Eliot asks the team to help him save a small town. A big corporation is coming in with a super store and causing all the local businesses to close. Eliot’s personally invested because he came from a small town himself and his father owned a shop. The team goes up against Caroline Cowan, a businesswoman from corporate who is there to make sure everything goes smoothly. She seems able to block them at every turn. Can David take down the Goliath? Will Eliot ever reconcile with his father? And will we be able to save our beloved show? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

* We've found out since this recording that Leverage will not be back for a sixth season. :(

Nate gets suspicious when Sophie sends him to a murder movie festival to get him out of the way, so he tracks her down to a special art auction. The wealthy owner of a huge private collection has just died and his art is being sold to buyers. Sophie was there for a showing of a never-before-seen painting, but when the vault opened it was missing. Of course Sophie would be the immediate first suspect, and Sterling shows up to accuse her of exactly that. Nate and Sophie have to find the real thief for Sterling while at the same time Nate is trying to figure out why Sophie is there to begin with. Are Sophie and Nate absolutely adorable as a couple? Will Sophie ever be seen as an ex-art thief? Should Nate stop showing up to crime scenes where the murderer is without back up? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Hardison, Parker, and Eliot are in DC finishing up a job when Eliot gets a call from his past. He doesn’t do professional hits anymore, but he knows now there is one about to happen in DC, so the three of them have to stop it. They manage to save the victim but Eliot figures out quickly the job was part of a much bigger conspiracy. He calls in his friend Colonel Vance to report a potential terrorist attack. Vance pretends to arrest them, but instead gives them the mission to find out the truth and stop it. Is it smart to go back to the scene of the crime? Could the three of them pull off their own show? And wasn’t this a crazy intense episode? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team are on an extravagant trip to Japan, but Parker is left back at home because she tore her ACL on a mission. While she slowly goes mad from the boredom, she sees something suspicious on Hardison’s surveillance system of the pub. Parker figures out a couple of thieves are about to pull off a job right under her nose. She decides to team up with her caretaker, waitress Amy, to catch them. Are Romeo and Juliet really the best names for those two? Would you want to take part in a heist with Parker? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team goes up against a fellow thief, Gabe Erickson, who conned people out of their life savings but he is protected by the government. He purposely made mob connections so he could agree to testify against them in case he got in trouble. They decide to use his obsession with vintage cars against him to try and follow his money trail to where he’s hidden millions of dollars. Things take an interesting turn when the Marshall protecting him has secrets of her own. Should any of the Leverage crew think about retiring? Is Gabe more evil for stealing money or for spoiling a little girl’s favorite series? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Agent McSweeten asks Parker to help him investigate a case that his father never managed to close: The D. B. Cooper mystery. Nate agrees to take it on and interviews McSweeten’s dying father Peter about what happened. They also meet his partner and best friend Steve Reynolds, whose wife was on the plane that day. Like the Van Gogh Job from last season, the Leverage actors play new characters as they reimagine what happened in the famous 70s crime.

The team has to get involved with the government when a young cheerleader gets injured because the competition isn’t up to safety codes. The company that owns them, Pep, is allowed to get away with sub-par safety because cheerleading is considered a recreational activity and not a sport. The team decides to try and get the government to turn cheerleading into a sport, but they find out it’s not as easy as buying a politician or two. They have to work against the clock to turn four congressmen by the time the bill goes up in front of them. Should cheerleading be a sport or an activity? How far of a drop would Parker consider scary? And what the heck is going on with Nate? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Toby Heath, the man who taught Eliot how to cook, comes to the team for help after he gets fired from a special culinary institute. He thinks the owner David Lampard is doing illegal business on the side, possibly drugs. Eliot and Hardison infiltrate with Eliot becoming the new teacher and Hardison one of the students. They find out it’s not drugs Lampard is dealing in but expensive and rare truffles. Would you want Eliot as a cooking instructor? Is food cooler if it’s made with a laser? And shouldn’t Hardison be better at safe cracking by now? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

We had some sound issues this episode. Really sorry guys. We tried to do what we could, but we didn't want to delay the episode any longer than we already had.

A man named James Kanack stole a special design from his employee Oren Matz, ruining his reputation and the credit he deserves. The team finds out that Kanack is obsessed with the idea of Extraterrestrial life and believes in aliens. They decide to “steal a close encounter” and get him to believe that there’s a message from outer space only they can decipher. They do manage to steal money from him, but that’s not enough for Oren, who cares more about his creation and reputation than money. Can the team take down Kanack for good? How perfect was it that Jonathan Frakes directed this episode? Can you get Hardison and Eliot’s song out of your head? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is approached by a boy named Danny whose father Craig is a professional hockey player. He’s getting into constant fights while playing and Danny thinks he’s going to die before the end of the season. They find out that his father is being offered more money by his coach to start fights because the crowds like it, and that the coach is making all the doctors clear him even when he’s injured. It’s up to them to find a way to take down the corrupt coach and save Craig from himself. Is Eliot good at all sports? Should Vlad become a regular guest star? And did Sophie really steal the Stanley Cup? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The gang is back from their break, and Hardison’s set up a new base and business in Portland, Oregon. Nate agrees this is the right place for them to lay low until they get back on track. Their first client is a grieving widow whose husband died on the job and the airline company got away with it. They target the wealthy executive Scott Roemer, who happens to have an unusual obsession with Howard Hughes. Nate uses this against him by creating a con about Howard Hughes’ famous plane the Spruce Goose. Can Eliot make a teddy bear menacing? Should Sophie start her own theater? Why are Nate and Hardison making top secret plans together? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The real villain of season four has been revealed: Victor Dubenich. The man who brought the team together in the first place and became their very first victim. He’s been in prison all this time studying everything they did. He partnered with Latimer and mapped out where Nate was going to have the team hit next, so they made money off of every job. Unfortunately Dubenich knows everything about them, so none of their usual tricks will work. They have to recruit former enemies to do the job for them. Meanwhile Nate considers killing Dubenich in revenge for his father’s death, and the team tries to talk him out of it. Should Quinn, Chaos, Archie, and Maggie have their own spin-off show? Does anyone else want Archie’s cane? And what do you think should happen in season five? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Nate runs off on his own when he finds out that Latimer hired his father, Jimmy Ford, for a special job. Jimmy’s supposed to steal a specific patent, but by the time they all get inside someone’s called the cops. The team has to keep fending the cops off by pretending to have a hostage situation and then a terrorist attack, but one thing is for sure: someone is messing with them and it isn’t Latimer. The true villain of season four is revealed and Nate gets one more reason to be an alcoholic. Why were there so many Doctor Who references in this episode? How did Sophie look so amazing pregnant? And did anyone actually care about Jimmy by the end? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team goes up against a brother and sister who are corrupt gold dealers. This seems like the perfect time for Hardison to finally take point and run his own con. When he refuses to work until they listen to him, Nate gives in. Hardison claims he has a new con, a revolutionary con, and one that involves video game knowledge. He thinks he has it all working perfectly, but he’s not ready to take Nate’s position quite yet. Should they keep their nicknames? Will Hardison ever be able to be a mastermind? Would you have rage quit earlier? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Nate is surprised when a wealthy businessman, someone he’s targeted as a potential enemy, comes into the bar and asks for their help. His much younger wife has gone missing. They assume that she’s probably a grifter and agree to take a job in exchange for a favor from him down the road. The team quickly realize she’s from a team of grifters run by a manipulative woman named Meredith. Nate goes undercover as a potential partner to Meredith and Sophie goes undercover as the mark he is supposed to seduce. Who would you bid on, Hardison or Eliot? Is it a surprise to anyone that Nate and Sophie have their first real date on a con? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

While the girls are solving the mystery of Peggy’s blind date, the boys are enjoying a poker game. That is until Nate runs into an old “friend” Jack Hurley, a character from the season one episode The 12-Step Job. He promises he’s turned his life around and has started helping out a church, but Nate figures out quickly that Hurley’s become a drug mule. He’s being hunted by Mexican drug dealers and the local Irish mob, so they have to find a way to save him from all of them and bust the bad guys. This episode runs exactly parallel to the Girls’ Night Out Job, and it gives us the full story of what happened that night for everyone. Has Nate regressed to season one? Will Hardison know that Parker likes him just the way he is? Do Peggy and Hurley end up together? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

The team finally gets a night off! The boys plan to have a poker night while Sophie meets up with her fellow grifter Tara, and Parker helps her friend Peggy scope out a blind date. Parker is suspicious when a handsome man named Craig Mattingly shows up as Peggy’s blind date, and it turns out he’s just using Peggy to get into a party she’s catering for the Venezuelan consulate. Parker goes undercover as Peggy and Tara and Sophie come to the rescue to help her figure out what Mattingly is there to sell and what it means for the Venezuelan people. What accent did Mattingly have? Is Tara or Sophie the better grifter? And what exactly was Hardison doing with those dogs? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Something fishy is going on  at the Good Cheer Greeting Card Office, and the team gets hired to look into it. Unfortunately there is a documentary crew there at the same time with an eccentric director who keeps getting in their way. The team has to pretend to be efficiency experts there to investigate the company and keep their covers with cameras on them. At the same time during their personal interviews with the director, they reveal little things that irritate them about their co-workers. Does Bartley know anything other than sports metaphors? Why didn’t Hardison punch Gunter for being all over his girl? What was in Nate’s card at the end? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team finds out that a preppy fraternity boy named Travis Zilgram is working with the CIA and his college’s secret society to conduct experiments on the homeless. They seek out veterans in particular and offer them money in exchange for going through torture and interrogations for days on end. Hardison goes undercover at the college to get invited into the secret society, and Eliot poses as a homeless veteran to be a part of the experiment. The team has to find a way to get the CIA to stop protecting Travis and expose his inhumane project. Can Parker have an shock button all the time? Can Hardison be shirtless all the time? We really wish so. All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is surprised when their old nemesis Jim Sterling shows up asking for help. An ex-nuclear physicist named Robert Livingston is selling Kazakhstan technology that could help them develop uranium. Interpol doesn’t have enough to arrest Livingston, so Sterling wants them to steal the tech first. They go to Dubai where a chess masters competition is being held, and Livingston is there with his step-daughter Olivia. She is a famous young chess player herself, and Sterling believes the Kazakh agents will be there to buy the uranium tech. Things do not go according to plan, and the team has to think on their feet and watch their back. How did Nate not know about Olivia? Should Parker and Hardison dance in every episode? And shouldn’t Eliot and Sterling get their own buddy cop movie? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team are coming back from a successful mission when Nate’s spidey senses start tingling. They’re still in the airport but he senses something is wrong when he sees a scared woman hand off a cooler to a man. He approaches the woman and she reveals someone has kidnapped her daughter and demanded she give them a donor heart as ransom. The team has to save the daughter, find out who stole the heart, and retrieve the heart all in time to get it to a dying fifteen year old boy. They have under two hours to do this with none of their equipment or a plan. Would Hardison make a pretty girl? Does Sophie carry multiple costumes with her everywhere? Can a plan include setting Nate on fire? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Nate and the team have their work cut out for them in this episode when they go up against a conman descended from a prestigious line of grifters and thieves. Greg “The Mako” Sherman is running a Boiler Room con and making a killing by swindling his marks out of all their money. Hardison goes in as a new recruit, but is quickly discovered by Sherman, and the team has to figure out a way to con a conman. How the hell does Sophie know so much about chocolate? Did Eliot really eat a snake? And can anyone pull off giving themselves their own nickname? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team finds out about a con woman and her two sons hustling grieving family members at funeral homes. Things get more complicated when it turns out they’re not just doing one con, but a much more serious one at the same time, stealing the identities of the dead people and selling them to a drug lord. Hardison is kidnapped and buried alive, and they only have a short time to  save him and take down both the drug lord and the original bad guys. Did anyone keep from tearing up in this episode? Because if you did, you’re not human. All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

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?

The team decide to follow Moreau to San Lorenzo, an Island with no extradition laws so he can take refuge there as long as he wants. He has the President in his pocket and a reelection is coming up, but he makes a misstep by arresting General Flores, a friend of Eliot who tries to help them. They decide to take Moreau down by stealing the election and turning his president against him. Are we in the Age of the Geek? Why does Sophie have so much trouble staying dead? Aren’t we all glad that season three is over? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The Italian informs the team that Damien Moreau is finally on his way into town, and they need to take this shot at him while they can. His cohorts try to murder a lab tech named Yasmine as she’s asking too many questions about a battery being made. The battery turns out to be an important part of an EMP bomb Moreau plans to sell for millions of dollars. They need to find a way to get in on the buyer’s auction for the bomb, and Eliot decides to use his influence with Moreau to do that. Yes, Eliot used to work for Moreau, and he was hiding that from the team all along. It’s his turn to screw things up for the team in this season finale, huzzah! Will the Italian ever leave our screen? Will this storyline with Moreau ever end? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.