Leverage: Season 1

2008 · 13 episodes · ★ 8.2

What Season 1 of Leverage

Nathan Ford, a former insurance investigator, quit his job after an insurer refused to pay for his sick son's treatment. Broken and with his personal life in ruins, Nate takes on a job that leads him to assemble a team that doesn't fit the mold: an expert thief, a hacker, a con artist with a talent for disguises, and a specialist in getting rid of thugs. Together they plan heists against millionaires and corrupt officials to return what was stolen to those who were wronged. Each episode launches a different plan against a new powerful enemy.

13episodes

Dec 7, 2008Released

Feb 24, 2009last episode

9.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 The Nigerian Job
Dec 7, 2008 · 57 min · ★ 8.0
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.
Directed by: Dean Devlin · Written by: John Rogers · Starring: Cedric Young, Tony Bill, John Rogers, Inger Tudor
1x02 The Homecoming Job
Dec 9, 2008 · 42 min · ★ 8.1
Leverage Consulting & Associates opens for business as the crew reunites to help a Reservist who's been wounded in Iraq by private military contractors.
Directing: Dean Devlin · Writing: Dean Devlin, John Rogers · Starring: Robert Pine, Richard Cox
1x03 The Two-Horse Job
Dec 16, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 7.9
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.
Starring: Rick Hoffman, Jaime Ray Newman, Mark Sheppard
1x04 The Miracle Job
Dec 23, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.0
Nate's childhood best friend seeks the help of Leverage Consulting & Associates in preventing the demolition of his church... by stealing a miracle.
Directed by: Arvin Brown · Starring: D. B. Sweeney, Scott Lowell
1x05 The Bank Shot Job
Dec 30, 2008 · 43 min · ★ 8.8
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.
Directing: Dean Devlin · Starring: Rick Overton, Michael O'Neill, Michael McGrady, Gerald Downey
1x06 The Stork Job
Jan 6, 2009 · 43 min
The Leverage team works to take down an adoption agency that has been stealing money from American couples.
Writing: Albert Kim · Starring: David S. Lee, Kathleen Gati, Stacey Moseley, David Castellani
1x07 The Wedding Job
Jan 13, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 5.7
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.
Directing: Jonathan Frakes · Starring: Rick Overton, Dan Lauria, Nicole Sullivan, Gerald Downey
1x08 The Mile High Job
Jan 20, 2009 · 43 min
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.
Starring: Sara Rue, Michael Kagan
1x09 The Snow Job
Jan 27, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
While helping a National Guardsman, Nate puts his team on the line when he slips back into his alcoholic ways.
Directed by: Tony Bill · Written by: Albert Kim · Starring: Sam Anderson, Jonathan Chase, Danny Strong
1x10 The 12-Step Job
Feb 3, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.4
When the team cons an addicted embezzler into entering rehab, Nate confronts some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.
Directed by: Rod Hardy · Starring: Marisa Guterman, Garrett M. Brown, Mark Sheppard, Drew Powell
1x11 The Juror #6 Job
Feb 10, 2009 · 43 min · ★ 8.6
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.
Directing: Jonathan Frakes · Starring: Armin Shimerman, Lauren Holly, Brent Spiner, Kitty Swink
1x12 The First David Job (1)
Feb 17, 2009 · 43 min
The team puts together a plan to steal Nate's former boss's prized Michelangelo Maquette and sell it back to him.
Directing: Dean Devlin · Writing: John Rogers · Starring: Kari Matchett, Clayne Crawford, Alex Carter, Mark Sheppard
1x13 The Second David Job (2) Season Finale
Feb 24, 2009 · 43 min
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.
Directing: Dean Devlin · Writing: John Rogers · Starring: Kari Matchett, Alex Carter, Mark Sheppard, Kevin Tighe