#james sterling

[aardvaark]

i love how sterling was originally the leverage team’s seasonal Big Bad, but by season 5 he’s sorta just third wheeling the nate/sophie relationship

#leverage #leverageposting #sophie devereaux #nathan ford #james sterling #wren speaks

[sakebytheriver]

Leverage Redemption James Sterling Episode:

The team is on a con when someone hears that Interpol is on the scene cue everyone but Harry (on coms) going "no it couldn't be" "who?" "but what if it is" "he wouldn't be" "who?!" "but wouldn't he" "he might be" "WHO?!"

And then they do the classic reveal with the musical cue and everyone in sync "Sterling."

Harry: "like the washing machine?" Sterling walking into the room: "The rifle, actually"

Sophie is there standing next to Harry so Sterling looks at her and then gets close to Harry and sizes him up before stepping back and saying "him? really?" Sophie: "hes a stray found him his first time trying to steal a Rembrandt" Sterling pikachu shock face: "no, this guy?" Sophie: "with a youtube tutorial" Sterling: "really scraping the bottom of the barrel these days, huh?" Harry: "you know im still standing right here"

{[Plot ensues with whacky hijinks a la The Frame Up Job]}

Sterling and Sophie have a moment alone when everything is said and done Sterling admits that maybe he let the team get away as a last favor to Nate and Sophie tells him that she knew Sterling was going easy on them

Sophie: "do you miss him?" Sterling: "of course i do, but you already knew that" "just wanted to hear you say it" "ill see you around, Sophie. next time i won't go so easy on you" "looking forward to it, Sterling"

They share one last sad smile and a look charged with a challenge for next time before Sterling walks away and Sophie takes a sip from her drink with a look that speaks of past memories of her adventures with Nate

The End

#ignore me #leverage #leverage redemption #james sterling #nathan ford #sophie devereaux

[amazzyblaze]

"The Zanzibar Marketplace Job" doodles (with bonus sketchbook money Marge)

#leverage #parker leverage #james sterling #eliot spencer #drawings #the zanzibar marketplace job

[feuer-bluete]

I know, I know we all talked about it before, but listen.

The anger in his voice. The anger is Sterling's voice when he thought Nate let his Team die for the black book.

Sterling might have wanted them in jail, tho at this point probably not even that, but not dead. Not for something he views useless.

He is so angry Nate let them die.

#nate ford #leverage #james sterling #eliot spencer #alec hardison #parker #sophie devereaux #season 5

[lindseymcdonaldseyelashes]

WHY does Eliot keep drinking the funny-tasting coffee Sterling brought him

#leverage #eliot spencer #james sterling

[gnar-slabdash]

I just caught this, so in the Two Horse Job when we first meet Sterling we have this exchange:

Parker: Is it true Sterling spent three days in the trunk of a car waiting to catch someone? Nate: No, no. Sophie: It was five.

And then next season in the Zanzibar Marketplace Job, when he stages his great breakthrough that gets him into interpol he does it by hiding in the trunk of the mark’s car and emerging dramatically with the stolen egg. 

Man really has a thing for cramped spaces and new car smell. 

#leverage #james sterling #sterling leverage #parker leverage #nate ford #sophie devereaux #two horse job #zanzibar marketplace job

[imusthavebecomesomething]

im trying to imagine what the ads for IYS would be like. it has to be a big company, right? progressive has flo, geico has their CGI talking gecko

IYS has sterling and nate ford breaking down your door DO YOU HAVE A MOMENT TO TALK ABOUT AFFORDABLE LIFE INSURANCE RATES

#leverage #listen i know it’s stupid but i couldn’t get the image out of my head #text post #nate ford #mine #this is not a serious post #tis a joke #but. oh my god imagine. #james sterling

[agenderhyde]

astrid: searches her mum's name in interpol's database sterling: uhh, no, we don't touch her, thanks

#cloudy rambles #leverage: redemption #leverage spoilers #astrid pickford #james sterling #the crowning achievement job

[geekynightowl1997]

In the new season of Leverage Redemption, can they just make it where Eliot has to work with Sterling and Choas to save his team?

And Eliot has to go through the entire episode trying not to wring either of their necks? (But Eli can have Quinn.)

#leverage #leverage redemption #eliot spencer #colin mason #james sterling #christian kane #wil wheaton #mark sheppard #the entire team (including hardison) is taken captive #and eliot has to save them bybusing sterling and chaos #and quinn #but he likes quinn #anyway eliot and quinn have to get through the entire episode without wringing their necks #in the new season #i want this to be an episode

[kajaono]

If Sterling doesn’t appear in Leverage redemption, then what is the point?

#leverage redemption #leverage #james sterling

[somestorythoughts]

Okay so I do not ship Maggie and Sterling but just had the thought of them deciding to fake date for a couple months just to fuck with Nate.

Like Maggie’s really aggravated with him for some reason so she calls up Sterling and is like “hey do you want to fake date for a couple months to mess with Nate?”

Sterling: “WHAT?”

He says he needs to know why and then to think about it for a few hours. Not because he doesn’t love the idea of messing with Nate, he gains back at least two years of his life whenever he gets the chance to mess with the team, but the team is the issue. He genuinely concerned the team will Not Like It.

This fear proves to be validated later.

So he agrees and they find some way of letting Nate know when they can see the reaction. Maybe Maggie meets him for coffee and films him with a button cam for Sterling to watch later.

Nate, to quote Sophie “looks like a slapped mackerel.” It takes him at least three minutes to speak and another 3 to form a complete sentence. It’s a good thing the team is having some down time because he is distracted for at least a week and walks into at least one wall. He did not see this coming.

So the thing is, Nate has Issues with Sterling sure, but he’s not going to try to mess with Maggie’s relationships. So he is definitely being fucked with but he’s not really going to try to mess with them. The team on the other hand...

The team love Maggie and don’t think Sterling is good enough for her.

Sophie probably catches on to the fact that they’re faking it pretty quickly. She reads people for a living. But I mean. She probably thinks that’s hilarious once she figures out they want to mess with Nate.

Eliot and Parker on the other hand show up at Sterling’s house to shovel talk him. Eliot does not actually punch him because one does not punch their friend’s boyfriend without cause (and I mean he has cause but he doesn’t want to upset Maggie) but it’s not like Eliot needs to do damage to be scary. Parker brings an actual shovel. No one’s sure how.

Whether they do that together or separately I don’t know but Hardison does not because he’s helping them both get past Sterling’s security system.

#leverage team #leverage #maggie collins #james sterling #nate ford #sophie devereaux #alec hardison #parker #eliot spencer

[amazzyblaze]

Coloring page of Eliot and Sterling in "The Queen's Gambit Job"

#leverage #eliot spencer #james sterling #coloring pages #the queen's gambit job #stop drinking that!

[wipbigbang]

WIP Big Bang 2023 Round Starting April 1st!

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#signal boost #fandom event #leverage #leverage: redemption #nate ford #sophie devereaux #alec hardison #eliot spencer #parker #james sterling #maggie collins #tara cole #special agent taggert #special agent mcsweeten #quinn #chaos #harry wilson #breanna casey #maria shipp #bligh

[neighbours-kid]

sterling doesn‘t know. at the end of 515 he doesn‘t know that nate and sophie retire

he catches on to the con early, much earlier than we‘re explicitly told. when nate shoves him and turns him around so eliot, hardison and parker can enter the server room unseen, sterling gives nate a look, and he knows. he lets it happen, let‘s nate win this one time. he lets nate have the one big score

when they go down to the garage to hand nate over to his lifelong sentence in a secret prison, sterling asks him i don‘t suppose you‘re done and nate just goes what do you think? and then sterling asks about his acting skills and they talk about sophie

he knows sophie is picking nate up. sterling lets them go. he accepts his role as trojan horse when nate pushes him and lets it all play out. nathan, you and i are not the same, we don‘t believe in the same things. and yet. he lets them go. because in the end, justice is always easy

but he doesn‘t—sterling doesn‘t know. despite knowing nate for the longest time, or maybe because he‘s known nate for the longest time, he does not even remotely consider the possibility that nate might ever retire. it‘s just,,,, ridiculous to even consider. nathan ford, the nathan ford? retiring? psshhh never

so sterling goes on. does the work, plays Mr Agent Man at interpol and tries to not think too hard about what letting nate and sophie go means. what it says about him that, this once, he chose their side. that, after all, justice is always easy, and nate is always right, in the end. he packs that away, deep down, better not examine that one, better not think too hard about it

sterling does the work. climbs the metaphorical corporate ladder in the firm as he‘s always done

and then, like it always does, his senses start tingling. works his current case and Something is making him pay more attention. a familiar name maybe, or a routing number he thinks he might‘ve seen before. or maybe it‘s just,,, A Vibe that this particular case has. so he does the job, investigates, does what he‘s good at, excellent at

and a blurry security photograph, eleven espressos and a redacted number of scotches later, he‘s sure. and maybe despite himself, he spreads out the file and smiles. there it is again, finally. took him long enough

so sterling makes the call, files the plans, gathers the agents, gives the briefing, and off they go

but. they‘re not there. not them. sterling arrives at the scene of the crime con and it‘s just three. he shows up, having mentally rehearsed his entrance and the perfect delivery of the hello, nate, and he‘s just,,,, not there. there‘s eliot, glaring at him while finishing off a goon, ready to drop him and put all his angry attention on sterling. there‘s hardison, sticking his head out the van, glaring too. clearly still not forgetting or forgiving about the offices. and there‘s parker, obviously dressed like she played the part of the roper and exuding a confidence after a heist well planned and executed he‘s so far only seen on one face before. so sterling simply stops dead in his tracks

no. that‘s just,,,, wrong. and he‘s disappointed, almost. and very tired all of a sudden. and before eliot is even halfway across the lot, he just turns around and walks away. this is not what he signed up for. where‘s the fun in hunting these thieves if neither nate nor sophie are there to be prickled by his presence. fuck that. fuck the job

and so sterling retires. if nate ford can retire from being a fucking con artist then he can retire from interpol. and so he does. spends some time with olivia. takes a trip that isn‘t work related for the first time in ages. and by the gods he is bored out of his skull. and one day olivia tells him if he doesn‘t find something to do, she‘ll sign him up for some random ass activity for retirees (he‘s not that old, olivia, sweetheart, please)

and late one night over a glass of scotch he‘s mindlessly zapping through the channels on the tv. until he stops suddenly on a rerun of old magnum pi episodes. he used to be obsessed with this when he was younger. and nate teased him about it endlessly

now there‘s an idea

and so he pulls up some pages on his computer and the next day tells olivia he‘s got a new job, he‘ll be back for dinner, he‘s gonna go look at some office spaces downtown

#sterling pi shenanigans au #leverage #james sterling #…….rotating him in my head like a rotisserie chicken. sterling. bastard man my beloved <3 #he would make such a fun p.i

[marchdadness]

these are dads from leverage! vote for your favorite, or the one you think is the best, or the hottest, or whatever! the winner will be entered into a poll tournament with 63 other fictional dads.

#march dadness #jimmy ford #james sterling #nathan ford #archie leach #harry wilson #leverage #leverage redemption #poll

[dashofweak]

Honestly James Stephanie Sterling is such an inspiration.

This fuckin self-described freak refused to give into the massive corporations that controlled basically everything about the industry they reported on. Got blacklisted and banned from many companies for speaking the truth and she wore that with pride.

And, because she's been so consistently ruthless she really can predict what the games industry will do with more accuracy than anyone except Yahtzee Croshaw who in turn is a long time friend of hers (unless there's something I'm unaware of lmk).

She wanted to wrestle, refused to just 'accept' she couldn't do it and is now living her dream wrestling. She's such a loud and ALIVE person, making waves wherever she wants and not letting anyone tell her otherwise.

Queen shit. Big dick energy. Fucking THANK GOD for James Stephanie Sterling. Queer icon and god damn real shit.

#james stephanie sterling #james sterling #the jimquisition #queen shit