Leverage Redemption S03E05 The Grand Complication Job.

there's something about maggie/sophie that will always have me in its thrall... it's not even about the mutual nate of it all, necessarily, although that's delicious.

it's also about, they both love art in a visceral way. and about the fact that maggie recognized sophie in the museum. that the "of course she bloody speaks spanish" is reminiscent of the cat and mouse game sophie had fun with with nate.

and it's the easy way in which sophie manages to instruct maggie. and how "she's turning into quite the grifter" actually does highlight how sophie's area of crime is probably the one maggie's most suited to, too.

and then, of course, there's the whole thing about maggie being "the most honest person" the team knows and sophie being The Liar of all time.

something so simultaneously jagged, mismatched and soft, understanding about them that makes me want to eat gravel.

Had no idea how badly we all needed "The Girls Night Out Job Pt. 2" in 2025

Nathan "who did you just call baby right then" Ford and Alec "no, i'm with him" Hardison and Eliot "somebody kiss this man so I don't have to" Spencer and Parker "She's hot. Warm? Cold? Why is everyone staring?" Parker

Leverage 3x16 - "The San Lorenzo Job"

eliot’s dad is a football coach in a tiny town that was nearly destroyed by corporate greed and the first thing eliot is seen doing as mayor of the town they’re trying to save is playing football with a bunch of kids and encouraging them. screams

Found Family Battle (Finals)

I’m sorry to talk about Luigi Mangione so much but like. Imagine his parents.

Your son was living the good life. Valedictorian, Ivy League, working for game design startups, surfing in Hawaii. He’s doing great, right? Nothing really out of the ordinary. Maybe he posts some weird stuff on Twitter, maybe he’s dealing with an injury, but like, he’s still mostly a normal kid.

And then, fairly abruptly, he drops off the face of the earth. No one has heard from him. You reach out to his old high school classmates. You hear nothing. Your texts go unanswered. You file a missing persons report.

And then the next thing you know he’s on national news for killing a health insurance CEO ???

Leverage Halloween Headcanons

Parker doesn't really get Halloween. She's not scared of a lot of the things people find scary about the holiday and while she learned to enjoy using fear as a weapon she doesn't really get "deliberately scaring yourself for fun." She loves giving the boys jump scares though. It's a test of her skill to actually alarm Eliot and Hardison always gives the best reactions, squeaky and indignant.

Hardison loves Halloween, it is his jam. He loves Christmas too, but a whole holiday for dressing up and eating candy and getting his heart pumping by watching scary movies and being jump scared by his girlfriend? Classic. He spends weeks between cases making costumes for them all which he gets them to wear with varying success.

Eliot hates Halloween. Everyone's wearing masks and clothes they wouldn't normally wear, the office is filled with Hardison's horrible candy, and he has to be constantly on the alert to catch a falling Parker when she drops into his arms with a "BOO" that could wake the dead. He definitely doesn't have serious opinions on the costumes Hardison makes. Nor would he ever fuel Parker's chocolate addiction by making special chocolates with green and orange fillings that he conveniently forgets to box up. He has no idea what Sophie is talking about, he hates Halloween.

Sophie adores Halloween, when done right. That means a classy vampire princess get up, fake teeth of a really good quality that won't interfere with her eating good food and Eliot's excellent homemade candies. She'd prefer a gala with Nate where everyone is masked to trick-or-treating or handing out candy, but privately her favorite Halloween was when they were all far too tired after a case. They ordered in take out to Nate's apartment and watched movies and all fell asleep in a pile on his couches. There was something about the heat of Parker laying across the back of the couch and having her head tucked into Nate's shoulder with Eliot's legs across her and Hardison's laps that just felt like home.

Nate tries to like Halloween. Trick-or-treating will make him a upset and Hardison only suggested leaving a sign out for the kids in the apartments once. But he likes playing subtle pranks on the others and seeing if they notice. He'll play "two truths and a lie" with them throughout the day, telling one long ridiculous story with a certain amount of truth to it, to see who he can get to believe what. Parker usually believes all of the story and once she figures out the rules of the game has fun playing detective with the truth. Hardison doesn't believe Nate in the way that means he absolutely believes Nate. Eliot it's a fifty/fifty toss up as to whether he'll just scoff and ignore Nate's confident stories about crazy things Nate has done or if he'll shrug and say that sounds like something Nate would do. Sophie never believes Nate and is always blindsided by what the truth is in the story. Overall, Nate enjoys Halloween if he doesn't think to hard.

Today in Leverage headcanons no one asked for: do they have tattoos and if so, of what

Nate: has Sam's name tattooed over his heart in an awful cursive font. Definitely got it when he was drunk.

Sophie: no tattoos for obvious reasons (she changes identities too often to have anything permanent on her body)

Parker and Hardison: matching lock and key tattoos <3

Eliot: got an American flag on his shoulder when he was eighteen, right out of boot camp. He covered it up on a whim with a wolf or a skull or something suitably fierce when he started to grow disillusioned. Didn't get another tattoo for years, until he went with Parker and Hardison to get a little matching pick.

Harry: too uptight for tattoos

Breanna: has been slowly amassing a collection of cute small tattoos. They're all in places she can hide them easily, because she's not about to jeopardize her chances of being involved in cons, but she also couldn't resist the urge when all her friends were getting cute tattoos. They're not, like, overtly gay tattoos, but they also kind of are.

"We’ve been providing military advisors, internationally, for over forty years."

Leverage S01E02 The Homecoming Job.