The team's effort to destroy a predatory trucking company run into danger when they encounter the company's mob connections... and even more danger when one of the marks drives off with Breanna trapped in the back of his truck.
Tropes stolen in this job:
- Bad Boss: Luke and Paige lure unsuspecting, desperate truck drivers into working for them with false promises, then stick them with expensive bills and scam them out of their own trucks. They give their employees very few breaks or time off for personal matters like attending a family member's funeral.
- Bad Influencer: Paige wants to be one of these in the worst way. She's happy to let Luke do whatever he wants, including dealing with Big Jim; her focus is using the trucking business to build her personal brand through social media posts and merchandise such as designer handbags, while gleefully screwing over her employees and customers. Team Leverage takes advantage of this by having Harry and Parker infiltrate Good Stewart Trucking by posing as executives from a Reality TV series about girl bosses.
- Benevolent Boss: Nick Stewart is described as this, in complete contrast to his children.
- Christmas Episode: The story takes place just before Christmas, and one of the Plot Points is Luke smuggling guns for Big Jim in the same truck with a shipment of toys meant for orphans.
- An Ass-Kicking Christmas: Not only does Eliot get his usual share of fight scenes, he also performs one of the franchise's most spectacular stunts when he jumps from one moving truck to another to save Breanna.
- Expy: A variation. Nick Stewart's Meaningful Namenote , appearance (a fat guy with a white beard), kindly personality, and habit of giving Christmas gifts to children are all meant to evoke Santa Claus.
- Greater-Scope Villain: The marks are revealed to be working for Big Jim Montrose, the local mafia boss. However, Montrose doesn't show up in person.
- Hidden Depths: The YDN inspector works for a corporation that is infamous for layoffs, and she withdraws her offer to buy Good Stewart Trucking for largely pragmatic reasons. However, she also holds the late Uncle Pennybags Honest Corporate Executive Nick Stewart in high esteem, calling him a "giant" in the industry.
- Inadequate Inheritor: Luke and Paige's late father Nick is described as an excellent businessman who also treated his employees with kindness and respect, and was involved in charity. His children are pretty much the opposite, treating their employees like crap, running the family business into the ground and getting involved with a local mob boss.
- Know When to Fold 'Em: Once the police find the guns, Luke immediately confesses everything (and implicates Paige) to save himself.
- MacGyvering: Breanna is trapped in the truck with the toy shipment and the smuggled guns. She uses the contents of a science kit and the batteries from a Cymbal-Banging Monkey to escape — but not before setting one of Paige's pleather handbags on fire. When Eliot calls the police to stop the truck, they investigate the smoke from Breanna's fire, which causes them to open the truck and see the guns Luke was smuggling.
- Trapped by Gambling Debts: Paige angrily reminds her brother that they first got involved with the Dixie Mafia because he doesn't "know how to pick a horse," indicating that Luke became indebted to mob bookies over a horse race.
- Visit by Divorced Dad: Paige mentions that her and Luke's mother divorced Nick when they were young and he only had occasional visits where he tried to get his kids to spend quality time or help him with toy drives, activities that they found distasteful due to their mother's parenting style and/or their own natural selfishness.
