Leverage Season 1 quotes

So, back to square one?

I prefer back to the drawing board. It's more hopeful.

He's a criminal. He belongs in jail.

Is that what you really want?

Yes, it's what my father wanted more than anything in the world--to bring D.B. Cooper to justice.

Todd, your dad had a gift I believe he passed on to you. He could see goodness in people. And because of that, he did bring D.B. Cooper to justice.

If you could choose someone from The Odyssey that most resembles me, who would it be?

Sophie

Well...the hero, obviously. Odysseus. Cunning warrior, master of disguise, and it means "trouble" in Greek.

When you spend most of your time getting inside the minds of bad people, you are looking for their flaws and their weaknesses, that's pretty much all you see in everyone.

Sophie

That's not what happened to Peter McSweeten.

Ah, Peter McSweeten isn't Jimmy Ford's son.

I just figured a guy like you would have, I don't know, an office or something.

Oh, yeah, I tried it once. Had trouble keeping it in one piece.

WitSec is like the ninth circle of hell for guys like him. Like us! I mean Nate, do you think you could just go back to being John Q. and not go insane if you had to give it all up?

Sure, maybe. Maybe not. Really, I don't think beyond the job that's right in front of us. I don't have the luxury to think beyond that, so...

Sophie

Really?

Hmmm?

Sophie

That's the best you got?

Eliot

Erickson doesn't strike me as a mob guy.

Because he's not. No, he establishes mob ties as a get-out-of-jail-free card. So, if the day ever comes that the SEC discovers his stock fraud....

Parker

He'll trade his mob records for immunity and a new identity. Sweet!

Parker

I mean, evil. And clever, but bad.

Sophie

I don't like that, that whole smug look on his [Erickson's] face.

Yeah. Like he's got a...you know...a $50 million dollar backup plan. Let's go steal it.

How can a witness in protection we've been watching for the last 24 hours get access to $100,000 we didn't see?

Eliot

[As he's digging a hole] After sunset, this field is gonna be completely dark. No clear sight lines from the road. First thing to find a body out here would be a coyote--

Sophie

Okay. Now I'm scared.

Eliot

I'm here.

Sophie

Eliot, you're what's scaring me.

How did...how did you find me?

You called our mutual friend, Charlie.

You are an idiot.

Shut up.

Granted, that only got us to Portland. But then, when we traced your phone, seems you left your GPS tracking on.

All right, that one's on me.

You mean we gotta drive through a gunfight and not get shot like it's the Batmobile?

Marshall, I know you're upset, but you can't really blame him for something that happened yesterday. The past is the past. You can't blame him for something that happened 20 minutes ago, 2 minutes ago. What you need to be thinking about is what's going to happen next.

Sophie

[listening on the comms] Could somebody record this? I want a record of this!

Sophie

I couldn't help overhearing what you said in the warehouse about putting the past behind you.

I had a gun to my head.

Sophie

This is our bar. I'm sure I can rustle up a gun somewhere.

You were wrong about one thing.

Sophie

Really? Because I couldn't possibly be right, could I?

Wanting to move on with or without you...it matters. We matter.