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* In "The Maltese Falcon Job" The {{spoiler|gunshot wound Nate suffers}} doesn't make any sense. He's able to {{spoiler|completely shrug it off like he never got hurt, stand up straight and walk around for minutes after without showing any pain, the side he was shot on is the opposite side that he was presenting to the shooter, and there's no hole ine his coat where a bullet might have torn through, but when The Plot Demands It he collapses in pain and is nearly bleeding to death.}}
** It's very possibly to hide the severity of an injury for a good length of time before it becomes too much and overwhelms you, especially with something like a {{spoiler|non-lethal gunshot where the main threat is of blood loss}}. Even if you're not as willful a person as {{spoiler|Nathan Ford}}.
** You dump enough adrenaline in someone and its entirely possible they can fail to even ''notice'' they've been shot -- until they've bled out enough that the drop in blood pressure catches up to them and suddenly they start feeling lightheaded. There is a reason that the US Army's combat lifesaver course teaches people to take a moment out to look at themselves and ''visually'' check for any new holes in their anatomy immediately after having ducked behind cover to avoid enemy fire, and that's because the human body's reaction to trauma is often far, far weirder than people would assume.
* Another complaint about The Maltese Falcon Job: At the beginning of the episode it's pointed out that they're not going to get out of the city with anything but "the clothes on our backs" before they go hide out in the hotel. Once inside, every member of the team changes clothes at least once (Eliot wears a sweatsuit, Parker wears a maid uniform, Hardison wears a suit, Nate and Tara both put on more casual outfits). Where the heck did these clothes come from? I can imagine Parker lifted the maid uniform, but what about the rest? It especially bugs me with Nate and Tara because what they end up wearing genuinely looks like it came from their own closets and we know they weren't carrying around a change of clothes.
** You put the greatest thief in the world in a midtown hotel and she can probably scare up clothing in your size without having to think about it too hard.
* The team goes through con after con without making any real effort to cover up their faces and fingerprints. We know from the Pilot episode that their fingerprints are on file. We know that the bad guys have access to tech too. So why is it that they're not being arrested and/or tracked preemptively in their schemes?
** The same way that organized crime like the Mafia is well-known, but ultimately can't be easily arrested. They always manage to pin ''everything'' on the [[Big Bad]] of the week, so really all they can be accused of is impersonating officials, and whenever that happens they pull a [[Bavarian Fire Drill]].
** Also, given Hardison's skills their fingerprints probably don't ''stay'' on file very long. The only reason they're still on file in the pilot episode is because the team hasn't really gotten together yet... and even then, Hardison needs only one smart phone to convince the computers that no, he's really an undercover FBI agent and the criminal ID is just his cover.
* Maybe I am mistaken in the plot, but in "The Mile High Job," they help protect a woman who a company has put a hit out on. Let me get this straight... a company hires a hit man to kill a woman who knows all their secrets, and then sabotages the plane, making it crash, so as to hide the fact that they hired a hitman? Seems a bit redundant to me.
** I have not seen the episode in a while, but as far as I remember Team Leverage overhears that the firm put all evidence they wanted to keep hidden an that plane. They board that plane to steal the evidence. Hardison finds out that there two employees on the plane, an accountant and a someone from security. Team Leverage thinks that the accountant knows to much and the other guy is there to kill her, but later find out that both know to much and the plane crash is supposed to kill both. We never see who sabotaged the plane.
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*** All of the flashbacks, even Nate's, are subject to [[Unreliable Narrator]], says [[Word of God]]
** Keep in mind that Aldis Hodge, the actor who plays Hardison, really ''was'' 24 when "The San Lorenzo Job" first aired.
* Okay, I understanding I'm going back a bit here, but I just got into this series, and something is really bothering me. In "The Homecoming Job", are we just supposed to take it at fact that the PMC can just have dudes armed with carbines hanging around their one shipping container in a private port, which has its own specific Law Enforcement Division? And, that they are allowed to just pull over people and threaten to shoot them with guns? I've done a bit of research about
** [[Rule of Awesome]]. Or, as per the commenters on Kung Fu Monkey, "no impediments to the fun train."
** The entire caper started because this PMC was willing to murder US soldiers in a war zone just for having looked at their precious container. Its not exactly a stretch for them to be willing to break the law detaining and threatening people outside their legal remit. (As for hanging around the port, presumably there was some kind of legal paper trail saying they were hired to guard a shipment; it is, after all, a security company.)
* Okay the first episode of season four "The Long Way Down Job" left me feeling somewhat empty, maybe I need to rewatch it but a number of things felt unresolved. 1: Why did Parker need to slip the Russian bad guy the cell, when she and Elliot could have just carried it down themselves, given that they showed up at the tent in time to see the arrest they couldn't have been that far behind him, (they did show up didn't they?) so they couldn't have been that far behind. 2: It seemed like the Russian guy got arrested and if so for what? Yes he effectively kidnapped/took Parker hostage in order to steal the journal but there's next to no proof that he did it, unless Parker managed to somehow record the entire threatening conversation on the cell phone they'd just recovered... which combined with point one is only more proof for why they should have held onto the cell phone. 3: The hiker's dieing words may be admissible in court, doubtlessly enough to get the guy arrested and bring him to trial, but would it really be enough to get the guy convicted without material evidence as well? Unless Parker and Eliot found some in the cave which they took with them before they escaped (since they did listen to it just before they left) but if so there was never anything saying they did that was there? Or was the resolution that the guy would get tied up in legal battles with the murder charge long enough for the Leverage team to prove his wheeling and dealing when it came to the phony foreclosures? Either I zoned out during the episode or it felt like they needed another 3 to 5 min to wrap things up properly....
** Parker slipped the cellphone to the Russian so he would get it down the mountain fast to a place where it could transmit the recording before the other
** This troper assumed that Hardison called the mountain patrol guys in the red jackets and they gave Elliot and Parker a ride. He could still talk to Parker and Elliot, knew that the Russian was on his way down the mountain with the phone that contained important information, and needed someone to head him off so that the team could get at it. The Russian didn't know what he was carrying but there's no reason to assume that the rest of the team was totally unaware.
** Once the police reopen the case, they will probably uncover more evidence to prove that the guy lied about how his partner went missing on the mountain. The Russian might testify as well. There is probably enough for a conviction. More importantly the guy's business is ruined. There will be an investigation of his finances and business practices and all the other banks will wash their hands of him.
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