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Mages when they run out of mana 🤣

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FRANÇOIS ARNAUD as CESARE BORGIA The Borgias — 2.05: The Choice

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Reasons I love The Cross My Heart Job:

Nate being so angry, he actively chooses not to drink.

Hardison's spur-of-the-moment grift as a trans man, then getting mad at airport security for looking at him funny.

Eliot kicking the kidnapper over and over until he knocks him unconscious.

Sophie offering Nate a drink.

Parker stealing the snow globe just because.

Eliot finding the most obnoxious rich man in the airport to steal a credit card from.

And of course, "God killed you. I just made sure it took."

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I simply think he needs to get kissed on his little face. In my humblest of opinions

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ultimate ships challenge - [9/10] she cleans up nicely scenes

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A whippoorwill from Nebraska Wildlife Rehab's instagram. They are responsible for the music.

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grown woman vs her alexa

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I encountered him as a wisp in the Necropolis years ago. A simple spirit, but so curious! He refused to leave my side.

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Manfred Volkarin - Beloved Son and Apprentice of the Necropolis

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Leverage S03E14 The Ho Ho Ho Job.

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how have i seen nobody talk about the fact that davrin, in a move relevant to almost nothing else happening in his life, is writing a BOOK about monsters just to prove people wrong bc he’s really mad about how wrong they are.

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One hand blogging the other strokin that thang 💯💯

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I just think about the Last Dam Job and want to start shrieking. What a good fucking episode. What a great fucking show.

Have you ever been in a dark place, with a heavy journey ahead, but in the midst of your suffering you have a moment of clarity about yourself, and you know that when the time comes, you'll be capable of what currently seems inconceivable? Nate doesn't kill Lattimer and Dubenich (not directly) but at the end of The Radio Job, he knows he's capable of it. And until the very end of this episode, Nate, his team, and the audience, aren't sure that he won't.

"You missed" Nate facing off against Evil Artie Dubenich is a little terrifying. The look on Nate's face, the absolute hatred...damn.

"All a man has in this world, all he has...three things, his business, his possessions, and his name. So you take all that away, any man will kill." We see this idea repeated over and over again in this show, and later in Redemption. But that's not all the members of the Leverage team have. They have each other.

"Well Nate, it's about consequences." There we go again, back to the idea of consequences that came up in The King George Job.

Dubenich wants to claim the team as his since he put it together. And it's true that he does know them and their techniques, so they gather a new team.

They can't turn to any allies, Dubenich and Lattimer would know all of them. So they turn to enemies, rivals. Those outside of the game.

Nate gives the orders while looking at different members of his team:

Eliot: someone who is not a friend

Sophie: someone who is not in the game

Hardison: someone we do not trust

And that's who they recruit: Quinn, Maggie, and Chaos. Plus, Archie, who likely counts as someone no longer in the game.

Nate has cleared out of this apartment and they've gone underground. Literally. ("You got me a Batcave?")

Quinn meets Old Nate. "What the hell is this?" "Don't ask."

I love Sophie's glare at Chaos (he tried to kill her, dammit!) while Archie threatens him.

Sophie finds Nate with his father's gun, and Jimmy's theme plays. There's a very real chance Nate is going to kill Dubenich and/or Lattimer and she's not putting up with his dismissive attitude about what that means.

"Eliot's killed."

"You're too bright for me to dignify that with a response."

"Dammit! HARDISON!"

"so he hacks us with a CLAM??" There is nothing quite like hearing that line in that man's voice. I wouldn't be surprised if he were cast just so that line would sound the way it does.

We do see where Parker learned to love tasers.

Dubenich begins to realize that Nate is using the list of ways to destroy a man that he gave him. It's beautiful to watch.

"Your father was a pennyante thief and nothing you do will change that you're the same stock."

"Remember that."

We get Jimmy's theme again while Nate uses his gun for practice. Eliot takes a turn at trying to convince Nate not to pursue murder.

"You know a lot of things Nate. You don't know how this is gonna change you. "

"You handled it."

"Well you have no idea who I was before all this started. That guy, kid, he had God in his heart and he had a flag on his shoulder, clean hands, and I ain't seen him in the mirror in over ten years and believe me I get up every morning looking for him."

Oh just over here thinking about Redemption 1x01 and Hardison telling Harry how Eliot wakes up every morning saying he's got more to do. 🙃 Ouch

It's worth noting that Parker and Hardison don't take a turn at trying to talk Nate out of killing anyone. I don't think Parker would blink if Nate actually went through with it, but more than that, she and Hardison have always been more hands off with Nate. They don't always agree with him or respect his choices, but they don't try to influence him like Sophie and Eliot try to do off and on throughout the series.

Nate predicts that if Sophie shows her face, Dubenich will come down from the sky and sure enough, he shows up to personally escort her away from Lattimer. But soon after we get...Maggie 🥰

Next up, Quinn.

"Who the hell are you?"

"Well I'm definitely not Eliot."

*angry animal noises as Eliot tackles Dubenich*

Quinn disarms one of the men with Dubenich then gives Eliot the gun. For a moment, we see Eliot really consider taking one more life just so Nate never has to. ("I'm thinking about saving my friend some trouble.") But he doesn't. We know that Eliot considers himself in Nate's debt, but it's because Nate gave him a purpose outside of killing. And so even to save Nate's soul, Eliot can't bring himself to kill Dubenich.

Sophie and Maggie teaming up to stress Nate right tf out really is one of my favorite things.

"My wife?? You recruited my wife as your backup??" ("Ex." "He never says ex-wife." "I always do.")

"Maggie is the only honest person I know." "Aww" ♥

"Now that you two are together, when Sophie asks me for a favor, how can I refuse?"

"Look at that, he looks like a slapped mackerel."

The team gathers to ask Nate not to go after Lattimer and Dubenich, but they don't try to stop him. He tells them not to follow, but they do, and Sophie, Hardison and Parker all help pick off the goons.

Eliot takes on some of the others. "You know somebody locked Jimmy Ford in that warehouse. Wasn't you, was it?"

Nate gets shot again 🙄

"You didn't kill the man responsible for your son's death."

"My son would be ashamed of me if I was a murderer. My father on the other hand, he'd buy me an ice cream."

"The problem that I'm having with ALL of this, is if only one of you dies the other will go free!" What a delivery on that line, whew.

Nate pauses while looking between Lattimer and Dubenich to glance behind him to where his team is watching, waiting to see what he's going to choose. They're not going to stop him, but they're going to watch him make this choice. He chooses to lay the gun down and walk away, knowing the other men will jump on it and take each other out. He doesn't look back.

Sophie patches him up afterwards.

"I'm glad you didn't do it."

"I'm not my father, Sophie. If I lived like him I'd always be looking for the next payout, never just looking at... what I have. And you know if you live the way he lived, eventually your luck just runs out. I gotta make some changes."

Whew, these two really get such epic, end of an Austen film type kisses.

Meanwhile, the other three are arguing about keeping the Batcave. They interrupt the kissing to ask if they can keep the cave. "Hear me out, two words: Eliot signal."

"Hey, let's go break the law."

"Just one more time?"

"Oh a few more times."

Eliot is interested in that signal..."like a wolf? Or a knife? Or a wolf? A wolf is cooler. See I'm into that." I think about this moment every time I watch Redemption 1x13.

After all the darkness of the last few episodes, the season ends with Nate and Sophie looking to the future together and the others happily bickering amongst themselves. There's no uncertainty about whether the team is still a team or any sudden upheaval between Nate and Sophie. They're all together and there's such a lighthearted ease among them all as they climb over the rocks and head off to their next adventure.

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lucanis to rook: what did i do to deserve you? (affectionate)

viago to rook: what did i do to deserve you? (derogatory)

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little crew moments (1/∞) | eliot & sophie in the experimental job

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I am cruel, I am gentle, I can make you laugh.

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I’m really into internet discourse but only pointless and stupid internet discourse like how many holes there are in a straw (it’s 2)