Leverage - Episode Guide

When Nathan Ford, a former insurance company investigator, is approached by a man asking him to help retrieve some stolen airplane designs, he is dubious. When he finds out that the job requires him to supervise and maintain control of three known thieves that he himself caught in the course of his insurance investigations, he's more than dubious. However, the job offers him the opportunity to get some of his own revenge on the insurance company that allowed his son to die, so he takes it despite his misgivings. After they steal the designs, the team discovers they have been double-crossed and must figure out how to return the property to the rightful owner.

Corporal Robert Perry, an Army reservist who fought in Iraq, was severely injured in an apparent error by Castleman Security, government contractors working in Iraq. The Army investigation clears Castleman of involvement, thus freeing them of any monetary obligation, and Perry lives too far from veteran's resources to receive government funded treatment that would allow him to work. He contacts Nathan Ford for help. What Nathan Ford and the rest of the Leverage team find is far more than a simple error.

After a Wall Street broker sets fire to his stable, killing his underachieving racehorses in the process, the team visits Kentucky to help the heartsick trainer, Eliot's high school love, who lost everything.

Nate and the team help his old friend Father Paul stop the demolition of his church by a shady developer. Nate's means, however, a fake miracle, are a lot less holy than his ends.

Nate, Sophie, and the mark, a corrupt judge, are taken hostage during a botched bank robbery. The team tries to help the two amateur and desperate robbers.

The team goes after an adoption company that is scamming couples looking to adopt war orphans. So, the team hijacks the production of a horror movie. Trying to recover a child for a grieved couple hits close to home for Parker.

A job for the wife of a wrongly-jailed restaurateur lands the team between the FBI and rival mob families. The team poses as wedding planners to get close to a Mafia boss and must pull off a wedding while pulling off the heist.

The team traces incriminating evidence about a corporation's misdeeds to two witnesses on a plane to the Cayman Islands, not knowing what the corporation has planned for the flight.

The team goes after a construction company that foreclosed on a National Guardsman's home, but Nate complicates the simple con of the sleazy contractor and his sons when hundreds of more victims are revealed. Also, Nate puts the team in jeopardy with his drinking.

The team cons an alcoholic embezzler into entering rehab to try to recover the money he swindled from a charity. This causes Nate to confront some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.

When one of Parker's aliases receives jury duty, Nate forces her to go, resulting in a showdown between the team and a corporation tampering with the jury.

The team goes after the CEO of Nate's former insurance company, responsible for denying his late son's medical care, but the situation causes conflict among the crew.

Nate comes out of hiding and tries to get his team back together to directly challenge Sterling and take down Blackpoole for good. Nate finally tells Maggie how Blackpoole's denial of their insurance claim led to their son's death. So, she helps the team.

Now sober, Nathan Ford reunites Sophie, Hardison, Parker, and Eliot to help him con members of a local Irish Mob and pit them against a banker who is gaming a government bailout.

The crew tries to get a corrupt mixed martial arts fight promoter to invest in a fake cable television network. When the scheme goes awry, Eliot is forced to step into the ring.

The team goes after a shady hedge-fund manager in the custody of the U.S. Marshals who is being hunted by the Armenian mob. To swindle the felon, the team must use a hospital and stage a virus outbreak.

A clinic is forced to close because its funds were lost in a Ponzi scheme. The team goes after a corrupt investment banker who has money hidden from the authorities and is incarcerated in his penthouse. To recover funds, the team tries to help his introverted stepson.

A TV host claims a school-bus driver caused an accident that left two children dead. Sophie takes the lead as the team cons the sleazy tabloid newscaster with the story of a government cover-up involving secret prisons or bunkers for an apocalypse.

The team employs very unusual methods to infiltrate a corporation that has been selling tainted food to the public.

The team must recover priceless artwork lost in World War II from a band of thieves.

With Sophie gone, Parker and Hardison must assume new roles to recover a cache of stolen diamonds and help an innocent man accused of the crime.

The team tries to stop a corrupt lawyer from taking control of a wealthy client's estate.

To bring down an oppressive sweatshop owner, Nate and the team crash a fashion show.

To save the bar in Nathan's building from being lost to an avaricious loan shark, the team tries an old-school con.

When Nate's ex-wife, Maggie, is thrown into a Ukranian jail for a crime she didn't commit, Nate and the team are forced to partner with an old nemesis, Sterling, to get her out.

The team sets their sights on a con man masquerading as a psychic medium who is draining the life savings of his bereaved clients.

While trying to take down a corrupt local mayor by exploiting his love of baseball, the team runs into an unexpected complication... and an old nemesis - Sterling.

Surrounded by the FBI and with Sterling hot on their heels, the team decides to hide in plain sight, continuing with their plan to take down the corrupt mayor and his gunrunning partner responsible for Lt. Bonanno's shooting.

As the team works to free Nate from jail, he must take on the corrupt warden of a private prison and free and save the life of an innocent inmate.

To uncover a password, the team infiltrates the high school reunion of an amoral software magnate who's the IT department for the Axis of Evil.

When Parker is trapped in an unknown location while working a theft for her mentor, the team must race against the clock to find her and free her.

To rob an African kleptocrat's Boston vault, the team has to time their heist to a symphony concert nearby, where amateur violinist Hardison must play a solo for a sell-out crowd

Nate and the team run a con against the corrupt CEO of a pharmaceutical company who is marketing a drug which could kill thousands of people if released.

When Eliot poses as a country music singer to help run a con against a corrupt recording studio executive, things get complicated when he becomes a bona fide star.

The team takes on a greedy debt collector scamming innocent taxpayers, but find themselves in over their heads when they discover their mark is also funding an armed militia.

Nate and the team infiltrate a crew of top-flight car thieves in order to bring down a crooked car dealer.

An unlikely foe complicates matters for Nate and the crew as they try to help several small-time business owners who were conned and blackmailed into committing crimes.

Nate and the team travel to West Virginia to investigate a fatal explosion in a coal mine and uncover far more than the negligent practices they originally suspected.

Each member of the team recalls the story of an artifact they all attempted to steal on the same night five years ago.

When the team finds out that an an antiquities trafficker working for Damien Moreau is using refugee children as mules to smuggle artifacts, they travel to London to lure him into an Auction House scam. While there, Sophie is forced to confront the consequences of her past.

A con against a dirty and extremely violent hedge fund manager could be the key to the team finding Damien Moreau.

The team takes over a mall on Christmas Eve and uncovers a nefarious scheme perpetrated by an old nemesis; Eliot goes undercover as Santa Claus; Parker and Hardison are Santa's helpers.

The team infiltrates a Department of Defense research lab in order to stop the villainous Damien Moreau from murdering a brilliant engineer and auctioning her work off to international terrorists.

The team follows Moreau to San Lorenzo, only to find that he is the chief advisor to the current President. In order to take Moreau down, the team must first take over the country.

The team must battle a treacherous mountain, dangerous conditions, and hired mercenaries to retrieve evidence to bring down a corrupt financial executive.

When a mark is killed in the middle of a con and Nate is accused of the crime, the crew must find the real killer to prove Nate's innocence.

The team uses a PR executive's own notoriety against him to bring him down.

On the trail of a lost Van Gogh, the team learns the painting was the center of a World War II love story between a black soldier and the white heiress he was forced to leave behind.

The team infiltrates the corrupt world of corporate agriculture to recover a stolen agricultural object worth millions of dollars.

An innovative computer chip the team steals from an executive's home becomes the ransom when the executive's daughter is kidnapped.

The team aims their sights a funeral home director who embezzles money from her grieving mourners, but quickly discover the scam involves a deadly Mexican drug cartel.

When the team goes up against a conman from a long lineage of greats, they must pull off the biggest con of their careers.

While stuck on a layover at an airport, the team must retrieve a heart donated to a fifteen-year-old patient when it is stolen by an ailing defense contractor.

Jim Sterling asks Nate for help taking down a researcher who has designed a calibration weight for a nuclear reactor that will allow a terrorist nation to manufacture enriched uranium. The con occurs during an international chess tournament. However, it soon becomes clear that the Interpol agent has an ulterior motive, one which isolates Nate, gets Sophie arrested, and takes Eliot out of commission.

When the team investigates the disappearance of homeless veterans around Boston, they stumble across a sinister plot in the world of secret societies.

While Nate and the team try to uncover an embezzler by infiltrating an office, they get roped into participating in a documentary of the company they're trying to save.

When a thief targets Parker's friend Peggy, Parker recruits Sophie and Tara to help her take him down. Together they follow the thief to the Venezuelan Consulate, where the women discover an international conspiracy.

Nate, Eliot, and Hardison are forced to intervene when Hurley returns, embroiled with the best of intentions in a three-way drug deal.

While searching for a philanthropist's missing wife, the team comes up against a grifter ring running a web of sophisticated "Sweetheart Scams," where pretty young women woo and wed older men for their money. Now, Nate must learn how to steal hearts... or risk losing Sophie's for good.

The Leverage team hits the recession-driven Cash-for-Gold industry by targeting a corrupt brother-sister team and steering them through an elaborate treasure hunt.

When Latimer hires Nate's father to pull off a heist in an ultra-secure government office, the Leverage team must stage a fake hostage stand-off when they're trapped inside and the feds lay siege to the building.

The Leverage team must recruit old friends and rivals in order to take down Latimer and a foe from their past.

As the team adjusts to their new home in Portland, they take on the case of a corrupt airline executive who has an obsession with Howard Hughes and his Spruce Goose.

The Leverage crew helps a veteran hockey player whose son thinks team management are trying to get his father injured on purpose, but discover that their real intentions are far more ominous.

To take down a wealthy scientist who stole a colleague's work, Nate and the crew convince him he's made contact with aliens.

Eliot goes undercover at a culinary arts school to take down an avaricious restaurateur.

When a cheerleader is injured through corporate negligence, Parker takes over the role of the cheerleading squad's disgraced coach while the other members of the team attempt to get safety legislation passed in Congress.

Agent McSweeten, who still believes that Parker and Hardison are undercover FBI, asks the team to look into the case that has been obsessing his dying father for over 30 years: the 1971 plane hijacking by D.B. Cooper.

Nate and the crew concoct a story about a vintage car to get a corrupt Wall Street businessman to break his immunity agreement with the government.

When a torn ACL leaves Parker behind on the crew's latest job, she spies on the Brew Pub's customers for fun and discovers a group of thieves planning a heist.

Eliot, Hardison, and Parker assist Eliot's old partner, counter-terrorism specialist Colonel Michael Vance, in stopping a biological weapon from being released in Washington, D.C.

Nate must clear Sophie's name when she is framed for the theft of a priceless work of art.

The crew takes on a big-box retail chain who is bribing a small town to run local mom-and-pop stores out of business. They sabotage a new mega-store in order to keep it from destroying the town.

The team attempts one of the most difficult cons ever devised to stop a businessman from bankrupting his business and the town that depends on it.

Prompted by the suspicious death of a worker, Nate and the crew take on the greedy owner of a winery trying to obtain a priceless bottle of wine.

The team creates a global toy craze to take on a CEO who is about to market dangerous toys to the public.

Nate puts everything on the line for himself and the team with their riskiest con yet when he takes on a case that is connected to his son's death.