A character in Leverage
[after realizing that Nate's actions will cost him everything, Blackpoole tries to hold him at gunpoint]
IYS is my company!
[quoting Blackpoole] "You can't let personal feelings affect policy! You have a responsibility to shareholders. No exceptions." [Snatches the gun away] I have lost my only son. Do you really think you scare me?
Of course, you know your entire plan depended on me being a self-serving, utter bastard.
[smirks] Yeah, that's a stretch.
Will you stop now?
I don't know.
Interesting.
Hmm?
You admitting you don't know something.
You are not the man I married.
Well, what do you think of this version?
I don't love him. But I might like him a little more.
You quit drinking?
Yep.
You quit drinking.
Sure did.
You quit drinking? How'd you know about this place then?
I rent a condo upstairs.
You rent a condo above the bar?
That's right.
Well, that's very…Catholic.
No. No, no, no. Stop it. There is nothing you can say that's gonna make me feel better.
I know what could make you feel better. We should steal something.
No, no.
Yes! We could do it together.
I like this. Get right back up on the bike.
Bike of crime.
Didn't you earlier tell me how great your new lives were?
I stole the Hope Diamond.
What?
And then I put it back. Yeah. Because I was bored. Didn't care.
I spent three days hacking White House e-mail. No buzz.
See?
But we are doing some hinky stuff in Pakistan. Hinky.
Look, I'm miserable, they're miserable. [to Eliot] Okay, what-what have you been doing the last six months?
…I was in Pakistan.
You see what you did? You took the world's best criminals, hitter, [Eliot points] hacker, grifter, [Sophie raises her hand] thief, [Parker raises her hand] you took us and you broke us.
No, no, I…what I did, I taught you how to help people. That's, that's all.
Exactly.
Yeah
This is the problem, though, with being the good guy. You…you…it gets under your skin.
Look, Nate. You have to some poor little lost soul somewhere that needs a little extra-legal aid.
Look, we all…we agreed that we would just move on.
Yeah, but…we're…we're thieves.
[Parker walks out of Nate's kitchen dressed as a nun]
She's dressed that way 'cause she's doing a con.
What, you thought she was dressed like a nun for no reason?
It's Parker.
Eh, fair enough.
Okay, I want you out of my house. Out. I'm getting cleaned up. I'm going upstairs. I want all this stuff out of here. I want you guys out of here. I'm not a part of this.
Okay.
Not a part of this. This is you guys.
We got it.
If you want to do this thing, you're on your own.
Eliot: Fine.
Understood?
Uh-huh.
(Nate walks away)
(to Eliot) So, you going?
I'm not going anywhere. The man has 700 sports channels.
Now, this is not gone. This is more.
Yeah, I, uh, I scanned the documents in Leary's box, but I wanted to print out a few pages.
I asked—I asked Eliot to get rid of this stuff. Now there's more stuff.
Did you? Oh, we-we crossed, but didn't see each other. He didn't tell me.
Oh, that's how you're gonna play this?
Wait, so if these are supposed to be just fake businesses, how come their financials are so squeaky clean?
Because they're fake businesses. I mean, come on, it's right there. I mean, I'm just saying.
(they all look at each other)
What? Sophie, how, how do you catch mob guys?
Uhh, two glasses of Chianti and a story about my grandmom in Sicily.
How does the government catch mob guys?
Taxes.
That's how they got Capone.
That's how they get everybody. Yeah, they never get you for the crime; they always get you for the taxes. It's not really fair.
That's why the businesses are clean; they're dirty from the inside.
Well, yeah, I mean, if you have a body in the trunk of your car, you're gonna drive under the speed limit, aren't you?
You know, when you're sober, your metaphors get creepier.
I mean, it's perfect. You know, I don't even think it's illegal. I mean, if we were gonna do this, this job—
Just this one job.
Yes, just this one.
Yeah.
I mean, the con that you'd want to do...
Hypothetically.
...hypothetically, you know, is, the turnabout, of course.
Oh, that is a good one.
You know, it takes… five people to do the turnabout.
That's true.
Hmm.
There's just the four of us.
Need one more person.
We've got to scare the banker into turning against the mob. All right. All right, we'll do this job. Just this one.
Oh, well.
If you really want.
If you insist.
Great.
We're on board.
There are wolves in the world. That's what Dad says. "Be careful, Zoe. There are wolves in the world."
He was not wrong.
Yeah?
(Zoe walks over to her father and touches his hair)
So the world's just like this, huh? Bad people do bad things and they always get away with it. Nobody stops them.
[After the con takes a bad turn]
Oh! They're probably gonna shoot Nate in the face!
Parker, I can hear you.
Sorry. Forgot about the... (Points to earbud)
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