#Leverage Ot3

[kageygirl]

Obligatory "please watch the commentary tracks" plug: John Rogers says they were getting ready to film that scene with stunt actors, and while they were prepping, Aldis Hodge, Beth Riesgraf, and Christian Kane were just like, "we're gonna see if we can do it." And they sure goddamn did.

plugging my own review because i have never been nor will i ever be normal about leverage season 5, episode 9: the rundown job

[independent-fics]

Now, you can take that as a gift, or you can take it as a curse. And that's up to you.

Eliot Spencer and Parker Doing the Things Others Won’t

Leverage (2008-2012)

04x01 The Long Way Down Job

05x09 The Rundown Job

[littlesmartart]

DRAWTOBER #10 - don't let the madness change us by stardustandswimmingpools

“Parker,” Eliot hisses at the ceiling vent, “what the fuck?" Aw, shit. “Aw, shit.” Hardison grimaces, rubbing his head. In the…excitement of the night, he completely forgot about Parker. “Parker, why are you in the ceiling?” There's a long pause. “I don't understand the question,” Parker says.

this is essentially relationship negotiation: the fic, but it's also a lot more fun and cute and lovely than that sounds! Hardison and Eliot have a conversation trying to figure out what spending time together in the bedroom means for them, and uh. also Parker is there. in the ceiling. because of course she is.

[ambiguous-ailouros]

why was my gut impulse. i shan’t say

template idea >>

[slythevillain27]

My favourite ship dynamic: straight passing bi couple, and their guy™️

[nomanitas]

Promise me you'll keep them safe.

Till my dying day.

[trinity-trouble]

i've been

the exact same person

my entire life

based on this post

from left to right and top to bottom:

Trevor Belmont, Sypha Belnades and Alucard Tepes from Castlevania series

Parker, Eliot Spencer and Alec Hardison from Leverage series

Poe Dameron, Finn and Rey from Star Wars sequels trilogy

Annalise, Nathan and Gabriel from The Bastard Son & The Devil Himself series

Miranda Barlow/Hamilton, Thomas Hamilton and James Flint/McGraw from Black Sails series

Roy Kent, Keeley Jones and Jamie Tartt from Ted Lasso series

Nathan Wuornos, Audrey Parker and Duke Crocker from Haven series

Mel Medarda, Viktor and Jayce from Arcane series

Tulio, Chel and Miguel from The Road to El Dorado (2000)

Jack Sparrow, Will Turner and Elizabeth Swan from Pirates of the Carribean movies

Gaby Teller, Illya Kuryakin and Napoleon Solo from The Man From Uncle (2015)

and also special mention (because i don't have any good images of them three together) to:

Yennefer of Vengerberg, Jaskier and Geralt of Rivia from the Witcher

Bea, Ludo and Mahdi from Blocco 181 series

and how to forget, Katya Goncharova, Andrey Daddano and Goncharov from Goncharov (1973) (2022)

[thewickedbohemian]

As soon as it became a trend to start turning those into archetypes one could apply to a group or w/e I've thought about them with those guys in that order (and they match up with the Librarians trio in the same order of sorta-counterpart to sorta-counterpart with Jake the soldier, Cassandra the poet and Ezekiel the king)

elpardison + soldier, poet, king

[queenthyatira]

If anyone's out there schoolin' life isn't it the Leverage crew?

It just felt right.

[queenofglassbeliever]

The Rundown Job was really the OT3 episode, uh?

I knew they worked well together, that's been obvious for a while. But in an episode of just them, it really hits how in sinc they are.

Hardison and Eliot doing their little handshake after watching Parker do her acrobat thing through a lazer grid.

Eliot's first concern being to get Hardison and Parker to safety. Them refusing to let Eliot go up against a terrorist attack. Parker's line about how they change together, for better or worse.

Eliot not being scared of the terrorists attack because he has Hardison and Parker on his side and he believes in them more than anything.

Also when Eliot put his hand on the back of Hardison's neck and looked into his eyes? That was so intimate. The tension was serious with undertones of sexual. It had the same tension as Parker diffusing the bomb.

The silent communication. The celebrating each other's victories.

Eliot throwing down the crutch in favor of leaning on his partners.

I'm sure other stuff I missed, it being only my first watch through and all. But that's the stuff that stood out the most to me.

[ziorite]

which fucking queer sat down in the writer’s room for leverage and wrote the rundown job huh ??? HUH ???

why is hardison fist bumping his “best friend” about how hot his girlfriend is ?? why is eliot grabbing hardison by the back of neck, pulling him in with the most intense stare ever, and then doing the verbal praise equivalent of making out with him ??? eliot is an obviously traumatized self reliant prickly bastard, and yet he decides to throw away his crutches and completely rely on the other two for support ???

god take me now. leverage writers had absolutely zero business drenching this episode with all this polyamorous energy in the year of our lord 2012– hell gay marriage wasn’t even federally legal yet. they knew exactly what the fuck they were doing and i am kissing them on the mouth for it.

[eg515]

I rewatched The Cross My Heart Job a few days ago and I keep thinking about one scene.

it's the episode that starts with the crew arriving at the airport after a long job, when Nate notices a dead-drop happening and they have a little over an hour to get back a donor heart and save a kid's life.

a main element of the episode is everyone improvising, since they have no equipment. Parker says her lockpicks are in customs. we see a flashback of Hardison's laptop sinking in the ocean. we get an explanation for everything. comms are water damaged. Sophie always travels with heels.

but then we get this scene:

and there are two things I keep thinking about.

Eliot's arm is bandaged, some blood even soaked through. and while he does mention fighting three ex-Brazilian combat divers with spearguns underwater (because of course he did that), it's just a passing comment in his bickering with Hardison. but I just really like this attention to detail. Eliot tending to his injuries is common to see, but we usually see him getting those injuries too. this time we fon't see the fight, not even in a short flashback, but we still see the aftermath.

just. how causally Parker and Eliot start undressing in front of each other? I'm sure by this point they are long used to having to share personal space and not always having privacy, but it's still a striking difference to the previous times when both Eliot and Hardison's reaction was to immediately turn away and give Parker space.

[independent-fics]

Like Father(s), Like Daughter

Leverage (2008-2012)

2x13 The Future Job

4x18 The Last Dam Job

3x13 The Morning After Job

[123ohwell]

LEVERAGE GRIFT TRACKER

I FINISHED SEASON 1! Shoutout to @grandma-waldo for the idea

Extra details in the parameters and the job list. I kept a list of all grifts in order they occur through season 1. If I thought about it before hand I would have draw a line between each episode but oh well hindsight and all that.

Any questions? Yes I welcome them and I'll try to answer them. Want to know why I split something? Just ask - there was definitely an overthought process to my madness. Any ideas on adjusting job titles? I want to hear it please. I invested too much in this lol but it's been fun.

Season 1 was tough in trying to decide what the jobs would be while trying to keep them broad and trying to think so I wouldn't need to add anymore come later seasons . Also me and excel nearly got into a fight.

I'm going to do the rest of the show but that will be slow coming. When I figure out how to make a master list with links, I'll make one. Since this is like my 4th post on the topic and there will be a bunch more to come

Surprises and Revelations

- Hardison grifts in intense spurts

- there was only 1 real royalty grift in season 1??? And it was hardison?? But there were 5 Southern Belle/Beau grifts

- Sophie was the first athelete?? Ik I already posted that but it still shocked me (Olympic luge)

- Parker interacts with people more than most of the team - she thieves in the shadows but she talks to people often as a misdirection

- FBI and just an ordinary person (Civilian) were the most common grifts of season 1 > not surprised since everyone played FBI in pilot part 2

- runner up was The Damsel. Plenty of times the team did the Damsel and Damsel's Knight grift together as a misdirection. But going "oh no I need help" to a stranger/mark was more popular

- Hardison and Parker were the most likely to play the Damsel card

(Sidenote: i thought about wanting to know all the scams the team calls out in the show. "Burn scam" "the cherry pie" etc. But I think someone has already made a list but I can't find it. Also my family might kill me if I restart the show - again. I was already getting side eyes for skipping back a few seconds to check out who was grifting when I wasn't paying attention)

If you've read this far! Thank you! Hope you have a great week!

[stalltherain]

Leverage is the only fandom where I've never seen any semblance of ship wars. Everybody is just like "yep, these 3 are together."

[morningstarbee]

okay i literally just started s4 and i'm sorry but,,, the long way down job is literally out the gate with ot3 moments (also are they seriously just called leverage ot3? do they have a better ship name??)

hardison hugging eliot to try and steal his body heat and eliot allowing it for like 3 seconds before shoving him off

hardison trying to be weirdly overprotective of parker and and her just leaving when he tries to hug her, so eliot hugs him instead. bonus points because he says "At least Eliot hugged me."

Parker teasing Hardison about sucking at climbing + Parker going "seriously?" when Eliot does that thing where he recognizes people through innocuous details of their clothing or some shit

Parker and Eliot stuck in the cave.

ELiot: "Hey. It's a good thing it was us." Parker: "Because we'd leave him." Eliot: "Because they would have kept trying and they would have froze to death right next to him. Especially Hardison. So it was a good thing it was us. The two of us, we do things they can't. Won't." Parker: "That make us bad?" Eliot: "It makes us...us. Now you can take that as a gift or take that as curse. That's up to you."

Them finally leaving the cave and comms come back on and Hardison being so relieved he tears up and both Parker and Eliot tell him to shut the fuck up LMAO "I was so worried...You my peoples..."