#the long goodbye job

officiallordvetinari:

leverage-ot3:

nate: and they bled out in each other’s arms

interpol agent, taking notes: okay

nate: holding hands. with each other. with eliot in the middle

interpol agent: …okay, so after that y-

nate: they were in love

interpol agent: okay but what happened aft-

nate, shaking: it’s essential to me that you write that down

#I like to imagine the team planning this story out ahead of time

#parker: tell him that we were holding hands. don’t forget that part

#Elliott: is that really necessary to the story

#Hardison: unbelievable. we’re dying and you won’t even hold my hand!

#Elliott: damn it Hardison! we’re not really dying! i don’t see why it’s relevant to the story

#hardison: and i don’t see why you won’t hold my damn hand

#Elliott: of course i would hold hands with you if we were actually dying! i just don’t think it’s relevant for Nate to tell the agent

#sophie: no leave it in! it’s a wonderful bit of character work

s-wordsmith:

Nate in The Long Good-bye Job: I knew it wasn’t a hospital immediately because hospitals are noisy.

The team in The Order 23 Job: so here’s a mix of background noises to play on a loop outside the hospital room and we’re going to use the PA system combined with that to convince the guy he’s really in a hospital.

Like many parts of Leverage, there were many layers to the conversation in The Long Good-bye Job. One of those layers was Nate telling Sterling and the Feds to their face that his team was better than them because five people pulled off a more convincing hospital con in under an hour than the combined force of multiple federal agencies. (While his team was conning them.)