Nate goes up to his sad little apartment at the end of The Beantown Bailout Job after finally asking Sophie out only to learn that she is already headed to a date with someone else, after the job is over and everybody has disappeared, fully expecting to be alone with just his coffee cans …
Only to find Hardison hanging giant monitors all along one wall and Parker bringing in that weird painting Hardison painted of Nate’s own face masquerading as Harlan Leverage III, which they’ve brought from their previous office and saved for six months for some reason, to hang somewhere and Eliot cutting a giant hole in the wall with a chainsaw. Hardison has bought his building and is now his landlord. Nate will never be alone again. He wants to pull his hair out. (He wants to hug them.)
