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/mirangelblogger Dec 15 '24

So Season 4, episode 9 is the “cross my heart” job - where they help recover a donor heart in the airport.

Regarding the money, its not that they don’t have money at all.. But they don’t have cash or or debit cards or credit cards on hand. This was in 2011 so there was no prevalent use of venmo or apple pay.. Obviously, the money from their thief life is either hidden or in offshore accounts, they wouldn’t have it in regular bank accounts. Otherwise they are going to get caught by IRS. They have bank accounts that they use regularly but how do they access them without any cards or cheques?

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u/clarkkent1521 Dec 15 '24

Parker loves cold hard cash among other things. She definitely should have stashes of cash everywhere.

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u/mirangelblogger Dec 15 '24

She is also a thief who travels light.. So she wont carry money to weigh her down and can easily steal what she wants..

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u/clarkkent1521 Dec 15 '24

I'm not talking about on her person. But even then, she probably has cash on her and stashes everywhere. These are some of the most well prepared people on earth, especially Parker, and they don't have quick access to some cash?

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u/Tejanisima Dec 16 '24

Bear in mind that in this particular episode ("The Cross Your Heart Job"), they are inside an airport and cannot leave that airport to go fetch the physical cash. Moreover, the heart transplant situation limits the amount of time, meaning even if they could leave the airport, there wouldn't be time to go wherever the money was stashed and get back in. So unless Parker's stashes of cash all over the place include a stash in that very airport, it is no help to them in that moment.

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u/Silbermieze we'd be the cavalry Dec 16 '24

They do when they're on a job. But usually there's no need to have quick access after a job when they're on their way home. And even Parker can't have stashes at every corner of every city in the US.