13 episodesFirst aired 7 December 2008
E1Dec 200857m
A desperate aerospace CEO asks Nate Ford - an insurance investigator who once specialized in recovering stolen goods worth millions - to lead a team of expert thieves to recover airplane designs from the rival company that took them.
E2Dec 200842m
Leverage Consulting & Associates opens for business as the crew reunites to help a Reservist who's been wounded in Iraq by private military contractors.
E3Dec 200843m
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.
E4Dec 200843m
Nate's childhood best friend seeks the help of Leverage Consulting & Associates in preventing the demolition of his church... by stealing a miracle.
E5Dec 200843m
Sophie and Nate find themselves taken hostage during a bank robbery. They soon learn they are trapped inside with their latest target: a corrupt judge.
E6Jan 200943m
The Leverage team works to take down an adoption agency that has been stealing money from American couples.
E7Jan 200943m
To pull of a heist, the team poses as wedding planners in order to get money promised to a family after they took the fall for a Mafia boss.
E8Jan 200943m
The Leverage team attempts to expose a conglomerate’s cover-up of their toxic fertilizer, which has resulted in the death of a young girl. But the CEO has put all of the damning evidence on a plane to the Cayman Islands. The team races to catch the flight but, once airborne, they discover that the CEO’s intentions are far more sinister and that to avenge one life they’ll have to save their own.
E9Jan 200943m
While helping a National Guardsman, Nate puts his team on the line when he slips back into his alcoholic ways.
E10Feb 200943m
When the team cons an addicted embezzler into entering rehab, Nate confronts some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.
E11Feb 200943m
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.
E12Feb 200943m
The team puts together a plan to steal Nate's former boss's prized Michelangelo Maquette and sell it back to him.
E13Feb 200943m
Nate tries to piece together his team after coming out of hiding. However, the high stakes involved in his latest con could spell disaster for him and his friends.