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leverage-ot3 · 15 days

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the inside job is so real bc nate and eliot meet archie and they are on the absolute same page that it is on SIGHT with him

literally the only reason he didn’t end up with like broken knees in a damp, dark back alley somewhere is because they know that despite parker’s messed up relationship with him, it would make her sad

parker being sad is not allowed if they can help it

so instead, when parker is off doing her occasional solo heist for fun, the rest of the team plots his demise if he ever hurts parker again

💖 love is stored in planning bodily harm of those that hurt the people you love 💖

(post inspired by someone reblogging my parker-archie fucked up relationship post)

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schrijverr · 10 months

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The 1 Time Eliot Faced Moreau + 5 Times Eliot Kept Away from Him

AKA Moreau scares Eliot, but he’ll face him again for the safety of the team. However, the team is very observant and when they notice, they do everything in their power to ensure that Eliot won’t have to go through that again.

On AO3.

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+2. Parker

While Parker knows she isn’t the most emotionally aware of their crew, she and Eliot have always had a different understanding than the rest of them. Eliot makes sense to her. He is a professional, who gets things done, but he is also her friend.

Eliot is always grumpy and guarded, because he doesn’t want the team close to him in case anyone comes after him, but he’ll happily let her poke his bruises and tells her whether it hurts or not to assure her that he’s okay and can still fight. He orbits them, rather than joining them, so he can always keep an eye out.

It’s not that he doesn’t trust them or isn’t close to them, he just has barriers he doesn’t want them crossing. Things he doesn’t want them to see.

What he told her in that park – more like pleaded her not to ask – that both fit and didn’t fit with who he is as a person. It was like a wrong version of Eliot stood in front of her. Him not wanting to see something is normal, but that vulnerability is far from it and Parker hates it.

The Eliot in that park, isn’t her Eliot and she wants him back.

She knows better than to go to him when it’s all still tender, plus, she is in a pretzels mood, so she spends that night right after sending Moreau to San Lorenzo with Hardison.

Hardison was in big spirits after blowing up the train, but with the adrenaline crash, his spirits diminish and Parker is put in an unusual position where she really cares about the well being of another person when they’re upset and wants to make it right. Usually she’d ask Eliot or Sophie about it, but leaving Hardison to call them feels wrong.

In the end, Hardison needs someone to listen more than anything else and sitting quietly is something Parker can do very well.

It is stealing two paintings in one heist in the end, because she gets to be there for Hardison and realize that Eliot is scared of Moreau. While Hardison is mad at him and needs to vent, he still conveys that.

This is useful information that Parker stores away for later.

Parker is probably the only one on the team that realizes that Eliot is not invincible. No matter how good the man is, she knows that no one is without blind spots, even if they are the very best in their field. She couldn’t beat that Steranko, at least, not alone.

What Eliot needs is the team. Or at least someone in the team to have his back. While he is not trapped in a super security system, he is trapped on the con with them. He can’t walk away, but being there also isn’t fun. And cracking a security system is supposed to be fun.

On her way to San Lorenzo, she runs the con in her head. For Eliot the Steranko is Moreau and you have to be kept away from the Steranko. She notices how Nate’s con keeps Eliot away from Moreau and puts together that that is Nate helping Eliot escape. She can do the same.

She’s thrilled when they’re assigned to go free the General together. It’s both a super super fun break in – because anything that is marketed as impenetrable is exciting, that’s just the rule – but it also means that Nate has trusted her with keeping Eliot away from Moreau duty.

Being trusted with big things is a sign of friendship. Nate is being her friend and he is trusting her to be Eliot’s friend. She likes being Eliot’s friend.

They’ve been instructed to keep away from Moreau and not show their faces, but Parker knows better than to expect a man like Moreau not to find them. Sure, she could have stayed under the radar, Eliot too, but Sophie loves the spotlight too much and Hardison and Nate aren’t trained that way.

She’s not banking on the team staying out of sight throughout the con, so she’s already planning on how to keep Eliot engaged.

When the two of them hear first that the General doesn’t want to be saved, only to hear how Moreau spots both Hardison and Nate after Sophie has blown her cover, she is ready.

Parker has kept a close eye on Eliot, seen how he tensed more and more. First, she’ll need to undo that tension, then distract him. It’s the same as lock picking, first you lift up all the tumblers so the lock is cleared, then you turn and, voila, it’s open.

So, she cocks her head and smiles playfully at him as she says: “Good thing Nate always has a backup. What do you think we’re on now? Plan F?”

“Probably plan K at this rate,” Eliot smiles back. Success. She has reminded him that Nate has this covered and they’re all safe. She has made him unclench a little. Restore faith. That’s good.

For the next phase, she pouts: “I didn’t get to crawl through the steam vent. That’s sad. Take me out for ice cream? I heard they have really good chocolate ice cream!”

The excitement about the ice cream is real. As is her want for pick me up ice cream, but it can serve two goals. Parker can plan multiple heists at once, why steal one diamond when you can steal two, you know? Ice cream heist and get Eliot out heist. It’s perfect.

Indeed, Eliot softens, like he often does around her. They have that connection, the two of them. He rolls his eyes, but she sees dimples, which is basically the same as a light still flashing even though the camera is a dummy.

“Sure,” he tells her. “Let’s get pick you up ice cream.”

Parker cheers, both at the ice cream and at the successful rescue. No going back to the parliament building where Moreau is lurking just yet.

#rr writing #eliot facing moreau 1+5 fic #eliot spencer and parker #eliot spencer #leverage parker #parker leverage #nathan ford #nate ford #damien moreau #leverage season 3 #the san lorenzo job #leverage fic #leverage #leverage tv

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thatrandombookworm · 6 months

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I’m rewatching Leverage and i always forget how much i love “The Rashomon Job” (S3E11)

It has differing perspectives! It has them stealing stuff! They all do it in their own way! They all make (good natured) fun of each other in the stories!

#leverage #leverage season 3

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richardsphere · 2 months

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Leverage Log: The Office Job

So we're doing a parody of The Office (US). I'll admit im not what I'd call a fan of the office, but i've watched it at other peoples places when i got nothing better to do. A respectable cultural institution, just not one i'll spend merch-money on any time soon or go out of my way to watch.

Elliot and Hardison fighting over a sandwich, (respect peoples meals y'all.) Filmcrew that leans somewhere between avant-garde pretention and a nature documentary.

Parker being absolutely done with the idea of "happy" giftcards, the team stuck code-speaking badly to try and ensure that the filmcrew doesnt realise the company that claims its in financial downturn is in fact making money to a ridiculous degree. (congrats on the writers for succesfully coming up with an appropriate crime, allowing them to keep the industry adjacent to the show they're parodying. Its a nice touch that they kept the industries similar.)

oh god, the person working HR at the company is trying to fix Sophie and Nate's relationship. ("reverse favouritism", basically "i know i have a favourite, but as a leader i should be unbiased and I over-correct as a result". That sounds like it might actually be a real psychological term.)

Nate has gone so deep into their improvised codetalking that he now believes the sandwich is code for something Elliot and Hardison found about the mark.

"would you describe yourself as having any kind of life outside of work?" -"Excuse me?" 8.5/10. "but he implied it might have something to do with age...-ism" rounding it up to a 10/10, perfect delivery.

Question: Can i buy the "Fuck This" Bunny Card somewhere? I want it. Its rare that there's a prop i want a copy of but the Fuck This bunnycard is hilarious and i need it.

Their growing frustration at the filmcrew, the documentarian getting jealous of Hardisons microcamera. Using the microcam to sneak a peak at Parker. (i really like Parkers caterpillar get well soon card also.)

"im not saying anything until i get a lawyer". Good on you Parker, good on you.

Parker stealing the documentarian's creditcard.

Sophie telling the frankly quite dumb owner what has been happening and getting really annoyed when Nate needs to translate it into Handegg References to get him to understand.

Ah Nate got Sophie a card. And yes, he did eat the sandwich.

#leverage #leverage season 3

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lemissingmask · 2 years

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[ID: Two sketches. The top is of Eliot Spencer on the phone, holding it to his ear and talking. He has blood on his hand, in his hair, and spilling from his lips, and a bleeding bullet wound in his chest. Below is a sketch of Parker and Hardison looking shocked, and Hardison holding his phone in front of him in both hands. End ID]

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Eliot calling Hardison and Parker after he's just gone off to take his shot at Moreau and Moreau's security on his own - sort of AU for The Big Bang Job, with Eliot deciding it's too dangerous for them to go after Moreau.

At least, that was the general premise behind this sketch, but really it can be any scenario when Eliot might call the other two while bleeding. XD

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#leverage #cw blood #alec hardison #parker #eliot spencer #ot3: hitter hacker thief #leverage season 3 #leverage spoilers

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therandomfandomme · 2 years

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Ok, y'all how much shit does Eliot still have to unlearn from Moreau when he's working with Leverage, bc it's the first time in so long that's he's not working alone and suddenly he's encountering situations where Moreau liked things done that way, or he's supposed to react to X with Y, or this requires that reply and is thrown for a loop when encountering those with this new crew, because those are apparently not the standard reactions?

#rrrambles #leverage #eliot spencer #leverage eliot #damien moreau #moreau and eliot #leverage tv #leverage season 3

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thesevenwondersofawitch · 2 years

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#I got #tara cole #leverage quiz #leverage #leverage season 1 #leverage season 2 #leverage season 3 #leverage season 4 #leverage season 5 #sophie devereaux #parker #alec hardison #elliot spencer #nate ford

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ghostlyarchaeologist · 1 month

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Jamey Perry: #LeverageRedemption #whatsinthebox

#leverage redemption #season 3 update #ooh! a mysterious box!#very intriguing!

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reinanova · 3 months

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the irony that leverage redemption season 3 is going to be produced by amazon prime is so funny to me. like amazon is literally everything that leverage stands against

#maybe they’ll take down jeff beezbos in season three #a girl can dream #leverage #leverage redemption #leverage redemption season 3 #leverage ot3 #reinanova rambles

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lindseymcdonaldseyelashes · 3 months

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Will never be over the portrait hanging over Nate's bed!?!

#leverage #nathan ford #what the fuck?#is that supposed to signify how he feels about marriage and relationships at that point in season 3 or...?#i wonder what sophie thought the first time she saw THAT

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geekynightowl1997 · 7 months

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The Rashomon Job is hands down the best episode and nobody can tell me otherwise.

Like, your gonna tell me all of these *professional criminals* can't recognize each other five years later? And each of their stories are somehow accurate to how they perceive each other- even without them noticing at first. I couldn't get over how Hardison, Nate, and Parker all have Eliot holding basically a sword to Hardison's throat. 🤣 Sophie and Nate's were the probably the most accurate.

The ending was so sweet too, because it's all a redo. Even though they had Sophie, Parker, and Hardison running to go steal it and leaving Eliot and Nate at the bar- the viewers still get the implication that they'll steal it as a team. Especially when you get that little amused smile/nod from Eliot and that confirmation from Nate.

Nate was practically telling Eliot- Go. Watch their backs. Then he went to because he didn't want to be left out.

Also- Parker's imitation of Sophie is how I think she processes everyone's voice. 😂🫣

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leverage-ot3 · 1 year

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schrijverr · 10 months

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The 1 Time Eliot Faced Moreau + 5 Times Eliot Kept Away from Him

AKA Moreau scares Eliot, but he’ll face him again for the safety of the team. However, the team is very observant and when they notice, they do everything in their power to ensure that Eliot won’t have to go through that again.

On AO3.

Ships: none

Warnings: allusions to Eliot's past

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The 1 Time

Eliot is shaking inside, but he keeps on a strong facade as Hardison babbles next to him, the nerves spilling out of him. Eliot is ignoring him, because if he allows Hardison’s anxiety to touch him, then his own fear will explode out of him and they’ll be blown.

Because Eliot is scared. He’s fucking terrified.

Damien is the one person Eliot never wants to face again, the one person that scares him. And with the types Eliot used to run with that is saying a lot.

It isn’t even that Damien can overpower Eliot physically. Sure, the man is always surrounded by more guards than necessary, always shadowed by hired muscle, but that doesn’t matter. He doesn’t scare Eliot about his physical well being, but his mental well being.

Because Eliot is terrified of the person he was with Damien. He is terrified of how easily he let the man shape him into someone so twisted, it took a long time to even recognize himself in the mirror again after he left.

Damien turned Eliot into a killer, who would do anything for Damien’s validation. Not even the money. He destroyed Eliot’s conscious and used his hands to do unspeakable things.

And Eliot knows that there are two people in the whole world, who could make him into a weapon again; Damien and Nate. Out of them, he only knows that Nate would never ask that of him, would never even think to use that part of Eliot’s skill set. If Eliot killed under Nate, it would be his own choice. But Damien never gave him a choice, just the illusion of it.

Eliot doesn’t want to be that man anymore. He doesn’t want to be the kind of person he was when he was at Damien’s side. Doesn’t want to let Damien be close enough to even have a chance at turning Eliot back into that man anyway.

But Nate asked him to be here. To face Damien again. So here he is.

The whole elevator ride down, Eliot is busy tuning Hardison out and trying not to throw up as he gets himself into the mindset he’ll need to survive. It’s already too close to the man he doesn’t want to be anymore and that thought doesn’t lessen his anxiety in the slightest.

However, Eliot is a professional. He is the best at what he does – there is a reason Damien hired him, he always has the best there is to offer – so when they step into that pool, there is no trace of that fear that lurks underneath on his face. No sign that Eliot doesn’t want to be here.

All around them, guns start to be raised and cocked as Hardison grows more and more fearful of the situation.

In an odd way, Hardison’s fear and the threat around them helps Eliot calm down again. There is no room for fear when he has to analyze all the people with a gun and asses their risk level as well as calculate the safest ways out and how to deal with Hardison’s fear so neither of them die. It’s almost soothing after the hell of the elevator ride down or the past few months with Damien hanging over all their heads.

Facing Chapman is almost fun actually. Almost. The guy has always been easy to rile up and Eliot has always loved getting under his skin to make him at least feel some sort of upset in his life. It would be nice to see that he can still irk him, put him in his place, were it not for the betrayal in Hardison’s eyes as he figures out why Eliot told them his real name.

Luckily – or unluckily – Damien enters the room, before Eliot can make a move to assure Hardison he is still on his side.

It saves him from accidentally blowing the whole con, but only because sheer, pure, unadulterated terror grips his heart at the sight of Damien, who is in nothing more than a robe and swim shorts, one of the least threatening outfits known to men.

But Eliot knows better.

God, if it were up to him, he’d never see Damien again, but for the team, he’d face him a hundred times just to keep them safe. He would have gone after him alone if the Italian hadn’t move her timeline up, instead of having to take Hardison as a buffer.

Fuck, Hardison. If the other found it in himself to forgive Eliot for whatever was about to happen to them, then Eliot would be indebted to him for the rest of his life.

In order to get to that point, however, they first have to live through this and Eliot knows that will depend entirely on both of them keeping it together. Though, honestly, out of the two of them, he is more worried about himself.

It’ll take all his willpower not to show Damien how much he still gets to him and that willpower is tested at every turn. Like when Damien calls him an old friend, shows how well he knows Eliot’s likes and dislikes, his past.

He can feel Hardison boil next to him, but he has to give it to him that he’s not giving them away and for that, he is grateful.

Naturally, it is hard to give something away when drowning in a pool, which is what happens not even a second after Eliot has finished the thought.

Now, Eliot hates himself for a lot of reasons and because of a lot of things he has done, but he might never hate himself more for standing there, not even flinching, as Hardison gets thrown into that pool.

A part of it is training, knowing how to respond to threats to minimize the damage, which is not moving an inch, not showing how much he cares, in this case. Another shameful, guilty part of himself can also admit that his lack of reaction is due to how he has been frozen with fear since the moment Damien moved up from his seat.

He only barely gets himself under control in time to face Damien again. To negotiate. His fear is subtle enough that out of everyone there, only Damien would have picked up on it. He always knew Eliot too well…

So, he stands there, pretends he wouldn’t rather piss his pants and makes a deal with Damien. Like always, it’s an illusion of choice, but Damien knows he has Eliot on a leash and he knows how to shape Eliot into what he wants. It makes him sick how it takes less time than it takes a person to drown for Damien to make him agree to be a killer again.

But he also knows that there isn’t another way that conversation could have gone, no other outcome he would have considered. Not with Hardison in the pool. Not with the innocent hacker drowning, instead of a wealthy client he doesn’t care about.

Eliot would do anything to keep his team safe, including facing Damien and all that comes with being in his presence.

When they leave, he knows Hardison is angry at him, but he’s still shaking like a leaf ever since they left that hotel. He’s barely keeping himself together, cracks appearing and fear leaking out of him.

He doesn’t have the mind to answer Hardison, barely has the mind to practically beg for his place on the team. The mind to hide what he has done, so they won’t throw out their only protection on this con. The only person, who knows Damien well enough to maybe, just maybe get them away from his wrath.

The only person, who knows how to get away from Damien alive.

#rr writing #eliot spencer #damien moreau #alec hardison #eliot facing moreau 1+5 fic #leverage fic #leverage #leverage tv #leverage season 3 #the big bang job

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richardsphere · 2 months

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Leverage Log: The San Lorenzo Job

OK, we're really switching to season-long setups now with the return of Manticore as a Plot-point. Not really a fan, I personally like shows where stuff can actually stand on its own to stay that way. It feels unfair to suddenly rely on the audience to start taking notes from previous episodes when you've trained them not to.

So now we know that there are 3 things to be stolen this episode: The Election/The Country itself (stuff the ballot boxes or hack the machines, possibly a Sophie Thing, grifting not a Person but a Country entirely), His Backup Gold and Diamonds (Big Parker Moment?) and the Manticore Servers (cause Leverage Consulting is not stupid enough to let that thing go out on the open market a second time. They learn from their mistakes. )

I guess there's a small chance they don't steal Manticore? In that they could also say "the servers will go on the open market after Moreau's take-down, and we'll just buy it with the money we steal from him" like he bought it after they stole it from Duberman, But that doesn't feel like how the Leverage Crew operates.

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The Italian makes another appearance, "Damian Moreau will never leave San Lorenzo". Clearly a case of Exact Words 101, So of I'm right they're gonna turn his Shelter from extradition into his prison.

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OK the heroes have all touched all the TV's in the electoral command center, which means they're now all Hardison-ed. Compromised, don't trust anything a TV shows in this episode.

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So they're compromised (definitely not intentionally no-no this show would never make the bad guy think he knew what was going on to make the bad guy overconfident. They'd never do that /s)

But are you telling me Hardison hadnt hacked the stuff yet? Thats like the first thing he does? Normally... Normally its the first thing he does, i forgot about Manticore didnt I.

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"How is a campaing promise different then a lie", come-on writers, tell us how you really feel!

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What scandal could be worse then Sex or Corruption? Animal Cruelty, Puppies... You can tell the writers loved coming up with this as a plot.

Love the way that their chosen stooge absolutely despises them. Like Nate is not a nice guy and this is a genuinely good person forced to work with Nate at his sober-est.

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The way that Sophie tells the poor guy exactly how she's gonna manipulate him with the handshake, then proceeds to do it.

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And the team is back at what they do best biochemical warfare, Nothing these guys cant accomplish by drugging the heck out of some people.

--- Oh jackbooted thugs with face concealing masks, in a show where the heroes are always disguising themselves as anyone and everything, shoot Shophie on camera? Yeah that was the plan, make it look like democracy is falling apart to get them in trouble with the UN watchdogs. Tell the Current President he can simply frame Moreau to clean his own hands... give him a nice retirement package... I can see Nate's angle.

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So yeah, play your enemies against eachother, steal an election, Sophie's face is going to be on the money now. Sophie grifting so hard she makes a president feels like a good enough Big Sophie Moment. So they didnt steal Manticore, just imprisoned the owner and then had it become a San Lorenzo Government Property (which is now an actual democracy).

No big parker moment... kind of sad, but having Parker steal all his gold off-screen feels like the most Parker way to steal. the simple "yeah she's good enough we dont even need to show the audience" is Parker enough for Parker. even if the 2-part finale didnt give her a "moment" the finale didnt need it.

#leverage season 3 #leverage

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fangirl-k8ee-ladyknight · 9 months

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So. We've seen Hardison's apartment (in the piolet), Nate's apartment (above the bar in Boston), Parker's warehouse ("The Inside Job"), and Sophie's home (Leverage: Redemption piolet). When are we gunna see where Eliot lives????

#Leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #Parker #alec hardison #sophie devereaux #nate ford #Season 3?#Same episode as tree law?#Tree Law Leverage

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