Hell's Kitchen

Hardison: You know what? When you get back, we gonna have us a serious conversation about the difference between caution and paranoia.
Eliot: With all the things I’ve done there’s no such thing as paranoia.

Leverage 3x06 - The Studio Job

Nate: Let’s go steal the Department of Defence.
Parker: Isn’t that treason?
Nate: We’ll give it back.

Leverage 3x15 - The Big Bang Job

Eliot: What’s in it for me?
Nate: Payback. And if it goes right, a lot of money.
Parker: What’s in it for me?
Nate: A lot of money. And if it goes right, payback.
Eliot: What’s in it for you?
Nate: He used my son.

Leverage 1x01 - The Nigerian Job

Eliot: Nate, these guys want me to take them straight to Sophie’s secret stash. What the hell am I supposed to do with them?
Nate: Stall. Stall. Um, yeah, uh, London city tour. You’re good at that.
Eliot: You want me to stall them? They’re former British paratroopers!
Nate: How… how do you…
Eliot: Haircuts, all right? It’s very distinctive haircuts.

Leverage 3x12 - The King George Job

Chapman: You said you didn’t like guns.
Eliot: I don’t. Never said I couldn’t use them.
Leverage 3x15 - The Big Bang Job

Nate: It’s never fair. Listen to me. I know. I lost someone. You don’t get “fair.” You don’t get closure or goodbye. So you take the anger. I’ve learned that the anger feels pretty good. Better than the grief. I know that the anger is the thing that gets me up, gets me going in the morning. But, you know, you have to be a little bit careful because if you let yourself be driven by the anger, it will blind you, and you will get into trouble over and over again just so that you can feel, just so you can… beat something.
Karen Scott: And what happens then?
Nate: Well, eventually, you… you run into something that your anger can’t beat.
Karen Scott: Like a mountain?
Nate: And you realize that your… your luck has run out. And it’s a long way down.

Leverage 4x01 - The Long Way Down Job

Parker: You realize this isn’t going to be normal, right?
Hardison: You know, my nana used to say that what’s normal is whatever works for you. We all work okay.

Leverage 4x01 - The Long Way Down Job

Hardison: No way in hell I could ever imagine getting married. I mean, it’s just — It’s just a piece of paper. I take it you’ve never been married.
Eliot: No.
Hardison: Ever come close?
Eliot: No.
Hardison: What was her name?
Eliot: It was a girl I grew up with. But anyway, she married somebody else, so…
Hardison: Hot damn, what did you do?
Eliot: What did I do? I liberated Croatia.

Leverage 1x07 - The Wedding Job

Eliot: What, you think the only thing I know how to do is bust heads?
Nate: No — Well, yeah.
Eliot: Look, hold a knife like this, cuts through an onion. Hold a knife like this, cuts through, like, eight yakuza in 4 seconds. Screams, carnage. People are like knives. Everything is in context.

Leverage 1x07 - The Wedding Job

Eliot: Hardison, we got a problem.
Hardison: What kind of problem?
Eliot: They’re MRI’ing my pizza, and their stance says “ex-CIA.”
Hardison: You can tell somebody work for the CIA just from how they stand?
Eliot: It’s a very distinctive stand!

Leverage 2x06 - The Top Hat Job

Parker: Sometimes the bad guys are the only good guys you get.

Leverage 1x05 - The Bank Shot Job

Nate: Maggie, we help people.
Maggie: You break the law.
Nate: No — Pick up where the law leaves off.

Leverage 1x13 - The Second David Job

Nate: So, when you said you knew the family, you meant you knew the family, huh? Please tell me you weren’t engaged to her.
Eliot: No. May have given her a promise ring or…
Nate: A what?
Eliot: For the…
Nate: No, no, never mind, never mind. There’s no way we’re gonna do this if I have to worry about you being stupid because you’re too involved with…
Eliot: I’m not involved, I’m… I want to help Willie. Did you hear the guy’s story? Scout’s honor.
Nate: Wrong hand.

Leverage 1x03 - The Two Horse Job