Leverage · Season 1
Alfred Wallace created the theory of evolution years before Darwin, but it's Darwin's theory of evolution. Nikola Tesla invented alternating current, but all the power companies are named after Thomas Edison. So why are Darwin and Edison famous, and Tesla and Wallace footnotes? Because history is written by the winners. You get your name on it first, you get it out there the most, and twenty years later, you invented it.
[as Riker] Put your hands on me, I'll break your friggin' clavicle.
[Parker walking in as thugs fall on top of Eliot's back]
[In E.T. voice] Ooouch.
You know the difference between us and them?
Hmm?
We make this look good.
Just so you know, I really, really hate you.
[chuckles] Hm! Don't worry. It's perfectly safe. [pause] Ish.
[later:]
That is the last time I lie about playing Peter Pan on Broadway!
Oh, come on. These dudes traveled 10,000 lightyears to get here. You're gonna scare them off with a putter?
I programmed the electronic and the lighting to go haywire intermittently for the rest of the night.
Good.
You don't think he'll try to leave?
[Inside]
[In terror] No!
[Outside]
Would you?
[Looking over the equipment] Hey.
Hey.
This gives me a good idea.
Whatever it is, no.
[later Parker and Hardison are on a date]
I'll be right here. [points to Hardison's heart]
He showed me I could use my knife to create instead of destroy.
He's one of the guys that kept me from falling all the way down, and now I'm asking the other guy to understand why I'm gonna help him.
All right, everyone, listen up. Come down to table 2 and line up. The chef who was gonna be with you today has booked another gig, so I am your new instructor.
What's your name?
Chef!
I get to fire a laser. YAY!!! Geeking in the kitchen. Uh, makes me want to dance!
Nate, it's not drugs Lampart is dealing. It's bigger, a lot bigger.
If it's not drugs, what is it?
Truffles.
[to Nate] I don't have a thing... Eliot has a thing, he loves food. Sophie loves theater. You have a sicko love of controlling people.
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