In the 50th episode of Leverage, the team is hired to help a programmer whose evil boss stole a chip he’s been working on his entire life and fired him too. It turns out the bad guy, John Connell, is not as much of a bad guy as they originally thought. His wife died a year ago and he’s heavily in debt because he transferred his grief into spending all his money on her house renovations. Eliot bonds with his jaded daughter while the team infiltrates John’s house, but everything changes when the daughter is kidnapped by a Russian criminal group. Is it better when bad guys are bad guys? Why is Eliot so cute with kids? Is there a replacement for Parker? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is investigating a big food industry company for stealing a special “super potato” designed by their client, Emily Margold. When the potato is taken quicker than they expected, Sophie has to run an impromptu con so she can get into the highly secure building before they’re too late. She fakes a mole hunt to buy the team time so they can get inside and steal the potato back. Sophie and Nate have a power struggle over who is running the con, which is also tied into the fact they’ve secretly slipped back into friends with benefits. Are they capable of just being adult friends “with extras”? Is Eliot training all of them how to fight and if so can we watch? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

And we'd like to give a special thank you to Hannah! She took the time to let us know things weren't quite right when we were having all those technical difficulties with the last few episodes. Thanks, Hannah! We really appreciate it!

One of Nate’s former colleagues tells him that they might have tracked down a legendary lost Vincent Van Gogh painting. An old man named Charlie Lawson came back to his home town and apparently knows where it is, so the team have to protect Charlie from other treasure hunters and find the painting. Charlie takes a shine to Parker after seeing her inter-racial relationship with Hardison, and he tells her the story of his first true love. Beth Riesgraf and Aldis Hodge play Charlie and his love Dorothy in the flashbacks, and the rest of the cast shows up in different parts of Charlie’s history. Can the team get the painting before it falls into evil hands? Did Dorothy do the right thing by staying behind? Did the show succeed in trying something completely new? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

It’s been less than two weeks since the San Lorenzo job, and Nate calls the team back together to handle a time sensitive mission. A mountain climber went missing and his wife hired Nate to look into it. Apparently he had proof that his partner, John Drexel, is corrupt and stealing money from innocent people. Nate insists they go up to the mountain together. Eliot and Parker hike up the mountain to find the missing body, Hardison runs tech from the camp, Sophie runs several different cons at once on Drexel himself, and Nate tries not to get himself killed. Almost unsuccessfully. Is Eliot getting too used to hugging Hardison? Did Sophie use four different accents in one scene? And did anyone have a dry eye during that last video? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The Audio on this episode is a little spotty. Sorry, guys. Chelsea sounds like she's a million miles away. We'll get it corrected by the next episode.

The team works together to help out the State's Attorney Kelly, an old friend of Nate's, who has been targeted by Reed Rockwell, a media specialist who uses his skills to turn public opinion against innocents.  The team turns the tables on him when they set him up for a heroic act and give him his fifteen minutes of fame.  The team discovers Rockwell's dark secret - and first framing job - when he tries to pay off Emma. Is the CGI Yoda better or worse? Should Sophie care more about her baby than a pair of shoes? And how many episodes does it take for us to know that Nate has a huge ego? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The Leverage team is onto the next bad guy as a client informs them of Morris Beck, a greedy contractor who knowingly used substandard materials which led to buildings collapsing and causing devastation. There's a seven day deadline on this job and the team approaches Beck by having Nate and Sophie pose as representatives of a foreign COMPANY.  They find out that Beck has the construction plans they need to prove his neglect stored at his private home on a secluded island and decide to crash a detective themed murder mystery party.  There the whole team is forced to adapt as Beck is murdered, Nate is framed for it and they must find the real murderer, the construction plans they came for, and get out without getting caught by Detective Ray Hammett.  Did Nate really kill someone?  Does Eliot look ridiculous in a big bow tie?  And who didn't hate this guy?