Leverage Quotes

[after Hardison fakes a weather report wearing some borrowed clothes]
Nate: Is that my jacket?
Hardison: You know what, man? You're lucky I'm not wearing your underwear. And the next time y'all call me, it better be for something easy. Like faking a moon landing.

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Eliot: We're at the safe. Parker wants to take it out for dinner and drinks first.
Parker: [caressing the old safe] A Glenn-Reeder Prestige from the '20s…so many memories.

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[Hardison suggests a vacation to Parker]
Hardison: Two weeks in Tokyo. We'd have a great time.
Parker: What are we stealing?
Hardison: We don't steal anything. We'd be tourists.
Parker: Not following you.
[later on]
Parker: So, I took your advice and did the whole touristy thing. Went to the museum, and it was amazing.
Hardison: You see?
Parker: Yeah. They have a Guardian T-840 Security System. I've only seen those in books. And the motion detectors--ooh, gorgeous! Six digital receptors. Six!
Hardison: What about the paintings?
Parker: What about the paintings?

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[Sterling walks into McRory's Bar and comes up behind Eliot]
Nate: Eliot, I'm gonna ask you not to do anything violent.
Eliot: What…what are you talking about? I only use violence as an appropriate response.
Sterling: Hello, Nate.
[Eliot stands up, spins around, clocks Sterling with a right hook to the jaw, and starts kicking his ass around the bar; Hardison bribes the bartender not to call the police, and Parker grins]
Tara: And this is…?
Nate: James Sterling. We used to work together. Insurance.
Tara: He seems to rub Eliot the wrong way.
Nate: You think?

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[at a party at the American embassy in Kiev]
Sterling: I pulled a lot of strings to get tickets for all of you.
Hardison: [over comms]All of you? Wait, no. Hardison, he's in the van, eating stale candy, while all of you get to dine on canapés and…and champagne. I love canapés.
Sterling: Terribly sorry about that. The company has to draw the line somewhere. I can assure you, it has nothing to do with our little incident last year.
Hardison: Oh, you mean the incident where I came within five feet of blowing your ass up? Yeah, I'm sure it has nothing to do with that at all.

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[Maggie and Nate share what they think will be their last kiss…and then Parker drops into their elevator car]
Parker: 'Scuse me. I just need to get that bomb out of the way.

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Maggie: You know, people underestimate you, Eliot.
Nate: That's kind of the point.

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Nate: We're going to make everyone think he's the greatest psychic there ever was, then we're going to expose him in front of the network and everyone.
Tara: And how do we do that?
Nate: We steal the future.

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[while watching Tara hook their mark, who's just been zapped]
Eliot: You electrocuted him?
Nate: Yeah, I did. Helps sell the bit.
Parker: I approve.
Nate: Thanks, Parker.
Eliot: No, her agreeing with you is not a good thing. That's—
Nate: Thanks.

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Hardison: "He who sells miracles will have the Devil knocking at his door."
Parker: What is that, a proverb?
Hardison: Fortune cookie. [Parker looks at him in disbelief] What? It started with "He who."
. . .
[later, after the con is finished]
Parker: He who looks for hidden money shall find it. If he is also a thief.

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[Nate shares his idea for the con]
Hardison: Baseball?
Nate: Yeah, we're gonna steal this ballpark. [pause] And then the team. But not necessarily in that order.

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Nate: All right. Good news, bad news.
Tara: Good news?
Nate: Mayor's hooked. We're in the pitch.
Tara: Bad news?
Nate: I think we lost Eliot till the playoffs.

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[last lines: after the team escapes the FBI, a familiar face appears]
Sterling: James Sterling. Interpol. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?

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Parker: Don't worry. No one's ever died going through an air duct.
Tara: That's…comforting.
Parker: Worst case, you slip and fall, break your legs, lay there for days scratching on the metal. It's like a long metal coffin. With wind.

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[last lines of the season]
Agent Bob: Who is this guy?
Sterling: I don't know.
Nate: My name is Nate Ford…and I'm a thief.

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Hardison: Little Jennifer Pearson's wearing you out, ain't she?
Eliot: Dude, we walked the Freedom Trail twice.
Hardison: Nice.
Eliot: No, man, the actual Freedom Trail. We took paddle boats to the public garden, shopped on Newbury Street, I went to something called the Boston Duck Tour.

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[Sterling enters the room to check on the mayor and comes out in an instant]
Sterling: Name's Bob right?
Agent Bob: Uh...yeah.
Sterling: Anything wrong here, Bob?
Agent Bob: No.
Sterling: Anybody came through this door, Bob?
Agent Bob: No.
Sterling: Which means everything is all right here...Bob?
Agent Bob: Yes.
Sterling: Then would you mind telling me...WHERE THE HELL THE MAYOR IS!?!?
[Agent Bob gives him a dumbstruck look]

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Nate: Guys, no. I committed a crime, I got caught, and now I'm gonna serve my time.
Sophie: Nate, what kind of world would it be if everybody that committed a silly little crime went to prison, huh? Complete madness.

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Eliot: He doesn't wanna do it.
Parker: Aw. But I love jumping on elevators!
Hardison: I know.
Parker: This is my special elevator rig you got me for Christmas.

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Epping: You stabbed me!
Nate: Oh, come on. Just a little. It's fine.

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Sophie: Worth is on the hook. But with two fifty of ours as a buy-in.
Nate: Ouch.
Sophie: Oh, did I say ours? I meant what's left of your life's savings. Yeah. We took it out of your account.

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Nate: What, are you lurking?
Eliot: Yeah. I'm a lurker. It's my thing.

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Parker: For a den of evil spies, this place smells delicious. Hardison, confiscate some pastries.

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Hardison: You know how I feel about mind games, Nate! Negatively! [turns to see Eliot grinning] What are you looking at, lurker?

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Eliot: Nobody else thinks it's weird that you can just buy anybody's yearbook online?
Hardison: You know, it's cute, man, how you still believe in privacy.

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[after Nate gives an example of a Roman Room]
Parker: Hey, Nate just gave us his passwords.
Hardison: No, I got his passwords. Wanna see his Netflix queue? He's got like every season of The Rockford Files, every season of Sex and the City, that show Psych

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Nate: Let's go steal a Parker.

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Nate: All right, it's a party. But before we rescue Parker, we've gotta find out where she is.
Hardison: Nate, you do realize the entire building is looking for Parker? I mean the actual, physical building is looking for her. Look, any cameras that I piggy-back, any sensors that I access, anything I do to find Parker could lead the bad guys right to her.
Nate: All right, so what's your play?
Hardison: Wh-what's my play?? Nate, I'm hacking a security system the Pentagon calls overkill with a laptop I found in the back of my car!

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Parker: [as they run away] What is sexting?
Eliot: [exasperated] I am not having this conversation with you!

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Sophie: Quiet and sneaky is fine if you're thinking like a thief. Thieves find entrances, but grifters? Uh-uh. We make them.

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