told her that it existed. She was adamant that she wouldn't watch it because she only likes this show. After the episode finished, she said that we had to start agaim from the beginning because she can't remember every episode and that she's changed her mind and wants to watch the new show too.

So we start our rewatch tomorrow...after we watch the first episode of Redemption :)

This painting has appeared throughout both series in galleries, private offices, vaults... Is it an Easter egg or just the set designers using what they have?

Omg OMG! I can't believe I didn't see this till now (must be my 80th rewatch lol). The job the crew is doing in Japan during The Broken Wing Job involves a golden monkey statue (Sophie is carrying it in the intro scene) as well as a monkey in a box (Hardison is bonding with it). In the first season, during The Two Horse Job, Elliott has a flashback to being dragged through a prison where they scream at him, "Where is the monkey?!" Did they finish some long ago quest of Elliot's in the background of this episode and not even mention it to us?! 🤯🤯🤯

Someone verify this and get excited with me! This is my favorite show 💕🥰💗