[to Nate] You're very good at what you do, but you can't con a mountain.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Nate, I'm at a party full of drunk millionaires far from home who are dizzy from lack of oxygen. It's like grifter Christmas in here.
NNate
Let's go steal a mountain.
Again.
NNate
What?
Again. We already stole a mountain, two years ago.
NNate
We did?
Well, technically it was a resort, not a mountain, but yeah.
You were also very drunk on that one.
I'm just saying, I should go up that mountain with you.
You want to climb?
Yeah.
A mountain?
[Flashback]
(Parker pushes Hardison off a building and he screams the entire way down, stopping upside down. She easily lowers herself next to him and they look at each other)
Seriously?
(another scene of Hardison falling from a building, coming up short upside down. A third scene shows him tangled up in his line)
[Base Camp]
And that last one was a 10-foot drop!
Okay. Fine. I just think I should keep an eye on you.
Keep an eye on me?
Well, not... you... you and Eliot. It's a dangerous mountain. There could be some polar bears or ill-tempered Eskimos, like...
This isn't gonna become a thing, is it?
W-what? No. Pl... no. No. This is… not. Whatever "this" is.
Oh. Yeah.
Okay.
(Hardison holds his arms out for a hug)
Okay. Okay. (Parker punches him on the shoulder and walks away)
(Eliot hugs Hardison)
All right. (walks away) Let's roll.
NNate
What? What are you doing?
At least Eliot gave me a hug.
[After hearing Sophie conning Drexel]
KKaren
She's kind of scary.
NNate
You have no idea.
KKaren
I'm an experienced climber! I know my husband! I know the routes he would've taken!
NNate
You're emotionally involved. It leads to bad decisions.
I'm sorry, did you just say that? With a straight face?
NNate
Not helpful. Not helpful at all.
I'm running out of cons here.
NNate
No, no, no. We can't send another climber on the ridge, no.
You sure about that?
NNate
What do you mean?
'Cause I got a footprint. Russian. Spetsnaz.
[Incredulously] Seriously?
It's a very distinctive footprint.
I'm running the Moscow circus con, and you're the Ivan. Go.
NNate
Okay, I'm kind of dying of altitude sickness here.
Well, then, do it quickly.
I got to take the rigging off of him. We need the rope.
No!
Parker!
No! No!
It's done.
This is what we're supposed to do! We're supposed to get him back to his wife! Nate would do it, Sophie would do it, Hardison would do it! They would do the right thing! I want to do the right thing!
Hey. It's a good thing it was us.
Because we'd leave him.
Because they would've kept trying and they would've froze to death right next to him, especially Hardison. So it was a good thing it was us. The two of us, we do things they can't. Won't.
Does that make us bad?
It makes us... us. Now, you can take that as a gift, or you can take it as a curse. And that's up to you.
Hardison!
Ye... Yes! Ye... wait. Parker. Parker? You there?
Talking... uses... oxygen.
Right. Look, y'all, I just... (wiping eyes) I just want to say that y'all are my peoples, and...
Hardison.
You know, I was so scared.
Hardison, shut up!
NNate
Now let me get this straight. When I said--when I said "simple stall," you heard..."multi-national, high-finance feeding frenzy," right??
Tomahto, tomato.
You realize this isn't going to be normal, right?
You know, my nana used to say that what's normal is whatever works for you. We all work okay.
I should meet your nana.
Yeah, you should. She's ni... Wait. What? No, I mean, mnh-mnh.
NNate
Okay, okay, it's not what it looks like.
HHammett
Looks like Morris Beck's been murdered. You're left holding the bag for it.
NNate
Maybe it is what it looks like.
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