Nate quotes from Leverage

Nate, did you find us a client in prison?

Yes, we are going to help Billy Epping and maybe take down a warden at the same time.

You stabbed me!

Oh, come on. Just a little. It's fine.

This is just to sell the con, right?

Eliot

Yeah, it's to sell the con. Nate, do you know what I did to the last guy who tried to run a con on his own team?

[nervously] Are we okay, Eliot?

What about my team?

The Italian

They lead dangerous lives. Thieves die all the time.

Now that, you should not have said.

The Italian

I don't know. You seem highly motivated.

Sophie

[pointing at drink] So how's that going for you?

Thanks for asking. Good. What I realized is that I tried being a drunk honest man, a sober thief. So I am going to try being a drunk thief. Try that for a little while. You not gonna try to save me, are you?

Sophie

You're a thief now. You can save yourself.

What, are you lurking?

Eliot

Yeah. I'm a lurker. It's my thing.

So we're on this.

Yeah. [grins] Well, we were always on this. I just wanted you to explain to me why. [Rises up and walks away]

You know how I feel about mind games, Nate! Negatively! [turns to see Eliot grinning] What are you looking at, lurker?

Are we ever gonna talk about that kiss?

Sophie

Kiss? Uh, I don't remember a kiss. I remember a slap. You're still working off the slap.

All right, guys, it's a party. But before we rescue Parker, we've gotta find out where she is.

Nate, you do realize the entire building is looking for Parker? I mean the actual, physical building is looking for her. Look, any cameras that I piggyback, any sensors that I access, anything I do to find Parker, could lead the bad guys right to her.

All right, so what's your play?

Wh-what's my play?? Nate, I'm hacking a security system that the Pentagon calls overkill with a laptop I found in the back of my car!

You couldn't beat the Steranko, even in your prime.

Archie

Which I'm long past, thanks for the reminder.

You know what you've done? You asked me to play the violin in front of people!

Yes, well, you said you were good.

As a child! That was ten years ago!

Oh, c'mon, c'mon, Hardison. Listen, you know, told me you could do anything. You told me you were Super-Skull!

Skrull. Skrull. Get it right. Super...Super...Super-Skrull. Who has the combined powers of the Fantastic Four. One of whom is not Itzhak Perlman!

Nate... Hypnosis is something you do to a mark. Not your own crew.

No, no, no. It's exactly what you do to your own crew. Yeah, you push whatever button you need to, to get them to do what needs to be done. You wanted to know what other quality you needed to run your own crew. Well, that's it. And you don't have it.

FBI, sir. That young lady's in our custody.

Aw, see, you made two mistakes, bro. First, you flashed that fake-ass FBI badge at me. Second, [points at Eliot] you spilled his coffee.

Where's Eliot?

Oh, he had to change his shirt. He got coffee on it...and some blood, some teeth.

Since when do you question me?

Sophie

Since you went off the rails and we had to pull you out of jail and ended up getting blackmailed, thank you very much.

Fair enough.

Eliot

You realize the last guy that pushed Hoffman ended up dead.

Yeah, well, let him take his best shot. We'll see who walks away this time.

[to Eliot] Prison's changed him.

Eliot

Better or worse?

I'm not sure.