Sophie quotes from Leverage

Sophie

Why would someone dedicate so much time listening to nothing?

For the hope of what they might hear.

Sophie

Just so you know, I really, really hate you.

[chuckles] Hm! Don't worry. It's perfectly safe. [pause] Ish.

Sophie

That is the last time I lie about playing Peter Pan on Broadway!

Sophie

Oh, Nate, you know that the core of good acting comes from persistence of tectonics.

No idea what that means. Very concerned that you do.

[over comms] Sophie, we're gonna run a version of the White Van Speakers. Your acting students, do you think they can handle it?

Sophie

Of course they can. They're my students.

What was that?

Sophie

It's just Zachary getting to his authentic place.

Sophie

Did you know about this, girls being dropped from 20 feet? It's unbelievable.

Parker

I know, right? 20 feet. Pfft, walk it off.

Sophie

Parker, you do know that normal people don't just walk off a 20 foot fall, right?

No.

Eliot

I thought it was funny, Parker.

No way in hell was it funny.

Eliot

You were always upside down, man.

I fell off a building, yeah I was upside down.

Eliot

Like a pinwheel, like a Himalayan tree frog.

You call me a frog?

Eliot

[makes popping sounds while gesturing with his hands]

You call me a damn frog?

Eliot

Pop pop and upside down. Yeah.

Say it to my face.

Guys, maybe focus. Guys, focus.

Damn frog.

Sophie

I love government. Shady deals, back-room meetings. It is grifter paradise.

Eliot

This is wrong. We work outside the law, not smack-dab in the middle of it.

Relax, Eliot. Elected officials are the easiest marks in the world. Between their ego, the greed, and the politics, more hooks than a bait shop.

You said you like back-room dealings.

Sophie

I like stealing things that are real. Cash, of course. Land, sure. Art, yes, please. Corn subsidies? Not so much.

Sophie, where are you?

Sophie

Trying to improve the air quality standards in Massachusetts.

Okay, for corn subsidies?

Sophie

[frustrated] No, to get me the fishery concessions, that I then trade for logging rights, to get me the redistricting deal, that gets me the grant funding, that gets me the solar subsidies, that finally gets me the bloody stinking corn subsidies. I don't know how anything gets done around here. You have to be a grifter to run government.

Ready. Ready. Ready. Ready. Ready, let's go.

Ready?

Ready!

Sophie

Ready.

Eliot

Ready.

Parker

Ready.

Let's go.

Um, Ms. Barron, the system’s giving me an alert. I’m not sure that transfer is legal.

Why not?

It says there’s a 1938 labor law requiring textile companies to keep cash on hand to pay overtime.

Is that for real?

I’m checking, but it does seem to be legitimate.

' What about the All-Cheer Competition League? We run a competition a week. They must have plenty of cash on hand.

' Oh, keep it coming. Keep it... do what you got to do.

We can’t use that money, either, because... Because we’re a sweepstakes?

We’re what?

We’re not a sport, so technically, this says, we’re a sweepstakes. There... there are a lot of restrictions on what you can do with sweepstakes money.

Go for C.T.V.C. All those broadcast contracts... they must have cash.

Um, ma’am, C.T.V.C. Is under investigation for indecency.

Well, when the hell did that happen?

Sophie

Oh. There. Right there, sir. That is a wardrobe malfunction. I can see her hoo-hah! Her hoo-hah, sir! Are you blind?! Do I need to call Congressman Caballo? Or Congressman Greenhill? I will call my whole rolodex, sir!

Your tickets, ma'am.

What was that about?

Sophie

I'm just planning a trip to the Gulf. The military are breaking ground on Fort Deveraux.

Sophie

[giving the briefing] It's 1971, the day before Thanksgiving. A 727 takes off from Portland bound for Seattle. It is hijacked by this man, a passenger who goes by the name of Dan Cooper.

Parker

Wait. I thought his name was D.B. Cooper?

That was misheard by a reporter at the scene, and then it was repeated until it became gospel. [To Sophie] I'm sorry. I didn't mean to interrupt your swooning. Go on and swoon.

Sophie, just real quick, you had a poster of D.B. over your bed when you was like, 15. Tell the truth. You did, didn't you?

Sophie

So what? What if I did?

If you could choose someone from The Odyssey that most resembles me, who would it be?

Sophie

Well...the hero, obviously. Odysseus. Cunning warrior, master of disguise, and it means "trouble" in Greek.

When you spend most of your time getting inside the minds of bad people, you are looking for their flaws and their weaknesses, that's pretty much all you see in everyone.

Sophie

That's not what happened to Peter McSweeten.

Ah, Peter McSweeten isn't Jimmy Ford's son.