#Paul orozco

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Leverage Redemption S02E05 The Walk in the Woods Job.

[my-beloved-lakes]

An incomplete list of things I want from season 3 of leverage redemption:

More Parker running the cons! (Nate passed on the roll of mastermind to her for a reason, damnit!)

Eliot's hair beads and more floof please (#freethefloof2024)

Sterling!

On a similar note: Mr. Quinn, McSweeten, and Dr. Paul

Can Hardison please be in it more than he was the last two seasons! Please! I need my three soul bonded faves to be together again! (I understand why that might not be possible, but I want it🥺)

Let Eliot Spencer get more hugs!

Historical au episode centered around Eliot and Hardison. Someone suggested it be an old Western theme and now i can't stop thinking about it! (Sorry I don't remember who suggested it, but if you know, feel free to tag them or let me know so I can tag them)

A whole episode with just Eliot, Hardison, and Parker doing crime shenanigans and bonding/making up for lost time since Hardison was gone for so long.

Musical episodes!

I want Eliot to shoot a bow and arrow.

[lolanbq]

So, Eliot and Paul, huh?

They finish each other's fight scenes

"but you didn't tell *me*"

Something big and important to tell his dad?

Yeah?

[primal--scream]

Well, this is me shipping Paul and Elliot from Leverage Redemption now. Thanks for that, Noah, you asshole.

[lemissingmask]

[ID: Sketch of Eliot Spencer with long hair and in a sleeveless top, tied to an upright chair with his hands bound behind it and his neck held to the back of the chair with a thick leather band. He has blood and bruises visible on his face. In the background, beyond him, is Alexandra Bligh walking towards him and talking, and in the foreground is a close up of someone drawing a bright red liquid from a vial into a syringe. Black bars above and below the sketch is the text 'COMPOUND 002 -- 15 % w/v' and 'DOSE # 1 12/26/22 -- 17.04', respectively. End ID]

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Day 15: Experimentation

Bligh makes a deal with some high ups in the FBI or CIA, gets released in order to oversee and run experiments into more effective methods for torture and interrogation using untraceable chemicals. Each experiment is recorded visually as well as notes taken.

Ficlet below the cut - part 2 of the three-parter started on Day 8

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Parker hated the velvet softness of the night. Almost as much as she hated the glimmering stars that broke the darkness like thousands of unattainable diamonds.

How dare the evening be so peaceful and calm and beautiful when Eliot was in so much pain?

Or probably in pain.

He wasn’t dead. He couldn’t be dead. He had promised not to leave her and he wouldn't break a promise.

But they knew by now who had him and why, and it was impossible that Eliot was enjoying anything less than torment.

Because that was the point.

That was why they took him.

Using Hardison’s hacking access, they had managed to find out who took Eliot after almost two weeks of searching, and what they found was horrifying.

Alexandra Bligh, released before ever really getting to jail, had been extremely active.  Expenses that took some digging to find revealed rental payments for a building on a private island off the east coast, the hiring of a complete security team and of several scientists from within various government institutes, and purchase orders of chemical ingredients for some of the most brutal enhanced interrogation drugs currently in existence.

The funding had come from within government, through several layers of secrecy, but ultimately under the ordinance of a former member of the CIA. Someone who Vance - after being made to understand that Eliot was in severe danger - revealed had worked with Eliot on some classified operations under his command.

The funds had been transferred under the name of an operation that had very little digital trace, beyond the purpose, whose lengthy wording boiled down to: design new chemical means for breaking people, and the person in charge: Alexandra Bligh.

Hardison had researched the components while his and Breanna’s programs worked to search for Eliot, and privately told Parker what he thought they would do.

Like red haze mixed with toxins designed variously to trigger pain receptors, alter the threshold for pain and other unpleasant stimuli, and cause something called central sensitization, which Parker didn’t understand but it sounded bad.

Hardison’s simplified summary sounded worse. All the memory and sensation heightening effects of red haze, but now with added very real and very strong pain.

They were using Eliot Spencer as the test subject to develop more brutal, untraceable, methods of enhanced interrogation.

And all that on an island almost inaccessible by any stealthy means.

Now Parker was standing with Breanna on a dock in the darkness, waiting for Dr Not-Dead-Paul to bring around the boat they’d need to get to the island. They'd called him in to help in the recovery mission, in part because they needed someone trustworthy who could fight, and in part because they didn't know what state they'd find Eliot in. Having a medic who Eliot knew on hand could prove very useful.

It was Paul who suggested Harry and Sophie remain behind. Having been told what they believed Eliot had been kidnapped for, he cautioned against having too many people around at the point of rescue. Only the three of them needed for the rescue itself - Breanna to stay in the boat or just beside the building, using the proximity to get into their servers and then guide Parker and Paul to where Eliot was, and the thief and temporary hitter would then break him out and escape.

“What if you need more muscle to get out and Eliot can’t fight?” Breanna asked nervously, watching the headlights of the boat as it approached, “Shouldn’t we call in another hitter? Bligh looks like she hired a hell of a lotta security...”

“No time,” Parker watched beyond the boat into the darkness that hid Eliot somewhere inside it, “And Eliot will be able to fight.”

“He’s been tortured for weeks…”

“He’s been shot, stabbed, beaten, drugged, poisoned, and hit by cars, trucks and carnival rides, and still been able to fight. He’ll be fine.”

"Parker's right," Paul said, and Parker thought he sounded sad, "Eliot can handle being tortured. And, usually before, he’s had to fight his way out alone. No team to back him up."

"But he does this time," Parker smiled at Breanna and hoped it looked reassuring, "Eliot's going to be fine."

He had to be fine.

Like Paul said, Eliot had been through torture before, and probably for much longer than this. He’d been injured physically and tormented mentally more than enough times for this to be almost meaningless.

In theory.

But theory didn’t stop her being on edge and upset and angry at the beautiful night.

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[mionghairearracht]

i am once again yelling into the void about the lack of paul orozco/eliott spencer content. its canon that:

they have a history of working together

paul saved eliot's life

at one point they lived together

eliot lost his shit when he thought paul died

the episode ended with them having a candle lit dinner together

there's so much potential for fic, how did they meet? what did they do when working together? how did that affect the two of them? how did they end up living together? why'd that end?

there is only 6 fics on ao3 and i am dying

[leverage-ot3]

#im just saying#shot twice#carried eliot to safety#y'all know how i feel about The Rundown Job#now the question is just amicable exes?#or add Paul to the polycule?#THE PAULYCULE -op

Eliot talking up Paul and going on about how he was shot twice and Paul carried him away + obvious History™ + ending shot of The Rundown Job my beloved

[wornoutspines]

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[ghostlyarchaeologist]

Leverage Redemption S02E05 The Walk in the Woods Job.

[hellwrites]

I mean... We all kinda know the answer here, right?

I know the Eliot/Parker/Hardison thruple is highly celebrated, but I don't think it will ever be actually done on the show itself and I want Elliot to be happy. Also, wouldn't double dates be fun to watch? So

[movienized-com]

The Crow

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[parkstone-international]

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[faorism]

we gotta talk about eliot looking back at his early relationships in the car with parker. the intimacy and detail there between both stories, putting them on the same level as if we should recognize them. there's mention of a rescue mission, without pronouns, and we know of at least one guy who saved eliot after he was shot in the army. what im saying is aimee is obviously story one, and paul orozco is story two. there was a way eliot stumbled over himself, like this is the first time he's saying out loud that paul counts, even if it was purely emotional. and then bi panic. im all for bi the whole time eliot, obviously, but this is my acceptance of him finally opening up.

[hotvintagepoll]

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[lemissingmask]

[ID: Sketch of Eliot being shot by Silverguard Austin Kurlander in the right side of his chest, sacrificing himself so that Paul doesn't get shot. End ID]

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Day 12: Sacrifice

AU in which Eliot does get shot in The Walk in the Woods Job (maybe there was a gun in the chamber, or Parker didn't steal the clip, or Kurlander realised and reloaded). Eliot shifts to ensure that Paul wouldn't get hit if the bullet went all the way through and so the bullet isn't immediately fatal.

Pretty much nothing else of the episode would change, except that Paul corrals Eliot into the truck and makes him sit down and be treated, at the end.

[mariacallous]

When Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents raided worksites in Los Angeles on June 6, randomly arresting and detaining undocumented and legal immigrants, these new and invasive tactics of immigration enforcement provoked protests. Those protests led President Donald Trump to deploy the military, which a judge found to be illegal on Thursday, to help ICE continue its raids.

But soon, these tactics and the militarized response to the protests they provoked would be turbocharged and deployed in every community in the country if Republicans pass Trump’s budget bill.

The version of the bill passed by the House contains over $150 billion to fund Trump’s immigration enforcement and detention regime. (A Senate version of the bill, by Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul, would offer much lower DHS funding, though it’s unclear if Paul’s version will prevail in the Senate.) The funding infusion, as envisioned by House Republicans, would double the size of the immigration and border enforcement force, already the largest law enforcement force in the country, and create a detention regime for people not charged with criminal offenses that few countries have seen in recent decades.

This includes $45 billion toward new detention camps — a 13,000% increase in funding that would quadruple detention capacity. ICE’s budget would triple, and it would receive more than $8 billion to hire 10,000 new agents, officers and support staff for enforcement and removal operations — more than doubling its size. Customs and Border Patrol would receive $5 billion for its own detention centers — a 10,000% increase in funding — and $4.1 billion to hire 8,500 new frontline staff.

“There’s just a lot of concern, given the authoritarian nature of the approach of this administration, that giving billions to them without appropriate oversight will spill into other areas, like what we’ve seen in Los Angeles,” said Adriel Orozco, senior policy counsel at the American Immigration Council.

Trump is currently pushing for immigration enforcement to deport at least 1 million people a year from the U.S. To do so, his administration has diverted resources from every other law enforcement function of the government toward immigration enforcement and engaged in new and brutal tactics to remove as many people as possible as quickly as possible.

These tactics include warrantless worksite raids and community sweeps targeting anyone on the street; arrests at immigration courts of people pursuing a legal process to stay in the country; and false accusations of gang membership to remove people to a concentration-camp-like prison in El Salvador without due process.