What if the Hybrid wasn’t one person, but two. A dangerous combination of a passionate and powerful Time Lord and a young woman, so very similar to him. Companions who are willing to push each other to extremes.
The house always wins. Play long enough, you never change the stakes. The house takes you. Unless, when that perfect hand comes along, you bet and you bet big, then you take the house.
OCEAN'S ELEVEN (2001) dir. Steven Soderbergh
btw this hug is so massively important to El you can see it echo through the seasons in the way that El adopts the head-cradle move into her own hug style, beginning with Max at Starcourt, which is the first time that El's ever had to seriously comfort someone as far as we know, and these two hugs look similar because El is drawing on her memory of Joyce to know how to show tenderness and comfort to Max. if you even care.