Sterling quotes from Leverage

Sterling

You know how to get rid of me. But that would violate all twelve steps, wouldn't it?

Sterling

[To Nate] Crime suits you. You're becoming a much better liar.

Sterling

James Sterling. Interpol. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

Sterling

[to Sophie] It's always nice to bring a thief to justice, even if it's not you.

Sterling

And despite your efforts to drop off the map, I now know your new base of operations. Everything is sunshine and rainbows.

Sterling

Why are you playing poker with my client, Nate?

Alan Foss is your client. Huh. The fire, you're investigating the stable fire for IYS, you got my old job.

Sterling

Actually, I have your old office, very roomy. Allow me to rephrase. Why is an ex-insurance agent playing poker with the subject of an open insurance investigation?

Open investigation? Local cops think it was an accident.

Sterling

Local cops don't have to write a check for $2 million. It's my job to make sure that doesn't--Uh huh. Oh, Nate, that's pathetic. This is another one of those complicated little games that you like to play. All right, so, you're hustling Foss, trying to prove arson or get him on fraud. Whatever, as long as the company doesn't have to write the check. You're trying to get your old job back.

Okay. You have it all figured out. I'll just back off from now on, hm?

Sterling

Nah. It's too late for that. Tell you the truth, though. I'd kind of given up on Foss. I like the trainer for the fire, Willy Martin.

Willy Martin's an innocent man.

Sterling

We're insurance men, Nate. We don't care about who's innocent and who's guilty. Just who pays.

Electronic locks, electronic throttle, power steering, keyless entry...uh, you know what runs all that?

Parker

Computers?

Oh, yeah.

Sterling

Hello? Police? Listen, I'm at the racetrack. Yeah, I just passed a black van. I can't be sure, but I think I heard screaming from inside. And there is blood, like, all over the back of the doors. Sure, yeah, they could have had guns. Who knows? Yeah, a black van. Yeah, sure. I'll hold.

Parker

How did--he's like Nate. Evil Nate!

Sterling

You know, I couldn't believe it at first.

Sterling, welcome.

Sterling

Then again, you did drink yourself right out of a job. Lost your house, your wife, plenty of money troubles.

Keep talking. You'll get to the point eventually.

Sterling

Nathan Ford is a common criminal.

Oh, common. That’s just hurtful.

Sterling

Look, it's terrible, what happened to your son. No one's denying that. Suffering doesn't automatically make you a hero.

I never claimed to be.

Sterling

You just think you're above the law.

Oh, no. I like think of it as I pick up where the law leaves off.

Sterling

[Scoffs] I'm not gonna be so nice next time.

Mm. Neither will I.

Sterling

[To Nate, over Parker's comm] Let's see how many birds we have in hand. You know this is Parker's. Now, Alec Hardison?

[Over Hardison's comm] Accounted for, Mr. Sterling. And we have the cash, too.

Sterling

Marvelous. Mr. Spencer?

Eliot

[Over the comm] Hey, Sterling. I got some dental work with your name on it. What do you say we hook up so I can give it to you?

Sterling

Seems that Mr. Quinn was not quite as effective as promised. Still, two birds in the hand are worth three in the bush.

Sterling

Do you remember when we were friends? After work, we used to come up here, have a drink, watch the sun set.

We were never friends, Sterling.

Sterling

So the answer to my question would be no, then.

Hey, Sterling! Get out of our house!

Maybe he was bluffing.

Sterling

That's a funny thing about con men. They don't bluff.

I got out of sales.

Ian

So, what are you in now?

Theft. Yeah, I’m going to rob the Two Davids gallery on opening day.

Sterling

Aren't you gonna call the, uh, police?

Ian

Of course not.

Sterling

Eliot Spencer?

Eliot Spencer, wanted in five countries, including Myanmar, which is offering a half-million-dollar bounty on his head.

Sterling

Bringing Spencer to justice and getting paid for it? It's icing on the cake.

Sterling

Parker?

Parker. Wanted in nine countries, including Brazil and Yemen.

Sterling

Yeah, tough choice. I'll have to flip a coin.

Sterling

How about Sophie Devereaux?

England, France, Spain, Luxembourg--Europe, basically.

Sterling

France. Wonderful shopping, horrifying prisons.

Sterling

Alec Hardison

Well, he better not show his face in Iceland.

Sterling

Perfect. I'll drop him off on my way to France.

Ian

Well, well, well. What the hell are you doing here?

Well, I bought a ticket. It's open to the public.

Sterling

I don't think--

Ian

Of course. Enjoy yourself.

[to Sterling] You heard him.

Ian

Conspiracy to commit robbery is what, five years? Catching him in the act, 20.