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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 to fight corporate and governmental injustices inflicted on ordinary citizens.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Leverage Season 1 Episode 7 - The Wedding Job
    5.7/10(1028 votes)

    #1 - The Wedding Job

    S1:E7

    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:Unknown

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  2. Leverage Season 3 Episode 9 - The Three-Card Monte Job
    6.7/10(711 votes)

    #2 - The Three-Card Monte Job

    S3:E9

    When innocent small businessmen are blackmailed into committing crimes, the team's investigation reveals an unlikely foe behind the scheme: Jimmy Ford, Nate’s father.

    Director:Dean Devlin
    Writer:Christine Boylan

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  3. Leverage Season 2 Episode 6 - The Top Hat Job
    6.8/10(821 votes)

    #3 - The Top Hat Job

    S2:E6

    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
    Writers:M. Scott Veach, Christine Boylan

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  4. Leverage Season 3 Episode 16 - The San Lorenzo Job (2)
    6.8/10(806 votes)

    #4 - The San Lorenzo Job (2)

    S3:E16

    After following Moreau to San Lorenzo, the team discovers that he is chief advisor to the current President.

    Director:Marc Roskin
    Writers:John Rogers, M. Scott Veach

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  5. Leverage Season 3 Episode 1 - The Jailhouse Job
    7.0/10(819 votes)

    #5 - The Jailhouse Job

    S3:E1

    In order to save the life of an innocent inmate, Nate must bring down the corrupt warden of the Super-Max prison where he’s currently incarcerated and escape… whether he wants to or not.

    Director:Dean Devlin
    Writer:John Rogers

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  6. Leverage Season 4 Episode 17 - The Radio Job (1)
    7.3/10(729 votes)

    #6 - The Radio Job (1)

    S4:E17

    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
    Writers:Chris Downey, Paul Guyot

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  7. Leverage Season 5 Episode 1 - The (Very) Big Bird Job
    7.4/10(741 votes)

    #7 - The (Very) Big Bird Job

    S5:E1

    When a shipping CEO’s cost-cutting measures result in a plane crash, the Leverage team cons him into buying the largest plane ever built – the Spruce Goose – in order to expose him before a merger is completed that would put more lives at risk.

    Director:John Rogers
    Writer:John Rogers

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  8. Leverage Season 3 Episode 2 - The Reunion Job
    7.5/10(795 votes)

    #8 - The Reunion Job

    S3:E2

    To uncover a password, the team infiltrates the high school reunion of an amoral software magnate who’s the IT department for the Axis of Evil.

    Director:Jonathan Frakes
    Writers:John Aboud, Michael Colton

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  9. Leverage Season 2 Episode 2 - The Tap Out Job
    7.6/10(878 votes)

    #9 - The Tap Out Job

    S2:E2

    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
    Writers:John Rogers, Albert Kim

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  10. Leverage Season 2 Episode 3 - The Order 23 Job
    7.6/10(855 votes)

    #10 - The Order 23 Job

    S2:E3

    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

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  11. Leverage Season 2 Episode 4 - The Fairy Godparents Job
    7.6/10(834 votes)

    #11 - The Fairy Godparents Job

    S2:E4

    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

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  12. Leverage Season 1 Episode 3 - The Two-Horse Job
    7.9/10(1180 votes)

    #12 - The Two-Horse Job

    S1:E3

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Leverage Season 1 Episode 1 - The Nigerian Job
    8.0/10(1515 votes)

    #13 - The Nigerian Job

    S1:E1

    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:Unknown

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  14. Leverage Season 1 Episode 4 - The Miracle Job
    8.0/10(1090 votes)

    #14 - The Miracle Job

    S1:E4

    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:Unknown

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  15. Leverage Season 2 Episode 1 - The Beantown Bailout Job
    8.0/10(921 votes)

    #15 - The Beantown Bailout Job

    S2:E1

    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

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  16. Leverage Season 3 Episode 4 - The Scheherazade Job
    8.0/10(836 votes)

    #16 - The Scheherazade Job

    S3:E4

    To rob an African kleptocrat's Boston vault, the LEVERAGE team has to time their heist to a symphony concert nearby, where amateur violinist Hardison must play a solo for a sell-out crowd.

    Director:Peter Winther
    Writer:Chris Downey

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  17. Leverage Season 3 Episode 13 - The Morning After Job
    8.0/10(700 votes)

    #17 - The Morning After Job

    S3:E13

    To get a violent hedge fund manager to reveal information that could lead to Damien Moreau, the Leverage team convinces the man that he has murdered Parker, not knowing that their con has made the rogue financier the target of assassins.

    Director:Jonathan Frakes
    Writer:Chris Downey

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  18. Leverage Season 3 Episode 15 - The Big Bang Job (1)
    8.0/10(770 votes)

    #18 - The Big Bang Job (1)

    S3:E15

    The team infiltrates a government research lab to stop Damien Moreau from auctioning information to international terrorists.

    Director:Marc Roskin
    Writers:Chris Downey, Geoffrey Thorne

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  19. Leverage Season 4 Episode 1 - The Long Way Down Job
    8.0/10(771 votes)

    #19 - The Long Way Down Job

    S4:E1

    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

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  20. Leverage Season 1 Episode 2 - The Homecoming Job
    8.1/10(1216 votes)

    #20 - The Homecoming Job

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:Dean Devlin, John Rogers

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  21. Leverage Season 2 Episode 5 - The Three Days of the Hunter Job
    8.2/10(845 votes)

    #21 - The Three Days of the Hunter Job

    S2:E5

    The crew uses the world of government conspiracies to raise paranoia and expose a callous tabloid newscaster as a fraud.

    Director:Marc Roskin
    Writers:Melissa Glenn, Jessica Grasl

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  22. Leverage Season 2 Episode 8 - The Ice Man Job
    8.3/10(817 votes)

    #22 - The Ice Man Job

    S2:E8

    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

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  23. Leverage Season 2 Episode 9 - The Lost Heir Job
    8.3/10(829 votes)

    #23 - The Lost Heir Job

    S2:E9

    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

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  24. Leverage Season 4 Episode 4 - The Van Gogh Job
    8.3/10(871 votes)

    #24 - The Van Gogh Job

    S4:E4

    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

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  25. Leverage Season 4 Episode 15 - The Lonely Hearts Job
    8.3/10(719 votes)

    #25 - The Lonely Hearts Job

    S4:E15

    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

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Wedding Job" is the worst rated episode of "Leverage". It scored 5.7/10 based on 1028 votes. Directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/13/2009. This episode scored 1.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Three-Card Monte Job".