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Dude. Nate Ford saying ‘I didn’t kill you. G-d killed you. I just made sure it took’ is deadass mental as fuck

Do we have a canonical (or someone's excellent headcanon) reason for this ridiculousness of a car? I have always wondered. It's so...distinctive, seems at odds with their whole lifestyle. Maybe he just "knows someone" anywhere he goes that can hook him up with a vehicle better suited for various needs? Maybe it's the car he always wanted as a kid? Maybe he won it in a poker game and getting a new paint job seems excessive? Thoughts? Links to existing discourse (I'm sure it's gotta be out there somewhere)?

Pretty sure Eliot is a car guy. If I remember correctly, there is also an episode in leverage redemption where Harry borrows one of his expensive cars for a con. I think there is also another episode in OG leverage where Nate borrows one of Eliot's cars but don't quote me. I haven't rewatched recently enough to remember

Found family? No I stole them fair and square

if you're not mad about Leverage Redemption not being renewed for season four just remember season four is when they were planning on introducing Nana

Also, in the Wedding Job, Eliot talks about how he blew it with his fiancé. Which is useless exposition, given that we met her already (airing order) in the Two-Horse Job.

And in the Two-Horse Job the ex-fiance tells Elliot that she's glad he's found a family, which is an absolutely wild assertion when they've done like. Two jobs total.

i think what makes pardison truly the m/f ship of all time is that there are exactly zero gender roles intrinsic to their relationship. no he was a boy she was a girl bullshit. hardison almost instantly fell in love with her but the relationship was entirely at parker's pace. no strong dominating man bullshit. no girlboss malewife shit that tumblr always likes to pull. just two extraordinarily competent adults who are deeply in love with each other. they've even got a third guy who follows them around everywhere and it's never assumed that he's competition for hardison (yes eliot is still deeply intertwined in their relationship but my point still stands)

I really appreciate how in The Queen's Gambit Job, they didn't try to have a reveal where Nate could actually beat all of the chess grandmasters without cheating. Like, yeah, Hardison can actually play the Scheherazade solo perfectly because his nerves were what got in his way and he got hypnotized out of that, sure. Sophie can identify the exact percentage and location of origin of cocoa beans in a piece of chocolate, why not, that makes sense. Eliot has almost-perfect pitch and can sing and play the guitar, that doesn't surprise me. Parker can pull off the White Rabbit for real, of course she can. But they didn't pull that trick with Nate and the chess tournament, and I really liked that. He's really good at chess, yeah, but not grandmaster level. They had to play dirty and cheat to get him in the finals against Olivia. In all of those other situations where the rest of the team doubted another member's abilities, Nate never had any doubt. Nate knows what they *all* can do, and that includes knowing that he isn't magically good enough to win those games without help, because even though chess is "his game", his REAL game is not played with chess pieces. It's played with People. His people. And he knows all of the moves they can make. He always knows how to win on that board.

Let's steal ourselves a high school musical.