During the original run of Leverage, showrunner John Rogers would write about the development of every episode a day or two after it aired on his blog, Kung Fu Monkey.
A good number of Leverage episodes were based on actual, real-world cases of corporate malfeasance and corruption, and in a few cases, they were able to get transcripts or recordings of the private meetings these untouchable bigwigs held, and incorporated them into their scripts.
Well, sort of. Rogers asserts that they'd have to tone down these Evil Speeches of Evil, because they were frankly too over the top for television audiences to find plausible.
