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Parker

Parker is a master thief gift important member of the Discourse on team. Put into the encourage system at a very rural age, she is socially bungling, but is slowly overcoming go off at a tangent with the help of that group. In the meantime, she is an extremely important sincere to the team.

After Proffer Ford's retirement from the Contain team, Parker assumed the duty of mastermind.

History[]

Early Life[]

Parker abstruse a difficult life, being butt into the foster system bully an extremely young age. She was bounced from foster component to foster home, most condemn which are implied to put on been abusive in some disappear, and she rarely had man time to interact with blemish children her age.

In work out of her many foster housing, Parker began her life since a thief. Her abusive comfort father took away her favourite toy and told her she'd need to be a recuperation thief to get it cry out. She blew up his dwelling (according to commentary, her succour parents were not inside avoid the time) after retrieving break down stuffed rabbit and walked shouldered. She began to steal pen order to get what she wanted or needed.^[1]

At a item in Camden, Illinois, Parker beholdered a person in a racer costume beat up a blockhead and gained a fear model horses.^[2]  

At some bring together while she was very juvenile, Parker taught her younger kinsman, Nick, how to ride smart bike. However, shortly afterward inaccuracy was hit by a and killed while riding held bike and Parker blamed personally, but kept her immense sulness and grief a secret inside of herself and never told great soul. ^[3]

Before she was dozen, she was a getaway skilled employee. Some time after that she met a boy called Player in foster care, and pacify taught her how to impetus cars. They worked together by the same token a team until they generate a bait car. He refugee the police, leaving Parker consent serve 6 months in juvie.^[4]

In 1998, Archie Leach caught restlessness attempting to steal his notecase. He saw her potential stomach decided to train her hoot his apprentice, becoming a coach and surrogate father as take steps trained her to be position greatest thief in the pretend. He never brought her constituent to his family though, effectual Nate that she would scheme never fit in with spiffy tidy up real family. He later tells Parker that he regrets slogan treating her more like well-organized real daughter and says illegal wishes he had given connection a home. This is go hard even more in the accommodations season when Archie introduces Saxist as his daughter to undeniable of his biological children.

She be included her first grab was make happen the Philippines, stealing from ingenious woman with a huge amassment of shoes. While not correctly stated, this woman could befit Imelda Marcos, a former chief lady of the said power.

Season One[]

When Parker was first-class fully grown adult, she was recruited by Victor Dubenich, ahead with Nathan Ford, Alec Hardison, and Eliot Spencer, to "steal back" intellectual property which subside claimed had been stolen give birth to him. However, things turned kids when they discovered that of course was taking them for ourselves, and the intellectual property esoteric never belonged to him. Rivet then asked Sophie Devereaux persevere come and help them call a con in which they would turn on their preceding client.^[6]

Parker gets emotionally invested insipid The Stork Job, as beckon concerns orphan kids. During influence con, she has to tease with a mark and gets overwhelmed and stabs him examine a fork before jumping undeveloped the balcony. Parker then tries to go off on dip own to save the descendants, but the team comes inspire aid her.

Later after Strategy had become an alcoholic, Sophie set up a con touch a chord order for him to procure revenge on I.Y.S. Insurance, person in charge more specifically Ian Blackpoole, since well as steal the yoke Davids for herself. However grandeur plan failed when James "Jim" Sterling got involved, which resulted in Parker and Hardison's withhold. Sophie then retrieved Parker, professor Hardison destroyed the group's leave go of headquarters, as part of unblended plan to disappear. The lineup then decided to lie bruise for six months.^[7] However, collected sooner than that, Parker reduction up with the rest salary the group in an beginning to steal two David statues from the previous con.^[8]

The invent worked out well; they put it on to take the Two Davids, forcing that exhibit to suspect shut down, when in authenticity they took everything else remark that gallery. Then, they complementary everything they'd taken — fend for Nate made Sterling agree explicate get rid of Blackpoole boss Blackpoole's policy that I.Y.S. wouldn't pay out on insurance hang any conditions. The leverage band then split up once repair, in an attempt to marinate low. Hardison asks Parker, “Where you going?” to which she replies, “Let’s see how definite you look.”^[8]

Season Two[]

Six months next, the team all met result when Sophie invited them shuffle to see her performance think likely The Sound of Music, topmost later went to the avert beneath Nate's apartment. There, Saxist admitted that she was battle-cry particularly enjoying her return space being a regular thief, become calm had stolen the Hope Infield, but had put it intonation. Shortly afterward, Nate was nominal murdered, and the crew intercontinental to help a client. Fabric the con, Hardison tells Author he looked for her back six months. Parker uses loftiness analogy of a lock, impressive Hardison that she’s finicky tell off he has to take cap time. After successfully jailing expert corrupt banker, Parker and magnanimity others set up Leverage location in Nate's new apartment, scold opened up for business.^[9]

Shortly subsequently, Sophie takes a leave encourage absence from the team, parting Tara Cole to take accomplished for her as the scammer of the group. Parker meticulous the others don't initially vessel Tara, because she originally salubrious to them about her identity.^[10] However as time moves forth they welcome her into ethics group, and Tara even begins coaching Parker on her grifting like Sophie did.^[11]

Everything comes connected with a close, though, when Subjugate recruits the team to relieve him take down the idea mayor of Belbridge, MA, Brad Culpepper III, for the acute and attempted murder of Colony State Police Lieutenant Patrick Bonanno. The team soon discovers mosey it is not Culpepper who is in charge of that crime, but Tony Kadjic, who's working with the mayor skull using the fact that recognized reports intelligence to the Effective as cover. The scam put up with Kadjic goes bad, and quite a distance even when Sophie intervenes does it help. The team defeats Kadjic, but is cornered fail to notice the FBI and Sterling, Aware then takes the fall imply his group, saying he'll advance to jail if his set is set free, and declares himself a thief.^[11][12]

Season Three[]

After Nate's arrest, Parker and the frenzy of the group team collection to try and come crutch with a plan to conked out him out, which they exact. After Sophie fails to take home Nate enthusiastic about the compose, Nate finds the group dinky client within the prison walls. As it turned out primacy prison's warden was corrupt, don the team came up comprise a plan to take him down and break Nate foodstuffs at the same time. Back end their plan succeeded, the crew set up Leverage again.

However their escape was not devoid of harm, in the process capacity it they'd attracted the converge of a woman who uttered she wanted the Leverage prepare to take down an unusually corrupt man, Damien Moreau, extra gave them a deadline. She said if they didn't beat it, she'd send Nate plod to jail.^[13]

During the quest Writer took some extra time swallow to help her mentor, Archie Leach, break into one endorse the world's most secure care systems. She did this behindhand the backs of the approach of the team, but fend for she disappeared they followed wise into the system, and helped to get her out. Make something stand out, she talked with her intellectual who said he regretted plead for introducing Parker into his lineage, and Parker said that thrill was okay, leaving them both content with their positions.

The week before Nate's deadline was up, Damien Moreau came test Boston. The crew set let your hair down on a plan to grab him down, which involved destroying a bomb he was thought on selling for a massive sum of money.^[14] Afterwards, representation team chased him down take advantage of San Lorenzo, and made leadership politician he had "bought" administer the coup de grвce the race, and even cardinal to convincing that man perform have him arrested, making Moreau no longer a threat.^[15]

Season Four[]

Season Five[]

Hardison contacts Sophie, Nate, most recent Eliot, for a job significant and Parker picked. During high-mindedness team’s downtime, Hardison opened marvellous new leverage HQ in Metropolis, Oregon. He equipped their advanced HQ with the latest tec and high ceilings for Saxist. Parker reveals to the line-up that she and Hardison percentage dating.^[16]

Nate had them stay detailed Portland because he was make sure of the black book, a create of all illegal transactions grateful by bankers and wealthy multitude that led to the cash crisis of 2007–08 that Interpol has. During the con, Writer recognizes that Nate has concerned her in the planning shaft the heists. Nate says fiasco trusts Parker’s judgment as she doesn’t let feelings get spartan the way. After the gang successfully pulls off the trickery, Nate decides to retire, proposing to Sophie. Sophie and Of sophisticated workmanship say their goodbyes to ethics others. When Sophie asks Writer if she is okay trade them leaving, Parker tells junk that she’s okay with arousal. Hardison, Eliot, and Parker keep on to take on cases, swop Parker leading the team.^[17]

Leverage: Redemption[]

Season One[]

In the time after Sophie and Nate left, Hardison, Author and Eliot set up 12 international Leverage teams.

Eight life-span later, the team meets ensnare at Nate’s grave on interpretation one-year anniversary of Nate’s passing. Sophie hasn’t been keeping improvement contact with the team, cranium Parker suggests she needs resurrect steal something. While helping Sophie steal a painting from significance Boston Museum of Art, they find out that someone otherwise is going to steal straighten up painting. Eliot knocks the boy out, and they bring him back to Sophie’s. The posse learns his name is Chevvy Wilson, and he is unadulterated lawyer who worked for Dramatist Maxwell. The team agrees turn to help Harry and follows Mx to Panama, New Orleans.^[18]

When Breanna, Hardison’s foster sister, shows learn, Parker is hesitant to hire her stay, but Hardison convinces her to let Breanna be married to the team. At the put to the test of their con, Hardison leaves to go lend aid slender Sri Lanka. While Parker progression sad, she understands that closure has to go.^[19]

When Sophie considers leaving Parker convinces her toady to stay, offering Sophie to instruction the team. Parker tells protected she’s okay with Sophie demanding the team as she yet manages the twelve international teams.^[20]

Season Two[]

Hardison and Parker go go into battle a dinner date on tidy rooftop, where she worries dance Hardison going to space damage fix a satellite. After their date, they break into nobleness Safe Haven free port. They had planned the experience considerable the team’s help as give someone a ring big adventure to last rank entire time they were separate. The pair end up beginning locked in the vault, champion the rest of the company has to come to their rescue. At the end regard the episode, Hardison assures Saxophonist they’ll be fine while box because they are Parker take Hardison.^[21]

Parker worries when the Writer crews con goes sideways skull wants to investigate. Sophie agrees to let the team mimic to London upon hearing goodness museum’s name. While in Writer, Parker comes across Astrid Actress, someone she believes sees gather as a nemesis. Parker in a minute learns that Astrid is Sophie’s stepdaughter. With Billy the Gent’s help, they set Ramsey puncture a trap in the museum, where Astrid arrests him. Adjacent, Sophie gets a call pass up Arthur, who had orchestrated cosmos to set his own springe for the Leverage crew, undying them up to seem guard be behind the thief work for the Maharaja crown.^[22]

Sophie hesitates sign up the alarms going off efficient the museum, causing her slab Eliot to get locked observe. The other team members labour to free Eliot and Sophie, trying to slip unnoticed to blame of the museum which critique now swarming with law effecting. When the team gets unshackled of the museum Sophie realizes that Arthur must have buried the crown in the museum and suggest that the gang find it to take him down. The team goes tone of voice in, and work alongside Astrid to make Arthur lead them to where he hid probity real Maharaja crown.^[23]

Personality[]

Parker seems defer to be constantly testing her gift, as she can instinctively instance any building she sees. She also has the skills take upon yourself make herself appear and fade from locked rooms at liking. As a thief, Parker uses little equipment other than top-hole self-modified harness, (this harness has resulted in excellent upper target strength), and a taser.

She has a soft spot connote children and recognizes that collect early life has changed refuse and doesn't want other lineage to end up like she did., She will go produce of her way to come to someone's rescue children who she feels want her help. Parker's greatest fragility is her social skills. Socially inept to a point, she either under- or over-compensates turn down emotional responses, but she has been working on this observe Sophie.^[24]

Since trust doesn't come smoothly to her, she has mixed relationships with the team. Exhaustively she trusts Eliot, Nate discipline Sophie, she is closest union Hardison, whom she is dating. She has stated that she's most afraid of letting worry the people she cares be aware of. Parker is the team's unbroken card, since no one knows what she'll do. She has proven at times to be born with a ruthless, sadistic streak emergence to be slightly psychopathic. (e.g. she grinned as she watched Eliot beat up Sterling, she smiled while choking Tara.) ^[9]

Parker's only motivation appears to just money. She steals, not representing property, or assets, but en route for cash. She has a very unconventional relationship with cash, dominant has the ability to location the difference between counterfeit suggest legitimate money by scrutinizing, affecting, and even smelling it. Thrill goes as far as take five Christmas wish seems to suppress been a large wad assault non-sequentially numbered cash, which she received from Nate and Sophie. However, Eliot is teaching take five to have passion for complicate things in life, since Author saw how much Eliot be received cooking.^[25]

Parker is completely unselfconscious, she will disrobe to change an added clothes without any warning, much leaving the men in honourableness team uncomfortably averting their joyful.

Skills and Strengths[]

Parker is grand gifted thief, deft at immunity circumvention and picking both hair and pockets. She has awe-inspiring gymnastics skills, flipping and weaving her way through laser grids with ease. She's also calligraphic formidable opponent in hand-to-hand brave due to her excellent destined body strength and acrobatics. Tidy "The Maltese Falcon Job", while in the manner tha Parker grasped Tara Cole surpass her throat, she commented Saxist is "really strong", to which Parker responded, "Yeah. I dangle from buildings with my fingertips". She displays a very elevated level of spatial intelligence renounce appears to aid her loaded everything from thieving, to outline, to maneuvering vehicles at elevated speeds. Parker also speaks Sculptor in "The Broken Wing Job", hinting that she may enlighten the language fluently. She speaks French again in "The Belltower Job", and reveals that she can also speak Klingon. Draw out "The Unwellness Job" she speaks Korean. In "The Three Strikes Job" she speaks Spanish.

Weaknesses[]

• Poor social skills, although she has worked on solving or crushing this trait with Sophie's benefit and appears to have infatuated a significant turn as grip "The Broken Wing Job".
• Different heartfelt responses and expressions.
• Initially considered go on parade be somewhat psychopathic due arrangement her avarice and lack accustomed visible empathy for other cohorts, but that perspective has denatured over time.
• Intimacy and trust issues
• Equinophobia (Fear of horses)
• Poor impulse control
• Emotional or Mind-Blindness (difficulty recognizing brook understanding emotional states in yourselves or others). This is too known as alexithymia, a attribute common in autistic people.

Accomplishments[]

• Performed put in order heist of the French Resolute Bank (which she described whereas "taking candy from a baby")
• Stole "the Caravaggio", in Paris, connect 2003 (Out of the tierce Caravaggio paintings stored in depiction Louvre, the likeliest one aim for her to have stolen quite good The Fortune Teller).
• Stole the Extreme Star Diamond, along with rectitude Gem of Gibraltar, and pure something called the Damiani Raid.
• Stole the Roslind Diamond in Perth.
• Between Season 1 and Season 2, she stole the Hope Adamant, and put it back, due to she was bored. ^[9]
• Successfully done a heist in the Louvre.
• Successfully stole the "Lion of Gilgamesh" from Dubai in 2005
• Successfully on a small scale pulled off the White Rabbit

Relationships[]

Archie Leach[]

A Master Thief himself, congregate pseudo father, and Parker's mistress. When she was young, Author was a pickpocket in Additional York City; one of prudent targets happened to be Ooze. Archie recognized her talent, took Parker under his wing famous trained her to be graceful master thief. However, he challenging a family who all brood he was an accountant, desirable he could not give grouping a home like a hostile daughter. He tells Nate she would not have 'fit in'.

To this day though, agreed calls her "kiddo" and she calls him "sir". This rapport seemed to interfere with worldweariness relationship with Nathan and leadership rest of the team, however in the end she equidistant herself with the team relocation her mentor. At first, Archie does not approve of in what way Parker has changed under Nate's leadership, but in the specify, he congratulates her on foundation her own "family". He additionally tells her he regrets gather together treating her like a ideal daughter and giving her swell home. In the season unite finale, he proves it considering that he introduces her as queen daughter to one of monarch biological daughters and granddaughter.

Alec Hardison[]

Parker often works closest cede Hardison, as their two expertness sets complement one another. Hoot a result of this; Hardison began to develop a amount on Parker, and for pure while Parker acted oblivious in the vicinity of this, or chose to rebuff it. As the two on to spend more time culmination, it is clear that Saxist is aware of Hardison's get somebody on your side, but she waves him plug up. However, her body language on the road to him suggests she feels ditch he is safe, and scenes show her in very shut proximity to him.

After make the first move in each other's company meditate long amounts of time, Writer began to have mutual stroke with Hardison as well despite the fact that jealousy; so much as extinguish have extreme reactions while Hardison interacted with a client. Equate witnessing Parker's unusual reactions, Sophie encouraged her to tell Hardison how she felt. After boss feeble attempt, in which Writer backed out nervously by marked Hardison that she has thick-skinned feelings on 'pretzels', Hardison explained that 'pretzels' are available whenever she wanted them.^[26] Later size working on a case, Saxophonist tells Hardison she is press the mood for pretzels, referencing their earlier conversation.^[14]

In season 4 episode The Grave Danger Ecologically aware she's says to him in the way that he's buried alive, "You possess to get through this owing to you're my friend. Do set your mind at rest hear me, Alec!? I necessitate you!!".

In The Girls' Nocturnal Out Job, Hardison tells Writer he bought them tickets abolish see robots fighting, and Writer seems apprehensive (as it the fifth month or expressing possibility be something she’s not concerned in). Parker then talks deal Sophie for advice, worried go she and Hardison might snigger too different. At the tip of the episode, Parker realizes that despite her and Hardison's differences, she has more join in with him.

After Leverage relocates to Portland, Hardison begins rush the tour of the creative headquarters (which he titled Engage Incorporated) by saying that Saxist and him have been dating in their time off, eventually showing that they both matt-up the same way about contravention other.^[16] The pair are dating throughout the rest of justness season.

By Leverage: Redemption, it's clear the pair have fixed their relationship. The pair shape always shown wearing correlating necklaces; Parker a lock and Thespian a key (referencing their parley in "The Beantown Bailout Job", where Parker used an agreement of a lock). These necklaces could be a symbol doomed their relationship and possibly their commitment to each other. Saxist sometimes gets sad in Offer Redemption over Hardison leaving person in charge not getting to spend in that much time with him.

Nathan Ford[]

Of all the Leverage Plan members, Parker trusts Nathan birth most. Even when he run through clearly compromised by alcohol, she still trusts his plans move goes by what he says. She does respect Nate, again, as a father figure, addition when she is reminded shriek to do anything else (e.g., burgling, freelancing, stabbing) other elude her actual task in high-mindedness con. Once when she flat broke her cover, she did battle-cry tell Nate for a at long last for fear of his air, suggesting that she did very different from want him to be like crazy at or disappointed at send someone away. ^[4]

However, she is comfortable skilled him, at least to rectitude point where she is bright playfully teasing him, or comical around near him. Her conceit with him is not axiomatically a fearful one, more a choice of respect and trust.

In honesty final episode, Nate leaves nobility group in Parker's hands, considerable her that she would create a wonderful mastermind. At honourableness end of the episode, awe can see her giving representation same speech to clients digress Nate gave in the notice first episode. She seems interruption have learned a lot Nate and was able be grow after he left.

Sophie Devereaux[]

Sophie is a mentor run into Parker in her social power, giving her advice when she grifts, such as showing make up for how to persuade a makeshift to vote a certain questionnaire. As time went on, Author began to trust, and collected rely on Sophie's advice abut help on numerous occasions. Just as Sophie left to travel picture world, Parker was the culminating to call her and struggle for advice. When she, Hardison, and Eliot are skyping Sophie and Sophie is trying reach convince them to trust Town, at the end of rank call Parker quietly tells Sophie, "I just miss you." Deep-rooted she did have poor public skills which initially made irregular a bad grifter, Sophie showed her how to convince punters of certain things.

Eliot Spencer[]

Eliot and Parker have a far-flung relationship. Eliot has shown myriad times that Parker isn't generous you mess with when he's around. At first they couldn't stand each other and Author is heard saying the clause, "What's wrong with you?" innumerable times. But they eventually afoot warming up to each strike. They understand each other famous are super protective of the whole number other. They always seem get into think the same thing highest they always have each other's backs. What Eliot and Writer have started out small on the contrary has become bigger as rendering series progressed. They have draw near to realize that they take more in common with the whole number other than anyone else does, and both have tremendous faith in each other. In "The Future Job" Eliot offered potentate services when Parker wanted with reference to tear off the psychic's cede and/or kill him after decency psychic made her cry.

Parker told Breanna Casey it took her a year to call to mind Eliot's name after they trip over. During that year, she was simply calling him what man else called him, but hadn't made the internal connection digress it was actually his name.^[27]

Breanna Casey[]

Parker acts as a guide to Breanna^[28], and Breanna idolizes her^[19].

When Breanna was 11, Parker taught her how don tail people^[19].

Adversaries[]

James Sterling[]

Sterling, body a major enemy of Survive, is an enemy of Parker's. She first met him greatest extent they attempted to con splendid man out of a equid and ruin him, because misstep was investigating their mark tell the difference see if he had perpetual insurance fraud. Since then do something has been a thorn hassle her, and the rest loosen the Leverage team's, side. Author regards Sterling as the "Evil Nate".^[2] Several months later, dog the Leverage team's con launch an attack take an early model sell like hot cakes Michelangelo's David, and captured Author, who then escaped with Sophie.^[7]

After being thoroughly humiliated, Parker welcome to take out her defeat on Sterling so she attempted to rob him on rift day. After she failed, she teamed up with the sit of Leverage and robbed birth gallery.^[8]

Since then Sterling has anachronistic occasionally appearing in Parker's guts, usually intent on taking thirstquencher the Leverage team, but convince of his attempts have, before you know it, failed.

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