His reputation in shambles after being framed and fired for alcoholism, Santa Claus enlists the help of Nate and the team. They set up shop in a local mall where the owner, Eben Dooley, is on the brink of bankruptcy and has hired a group of thugs to rob his mall. But things are more complicated than they seem when the team realizes that there is someone else pulling the strings. Chaos returns and plays the team hard. Can the team stop him in time? Will Eliot ever learn to respect the suit? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Former hockey star Mark Vector has immunity from the FBI in order to testify against a mob boss, and he uses it to get away with stealing money from clueless fans and beating them up senseless. He is one of the few people with ties to Moreau, so the Italian gets the team to kidnap and con him into giving them information. They use the “Cuban Sandwich” to convince him he’s killed Parker and needs to make a new deal with the FBI, but things go south when Moreau’s own assassin starts shooting up Nate’s apartment with them inside. What is the Italian’s true purpose? Why does Nate have so many praying mantis pictures on his wall? Didn’t Parker look great with blue lipstick? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team tracks down one of Moreau’s favorite smugglers, John Keller, and get more than they bargained for when they find out he’s smuggling priceless heirlooms by using children. Sophie starts reflecting on her life as a grifter and the collateral damage she left behind. She starts to run a con on Keller by offering his heart’s desire: a barony in England. She takes on an old persona of hers, a Duchess, but Keller brings in a Countess who may have a link to Sophie’s past. Who was William and why did Sophie leave him? Is she really a Duchess? Is Hardison the greatest history hacker of all time? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

The team are all fighting after seeing an exhibit featuring a special dagger they all claim to have stolen five years ago. Nate agrees to referee the story and listen to each of them tell their part of it until they figure out who truly stole the dagger. Unfortunately for them, they’re all wrong! What does Sophie’s accent really sound like? Does Parker have butter fingers? And wasn’t Coswell absolutely adorable? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

Due to sub-standard safety precautions and a build-up of methane gases, a mine explodes, killing several of its workers. Two years later, the mine owner has used his Government issued funds to buy off a local Attorney General instead of using it to make the mines a safer place to work. The team takes on two bad guys as they con the mine owner into buying a useless Colton mining process, and make sure to bring his AG down with him. Does Eliot have a future in the mining industry? Can Parker really steal your soul? And how in the hell does Gina still look gorgeous even when wearing a hard hat? All that and more, on this episode of Leverage.

Innocent people are being blackmailed into doing illegal things in exchange for their families not being harmed. At first the team thinks it is just a bunch of Russian thugs doing the con, but it turns out they’re being led by Jimmy Ford, Nate’s criminal father. He’s out of jail and tired of being small time. He wants to do one big score. He starts working out of Nate’s bar, and Nate is determined to take his father down at any cost. The team is uncomfortable but agree to help him, but who exactly is being conned? Jimmy or Nate? What game will win out, chess or three-card monte? Let’s find out on this episode of Leverage!

An innocent teacher is framed for the theft of a car he thought he bought legitimately from a crooked car dealer named Duke Penzer. He has a team of car thieves under his command, and Parker is reminded of her past in the same business. Nate poses as a rival car dealer in the same business as Parker infiltrates the thieves, and Sophie grifts as Nate’s best saleswoman who Duke wants to steal. Things go wrong when Parker warns a young girl who reminds her of herself, and she warns the bad guys. Should Hardison make ear buds that are waterproof? Is Sophie the answer to a failing economy? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

A con-man has been stealing money from people by posing as the IRS and demanding late payments from them. He uses the money to fund a private militia who plan to stage a ‘revolution’ against the government. The Leverage team con him into investing his money with a shell company and all seems to be going to plan, but Hardison and Eliot are captured while posing as IRS agents. They have to figure out a way to take him down, dismantle the militia, and save their boys in the meantime! Do Hardison and Eliot need saving? Is virtual fishing the same as real fishing? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

This week the team is taking down a corrupt Country record executive, who has made himself rich and powerful by taking what he wants by force, and pushing other people around. They decide to go after him by running the Fiddle game on him, with Eliot acting as the fiddle. Posing as a up and coming country singer, Eliot performs the only song their client has left. But the team has to act fast when they find out the mark intends to have Eliot killed and steal the song for himself. Will there ever be another music video as amazing as Kirkwood’s? Exactly how many countries have a price on Eliot’s head? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

A new client literally runs into Hardison and Eliot as she’s being followed by evil henchmen, and it turns out she’s looking into the truth behind her sister’s sudden death. A pharmaceutical company’s test drug is the cause, and everyone who took it is now dead. The head of the company plans to use that same drug and sell it as a new one, regardless of the tragic deaths it will cause. It’s up to the team to pull a double blind job on him. At the same time, Parker is struggling with her growing feelings … for pretzels

The Leverage Team is asked to help a journalist bring down the power hungry brother of the foreign president of Wadata. They end up doing the dirty work for the mysterious (and annoying) Italian in The Scherazade Job. The team times a robbery to an orchestra performance in order to get their hands on the smuggled diamonds that would fund Moto's coup on his brother. Will Hardison be able to play the most difficult violinist solo known to man? Is the Italian chick really necessary? Will Nate forever be a bastard? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is taken on a surprise mission when they find out Parker is trying to help save her old mentor, legendary thief Archie Leach. His family is being threatened if he cannot steal biotech research, but the building it is in has a famous security system called Steranko. It is supposed to be impossible to hack and steal from, because the system learns and adapts. Can the team save Parker from her own crazy mission? Why didn’t Archie just adopt her already? Why does Hardison call the girl he likes ‘mama’? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team goes after a computer software tycoon who is gathering the names and locations of protesters in Iran, and plans to sell them to people who want them silenced. Hardison is unable to hack into his computer, because he's still using the one he had in the 80s, and he is absolutely obsessed with his past in high school. The team stages a high school reunion to try and get his passwords out of him and end up having to save his life from an assasin at the same time. Would Nate and Sophie have dated in high school? Does anyone care if Eliot's alive? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

Season three finds Nate behind bars after turning himself in in the season finale and unwilling to get Shawshanked by the team.  While the team is working on ways of getting him out, Nate discovers that the warden is corrupt and bribing judges to give ridiculously harsh punishments for minor offenses.  This ensures that the warden can keep his occupancy up and his state funding coming in.  Will the team be able to bring down the warden and talk Nate into escaping?  Will Sophie ever tell Nate her real name?  Did Leverage accurately convey life in prison?  All this and more in this episode.

In part two of the season finale, the team is in a bad way. The FBI has them nearly trapped, and now Sterling has joined the hunt. Nate refuses to give up the job regardless of whether or not it puts them directly in harm’s way. They kidnap the Mayor to have a bargaining chip against the FBI, but Sterling turns it around on Nate by trapping him at his apartment. Nate has one big choice to make: him or the team. Who is going to save them this time? I WONDER.

We had some microphone issues this week. We're really sorry!

The team’s ally Lieutenant Bonnano gets shot down during a secret meet, and Nate takes it personally. This leads him to the possible culprit, the Mayor of a Massachusetts town who doesn’t seem to have any problem selling himself to the highest bidder. Nate decides the best way to taunt him is to take away his prized baseball team, and Eliot becomes their star player. Unfortunately, Nate is too drunk and messed up to see he’s walking the team right into a trap, and it might be one they won’t be able to get out of.

A fame-seeking fake psychic Dalton Rand is scamming people for their money by pretending to get in touch with their loved ones, and the team is hired by the brother of one of his victims. Things get more personal when Rand cold reads Parker and brings out a painful memory of her past. The team intends to scam him back by pretending that Tara is a real psychic and getting Rand to hire her for his new show. However, a criminal complicates things when he mistakes Rand and Tara for real psychics and tries to force them into finding money his former partner hid years ago. Is Luke Perry still as dreamy as he was on 90210? Did Parker get some closure on her brother’s death from bringing it out into the open? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team gets recruited by Sterling to Kiev to help him retrieve a stolen Faberge Egg insured by his company, and the only reason they get involved is because Nate’s ex-wife Maggie is being framed for the theft. They manage to get her out of jail, but things get complicated when it seems Maggie’s new boyfriend Alexander might be the thief they need to take down. Nate struggles with his drinking and his jealousy over Maggie moving on, and when he gets taken by the bad guy, Eliot has to step up as the new Mastermind.

Thanks to my epic fail a few weeks back on the Lost Heir Job, I never did start the episode out with Christian's song as promised. Sorry about that, guys. Enjoy "Seven Days" at the beginning of this week's episode instead!

The Bottle Job:

The team gets pulled into an emergency con when Nate visits a wake at the bar underneath his apartment. It turns out that it used to be his father’s bar, and that the owner, an old friend, recently died. His daughter is hustled by an Irish loanshark and Nate intends to pull ‘The Wire’ job on him, getting him to bet away the loan owed to him. However, due to consuming alcohol and what he finds out about the loanshark, Nate insists on running a second and even more elaborate con. The only question on everyone’s mind: When will we see shirtless Hardison again? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is adjusting to having Tara as their new grifter, and Nate in particular is not happy about it. Sophie encourages them to trust her judgment and to accept Tara, and their first job together involves a cheap garment sweat shop. Nate promises to help one of the sweat shop workers get out of her debt to Russell and Gloria Pan, a vicious couple who bring people to the country to take advantage of them. The crew decides to sneak into Fashion Week in an attempt to fool Gloria, who has ambitions to be a fashion designer, but things get complicated when they learn the Triad is involved. Is guyliner okay in the fashion world? Will Nate ever talk in more than slogans? Will he and Sophie ever talk again? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

With Sophie still taking some time away to find herself, the team takes on a crooked lawyer attempting to get his hands on a fortune belonging to his recently-deceased client. The crew plans to convince the lawyer to pay up by proving the dead man had a long-lost daughter. All the while working around their client's lawyer, who may not be everything she appears to be.