Leverage · Season 1
This guy's a ghost, Nate. He operates like we do. His clients are by referral, and he stays in the shadows. How we supposed to take this guy down?
The same way we would destroy me.I mean, what we're really asking here is how would I destroy myself.?
Yeah, and you can't say "booze."
I can resist the spotlight, by the way.
Of course you can. Never see you taking any kind of victory lap after you've pushed us all to the edge, or sticking around to gloat over the bad guy being dragged away.
Hm. Is that sarcasm?
A mild amount.
This guy's not a hero.
No. He's the only thing better than a hero. He's a mystery.
[on grifting the mark] I think I'm getting better at this
I'm cloning Rockwell's cell phone right now. Good work, girl.
I didn't even stab him!
Yeah--W-w-we are so proud of you. Uh...No-stabbing Wednesdays, new tradition.
[to Nate] He [Rockwell] works from the shadows deciding who to take down, convinced he's making the world a better place, implying a certain moral superiority over his victims. Any of this sound like someone we know?
Well, the guy we're clearing out was a fireman for 43 years and just donated a kidney to his best friend.
We're not gonna hurt him.
I'm just saying, it's lucky we don't believe in hell.
Nate believes in hell. Shoot, I believe in hell.
Oh, yeah.
All right, Hardison, how'd that speech come out?
Oh, it's some of my finest work.
[Later]
What am I supposed to do with this? "You can be a hero, too." Who the hell wrote this crap?
Excuse you? Let's see you do better on such short notice. People are just ungrateful.
Consciously or not, I think you look at Reed Rockwell and see everything you hate about Nathan--
Any way I can get you not to finish that thought?
It was reckless.
It was worth it.
Yeah, this time.
(to Hardison) Bet you're starting to like that C.G.I. Yoda a little bit now?
Yeah, when he gives back the childhood he stole from me. Why don't you just ask me to join the dark side? Go ahead.
"Well, Nate, winning isn't everything."
You know, for a while there you were an honest man. And then for a while you were a thief?
Yeah, well maybe I'm both?
You can't be both. I'm just not sure at this point which one I want to win.
Where are you at?
I'm in a damn storage closet. Smells like mothballs and old people.
(Eliot begins playing with Hardison’s picture on screen; making it smaller, flipping it upside down and then making his face disappear)
Or -- but -- not -- no, not -- not a toy.
What, man? He's telling me to learn technical stuff all the time.
Well, that'll never happen.
I don't have any painting.
Mr. Lawson, uh, we are not the police.
I don't care if you're Vincent Van Gogh himself. I can't help you.
(Hardison sneezes)
What do you got?
Oh, probably just my sensitivity to dust mites. It's what happens when you send me to the hall of records a second time.
You know what, man, if I get out of this job without upper-respiratory issues, it will be a miracle.
Yeah. (puts a tissue against Hardison’s face)
What? Really? This? What -- nasty. Don't know where this has been. (drops tissue)
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