Parker quotes from Leverage

Am I dreaming now or was I dreaming then?

Parker

Which answer gets you down here with me?

Parker

I'm not Patience! Patience is dead! Okay? She's dead, and it sucks, and that's the way it is. But you're alive. You're here.

You don't under... you don't understand. She was the only one who... I'm alone.

Parker

I don't understand? I had somebody. I lost someone once okay? And I thought I was alone too. But you know what? I wasn't. People thought I was crazy, but I never was. I never was. And neither are you. You're not alone. You're own people sent us because they care about you.

I never wanted any this. I just... I didn't want the business or the legacy. I just wanted to make things.

Parker

What happened to Patience wasn't your fault. But what happens next is. It's your life, Charlie. It's your choice. Make something.

Yeah, so, the con failed...technically.

Sophie

The con didn't fail. The con worked.

If by "worked," you mean completely fell apart.

Sophie

Huh? Sorry, which one of us is the grifter? I'm telling you, we pulled off The White Rabbit successfully.

Pulled off The White Rabbit successf... How so?

Sophie

Well The White Rabbit is about taking the truth, whats underneath, and bringing it out.

Without breaking the Mark in the process..

Sophie

Every grift is an exchange, the trick is to give enough to hold the Mark, but not so much that you get pulled over with him.

Parker, huh?

Sophie

Parker.

Parker

(Walking up to the group) We good?

Sophie

You tell us.

Parker

Yeah, we're good.

Parker

Nate, I'm going in. [to herself] I'm Intern Parker. Intern Parker.

Sophie

Yeah, we've, uh, we've been working on her long con abilities, you know, internalizing the character more.

Parker

Is Intern Parker working for free?

Sophie

She's just a character, Parker.

Parker

Yeah. But I know what Intern Parker's worth is. And Intern Parker deserves a fair wage for her labor!

[to Sophie] Yeah, you might want to dial that back a little bit, yeah.

Sophie

Dial it back, yeah. Thinking so.

Parker

He's got a very punchable face.

Eliot

Yeah, I noticed that.

[on comm] Okay, guys, so here's the thing. All wine bottled after 1947 have trace amounts of radioactivity. Cesium isotopes from atmospheric nuclear testing

Parker

Where did you get radioactive cesium?

The things I do for Nate.

Parker

If it’s radioactive, then why are we drinking it?

Oh, come on now, it’s safe. There are trace amounts of cesium everywhere... On you, on me... Everywhere but old wine. Which is why Hardison dipped the auditor’s gloves into a slurry containing the isotope.

Parker

So I'm radioactive? Why don't I have superpowers?

Babe, we all feel cheated.

I'm saying that we, uh, I think we went overboard on Christmas gifts last year.

Parker

Nate, I love my ECOSSE motorcycle from last Christmas, compliments of my Santa baby.

Eliot

You spent $100,000 on a motorcycle?

Don't hate the gift. Hate the elf.

Eliot

I do hate the elf.

Parker

So are you saying no Christmas presents at all? Not even something small?

No gifts.

Parker

But... How are we supposed to do Christmas without any presents?

Sophie

Let's just put a limit on spending. Lets say $1,000 (Nate clears his throat.) $100 a (Nate clears his throat.) $50 bucks a person.

Parker

Fine. Whatever.

What do you think parents are most afraid of?

Parker

Clowns?

No.

Parker

Evil clowns?

No.

Parker

Crazy clowns named Gigi who whisper your name from under your bed?

[pauses] No.

Parker

Isn't this I don't know... Wrong? Messing with Christmas presents, playing with parents fears? I mean don't you feel just a little bit guilty given the holiday?

No.

Parker

I do.

Why?

Parker

Because!

Parker, why is it that people give each other Christmas presents?

Parker

To be nice!

No. Because they're being programmed by these giant corporations that do all this research to figure out how to push these psychological buttons in people to make them get these presents. Right? Make no mistake. What we're doing is we're manipulating fears and making these toys, all of it... This. This is Christmas. Yeah.

Eliot

Promise me those things will never hit toy shelves.

Parker

Nah, I'm keeping him all to myself. I've got them all lined up in my warehouse like an army of joy and rage.

You never want to be in that warehouse alone. Ever.

Sophie

I think we should give each other some trust for Christmas.

Parker

What? Like that willow exercise where you fall back and the other person catches you?

Sophie

No, not like that.

Parker

Good, because I did that once, and I dropped the person, and they had to get stitches.

Still hurts.

Parker

I know.

Parker

It's just that this is the kind of mastermind stuff you usually go off and do by yourself, you know? Well, you and your bottle. But lately, you've been involving me in the planning. And not just the heist, the cons, too.

Parker, you know, you don't let feelings get in the way. You... You rotate problems, security, people, timelines. You spin them in the three-dimensional space, like puzzle pieces until they click. It's not the way I think, but... I trust your judgment. I really do.

There it is man. They Holy grail.

Parker

A thousand bad guys.

Eliot

A lot of revenge in there, just waiting on a righteous man to take a swing.

Yeah. That man's not gonna be me. We're out. Done.

Sophie

We?

Well... That depends on - On what you say next, of course. (Nate dims the lights)

Sophie

What? Huh?

For five years I've been, I've been...

Drunk.

Parker

Lying.

You've been an ornery bastard.

Yeah, yeah. All that, all that. But you, you have always, always had my back. Now - be on my side?

Sophie

[about the ring] Did you steal it?

No!

Sophie

Because that would be more romantic, right, Parker?

I'll, uh. I'll steal the, um, First anniversary ring. Now can I get up?

Parker

No. You've got to say it.

What?

Parker

Say the thing.

What thing? Oh, The thing. Oh, uh, yeah. Will you marry me, Laura?

Sophie

Yes. Yes.

So, the hard drive. Everything thing you need is right there.

You know what. I'm going to dump this on the dark net.

Parker

Every crew from around the world will want in with us.

Just think about it. Leverage International.

That sounds pretty good.