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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(6 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 1 Episode 3 - The Two-Horse Job
    7.9/10(8 votes)

    #2 - 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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  3. Leverage Season 1 Episode 1 - The Nigerian Job
    8.0/10(10 votes)

    #3 - 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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  4. Leverage Season 1 Episode 4 - The Miracle Job
    8.0/10(5 votes)

    #4 - 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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  5. Leverage Season 2 Episode 2 - The Tap Out Job
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #5 - 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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  6. Leverage Season 2 Episode 3 - The Order 23 Job
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #6 - 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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  7. Leverage Season 2 Episode 4 - The Fairy Godparents Job
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #7 - 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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  8. Leverage Season 2 Episode 6 - The Top Hat Job
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #8 - 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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  9. Leverage Season 3 Episode 4 - The Scheherazade Job
    8.0/10(3 votes)

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

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

    #11 - 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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  12. Leverage Season 3 Episode 16 - The San Lorenzo Job (2)
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - 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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  13. Leverage Season 4 Episode 1 - The Long Way Down Job
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - 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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  14. Leverage Season 1 Episode 2 - The Homecoming Job
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    #14 - 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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  15. Leverage Season 5 Episode 15 - The Long Goodbye Job
    8.2/10(4 votes)

    #15 - The Long Goodbye Job

    S5:E15

    Nate puts everything on the line for himself and his team when he takes on a case that is connected to his son's death.

    Director:Dean Devlin
    Writers:John Rogers, Chris Downey

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  16. Leverage Season 2 Episode 1 - The Beantown Bailout Job
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #16 - 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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  17. Leverage Season 2 Episode 8 - The Ice Man Job
    8.3/10(4 votes)

    #17 - 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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  18. Leverage Season 3 Episode 1 - The Jailhouse Job
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #18 - 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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  19. Leverage Season 1 Episode 9 - The Snow Job
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #19 - The Snow Job

    S1:E9

    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

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  20. Leverage Season 1 Episode 10 - The 12-Step Job
    8.4/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The 12-Step Job

    S1:E10

    When the team cons an addicted embezzler into entering rehab, Nate confronts some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.

    Director:Rod Hardy
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Leverage Season 1 Episode 6 - The Stork Job
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #21 - The Stork Job

    S1:E6

    The Leverage team works to take down an adoption agency that has been stealing money from American couples.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Albert Kim

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  22. Leverage Season 1 Episode 8 - The Mile High Job
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #22 - The Mile High Job

    S1:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Leverage Season 1 Episode 12 - The First David Job (1)
    8.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - The First David Job (1)

    S1:E12

    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

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  24. Leverage Season 1 Episode 11 - The Juror #6 Job
    8.6/10(5 votes)

    #24 - The Juror #6 Job

    S1:E11

    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:Unknown

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  25. Leverage Season 2 Episode 10 - The Runway Job
    8.7/10(3 votes)

    #25 - The Runway Job

    S2:E10

    The Leverage team cons the owners of a clothing company after their employees are mistreated.

    Director:Marc Roskin
    Writer:Albert Kim

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Wedding Job" is the worst rated episode of "Leverage". It scored 5.7/10 based on 6 votes. Directed by Jonathan Frakes and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/13/2009. This episode scored 2.2 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Two-Horse Job".