The worst episodes of Leverage
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- 01
To bring down an oppressive sweatshop owner, Nate and the team crash a fashion show.
- 02
Eliot goes undercover at a culinary arts school to take down an avaricious restaurateur.
- 03
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.
- 04
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.
- 05
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.
- 06
The team must battle a treacherous mountain, dangerous conditions, and hired mercenaries to retrieve evidence to bring down a corrupt financial executive.
- 07
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.
- 08
When the team investigates the disappearance of homeless veterans around Boston, they stumble across a sinister plot in the world of secret societies.
- 09
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.
- 10
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.
- 11
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.
- 12
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.
- 13
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.
- 14
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.
- 15
The team employs very unusual methods to infiltrate a corporation that has been selling tainted food to the public.
- 16
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
- 17
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.
- 18
The team uses a PR executive's own notoriety against him to bring him down.
- 19
When the team goes up against a conman from a long lineage of greats, they must pull off the biggest con of their careers.
- 20
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.
- 21
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.
- 22
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.
- 23
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.
- 24
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.
- 25
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.
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