#the paranormal hacktivity job

[independent-fics]

Inde Watches “The Paranormal Hacktivity Job”

Leverage Redemption 1x05

Honestly I was gonna say faking a haunting with candles def would have a fire hazard (loving the house decor tho very cozy)

But lowest of the low faking a haunting with a dead relative just to get a house (one of those guys looks familiar to me and idk from where)

Halloween is like my least favorite holiday because I’m a big chicken with the scary stuff but love Breanna’s enthusiasm (Sophie makes a good point tho. Sophie’s autumnal decor choices are more my speed)

Loving Sophie’s fit once again

Sophie you housed people all the time before

“Agreed we’re not committing any crimes” ladies please

Harry and Eliot on a buddy trip this I gotta see

Breanna what is that accent

Parker what is THAT accent 😭

Who are they right now

“You say human brains like you have an outside perspective” …”squishy human things” “you mean emotions” I love them

I’m sorry Breanna are you using adobe illustrator to analyze this handwriting photo because it does not do animations like that? I can’t tell if it’s the show to show what they’re reading or Breanna supposed to be doing that

“No the moments past now” “…so” Parker just moving on hahaha

NOT THE PSYCHICS EPISODE REFERENCE

I’m living the attic

“You just happened to have a backstory lying around like that” Breanna it’s Sophie

For a split second that photo of big daddy looks like Hurley haha (I do know he comes back in this)

Sophie is literally walking these guys through their own con it’s wild they’re stupid

Dang I do feel bad I thought the girls house could at least be saved didn’t know the whole place was gone that’s terrible

Ah the mob or whoever these criminals are make more sense with these guys oof

I love Parker and Breanna giggling over Eliot breaking knees hahah

“There are some powers in this world that are stronger than we know” “yeah and we’re three of them” yes you are

New Orleans buildings are so beautiful with the courtyards goodness

Sophie is going hard with this performance I love how kooky this episode is

But these guys are so bad dang

Parker being like this is called the gloat the best part hahahaha I loveeee them acknowledging what we all called it (because I don’t think it was ever referred to that officially in the first show)

Oh well this took a turn

Okay the guy being called the wraith reminds me of a really good avengers/leverage crossover fic so shoutout to that

Most notorious? Sorry Eliot still holds that title in my head and that guy doesn’t even kill anymore

OOO THE POLITICIAN IS THE HIT OKAY

“You’re going out the window” “what” 😂

NOT THE HITMAN BEING SCARED OF GHOSTS BRO

This man thinking about the people he’s killed and not thinking he’s ever gonna get haunted? Like you chose the wrong career path bro

The realtor saying exactly what I’m thinking

A good weapon? That is not how you explain away killing (but that’s probably how Eliot explained it away once upon a time oof Moreau vibes)

OO PARKER COMING IN WITH THE MOVES DANG

Okay Brenna how many houses did you haunt

Yes hand the knife to the realtors they’re gonna handle it for sure (ig they’re kinda mob members but dang yeah man he’s rusty)

If I didn’t know Sophie was already kinda gaining his trust I would be so scared rn

What kind of notorious hitman can say he missed a mark because of a ghost

Wipes the knife. Doesn’t wipe anything else.

“You just happened to have fake blood packs on you?” “Of course I do it’s Halloween” Breanna I love you

The selfies I can’t haha

Wait does this con count as the white rabbit in a way?

Good luck in design school kid.

They’re real fun neighbors let me tell you

I’m loving them learning a bit more about who lives around them

“And we went trick or treating afterwards” love that for you

Breanna’s little “yess” heheh I love her

Hehehe I love them scaring them hehehe perfect time in the year to get to this episode

[leverage-ot3]

#leverage: redemption S01E05 @cowboyeliot how does it feel to be the funniest person alive

phrases like "the house always wins" and "it's on the house" but used to imply that the building you're in is alive and personally invested in the situation

[richardsphere]

Leverage Redemption Log: The Paranormal Hacktivity Job

Well, guess its time for the plotline that all multi-season shows eventually have to do: Who believes in ghosts/magic/ghost-magic and are they right. Either that or our heroes are going to pretend to haunt a house for reasons unknown. --- ESTABLISHMENT FONT says its 4 days before halloween (which, means its a haloween special...) Shots around the house, pictures on the cabinets, duck-shaped cane. "Aunt Mildred", is it weird that i've never seen a show that had a mildred that wasnt an aunt? Prediction: The mother is doing the haunting (Aunt left the house to the daughter in the will), either that or Aunt Mildred used to be a criminal, got money from a heist stashed in her floor/walls and her old buddies are trying to get the loot by buying the house. (unlikely, generic backstory robbers tend to be less subtle) Note: Whomever is faking the haunting has style, the smoke, the little candles lighting by magic. (I think the blood-mirror is a bit cliché, and also a bit "generically blamefull" with the whole "did it"-non specificity thing) but they get a good... 7/10 for showmanship.

But the house is legit on fire now (whatever is hidden better be gold/diamons and not paper money or stock certificates or these criminals fucked themselves)

Generic Goons 1 and 2 walk away from the scene (Parker was probably preparing to con/heist them before this happened) --- It is now that it springs to mind i havent yet commented on the sequel series new leader/intro thing. I dont mind the smokey-ness, but i think the insertion of playing cards and a time bomb are both really generic ways to get a James Bond-vibe across, and misleading in that i've yet to see a single time bomb in this season, and only 1 episode with any kind of gambling. --- It is now Halloween, and Breanna is to Haloween what Parker was to Christmas.

Parker brings Client here to double-check her read with Sophie who insists that they are definitly not doing any crimes without her.

--- Breanna and Parker investigate (disguised as arson investigators). They find an attendance list from the funeral party/event/whatever-it-is-called, (low attendance)

Stuart the Suspecious walks in and tries to stop our investigation. He is probably just a real cop. (mentions the investigators have already been over, but gives up after only the tiniest smidgen of police code. I think if he was a criminal he would've been more insistent)

Tiny Box with a speaker hidden in the walls. --- I agree with Parker, Human brains suck.

"i dont mean literally in here..." thanks for clarifying. --- So its a real-estate scam (scooby doo villainy) ... still a bit suspicious on the detail (the cane and the clients insistence it was mildreds exact footsteps. You cant copy a dead persons natural walking cadence unless you knew them when alive)

Parker plays her Conitinuity card with the victim. (i think it was Tara's second episode?) --- Time for the Con: Pretend to let them con you (while secretly filming it for the client)

Breanna is verry disapoint to have to let them tamper with their breakers. --- Newby Conman is the only one to catch on that maybe this is a bit too convenient.

Deke was our Candleman. (I side with Deke, they were a masterstroke. I also agree that they very much backfired and were not worth the investment. But they were a good idea in theory)

The marks have clients ready. they are heavily armed and have blueprints underneath their armorstashes. (prediction: house is alongside the parade-route. This is an assasination on Breanna's favourite politician) --- I dont like the way that the frame came loose (Breanna's computers say its disengaged the "bolts". Which implies they have electronic nuts and bolts. Which is nonsense. Now the frame is said by Deke to be made of iron so i can believe it to be attached to the wall with electromagnets. so the scene works, the presentation of it as being remote-deactivated BOLTS is just weird)

Effects department Comping a skull over Deke when electrocuting him, while a lovely home-alone reference, just looks wrong in this show. --- Good news for Sophie: The assasin lives by the adage "if you're good at what you do, never do it for free".

Our hitman is, unfortunately (for him) extermely superstitious (wears two different saints around his neck). Also interesting that our heroes all know enough about saints they can not only recognise them, but name their relevant domains/patronages. --- Sophie legitimately looks like she wants to adopt Deke into her theatregroup.

--- Hamilton takes a taser to the neck, Crutches are down and its time to start the counter-haunting. --- Oh we're doing the "fake-out murder offscreen before the comercials" thing. (its very clear Sophie realised that Deke didnt have murder in his bones and has convinced him to just get out of this life. She does love herself a good death-scene) --- Hamilton breaks out of the wardrobe he's been stuffed in and just trips face-first into unconciousness (Parker is disapointed she doesnt get to tase him) --- Elliot and Harry at the bar, Elliot is proud of Breanna for her first ever assasin-takedown.

Ok you know what, the executive producer credit being written in blood is legit funny. 10/10 gag.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Look at him, he's so proud!

Leverage Redemption S01E05 The Paranormal Hacktivity Job.

[katiecomma]

Halloween Episodes

Ok guys. Bring it on. It’s spooky season. What are your fave Halloween eps of things. (Or your fave episodes to watch at Halloween even if they’re not directly Halloween themed/related).

Mine:

- Leverage Redemption - The Paranormal Hacktivity Job

- MacGyver (2016) - Skull + Electromagnet

- Supernatural - It’s the Great Pumpkin, Sam Winchester

- Hawaii Five-0 (2010) - Ka Iwi Kapu

- Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Halloween

- X-Files - Bad Blood

It doesn’t have to be a show I watch.

[applejuiz]

Look, am I completely biased towards Parker because she’s my favorite Leverage character and one of my favorite characters ever? Yes.

Am I still right that Leverage: Redemption (especially season 2) functionally ignores her? Also yes.

The closest we come to getting a Parker-centric episode in Redemption is The Paranormal Hacktivity Job and The Date Night Job. (I’m counting a Parker-centric episode as one where her emotional arc is the one with the most weight/screentime. I can see an argument for The Hurricane Job being Parker-centric in the same way as The Date Night Job but I think Eliot’s arc is given precedent and also I hate The Hurricane Job.) That’s one episode out of 16/13 per season. I can also count on one hand the number of emotional moments she gets outside of those episodes (her convo about Hardison leaving, her being nervous about mentoring Breanna, her being worried about Eliot leaving, her giving Eliot advice about Maria, and I’m literally blanking on any from season 2). Everyone else, new and old, get to have episodes where they face an exceptional challenge, confront their past or something that reminds them of their past, or just get too invested in the client like in og Leverage. But not Parker! She just is there to be comic relief where the joke is look at how weird and zany she is. And sometimes she is allowed to mention that she misses Hardison. (Actually it does feel a little like the show doesn’t know what to do with her without Hardison, and seems to forget that her relationships with Sophie and Eliot are just as deep and important to her as her relationship with Hardison. Which is a little yikes.)

(Also I don’t have a better place to put this but Sophie sending Breanna along with Parker when Eliot’s going to visit his father because apparently nobody trusts Parker to be emotionally competent enough to handle the situation was a line seemingly constructed as a personal attack against me. Parker has been Eliot’s friend for fifteen years! Sophie once believed in her ability to connect to people despite her neurodivergence! Did the writers of this show even watch The White Rabbit Job?!?!)

I was foolish enough for one second to think that The Museum Makeover Job would be about her. One of her international teams need help, and they’re up against an Interpol agent she has a past with. Surely, we will get to see her go into Mastermind mode or reflect on a past job that had emotional weight or confront something challenging for her or get too invested in the con or— oh wait, the Interpol agent is Sophie’s daughter and the whole thing is a ploy to get revenge on her and she and Eliot will have their deep convo about redemption and purpose while Parker talks about vents for the dozenth time? Cool. (And not to be exceedingly bitter, but then also the whole joke is that Parker’s actually the one overly invested in her rivalry and it isn’t important at all to Astrid and we never get a beat of resolution for that at all. Thanks, I hate it.)

My bias might be showing, but Parker is the character in the og series that grows the most, and watching her development is one of the great joys of the original series. She becomes the Mastermind because of how much she learns and changes in front of us. She was allowed to be funny and competent and weird but also emotional and scared and loving and she got to feel things and to learn things and to be things. I used to think that Redemption was exaggerating her neurodivergence in a way that felt ooc, and while that might have some merit, I think the real issue is that they just took away everything else that made her a character. Her being WeirdTM and a TheifTM and ParkerTM is all that remains to a once complex and revolutionary character.

Maybe I should just be glad that I don’t have to watch Redemption potentially butcher her character on the main stage instead of in the background. But it does leave a pretty bad taste in my mouth that she is uniquely sidelined and ignored by a show that once ended by handing her the reigns.

[alta-et-astra]

Is it just me or is Leverage: Redemption Season 1 episode 5: The Paranormal Hacktivity Job based on Thane? The Wraith? "I didn't kill them, I'm just the weapon. A really good one."

Like, that's gotta be a Mass Effect reference.

[arabellafaith]

Next chapter of my Leverage: Redemption fix-it fic, Lets Go Steal an OT3 is up! Enjoy the Paranormal Hacktivity Job now with the OT3 we all know belongs there.

[kane-town]

Leverage: Redemption 1.05 — The Paranormal Hacktivity Job

[claudia-kishi]

Hold on.

[no-stabbing-wednesdays]

Parker + unique vocabulary

[bloodonhissocks]

Sophie and Parker really said

✨ no, we’re not committing crimes ✨

👀 🤝🏼 🤫

[allegorymetaphory]

As fun as The Girls Night Out Job was, I really like that Paranormal Hacktivity is all women but nobody feels the need to point this out in the episode or with the title. It's just a con by three members of the crew. Leverage gets it spot on once again.

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Look, it all has to come down."

Leverage Redemption S01E05 The Paranormal Hacktivity Job.

[beingfacetious]

Too bad Eliot isn't here.

[readinginthereadyroom]

it’s the paranormal hacktivity job (lev: redem 1x05) and it’s november 1st. girl’s night in is over and the boys are back from brunei. 

because the thing is. while the team sits around the bar. while they rundown the con. while the girls gloat a little (and plan a prank). you can see that parker’s sweater actually matches eliot’s scarf. 

the color schemes are the same. cream and charcoal and dark orange and navy blue and black. a mixmash of stripes. eliot’s favorite earth tones and parker’s affinity for bold patterns. 

and since harry and eliot were away helping hardison. it’s not that big of stretch to assume they are gifts from him. for his peoples. because hardison misses his more-than-a-team. 

not to mention, that out of the 3 of them--the ot3 of them--he’s the most nuturing. buying headquarters for them to live. homes for them to grow. arms outstretched for hugs and secret handshakes. pet names and endearments.

but also. I can’t help but wonder. what if he made them? learned to knit during his travels and sent these pieces as a reminder. I’m still thinking of you. I miss you. so they can have something warm and homey until he get back. I’m coming back.