The BEST episodes of Leverage season 1
Every episode of Leverage season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Leverage season 1!
Meet Nathan Ford, a former insurance investigator who spent his professional career dedicated to the company that refused a potentially life saving medical procedure for his son. Unemployed and teetering on the edge, Nate enlists the help of the best thieves and grifters in the business, and with their help, he steals from the rich and gives to the poor to help balance the crooks in high power positions. He and his team help provide... leverage.
#1 - The First David Job (1)
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/17/2009
The team puts together a plan to steal Nate's former boss's prized Michelangelo Maquette and sell it back to him.
#2 - The Second David Job (2)
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/24/2009
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.
#3 - The Juror #6 Job
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 2/10/2009
While at jury duty, Parker learns someone is trying to sway the trial's verdict.
#4 - The Bank Shot Job
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 12/30/2008
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.
#5 - The Nigerian Job
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/7/2008
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.
#6 - The Homecoming Job
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/9/2008
Leverage Consulting & Associates opens for business as the crew reunites to help a Reservist who's been wounded in Iraq by private military contractors.
#7 - The Snow Job
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 1/27/2009
While helping a National Guardsman, Nate puts his team on the line when he slips back into his alcoholic ways.
#8 - The Stork Job
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/6/2009
The Leverage team works to take down an adoption agency that has been stealing money from American couples.
#9 - The Two-Horse Job
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2008
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.
#10 - The Wedding Job
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/13/2009
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.
#11 - The Mile High Job
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/2009
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.
#12 - The 12-Step Job
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/3/2009
When the team cons an addicted embezzler into entering rehab, Nate confronts some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.
#13 - The Miracle Job
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 12/23/2008
Nate's childhood best friend seeks the help of Leverage Consulting & Associates in preventing the demolition of his church... by stealing a miracle.