Sophie quotes from Leverage

Sophie

I'm starving.

Parker

Ooh! Found these in the mini-bar.

Sophie

Pork rinds? How do you peel a pig?

Sophie

You don't have to do this, you know. Nate's gonna come up with something.

Eliot

I'm losing a fight, Sophie, I'm not diving on a grenade. I'll be all right.

Sophie

Yeah, I know, I'm not talking physically.

Eliot

I think my ego can handle it.

Sophie

Look, you told me it's about control, about knowing that you're never going to be the victim. And that's what keeps you going, right?

Eliot

You think I'm upset because I gotta let this guy kick my ass? I learned a long time ago that you can't control the violence. I can take the pain—that's what I do. What I need to control is not out there. [Puts his hand over his heart] It's in here. Always.

Sophie

Get the doctor, Parker, now.

No need, it'll be over in a couple of minutes.

Sophie

You don't get it, do you? Eliot's not like other fighters! He doesn't play games! He fights to survive, that's his training. It takes all his control not to kill somebody! You've just made him more dangerous; you've taken the safety off the gun!

Parker

Is it just me, or has Nate gotten even more sadistic since he quit drinking?

Sophie

Is it just me, [grins] or does that make him even more attractive?

I want someone to like me. Does that get easier when you're a grown-up?

Sophie

[long pause] Um, no, I don't think it does.

You're nice. But weird.

Sophie

'The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of a king.'

Ah. Sophie, how long will it take you to stage a musical?

Sophie

Six weeks.

You have two days.

Sophie

Did—did…Did you just make that up on the spot?

Yes, ma'am.

Sophie

Huh. You really are quite relentless.

Thank you, ma'am.

Yeah, Sophie's gonna be doing this one.

Eliot

What?

Yeah.

Sophie

Yeah. I'm gonna be Nate on this one. Only, you know, nicer.

Parker

But if you're gonna be Nate, who's gonna be you?

Sophie

You.

Parker

Me?

Eliot

I don't mean to obsess about the last time Sophie ran a con, but, I'm sorry, where we had to blow up the offices!

Sophie

Really, 'cause I don't remember that.

I do.

Sophie

…and then to protect themselves, they issue an apology to Mr. Pennington, and then they throw Monica Hunter into the jaws of the very media machine that she bent to her own malicious will.

Parker

Wow. I gotta say, Sophie's briefings are much more dramatic.

Eliot

And poetic.

Sophie

She has to have corroboration from her own sources, she has to craft the narrative. Monica Hunter has to be the author of her own personal nightmare!

Do I sound that creepy when I—

Eliot

Hell. Yes.

Sophie

Now that's what I call control.

Yeah, we might have, uh, pushed too hard.

Sophie

Please.

Parker

Too much.

Eliot

Little bit.

[over comms] Get me out of here!

Sophie

Yeah, I—I'm working on it!

Parker

On it! [gets ready to leave]

Sophie

No, no, no, no! You cannot go. You're dead. Monica Hunter sees you and the whole con is blown.

Parker

Right.

Damn the con! I am a black man caught on an Army base with a video camera! I am going to jail forever!

Eliot, give me everything you can on a Lt. Abbot. Just, just do what I taught you.

Eliot

Now the http thing comes before the www, right?

Eliot!

Eliot

And which one's the forward slash?

Sophie

Come on.

It ain't the time, Eliot. It ain't—it ain't the time.

Eliot

You see, it's not that much fun when you're hanging out there in the wind and there's a dude behind a laptop cracking jokes, is there?

This is the vice president of the frozen foods division, Erik Casten. Erik with a K, Casten with a C.

And how is that relevant?

Parker

Oh. Eric with a C? Nice and friendly. Erik with a K? Evil.

Sophie

I didn't know that.

Parker

Everybody knows that.

That's our way in. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's it. That's it. The state of the company meeting, here we go.

Eliot

What is that? I don't know what that is.

Parker

Me neither.

It's like State of the Union?

Sophie

What is that?

Oh, right, right. You guys never had real jobs.