Leverage · Season 1
This would be easier if you were in here.
Well, we would be if Sophie weren't already old friends with the ambassador.
I wouldn't say "old" friends exactly.
[Flashback, Sophie, under a guise, receiving a check worth $355,000.00 from the US ambassador]
The United States is pleased to make the first payment for construction of the trans-Ukrainian pipeline to her Royal Highness, Princess Magda of Slovenia.
[End Flashback]
[Smiling] I still have that tiara, though.
It’s not so fun working in the crappy command center, is it? No, see, you're usually off doing your European spy thing. Well, welcome to my world.
Now anchor the emotion. Raise the champagne flute to your lips.
[Eliot touches his glass to Irina’s]
Cheers.
Take a nice, long sip. And now every time she laughs or smiles, repeat that motion. She’s gonna link that to a nice, warm feeling. You can use that later.
That, uh, drink thing. You’ve never used that on me, have you?
[takes a drink of her soda] I would never.
Of course not.
So, how'd you know Irina would go for the movie thing?
A European grifter who wants to be an actress? Lucky guess.
This is what he expects me to do, fetch scripts and water?
No, it's a trust thing. He just needs to know that you’re gonna go along with the game plan.
Yeah, yeah. I get it. We're a team.
A little more than a team. I’m just saying.
This, this, this is my world! Okay, you need, you need someone to, I dunno, crawl through an air duct, you call Parker. Bash a head in? Eliot. Internet porn? Hardison! You need someone to take over a movie, then...
I ask an actor. Right. Um. Sophie. About the acting…
Oh, yeah? What? What is it?
[looks around uncomfortably] You're right. You're right. You, you know, we're gonna, we're gonna go with your scene.
Really?! Ohh! It’s gonna be -- it's gonna be fantastic.
It certainly is.
She [Sophie] can't act!
Oh, she can act. When it's an act.
I can't believe they sent you to babysit me.
I’m here on my own.
We have to bail.
No. no, no, no. What about Luka and the others? We can't leave them like that.
Why not?
You don't mean that.
You think this is the only crappy orphanage in this place? This is a country full of orphans, okay? We can't save them all.
No, but we can save this one. Parker, we can--we can save this one. Look, I know growing up was tough. I-I know that you--you grew up in the system. It was--it was bad. I know. It was, it was worse than bad, but that doesn't mean that all foster parents are monsters. Mine wasn't.
You grew up with your grandmother.
We called her "Nana," but she was our foster mom. She, uh...she--she would cuss like a sailor. The old girl would tan your ass just as soon as look at you. But--but she fed us, she bathed us, she put a roof over our head. And, oh, she would raise hell if you so much as looked at us crooked.
Yeah?
Yeah.
Well, you were lucky. No. We’ll put these kids in the system, and odds are, they're gonna--they're gonna... (trying not to cry) they're gonna turn out like me.
I like how you turned out.
[Parker breathes hard, getting control of herself]
Chechen separatists. Seriously bad dudes. (Eliot chuckles) After reading their bios, I don't think I’m ever gonna sleep again.
Never tell a Chechen his sister has a nice smile. Trust me.
Okay. [in Serbian] Don’t be afraid [refers to translation book] I will make your tomato shiny. [children laugh, and Parker moves toward door] Please come with— [Parker exits the room, but the children do not follow. She reenters and checks the book again] Okay, um... [in Serbian] Men will sadden you. [children laugh, Parker motions toward door] Come on.[the children don’t move] Okay, um... Haagen-Daz?
Haagen-Daz!
Hey, how did you know I’d be at the orphanage?
Thank Hardison for that.
You know you could have gotten killed. Did you even have an exit strategy?
[Apologetically] I didn't really think that far ahead.
You don't work alone anymore, you know that?
I know.
We're a team.
We're a little more than a team.
[Parker walks away and Hardison smiles]
Hey, Nate, I have to tell you something.
What? What is it?
[Whispering] We have to stop at Haagen-Daz.
Haagen-Daz!!
What's going on?
Client meeting.
I can see that. I thought I pick the clients. Who is that crying?
Teresa Palermo. Her husband owed money to the mob, and he took the fall for a murder the boss committed. She's a friend of Sophie’s.
I see. Stick around, Hardison. We're gonna have a meeting later about how things work around here.
This is probably a bad time to talk about Christmas, huh?
Where did my daughter go?
I think she was with Parker.
[Parker is teaching the little girl how to pick locks]
Go!
[they both begin to work on the locks, after a few seconds, the girl gets hers open]
Six seconds! Give it up! [they high-five] Good job.
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