Leverage quotes

Eliot

This detonator. If I'm around the corner, is this going to be in range?

Hardison

Should be. I haven't worked out all the kinks yet. Sometimes the thing just goes off.

Eliot

Whoa, whoa, wait! Hey! I thought you said this thing was safe!

Hardison

Mostly, mostly safe. I was very specific. Sometimes the frequencies get messed up.

Eliot

What frequencies, man, huh? I got these things in my pants.

Hardison

Like a, you know, a garage door opener, car alarm.

Parker

What are the odds that Eliot's crotch will actually explode?

Eliot

Dammit, Hardison!

There are wolves in the world. That's what Dad says. "Be careful, Zoe. There are wolves in the world."

Nate

He was not wrong.

Yeah?

So the world's just like this, huh? Bad people do bad things and they always get away with it. Nobody stops them.

Parker

Oh! They're probably gonna shoot Nate in the face!

Nate

Parker, I can hear you.

Parker

Sorry. Forgot about the... (Points to earbud)

Oh, come on. These guys are the past. What do you think these guys clear in a year? Stealing cigarettes, selling drugs, a couple hundred thousand, all in?

And for that, the government hunts them down like dogs. People like me, we took billions from the banks. Billions. And what did the government do when they finally caught us? They wrote us a giant check and begged us to make it all better.

Nate

So, how did you do it?

Eliot

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

Nate

Ah, the classics.

Sophie

Oh, I love a good death scene!

I was tricked. I was tricked! It wasn't—It wasn't me, you understand!

Somebody tricked you into bringing a briefcase full of evidence of your own crime straight to the police? [Laughs] Come on, Mr. Leary. Nobody's that smart.

Thank you. There are wolves in the world. [Looks at the team] But sometimes they're the good guys I guess.

Sophie

Still your last job?

Nate

Well, maybe…

Sophie

Yeah?

Nate

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

Hardison

Idle hands are the devil's workshop.

Nate

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

Parker

Sure.

Eliot

Yeah. 'Cause you're not a thief.

Sophie

I'm starving.

Parker

Ooh! Found these in the mini-bar.

Sophie

Pork rinds? How do you peel a pig?

What event are you here to produce?

Hardison

On it. Tractor pull in Grand Island…a livestock show in Council Bluffs…white people doing other white people things…

Hardison

Look, you know what I can do? I can re-task a satellite. I can get a level-three NSA clearance. But I can't hack a hick.

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!

Nate

I'm thinking!

Parker

Nate, hate to rush you, but Eddie goes to the prison in an hour, so…

Parker

So what do we do now?

Nate

Well, I just sent Eddie to the hospital. So let's go steal us a hospital.