The best episodes of Leverage
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- 01
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.
- 02
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.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
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.
- 07
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.
- 08
The team must recover priceless artwork lost in World War II from a band of thieves.
- 09
Each member of the team recalls the story of an artifact they all attempted to steal on the same night five years ago.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
The team tries to stop a corrupt lawyer from taking control of a wealthy client's estate.
- 14
To save the bar in Nathan's building from being lost to an avaricious loan shark, the team tries an old-school con.
- 15
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.
- 16
A con against a dirty and extremely violent hedge fund manager could be the key to the team finding Damien Moreau.
- 17
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.
- 18
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.
- 19
The Leverage team must recruit old friends and rivals in order to take down Latimer and a foe from their past.
- 20
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.
- 21
The team sets their sights on a con man masquerading as a psychic medium who is draining the life savings of his bereaved clients.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
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.
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