8.3/101,372 votes#1 - The Nigerian Job
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/7/2008
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.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: N/A
8.0/101,081 votes#2 - The Homecoming Job
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/9/2008
Leverage Consulting & Associates opens for business as the crew reunites to help a Reservist who's been wounded in Iraq by private military contractors.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: Dean Devlin, John Rogers
7.8/101,052 votes#3 - The Two-Horse Job
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2008
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.7/10975 votes#4 - The Miracle Job
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/2008
Nate's childhood best friend seeks the help of Leverage Consulting & Associates in preventing the demolition of his church... by stealing a miracle.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: N/A
8.7/101,038 votes#5 - The Bank Shot Job
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/30/2008
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.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: N/A
7.9/10916 votes#6 - The Stork Job
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/6/2009
The Leverage team works to take down an adoption agency that has been stealing money from American couples.
Director: N/A
Writer: Albert Kim
7.9/10926 votes#7 - The Wedding Job
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/2009
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.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: N/A
8.1/10921 votes#8 - The Mile High Job
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/2009
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.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
8.0/10858 votes#9 - The Snow Job
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/27/2009
While helping a National Guardsman, Nate puts his team on the line when he slips back into his alcoholic ways.
Director: Tony Bill
Writer: Albert Kim
8.1/10861 votes#10 - The 12-Step Job
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/3/2009
When the team cons an addicted embezzler into entering rehab, Nate confronts some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.
Director: Rod Hardy
Writer: N/A
8.7/10931 votes#11 - The Juror #6 Job
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/2009
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.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: N/A
8.8/10930 votes#12 - The First David Job (1)
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/2009
The team puts together a plan to steal Nate's former boss's prized Michelangelo Maquette and sell it back to him.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers
9.0/10928 votes#13 - The Second David Job (2)
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 2/24/2009
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.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers
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A five-person team comprised of a thief, a grifter, a hacker, and a retrieval specialist, led by former insurance investigator Nathan Ford, use their skills...
Genres:DramaComedyAction & AdventureCrime
Network:TNT
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Nigerian Job" is the best rated episode of "Leverage" season 1. It scored 8.3/10 based on 1372 votes. Directed by Dean Devlin and written by N/A, it aired on 12/7/2008. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Homecoming Job".