Ducking brilliant

That's amazing. I honestly didn't realize that at all, this show I can't-

And his comment, or lack of comment, to Sophie was pigtail pulling. 😂

I believe the metric is "anything past Plan G is Nate scrambling for dear life."

@@Landis963 I think Sophie said that

@@Yasminjames2011 I got my phrasing off the TV Tropes page, but Nate explicated his approach to plans in the episode where Hardison ran the con, if memory serves. (He made a super-complex plan involving real estate, and the mark was a crooked jewelry buyer?) Long story short, Nate starts with Plan G, which gets the crew the most bare-bones definition of "success" the circumstances can muster. Once he has that foundation in place, he starts building up more complex plans that can achieve greater amounts of success, all the way up to Plan A which is the "everything goes right and is exactly the way the intel suggested" plan. Which doesn't even work in reality, let alone TV-land.

@@Landis963 We actually see this multiple times...An especially important Plan G is in the first episode. What's the plan to get out of the facility? "Plan G. How do we get out? We...put someone in burn make-up and wlak out." There. Done.

...A fun question to ask ourselves? In how many plans does NATE die?

I think it went like this. Hardison: So we're moving on to Plan B? Nate: Technically, that would be Plan G. Hardison: How man plans do we have, anyway? Is there, like, a Plan M? Nate: Yeah. Hardison dies in Plan M. Eliot: I like Plan M.

metamorphosis91 You almost certainly have seen the entire series by now so no spoiler alerts. Like a family, there's Mom and Dad, Sophie and Nate, and the kids, EP&A. Now, as kids behave in certain ways when around the 'rents,they tend to be different, not radically unless there is something like drugs involved, but the Leveragers aren't in any way that, when they are by their lonesomes. In that "Rundown" episode, most commenters say that Alec and Parker were out of character, NOT, mon frere. You see, they did not have Nate or Sophie monitoring them in any way, so they were much free-er to show their feelings and expressions of thereof,touching and kissing. So I say this was entirely in character as they were the "kids" out on their own.

Yes!! And Nate raises his glass to cheers her!!!

You could kill Eliot, but that would just make him angry.

@@scottvelez3154 🤣🤣💀

E. Khalilah 1was in the big bird job when he was playing a terrorist and the other was in the last episode of season 5 where he Elliot and Parker was supposed to have been killed

@@jamescourtney3610 Hardison almost died in the Big Bang Job when Damien Moreau handcuffed Hardison to a chair and kicked him into a pool so that he would drown. Hardison also almost died in the Ice Man Job when he was held hostage by Russian thugs and he had to remain in character.

lets also remember the several times he stood on bombs. Once in the Rundown Job and once in season 1, I don't remember the episode, either way, the carseatbomb.

Almost drowned in the Big Bang job

All the times he annoyed Elliot in the beginning and Elliot wondered if they REALLY needed him 😂

You don't get to enjoy the funeral if you're actually in the box

hahahahaha!

That's from the very first episode.

He beats up two men in The Double Blind Job, after he get bumped into and spills coffee on his shirt. Hardison later remarks he had to change his shirt because he had coffee on it and some blood and teeth

That was Hardison's "I got massive balls" moment. Any other hacket would have begged for mercy but he stayed in character.

I also recall soemone else pointing out why. Hardison dying isn't part of the plan. It's an IN CASE of. Plan C, and F, are if something knocks Hardison out of the way and they have to do a quick getaway. (Which has happened). The theoretical "Sophie dying" is if something happens to her that knocks her out, and they need to adapt quickly to not having a grifter, or the grifter being not working. This has happened. If Elliot or Parker aren't around to GFTO? Then there's really no hope. Because they ARE the back-up. That means they have no Thief, and no Muscle, which means there's no way out of whatever predicament they're in.

Livingston definitely went to Sterling and Interpol for witness protection. I bet Olivia would get a chance to yell at him for being a lousy father in the interrogation room.

He almost died in the graveyard one.

The Black Book job, complete with fake body...Sterling saw thru it...

Nate once said he started with Plan G (gets what they need) and built up to Plan A (gets everything they want). He explained to Hardison that there were too many moving parts to have one perfect plan.

I said this back when the show was still on. Nate and Sophie are Mom and Dad, Eliot is the son, Parker is his little sister and Hardison is the best friend of Eliot. That's why Hardison and Parker feels right and Parker and Eliot doesn't,

Queen's Gambit Job, season 4

Useful for what? Bashing heads? Nate and Hardison are essential from start to finish of every job.

@@walterrussell4333 But Hardison is a terrible grifter.

@@RenaldyCalixte So, he is a great hacker and forger? Like Walter Russel said, Nate and Hardison are essential for every job to gather info, (on appointments, contacts, backgrounds) and to make a plan. Information on their marks is essential. Without Hardison, the team would fall apart because the cons wouldn't be able to run smoothly (enough).

kimmy cuthbert eliot would make her more like him (Bad news impulsive, knee jerk, too quick to kill someone). Not that Parker hasn't done that too, but she hates what she became. Hardison is her road to redemption, bringing back her true nature. Additionally, Parkers' impact on Eliot would have him conflicted even more and lead them both to disaster.