Nate quotes from Leverage

Eliot

You look better than when we started.

Yeah.

Eliot

Yeah. And that bothers you, huh?

I, uh, well this isn’t supposed to feel--

Eliot

Good? It’s not that hard to figure out. Dubenich screwed you. He cheated by stealing from that other company and your good guy brain sees him as the bad guy. Your conscience is clear.

Eliot

Everybody knows. A guy like you goes off the street, a lot of people notice. And it was a bad story, too. How did they justify that, huh? The insurance company just not paying for his treatment?

They claimed it was experimental.

Eliot

You should have kept one of those Monets you found. You fence that—

Eliot, you and I are not friends.

Eliot

Right. Right. Because you have so many of them.

Nice job on the zip line.

Parker

Totally thought she was going to break a leg. Not bad for a first time.

Don't you want money?

This particular project has a different revenue stream.

Yeah, you should have just paid us.

I found the transmitter.

Oh, you found the transmitter with the blinking light, yeah, we wanted you to figure some of it out. Then we just gave you what you were expecting.

I am Victor Dubenich, I am going to beat this.

Aren’t you forgetting about the bribe?

Who cares? You can’t prove anything, I didn’t get any money.

No, it doesn’t account for all of it. Sophie kept a little to buy a truly impressive number of shoes. See, if a company’s stock price falls ten, fifteen percent in one day and you see it coming, you sell short, you make a lot of money. If it’s going to fall thirty percent you can make shattering amounts of money. We didn’t need the FBI to show up and take you to jail, we just needed them to show up and take boxes out of your office, all day long in front of TV cameras, scaring your investors. You going to jail is just a bonus. I wouldn’t say anything about us to the Feds. Next time we won’t be so nice.

Eliot

Yeah. One show only. No encores.

Parker

I already forgot your names.

You know I never had that cool a time on a job.

It’s a walkaway.

And I got focus issues brother, you kept me right on.

Parker

I’m really good at one thing—

Parker.

Parker

…only one thing that’s it, but you, you know other things and-and I can’t stop doing my one thing, can’t retire…

Eliot

You want to know what I think?

Not really.

Eliot

How long until you fall apart again?

Oh, I’m touched.

Eliot

Well, a guy like you can’t be out of the game, that’s why you were a wreck, you need the chase.

Yeah, I’ll manage.

Sophie

You pick the jobs.

My job is helping people. I help find bad guys.

Sophie

Then go find some bad guys. Bad guys have money. Black King, White Knight.

W-we can’t pay you.

Sophie

We work on an alternative revenue stream.

I don’t understand. The judge said that we couldn’t appeal. What are you gonna do?

People like that…corporations like that, they have all the money, they have all the power, and they use it to make people like you go away. Right now, you're suffering under an enormous weight. We provide…Leverage.

Dr. Laroque

Pardon me, mister…?

Oh, uh, Nathan Ford. You're Dr. La-

Dr. Laroque

Can I talk to you outside?

Doc, he's cool. I found him on the internet.

Dr. Laroque

Yes, that never goes badly.

Dr. Laroque

We’re not a rich hospital. I cashed in every favor I had to take care of these kids for as long as I could, but I have to go back in there and tell Perry we can’t treat him anymore. I have to do that. Run your scam on somebody with money.

It’s not a scam. I’m here to help.

Dr. Laroque

People don’t just show up to help. That’s not the way the world works.

Sophie

So, we steal the evidence and threaten to expose them.

Parker

Blackmail.

Ah, yes, but just enough blackmail to, uh, pay for Perry’s rehab, maybe a couple of million more in damages.

Ah, but that’s why Corporal Perry is lucky. He doesn’t have lawyers. He has thieves.

You’re not poaching, are you? Appropriations Bill 718, those are our defense contracts, don’t even bother.

Sophie

Mr. DuFort, surely there’s enough war to go around.

I rather like you.

Hardison, Hardison what’s this, what’s this bill they’re talking about?

You know, I’d like to give you the Schoolhouse Rock but this man has an RFID security card reader on his power supply so I’m a little bit busy.

You know, I, I, I still think it would be easier for me to just hack the bill in a printer queue.

No, no computers, no. A bill is put into a wooden box on the Congressional floor called the Hopper.

A wooden-- Whoa, whoa, whoa. A wooden…a wooden box?

A wooden box.

Wood?

Yeah.

Oh, we can put a man on the moon, but all our laws go into a wooden box.

I mean, break a law, everybody’s done that, my mama’s done that, but steal a law. Oh, she’s gonna be a legend, baby!

Parker

The eagle has landed.

It’s in!

Uhn! Go ahead, girl! Sexyness! Unh. Rrrnnn.

Might want to ease up on that a little bit.

Just saying.

Yeah.

Between me and you. Between me and you.

Never leaves the room.

How's Washington?

Sophie

Villains, con-men, wolves in sheep's clothing. Felt right at home.