For serious! OT3s are tricky that way. There needs to be equal chemistry, so there needs to be together time.
 
I was so upset with Nate taking that drink. I kept hoping that it would turn out the girl had slipped him non-alcoholic stuff and he was all placebo effect. That still would have been bad and he still would have had to deal with the consequences of choosing to take that drink, but it wouldn't have been this bad.

On the lighter side though, this is the sort of show that makes me wish we still had a quotables thread.
 
Also! Why didn't they have 15 grand available if they're still rich? Did they explain it with the time limit?

I think it was a time thing. But I also think that Bastard Nate would have wanted to pull a con anyway since he's all about the punishmentjustice.

I was hoping at the end that when Hardison was trying to distract Nate it was about distracting him from drinking the shot presented--they did all look balefully at it, didn't they? But then it turns out to be that he has to fix Nate's apartment, and everyone else just bails! Are they all done with trying to fix him?

Yeah, that's what I thought too. They need Sophie back. She's Nate's conscience, but she is theirs, too. She's how they look out for each other.

Also! Why didn't they have 15 grand available if they're still rich? Did they explain it with the time limit?

It was getting the cash that was the issue. They could get 15k, just not in cash.

Okay, and then later they wanted to take him out of the picture entirely so that required a lot. And I guess it was still a short timeframe and after bankers' hours.
 
The other thing I thought was interesting was the introduction of the cops. Will they recur, I wonder? With ongoing con shows I always wonder about the cops element. It seems like there would always be stuff coming home to roost. And those guys sure knew who Nate was. Seems like he'd be on their radar now, even if they let this one slide.

Oh I just loved that episode. Did I hear a Dropkick Murphys song?

Probably? I assume all Irish punk is Dropkick Murphys or Flogging Molly.

On the lighter side though, this is the sort of show that makes me wish we still had a quotables thread.

Oh hell yeah!

Nate had to drink while he was betting with Doyle, or Doyle would've walked away, though. Nate was being real good, just letting the drink sit there and not touching it, until Doyle called him out on it.

Tim Hutton played that little scene perfectly, too. The slightly shaky hand when he picks it up, the moment of just breathing it in, and the closed eyes and look of pure blissful relief when the first drink goes down... That reminds me, I'm out of whiskey.

It was cute, too, how he looked around for Eliot before he drank it, then tried to hide the second drink from him. That's an interesting relationship those two have.

Scary Drunk Nate is scary. We haven't seen the last of him, either, I'm sure. When he slammed Doyle on the table and broke his fingers, I cheered. I'm a bad person. Nate's pretty scary sober, too, though; he's got the brains, the experience, the means, and the will to destroy people he's barely met, without laying a hand on them (unless he wants to).

So much good in this episode. I have to watch it again to savor it.