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 to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.
The best episode of "Leverage" season 2 is "The Beantown Bailout Job", rated 8.3/10 from 818 user votes. It was directed by Dean Devlin and written by John Rogers. "The Beantown Bailout Job" aired on 7/15/2009 and is rated 0.3 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The Tap Out Job".
Nate, now sober, grudgingly reassembles the team to pit the local Irish mob against a banker who is gaming a government bailout. If they live, Nate has four thieves to deal with who believe he needs them in his life, whether he likes it or not.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers
The crew work to get a corrupt mixed martial arts promoter to invest all he has into a phony cable network, but their con is discovered. Now it is Elliot's job to throw a fight.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: John Rogers, Albert Kim
The team must commandeer a full hospital floor in order to quarantine a convicted felon and get him to reveal the location of the stolen money, or die.
Director: Rod Hardy
Writer: Chris Downey
Nate and his team continue to remove greed by focusing in on a avaricious investment banker. They'll pose as "fairy godparents" to the awkward son of the white collar crook.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Amy Berg
The crew uses the world of government conspiracies to raise paranoia and expose a callous tabloid newscaster as a fraud.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Melissa Glenn, Jessica Grasl
The crew takes on a corrupt corporation which is marketing tainted foods. The scheme team needs to be tricky: they will put on a fake magic show so they can slip by the tight security.
Director: Peter O'Fallon
Writer: M. Scott Veach, Christine Boylan
Nate and his crew square off against a band of thieves in order to retrieve priceless stolen artwork.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers, Amy Berg
Hardison fills in for Sophie as the inside man when the team sets their sights on an unscrupulous diamond merchant.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Christine Boylan
The Leverage team targets a shady lawyer looking to usurp his client's estate, with Parker playing the client's long-lost daughter. With Sophie still out of the picture, the team works with an uptight lawyer as a chaperone, but there may be more to her than meets the eye. Summer season finale.
Director: Peter Winther
Writer: Chris Downey
The Leverage team cons the owners of a clothing company after their employees are mistreated.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Albert Kim
The LEVERAGE team runs a high-tech version of a classic con on a predatory loan shark in order to save McRory’s bar.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Christine Boylan
The team is forced to work with their old enemy Sterling in order to free Nate’s ex-wife, Maggie from a Ukrainian jail and clear her name.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Writer: Melissa Glenn, Jessica Grasl
The team goes after a con man masquerading as a psychic medium in order to drain the life savings of his bereaved clients.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Chris Downey, Amy Berg
While trying to take down a corrupt local mayor exploiting his love of baseball, the Leverage team runs into an unexpected complication.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers
Surrounded by FBI, the team decides to hide in plain sight, while continuing to take down the corrupt mayor and his gunrunning partner. Little do they suspect that Nate has a different endgame in mind for them all.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers