Sophie quotes from Leverage

Oh, damn. (sits up) Oh.

Sophie

Nate. (hands him his shirt) We were being spontaneous, living in the moment.

Yeah. Yeah, it was, uh, it was a mistake, yeah.

Sophie

It's called… The San Lorenzo.

Is that what they call it? (puts on shirt) Um, Sophie, I, um…

Sophie

Mm?

I'm sorry. But you know that I don't want a relationship. I really, I-I-I--

Sophie

Of course you don't. Well, the work's the most important thing. (moves to sit at the counter) I mean, the team's perfect the way it is. Why change?

E-exactly what I was gonna say. Yeah.

Sophie

Hey, we're adults. We enjoy each other's company. You know, we don't have to turn this into a big thing. We're friends with... extras. There's nothing wrong with that... What'd I say?

Hmm? [The team walks in]

What?

Sophie

What?

Now, come on. Don't, I can't...

Sophie

What, do this?

No, I just, it's...

Sophie

You can't do this? Really?

Well, it's...

Sophie

A former Jesuit seminary student doesn't know if he can handle a casual relationship.

No, it's...

Sophie

What a shocker.

No, it's just, I mean, this, um, just... what, what do we, uh, do?

Sophie

I say, dinner.

Just a, just a bite to eat.

Sophie

As colleagues.

As friends.

Sophie

Exactly.

Sophie

I mean, that's not greed we're looking at it. It's grief.

Eliot

I thought we were supposed to hate the guys that we take down.?

Not a requirement, a perk... usually.

Darlene Wickett and her sons are embezzling money from the dying and grieving. It's the oldest grift in the book.

Sophie

And the cruelest. Even I never ran that one--it's tacky.

Sophie

Everything all right, Parker?

Parker

I can't stop thinking about the Newtons. Nate said that they had faith that their father was at peace, but it's not enough. How do you do it?

Sophie

Do what?

Parker

How do you… care? You know, when you know that people, people that you like, that, someday, they'll die?

Sophie

You know, Parker, we never really talk about it, but if you lost someone when you were just a child, then you might put up walls to make sure that you never got hurt again. Trust me, this life is not worth living without the people that make us want to tear down those walls. The thrill of vulnerability, the danger of opening your heart, it makes us feel alive.

Parker

I feel alive when I'm jumping off a building.

Sophie

Well, maybe that's why they call it falling in love.

Parker

[Hardison is currently buried and struggling] Sophie, he's losing it. He needs you.

Sophie

Parker, listen to me, you have spent a disproportionate amount of your life in air ducts. You more than anyone know how control your breathing. He doesn't need me. He needs you.

Parker? Parker?

Parker

Hardison? Hardison. Okay, Hardison, I need you to calm down. Listen to me. Okay, take a deep breath in.(Hardison takes a deep breath) Okay, good. Now let it out.(Hardison lets the breath out as tears leak from his eyes) Okay, c-come on. Come on. You got to do this with me, okay? Okay, here we go. Let's do this together, okay? Deep breath in. (Parker takes a deep breath in, and Hardison copies)

Good. Okay, good.

Parker

There you go.

Parker, don't, don't get off the phone. Please, I-I don't want to be alone again.

Parker

I'm not getting off this phone until we get you out of there, okay?

Now I think con men or grifters, whatever they're called, are the worst people in the world.

Sophie

I wouldn't necessarily say that this guy was a grifter. I mean, it sounds like he's more like a common criminal.

Well, what's the difference?

Sophie

A con, or a grift, when it's performed properly, it combines elegance and style with a, with a classical imitation of legitimate enterprise, parody--

(clears throat and puts his hand on Sophie’s leg) What she's trying to say is that it's not your fault.

Greg Sherman, aka....what is it again?

Parker

Crappie? Blowfish?

Sophie

Gefilte Fish.

Eliot

You carry high heels in your purse?

Sophie

I always travel with heels.

Eliot

Don't suppose you travel with handcuffs?

Sophie

No, not on this trip.

Sophie

Hey, you all right with this one?

What?

Sophie

Well, you said it yourself—-a kid's life is at stake. You don't think this might get too personal?

Does it matter?

[on how they're going to steal an airline employee badge] We're gonna twist Sophie's ankle.

Parker

[asking how to get another badge] How do we get do that? Break Eliot's wrist?

What? No, we just pick one up from where the ground crew left it.

Sophie

[discussing the final step-getting into the airline tower] Well, we have to lure them out...

Parker

Oh! Okay, set Nate on fire?

Eliot

[looking annoyed] Settle down!

Sophie

You just told the mark we're after him.

No, no. He knew we were on to him as soon as we grounded his plane.

Sophie

You gave him your name!

I want him to know my name.

I know what you're gonna say.

Sophie

I think you should have a drink.

Okay, I didn't know what you were gonna say.

This thing is like the nuclear equivalent of the One Ring.

Sophie

Ring? What ring?

Oh, please. Don't get him started.