litlover12

Last night's Leverage got me thinking about this. With a little help from Wikipedia (though their list is by no means comprehensive), here are all my shows that have done some sort of takeoff on the movie:

Early Edition
White Collar
Psych
Person of Interest
Leverage

And I'm probably forgetting some. Plus a whole bunch of other shows that I haven't seen. (Maybe some of you have seen versions that I haven't?)

It's fascinating just how pervasive the "disabled person spies on a criminal" trope has become. It may just be our modern version of the "locked room mystery." And it's usually pretty well done, in my experience: White Collar's version, though part of a generally weak season, had some genuine laugh-out-loud moments, while PoI's version was my favorite episode of that show so far. (One could argue that the whole series is a version of Rear Window, but in this instance it was a neat twist having Reese be the disabled person, for a change.) And Leverage's Parker, last night, made a fantastic "Jeff Jeffries," although it's extremely difficult to believe that our acrobatic girl could have injured her leg in the first place!

All I know is, if I ever decide to commit a crime, I'm going to check the neighborhood very carefully first for people with wheelchairs or crutches!

It came to me the other night, in a moment of madness induced by too much television: The best fic universe ever would be a White Collar/Leverage/Person of Interest crossover.

Think about it.

• Hardison and Finch would become fast friends based on a shared love of hacking and surveillance.
• Reese and Eliot would become fast friends based on a shared love of violence, though they would probably sustain a long-running argument over whether fists or guns would be preferable in any given situation.
• Parker would instantly bond with both Neal (a fellow thief) and Mozzie (a fellow veteran of the foster-care system), causing Hardison all kinds of heartburn.
• Sophie would start a flirtation with Neal, relieving Hardison of at least some of the heartburn. But Nate wouldn't be too thrilled.
• Peter would probably get caught up in some scenario where he had to simultaneously help Carter and protect Reese. This would throw him together with Fusco, whom he'd despise for being a crooked cop. Elizabeth would try to smooth things over with hot tea and sympathetic conversation, with only partial success.
• Peter and Nate would have an uneasy friendship where the former would keep trying to pull the latter back from what he saw as the Dark Side. Peter might be a little freaked out by Finch and his machine as well, but unsure on what to base his objections.
• And at least five of my fictional boyfriends would be in the same place, where I could easily keep track of them.