Sophie quotes from Leverage

Why'd you come back? We agreed to scatter for six months. All of you–all of you—made an amateur move being there.

Parker

It's too hard to leave a job undone. It's like an itch.

I put a lot of work into us, into that office. It was like my second home. I blew up my second home.

Eliot

As annoying as you people are, I quit this crew when I quit this crew. Nobody makes me leave.

Sophie

I just, I really wanted to hurt Sterling.

Sophie

It's going to be twice as hard to steal those statues.

Oh, no, no. It'll be four times as hard. They know we're coming.

Parker

And how do they know that?

I went to their office and told them.

Eliot

We can't run a con. They know our faces.

Parker

What about Maggie?

Sophie

Exactly. I mean, most of the museum people aren't gonna recognize us, But Maggie. She works down there.

Parker

No, what about Maggie? She's inside.

Eliot

You just said that. She just said--

No, wait. No, hold--Listen. Listen, I get--I get it. Just have Eliot call her as Dr. Sinclair. We won't play her. He'll just feel her out.

Have Eliot...feel out my wife?

Sophie

Ex, Nate. Ex-Wife.

Parker

Okay, look, you always have a Plan B right? So, fine. Without Maggie, what's the Plan B?

Eliot

You come here a lot?

Maggie

No. I just wanted to see you.

Sophie

That's a date.

Parker

Did we really need to put a button cam on Eliot?

Safety issue.

Maggie

You actually expect this to work?

Um...

No, you're supposed to say "Wow, that's just crazy enough to work!"

Sophie

Incredibly, chance does seem to bend itself to his bizarre machinations.

Parker

[whispering to Maggie] That's his superpower.

Maggie

So nobody else finds it annoying when you nag them in the middle of these things?

Sophie

Why don't I run this one, Nate?

Yeah.

I don't nag. You know, I just have, you know, a clear big-picture viewpoint.

Actually, you know what? We did kind of like the way Sophie ran the last one.

Eliot

Yeah. Yeah. Up until the point where she got us caught, but other than that, it was great.

Sophie

[To Maggie] Okay, why don't you run up to him. Be just a little bit out of breath. It changes the speech rhythms, makes it harder to detect a lie.

You see? Like that right there. It's informative.

Eliot

You learn, and you con.

Eliot

You need something?

Sophie

I was just trying to make myself useful.

Eliot

Yeah, well, last time you tried that, we had to blow up the office.

Sophie

That's not fair.

Eliot

I was just getting used to it.

Sophie

What? Having an office?

Eliot

Being part of a team.

Sophie

Look, I didn't mean, you know, it wasn't supposed to go down like that.

Parker

What's going on?

Eliot

Sophie here was just trying to apologize.

Sophie

No, I wasn't.

Parker

She tried that with me earlier. She kind of sucks at it.

Eliot

A little bit.

Oh, did she give you the speech about how we're thieves and about how this is what thieves do and if we were in her shoes, we'd have done the same thing?

Eliot

No, I think she was just getting to that part. [Pauses] You apologized to him first, huh? Why am I last?

Sophie

I wasn't apologizing. I...

Eliot

That's the problem.

Sophie

I just wanted to see if w-we… we were all okay with each other.

Eliot

Okay. There it is.

Parker

I forgive you.

Apology accepted.

Eliot

Yeah.

Sophie

No, I wasn't— unh-unh, you, I didn't...

Sophie

No. No, no, no. Stop it. There is nothing you can say that's gonna make me feel better.

Parker

I know what could make you feel better. We should steal something.

No, no.

Sophie

Yes! We could do it together.

Eliot

I like this. Get right back up on the bike.

Parker

Bike of crime.

Didn't you earlier tell me how great your new lives were?

Parker

I stole the Hope Diamond.

What?

Parker

And then I put it back. Yeah. Because I was bored. Didn't care.

I spent three days hacking White House e-mail. No buzz.

Sophie

See?

But we are doing some hinky stuff in Pakistan. Hinky.

Sophie

Look, I'm miserable, they're miserable. [to Eliot] Okay, what-what have you been doing the last six months?

Eliot

…I was in Pakistan.

You see what you did? You took the world's best criminals, hitter, [Eliot points] hacker, grifter, [Sophie raises her hand] thief, [Parker raises her hand] you took us and you broke us.

No, no, I…what I did, I taught you how to help people. That's, that's all.

Parker

Exactly.

Sophie

Yeah

Eliot

This is the problem, though, with being the good guy. You…you…it gets under your skin.

Sophie

Look, Nate. You have to some poor little lost soul somewhere that needs a little extra-legal aid.

Look, we all…we agreed that we would just move on.

Sophie

Yeah, but…we're…we're thieves.

Okay, I want you out of my house. Out. I'm getting cleaned up. I'm going upstairs. I want all this stuff out of here. I want you guys out of here. I'm not a part of this.

Sophie

Okay.

Not a part of this. This is you guys.

Sophie

We got it.

If you want to do this thing, you're on your own.

Understood?

Sophie

Uh-huh.

Sophie

(to Eliot) So, you going?

Eliot

I'm not going anywhere. The man has 700 sports channels.

Sophie

Wait, so if these are supposed to be just fake businesses, how come their financials are so squeaky clean?

Because they're fake businesses. I mean, come on, it's right there. I mean, I'm just saying.

What? Sophie, how, how do you catch mob guys?

Sophie

Uhh, two glasses of Chianti and a story about my grandmom in Sicily.

How does the government catch mob guys?

Taxes.

That's how they got Capone.

Sophie

That's how they get everybody. Yeah, they never get you for the crime; they always get you for the taxes. It's not really fair.

I mean, it's perfect. You know, I don't even think it's illegal. I mean, if we were gonna do this, this job—

Sophie

Just this one job.

Yes, just this one.

Sophie

Yeah.

I mean, the con that you'd want to do...

Hypothetically.

...hypothetically, you know, is, the turnabout, of course.

Sophie

Oh, that is a good one.

Eliot

You know, it takes… five people to do the turnabout.

Sophie

That's true.

Parker

Hmm.

Sophie

There's just the four of us.

Parker

Need one more person.

We've got to scare the banker into turning against the mob. All right. All right, we'll do this job. Just this one.

Sophie

Oh, well.

If you really want.

Sophie

If you insist.

Parker

Great.

Sophie

We're on board.

So, how did you do it?

Eliot

Detonator, (holds up remote, reaches into his shirt and pulls out ketchup wrapper) ketchup.

Ah, the classics.

Sophie

Oh, I love a good death scene!

Sophie

Still your last job?

Well, maybe…

Sophie

Yeah?

I mean, you know, until I find a job I like enough, you know, to stay out of the bars.

Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

And then I'm out. I'm done.

Parker

Sure.

Eliot

Yeah. 'Cause you're not a thief.