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I will now proceed screaming at the approximate pitch and volume of a jet engine about leverage: redemption
if it’s taken until season 3 of leverage redemption for harry to realise that "sophie devereaux" may be an alias, i can’t wait til he realises that he’s only ever heard parker called by one name.
tags by @underforeversgrace - omg this is perfect. i need this episode to happen now!!
New headcanons are always the best headcanons 🥰
The primary difference between Nate Ford and Harry Wilson is that when Nate was forcibly adopted by the crew he spent multiple seasons complaining about it and trying to escape and when Harry was forcibly adopted by the crew he was just like :D
Nate was pretending he had his shit together and was fine, no sir not drowning here, Harry knows he’s screwed and in over his head and when they threw him a life preserver he was like “YES THANK YOU”
i think maggie would be the only person in the leverage universe who DOES notice the leverage team members occasionally becoming famous. like she’d tune into the world news and then have to call the team to check if sophie really died in a small european country during a turbulent election. "no but wasn’t my funeral so poignant? they put my face on the $20 note!" okay great glad to know you’re not dead. she watches a game of baseball on TV and just sighs deeply when the camera pans to eliot. next time she sees the team, she compliments his baseball skills. for some reason he mutters something about a sandwich while looking wistfully into the distance.
#she’s the only person immune to tv logic in a tv show (usually)#i mean as much as i joke abt ‘oh wouldnt ppl notice that sophie looks like a murdered first lady’ the answer is rlly no probably not#but maggie’s eye for detail + picking up on irregularities + awareness of lev team + tendency to run into lev team…#she’s like ‘how are you out there clark kenting it and not getting caught’ it bothers her#and she’s basically cursed with this knowledge. it keeps happening to her.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that in the criminal underworld, only two things are really widely known about Parker:
Parker is insane
Parker is a world-famous thief—the Parker
No one really knows what she looks like, who she works for, or even that she is a she.
So may I suggest "The 101 Parkers Job":
There's a global job so huge and so important that it behooves the Leverage crew to split up and convince many, many marks that the person they're dealing with is the Parker. Obviously, Parker can only be in place at a time, so this includes the usual suspects—Eliot, Hardison, Sophie, Harry, and Breanna—plus lots of members of Leverage International as well as some surprise faces, including Maggie, Quinn, McSweeten, Tara, and Sterling (and that's just the tip of the iceberg), all pretending to be Parker. For one glorious episode, they are all Parker, embodying all of the weirdness and skill that entails to the best of their abilities, guided by comms in the most chaotic job possible.
Never done thinking about The Rashomon Job. Because ok, I think that, on balance, we can assume Eliot and Sophie spent a not insignificant amount of time at that museum gala flirting aggressively with each other (Nate's careful excision of this from his reconstructed version notwithstanding).
We also know that Sophie clearly did not remember/recognise Eliot until he pantomimed his behaviour and accent that night. This tracks for Sophie; she's not a faces person. She notices actions, tones, accents, and above all she notices physical signifiers of social relationships (class, professional, personal etc.). She can be pretty confident, from her own grifting experience, that that's all most other people notice too.
Eliot, on the other hand, is absolutely a faces person. It's something of a recurring bit. There's at least one occasion where he IDs a guy he saw for three seconds. He's a hypervigilant observer with a detailed and well-trained memory ("it's a very distinctive..."). That's part of what gives him an edge (and also must make the occasions where he briefly becomes famous deeply stressful).
(The bit in the opening episode of Redemption S3, were they walk into a party and Sophie notices the decor and dress and Eliot notices all the armed and dangerous security is such a good example of their respective ways of seeing the world.)
Taking all this into consideration, I think we can fairly happily imagine the following: that Eliot Spencer walked into a theatre in LA with an alcohol-soaked insurance investigator, an annoying hacker, and a disconcertingly odd super-thief, and was absolutely baffled to find someone he recognised from that deeply frustrating attempt to steal the dagger of Aqu'abi doing the world's worst Lady Macbeth.
And then she clearly hasn't recognised him, and he's not going to bring it up, because it's just a one time job, and also there's her whole thing with Nate happening right in front of his salad. And then eventually it becomes "wait, this is gold", and he's just sitting on this reveal until that night in the bar.
Unsolicited Leverage headcanons in no particular order:
- Eliot actually does need glasses and he only suspiciously squints so much at people because he can't see them properly - Part of the reason Eliot didn't tell the group about Moreau in season 3 is because he was thinking about it, but then Nate hypnotised Hardison and Eliot knew, if Nate found out that Eliot has intel and believes it would grant them an edge, it would not be unlikely he'd suffer a similar fate, and he can't have that Not me ascribing more consequences to Schehezarade, that's crazy
- due to a Parker and Con related mix up, Peggy and McSweeten end up going on a date together, with all the miscommunication issues that entails - The interpol pretzel cart shows up at the brewpub before the three are ready to leave the brewpub postcanon. Luckily, Hardison's anti-surveillance equipment is state of the art. The interpol pretzel cart people become regulars at the brewpub and actually start liking the coffee and the staff there, while Parker and Hardison (and the rest of the brewpub staff) keep buying pretzels at the cart with increasing glee, and Eliot absolutely cannot stop them - Eliot buys them too, he just doesn't want anyone to know and is a bit awkward about it, but he and one of the pretzel cart people start swapping recipes, its anyone's guess if those are actually coded messages (they aren't, but Eliot and the interpol agent act as if they are) - Every agency has a different cool nick/codename for Parker, since for all they know, "Parker" is just an alias - None of the agencies have cool codenames for Hardison, since they know his real name and face, and Hardison will die mad about it - Sophie is absolutely the reason Tara left the FBI - Maggie used to have a crush on Sophie - Sterling and Sophie actually met off the job for the first time, kinda went on a date, and got so engrossed with trying to outwit the other that they never actually spend the night together, but the night absolutely ended in something that both only refer to as 'an incident on a job' and only when drunk - Sophie has killed a non zero number of people and Nate will never find out about them - Hardison was part of the group that started the whole Gamestop stock thing in early 2021
the way the leverage team make a mess of nate’s apartment on multiple occasions is so much funnier when you consider that none of them are particularly messy people. in the pilot, hardison has a very nice apartment that he is clearly proud of & has kept very tidy. parker’s warehouse is almost disturbingly neat, her tools and weapons are kept clean & shiny and are laid out in perfect rows, her bed is made, her clothes and rappelling gear is hung up. eliot likes things done properly and certainly at least cares for his car’s cleanliness. idk about sophie, but she would at least know how to act neat for a grift, and she’d be aware of how a guest to supposed to treat their host’s home.
but they all put unwashed dishes in nate’s sink, do spur of the moment renovations, set up new gear in his living room, leave clothes/costumes, plans & random items strewn about the place, and even tear up his stuff without fixing it. i love it. his apartment is their playground. they half live here now. nate just needs to chill out and let them saw into his walls, geez calm downnnn. i know nate’s eye was twitching when he saw that parker’s warehouse was so perfect meanwhile there’s probably 5 bowls of unfinished cereal hidden in his house like a damn look-and-find puzzle
he's fighting a beautiful buff lady. her shirt gets ripped and she's left in her slutty little tank top. "come on," you think. "why is the woman always wearing sexier things than her male counterparts." but fear not. now HE takes off his shirt and he's left in HIS slutty little tank top. equality. and then they kiss
Sophie grifting: hot duchess. seductive investor. mysterious businesswoman.
Eliot grifting: ridiculously competent chef. hot athlete (any sport). heartthrob country musician.
Hardison grifting: overly-confident criminal. assertive FBI agent. heartthrob classical musician.
Nathan Ford grifting: goddamn piece of shit oily slimy scumbag ambulance-chaser untrustworthy con artist with a stupid fucking voice and a silly hat
the show is not doing Nate any favors in the likeability or attractiveness departments here
(Bonus mention: Parker grifting: autism creature)
I was just thinking about how great it is when Parker gets to play to her strengths, though. When the other ones have to play The Weirdo in a con, they consciously choose how to seem weirdest in a situation. When Parker has to play The Weirdo, she just accesses unmasked, unfiltered, distilled essence of Parker.
[ID: hopper painting nighthawks positioned on a white wall so the stripe of sunlight that falls on it aligns perfectly with the lines of light in the painting's diner. end ID]
I forgot how hilarious The Juror #6 job is. The episode opens with Nate trying to socialize his crime daughter by having her do civil service. "There is not some evil conspiracy lurking behind the curtain of every routine civic activity." *four minutes later* "Uh, apparently there is an evil conspiracy lurking behind the curtain of every routine civic activity." Brent Spiner plays a hippie spiritualist pharmacist. We have to get Parker from thinking hiding knives in food is a good prank to having her charm an entire room of people. The kids leave for the day and Nate and Sophie line up at the door; they hand Hardison his briefcase, Parker her sacked lunch, and they present Eliot with the exciting news that today is the day he is going to be hit with a car.
A new stupid crossover headcanon that nobody asked for:
You know how Eliot mentions he has a nephew in The Miracle Job? So he has to have a sibling?
What if it’s Laura Barton. What if Hawkeye is his brother-in-law and he just never mentions it because of safety and also because Hardison would freak out and embarrass him.
Just like, Uncle Eliot sitting next to Auntie Nat at Thanksgiving like, talking shop about the best way to kill a man with a paperclip and did you see Cooper’s last baseball game wasn’t he a champ.
The team gets caught up in SHIELD shenanigans and Nate has sent Sophie in to cover their tracks with nothing but a power suit, a clipboard, and a story about being from the London Office.
Meanwhile, Hawkeye is miming over Agent Coulson’s shoulder at Eliot like: WTF BRO? And Eliot’s giving him the ‘shut up and go with it’ glare behind Sophie’s back.
I wrote them as best friends once?
https://archiveofourown.org/works/9322004
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You think Eliot hasn’t had run-ins with SHIELD? He practically mentions the World Security Council by name in the The Three Days of the Hunter Job. I always pictured Clint and Eliot as friendly rival sorts. Blue-eyed midwestern boys who would rather use literally anything else besides a gun? Yeah.
^^ Which inspired the first fanfic I ever wrote!
https://archiveofourown.org/works/6170008/chapters/14137102
^^^ This is a very excellent fic and everyone should read it and give it all the kudos!
I’m gonna take this opportunity to remind you of the existence of Nerds of the Earth, take note! which happens to be ten years old on the day I’m writing this.
Alec isn’t sure what happened.
He was asleep, and then he was not, and then he was sitting in this big dark room staring at this big bright screen, while a very mild, very scary voice from the shadows says, “Mr. Hardison, you have sixty seconds.”
God, someone mentioned that Sterling was so personally angry at Nate before it's all revealed to be a lie that he got Parker, Hardison, Eliot, and Sophie killed and now it's all I see. Like Sterling really does care about all of them, in a way he loves them, he really is a good man deep down, he knows what's right, he wants to do what's right, but being right and good are often very different things in this world and Sterling has to make a choice
SO I JUST REWATCHED THE LAST GOODBYE JOB AND T H I S YALL
Okay okay okay so this is 100% true (and worded so beautifully!!), but I feel like his anger is also double pronged. Not only is he furious at Nate for getting them killed, it also feels like he’s mad that Nate let them die for the Black Book. It seemed as though Sterling was so incredibly frustrated that Nate threw away the one good thing in his life just for his vigilante type revenge.
Because he doesn’t just care about the crew, he also cares about Nate.
First, thank you 😊 and second I know exactly what you mean.
Sterling has known Nate the longest of anyone on Leverage maybe even longer than Maggie if the two of them were working together as partners before Nate met her and Sterling is also the one who knows Nate the best. Yes, Sophie understands Nate and how he works, but Sterling really knows Nate because they are basically the same man, do you think if Sterling lost Olivia the same way Nate lost Sam he wouldn't go through the exact same breakdown? Sterling and Nate were probably each other's only true friend for years before Sam's death and no matter what Nate has done no matter how many laws he has broken Sterling still sees him as the closest thing to a real friend he ever had and he was able to watch his friend build a new family and start again after the greatest tragedy a parent can go through and in this moment Sterling is watching Nate go through that tragedy again, but this time it's entirely his own fault and Sterling is so upset at his friend who sacrificed the last attempt at family he could ever have for the destructive addiction Nate's friends have watched him fall prey to throughout the entire series and in a way his entire character was building to this moment to this breaking point where he throws away the last valuable thing in his life for this crusade and Sterling can't even be surprised just angry.
YES YES YES EXACTLY!!!!! God this is so perfectly put!! Sterling cares about Nate no matter how much he pretends otherwise, he wants him to succeed and I will DIE ON THAT HILL
Oh my word the "it makes us, us" scene is so sad and John Rogers is personally responsible for my tears. Aldis asked why they put Parker and Eliot together for this and his response just killed me
John: because, I'll tell- I'll tell you exactly why, because this is the year Parker starts to figure out it's- that she's actually a better person, quote unquote, than she thinks she is, and this is the scene right here. Eliot, because of the events of last year, has come to peace with who he is. And this is the thing, Eliot isn't trying to redeem himself, a lot of people think Eliot, "oh he's doing good things so he's redeeming himself." Eliot knows he's going to hell. But he can do some good along the way, and he can help his friends. And that's his role this year, is a man who is very secure in who he is and who he is in the world. Beth's previous scene is amazing, this is some great acting, Christian is killing it here, because what he has to do is he has to reach across this gulf to- and he is, and by the way- we have written, by the way- this only happened because of the way Elio- uh- Christian and Beth have played this over the years. Eliot and Parker have a very specific relationship. It's not brother-sister, it's not boyfriend-girlfriend, but it is "I know the pain you're carrying, because I carry a version of it." And Eliot, a lot of times, is the only one who can reach across to her, across that gulf, and in that moment, there's no crying, it's not a showy, Christian acts the shit out of that moment. That is one of the keystone moments of the entire season right there, and it ghosts past you, because he does it- he just throws it away, really great work. The two of them in this cave, is great work.
It's funny to remember that nate was originally made out as the "one honest man" not only because he's him but also because he spends the second episode ragging on the others about being the good guys now and they spend the rest of the show alternately making him regret it and being better than him at it
Eliot has a NEPHEW who he knows well enough to know he would enjoy bibletopia