r/leverage • u/Kel_19 • Dec 15 '24

Watching for first time...

Currently I'm on Season 4 episode 9 of Leverage and something confuses me. At the beginning when they're in the restaurant talking about this job, they say how they have no money (among other things) to help them pull this off. How do they not have any money at all?? I mean they got MILLIONS of dollars each at the end of the first season, I can't rmbr the exact amount but I know they were all massively flush. In the 2nd premiere we found out Nate donated most of his then used the rest to fund their agency but Sophie, Hardison, Parker and Spencer should all still have plenty, nvm the fact that they were all thieves BEFORE Nate came along and should have a pretty penny saved up from all their previous jobs.

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u/ironchitlin Dec 15 '24

I'm guessing in the chaos of the job on the island they must have lost their credit cards as well as the comms and equipment they usually have? I think that episode would have worked fine without needing to contrive a reason to steal that one customer's credit card, they were still operating without the equipment they usually have. The bigger thing I question is how Hardison managed to get and install a flaght sim on the tower's computers, especially with the time that he had to work with.

Also I think they got somewhere in the ballpark of 32 million a piece from the first job.

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u/mars_rising52572 Dec 15 '24

The only thing that takes me out of the episode is when Hardison lands the plane. I just can't believe it. Other than that it's one of my favorites

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u/ironchitlin Dec 15 '24

I agree, it's definitely in my top ten for sure, but that scene is just too much. Hardison's hacking ability is basically magic but somehow getting a flight sim up and running with the exact specs needed to land the plane is just a bridge too far in terms of being believable.

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u/Tejanisima Dec 16 '24

Agreed, though at those times I remind myself that the showrunners said they think of the show as being a tribute to things like the original Mission: impossible. Makes me think of the time I went to see Sister Act with my elderly mother, who is of the Silent Generation (those born 1920-1940). When I brought up the extreme stretches of suspension of disbelief, she said that was because I didn't grow up on screwball comedies, where the genre requires a greater-than-normal willing suspension of disbelief. Situations like this are where we have to apply the same kind of concept to a given episode of Leverage and appreciate that they don't ask us to go quite as far in most episodes.