Nate quotes from Leverage

Eliot

We can't run a con. They know our faces.

Parker

What about Maggie?

Sophie

Exactly. I mean, most of the museum people aren't gonna recognize us, But Maggie. She works down there.

Parker

No, what about Maggie? She's inside.

Eliot

You just said that. She just said--

No, wait. No, hold--Listen. Listen, I get--I get it. Just have Eliot call her as Dr. Sinclair. We won't play her. He'll just feel her out.

Have Eliot...feel out my wife?

Sophie

Ex, Nate. Ex-Wife.

Parker

Okay, look, you always have a Plan B right? So, fine. Without Maggie, what's the Plan B?

Eliot

She probably just really wants some hot coffee.

Shut up!

Eliot

It's not like a date. [pulls his hair back]

Are you kidding me? You're fixing your hair?

Eliot

Because I’m playing the Professor Sinclair dude!

Eliot

You come here a lot?

Maggie

No. I just wanted to see you.

Sophie

That's a date.

Parker

Did we really need to put a button cam on Eliot?

Safety issue.

Maggie

I haven't dated a lot since my marriage broke up.

Eliot

I'm sorry to hear that.

Maggie

No, don't be. He was obsessive, perfectionist, controlling.

Organized! She used to say I was organized. And punctual.

Mm-hmm.

Eliot

He must have had some good qualities.

Maggie

No, not even in bed.

Parker

Ooh!

Maggie

Every night was prom night. You know what I mean? But worst of all, he completely forgot that I gave him that same button camera for Christmas three years ago.

I can explain.

Maggie

That whole sob story about being broke, and sleeping in your car, and being a drunk.

Was! Was broke. Was sleeping in the car. The drunk thing, not quite in the past tense.

Maggie

Blackpoole's a bastard, Nate. He was a bastard when you worked for him. What's changed? Just help me understand.

I have to tell you something, Mag. [sits down on a bench] Please.

Maggie

What?

Mag, when Sam was in stage 4, I found a treatment that would've helped him. And I went to Ian to pay for it, and he wouldn't.

Maggie

He wouldn't?

He wouldn't. I told him we had mortgaged the house, sold the car, that we were broke, and he still wouldn't pay the claim. 20 years at that company, and they wouldn't help save our son.

Maggie

Why didn't you tell me this? I work with these people, Nate. I am friendly with them. You just let me walk around like an idiot. He’s my son too! [wipes tears]

I know, I know.

Maggie

Why have you just been carrying this around all this time?

I didn't want you to hate me, Maggie.

Maggie

Why would I hate you?

I do. If I had ever seen you look at me the way I looked at myself in the mirror, I would've blown my damn brains out.

Maggie

You actually expect this to work?

Um...

No, you're supposed to say "Wow, that's just crazy enough to work!"

Sophie

Incredibly, chance does seem to bend itself to his bizarre machinations.

Parker

[whispering to Maggie] That's his superpower.

Maggie

Nate?

Hmm?

Maggie

You can't just make somebody do what you want them to do.

Eliot

Whoa.

That's what we do. I mean…

Parker

[pets Maggie's head] You're adorable.

Maggie, it won't fall out. Just pretend it's not there.

Maggie

Yeah, just forget my ex-Husband's voice in my head, telling me what he thinks I should do. I'm in therapy to solve this problem.

Maggie

So nobody else finds it annoying when you nag them in the middle of these things?

Sophie

Why don't I run this one, Nate?

Yeah.

I don't nag. You know, I just have, you know, a clear big-picture viewpoint.

Actually, you know what? We did kind of like the way Sophie ran the last one.

Eliot

Yeah. Yeah. Up until the point where she got us caught, but other than that, it was great.

Oh. Well, looky here. Dr. Ernst Volk, University of Berlin, dead. Dr. Schliemann, London Museum, dead. Oh. Oh, and also the three guys that actually discovered the tomb. Eliot, what does that say?

Eliot

It says "dead".

D-E-D, dead, baby.

D-E-A-D!

I... I know how to... I was throwing a little style in it, just a little bit. A little style. I know how to spell "dead," damn it! I can steal a bank, I can spell "dead"!

Ian

Well, well, well. What the hell are you doing here?

Well, I bought a ticket. It's open to the public.

Sterling

I don't think--

Ian

Of course. Enjoy yourself.

[to Sterling] You heard him.

Ian

Conspiracy to commit robbery is what, five years? Catching him in the act, 20.

Sterling

Gotcha, Nate.

Yes, that was the whole point.

Power's back up in about 15 seconds.

Sterling

What do you mean?

You know, all that chasing me around. 'Don't let Nate Ford near the two Davids.' 'How is Nate Ford gonna get the two Davids?' I wasn't the mastermind on this one, Sterling. I'm the bait. Three, two, one.

We need to call the police.

Yes, he's right. We really should call the police.

Ian

No, not the police.

What do you mean?

Ian

No, I’m responsible! All the paintings in this room, they were my responsibility. No, they were all loaned to me...

Sterling

Oh, well done.

Every single masterpiece in this room is insured by IYS. That's a $150 million payout. Now, what do you think your board of directors are gonna do when they realize that you've lost the company $150 million?

Ian

[pulls out a gun] Where are they?

Sterling

Clear the room!

Are you here to kill me, Ian?

Hmm. Here's how it's gonna go, Sterling.

Sterling

I'm all ears.

Ian

No, you talk to me, not to him. You talk to me.

Every single painting will be returned to IYS the moment Ian Blackpoole is stripped of his position and all his assets in the company. Also, his policy of denying every claim, that ends.

Sterling

Extortion?

I prefer to think of it as oversight.