When the team comes together to help Sophie, they intercept guilt-ridden corporate fixer Harry and decide to help him take down an evil billionaire making money on the back of an opioid crisis.
Tropes stolen in this job:
- Beyond the Impossible: Parker outdoes every single feat she accomplished in the original series by breaking into eight different museums, stealing a masterpiece painting from each of them, and swapping them with fakes in 24 hours.
- Call-Back: Eliot proposes that their backup plan be called Plan M, and Hardison vehemently opposes this due to how in Nate's old Plan M's, he always died.
- Calling Your Shots: Eliot spells out in painful detail how the fight against the four RIZ thugs is going to happen. The fight then proceeds on exactly that path.
- Happy Ending Override: The original series ended with Nate and Sophie getting married and retiring. Here, we learn that Nate has been dead for a year.
- Hated by All: Fletcher Maxwell is universally despised for his elitist demeanor, Hair-Trigger Temper, and deliberately getting his customers addicted to opioids while showing a Lack of Empathy for their suffering.
- Heist Clash: Eliot, Parker, and Hardison try to cheer up Sophie who is feeling depressed on the anniversary of Nate's death by trying to get her to steal something from an art museum. While there, they come across Harry Wilson trying to steal a painting donated by his corrupt client. When Harry trips the alarm, the team have to decide if they should help him or not. They choose to help him and he becomes a new teammate.
- Killed Offscreen: Nate's fate. Sophie explains that while they were happy together, living most of his life consumed by rage had damaged Nate physically as well as psychologically, and in the end, it caught up with him and he died of a heart attack.note
- My God, What Have I Done?: Harry's reaction when Maxwell makes it clear he's not going to sign the deal for the money, that he'll just wait out for folks to die or quit, and even thanks Harry for letting him know how much to lowball them. It's right there that Harry realizes what kind of people he's been helping over the years. It also can't help that he visited every single one of Maxwell's victims face to face in his efforts to convince them to take the settlement.
- Run for the Border: The episode's Cliffhanger ending has Maxwell flee to Panama after the team frames him for Insurance Fraud and steals most of his money. The authorities can't follow him there, but the Leverage team can.
- Screw the Money, I Have Rules!: The museum curator firmly faces down a ranting Fletcher Maxwell to defend his decision to remove Maxwell's name from the exhibit's brochure and is unfazed by his threat to cancel his annual donation, saying the museum no longer wants Maxwell's drug money.
- Worthy Opponent: Maxwell's security firm sends four thugs to attack Eliot as an audition. Eliot wins as easily as usual, but one of his opponents scores a few hits (although Eliot let him land most of them), has a good fighting stance, and takes a lot of punishment before going down.Eliot: Big guy's got potential. You can cut the rest.
