Leverage · Season 1
I'm going to beat Dubenich so bad even the people that look like him are going to bleed.
You won't get within a hundred yards. He knows your face. He knows all our faces.
He tried to kill us.
More importantly, he didn't pay us.
How is that more important?!
I take that personally.
There's somethin' wrong with you.
Why would Dubenich lie to us?
Cause you’re thieves. If he hired you for a straight up crime, you’d know he was a bad guy like you, you’d be suspicious. This way you just saw another citizen in over his head, and that’s why you didn’t see the double cross coming.
Why didn’t you see it coming?
Because I’m not a thief.
You know what, maybe that was the problem. If you--
You want to run a game on this guy? You?
Well, yeah. How do you think I got most of my stolen merchandise back? I mean, this guy, he's greedy, thinks he's smart; he's the best kind of mark.
He does think he got rid of us.
Element of surprise.
What's in it for me?
Payback. And if it goes right, a lot of money.
And what's in it for me?
A lot of money. And if it goes right, payback. Hardison?
I, I was just going to send a thousand porno magazines to his office, but hell yeah, let's kick him up!
[to Nate] What's in it for you?
…He used my son.
[long pause]
All right, let's go get Sophie.
What the hell's a Sophie?
She's awful.
Is she injured? In the head?
Seriously, man, she is the worst actress I've ever seen.
This is not her stage.
I'm a citizen now. Honest.
I'm not.
You're playing my side? [Looks over and sees the others] I always thought you had it in you.
Are you in?
[Nodding] I wouldn't miss this.
All right, let's go break the law just one more time.
Victor? Now when was the last time you met a Victor?
Vietnam. Town called Banho Zay.
Chinese border.
That’s an odd thing for you to know.
That’s an odd place for you to be.
I know when you sent Dubenich his designs you weren’t supposed to make any copies.
No, I promise. That would be very wrong.
Show me your copies.
It’s an airplane.
It’s a short alt domestic airliner, yeah, usually one-hour flights. It’s the fastest growing segment of the industry, very fuel efficient. High tech. Very nice carbon nose, it’s got the titanium wrap. 3 to 1. (Everyone stares at him) You know, you pick up things here and there.
You pick up a lot of stuff.
Here comes a mountain of suck. [Two seconds later, surprised] She's not awful.
This is her stage. Sophie Devereaux is the finest actress you've ever seen…when she's breaking the law.
Yeah, this is Victor Dubenich’s office, my computer just completely crashed.
Oh, I’m sorry to hear that. Did you try turning it on and off again?
Yes, nothing seems to be working.
That’s a computer thing. I told her to say that.
Well done.
You look better than when we started.
Yeah.
Yeah. And that bothers you, huh?
I, uh, well this isn’t supposed to feel--
Good? It’s not that hard to figure out. Dubenich screwed you. He cheated by stealing from that other company and your good guy brain sees him as the bad guy. Your conscience is clear.
Everybody knows. A guy like you goes off the street, a lot of people notice. And it was a bad story, too. How did they justify that, huh? The insurance company just not paying for his treatment?
They claimed it was experimental.
You should have kept one of those Monets you found. You fence that—
Eliot, you and I are not friends.
Right. Right. Because you have so many of them.
Nice job on the zip line.
Totally thought she was going to break a leg. Not bad for a first time.
Higgins, Higgins, you can't do that. You can't take my computer!
[chuckles] This company has government defense contracts. There are very serious rules about contact with foreign nationals. The Patriot Act applies here, my friend! Sir, I can take your underpants.
Don't you want money?
This particular project has a different revenue stream.
Yeah, you should have just paid us.
I found the transmitter.
Oh, you found the transmitter with the blinking light, yeah, we wanted you to figure some of it out. Then we just gave you what you were expecting.
I am Victor Dubenich, I am going to beat this.
Aren’t you forgetting about the bribe?
Who cares? You can’t prove anything, I didn’t get any money.
No, it doesn’t account for all of it. Sophie kept a little to buy a truly impressive number of shoes. See, if a company’s stock price falls ten, fifteen percent in one day and you see it coming, you sell short, you make a lot of money. If it’s going to fall thirty percent you can make shattering amounts of money. We didn’t need the FBI to show up and take you to jail, we just needed them to show up and take boxes out of your office, all day long in front of TV cameras, scaring your investors. You going to jail is just a bonus. I wouldn’t say anything about us to the Feds. Next time we won’t be so nice.
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