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The team finds out about Eliot Spencer's past with Damien Moreau in The Big Bang Job. One of the most intense scenes in the show.

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And they died holding hands.

Oh my god  and they died holding hands.

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Eliot Spencer and Sophie Devereaux in The Tap Out Job

This scene is an intimate glimpse into Eliot's inner life, and it's also one of my favorite interactions between him and Sophie. She comes to him in concern, well-versed in her role as the one who, to quote Hardison in The Two Live Crew Job, "makes sure we're all okay." It's emotional labor that she does with a lot of skill and care, but for once it's not needed here. Eliot's got it handled.

More self-aware and emotionally intelligent than the typical bruiser character, Eliot has never shied away from doing his own internal work. He still has his jagged edges and blind spots, but not in this. When it comes to his relationship with violence, Eliot has found his equilibrium. He couldn't have been a member of this team, if he hadn't. Couldn't have let himself care for them—and them for him—if he'd thought he was a ticking time bomb. Couldn't be the protector if just being around him put them in danger from his own demons.

So Eliot here, basically saying, "It's okay, Sophie, I can deal with this," is telling nothing but the truth. He's not avoiding the issue or acting macho. He's taken a sober look at what this would cost him both physically and psychologically, and he knows that he can pay the price. He's got safeguards and coping mechanisms in place. Sophie's still not happy about it—it's a heavy thing, what they're asking Eliot to do—but she takes him at his word. And so do we. It's what makes the con during the fight so effective, not just against the mark, but also the viewers.

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Eliot and Hardison bickering like an old married couple while Parker casually reveals a new talent in The Fairy Godparents Job. Just ot3 things :)

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Alec Hardison playing the violin in The Scheherazade Job

It's a beautiful day to watch a beautiful geek make beautiful music.

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SOPHIE: Talk nerdy to this cute engineer, Breanna.

BREANNA: I can't do that without being really, really gay about it!

SOPHIE: Yeah, that'll work.

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John Rogers on this scene in The Long Way Down Job:

For Eliot, he's the anchor. This is a man who's, well, not a peace but at equilibrium with being damned. A man who knows his swing, as my grandfather would say. And with equilibrium comes the willingness to help others out in their time of—disequilibrium.

Parker has to deal with the fact that with vulnerability, with emotions, with relationships, come a lot of good things…and pain and doubt, for the first time.

Beth nailed Parker's torment at wanting to do the right thing, her frustration at how she wants to—well, she said it all in the scene, and much more than what was there in dialogue. It's one of the finest pieces of acting I've seen in twenty years as a writer. But Eliot's scene afterwards, explaining that it was okay to be Parker at the same time she was trying to be a better Parker—that's not a speech anyone else would have given.

(Very Important Parker scenes 2/∞)

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Parker takes a stand with her real family in The Inside Job

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