Not to Leverage post in 2026, but I think Eliot hurt a kid. Badly. Deliberately.
That's the worst thing he ever did.
I don't think he killed a kid, I don't think he would have survived that, but hurt a kid seriously and deliberately? For Moreau? Because he'd gone so deep down the not feeling hole? Yeah.
"Don't ask me, Parker. Because if you ask me, I'm gonna tell you. So please, don't ask."
It's Parker. He's begging Parker specifically not to ask him. They all know how she reacts to kids being hurt, kids in danger. Eliot saw her deliberately put her body between kids and bullets in The Stork Job. She was wiling to die for them, zero hesitation.
If he tells Parker that he hurt a kid, he knows she will never forgive him. Maybe worse, she'll never trust him, never feel safe with him again.
We know how Eliot feels about kids in danger, about kids being hurt. We saw him come as close as he ever does to losing his shit when Molly was grabbed to put pressure on her dad in The Carnival Job.
And it's pretty clear it's not because his parents hurt him. So that protectiveness, that hyper-awareness, that absolute refusal to stand by and let it happen, comes from somewhere.
I think the worst thing Eliot ever did was hurt a kid.
Completely possible. Also please never stop Leverage posting now or ever in the future, fucking over powerful assholes in the name of justice is a timeless message ✨
