"Hardison, this is an extremely old house. They believe in tradition."

Leverage S03E12 The King George Job.

Eliot and A'Yan.

Leverage S03E12 The King George Job.

“Why you so sensitive? You’ve touched worse!”

Leverage S03E12 The King George Job.

Leverage Episode Battle

The Boost Job: Season Three, Episode Eight. The team goes up against a used car salesman whose dealership is stocked with stolen vehicles from a local chop shop.

The King George Job: Season Three, Episode Twelve. The team heads to London after they discover that an antiquities trafficker who works for Damien Moreau is using refugee children to smuggle artifacts; Sophie confronts the consequences of her past.

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In this house we stan a genius capable of learning highly complex forgery in a very limited amount of time.

Request by @nonbinarywithaknife 

Smell it. That's how he knew that Nate was lying.

#this is like the sexiest scene ever and i'm obsessed with it#her passion?? her knowledge?? her relationship to art and artifacts???#(plus she looks like extra pretty)#i'm just *fans self* and i needed a gifset of it (tags via @wistfulwatcher)

Bonus:

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They barely even met for two minutes like a week or more ago but she LIGHTS UP when she sees him! His voice is so soft and he bends down to be on her level! Their high five (he says "boom!")!

ALEC HARDISON IN THE KING GEORGE JOB LEVERAGE, 3.12

Alec Hardison. Nate may be the mastermind but the keeper of the knowledge, that’s Hardison. 

Like, I can’t even begin to elucidate how much I admire Hardison’s tenacity. He may not have the physicality of the others but GOD, is there anything this man cannot do?

He’s a hacker, obviously. But let’s take into consideration just how much work that is. What makes Hardison such a wonderful hacker isn’t just his technical knowledge; it’s his ability to schmooze and hack people. Ask any red team (attacker) hacker and they’ll tell you that one of the most important skills for a hacker is your ability to socially engineer. And he does that brilliantly. 

All those false identities that he cooks up and makes so well that they actually get called into jury duty? THAT’S HARDISON. I mean, how much time must each identity take to craft? Not only that, he teaches himself so many goddamned things. This con required a damn good forgery? Hardison’s on it. 

But holy shit – THIS. 

what she said, y'all

alec hardison : 

- faked being a lawyer and actually won a case that was declared open and shut by all parties involved

- managed to stop a plane crash from miles away, while posing as a long-term employee in a company (and actually had everyone believe he’d been working there for years) 

- played one of the most difficult violin solos magnificently (even if you take nate’s hypnosis into account, which i don’t, he wouldn’t have been able to do it if he didn’t already have the talent required) 

- forged a historical document so brilliantly it fooled an expert

- hacked the smartest and most efficient security system in the world to save his teammates, with a laptop he found in the back of his truck. in a SINGLE DAY.

- took control of an airport control tower by faking a tornado alert 

there are so many more instances of hardison being an actual genius who can adapt to any situation and do seemingly impossible things quicker than anyone. i love him SO much 

As I watch The King George Job...

….Is Sophie actually a duchess?

Can Hardison make props for Ren Faire or something? Eliot and Parker are snickering, but I appreciate, and am slightly intimidated by, his historical reconstruction skillz. He should have a gig where people geek out about it.

For somebody basically competent in such a wide range of areas (excellent example in this episode: speaking whatever language that little girl was–not one I even recognize), and hypercompetent in some, Eliot ends up playing the clueless dolt a lot. I’m still not sure if he enjoys messing with people or if it annoys him because he’s actually good at this, dammit.

(On a related note, I find it both admirable and endearing that if he has a job as part of some cover, he wants to do it properly–like not wanting to leave the miners short-handed, or getting distracted from the mafia wedding job because he has to cater for 250 people, Nate, get out of the kitchen!)

“Does this smell like chloroform to you?” LOL.  Fun fact, I’m pretty sure that when I was little and reading the Hardy Boys books, I misread the word as or otherwise associated “chloroform” with “Color Forms,” those little vinyl sticky things that you could play with on a laminated surface or refrigerator.  I didn’t actually believe the sticky shapes were what people used to knock each other out in the books, if I recall correctly, but there was a connection between them in my mind. They have a distinctive scent, so when they “smelled traces of chloroform,” I figured that’s what it was and just tried not to breathe too deeply around the ColorForms, because they were made of chloroform…or something.

Parker is an excellent auctioneer. Also, I liked her talking to the vault door and all the goodies inside.