Not so much Falling as Sauntering Vaguely Downward

day 6 - pda

Some favorites:

-Hardison (Black) infiltrates building as janitor in janitor gear, changes into a suit in the elevator, and leaves the building in a suit. Someone (not Black) who saw him in janitor mode tries to question him, saying, “hey, weren’t you the guy cleaning earlier?” at which point Hardison hits them with a “Oh, so we all look the same to you?” 🤨 and walks out the door while they’re spluttering about not being racist

-Hardison and Eliot (white) are at a hospital trying to get in to visit their mark (white). Eliot says he’s the mark’s brother; Hardison says he’s with Eliot. The receptionist tells him sorry, only visits from family. At this point, I thought Hardison was going to say he was adopted (which he is, incidentally, and so is Eliot—in Leverage Redemption we meet his adoptive father, who is Black), but Hardison went in a different direction. He put his hand on Eliot’s arm and said, “No—I’m with him,” and the flustered receptionist let in the supposed brother and his supposed partner.

-arguably my favorite, for personal reasons. Hardison steals an ID to gain access to a guarded door (I think they were anticipating the guard wouldn’t check ID as long as they scanned in okay?). The guard takes a look at it and the woman’s photo it bears and says, “This is you?” Hardison draws himself up and tells the guard that he is a proud, trans man, and the guard is caught out and lets him in.

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