This is a list of episodes for Leverage, a U.S. television drama series on TNT that premiered in December 2008.[1] The series is produced by director/executive producer Dean Devlin's production company Electric Television. Leverage follows a five-person team made up of Alec Hardison, Eliot Spencer, Sophie Devereaux, Parker, and former insurance investigator Nate Ford, who use their skills to right corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on common citizens.
As of August 14, 2011, a total of 54 episodes of Leverage have been aired over four seasons. Season three premiered on June 20, 2010 with two back-to-back episodes, and consists of 16 episodes.[2] Thirteen episodes ran during the summer, and the remaining three episodes of season three ran in December.[3] The show's fourth season[4] began on June 26, 2011. Leverage has been renewed for a fifth season.
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| Season | Episodes | Originally aired | DVD release date | ||||
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| Season premiere | Season finale | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 | |||
| 1 | 13 | December 7, 2008 | February 24, 2009 | June 14, 2009[5] | September 6, 2010 | August 10, 2009[6] | |
| 2 | 15 | July 15, 2009 | February 17, 2010 | May 25, 2010[7] | January 31, 2011 | March 7, 2011[8] | |
| 3 | 16 | June 20, 2010 | December 19, 2010 | June 7, 2011[9] | N/A | N/A | |
| 4 | 18[10] | June 26, 2011[11] | January 15, 2012[12] | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
| 5 | 15[13] | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | |
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Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | U.S. viewers (in millions) |
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| 1 | 1 | "The Nigerian Job"[Note 1] | Dean Devlin | John Rogers & Chris Downey | December 7, 2008 | 4.99[14] |
| Approached by Victor Dubenich, former insurance investigator Nathan Ford is recruited to watch over a team of thieves as they steal Dubenich's research back from the company that took it, in the process slamming the insurance company that let Ford's son die. However, all is not as it seems and the team is betrayed. In response, they go for revenge—and a substantial payback. | ||||||
| 2 | 2 | "The Homecoming Job" | Dean Devlin | John Rogers | December 9, 2008 | 3.11[15] |
| Under the name "Leverage Consulting & Associates," the team reunites for "one more job" in order to get justice for wounded veteran Cpl. Perry, shot by a government contractor in Iraq. The game changes, however, when the team realizes that Perry wasn't shot by accident, but to keep him from talking about something. | ||||||
| 3 | 3 | "The Two-Horse Job" | Craig R. Baxley | Melissa Glenn & Jessica Rieder | December 16, 2008 | 2.98[16] |
| A high-rolling Wall Street broker burns down his own stable to kill off his underperforming racehorses. The Leverage team goes to Kentucky to help the heartbroken horse trainer who has lost everything. Sophie plays a southern beauty, Nate plays poker and Parker is afraid of horses. They also learn that Eliot has a history with the trainer's daughter. Their scheme almost gets derailed by the appearance of Jim Sterling, Nate's former co-worker and long-time nemesis, who attempts to ruin the entire plan. | ||||||
| 4 | 4 | "The Miracle Job" | Arvin Brown | Christine Boylan | December 23, 2008 | 2.66 |
| A Catholic priest who is an old friend of Nate's is attacked before he can lobby the city of Los Angeles to save his church. The Leverage team stages a miracle to help, but attracts too much attention to their mission. | ||||||
| 5 | 5 | "The Bank Shot Job" | Dean Devlin | Amy Berg | December 30, 2008 | 3.77[17] |
| Sophie and Nate are taken hostage after being caught in the middle of a bank robbery, along with the Leverage team's latest target: a corrupt county court judge. Parker, Hardison and Eliot race to save them. Nate is shot and the plan goes awry. | ||||||
| 6 | 6 | "The Stork Job" | Marc Roskin | Albert Kim | January 6, 2009 | 2.85[18] |
| The Leverage team goes after a Serbian adoption agency that's scamming money from desperate American couples looking to adopt needy war orphans. The job hits close to home for Parker, who also was an orphan, and Hardison, whose Nana was his foster mother. They are able to pull off the job, but Parker wants to save the rest of the orphans. | ||||||
| 7 | 7 | "The Wedding Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Chris Downey | January 13, 2009 | 2.66[19] |
| To retrieve the money promised to the family of an innocent man who took the fall for a Mafia boss, the Leverage team poses as the wedding planners for the don's only daughter on her big day. Eliot, playing the chef, has a run-in with an old enemy, The Butcher of Kiev. | ||||||
| 8 | 8 | "The Mile High Job" | Rob Minkoff | Amy Berg | January 20, 2009 | 2.83[20] |
| A couple comes to Leverage headquarters and tells the team about their daughter who was killed by a company's toxic fertilizer. When the team (minus Hardison) boards a plane to recover the "assets" which could prove that the company was culpable for the girl's death, they discover that the "assets" are company employees, and the plane has been sabotaged. It is up to Hardison to save the day. | ||||||
| 9 | 9 | "The Snow Job" | Tony Bill | Albert Kim | January 27, 2009 | 2.81[21] |
| Nate has an emotional connection to a case of a National Guardsman whose home was foreclosed by an unscrupulous contractor. He jeopardizes the team by hitting the bottle again, then jeopardizes the job by deciding to go for a bigger scam with an even bigger payout. | ||||||
| 10 | 10 | "The 12-Step Job" | Rod Hardy | Amy Berg & Chris Downey | February 3, 2009 | 2.79[22] |
| The team goes after an unscrupulous financial director who stole from charity. After forcing him into rehab for his many addictions, the mission changes when Nate learns their mark is in fact robbing the rich (and criminal) and giving to the poor. | ||||||
| 11 | 11 | "The Juror #6 Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Rebecca Kirsch | February 10, 2009 | 3.21[23] |
| One of Parker's aliases gets called in for jury duty, and Nate forces her to go in order to learn to work better with others. While there Parker finds that various people involved in the case are being paid off, including the plaintiff's lawyer. The team then sets out to "steal" the verdict. | ||||||
| 12 | 12 | "The First David Job" | Dean Devlin | John Rogers | February 17, 2009 | 2.91[24] |
| The team decides to target Ian Blackpoole, the CEO of the insurance company that let Nate's son die, by stealing and then selling him his own maquette of Michelangelo's David. However, complications arise when Nate's ex-wife shows up and even more so when Sterling returns. | ||||||
| 13 | 13 | "The Second David Job" | Dean Devlin | Chris Downey & John Rogers | February 24, 2009 | 3.32[25] |
| To take down his former boss Ian Blackpoole, Nate must get his fractured team to work together again. This time he goes and tells Blackpoole and Sterling that he's going to rob the art exhibit. However, with Blackpoole and Sterling knowing their faces, the team is going to need someone on the inside: Nate's ex-wife Maggie. | ||||||
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| 14 | 1 | "The Beantown Bailout Job" | Dean Devlin | John Rogers | July 15, 2009 | 3.89[26] |
| Six months after exacting revenge on his former company, a newly sober Nate's attempt to resume a normal life is derailed when he helps a car crash victim who was about to expose a major bank fraud. The team have returned to their old ways, but aren't anywhere near as satisfied as they were before, and they reunite to take down the banker and the Irish mob. | ||||||
| 15 | 2 | "The Tap-Out Job" | Marc Roskin | Albert Kim | July 22, 2009 | 3.05 |
| The Leverage team travels to Nebraska to scam a crooked mixed martial arts promoter into signing away his money and his fight league. But when their mark gets wise, Eliot has to step into the ring. | ||||||
| 16 | 3 | "The Order 23 Job" | Rod Hardy | Chris Downey | July 29, 2009 | 3.68[27] |
| To get a convicted felon to reveal the location of his stolen money, the Leverage team steals the hospital he's confined to and stages a disease outbreak. | ||||||
| 17 | 4 | "The Fairy Godparents Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Amy Berg | August 5, 2009 | 3.69[28] |
| The team attempts to rip off an unscrupulous investment banker by stealing his lovable loser stepson's school, and Sophie & Eliot pose as the boy's "fairy godparents"; Parker and Hardison run into two old FBI friends in the process. | ||||||
| 18 | 5 | "The Three Days of the Hunter Job" | Marc Roskin | Melissa Glenn & Jessica Rieder | August 12, 2009 | 3.16[29] |
| Sophie and Nate switch places as the team cons a tabloid newscaster with a fake story about a government cover-up, but when their target starts believing the story, major problems arise. | ||||||
| 19 | 6 | "The Top Hat Job" | Peter O'Fallon | M. Scott Veach & Christine Boylan | August 19, 2009 | 3.43[30] |
| The team infiltrates a company selling tainted food by posing as magicians. | ||||||
| 20 | 7 | "The Two Live Crew Job" | Dean Devlin | Amy Berg & John Rogers | August 26, 2009 | 3.73[31] |
| It's thief vs. thief as the Leverage team goes up against another crew—run by an old "friend" of Sophie's—to retrieve a stolen painting. Sophie's continuing identity crisis leads her to make a big decision. | ||||||
| 21 | 8 | "The Ice Man Job" | Jeremiah Chechik | Christine Boylan | September 2, 2009 | 3.58[32] |
| Hardison goes undercover as the team—minus Sophie (sort of)—takes on a diamond merchant. | ||||||
| 22 | 9 | "The Lost Heir Job" | Peter Winther | Chris Downey | September 9, 2009 | 3.37[33] |
| The Leverage team targets a shady lawyer looking to usurp his dying client's estate. In an attempt to retrieve the money from the estate which was promised to a charity, Parker plays the client's long-lost daughter and claims to be his heir. With Sophie still in London, the team works with an uptight lawyer as a chaperone, but they soon find out that there's more to her than meets the eye. | ||||||
| 23 | 10 | "The Runway Job" | Mark Roskin | Albert Kim | January 13, 2010 | 3.69[34] |
| The team enters the fashion industry to con a sweatshop owning couple while they cope with their newest member. Things get very complicated when they learn that their marks are in bed with the Triads. | ||||||
| 24 | 11 | "The Bottle Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Christine Boylan | January 20, 2010 | 3.00[35] |
| When a loan shark tries to take over McRory's Pub, the Leverage team resorts to the classic "wire" con, with a little over an hour to pull it off. However, Nate is put on the spot to confront his problem with the bottle. | ||||||
| 25 | 12 | "The Zanzibar Marketplace Job" | Jeremiah Chechik | Melissa Glenn & Jessica Rieder | January 27, 2010 | 3.02[36] |
| Nate's ex-wife Maggie is framed for a jewel theft in Kiev, and the team must work with an old adversary to save her. | ||||||
| 26 | 13 | "The Future Job" | Mark Roskin | Amy Berg & Chris Downey | February 3, 2010 | 2.91[37] |
| The team goes after a ruthless grifter posing as a psychic, but come across a problem when an ex-con kidnaps him to divine the location of some stolen goods. | ||||||
| 27 | 14 | "The Three Strikes Job" | Dean Devlin | John Rogers | February 10, 2010 | 2.8[38] |
| Lt. Patrick Bonanno of the Massachusetts State Police is shot while trying to take down a corrupt mayor, and the team steps in to finish what he started. But when their mark's true motives are revealed, finishing the con gets just a little harder. | ||||||
| 28 | 15 | "The Maltese Falcon Job" | Dean Devlin | John Rogers | February 17, 2010 | 2.8[39] |
| With Sterling, the FBI, and anyone else carrying a badge in pursuit, the Leverage team hides in plain sight to complete a daring con of the mayor and his gunrunning partner. | ||||||
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| 29 | 1 | "The Jailhouse Job" | Dean Devlin | John Rogers | June 20, 2010 | 3.11[40] |
| While Nate is in a supermax prison, he must work with the team to escape in order to unmask the prison's corrupt warden and to save an inmate. Working behind the scenes is a mysterious Italian woman who blackmails the crew into taking down Damien Moreau, a rich, powerful and untouchable crime lord. If the team doesn't take out Moreau in six months, Nate will be imprisoned in Italy, and the team will be killed. | ||||||
| 30 | 2 | "The Reunion Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Michael Colton & John Aboud | June 20, 2010 | 2.95[40] |
| The team goes undercover during a high school reunion they hijacked to get a critical password from a powerful software executive named Larry Duberman. | ||||||
| 31 | 3 | "The Inside Job" | John Rogers | Geoffrey Thorne | June 27, 2010 | 3.45[41] |
| While working a theft on behalf of her father figure and mentor Archie Leach, Parker becomes trapped somewhere in a forty-story building with a state-of-the-art security system, and the team must scam their way in to save her. | ||||||
| 32 | 4 | "The Scheherazade Job" | Peter Winther | Chris Downey | June 27, 2010 | 3.24[41] |
| Hardison takes up the violin and joins the symphony as part of the team's plan to rob the vault of a corrupt government official, Alexander Moto, who is the brother of an African president planning to run for president himself when his brother's term limit expires. Hardison learns the hard way what it takes to be a leader after expressing his interest in running his own crew one day to Nate. The Italian gives Nate info on Moto. | ||||||
| 33 | 5 | "The Double-Blind Job" | Marc Roskin | Melissa Glenn & Jessica Rieder | July 11, 2010 | 2.89[42] |
| Running a double blind-like scam, the team enters the pharmaceutical business to take down a corrupt CEO and stop his plan to release a fatal prescription pain reliever. Meanwhile, Parker gets jealous when Hardison spends more time with the client and finds it hard to express how she feels for him. | ||||||
| 34 | 6 | "The Studio Job" | Jonathan Frakes | M. Scott Veach | July 18, 2010 | 3.91[43] |
| To con a crooked record executive, the Leverage crew infiltrates the country music industry—and inadvertently turns Eliot into a genuine star. | ||||||
| 35 | 7 | "The Gone-Fishin' Job" | John Harrison | Rebecca Kirsch | July 25, 2010 | 3.91[44] |
| The team works to take down a con-man using his collection agency posing as the IRS to fund a private revolution. But when his militia takes Eliot and Hardison captive, without the others knowing about it, Sophie, Parker and Nate are left on their own to complete the con. | ||||||
| 36 | 8 | "The Boost Job" | Marc Roskin | Albert Kim | August 1, 2010 | 3.49[45] |
| The team goes up against a used car salesman whose dealership is stocked with stolen vehicles from a local chop shop. | ||||||
| 37 | 9 | "The Three-Card Monte Job" | Dean Devlin | Christine Boylan | August 8, 2010 | 3.21[46] |
| Nate leads the team into battle against his father, the great Jimmy Ford, who's running a scheme involving bank robberies and the Russian and Irish mobs. | ||||||
| 38 | 10 | "The Underground Job" | Marc Roskin | Melissa Glenn & Jessica Rieder | August 15, 2010 | 3.12[47] |
| The team takes on a corrupt coal mine owner working with a dirty politician. | ||||||
| 39 | 11 | "The Rashomon Job" | Arvin Brown | John Rogers | August 22, 2010 | 3.37[48] |
| While discussing the solo crimes they committed as independent thieves, the team members each reminisce about a particular night five years earlier, when it turns out they each unwittingly tried to steal the same artifact at the same time. | ||||||
| 40 | 12 | "The King George Job" | Millicent Shelton | Christine Boylan | August 29, 2010 | 2.89[49] |
| The team heads to London after they discover that an antiquities trafficker who works for Damien Moreau is using refugee children to smuggle artifacts; Sophie confronts the consequences of her past. | ||||||
| 41 | 13 | "The Morning After Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Chris Downey | September 5, 2010 | 3.74[50] |
| The team must get a former star hockey player turned crooked investor to give up his knowledge of Damien Moreau's financial dealings before he fulfills an immunity agreement by testifying before a grand jury the next day. | ||||||
| 42 | 14 | "The Ho Ho Ho Job" | Marc Roskin | Michael Colton & John Aboud | December 12, 2010 | 2.10[51] |
| The team is hired by a former mall Santa to investigate the mall's owner. In the process, they discover that he is working with an old adversary, Hardison's rival hacker Chaos, to rob the Federal Depository. | ||||||
| 43 | 15 | "The Big Bang Job" | Marc Roskin | Chris Downey & Geoffrey Thorne | December 19, 2010 | 4.00[52] |
| When The Italian tells the team that Damien Moreau is on his way to Washington, they must form a plan to prevent Moreau from selling a bomb at an auction. Eliot reveals to the team that he once worked for Moreau. As the job gets personal and more dangerous, it forces him to unleash his darker side. | ||||||
| 44 | 16 | "The San Lorenzo Job" | Marc Roskin | John Rogers & M. Scott Veach | December 19, 2010 | 4.20[52] |
| After Moreau escapes to San Lorenzo, the team follows him and must pose as election consultants for an honest and hard working politician in order to overthrow the current president of the country, who bought the presidency with the help of Moreau, and take down Moreau once and for all. | ||||||
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| 45 | 1 | "The Long Way Down Job" | Dean Devlin | Joe Hortua & John Rogers | June 26, 2011 | 3.42[53] |
| The fate of a missing climber on an Alaskan mountain is the key to taking down a corrupt financier. | ||||||
| 46 | 2 | "The Ten Li'l Grifters Job" | Arvin Brown | Geoffrey Thorne | July 3, 2011 | 2.46[54] |
| A visit to a mark's isolated mansion leads to Nate becoming the prime suspect in a classic whodunit mystery. | ||||||
| 47 | 3 | "The 15 Minutes Job" | Marc Roskin | Josh Schaer | July 10, 2011 | 3.24[55] |
| Nate plans to turn a shadowy political consultant into a celebrity—but can Nate himself resist the lure of the limelight? | ||||||
| 48 | 4 | "The Van Gogh Job" | John Rogers | Chris Downey | July 17, 2011 | 4.06[56] |
| The team pursues a lost Van Gogh masterpiece, and reenacts a star-crossed love affair between the only two people who know its whereabouts. | ||||||
| 49 | 5 | "The Hot Potato Job" | John Harrison | Jenn Kao | July 24, 2011 | 3.25[57] |
| Sophie leads a quickly improvised con to retrieve the eponymous tuber from a highly secure agribusiness headquarters. | ||||||
| 50 | 6 | "The Carnival Job" | Frank Oz | M. Scott Veach & Paul Guyot | July 31, 2011 | 3.38[58] |
| The team attempts to steal a revolutionary new computer chip from a family household, but in the middle of their efforts, the child of the target's family is kidnapped during a chaotic carnival. Elliot must face an old adversary named Roper to get the child back. | ||||||
| 51 | 7 | "The Grave Danger Job" | John Harrison | Rebecca Kirsch | August 14, 2011 | 3.36[59] |
| Leverage goes after a grifter and her two sons--the former of which is posing as a funeral home director--are embezzling money from her living clients and selling the identities of their dead loved ones to a drug cartel. As Parker's feelings for Hardison become clearer, the team learns that Hardison has been kidnapped and buried alive, and they must race to save him. | ||||||
| 52 | 8 | "The Boiler Room Job" | Arvin Brown | Paul Guyot | August 14, 2011 | 3.29[59] |
| The team targets a descendant of legendary con men who knows every scam in the book, so Nate decides that since they can't con him, they'll just rob him. | ||||||
| 53 | 9 | "The Cross My Heart Job" | P.J. Pesce | Story by: Ben Fast & Scott Wolman Teleplay by: Jeremy Bernstein |
August 21, 2011 | 3.03[60] |
| A sickly defense contractor steals a heart, which had been donated to an ailing 15-year-old. To prevent the heart from flying out, the team has to steal an airport in less than two hours without any equipment. | ||||||
| 54 | 10 | "The Queen's Gambit Job" | Jonathan Frakes | M. Scott Veach & Rebecca Kirsch | August 28, 2011 | 3.22[61] |
| Sterling convinces the Leverage team to steal a nuclear centrifuge calibration weight from a high-tech skyscraper in Dubai during an international chess tournament. | ||||||
| 55 | 11 | "The Experimental Job" | Marc Roskin | M. Scott Veach | November 27, 2011 | 2.10[62] |
| The Leverage team goes back to college to investigate a program of sinister psychology research. Hardison goes undercover as a cooler, collegiate version of himself, and Eliot goes undercover as a homeless veteran. | ||||||
| 56 | 12 | "The Office Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Jeremy Bernstein & Josh Schaer | December 4, 2011 | 1.83[63] |
| A documentary film project about a small greeting-card company takes a strange turn when the Leverage team arrives, posing as efficiency experts. | ||||||
| 57 | 13 | "The Girls' Night Out Job" | Marc Roskin | Chris Downey & Jenn Kao | December 11, 2011 | 1.83[64] |
| Parker, Sophie, and Tara investigate a mysterious handsome man who is using Parker's friend to get access to an embassy. | ||||||
| 58 | 14 | "The Boys' Night Out Job" | John Rogers | John Rogers | December 18, 2011 | 2.11[65] |
| Nate, Hardison, and Eliot must extricate their old acquaintance Hurley (from Season 1's "The 12-Step Job") from his involvement with rival drug gangs. This episode takes place simultaneously with "The Girls' Night Out Job". | ||||||
| 59 | 15 | "The Lonely Hearts Job" | Jonathan Frakes | Kerry Glover | December 25, 2011 | 1.99[66] |
| A charity auction in the Hamptons appears to be a front for a "black widow" con. The team's investigation puts each member's romantic skills to the test. | ||||||
| 60 | 16 | "The Gold Job" | Marc Roskin | Joe Hortua | January 1, 2012 | 2.26[67] |
| Taking his first turn as leader of a con, Hardison constructs an elaborate plan to victimize a pair of corrupt gold dealers. | ||||||
| 61 | 17 | "The Radio Job"[12] | Dean Devlin[12] | Chris Downey & Paul Guyot[12] | January 8, 2012[12] | |
| 62 | 18 | "The Last Dam Job"[12] | January 15, 2012[12] | |||
On August 12, 2011, TNT renewed Leverage for a fifth season of 15 episodes.[13]