I think about the opening line of leverage a lot

It starts in an airport bar with the bartender telling Nate that the flight starts boarding in 15 minutes.

And then Victor Dubenich arrives

But it never gets mentioned again where Nate was going, and we don’t know of anyone he cares about that he would have to fly to get to. There’s nothing to pull him anywhere, which means that he’s leaving just to go. And look. Nate at the start of this show is so angry, and so helpless, and so alone. He’s just lost his kid and divorced his wife, he’s drunk half to death. He’s is not doing well. 

So I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure that if Victor Dubenich had arrived 15 minutes late, Nate would’ve gotten on that plane, flown to god knows where, and, by the time someone came looking for him, there probably wouldn’t be anyone to find.

The ending of The Last Dam Job is insane

The crew’s trying to convince Nate not to kill the guy who killed his dad, we’re getting a lot of really sweet and sad moments where they’re all saying things like it will break all of our trust in you, and it will fundamentally change you as a person in a way that you really really won’t like. And Nate is absolutely not listening to them. Push comes to shove, he gets really close to just shooting the guy but then he sees that the crew’s watching him and get some second thoughts so what he does instead is he talks to the guys. And he puts down the gun. And they kill each other.

But look. Fundamentally he did kill them. And the crew is just cool with that ‘cause they’re like okay, but it’s poetic enough, though. Okay, but he didn’t kill them he just conned them to death. (Which absolutely is 10 times scarier than just shooting them.) Their morals are wild and it’s great.

The Gimme A K Street Job (S05E05)
LEVERAGE (2008—2012)

The Gimme A K Street Job (S05E05)
LEVERAGE (2008—2012)

The Three Days of the Hunter Job (S02E05)
LEVERAGE (2008—2012)

the funniest thing nate ford ever did was run up like twelve flights of stairs racing an elevator to press every floor button to stall sterling

every leverage dynamic
⮎ eliot spencer & nate ford

to be honest, when you're not on the receiving end of it, watching him mess with somebody's head is pretty impressive.

"Come on, let's talk. Like gentlemen."

Leverage S04E18 The Last Dam Job.

Leverage (2008) // S03xE13 // The Morning After Job