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* NotIllegalJustification: Almost a CentralTheme; in the time since the original series ended, the rich and powerful have twisted the legal system into a shield to protect themselves from any meaningful consequences, and as such, several of the cons the team runs now focus on ruining their marks financially or destroying their reputations, with the idea of them facing legal consequences now a secondary concern.
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** "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 at the sight of an old school big block PC and happily receiving a vintage UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo 64}} for Christmas.
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** "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 at the sight of an old school big block PC and happily receiving a vintage UsefulNotes/{{Nintendo Platform/{{Nintendo 64}} for Christmas.
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* ActorAllusion: In the Season 2 finale, Hardison complains that he's missed three [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC Movies]] since [[spoiler:he's been up in space]] and doesn't know 'who's fighting who'. Creates an interesting CelebrityParadox as Creator/AldisHodge, Hardison's actor, played Hawkman in ''Film/BlackAdam''.
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* ActorAllusion: In the Season 2 finale, Hardison complains that he's missed three [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC Movies]] movies]] since [[spoiler:he's been up in space]] and doesn't know 'who's fighting who'. Creates an interesting CelebrityParadox as Creator/AldisHodge, Hardison's actor, played Hawkman in ''Film/BlackAdam''.''Film/BlackAdam2022''.
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* TheBigEasy: UsefulNotes/NewOrleans is where the crew set up shop this time around, marking their fourth major office in the series' runtime.[[note]]Following UsefulNotes/LosAngeles in Season 1, UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} from Seasons 2 through 4, and UsefulNotes/{{Portland}} in Season 5.[[/note]]
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* CaperCrew: Naturally Team Leverage, a JustLikeRobinHood team who uses their not-inconsiderable skills to get justice for those used and abused by the rich and powerful. Along with '''The Hacker''' (Hardison), '''The Thief''' (Parker), '''The Hitter''' (Eliot), and '''The Grifter''' (Sophie), the team sees the new addition of [[TagalongKid Breanna Casey]] and [[TheAtoner Harry Wilson]].
** Breanna is referred to as the '''Maker''', and notes that she's more a physical tech-girl compared to Hardison, whose skills are mainly hacking and computer code.
** Harry sells himself to the team as '''The Inside Man''' using his former profession as a lawyer for the rich to help the crew infiltrate their inner circles.
** Breanna is referred to as the '''Maker''', and notes that she's more a physical tech-girl compared to Hardison, whose skills are mainly hacking and computer code.
** Harry sells himself to the team as '''The Inside Man''' using his former profession as a lawyer for the rich to help the crew infiltrate their inner circles.
* CaperCrew: Naturally Team Leverage, a JustLikeRobinHood team who uses their not-inconsiderable skills to get justice for those used and abused by the rich and powerful. Along with '''The Hacker''' (Hardison), '''The Thief''' (Parker), '''The Hitter''' (Eliot), and '''The Grifter''' (Sophie), the team sees the new addition of [[TagalongKid Breanna Casey]] and [[TheAtoner Harry Wilson]].
** Breanna is referred to as the '''Maker''', and notes that she's more a physical tech-girl compared to Hardison, whose skills are mainly hacking and computer code.
** Harry sells himself to the team as '''The Inside Man''' using his former profession as a lawyer for the rich to help the crew infiltrate their inner circles.
** Breanna is referred to as the '''Maker''', and notes that she's more a physical tech-girl compared to Hardison, whose skills are mainly hacking and computer code.
** Harry sells himself to the team as '''The Inside Man''' using his former profession as a lawyer for the rich to help the crew infiltrate their inner circles.
* SonicStunner: One of Breanna's inventions is a "subsonic projector" which can give a target vertigo by interfering with the ear's inner fluid.
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* SonicStunner: One of Breanna's inventions is a "subsonic projector" which can give a target vertigo by interfering with the ear's inner fluid.
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* ArtisticLicenseSports: In "The Fractured Job" Elliot's [[spoiler: father]] mentions that Elliot was an outstanding athlete who could have played in the NFL had he not joined the military. At 5'10" and 160 pounds, this is extremely unlikely as less than 18% of all NFL players are under 6' tall and weigh less than 200 pounds.
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** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
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** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.alive.
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* ContrastingSequelMainCharacter:
** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path toward being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path toward being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
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** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path toward being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
** Both Harry and Breanna, as the "kids" of the team, serve as this to Parker, Hardison, and Eliot, who filled that role when 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.
** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path toward being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
** Both Harry and Breanna, as the "kids" of the team, serve as this to Parker, Hardison, and Eliot, who filled that role when 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.
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** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path toward being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
**{{Foil}}: Both Harry and Breanna, as the "kids" of the team, serve as this to Parker, Hardison, and Eliot, who filled that role when 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.
** Breanna is one to Tara Cole from the original series. Both of them were brought onto the team as a replacement for one of the others when they departed for their own reasons, both initially struggled to gel with the rest of the team, and both were heading down a path toward being just another criminal before joining Leverage. But Tara was an experienced grifter whose struggle for rapport stemmed from an unfamiliarity with how Leverage operates and her status as a ConsummateProfessional, whereas Breanna is an admittedly skilled but still inexperienced hacker and GadgeteerGenius whose issue is that she's trying to fill her brother Hardison's shoes and impress her idol Parker at the same time.
** Harry Wilson to Nate Ford. Nate was the Mastermind and leader of the group while Harry is new to the group. Both men are driven to help people but while Nate was fueled partly by a need for vengeance as well as justice, Harry is legitimately TheAtoner. This is actually related to the key difference: both men are fathers but while Nate's son died before the series, Harry's daughter is very much alive based on his comments.
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** TheLeader: Sophie. While originally Nate's second-in-command, she now takes the reins as the person responsible for thinking up plans and taking the lead with meeting new clients.
** TheLancer: Parker. Despite Sophie's returning and taking over as Mastermind instead of Parker, she adjusts well to being Sophie's second, and her time as Leverage International's primary Mastermind gives her a strong secondary position, as well as Thief.
** TheBigGuy: Eliot, retaining his obvious talent for making fights end very quickly and in his favour.
** TheSmartGuy: Breanna, the maker and hacker who takes over as the team's resident geek.
** TheHeart: Harry, one that's a lot more experienced at being technically on the legal but unethical side.
** TheSixthRanger: Hardison, who's now busy organizing Leverage International. He pops in on occasion to rejoin the team on a job before jetting off again.
** TheLeader: Sophie. While originally Nate's second-in-command, she now takes the reins as the person responsible for thinking up plans and taking the lead with meeting new clients.
** TheLancer: Parker. Despite Sophie's returning and taking over as Mastermind instead of Parker, she adjusts well to being Sophie's second, and her time as Leverage International's primary Mastermind gives her a strong secondary position, as well as Thief.
** TheBigGuy: Eliot, retaining his obvious talent for making fights end very quickly and in his favour.
** TheSmartGuy: Breanna, the maker and hacker who takes over as the team's resident geek.
** TheHeart: Harry, one that's a lot more experienced at being technically on the legal but unethical side.
** TheSixthRanger: Hardison, who's now busy organizing Leverage International. He pops in on occasion to rejoin the team on a job before jetting off again.
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* TheOrder: Orpheus Grove from "The Walk In The Woods Job" presents themselves as a quasi-[[TheIlluminati Illuminati]] but they're really just a bunch of rich, old, largely white men who get together to get drunk and act like idiots.
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** Orpheus Grove is based off of the Bohemian Grove, the meeting place of the Bohemian Club, a fraternal club whose membership includes presidents such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Regan.
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** In The Belly Of The Beast Job, the team's use of ThemedAliases based on ''Franchise/DoctorWho'' bites them in the ass when the mark's assistant recognizes the regularly used 'Lethbridge-Stewart' alias as a reference. Someone was bound to recognize it eventually, given that it has a fandom millions strong, even outside of the UK.
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** In "The Walk In The Woods Job", Breanna manages to drum up massive support for an endangered species of frog in the space of a single afternoon by simply creating a website for it, something which the woman championing the cause had failed to do. [[spoiler:This actually helps get Orpheus Grove shut down because it's revealed that one massive reason the frog was endangered was the fact that members of the Grove were urinating into their spawning grounds.]]
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* ActorAllusion: In the Season 2 finale, Hardison complains that he's missed three [[Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse DC Movies]] since [[spoiler:he's been up in space]] and doesn't know 'who's fighting who'. Creates an interesting CelebrityParadox as Creator/AldisHodge, Hardison's actor, played Hawkman in ''Film/BlackAdam''.
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* HollywoodGameDesign: A variation with regards to a tabletop game instead of a video game; Spirit's Ruse from "The Card Game Job" seems to be fairly simplistic in terms of design, with cards no space for rules text and the only rules of the game seeming to be a variant of ElementalRockPaperScissors. This may actually be an EnforcedTrope, as it was reported that staff had to prevent people in the writer's room from creating an overly-complex rule set for the game.
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** The Good Stewart Trucking company from "The Big Rig Job" bears more than a passing resemblance to the saga of Arrow Trucking, a real-life trucking company founded by a man who treated his employees like family, before his son stepped in and drove it into the ground, defrauding the company and eventually driving it into bankruptcy.
** Magiq Baby from "The Pyramid Job" could be based off of any number of Multi-Level Marketing entities, but bears the closest resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe LuLaRoe]], being that it's led by a husband and wife team, sells clothing, and frequent live-streams.
** Magiq Baby from "The Pyramid Job" could be based off of any number of Multi-Level Marketing entities, but bears the closest resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe LuLaRoe]], being that it's led by a husband and wife team, sells clothing, and frequent live-streams.
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** The Good Stewart Trucking company from "The Big Rig Job" bears more than a passing resemblance to the saga of Arrow Trucking, a real-life trucking company founded by a man who treated his employees like family, before his son stepped in and drove it into inherited the ground, defrauding the company company, defrauded it, and eventually driving drove it into bankruptcy.
** Magiq Baby from "The Pyramid Job" could be based off of any number of Multi-Level Marketing entities, but bears the closest resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe LuLaRoe]], being that it's led by a husband and wife team, sells clothing, and hosts frequent live-streams.
** Magiq Baby from "The Pyramid Job" could be based off of any number of Multi-Level Marketing entities, but bears the closest resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe LuLaRoe]], being that it's led by a husband and wife team, sells clothing, and hosts frequent live-streams.
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* CommutingOnABus: Hardison leaves the team to attend to Leverage International's operations around the world. As such, Breanna takes over his role as Leverage's resident tech person. In Season 2, however, he appears more regularly, having two in-person appearances before [[spoiler:being sent to space to work on a Leverage International satellite]] and spending the rest of the season making brief appearances by way of teleconferencing.
** In "The Date Night Job", it's revealed that the crew's actions during "The Card Game Job" in Season 1 led to a massive NewbieBoom for Spirit's Ruse, resulting in the release of a VideoGame/PokemonGo-like video game based on the property.
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* PutOnABus: Hardison leaves the team to attend to Leverage International's operations around the world. As such, Breanna takes over his role as Leverage's resident tech person.
** The Good Stewart Trucking company from "The Big Rig Job" bears more than a passing resemblance to the saga of Arrow Trucking, a real-life trucking company founded by a man who treated his employees like family, before his son stepped in and drove it into the ground, defrauding the company and eventually driving it into bankruptcy.
** Magiq Baby from "The Pyramid Job" could be based off of any number of Multi-Level Marketing entities, but bears the closest resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe LuLaRoe]], being that it's led by a husband and wife team, sells clothing, and frequent live-streams.
** Magiq Baby from "The Pyramid Job" could be based off of any number of Multi-Level Marketing entities, but bears the closest resemblance to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuLaRoe LuLaRoe]], being that it's led by a husband and wife team, sells clothing, and frequent live-streams.
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** We retroactively learn the name of Nate and Sophie's go-to characterization for cons (loudly arguing husband/wife team to distract the mark from anything else going on): "The Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf"Theatre/WhosAfraidOfVirginiaWoolf".
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** "The Tournament Job" in Season 2 is full of references to video game culture; at one point, background characters are said to be [[{{Anime/Naruto}} Ninja Running]], while Sophie says that the game they're basing their grift on needs its own "EVO Moment 37" to make it big. Also, their client's name is Tam, and they use the handle [[{{Series/Firefly}} River]] in the game they're playing.
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** In "The Crowning Achievement Job" Astrid reveals that she's been offered a promotion for her work from Section Chief James Sterling. Not five minutes after searching Sophie's name in Interpol's database, coincidentally.
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** TheSixthRanger: Hardison, who's now busy organizing Leverage International. He pops in on occasion to rejoin the team on a job before jetting off again.
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** TheLancer: Harry. Despite being new to the job, he adjusts well enough to being Sophie's second, and his legal background gives him a stronger front to look into their targets' backgrounds better than anyone else.
** TheBigGuy: Eliot, unsurprisingly.
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** TheBigGuy: Eliot,unsurprisingly.retaining his obvious talent for making fights end very quickly and in his favour.
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** TheChick: Parker, albeit one that's a lot more experienced than who she was initially.
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** Parker and Harry can also swap roles as TheLancer / TheChick. Parker has far more technical experience with cons and hands-on thievery, so she's an efficient back-up to Sophie, while Harry can be put off balance by these more blatantly illegal aspects (see his failure with the first painting in episode one). Parker is also far more physically skilled despite her stature.
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** Parker and Harry can also swap roles as TheLancer / TheChick. Parker has far more technical experience with cons and hands-on thievery, so she's an efficient back-up to Sophie, while Harry can be put off balance by these more blatantly illegal aspects (see his failure withat being technically on the first painting in episode one). Parker is also far more physically skilled despite her stature.legal but unethical side.
** Parker and Harry can also swap roles as TheLancer / TheChick. Parker has far more technical experience with cons and hands-on thievery, so she's an efficient back-up to Sophie, while Harry can be put off balance by these more blatantly illegal aspects (see his failure with
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* TheDreaded: There is one law enforcement agency in the world the team members are scared of and refuse to go against: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They are all wanted in Canada on a variety of charges (including multiple instances of stealing the Stanley Cup) and refuse to step foot anywhere the RCMP has jurisdiction.
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* TheDreaded: There is one law enforcement agency in the world the team members are scared of and refuse to go against: the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. They are all wanted in Canada on a variety of charges (including multiple instances of stealing the Stanley Cup) and refuse to step foot anywhere near the RCMP has jurisdiction.RCMP, if they can help it.
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* BewareTheNiceOnes: The Royal Canadian Mountain Police are just as polite as one would assume of a stereotypical Canadian...and they are the one law enforcement unit the team absolutely ''refuse'' to even risk running into, as they're all wanted for serious crimes in Canada.
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* GreenwashedVillainy:
** "The Great Train Job": Blake Whitcomb, a green energy innovator who has been in the news for his intentions to create a plane that runs entirely on electric energy. However, the Leverage team discovers that Whitcomb has been carelessly and illegally disposing of the batteries for his electric cars, resulting in a couple of farmers becoming sick and their crops dying. Whitcomb is also willing to hire Neo-Nazis to intimidate the victims of his crimes into staying silent.
** "The Muddy Waters Job": [=GulfPetrol=], an oil company which had recently gotten into trouble due to oil spills. Their new CEO Ethan Bradford was brought in to take care of any leaks and received great praise for pushing the company in a green energy direction. However, it is ultimately revealed that this is all just media spin; Gulf Petrol's new oil platform ''Hyperion'' has been leaking after being damaged by a mud slide and Gulf Petrol will do anything to cover it up, even going as far as [[spoiler:destroying their own oil rig to hide evidence of the leaks, killing their own employees in the process]].
** "The Fractured Job": Eliot's hometown has been hit by earthquakes and illness from tainted water ever [=GreenSlate=] Energy set up a fracking operation in the town. The team's investigation shows that [=GreenSlate=] has been doing everything they can to hide evidence that their operation is causing harm. This includes attacking Eliot's father to silence him, paying off the environmental company hired to report on [=GreenSlate=]'s environmental impact and [[spoiler:getting the Attorney General who has invested money in them to help cover up their malpractices.]]
** "The Great Train Job": Blake Whitcomb, a green energy innovator who has been in the news for his intentions to create a plane that runs entirely on electric energy. However, the Leverage team discovers that Whitcomb has been carelessly and illegally disposing of the batteries for his electric cars, resulting in a couple of farmers becoming sick and their crops dying. Whitcomb is also willing to hire Neo-Nazis to intimidate the victims of his crimes into staying silent.
** "The Muddy Waters Job": [=GulfPetrol=], an oil company which had recently gotten into trouble due to oil spills. Their new CEO Ethan Bradford was brought in to take care of any leaks and received great praise for pushing the company in a green energy direction. However, it is ultimately revealed that this is all just media spin; Gulf Petrol's new oil platform ''Hyperion'' has been leaking after being damaged by a mud slide and Gulf Petrol will do anything to cover it up, even going as far as [[spoiler:destroying their own oil rig to hide evidence of the leaks, killing their own employees in the process]].
** "The Fractured Job": Eliot's hometown has been hit by earthquakes and illness from tainted water ever [=GreenSlate=] Energy set up a fracking operation in the town. The team's investigation shows that [=GreenSlate=] has been doing everything they can to hide evidence that their operation is causing harm. This includes attacking Eliot's father to silence him, paying off the environmental company hired to report on [=GreenSlate=]'s environmental impact and [[spoiler:getting the Attorney General who has invested money in them to help cover up their malpractices.]]
