Nate quotes from Leverage

So, how did you do it?

Eliot

Detonator, (holds up remote, reaches into his shirt and pulls out ketchup wrapper) ketchup.

Ah, the classics.

Sophie

Oh, I love a good death scene!

Sophie

Still your last job?

Well, maybe…

Sophie

Yeah?

I mean, you know, until I find a job I like enough, you know, to stay out of the bars.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

And then I'm out. I'm done.

Parker

Sure.

Eliot

Yeah. 'Cause you're not a thief.

I'm thinking!

Parker

Nate, hate to rush you, but Eddie goes to the prison in an hour, so…

Parker

So what do we do now?

Well, I just sent Eddie to the hospital. So let's go steal us a hospital.

Parker

So let me get this straight. You're a doctor.

Yeah.

Parker

What if someone asks you to deliver a baby?

I'd say I'm not an obstetrician.

Parker

What, a what?

A baby doctor.

Parker

Well, what if there's a train accident and there's stretchers everywhere and someone points to you and says "Hey you! Help me with this sucking chest wound!"

I'd stick my hand in the chest and, y'know, hope for the best.

Parker

Oh, you are so not operating on me.

There are three general exceptions for house arrest: personal safety, death of a relative, and family events.

Eliot

Personal safety. We could burn the apartment down.

Parker

[excitedly raises her hand] Ooh! Ooh!

Listen, we still got to get Fowler out of the apartment so that we can get in.

Parker

Except now when he leaves, there'll be someone waiting to kill him.

Man, one of his victims wants payback more than he wants to be paid…back.

Sophie

'The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of a king.'

Ah. Sophie, how long will it take you to stage a musical?

Sophie

Six weeks.

You have two days.

Yeah, Sophie's gonna be doing this one.

Eliot

What?

Yeah.

Sophie

Yeah. I'm gonna be Nate on this one. Only, you know, nicer.

Parker

But if you're gonna be Nate, who's gonna be you?

Sophie

You.

Parker

Me?

Eliot

I don't mean to obsess about the last time Sophie ran a con, but, I'm sorry, where we had to blow up the offices!

Sophie

Really, 'cause I don't remember that.

I do.

Sophie

She has to have corroboration from her own sources, she has to craft the narrative. Monica Hunter has to be the author of her own personal nightmare!

Do I sound that creepy when I—

Eliot

Hell. Yes.

Sophie

Now that's what I call control.

Yeah, we might have, uh, pushed too hard.

Sophie

Please.

Parker

Too much.

Eliot

Little bit.

So 'pizza delivery guy' was your big plan.

You know what, man, it was recon, okay? Information gathering has historically been a very safe and peaceful business. And it was a food company. It wasn't like it was making weapons.

Listen, I worked insurance for companies like this. Anyone who gets their hands on the company’s food patents could cost them billions. And by the way, they guard that stuff better than defense contractors.

This is the vice president of the frozen foods division, Erik Casten. Erik with a K, Casten with a C.

And how is that relevant?

Parker

Oh. Eric with a C? Nice and friendly. Erik with a K? Evil.

Sophie

I didn't know that.

Parker

Everybody knows that.

That's our way in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's it. That's it. The state of the company meeting, here we go.

Eliot

What is that? I don't know what that is.

Parker

Me neither.

It's like State of the Union?

Sophie

What is that?

Oh, right, right. You guys never had real jobs.

Eliot

See any suspects?

No one jumps out at me.

Eliot

Me neither. What makes you so sure they're gonna show up?

Listen, when you go through the trouble of killing someone the likes of Sophie Devereaux, you make sure they're dead.