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Leverage (2008) // the boys' lil handhake

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Happy Pride Month everybody!

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The Inside Job (Leverage, S03E03) The Grand Complication Job (Redemption, S03E05)

requested by @reflectingiridescent

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"The crop report is wrong."

Leverage S04E08 The Boiler Room Job.

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"Sophie, I hate when you make me wear these dang cufflinks."

I'm watching The Grave Danger Job, and I'm thinking not for the first time about how the team spends time outside of cons doing stuff for the team. They're masters of their craft, so it makes sense that we know that Hardison spends a lot of time doing research and cleanup, for example.

So I'm thinking that this means that Sophie actually spends a lot of time shopping/stealing stuff for the team to wear. For the team to be fully effective, they need everyone ready to be able to grift on a dime, right? Costuming is an important part of every theater production.

She's probably got measuring tapes stashed in Nate's place, Lucille, and in her purse. She's taking members of the team shopping every other weekend. Hardison's super young and still growing, so she probably has to take him for multiple suit fittings. He's the one who most visibly likes learning about her world, so he's happy to learn and she's happy to have an audience.

The team walks into their offices between jobs and maybe she's not there yet, but she's got new clothes laid out for everyone. She's regularly leaving clothes in Lucille just in case. She makes sure to keep up-to-date on the things that Parker has stolen in case it's a good idea for Parker to wear them for a con.

Eliot...tends to have good stuff hanging in his closet already, but I like the idea of him letting her get him situational clothing that lends itself well to a fight, and him teaching her how to fight people in return. For them it's more of an exchange, and I can see them being whiny and grumpy to the other because it's kind of their love language.

Nate's repertoire of grift characters tends to be stuff he already has, but he gets out of the shower and rolls his eyes when the steam on the mirror clears because Sophie's left new things for him hanging in his bathroom again. "It's not like I saw anything, Nate!" she says in the early days, but also he ends up needing that exact outfit the following week and it's not like she doesn't know what she's talking about.

But also Sophie has multiple full closets because she's storing four other people's con clothes in them. The truly impressive number of shoes she bought with the money from the Leverage team's first score? Used on shoes not just for her. This is a woman who commits to the bit. There's no way her team's going in for a con without looking the part.

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Leverage Redemption 3x05: The Grand Complication Job

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“Come on killer!” Love all of Tara’s nicknames for Bree in this episode!!!

Go, Bree!

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You ever think about... despite everyone on the team having various reputations, it's Sophie that the criminal underworld is so afraid of. Specifically when it comes to Leverage's kind of con game, Sophie is the undisputed queen.

Like. Parker's the world's best thief, but she's just that - a thief. Eliot, Hardison, neither of them are inherently conmen, even if they're both very good at it. The trio were all in other criminal buisnesses, Nate was on the right side of the law. But Sophie is known across names and countries, heck, Second David implies that she's the one with easily the most outstanding warrants.

You do not try to out-con Sophie Devereaux, and unlike everyone else, her specialty is exactly what Leverage do every single day. It's the foundation of it. This is her game and it has been from the start, that's why Nate brought her in to begin with - he picked her. He didn't pick the others. As soon as he decides to run game on Dubenich, as soon as he sets the cogs into play for creating what will become Leverage Inc, Sophie is a core facet of that. This is her game.

Sophie is the only crew member who we've ever seen someone decide to kill because of reputation alone. The only one. And Chaos... he's smarmy and slimy and all that, but he's smart. I bet that his reasoning there is solid. You do not try to out-con Sophie Devereaux. Taking her out of play entirely is by far the most drastic solution, but with someone like Sophie... I'm not sure there were any other options, and I am sure that if there were then Chaos had very good reasons to dismiss them. She's terrifying.

Sophie is terrifying. Terrifying in a very different way to how, say, Eliot or Parker are terrifying - but she's terrifying. Nate maybe evolved into a siren, but Sophie's been one from the start. Luring men to their doom. It's not really surprising that she ended up our mastermind in Redemption - she didn't always have the leadership skills, but it's been her game all along.

I. Just. Sophie Devereaux, everyone. World's worst actress, world's best grifter.

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The Swipe Right Job (Redemption, S03E06) The San Lorenzo Job (Leverage, S03E16)

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Happy Mother's Day Sophie Devereaux.

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"Parker was essentially feral when we met her"

hilarious but also not wrong

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Parker? Ooh, you are so out of your depth. You read her completely wrong. As a thief? A glorified pickpocket? Parker is magnificent. She has no weaknesses. She's laser focused. She's been three steps ahead of you the entire time. And you gave her half an hour to set it up.

Beth Riesgraf as Parker in The Grand Complication Job (S03E05) Leverage: Redemption (2021-present)

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Jeri Ryan as Tara Cole LEVERAGE: REDEMPTION | 3.05

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Parker and Astrid smooshing the cake in each other's faces while Sophie watches as their proud mother I'm crying

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Leverage Redemption | 3.05 The Grand Complication Job

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It’s your basic romance con.

Leverage: Redemption - 3x06 The Swipe Right Job

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