Leverage (TV Series)
The Gold Job (2012)
Aldis Hodge: Alec Hardison
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Quotes
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Alec Hardison : If you let me run the con from the beginning, you would have found out that the Madsens melt down their daily intake of gold and ship it out to their brokers at the end of every day. That vault is almost always empty.
Eliot Spencer : So you knew it was empty. Hardison, I'm gonna tell you something; I want you to listen to me very carefully, okay? You ever pull this again, I am gonna personally make sure you're off this team, 'cause I'm gonna break every bone in your body!
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Alec Hardison : Go ahead, guys. Rock my world.
Nathan Ford : I thought you were on strike, Hardison. Why are you even here?
Alec Hardison : It's a mental strike. I'm not really here. I'm actually far, far away in my mind. Besides, who's gonna help Parker carry out all those gold bars? You know how much each one of those things weighs? They are heavyyyy.
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Sophie Devereaux : Let me get this straight. The watch, the chest, the cipher, the Cantonese bible, the... the... the tunnel cave-in...
Alec Hardison : Well, it was fake cave-in. You see, the rocks were just painted Styrofoam.
Sophie Devereaux : Whatever. A staged tragic death... all for a land deal?
Alec Hardison : It's impressive, huh?
Sophie Devereaux : Hardison, I once pulled off a land deal with half a glass of champagne and a low-cut dress. Look, a land deal needs an attorney. Who's gonna close this deal?
Alec Hardison : [grinning] I'm saving that last piece of this beautiful symphony for myself.
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Alec Hardison : How? How could you have possibly known this?
Nathan Ford : I knew enough. I knew you had a complicated con in the works.And I knew as long as we had those three things on the list, and that Barbara Madsen was distracted from all that gold piling up in that useless vault, that we had a shot at taking over the family business. You never count on the perfect plan. The perfect plan, it has too many moving parts, and it's... you got to expect the perfect plan to fail. I mean, that's what I do.
Alec Hardison : Then what do you count on?
Nathan Ford : I count on the simplest and ugliest plan. Not plan "A", no, but like, plan "G", for example. I start with plan "G". You know, the quick, simple, ugly plan that I know is gonna work if everything goes bad. I just pretty it up a little bit, add this and that. I gave you a backup plan. That's all. You know, Hardison, you should be proud.
Alec Hardison : Proud? My first job completely fell apart.
Nathan Ford : Hey... it was a good plan. It was a smart plan; clever. Don't sell yourself short.
