Aldis Hodge reprises his role as hacker Alec Hardison in Leverage’s revival, Leverage: Redemption, but the Hardison Leverage character left the team early in the season – why? Since Leverage ended and Nate and Sophie retired, Hardison, Parker, and Eliot have been running Leverage International, expanding the team’s mission of fleecing the rich and powerful on a global scale. Sophie then comes out of retirement for Leverage: Redemption after the death of Timothy Hutton's Nate. Parker and Eliot return to the old team with her, but Hardison finds himself indispensable to their international work. After only one con, Hardison resumes traveling around the world, and his foster sister Breanna Casey steps into his shoes as the main hacker on the crew.

As it turns out, the Hardison Leverage character had to be written off the show early on because of the demands of Aldis Hodge’s increasingly busy schedule.