#archie leach (leverage)

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

RIP Richard Chamberlain

March 31, 1934 – March 29, 2025

[independent-fics]

Like Father(s), Like Daughter

Leverage (2008-2012)

2x13 The Future Job

4x18 The Last Dam Job

3x13 The Morning After Job

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Leverage 4x18- "The Last Dam Job"

[leverage-ot3]

the inside job is so real bc nate and eliot meet archie and they are on the absolute same page that it is on SIGHT with him

literally the only reason he didn’t end up with like broken knees in a damp, dark back alley somewhere is because they know that despite parker’s messed up relationship with him, it would make her sad

parker being sad is not allowed if they can help it

so instead, when parker is off doing her occasional solo heist for fun, the rest of the team plots his demise if he ever hurts parker again

💖 love is stored in planning bodily harm of those that hurt the people you love 💖

(post inspired by someone reblogging my parker-archie fucked up relationship post)

[weepingfireflies]

"Of course, I couldn't take Parker home with me and raise her like a normal child. She wouldn't fit in with my normal family." Killing this man with hammers 🔨🔨🔨🔨

[scotchiegirl]

Tossing around a Leverage au where Leverage Inc. is just a little bit more... legitimate.

Hardison's good at what he does, after all. He's the best, and he regularly makes covers just a little bit too good. It takes a few months before the others realize that not only have they got unbreakable aliases, they have clean original personas. There's suddenly no illegal history attached to Eliot Spencer's name, he's a security consultant. Sophie Deveraux is an acknowledged art aficionado and collector. Parker Leverage is the granddaughter and heir of Harlan Leverage III, stepping into her own. Nathan Ford is current CEO of the consulting company after proving himself by aiding in the arrest and trial of Victor Dubenich. And Alec Hardison? Well, he's tech support. No illegal hacking required.

Nate has the luck of the devil and an angel on both shoulders, things just come up roses for him, no matter what he lays his hands on. Nine months into running Leverage Consulting, he's approached by the FBI. There's something they can't quite get at, and sources pinned Nathan Ford and his team at the home of the Mascones before their fall. Taggert and McSweeten are good at their jobs for a change and notified their handlers of the strange group of people that helped them while claiming to be FBI. Nathan Ford is offered a deal. Work with the FBI with immunity and a blind eye turned to the alternate sources of revenue coming in. Leverage Inc. will remain completely under his control, but as consultants doing occasional work for the FBI. Nathan agrees on one condition: the FBI also turns a blind eye to anything weird that happens with Blackwell at IYS. Terms are set and agreed upon.

Leverage Inc. is now legitimate thieves. Taggert and McSweeten are their liaisons in the company and join them on occasional heists. As things go on, more thieves get a taste of helping without having to be afraid of being caught. Tara joins as a consultant to the consulting company. Quinn resists but eventually calls in Eliot's favor to say he was working with Leverage to get him out of a tough legal spot. Cha0s hisses like a feral cat and refuses to go anywhere near respectability. Archie gets to tell his family about his "secret past" working with the government and Parker gets to meet her adoptive siblings. They don't understand each other but Parker teaches her nieces and nephews to pick locks and helps them sneak out of the house without being noticed.

When Nate steps down he officially passes on CEO status to Parker, as is her right as heir. There's an intern section where kids with promise get to train under mentors to make more teams for continuing the good work of helping people, one case at a time.

(It's just a thought, and it came to me while thinking about how Nate and Sophie's wedding would look as a corporate event for Leverage Inc. and just... yeah. No thoughts just vibes right now but if anyone wants to take it and run with it/write with it, just let me know. Also I do understand that this would fundamentally change Leverage as we know it, I just wanted to get this out there as a sandbox au idea. Just What If, I don't actually think this is how Leverage should have been done.)

[thieves-never-say-die]

There are a lot of bad parental figures to go around in Leverage, but I want to know who you consider The Worst

This could be the person you think was objectively the worst one at parenting, or the one you have the most fun tearing apart, or the one you just can’t stop thinking of because they sucked

(please put your reasoning in the notes I'm curious(

[bagheerita]

I have a massive crush on Richard Chamberlain so I never noticed until this rewatch just how shitty of a father-figure Archie is to Parker. Like, yeah he gave her the teaching to become the person she is and kept her from getting caught/killed when she was being a self-destructive 12-year-old but you'd think that, already having other children, he'd know she needed more than that; I guess he was too busy living a lie to understand that she needed to feel loved.

She parrots his own line back to him about not fitting in with his ""normal"" family and he's so relieved to be off the hook I guess he doesn't notice the absolute heartbreak on her face in this last shot. Yeah, she made her own family, but that doesn't mean she didn't need to feel loved and supported as a child, dude. You shouldn't have made that something she needed to do: you should have loved the child that you chose to take in and you should have given her a family, especially when you're up in here sir taking the name of our lord Cary Grant in vain.

[inthemoodforsomepretzels]

“i wouldn’t fit in with the real family”

“you didn’t need it anyway. you went out and found your own” SHUT UP SHUT UP

[amazzyblaze]

Thinking about an alternate version of "The Last Dam Job" where Archie kinda sorta murders Chaos with his stiletto blade cane and blows the whole job

[ghostlyarchaeologist]

"Those guys weren't with you?" "Don't be ridiculous. They're here to make sure I get the job done. I'm their hostage. Barely got away from them long enough to call you."

Leverage S03E03 The Inside Job.

[insanity-keeps-things-fun]

You know what I'd love to see? I'd love to see an episode of leverage redeption, where one of Archie's kids or grandkids make an appearance. To find out that Parker's maintained a relationship with Archie's family, that she's recognised as part of that family. Partly because I want Parker to have as much family as possible; and partly because I want it to be shown that Archie was wrong. That if given a chance, they would have demonstrated the love and support she deserved in all her (traumatised autistic) Parker glory.

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

Archie may have been a shitty father figure to Parker, but you can't deny his influence...

4x18 - "The Last Dam Job"

2x1 - "The Beantown Bailout Job"

2x9 - "The Lost Heir Job"

3x2 - "The Reunion Job"

3x13 - "The Morning After Job"

3x15 - "The Big Bang Job"

1x9 - "The Stork Job"

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FAQ

[aardvaark]

when i first watched leverage’s "the inside job", i was annoyed that parker forgave & still cared for archie at the end, but i actually kinda like that ending now. or at least i appreciate the writing. i still hate archie but i understand why parker doesn’t… he was the first person who was nice-ish to her during a childhood of constant abuse, neglect & turmoil. i think anyone who’s had a shitty childhood can understand her making excuses for the one close-to-half-decent adult around. kinda like how a lot of abused kids have one parent who is abusive & one who just doesn’t do anything to stop the abuse - you cling onto the one who at least doesn’t actively harm you. you don’t have a choice. and you want to believe that they’re a better person than they really are, because otherwise you truly have no one.

before archie, parker was exposed to physical abuse, had her basic needs neglected, had been homeless & in juvie, and very likely experienced a lot more that she doesn’t explicitly mention. in other words, the bar was on the damn floor. considering she now has a family who truly love her and care about her, parker might one day acknowledge that archie was a terrible ‘father’ figure, but i think it makes sense that she would still be forgiving in the inside job & the last dam job. it’s upsetting & it can feel like a lack of closure, but it also feels real.

(all this said i hope eliot beats the shit out of that old man some day)

[tired-fandom-ndn]

I think soooooo much about how Archie only took on a real father role for Parker when she didn't need him anymore. When she was a child who actually needed a safe and loving, or at least stable, adult in her life, he treated her like a dog who had to be kept chained up in the backyard.

But when she was all grown up, with an actual family who loved her as she was and doing the work to help her heal and trust them, Archie reached out to be her actual father, when she didn't actually need him and he didn't have to risk anything.

The fact that she VALIDATED him treating her like that just breaks my heart. She deserved so much better.