♦ The Honest Man
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| Nathan Ford
| | Position: | The Mastermind
| | Previous Occupation: | Insurance Investigator
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Knowing everyone's skills and how to use them together, acting, picks things up fast | | Personality Type: | Addictive
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| | Hobbies: | He plays poker, chess, sudoku and crosswords at computer!!!!!!! | | Virtues: |
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NATHAN FORD
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| ♦ Nathan Ford's Backstory | Nathan's Bio:
An honest man in a dishonest world, Nathan Ford is the undisputed leader of the Leverage team. After a widely successful career as an insurance investigator for the prestigious IYS, Nate was heinously betrayed by the company, refusing to pay for his son Sam's treatment for a terminal illness, claiming it to be too experimental for them to cover.
When Sam died, Nate fell into a downward spiral. His wife divorced him, and he soon found himself plagued by alcoholism and insomnia, until the day Victor Dubenech .approached him with an offer to good to refuse: leading a team of criminals to steal from one of IYS's clients for a salary of $600,000. Believing they were stealing plans that were stolen from his client, Nathan agreed. The team Dubenech put together was comprised of pro hacker Alec Hardison, retrieval specialist Eliot Spencer, and the mysterious female thief known only as Parker. Having chased all three in the past, Nathan's integrity and familiarity with the team made him the perfect choice to lead the raid. Despite an unexpected complication, Nate demonstrated his uncanny ability to formulate foolproof plans in seemingly hopeless situations.
The next morning, Nate was awakened by an angry phone call from Dubenech, who claimed that the plans never came to him, and demanding that Nate meet him at an abandoned building he owned. When Nate got there, he found Hardison, Eliot, and Parker, and quickly realized that Dubenech had attempted to lure them to their deaths as the building exploded.
After a narrow escape from Dubenech's death trap and the custody of the local police, Nathan went with the others to Hardison's apartment. Enraged by Dubenech using his son's death to enlist his services, he proposed an elaborate plan to get revenge on Dubenech. Enticed by the promises of monetary compensation and payback, the others agreed.
In order to maintain the element of surprise Nate then recruited his old enemy, professional grifter and aspiring actress Sophie Devereaux. After Sophie joined the team, she helped Nate to trick Dubenech into accepting a bribe from Nigerian delegates, making him a prime target for the FBI, and freeing up the team to make off with a sigificant percentage of Dubenech's company's stock, earning the team a staggering amount of money while Dubenech rotted in incarceration.
Realizing how well they worked together, the four thieves convinced Nathan to keep the team together. Nate agreed, hoping to use his and his new found allies' skills to help right the wrongs of corporate villains like the ones who allowed his son to die.
Nate's career as an insurance investigator has given him invaluable knowledge and wisdom in dealing with criminals, including the ones he now works with. The other members of the team seem to respect Nate as "the honest man," placing their complete trust in him and carrying out his orders with optimum efficiency as only they can do. Always the man with the plan, no matter what the situation, Nate is always able to divine a way to solve any problem, even when the other team members have completely given up hope.
It is interesting that, although they were once apparently bitter enemies, Sophie has become perhaps Nathan's closest friend since joining the Leverage team, even hinting toward possible romantic involvement in the near future. Only time will tell how their relationship will progress now that they have joined forces.
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Dossier Info: Hardened by his sons death, this man will never be the same. His life is slowly slipping out of control when an opportunity spurs him to assemble a team of like-minded professionals. Together they fight the big battles on behalf of everyday people. Never mind the cost-his team works on an "alternative revenue stream".
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|  | Name: Sophie Devereaux
Position: Grifter, Imposter,
Relationship to Nathan: More than just a friend
|  | Name: Eliot Spencer
Position: Retrieval Specialist, Muscle, Mercenary
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|  | Name: Parker
Position: Thief
Relationship to Nathan: |  | Name: Alec Hardison
Position: Hacker, Tech Support
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| ♦ Nathan Ford's Best Quotes | Episode 1: The Nigerian Job
- -- Hardison: "How many plans are there exactly? Is there a plan M? Nathan: "Yeah, plan M is where Hardison dies." (said so dryly) Elliot: "I like plan M."
- --(To Elliot when asked "what's in it for me?) Nathan: "Payback...and if it goes right a lot of money. "(To Parker following her asking the same question) "A lot of money..and if it goes right payback."
- -- "People like that...corporations like that...they have all the money, they have all the power and they use it to make people like you go away. Right now your suffering under an enormous weight..we provide leveragee.."
Episode 2: The Homecoming Job
Episode 3: The Two-Horse Job
- -- (Sterling calls Nate a common criminal) Nate: Common..oh now thats hurtful
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| ♦ Nathan Ford's Best Scenes | Episode 1: The Nigerian Job - -- {can't we just say anything he is in? ; ) } Breaking the car windows to cause a distraction before the Bering-Nigerian officials meet for the first time.
- -- Drinking the wine and his bottle is taken away but he has put a glass on the side-the expression he has holding it up is priceless.
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Episode 2: The Homecoming Job
Episode 3: The Two-Horse Job
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