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3.10 Hump Day Quote: Ernest Benn

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
--Ernest Benn

Leverage: The Second David Job

Season 1, Episode 13

Never ones to leave a job undone, the team comes back and tries a new tactic to get revenge on IYS Insurance and Blackpoole.

Quotes:

Hardison: I heard this used to be MC Hammer's place. I guess you can touch this...with a SWAT team and a federal warrant.

Nate: Was. Was broke. Was sleeping in the car. The drunk thing, not quite in the past yet.

Stirling: Of course, you know, your entire plan depended on me being a self-serving, utter bastard.
Nate: Hmmm....yeah that's a stretch.

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Leverage: The First David Job

Season 1, Episode 12

The team goes after Nate's old employers but runs into problems when Stirling gets involved.

Quotes:

Hardison: Can you please not play with the little naked man? Please.

Parker: You want me to break into a secure storage facility with whatever I can scrounge up at the buffet table?
Nate: Pretty much.
Parker: Cool.

Stirling: That's the funny thing about con men; they don't bluff.

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Leverage: The 12 Step Job

Season 1, Episode 11

In taking down a thief who stole from a charity, the team must go undercover in a rehab facility. Will this cause Nate to come to terms with his drinking?

Quotes:

Parker: He's like Billy from Family Circus...if Billy was a drunken sex fiend.

Eliot: Nice job blowing out the engine block.
Hardison: I was aiming for his leg.

Eliot: You ever notice how all bad guys know at least one stripper?
Hardison: You know at least 100, so what does that say about you?
Eliot: Hey, I'm a bad guy.

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Leverage: The Juror #6 Job

Season 1, Episode 10

To teach Parker a lesson, Nate makes her accept her jury duty summons. While in the trial, Parker discovers the game is afoot.

Quotes:

Nate: Parker, listen to me, there is not some evil conspiracy lurking behind the curtain of every routine civic activity.

 

Tech Guy: Ma'am, it all checks out unless Gloria Vargas found some guy who created a CIA level cover story and fake identity.

 

Parker: Can we have fast food every time we make the bad guys go away?

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Leverage: The Stork Job

Season 1, Episode 9

The team travels to Eastern Europe to untangle an adoption scheme.

Quotes:

Nate: What happened to you?
Eliot: How was I to know it was a lesbian bar?

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Leverage: The Bank Shot Job

Season 1, Episode 8

While finishing up a job, the bank that Sophie and Nate are in is robbed. What else is the team to do but take on another job?

Quotes:

Hardison: You know, I had to retask 2 satellites just to get a lousy internet connection.

Hardison: Certificates? Magic kits come with certificates. Does that make it cool for kids to saw their parents in half?

Nate: Parker, have you ever robbed a bank that's being robbed?

Hardison: What? You thought my genius was limited to 1's and 0's?

Parker: Sometimes bad guys are the only good guys you get.

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Leverage: The Two Horse Job

Season 1, Episode 7

Eliot brings the team to help when he gets a call from his high school sweetheart's father about the destruction of his stable.

Quotes:

Parker: I once saw a horse kill a clown.

Stirling: We're insurance men, Nate. We don't care about who's guilty or who's innocent, just who pays.

Parker: He's like Nate. Evil Nate.
Hardison: Flee now, talk later.

Nate: We are going to sell this guy the greatest horse that never lived.

Parker: Don't be silly. Horses are much less murderous that I thought.

Note: Christian Kane (Eliot Spencer) wrote and performed the song that plays at the end of the episode, "More Than I Deserve."

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Leverage: The Snow Job

Season 1, Episode 4

The team travels to Florida to help a Reservist get his home back from some crooked dealing contractors.

Quotes:

Nate: Technically, no. I was drunk a couple of hours ago. Now, I'm just hung over.

Eliot: You have a tell.
Hardison: I have a tell? In Rock, Paper, Scissors?

Deleted Scene:
Parker: How does she do that?
Eliot: Come on. You never done the wink and the shimmy before?

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