season 5 of Leverage is great not only because they were able to prove to us that Parker could be a mastermind and that she, Eliot, and Hardison could hold their own as a team, but also because they gave us a glimpse at how Nate and Sophie will spend their retirement life
namely, sneaking into parties, drinking champagne, stealing paintings, and running circles around Sterling
I bet at some point Nate or Sophie or both of them have Hardison do up a tracking program that lets them know when Sterling is at some obnoxiously fancy party with tons of shit worth stealing. They crash, spend the whole night going thru the motions of being on a job, and then just go home without stealing anything. Then Sterling spends WEEKS tearing out his hair trying to figure out what they stole and replaced with a forgery.
They do this over and over for a few years. Until he finally calls them out. He still isn’t sure they haven’t been stealing and replacing things, but he is also nearly positive they are just fucking with him.
And that night they clean the place out.
(And just because Sterling was so sure they were replacing stuff with fakes Nate decides to leave behind a couple “replacement” paintings. A black velvet Elvis and dogs playing poker. Once the team get word of it they break in a few days later and Parker and Eliot add Old Nate to the collection, because they want in on the fun. And Old Nate is still creepy as hell.)
YES