mcsweeten being in leverage redemption and still having not a clue that parker and hardison are, in fact, not federal agents and are actually world-class criminals
or at some point between the finale and now he did find out, and then some government official gets wind of one of their heists and is jabbing their finger at a blurry image of parker and hardison mid-thievery and with a completely straight face, mcsweeten explains that guys, those are agents hagen and thomas and they are working on an undercover op and were in no way at all involved of what is inconveniencing the government now
and the government official keeps trying to explain they are criminals but mcsweeten just pulls up their dossiers and credentials and he can literally see the vein throbbing in the man’s forehead but he just smiles says that he has personally worked with agent hagen and would trust her with his life
Ok but consider this the team comes clean and Mcsweeten takes it hard and says he needs some times alone . After a few days they go to check on him and find his apartment empty. Panicking they go to the FBI and find out that his office is empty too. After some discrete probing from Sophie they discover that Mcsweeten never existed . Apparently this was a brilliantly crafted false personality used by a mysterious spy who has managed to infiltrate the highest levels of the FBI
The team stunned and with their professional pride hurt decade to join in on the task force designed to hunt Mcsweeten . They finally track him down and burst into the warehouse only see … a surprise party with every member of the task force they thoguht they left in the dust and Mcsweeten who goes “I loved your prank where you tried to make me think you were criminals so I decided to play one on you as well. Thgouht it would be great for team building !”
And the episode just ends with the team unable to decide if Mcsweeten is really that oblivious or if he really is playing a massive prank on them
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i was so afraid that harry was going to grab for the mastermind role in redemption (i shoulda known better, it’s leverage) that the fact that he’s just a funky little man that decided he’s doing crime now needed a minute to sink in but i LOVE him
he’s a whole adult man with a long “honest” career with an entire child and presumably?? no wife? unless she’s Way more chill with Harry dumping his job and moving to New Orleans without warning than a regular person would be
and he just. got critiqued by THE sophie devereaux on his one and only theft attempt, which he did in fact research on youtube, almost got saved by THE parker, and then got an assist from the whole leverage team on his escape (you can count getting knocked out by eliot or not)
and he just. wakes up in a lovely little house. with four people talking about whether he needs to die. and then they decide to take down his boss and there’s a shed in the back with a dedicated stolen painting cabinet and a different cabinet of forgery materials and an actual legitimate forgery printer and he’s like. okay! i guess this is my life now. is somebody going to explain the inside jokes? why yes i would love to try grifting, thank you for asking.
or the sequel (ideally later on in the same episode):
Nate, over comms: “Eliot, take her out.”
Eliot:[pauses, blinks at the security guard] “What, like on a date?”
Nate:“No! Knock her out!”
For extra fun, a setup where the earbuds are glitchy for some reason, so he has to confirm Nate’s order via gesture, and Eliot makes a gesture that he thinks communicates “Like, seduce her?” and Nate confirms thinking he was pantomiming, e.g., tie her up and stash her somewhere, and things go off the rails from there.
this is all very fun to picture, thank you both. I would like to add that (a) this absolutely becomes a Leverage meme. When they find out Sophie and Nate are together, Hardison will ask, “Did you…” and trail off into the seduction/abduction gesture. Parker does the same when Eliot brings Quinn to help the team. “How’d you get him here, was it” [gesture] or [very much the same gesture]?“
and (b) I gotta wonder if perhaps this inspires Hardison to start a game of Charades. Like, they already had planned family time hanging out, he’d heckled people into agreeing to play some sort of games with him. So when Eliot shows up at the end of the episode (with takeout, to complete all three meanings) (also possibly ditching his date and grumbling at the accompanying teasing), it’s to Hardison and Sophie conspiring to begin a game of Charades. They all force Nate and Eliot to be on the same team, because no one else wants to deal with them, and when they protest claim this is a "learning experience” for them. It’s a moot point anyway, since Hardison is the true MVP and anyone with him on their team is guaranteed to win regardless, but they both insist they aren’t that bad and get mad at the other one for misinterpreting what they consider very obvious gestures.
Hardison starts including “(se/ab)duction” as a step in his planning slides. It means “Eliot removes this person from their post, one way or another.”
Eliot and Nate both hate it, meaning he suggests it as frequently as possible.
Since this formulation only really works well in text, Parker ends up truncating the concept to “‘duction.” This works fine (aside from aggravation of Eliot and Nate), as long as it stays within the core team who is familiar with the source. But as they enter the Leverage Redemption era…
But how amazing would Sophie/Eliot be in Redemption season 2? Having it start out with them finally acknowledging their attraction to one another (100% canon thanks to “The Rashomon Job”!),and speculate how differently things might’ve turned out if Nate wasn’t there. Then it grows.
But they keep it secret, at least at first. (although I do like to think that Harry finds out somehow is all like “oh hey, I didn’t know you two were a thing, that’s great!” and Eliot threatens to do something very unpleasant to him if he tells anyone). Parker and Hardison wouldn’t understand. Sophie and Eliot are both on board with keeping the relationship to themselves for a while until Sophie finally tries to convince Eliot that the rest of the team has to find out some time. It takes him quite a while to relent.
Eliot’s whole problem with Parker and Hardison knowing is that they’ll make it weird, and that’s exactly what they do. Hardison is thoroughly grossed out, he sees Sophie as a mother figure and Eliot as a brother so… that’s a no for him. Meanwhile Parker hates change so much and this, this is a lot to take in. Sophie and Eliot are exasperated by their initial reactions. (I don’t feel like Breanna has any strong feelings on the subject, she mostly just sits back and watches the fireworks while Harry looks over at her and says “yeah, I already knew”, all proud like).
So it’s a weird and uncomfortable transition but they agree to take it slow. Sophie and Eliot limit the PDA and pet names at first to give Parker and Hardison time to get used to the idea. Which they do eventually. They’re not blind, they can see how much Sophie and Eliot care for and love each other and they love them enough to want to see them happy with each other.
And they are. After everything both of them have been through and everything they’ve lost… they deserve to have a mature, stable relationship with someone who understands them, accepts them, and will always be there for them.
I don’t know if this relationship is even on the writers’ radar, I doubt it, but one can dream…
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