#archie!

Oh no! The barrels will explode, right?  ....*Sniff* Being melodramatic to the extreme is clearly a Ford family trait. Right to the end.  No.  :(

Oooh, and Nate’s hurt, but he’s mad.

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(I guess the bow tie was just a bow tie.)

The Last Dam Job

In which Nate basically says, “Hello. My name is Nathan Ford. You killed my father. Prepare to die.”

“My team! I know who they are!” --No, he knows who they were. They have all changed. And I don’t just mean that Parker can grift now, although that matters too--I mean they are different people because of each other, and they will make different choices and act differently under pressure, and he does not know them that way.

Parker in a short dark wig! Huh. That really changes her look a lot. (Clearly I’d be an easy mark.)

Oh crap. Latimer’s trying to get them all. But Parker brought a rig, because she’s the best. “Whee hee hee heeeee!” “Where’s Parker?” (Parker, on top of the van) “You heard the man! GO!”

“He upped the crazy. I didn’t think he could do that.”

Dubenich--how will they hurt him? He’s in prison. --Oh. He’s out again.

“Someone we don’t trust.” I thought Sterling, but Quinn--huh. Oh, Eliot’s having fun with this “job offer” negotiation/beating people up thing.

Parker and Archie! “This is my daughter.” Aww! <3  (Also, I can just imagine later: “Dad, did you have an affair? Do you have a secret other family?”  “Oh, no. I simply have a secret life. You see, I am a thief, and she’s my protege.”  “OK, early stages of dementia, you should really consider that assisted living place.”)

Aaaand Chaos. Asshole.

“This is it,” he says like a cheerful tourist to the squad of armed goons.

They left whatever’s on the board on purpose, right.

BATCAVE! And they still have the portrait!

Let Archie fuck Chaos up.

“Can I hit him?” “Which one?” “Either one.” “See, it’s not just me.”

Eliot and Hardison are a distraction. I see. Nice.

“I don’t know how Eliot does this.” (i.e., not kill the annoying hacker)

Are those those balls that absorb water? Are they--are they toilet clogging  the dam?   --Oh no! Spreading invasive species! That’s bad, guys. Yes, screw Dubenich, but not the planet.

“At least your muscle guy had an exit”--yeah, because Eliot is better!

Hardison calling Archie “sir”--being nice to his girlfriend’s dad. :) And Chaos is being an ass about it.  TASE HIM! WHOO!

“This must be how Eliot feels all the time. I just wanna hit something.”

He didn’t blow up the real sword--he’s using it to cut cake instead. Archie, you mad goof. Definitely see how he and Parker are family. (She was probably always like that, but he’s the type who appreciates that.)

Lovely moment with Eliot and Nate. I...I have thoughts about this, about how Eliot sees his role on the team and the scope of what protecting people means, that I will probably put in a separate, much  shorter post.

“Who are you?”  “Well, I’m definitely not Eliot.”  --And Eliot tackles Dubenich.

Oh, Quinn tossed Eliot the gun to do his thing! --Wait. Whoa, oh, Eliot. You don’t have to protect your people this much. Poor man.

If Dubenich has any brains, he understands now that they’re not ‘his’ team. That Eliot wouldn’t consider shooting someone to save someone on his team from doing that themselves. They matter to each other and it has changed them.

Eliot and Quinn are friends. That surprises me, but it’s fun. It also explains all the Eliot/Quinn fanfics I’ve been seeing that I assumed were written directly after the Season One finale, when a new character was introduced and then there was no new content, so people just went nuts shipping Eliot with the one dude who almost beat him up. This makes more sense.

...So, either Dubenich genuinely surprised Sophie, or she was expecting him and planted something on him and/or Latimer and that was the whole point.  Maggie! OK, that’s even better than planning to get caught. I love that she and Sophie are friends. Nate clearly doesn’t....heh heh heh. They can roast him even more now.

No one noticed that all the stuff Parker took wasn’t in the vault when they went and stuck the (fake) sword in there? Hmm. Well, they were in an awful hurry.

“I do care.” “How does that feel?” “Weird. But I’m getting used to it.” <3 <3 <3

And right after that, Parker is the one who tells Nate that they have each other’s backs. Not Sophie, not Hardison--not Eliot, he’s already said his piece--Parker. They. change. each. other.

Is the dam going to collapse?

Where’d Latimer come from? Was he ever really in the Cayman Islands?

What’s Nate trying to do? I am not sure he’s really planning to kill either of them. Is he trying to get them to confess and record it? Or does he also really not know what he’s going to do?

“My son would be ashamed of me if I killed anyone.  --My father, on the other hand, would buy me an ice cream.” And then he looks over and--his family, the one he has now, they wouldn’t want him to kill anyone. They’re watching.

They both fall. Not too surprised.