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 4 is "The Long Way Down Job", rated 8.1/10 from 688 user votes. It was directed by Dean Devlin and written by John Rogers. "The Long Way Down Job" aired on 6/26/2011 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "The 10 Li'l Grifters Job".
To take down a corrupt financier, the LEVERAGE team must recover lost evidence high up on a mountain, racing hired guns and killer weather.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers
When a mark is killed suddenly in the middle of a sting, the team must scramble to complete the con and find the killer…before Nate goes down for murder.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: Geoffrey Thorne
To take down a corrupt PR consultant, the LEVERAGE team must build him up as a hero, then use his own methods against him.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Josh Schaer
On the trail of a lost Van Gogh, the team learns the painting was the center of a World War II love story between a black soldier and the white heiress he was forced to leave behind.
Director: John Rogers
Writer: Chris Downey
The LEVERAGE team infiltrates the corrupt world of corporate agriculture to recover a stolen object worth millions: a one-of-a-kind potato.
Director: John Harrison
Writer: Jenn Kao
The LEVERAGE team infiltrates a high-tech home to steal a revolutionary computer chip, only to have the family’s child abducted from a carnival during the heist.
Director: Frank Oz
Writer: Paul Guyot, M. Scott Veach
The LEVERAGE crew aims their sights on a charming funeral director who embezzles money from her grieving mourners, then discovers she is also selling the identities of the recently deceased to a deadly Mexican drug cartel.
Director: John Harrison
Writer: Rebecca Kirsch
When the LEVERAGE team goes up against a conman from a long lineage of greats, they must pull off the biggest con of their careers.
Director: Arvin Brown
Writer: Paul Guyot
The team goes after an ailing defense contractor who steals a 15-year-old boy's intended heart for his own. With time running out before the boy dies, the team has to run the con at an airport while they're stuck on a layover.
Director: P.J. Pesce
Writer: N/A
Jim Sterling asks Nate for help taking down a researcher who has designed a nuclear weight that will allow a terrorist nation to manufacture enriched uranium. However, it soon becomes clear that the Interpol agent has an ulterior motive, one which isolates Nate, gets Sophie arrested, and takes Eliot out of commission.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Rebecca Kirsch, M. Scott Veach
When homeless veterans in the Boston area begin disappearing, the team must go back to college and infiltrate the world of Skull & Bones secret societies
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: M. Scott Veach
Uncovering a simple embezzlement scam becomes anything but simple when the team becomes part of a documentary shooting at the company they’re trying to save.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Josh Schaer, Jeremy Bernstein
When a James-Bond-like thief targets Parker's friend Peggy, Parker recruits Sophie and Tara to help her and, together, the women of Leverage follow the thief to the Venezuelan Consulate, where they discover an international conspiracy.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Chris Downey, Jenn Kao
Nate, Eliot and Hardison are forced to intervene when Hurley returns, embroiled with the best of intentions in a three-way drug deal.
Director: John Rogers
Writer: John Rogers
While searching for a philanthropist’s missing wife, the team comes up against a grifter ring running a web of sophisticated “Sweetheart Scams”. Now, Nate must learn how to steal hearts… or risk losing Sophie’s for good.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Kerry Glover
The Leverage team hits the recession-driven Cash-for-Gold industry by targeting a corrupt brother-sister team and steering them through an elaborate treasure hunt.
Director: Marc Roskin
Writer: Joe Hortua
When Latimer hires Nate’s father to pull off a heist in an ultra-secure government office, the Leverage team must stage a fake hostage stand-off when they’re trapped inside and the feds lay siege to the building.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: Chris Downey, Paul Guyot
The Leverage team must recruit old friends and rivals in order to take down Latimer and a foe from their past.
Director: Dean Devlin
Writer: John Rogers