History Headscratchers / Leverage

** Honestly, I think you may all be over-thinking this. We don't see a lot of good rich people on the show for one very simple reason: a good rich person, by definition, isn't doing the kinds of things that attracts the team's attention.

* I can understand how Latimer managed to figure out that the team would after all the companies explicitly named that he bet against, except Ernshaw Pharmaceuticals. There was no way he knew they were going to run a con against that company, heck the team didn’t even know they were going to run a con against that company until Parker came to them telling them that something was suspicious about the trial she had jury duty for. Did Latimer and Dubenich guess that Ernshaw Pharmaceuticals would end up on their radar eventually?

** It's Hollywood, and even among such, the writers seem to get their ethics from [[UpToEleven Occupy]]. The idea that economic might actually be a lot of interrelated things doesn't occur; the so-called BlackAndGreyMorality is in fact simply large business=EVIL.

** I sincerely doubt the Leverage team would leave a company so thoroughly destroyed it has to liquidate and fire people left and right- it would go against everything they do. They probably leave measures in place so that a new, better person can take over. Eliot is by far the hardest on members of the mafia and hired hits, people who WILL kill him. Security and the pink-shirted men who get their clothes stolen (seriously- two men in pink shirts at least!) only get knocked out, and Eliot is supposed to be very, very, ''very'' skilled- he probably only hits them hard enough and in just the right spot to knock the out- no more, no less. And they ''are'' bad guys- they frame people for things they never did all the time. Just because the crimes are related to what they were hired for doesn't make it right. Take "The 15 Minutes Job" for example- the mark is mostly just your garden variety douche, rather small potatoes compared to Monica Hunter even though they do the same thing. Later they find he killed his prom date while driving drunk and framed his friend for it. So what do they do? Build him up as a great vigilante and public hero, then rip him down by framing him for an additional DUI which he ran from, and provide evidence to the police that he committed the first DUI. Two counts of murder. Nate fully intended to use a child to get to his scheming father in "The Fairy Godparents Job" and wanted Sophie to just leave him once he fulfilled his usefulness in getting his dad out of the house. At the end of the first season, Sophie did exactly what Dubenich did at the start- used Nate's son's death selfishly. In her case, she wanted to target Blackpoole to get the First David, with Nate's revenge as just a nice plus. Her doing that forced the team to break up. They're not good people- they're just ''noble''. They care about justice, but not the truth. It's the end, not the means that matter.

* In "The Fairy Godparents Job" the headmaster of a school suddenly disappears on a trip abroad for a couple of weeks, and the result is...some new head from outside the school gets brought in to take over for the duration? Is this a normal thing in America? Don't your schools have a deputy head or equivalent who would handle things while the head is away?

** This actually helped answer a Headscratcher I was going to post until I read yours: it was done to throw Chaos off the trail[[note]]My Headscratcher would have been "Why wouldChaos believe Sophie was dead if they held a funeral for one of her aliases since he knew exactly who he was targeting?"[[/note]]. They needed to convince whoever sent the bomb that they had killed Sophie, because that who they were targeting. The funeral was held for Catherine for the sake of the people who knew her as such but the headstone was placed in order to send a message to the bomber that they had succeeded.