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* NotIllegalJustification: One of the challenges the Leverage team frequently faces is that the things the villains of the week are guilty of are often not even crimes under the law, something Nate often [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] in an episode's course.
** "The Beantown Bailout Job" has Nate specifically state that the local mob taking out bad loans, then defaulting on them, with the bank getting a big bailout check from the government isn't even illegal.
** "The Gold Job" has a BrotherSisterTeam of gold buyers who tell people to send them their gold and they'll send them a check. Except that they lowball the value of the gold and send them paltry checks. For most of the people, this means they have no choice but to take the check because by the time they get it, the item they sent in has already been melted down, and so they can't get a return on the money. Nate even notes to the client that it's all technically legal.
** "The Beantown Bailout Job" has Nate specifically state that the local mob taking out bad loans, then defaulting on them, with the bank getting a big bailout check from the government isn't even illegal.
** "The Gold Job" has a BrotherSisterTeam of gold buyers who tell people to send them their gold and they'll send them a check. Except that they lowball the value of the gold and send them paltry checks. For most of the people, this means they have no choice but to take the check because by the time they get it, the item they sent in has already been melted down, and so they can't get a return on the money. Nate even notes to the client that it's all technically legal.
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* TheShameless: The mark in "The Miracle Job" is completely shameless. In fact, when Sophie says as much to him, while posing as his publicist, he embraces her delightedly, saying, "Oh, you get me so well." He had hired a group of thugs to beat up a priest whose church he was trying to buy out so he could tear it down. And when the team's efforts to fake a miracle almost have him throwing in the towel, he suddenly has a bout of inspiration, and decides to revise his shopping center into "Bibletopia" instead.
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** Frequently inverted. Many episodes end with the crew maneuvering the VillainOfTheWeek into incriminating themselves, and law enforcement responding faster than realistically possible.
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* SecurityBlindspot:
** Season 3 begins with Nate going to prison, and subsequently finding someone for his team to help. Billy Epping didn't realize that crossing state lines with beer in his trunk was illegal, and was sentenced to a disproportionate sentence by a corrupt judge taking kickbacks from the even more corrupt warden. Epping was being targeted by gangs in the prison because he was found over the dead body of one of their members. Eliot notes that the body was found in a camera blind that only the prison guards should have known about. Nate and co. later exploit those same blinds to escape and make it look like Billy Epping had as well, only for the warden to have egg on his face when Epping is found safe in the prison with the other inmates. They also make it look like the warden took a bribe from Nate to let him go.
** "The Inside Job", when the team has to retrieve Parker from Wakefield Agriculture, a building guarded by a dreaded Steranko security system, Nate says they need to find a way to get in without tripping the alarms. Eliot suggests that corporate bigwigs might not be willing to sacrifice their privacy, and Hardison quickly discovers that he's right, and directs him to a corner office that he can enter from using the window washing apparatus.
** Season 3 begins with Nate going to prison, and subsequently finding someone for his team to help. Billy Epping didn't realize that crossing state lines with beer in his trunk was illegal, and was sentenced to a disproportionate sentence by a corrupt judge taking kickbacks from the even more corrupt warden. Epping was being targeted by gangs in the prison because he was found over the dead body of one of their members. Eliot notes that the body was found in a camera blind that only the prison guards should have known about. Nate and co. later exploit those same blinds to escape and make it look like Billy Epping had as well, only for the warden to have egg on his face when Epping is found safe in the prison with the other inmates. They also make it look like the warden took a bribe from Nate to let him go.
** "The Inside Job", when the team has to retrieve Parker from Wakefield Agriculture, a building guarded by a dreaded Steranko security system, Nate says they need to find a way to get in without tripping the alarms. Eliot suggests that corporate bigwigs might not be willing to sacrifice their privacy, and Hardison quickly discovers that he's right, and directs him to a corner office that he can enter from using the window washing apparatus.
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* SpyCatsuit: Parker makes frequent use of these, fitting her role as the teams thief.
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* SpyCatsuit: Parker makes frequent use of these, often wears black catsuits, fitting her role as the teams team's thief.
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* SpeakingUpForAnother: [[Recap/LeverageS01E11TheJurorNoSixJob The Juror Number Six Job]]": Everyone is cross with Parker for going rogue on missions, and to teach her a lesson, Nate forces her to go on Jury Duty when one of her aliases is called up. She discovers something untoward is happening during the trial, and tries to tell Nate, who is brusque and dismissive of her. Hardison points out that his Nana, a Jehovah's Witness, would put him and a suit and tie and tell him, "Alec, you need to talk to people." He reminds Nate that Parker never had that, never learned to socialize, and that as such, she's terrified of everyday interactions with people. He asks Nate to cut Parker some slack, and Nate has Eliot tag along with Parker, where he's forced to admit she was right, and the jury is being rigged.
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** In a HilariousOuttake version of "The Carnival Job", the PowerWalk is turned into a Slow-Mo Power "Skip." It is both awesome and hilarious.
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** In a HilariousOuttake version of "The Carnival Job", the PowerWalk TeamPowerWalk is turned into a Slow-Mo Power "Skip." It is both awesome and hilarious.
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* PowerWalk: Happens occasionally, with a nice long shot of the whole team. Most notably, in the middle of "The Carnival Job", which has the team walking out of the smoke in slow-mo. And it is ''awesome''.
** In a HilariousOuttake version of "The Carnival Job", the PowerWalk is turned into a Slow-Mo Power "Skip." It is both awesome and hilarious.
** In a HilariousOuttake version of "The Carnival Job", the PowerWalk is turned into a Slow-Mo Power "Skip." It is both awesome and hilarious.
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** Happens occasionally, with a nice long shot of the whole team. Most notably, in the middle of "The Carnival Job", which has the team walking out of the smoke in slow-mo. And it is ''awesome''.
** In a HilariousOuttake version of "The Carnival Job", the PowerWalk is turned into a Slow-Mo Power "Skip." It is both awesome and hilarious.
** Happens occasionally, with a nice long shot of the whole team. Most notably, in the middle of "The Carnival Job", which has the team walking out of the smoke in slow-mo. And it is ''awesome''.
** In a HilariousOuttake version of "The Carnival Job", the PowerWalk is turned into a Slow-Mo Power "Skip." It is both awesome and hilarious.
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** The team as a whole will typically drop anything and/or go to extreme lengths to help a child, each for their own reasons. Nate of course lost his son, Parker and Hardison both went through the foster system, Eliot [[spoiler:is strongly implied in the show to have killed children while working for Moreau and by word of god considers himself permanently damned as a result]], and Sophie's just really nice like that.
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* * NoodleImplements: Most of the scams mentioned by name -- i.e. the Cherry Pie, the London Spank, the Genevan Paso Doble, etc. -- many of which the team disagrees on the exact elements of. Only a few, based on cons with real names, are explained in detail (KansasCityShuffle, ViolinScam, etc.).
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Spelling is like the universe. Nothing comes before something. Spaces come before all the letters. Even A. Even zero. Even a hypothetical lumtner where A and 0 got drunk and made a baby.
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* NoodleImplements: Most of the scams mentioned by name -- i.e. the Cherry Pie, the London Spank, the Genevan Paso Doble, etc. -- many of which the team disagrees on the exact elements of. Only a few, based on cons with real names, are explained in detail (KansasCityShuffle, ViolinScam, etc.).
* NoodleIncident:
** We never find out exactly what happened to the people the team was helping at the end of "The Nigerian Job" or how the team helped them.
** The Sapphire Monkey, which Eliot was supposed to steal in North Korea. In "The Two-Horse Job," we see that he failed to acquire the Monkey, since he was being interrogated by two North Koreans who demanded to know where the Monkey was. Later on, in "The Rashomon Job," Eliot is given the task of stealing the Dagger of Aqu'abi because he failed to get the Monkey.
** In "The Bank Shot Job," we never find out the full details of the con at the beginning of the episode.
** In "The Order 23 Job", what the actual Order 23 is.
** What Nate did at the Russian border. (WordOfGod says that he [[spoiler: "may have technically hijacked a train."]])
** Lots of the unexplained cons fit under this, like the "Apple Pie," which is a "Cherry Pie" but with lifeguards.
** Sophie's "little royal scandal" in "The King George Job." [[spoiler: Later becomes a ResolvedNoodleIncident in Series/LeverageRedemption.]]
** One of the other retrieval specialists that Eliot runs into in "The Van Gogh Job" owes him $27,000 for something that happened in Singapore. All we know is that it involved a bass guitar belonging to Music/PaulMcCartney.
** What exactly it was the team did in Juarez.
** The time they stole a panda, as referenced in "The Boiler Room Job." WordOfGod has it that the team does a lot of complicated and interesting jobs that are not included in episodes...
** ...as we see in "The Cross My Heart Job" at the beginning, where the team is returning from a job in the Caribbean where all the earbuds and Hardison's laptop got wrecked, Hardison faked a volcanic eruption, Eliot apparently fought three combat divers with spear guns, underwater, on a shipwreck, and Sophie played a French heiress on a topless beach and getting heavily sunburnt as a result.
** In that same episode, Hardison is working without his usual setup and complains when Nate pressures him that no one is asking Eliot to fight a guy with a Nerf sword. To which Eliot responds: "Damascus, 2002."
** The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan while Parker is laid up in "[[Recap/LeverageS05E08TheBrokenWingJob The Broken Wing Job]]." It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his granddaughter, and a live monkey in a box.
*** WordOfGod is that this MAY have something to do with the aforementioned Sapphire Monkey.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Girls' Night Out Job," which is intercut with what the boys are doing, which includes being in a Mexican gang bar and then running from guard dogs. This is then explained in the following episode "The Boys' Night Out Job".
** How did Nate get those two thugs to knock each other out? "They had an argument" is all he will say.
* NoodleIncident:
** We never find out exactly what happened to the people the team was helping at the end of "The Nigerian Job" or how the team helped them.
** The Sapphire Monkey, which Eliot was supposed to steal in North Korea. In "The Two-Horse Job," we see that he failed to acquire the Monkey, since he was being interrogated by two North Koreans who demanded to know where the Monkey was. Later on, in "The Rashomon Job," Eliot is given the task of stealing the Dagger of Aqu'abi because he failed to get the Monkey.
** In "The Bank Shot Job," we never find out the full details of the con at the beginning of the episode.
** In "The Order 23 Job", what the actual Order 23 is.
** What Nate did at the Russian border. (WordOfGod says that he [[spoiler: "may have technically hijacked a train."]])
** Lots of the unexplained cons fit under this, like the "Apple Pie," which is a "Cherry Pie" but with lifeguards.
** Sophie's "little royal scandal" in "The King George Job." [[spoiler: Later becomes a ResolvedNoodleIncident in Series/LeverageRedemption.]]
** One of the other retrieval specialists that Eliot runs into in "The Van Gogh Job" owes him $27,000 for something that happened in Singapore. All we know is that it involved a bass guitar belonging to Music/PaulMcCartney.
** What exactly it was the team did in Juarez.
** The time they stole a panda, as referenced in "The Boiler Room Job." WordOfGod has it that the team does a lot of complicated and interesting jobs that are not included in episodes...
** ...as we see in "The Cross My Heart Job" at the beginning, where the team is returning from a job in the Caribbean where all the earbuds and Hardison's laptop got wrecked, Hardison faked a volcanic eruption, Eliot apparently fought three combat divers with spear guns, underwater, on a shipwreck, and Sophie played a French heiress on a topless beach and getting heavily sunburnt as a result.
** In that same episode, Hardison is working without his usual setup and complains when Nate pressures him that no one is asking Eliot to fight a guy with a Nerf sword. To which Eliot responds: "Damascus, 2002."
** The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan while Parker is laid up in "[[Recap/LeverageS05E08TheBrokenWingJob The Broken Wing Job]]." It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his granddaughter, and a live monkey in a box.
*** WordOfGod is that this MAY have something to do with the aforementioned Sapphire Monkey.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Girls' Night Out Job," which is intercut with what the boys are doing, which includes being in a Mexican gang bar and then running from guard dogs. This is then explained in the following episode "The Boys' Night Out Job".
** How did Nate get those two thugs to knock each other out? "They had an argument" is all he will say.
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* NoodleIncident:
** We never find out exactly what happened to the people the team was helping at the end of "The Nigerian Job" or how the team helped them.
** The Sapphire Monkey, which Eliot was supposed to steal in North Korea. In "The Two-Horse Job," we see that he failed to acquire the Monkey, since he was being interrogated by two North Koreans who demanded to know where the Monkey was. Later on, in "The Rashomon Job," Eliot is given the task of stealing the Dagger of Aqu'abi because he failed to get the Monkey.
** In "The Bank Shot Job," we never find out the full details of the con at the beginning of the episode.
** In "The Order 23 Job", what the actual Order 23 is.
** What Nate did at the Russian border. (WordOfGod says that he [[spoiler: "may have technically hijacked a train."]])
** Lots of the unexplained cons fit under this, like the "Apple Pie," which is a "Cherry Pie" but with lifeguards.
** Sophie's "little royal scandal" in "The King George Job." [[spoiler: Later becomes a ResolvedNoodleIncident in Series/LeverageRedemption.]]
** One of the other retrieval specialists that Eliot runs into in "The Van Gogh Job" owes him $27,000 for something that happened in Singapore. All we know is that it involved a bass guitar belonging to Music/PaulMcCartney.
** What exactly it was the team did in Juarez.
** The time they stole a panda, as referenced in "The Boiler Room Job." WordOfGod has it that the team does a lot of complicated and interesting jobs that are not included in episodes...
** ...as we see in "The Cross My Heart Job" at the beginning, where the team is returning from a job in the Caribbean where all the earbuds and Hardison's laptop got wrecked, Hardison faked a volcanic eruption, Eliot apparently fought three combat divers with spear guns, underwater, on a shipwreck, and Sophie played a French heiress on a topless beach and getting heavily sunburnt as a result.
** In that same episode, Hardison is working without his usual setup and complains when Nate pressures him that no one is asking Eliot to fight a guy with a Nerf sword. To which Eliot responds: "Damascus, 2002."
** The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan while Parker is laid up in "[[Recap/LeverageS05E08TheBrokenWingJob The Broken Wing Job]]." It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his granddaughter, and a live monkey in a box.
*** WordOfGod is that this MAY have something to do with the aforementioned Sapphire Monkey.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Girls' Night Out Job," which is intercut with what the boys are doing, which includes being in a Mexican gang bar and then running from guard dogs. This is then explained in the following episode "The Boys' Night Out Job".
** How did Nate get those two thugs to knock each other out? "They had an argument" is all he will say.
* NoodleIncident:
** We never find out exactly what happened to the people the team was helping at the end of "The Nigerian Job" or how the team helped them.
** The Sapphire Monkey, which Eliot was supposed to steal in North Korea. In "The Two-Horse Job," we see that he failed to acquire the Monkey, since he was being interrogated by two North Koreans who demanded to know where the Monkey was. Later on, in "The Rashomon Job," Eliot is given the task of stealing the Dagger of Aqu'abi because he failed to get the Monkey.
** In "The Bank Shot Job," we never find out the full details of the con at the beginning of the episode.
** In "The Order 23 Job", what the actual Order 23 is.
** What Nate did at the Russian border. (WordOfGod says that he [[spoiler: "may have technically hijacked a train."]])
** Lots of the unexplained cons fit under this, like the "Apple Pie," which is a "Cherry Pie" but with lifeguards.
** Sophie's "little royal scandal" in "The King George Job." [[spoiler: Later becomes a ResolvedNoodleIncident in Series/LeverageRedemption.]]
** One of the other retrieval specialists that Eliot runs into in "The Van Gogh Job" owes him $27,000 for something that happened in Singapore. All we know is that it involved a bass guitar belonging to Music/PaulMcCartney.
** What exactly it was the team did in Juarez.
** The time they stole a panda, as referenced in "The Boiler Room Job." WordOfGod has it that the team does a lot of complicated and interesting jobs that are not included in episodes...
** ...as we see in "The Cross My Heart Job" at the beginning, where the team is returning from a job in the Caribbean where all the earbuds and Hardison's laptop got wrecked, Hardison faked a volcanic eruption, Eliot apparently fought three combat divers with spear guns, underwater, on a shipwreck, and Sophie played a French heiress on a topless beach and getting heavily sunburnt as a result.
** In that same episode, Hardison is working without his usual setup and complains when Nate pressures him that no one is asking Eliot to fight a guy with a Nerf sword. To which Eliot responds: "Damascus, 2002."
** The con that the rest of the team is pulling off in Japan while Parker is laid up in "[[Recap/LeverageS05E08TheBrokenWingJob The Broken Wing Job]]." It apparently involved the theft of a gold monkey statue, a katana duel, Hardison dressing up as a general, Eliot pissing off the Emperor by putting the moves on his granddaughter, and a live monkey in a box.
*** WordOfGod is that this MAY have something to do with the aforementioned Sapphire Monkey.
** [[InvokedTrope Invoked]] in "The Girls' Night Out Job," which is intercut with what the boys are doing, which includes being in a Mexican gang bar and then running from guard dogs. This is then explained in the following episode "The Boys' Night Out Job".
** How did Nate get those two thugs to knock each other out? "They had an argument" is all he will say.
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* PrisonersDilemma: Discussed and invoked in "[[Recap/LeverageS04E11TheExperimentalJob The Experimental Job]]". Nate impersonates a college professor in the mark's psychology class and discusses the dilemma, reaching the conclusion that it's always best to betray your partner. Whether or not Nate believes this (he probably doesn't, at least with regards to the Leverage crew, given how the team would never betray each other) is irrelevant, since he was just [[spoiler:trying to subconsciously influence the mark to betray his government backers so they'd remove their protection]].
** A lot of people are really cautious of the team in later seasons. No one more than Sterling, though.
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* PrisonersDilemma: Discussed and invoked in "[[Recap/LeverageS04E11TheExperimentalJob The Experimental Job]]". Nate impersonates a college professor in the mark's psychology class and discusses the dilemma, reaching the conclusion that it's always best to betray your partner. Whether or not Nate believes this (he probably doesn't, at least with regards to the Leverage crew, given how the team would never betray each other) is irrelevant, since he was just [[spoiler:trying to subconsciously influence the mark to betray his government backers so they'd remove their protection]].
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** Because of some notoriety at the time, ''Leverage'' is one of several shows at the time to dedicate an episode not merely to forged wines, but to the Thomas Jefferson collection.
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* RelationshipUpgrade: At the end of season 3, [[spoiler:Parker and Hardison]] finally upgrade following the destruction of Moreau's bomb. Also, [[spoiler:Nate and Sophie]] end up in bed together.
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* RelationshipUpgrade: At the end of season 3, [[spoiler:Parker and Hardison]] finally upgrade following the destruction of Moreau's bomb. Also, [[spoiler:Nate and Sophie]] end up in bed together. They then spend the the fourth season developing that further until it's all nice and official for the fifth season.
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** Hardison makes several references to his "mama" in the first couple of episodes. From "The Mircale Job" onward, he references "Nana" instead, and in "The Stork Job" it's confirmed that he has no mama, just his adopted Nana.
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** Hardison makes several references to his "mama" in the first couple of episodes. From "The Mircale Miracle Job" onward, he references "Nana" instead, and in "The Stork Job" it's confirmed that he has no mama, just his adopted Nana.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: SmartPeopleBuildRobots: Resident hacker and electronic wizard Hardison builds Parker, the team's thief, a robot he names after her which can crack a safe even faster than she can. She's resistant to the gift at first, but after he explains it was inspired *by* her, she embraces it and tells him she's going to rename it "Hardy" after him.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess:
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** "The Bank Shot Job": This is wrongfully assumed to be the case. The team are trying to pull a con on the corrupt Judge Roy when the bank they are in is taken hostage by a father and son duo who need money to save the mother from drug dealers. Roy gets into a struggle with the father for the gun and accidentally shoots Nate in the shoulder, causing a panicked Sophie to cry out Nate's real name. This leads to Roy realizing that Nate and Sophie are running a con on him, [[EntertaininglyWrong but he mistakenly believes that the robbers are in on it and that the robbery is simply a cover for Nate to take his money without Roy suspecting Nate's involvement.]]
** "The Three Card Monte Job": Nate's father, Jimmy Ford, triggers alarms at three different banks to make the police think that all three banks are being robbed. The Leverage team initially believes that Jimmy's intention is to spread the police thin by obscuring which bank is being hit, allowing Jimmy's team to get in and out with ease. Nate then recalls his father trying to teach him how to play Three-Card Monte, and [[EurekaMoment finally realizes the trick to the game -- the Queen of Hearts card is never actually on the table]]. This principle is being applied to Jimmy's plan; his goal is not to rob any of the banks, but to steal a key piece of evidence in that could bring down several Irish mob families from a precinct's evidence locker, which is now vulnerable thanks to the chaos caused by the three false alarms. Nate turns Jimmy's plan on its head by allowing him to steal the evidence, but then contacts the Irish families and tells them that if Jimmy isn't paid a hefty sum, it goes right back to the evidence locker, effectively putting a death mark on his father's head. Nate does show mercy by sending his father to Ireland on a steamer under an assumed name.
** "The Ho Ho Ho Job": The team learns that Hardison's nemesis Chaos is running an identity theft scheme at the mall from which their client was fired. The team stop him by shutting down the mall server, only to discover that this was all a smokescreen -- Chaos's true target is the federal depository which Hardison also shut down when he deactivated the mall server.
** "The Bank Shot Job": This is wrongfully assumed to be the case. The team are trying to pull a con on the corrupt Judge Roy when the bank they are in is taken hostage by a father and son duo who need money to save the mother from drug dealers. Roy gets into a struggle with the father for the gun and accidentally shoots Nate in the shoulder, causing a panicked Sophie to cry out Nate's real name. This leads to Roy realizing that Nate and Sophie are running a con on him, [[EntertaininglyWrong but he mistakenly believes that the robbers are in on it and that the robbery is simply a cover for Nate to take his money without Roy suspecting Nate's involvement.]]
** "The Three Card Monte Job": Nate's father, Jimmy Ford, triggers alarms at three different banks to make the police think that all three banks are being robbed. The Leverage team initially believes that Jimmy's intention is to spread the police thin by obscuring which bank is being hit, allowing Jimmy's team to get in and out with ease. Nate then recalls his father trying to teach him how to play Three-Card Monte, and [[EurekaMoment finally realizes the trick to the game -- the Queen of Hearts card is never actually on the table]]. This principle is being applied to Jimmy's plan; his goal is not to rob any of the banks, but to steal a key piece of evidence in that could bring down several Irish mob families from a precinct's evidence locker, which is now vulnerable thanks to the chaos caused by the three false alarms. Nate turns Jimmy's plan on its head by allowing him to steal the evidence, but then contacts the Irish families and tells them that if Jimmy isn't paid a hefty sum, it goes right back to the evidence locker, effectively putting a death mark on his father's head. Nate does show mercy by sending his father to Ireland on a steamer under an assumed name.
** "The Ho Ho Ho Job": The team learns that Hardison's nemesis Chaos is running an identity theft scheme at the mall from which their client was fired. The team stop him by shutting down the mall server, only to discover that this was all a smokescreen -- Chaos's true target is the federal depository which Hardison also shut down when he deactivated the mall server.
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* PullingYourChildAway: In "The San Lorenzo Job", Nate is questioning if Hardison suggesting that the mark, San Lorenzo's corrupt President Ribera, is for child labor is stretching credibility a bit...until he sees a young boy cry out in alarm at seeing Ribera and they boy's mother pulling him away.
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* PullingYourChildAway: In "The San Lorenzo Job", Nate is questioning if Hardison suggesting that the mark, San Lorenzo's corrupt President Ribera, is for child labor is stretching credibility a bit...until he sees a young boy cry out in alarm at seeing Ribera and they the boy's mother pulling him away.
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* PullingYourChildAway: In "The San Lorenzo Job", Nate is questioning if Hardison suggesting that the mark, San Lorenzo's corrupt President Ribera, is for child labor is stretching credibility a bit...until he sees a young boy cry out in alarm at seeing Ribera and they boy's mother pulling him away.
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**** Sometimes all the complicated technical and hacking hoops Hardison jumps through to make the team's aliases as real as possible can by blown wide open by someone simply calling up his cousin and asking a few simple questions.
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cross-wicking, capitalization, ZCE; for the record, there's a lot of incorrect indentation going on here
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* ShotInTheAss: Nate's response to Sophie's gunshot in the flashback to when they first crossed paths. She is ''pissed'' ("you wanker!").
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* ShotInTheAss: Nate's response to Sophie's gunshot in the flashback to when they first crossed paths. She is ''pissed'' ("you ("You wanker!").
* ShouldntYouStopStealing: Parker sometimes continues to pickpocket things from random people even after they all decide they're only going to use their illegal skills to take down marks who are cheating innocent people. When she does this, Sophie and/or Nate usually tells her to put the things back.
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* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: Mrs Cox, [[spoiler: a victim of the mark]] who helps out the team in "The Boiler Room Job" is informed that they will be running the "Moonwalking Bear": namely, have the mark so focused on one particular thing that he fails to notice anything else, up to a moonwalking bear. For the rest of the episode, she is worried: where is the bear? Is it going to ''eat'' her?
** Parker also manages this with the [[ViolinScam Fiddle Game]].
** Parker also manages this with the [[ViolinScam Fiddle Game]].
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* SidetrackedByTheAnalogy: Mrs Cox, [[spoiler: a victim of the mark]] who helps out the team in "The Boiler Room Job" is informed that they will be running the "Moonwalking Bear": namely, have the mark so focused on one particular thing that he fails to notice anything else, up to a moonwalking bear. For the rest of the episode, she is worried: where Where is the bear? Is it going to ''eat'' her?
** %%** Parker also manages this with the [[ViolinScam Fiddle Game]].
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* StudentsSecretSociety: One episode features a college society known as Order of the 206, aka the Dustmen, heavily inspired by [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skull_and_Bones the real-life Skull and Bones society at Yale]].
--> '''Nate:''' "I will grind your bones into dust and, with your blood and it, make a paste."
--> '''Nate:''' "I will grind your bones into dust and, with your blood and it, make a paste."
