#and tara has walked away from burning buildings with a bloodstained suitcase and never looked back.)

[wolves-in-the-world]

possibility: tara owing sophie A Favour isn't because professional favours are an accepted thing for more than just hitters, but because tara is a grifter-with-a-side-of-hitter in much the same way that eliot's a hitter-with-a-side-of-grifter.

that makes it very fun to me that tara had eliot figured out well enough to go "do the thing with your eyes that scares people." (the grifter thing. oh, you know exactly what I mean.)

more than that - eliot looks like a hitter and wants people to assume that's all he can do; tara looks like a grifter and takes even eliot by surprise when she fights. her "please don't hurt me, good, okay, now I'm going to hurt you" play with the triad goon is the exact reverse of eliot's "look punchy, don't let them see you can do more than that" shtick, but for the exact same "underestimate me so I can prove you wrong" purpose.

and that is so neat.

#tara cole #tara leverage #eliot spencer #tara #eliot #I was thinking about hitter culture and the honour of favours and confidentiality and trust etc and just had a tiny oh shit moment #tara's favour could have no significance here but I'm expanding on it because it's fun #tara handshake emoji eliot: IMPROVISED WEAPONS #she fights a guy with an iron and knocks him out with her head and tells eliot ''admit it. you kinda like me now.'' #and yeah of course he would!! she just did HIS thing and did it well! #like her ROLE is grifter but she uses hitter skills competently and keeps them under wraps imo #on the one hand it's a good thing she never became their enemy but also I kinda wish we got to see more of her #without that big professional favour keeping her in a job she wasn't doing for personal reasons #there's depth and complexity there and we only see hints of it. #tara handshake emoji eliot: flirting their way out of trouble #tara handshake emoji eliot: doing the work for work reasons and finding a deeper purpose along the way #tara handshake emoji eliot: the blood they have on their hands. #(that commentary quote about how sophie exchanges christmas cards with her old marks #and tara has walked away from burning buildings with a bloodstained suitcase and never looked back.) #I think she couldn't stay because they were a complete team without her once sophie got back #and because she didn't like that she was a little bit compromised. #deep sigh #messed up punchy people my beloved