The BEST episodes of Leverage season 5
Every episode of Leverage season 5, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Leverage season 5!
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 Long Goodbye Job
Season 5 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/25/2012
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.
#2 - The First Contact Job
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 8/5/2012
An entrepreneur, who has made his fortune by stealing his subordinates' ideas, must be convinced by the team that he has made contact with aliens.
#3 - The French Connection Job
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 8/12/2012
The team infiltrates a cooking school run by an old friend of Eliot's and whose owner is involved in smuggling truffles; Parker looks for passion in the arts.
#4 - The Frame-Up Job
Season 5 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/2012
With the other three team members still in Washington, Sophie sneaks off (soon followed by Nate) to the mansion of a recently deceased art collector, where a mysterious painting by a modern master will be publicly shown for the first time. When the painting turns up missing, Sophie and Nate must help Sterling solve a classic mystery to stop him from pinning the crime on them.
#5 - The Low Low Price Job
Season 5 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/27/2012
Eliot takes a personal interest in the threat posed to a small town by a new mega-store. The crew tries a variety of approaches to foil the plans of an ambitious corporate representative and keep the store from opening.
#6 - The Rundown Job
Season 5 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/16/2012
After finishing a job in Washington with Parker and Hardison, Eliot gets a call from an old employer that leads him to deduce that a terror attack is imminent. Only the three of them, with the help of an old Army colleague of Eliot's, can stop it.
#7 - The Broken Wing Job
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/9/2012
While nursing an injury, Parker comes across the planning of a crime and must recruit a reluctant waitress (Aarti Mann) to aid her in figuring out the plot. Meanwhile the rest of the team is in Japan on another job.
#8 - The (Very) Big Bird Job
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/15/2012
As the team adjusts to their new home of Portland, Oregon, they take on the case of a corrupt airline executive who has a strong obsession with Howard Hughes and his Spruce Goose, which is now on exhibit in a museum.
#9 - The Real Fake Car Job
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/2/2012
The team plans to get their client's money back by selling their mark the vintage car of his dreams. But because the mark also plans to testify against the Mob, he's been placed in Witness Protection/Relocation and is being closely guarded by a U.S. Marshal.
#10 - The Gimme a K Street Job
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 8/19/2012
When a cheerleader is injured through corporate negligence, Parker takes over the role of the cheerleading squad's disgraced coach while the other members of the Leverage team attempt to get safety legislation passed in Congress.
#11 - The Corkscrew Job
Season 5 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/11/2012
To investigate a suspicious death at a winery, the team tries to get at the new owner through his wine collection.
#12 - The D.B. Cooper Job
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/26/2012
Agent McSweeten, who still thinks that Parker and Hardison are undercover FBI, asks the team to look into the case that obsesses his dying father: the 1971 plane hijacking by D. B. Cooper.
#13 - The Blue Line Job
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/22/2012
The "enforcer" of a minor league hockey team may die if he brawls again, so the Leverage crew must steal his team from its unscrupulous owner.
#14 - The Toy Job
Season 5 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/18/2012
To prevent a CEO from placing an unsafe toy on the market, the team creates a craze for a competing toy.
#15 - The White Rabbit Job
Season 5 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/4/2012
A young industrialist seems bent on destroying the company his grandfather built, and the town it supports. To find out why, the team attempts the rarely (if ever) achieved "White Rabbit" con, which puts the mark through a series of simulated dreams.