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* In the pilot episode, Hardison is used as bait to draw the attention of building security. Four guards pull guns on him and tell him to raise his hands, one of which is holding a large duffel bag. He does and drops the bag. The bag is shown falling in slow motion as Eliot, at normal speed, takes out every single one of the guards ''before the bag hits the floor''. Now consider what the scene would have looked like if the bag had been shown falling at the normal rate of speed.

* Both Nate and Sophie get one in "The First David Job":

** Sophie arranges a meet to trade the [[MacGuffin]] for Parker on top of a sky scraper. She is trapped and no talking, flirting or conning in the world is going to get them out. So, in her own word, "I asked myself, what would Parker do?", flings off her coat to reveal a rapelling harness asParker throws herself at the woman and they dive off the side of the building. The awesome is accented by the look on Sophie's face as she and Parker jump off the building. First time they did this Sophie could barely look down, this time she looks exactly like Parker when she's doing crazy stuff.

** At the same time, to facilitate the trade above, Nate gives himself up to different location at which Hardison is being held hostage. Surrounded by six high-end goons, Eliot shows up, complete with broken ribs and a concussion and is declared that there is no way even Eliot can take all of them. Which Nate agrees with, and in his own words, "So I asked myself, what would Hardison do?" at which point Eliot pulls out a electronic doodad which connects to the local wifi to send out a signal that produces a screeching tone in all the goons' earpieces so severe that the three good guys can overpower the goons.

* Nate's performance in "The Second David Job" certainly qualifies.

** Maggie gets hers in the same episode: "Screw therapy. That felt really good."

*** Maggie also has the date with Eliot where she makes a series of disparaging comments about Nate before revealing that she knew he was watching the whole time, and when she calmly cons the museum director with her "Everyone knows it's a fungus" moment. For a character who appeared in only two episodes up to that point, Maggie manages to rack up impressive levels of awesome.

* In "The Three Days of the Hunter Job," Hardison convincing the soldier who's interrogating him as a ''terror suspect'' that he has a higher rank than the soldier does and completely turning the authority tables.

** Hardison is just filled with this trope. Seriously.

* Eliot beating the crap out of Sterling in "The Zanzibar Marketplace Job" while Hardison bribes the [[Home Base|McRory's]] bartender not to call the cops and he and Parker look on in approval.

* In "The Three Strikes Job," {{spoiler|the last 30 seconds. "James Sterling... Interpol. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it?"}}

*** Later:

{{quote|"My name is {{spoiler|Nathan Ford}}, [[Ironic Echo|and I am a thief.]]"}}

** And ''again'' in ''The San Lorenzo Job'', where she takes out a pair of guards with ''champaign bottles''.

* The mindhacking of [[The Mark|Duberman]] in "The Reunion Job." The team gets so deep into his head they are literally able to {{spoiler|make him set his computer passwords to a phrase they've selected.}}

* In "The Studio Job," Nate is alone with two huge guards and Eliot is indisposed. When we next see Nate, both guards are unconscious. He says later they "got into an argument," and that's all the explanation we get. Given Nate's previously demonstrated knowledge of psychology, mental programming, and hypnosis, we can safely assume that in ''five minutes'', he just ''talked'' two guys into knocking each other out.

{{quote|'''Eliot''': What smells like crank and screams like a little girl?

'''Addict #1''': Huh?

** This troper got a distict River Tam vibe from Parker navigating the laser field in "The Hot Potato Job."

* Behold the first part of the season 3 finale, "The Big Bang Job." Behold Eliot finally, finally, taking up a pair of guns to protect Nate. Behold Eliot utterly destroying an entire hit squad without taking a scratch, while the building blew up around him.

*** Likewise doesn't hurt that, since it's him, ''you never even question the above's validity.'' Ladies and gents, I give you Eliot Spencer, [[Badass]].

{{quote|'''Head mook in charge''': I thought you said you don't like guns?

* The third season premiere, where a group of at least half a dozen men with guns burst into the doorway of the apartment -- and Eliot rushes ''toward'' them. Only Nate grabbing his shoulder stops him from attacking, and it says something that it's hard to tell who'd have won.

* The Season 4 finale. Quinn and Eliot kicking ass as a team, Maggie's return as a substitute grifter, Archie using cake to infiltrate the villains' headquarters, Chaos breaking into a system specifically designed to recognise Hardison but not him...it was just all around awesome.

{{quote|'''Nate''': You were so focused, you forgot about the little details. *trigger is pulled, nothing happens* Like counting bullets. This one here, my father's gun? It has five bullets. I'm quite sure of that.}}

{{quote|'''Nate''': So the problem I'm having with all of this is if only one of you dies, the other goes free. I have ''five bullets.'' Who would like to go first?}}

* "Hey, Sterling. ''Get out of my house.''"