My recording cut off at the very end (need to start adding a minute!) - so when Nate told Hardison that he had hypnotized him, Hardison stormed out of the bar?

Hardison asked him how Nate could do that to one of his crew. Nate said that being the leader of a crew includes deciding when things like that need to be done, which is why Hardison wasn't ready to be a leader. Hardison looked like he was pondering this when he left. It seemed like only a partial storm out to me.

It looked like a proper storm to me. Parker followed him out.

I agree with ita.

Me too.

I'm surprised that no one mentioned my favorite throwaway moment, the sheepish look between Hardison and Eliot when they were asked where they'd been. And then the mumbled "went to the wrong address". I think that they were doing something else. Something porny. And someone needs to write fic about it. Shrift, I'm looking at you!

Hardison called Parker "Mama". I had to rewind and listen to that a couple times to make sure I heard it right. I wonder if that was scripted.

Ask and ye shall recieve

mmmm, thank you!

The hypnosis stuff really bothered me too.

It would have bothered me in any case, but I think it ended up bothering me even more because it was shown immediately after the Parker ep, where there was so much about how far they would go for the team and how well they knew each other. To then have Nate turn around and hypnotize Hardison was just too much whiplash.

To then have Nate turn around and hypnotize Hardison was just too much whiplash.

It's the same Nate from the season finale. It's the same Nate that's working off the slap. Nate doesn't learn. He's going to have to, soon. But he keeps asking for shit he hasn't earned yet.

But I don't know if it was the same Nate who went after Parker.

I don't think Nate realises he has to be decent to people. But he totally feels he has to save them.