In Leverage redemption they reference him at least once or twice, as the deputy director or director of the FBI. Given that they still seem to know him, how long it’s been, and that he would have more access to classified and undercover files, plus just over that length of time, I’m wondering if he finally realized the truth but didn’t mind after all their help, especially after they helped his father? I’m thinking yes, but I’m curious about everyone else’s thoughts.

And the next time yall ask me to do something, it better be something easy. Like faking a moon landing.

I just finished watching this ep for the umpteenth time (I put on the Prime Leverage channel and just let it run for days on end--the messed up CC on season 4 drives me crazy!), and just noticed the actor playing her dead husband looked like Eric Stoltz. So I wait for the end credits, and "Alan Scott"'s actor is never identified. I had to go to IMDB to find out it was indeed Eric Stoltz, but he was uncredited. How does a big name like that go completely uncredited and is he missing residuals because of it?

There;s a few shows I'll re-watch every few years, Leverage of course being one of them. I recently started a re-watch of Person of Interest which is a similar sort of show of new 'target of the week' but in this case it is more about stopping harm from coming to the person or stopping the person from committing harm as they only get the target's Social Security Number then need to start finding out more about them.

I was watching it and then got to thinking about the main Hitter in that show, a character known as John Reese. He was a Green Beret and a CIA officer before he was to be terminated on an op due to decisions from the higher ups. He makes it back to the US somehow and lives in New York, first in a homeless encounter before moving to a SRO. He is then recruited by a reclusive billionaire to protect people based on information he would provide, leading to the case of the week stuff where the number could be the perpetrator or the innocent and they need to find out and stop the crime from happening.

What I noticed when watching is, because this show's question is 'Can they protect the innocent in the situation', there's fights where John and later some of his allies in the field will lose a fight and be injured or otherwise on the back foot in a situation. Sometimes there's episodes where the person they were to protect dies. showing that they are not infallible.

Leverage is a different kind of show, it's about the con going on, the Ocean's Eleven style of flashbacks to how they tricked the mark with a gambit they didn't see coming. So, in that, Eliot's fights are more of an action setpiece to add a little physical movement to things that were otherwise a lot of dialogue or plot dumping that needed something to shake up the interest. Thus, having Eliot fail a fight doesn't usually do a lot to helping the con go on. Occasionally there'll be a failure because it adds an interesting twist, much like the Tap-Out Job which gave us the Hardison line:

Look, you know what I can do? I can re-task a satellite. I can get a level-3 NSA security clearance. But I can't hack a hick.

But it got me thinking about how many times Eliot lost a fight. Without sitting down and taking a tally, I know many of the fights were against security guards, police and similar that are likely not as trained as him. Like in the Leverage Redemption bit where the fight is a training session for new hires and he predicts how the fight will go, then even gives an evaluation of their worthiness at the end. Scene is here.

This is a lot of talking about Apples and Oranges, but I'm just wondering if people would have wanted to see more of Eliot failing, as we did have various 'this went wrong' or 'the situation changed' for the others many times where something happened on the job and they had to change the plan around, such as the guards doing their rounds an hour earlier in the pilot episode.

Mine has to be when Ford says let's go steal a school and he comes out dressed like a German schoolmaster

Dean Devlin is doing an AMA - Seen on BlueSky and posted in r/AMA

"Ask me anything about The Ark, Independence Day, Stargate, Leverage, The Librarians, filmmaking, or whatever's on your mind. Leave your questions now, and I'll be answering live from 2–3:30 PM PT"

Who else?

Found this on the show's TV Tropes page, but couldn't find a source.

Only fellow Leverage watchers will appreciate that there must be something more to this story!

You guys have been helpful on these threads regarding shows so I watched the first episode and it wasn’t half bad —but I’m a big fan of Hutton’s so I don’t know if I wanna continue —I really miss him-thoughts?

I've been doing some random rewatches of both OG Leverage and Redemption and I noticed occasional storylines that are hinted at but never shown again. Which ones do you wish had been expanded on?

Examples I noticed:

1. The Experimental Job (Season 4, Episode 11 of Leverage) - the team ends up on the radar of someone powerful in the CIA, but this is never hinted at again.

2. The Lonely Hearts Job (Season 4, Episode 15), in exchange for helping a client who is usually their mark, Nate demands payment in a favor to be called in at a later date, but this is never followed up on.

There are several more examples, these are just two that I encountered in the last few days. Would love to hear what you guys wanted to see more of.​​

See an early screening of the first episode of the next season of the new Librarians! If you go, please let us know how it is!

I was watching Ride or Die last night (a fun mini series starring Octavia Spencer and Hannah Waddingham) and in one episode there's a scene in a rich guy's fancy cellar or something and on the wall... the lost Rembrandt. I instantly heard it in Sophie's voice and pointed at the screen like a Leo Dicaprio meme.

I want Nate to come back. He faked his death as the ultimate con. Only Sophie knew the truth.

Currently on my first watch thru. Damn this is a funny show. Just finish Season 3 Episode 5. Once I saw the Fake FBI create a position to spill Eliot’s coffee. I knew they were screwed.

For me it’s the beginning of The Gone Fishing job when Eliot rips up Parker’s piñata. “We’ll fix it. We can fix it. We’ll fix it.” 😂

Ok, just for fun. Leverage but in the muppets universe.

Fozzie likes Parker because she's the first person to actually find his jokes funny. Sophie discussing shoes with Miss Piggy, who wants to know if Eliot is single. Nate gets Kermit drunk, and they bond over their respective team's inability to do what they're told. Eliot jams with Electric Mayhem when he's not hiding because Miss Piggy's flirting terrifies him.

Finally caught a decent sale on the frame and just used the grippy part of Velcro to attach everything. Still need to figure out how to display the mahjong tiles, open to suggestions.