History Series / LeverageRedemption

* ShipTease: Tons of it between Harry and Sophie.

** "The Unwellness Job" is pretty clearly based off of Gwyneth Paltrow's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goop_(company) Goop]], a health and lifestyle brand started by a B-list actress that comes under fire due to heavy use of products based on pseudoscience.

* TheGhost: Nate Ford gets this to the point of literally being a ghost having died before the series began, being mentioned every episode and his absence is felt. There's also Harry's unnamed daughter, whom he mentions repeatedly but hasn't been seen yet. [[spoiler: Until the first half of the finale.]]

* PosthumousCharacter: The show opens with Nate having died. His absenve is felt.

* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed:
** In addition to the examples listed under RippedFromTheHeadlines below, there are a couple references to real-life people:

* TheCorrupter: Humorously, Hardison, Eliot, and especially Parker are this to Sophie when they reunite, wanting her to come back to the team despite being retired for years.
* DidntThinkThisThrough: "Fake Nate" from "The Mastermind Job". Using bits and pieces of stories that he learned from Nate and from his years following the team for [=IYS=], he writes a memoir about the team's exploits with himself as the Mastermind. Ignoring the fact he's endangering both the team and their clients, he's basically admitting to '''hundreds''' of crimes, making him a target for both those the team took down and criminals who'd want to use his supposed skills.

** Both Harry and Breanna, as the "kids" of the team, serve as this to Parker, Hardison, and Eliot, who filled that role when the the more experienced Nate and Sophie were in charge. Their reasons for joining are also different. Besides Harry's motivation, as mentioned above, Breanna tells Harry right off the bat that the reason she wants to join is because "the world sucks" and she wants to "make it suck less." Contrast the trio in the original series, who initially joined for money/revenge and ''then'' learned that GoodFeelsGood

* FromBadToWorse: According to Eliot, things have gotten worse over the years for the innocent: the rich and powerful are still exploiting them, and are now finding new creative ways to work ''within'' the system.

* HeartIsAnAwesomePower: While Fake Nate from "The Mastermind Job" isn't able to hold a candle to Nate Ford's ability to plan heists, he does have the ability to [[spoiler: recite bureaucratic regulation in such excruciating detail that anyone listing to it will fall asleep.]] This is proves incredibly useful to the team and at the end of the episode lands him a position helping out the sub-teams mentioned in the first episode.
* HeelRealization: Somewhat like the Team in the original series, Harry Wilson joins the team when an incident causes him to realizes he's been helping the wrong people all these years. Similarly, Breanna's own is similar to her brother Hardison's: a career criminal hacker who got direction when she joined Leverage.
* HeistClash: The first episode has Eliot, Parker and Hardison try to cheer up Sophie who is feeling depressed on the anniversary of Nate's death by planning a heist from an art museum. While there, they come across [[TheFixer Harry Wilson]] trying to steal a painting donated by his corrupt client. When Harry trips the alarm, the team have to decide if they should help him or not. They choose to help him and he becomes a new teammate.

** In order to slow down the mark in "The Double-Edged Sword Job", a programmer and former game designer, Harry pretends to be a fan of one of his games, ''Dozer Duels'', and asks for help with a level he's stuck on. At the end of the episode, Breanna points out the stuff he was referencing got patched out of ''Dozer Duels'' a long time ago, and realizes Harry really ''is'' a fan of the game.

* {{Hypocrite}}: The mark in "[[Recap/LeverageRedemptionS1E3TheRollinOnTheRiverJob The Rollin' On the River Job]]" complains that the rich and powerful stole his parents life, even while he is trying to do the same to an entire neighborhood of people.

* TheNoseKnows: As soon as she opens up a vault door in one episode, Parker smells the lasers. Apparently it's an ozone-cinnamony scent.
* NostalgiaFilter: A meta version. Harry says the bad guys aren't cheating anymore, they've rewritten the rules. Many of the {{Villain Of The Week}}s of the original series were [[LoopholeAbuse technically not doing anything illegal]]. The original characters repeatedly say that the world has gotten worse, Breanna lists all the disasters that happened in her lifetime and says that the "worse world is the only one she's ever known". Apparently the characters remember (and expect the audience to remember with them) a time when terrorism, bigotry, greed, inequality, and corruption weren't major problems.

* PrivateMilitaryContractor: The RIZ company is a secretive, amoral organization that provides security for dictators, mobsters and {{corrupt corporate executive}}s -- and the people who run it have sinister plans of their own. They're recurring villains throughout the season. [[spoiler: And the final bad guy, plotting a terrorist attack as a proof of concept.]]

** "The Card Game Job" is inspired by Martin Shkreli. Shkreli was a hedge fund manager who bought out a pharma company and raised the cost of an antiparasitic drug used by HIV+ and AIDS patients (that only they had the rights to manufacture) by a factor of 56, and was later convicted of securities fraud. [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking He also purchased the sole rights to listen to a]] Music/WuTangClan [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking album]]; even this is alluded to in the episode, as one of the {{Plot Point}}s is the Shrkeli {{expy}}'s possession of the only copy of a valuable pop-cultural artifact.

** "The Bucket Job" has the gang doing a good deed by making a dying librarian think he's living out a spy adventure. What could go wrong? Well, first, a batch of ''real'' spies get mixed up in this...because it turns out the "librarian" is a ''retired spy himself'' who doesn't know what's part of the game and what's real.

** Nate never fully kicked his alcoholism (only managed it) and spent years holding onto his anger until he retired. Stress and drinking over a long period of time is never good for one's health. This plus his age and its really not surprising to learn that in the intervening years Nate has died.

** Both Harry and Breanna, as the "kids" of the team, serve as this to Parker, Hardison, and Eliot, who filled that role when the the more experienced Nate and Sophie were in charge. Their reasons for joining are also different. Besides Harry's motivation, as mentioned above, Breanna tells Harry right off the bat that the reason she wants to join is because "the world sucks" and she wants to "make it suck less." Contrast the trio in the original series, who initially joined for money/revenge and ''then'' learned that GoodFeelsGood.

* SocietyMarchesOn:
** InUniverse, as one of the main problems that Leverage International faces is that the rich and powerful no longer break laws but work within them even when everyone knows they're guilty. This also reflects in how the team complete their objectives: rather than the end goal of the target going to jail, this is only a bonus. The team instead works to undermine and destroy their reputations along with access to their resources making it possible for the authorities to bring them down.
** Also InUniverse, when Parker tries to emphasize to Breanna how much worse things have become, Breanna points out that due to her age, she doesn't remember a time when things ''weren't'' this bad.

-->'''Parker:''' I teach every kid I meet how to do crime. Crime is fun!

** "The Paranormal Hacktivity Job": The team helps a woman who is the victim of a ScoobyDooHoax by a pair of con men. It turns out the con men are working for an assassin who is trying to kill a prosecutor and needs the con men to scare tenants out of their houses for his hits.

* WhamEpisode: Episode 15. [[spoiler: Harry's daughter appears, it's revealed his wife remarried a HIDEOUSLY corrupt CEO, then the CEO blows up an oil platform to cover the evidence...and Harry rejoins the dark side. End episode.]]

* HeistClash: The first episode has Eliot, Parker and Hardison try to cheer up Sophie who is feeling depressed on the anniversary of Nate's death by planning a heist from an art museum. While there, they come across [[TheFixer Harry Wilson]] trying to steal a painting donated by his corrupt client. When Harry trips the alarm, the team have to decide if they should help him or not. [[spoiler: They choose to help him and he becomes a new teammate.]]

** "The Bucket Job" shows Breanna is a much bigger fan of antique computers and technology than one would expect of a young hacker, geeking out over the sight of an old school big block PC and happily receiving a vintage Nintendo 64 for Christmas.

* TwoGirlsToATeam: Originally played straight and the inverted. The first two episodes have the show's original cast with Harry in place of Nate. After Hardison takes a leave of absence, his foster sister Breanna takes his place and the team is comprised of three females and two males.

* HeistClash: The first episode has Eliot, Parker and Hardison try to cheer up Sophie who is feeling depressed on the anniversary of [[spoiler:Nate's]] death by planning a heist from an art museum. While there, they come across [[TheFixer Harry Wilson]] trying to steal a painting donated by his corrupt client. When Harry trips the alarm, the team have to decide if they should help him or not. [[spoiler: They choose to help him and he becomes a new teammate.]]

* TheGhost: Nate Ford gets this to the point of literally being a ghost having died before the series began, being mentioned every episode and his absence is felt. There's also Harry's unnamed daughter, whom he mentions repeatedly but hasn't been seen yet.

* CharacterNameAlias: In "The Panamanian Monkey Job", Sophie and Hardison introduce themselves as [[Series/DoctorWho Jo Grant and Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart]]. Breanna later uses [[Characters/DoctorWhoNewSeriesCompanions Billie Potts]]. In "The Double-Edged Sword Job", Eliot is given the alias [[Series/{{Chuck}} Emmett Milbarge]].

** There is a reference to Lee Tae-Joon, who leads the team in the Korean adaptation of the original series.

* HeistClash: The first episode has Eliot, Parker and Hardison try to cheer up Sophie who is feeling depressed on the anniversary of [[spoiler:Nate's]] death by planning a heist from an art museum. While there, they come across [[TheFixer Harry Wilson]] trying to steal a painting donated by his corrupt client. When Harry trips the alarm, the team have to decide if they should help him or not. [[spoiler:They choose to help him and he becomes a new teammate.]]

** "The Card Game Job" has its creator loosely based on Richard Garfield, with a hilarious reference to UsefulNotes/GeorgeRRMartin in the middle of the episode. There's also a moment when Breanna is playing said card game with the VillainOfTheWeek, and he throws down a [[Manga/YuGiOh Blue-Eyed Dragon]]. Extra points for him also being a ruthless CEO who only cares about winning and a penchant for a mystical card game.

* RetiredBadass: The librarian from "The Holiday Job" is revealed to be an ex-spy who disappeared after getting his hands on a dossier full of dirt on basically everybody in power.