#Parker and Neal have gone after the same things on occasion
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reprehensiblewombat · 7 years ago
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I like to pretend Leverage and White Collar take place in the same universe
Curtis Hagen, aka the Dutchman, is one of Sterling’s longstanding aliases and he is pissed when literally years of undercover work are undone by a convicted art thief and warrant law. 
In the King George Job, when Hardison says “So we need a forger. I know a couple of guys in the States,” what he means is “I know Neal and Mozzie.” Also, he 100% called Mozzie for help. “You can’t use a hair dryer, Hardison. It’s too hot. It’ll curl the pages. Why didn’t you just ask us to do this?”
“We’re in London and we need it like, yesterday.”
“Find a nail dryer. But it’ll still fall apart after a few hours.”
“It’s supposed to.” 
“Wait, are you doing the Mummy’s Tiara? In England?”
“Yeah.” 
“You know it’s almost impossible to pull off the Mummy’s Tiara in a country with a real monarchy, right?” 
“That was mentioned, yeah. Don’t worry, we’ve got this.” 
“Hardison, in the fight between you and the world, back the world.” 
“And here I was hoping to get out of this conversation without you quoting a dead, white guy.” 
“I can also quote dead men of color, if you’d prefer. He who-” 
“Aw, man, look at the time. I gotta go get a nail dryer. Bye, Moz!” 
Sophie once worked for Elizabeth under an assumed name to get close to one of Elizabeth’s clients. Elizabeth has no idea “Carolyn Barber” is actually con artist Sophie Deveraux, and Sophie has no idea Elizabeth’s husband is an FBI agent. (It never came up.) Peter has no idea anything was even stolen, because the item in question may or may not have been purchased illegally anyway, and therefore was never reported missing. Nate knows everything.
Nate knows Peter from his days working for IYS. Peter is part of the reason Leverage Inc has never set up shop in New York City. It’s fine to go up against Sterling. Sterling’s an ass and Nate has no qualms making a fool out of him. (Or... trying to.) But Nate actually likes Peter. 
Matthew Keller once hired Quinn to be his muscle. It ended badly, and Keller came away having learned an important lesson: If you’re going to consider all your employees disposable, hire guys it would be easy to dispose of.
Kate Moreau is Damien Moreau’s younger half-sister. He doesn’t really care about what happens to her until she dies. But Damien takes care of his business first. Always. And business needed to be dealt with before vengeance and before family. If not for Nathan-Ford-shaped dilemmas cropping up and hurting his business, Peter and Neal’s investigations into Vincent Adler would have come up with a lot of dead bodies and little else. 
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