History Recap / LeverageRedemptionS2E3TheTournamentJob

* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: A flashback shows a conversation between Tam and Eliot where the former claimed that the pills Kyle's been force feeding them is helping is continued. Eliot reveals that they're actually playing better because he switched those pills out with placebos and the smoothies he's been giving the team has been detoxing out the crap that was already in their system.

* ShoutOut: Several references are made to the ''Franchise/TheTerminator''; Kyle's bodyguard Brock is called a "cybernetic organism" in reference to his build, Parker does a [[Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger Schwarzenegger]]-like accent a couple of times, and in the end when she knocks out the Mark with a t-shirt cannon, Parker's outfit involves Sarah Conner's from [[Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay the second film]].
** Both Sophie and Breanna mention "Evo Moment #37," which is the community name for a famous 2004 competitive match in ''Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike''.

* XanatosGambit: Kyle does this when he takes advantage of the team's program for himself: after making several large bets that his team Samurai Midnight, who's the favorite, will lose, he's set to make out like a bandit. Either they'll lose and Kyle will make a criminal amount of money, dump the team, and starts a new one restarting the cycle of abuse or they'll win, making him the owner of a championship team and make him rich that way. The one thing he doesn't account for is Team Leverage exposing him publicly in a way that protects Samurai Midnight while laying bare his cheating and abuse.

* XanatosGambit: Kyle does this when he takes advantage of the team's program for himself: after making several large bets that his team, whose the favorite, will lose, he's set to make out like a bandit. Either they'll lose and Kyle will make a criminal amount of money, dump the team, and starts a new one restarting the cycle of abuse or they'll win, making him the owner of a championship team and make him rich that way. The one thing he doesn't account is the team exposing him publicly in a way that protects the team while laying bare his cheating and abuse.

* XanatosGambit: Kyle does this when he takes advantage of the team's program for himself: after making several large bets that his team, whose the favorite, will lose, he's set to make out like a bandit. Either they'll lose and Kyle will make a criminal amount of money, dump the team, and starts a new one restarting the cycle of abuse or they'll win, making him the owner of a championship team and make him rich that way. The one thing he doesn't account is the team exposing him publicly in a way that protects the team and exposes his cheating and abuse.

* ContinuityNod: As in "The Queen's Gambit Job" a few years ago[[note]]Where Hardison told him that chess is considered an Olympic sport[[/note]], Eliot is dismayed that competitive video games are considered a sport. However, he changes his mind by the end of the episode.

* XanatosGambit: Kyle does this when he takes advantage of the team's program for himself: after making several large bets that his team, whose the favorite, will lose, he's set to make out like a bandit. Either they'll lose and Kyle will make a criminal amount of money, dump the team, and starts a new one restarting the cycle of abuse or they'll win, making him the owner of a championship team and make him rich that way. The one thing he didn't account is the team exposing him publicly in a way that protects the team and exposes his cheating and abuse.

* CheatersNeverProsper: The mark's backstory had him kicked out of professional football after being caught taking performance enhancing drugs and is now dosing his e-sports team so they will play longer at the cost of their physical and mental wellbeing. The team takes advantage of this tendency to take shortcuts and sets him up to be caught using a program that controls the avatars of both teams.
* ContinuityNod: Like in "The Queen's Gambit Job" a few years ago[[note]]Where Hardison told him that chess is considered an Olympic sport[[/note]], Eliot is dismayed that competitive video games are considered a sport.
* HighlyVisibleNinja: Parker lampshades the "Ninja Run" meme is this since it defeats the purpose of being a ninja who are meant to be stealthy.
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: A flashback shows a conversation between Tam and Elliot where the former claimed that the pills Kyle's been force feeding them is helping is continued. Elliot reveals that they're actually playing better because he switched those pills out with placebos and the smoothies he's been giving the team has been detoxing out the crap that was already in their system.

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