Eliot quotes from Leverage

No, no, no. We can't send another climber on the ridge, no.

Eliot

You sure about that?

What do you mean?

Eliot

'Cause I got a footprint. Russian. Spetsnaz.

Parker

[Incredulously] Seriously?

Eliot

It's a very distinctive footprint.

Eliot

I got to take the rigging off of him. We need the rope.

Parker

No!

Eliot

Parker!

Parker

No! No!

Eliot

It's done.

Parker

This is what we're supposed to do! We're supposed to get him back to his wife! Nate would do it, Sophie would do it, Hardison would do it! They would do the right thing! I want to do the right thing!

Eliot

Hey. It's a good thing it was us.

Parker

Because we'd leave him.

Eliot

Because they would've kept trying and they would've froze to death right next to him, especially Hardison. So it was a good thing it was us. The two of us, we do things they can't. Won't.

Parker

Does that make us bad?

Eliot

It makes us... us. Now, you can take that as a gift, or you can take it as a curse. And that's up to you.

Eliot

Hardison!

Ye... Yes! Ye... wait. Parker. Parker? You there?

Parker

Talking... uses... oxygen.

Right. Look, y'all, I just... (wiping eyes) I just want to say that y'all are my peoples, and...

Eliot

Hardison.

You know, I was so scared.

Eliot

Hardison, shut up!

Sophie

It's a gala. That's great. The place is gonna be swarming with guests.

Eliot

Okay, that's fine for you two, but what about the three of us? How do we get in?

Uh, excuse you. Do you not know my name? It's nothing to get on that list. I've been to the Oscars every year since I was 15.

Eliot

[Angrily, over the comm] Why'd you have to dress me up like Howdy Doody?!

Sophie

Actually, Charlie Siringo was a real-life cowboy and a Pinkerton detective.

Eliot

Why couldn't you have picked me something normal, like Hardison?

Excuse you? No way in the world I'd have picked Encyclopedia Brown as my....these ugly-ass penny loafers.

Sophie

Hardy Boys. You're the Hardy Boys, and Parker's Nancy Drew.

Eliot

Yeah, well, why did Nate get to pick his own gear?

Sophie

Because he's just a bit more of a whiny baby than the rest of you.

Wait, wait. What the hell's going on down there? Nate killed somebody?

Eliot

No, Nate didn't kill somebody. You didn't, did you?

Of course not.

Parker

You'd tell us, though. Wouldn't you?

Yes, Parker, I would tell you if I murdered the mark.

Eliot

The point is, if we don't solve this murder, you're cooked. You get that?

Yeah. I get that.

Eliot

Okay. Forget the job. Forget the blueprints. If you didn't kill this guy --

"If?"

Eliot

If you didn't kill this guy, then you're the only witness. You better solve this murder, Nate.

Or?

Eliot

Or you're gonna take the fall.

Eliot

This is a bad idea. The way I get information out of guys is usually loud and messy.

Tonight you're a grifter. Adapt.

Eliot

Yeah, when this is over, me and you are gonna have a little talk.

Try not to assault this one, Eliot.

Eliot

Messy and loud, Nate. I told you. Adapt.

Eliot

Stop! Stop with the Star Trek stuff again!

Wars! Damn it, it's Star Wars. And-and that C.G.I. Yoda they used in the prequels is an insult to the puppet they—Y-you know what, man? It's not even worth discussing.

Eliot

You're the only one discussing it.

Parker

I kind of like C.G.I. Yoda.

Eliot

This guy's a ghost, Nate. He operates like we do. His clients are by referral, and he stays in the shadows. How we supposed to take this guy down?

The same way we would destroy me.I mean, what we're really asking here is how would I destroy myself.?

Parker

Yeah, and you can't say "booze."

It was reckless.

Parker

It was worth it.

Eliot

Yeah, this time.

Parker

(to Hardison) Bet you're starting to like that C.G.I. Yoda a little bit now?

Yeah, when he gives back the childhood he stole from me. Why don't you just ask me to join the dark side? Go ahead.

Eliot

Where are you at?

I'm in a damn storage closet. Smells like mothballs and old people.

Or -- but -- not -- no, not -- not a toy.

Eliot

What, man? He's telling me to learn technical stuff all the time.

Well, that'll never happen.