Maggie quotes from Leverage

Maggie

[Punches Blackpoole] Screw therapy! That felt really good.

Ian

Nate. Why did you come to me?

Well, I knew you'd pay the best price. Renaissance art is your life. Guilt was a bonus.

Ian

You hate me.

Yeah. Of course I hate you. I mean, what--what? You think I want to be here? I don't have a choice, all right?! I'm drunk, I’m broke, I'm living out of my car, I just want the paycheck, and at this point, I don't care where it comes from.

Maggie

Nate?

Maggie.

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

I haven't dated a lot since my marriage broke up.

Eliot

I'm sorry to hear that.

Maggie

No, don't be. He was obsessive, perfectionist, controlling.

Organized! She used to say I was organized. And punctual.

Mm-hmm.

Eliot

He must have had some good qualities.

Maggie

No, not even in bed.

Parker

Ooh!

Maggie

Every night was prom night. You know what I mean? But worst of all, he completely forgot that I gave him that same button camera for Christmas three years ago.

I can explain.

Maggie

That whole sob story about being broke, and sleeping in your car, and being a drunk.

Was! Was broke. Was sleeping in the car. The drunk thing, not quite in the past tense.

Maggie

Blackpoole's a bastard, Nate. He was a bastard when you worked for him. What's changed? Just help me understand.

I have to tell you something, Mag. [sits down on a bench] Please.

Maggie

What?

Mag, when Sam was in stage 4, I found a treatment that would've helped him. And I went to Ian to pay for it, and he wouldn't.

Maggie

He wouldn't?

He wouldn't. I told him we had mortgaged the house, sold the car, that we were broke, and he still wouldn't pay the claim. 20 years at that company, and they wouldn't help save our son.

Maggie

Why didn't you tell me this? I work with these people, Nate. I am friendly with them. You just let me walk around like an idiot. He’s my son too! [wipes tears]

I know, I know.

Maggie

Why have you just been carrying this around all this time?

I didn't want you to hate me, Maggie.

Maggie

Why would I hate you?

I do. If I had ever seen you look at me the way I looked at myself in the mirror, I would've blown my damn brains out.

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

Nate?

Hmm?

Maggie

You can't just make somebody do what you want them to do.

Eliot

Whoa.

That's what we do. I mean…

Parker

[pets Maggie's head] You're adorable.

Maggie, it won't fall out. Just pretend it's not there.

Maggie

Yeah, just forget my ex-Husband's voice in my head, telling me what he thinks I should do. I'm in therapy to solve this problem.

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.

Maggie

Will you stop now?

I don't know.

Maggie

Interesting.

Hmm?

Maggie

You admitting you don't know something.

Maggie

You are not the man I married.

Well, what do you think of this version?

Maggie

I don't love him. But I might like him a little more.

Parker

[to Maggie] It's your first time being a fugitive so I made you a bag.

Maggie

Thank you, Parker. [to Nate] It's not that I don't appreciate getting out of jail. I just can't live my life a fugitive!

But you're not a fugitive.

Parker

Passports, money, lock-picks…

You were released, not broken out.

Parker

Toothpaste, explosives. Do not mix these up.

Maggie

Thank you, Parker. But you released me to run. I'm not going anywhere until my name is cleared.

Right, right, and that's what I'm here to do! To get the egg back and clear your name!

Maggie

But you're clearing my name with thieves! No offense, Parker.

Parker

[confused] At what?

I was lying to you for your own good.

Maggie

Quick little hint for your next marriage. That excuse does not fly with any woman on Earth.

Eliot

Its 101, man. After that, you don't have to be rocket scientist to figure it out.

Maggie

[Impressed] You know, people underestimate you, Eliot.

That's kind of the point.