Ep 78 - Series Wrap Up

Episode 78 - Series Wrap Up

I just realized that I never posted our final episode. Whoops. So here it is, months late. Sorry guys! But we still hope you enjoy listening to us one last time as we discuss our beloved show as a whole and all the things we've loved about the last five years.

Ep 77 - The Long Goodbye Job

Episode 77 - The Long Goodbye Job

The team finds out the reason that Nate brought them to Portland, and the information he and Hardison has been hiding from them this season. Nate wants to find the Black Book, a record of a huge scam that the government covered over when the rich and powerful managed to steal 1/3rd of the world’s wealth. This was their Mount Everest of scams, and the episode works backwards as we’re lead to believe Nate’s gotten the whole team killed instead. He’s taken in by Interpol and reunites with Sterling. Little does the team know that this is their last heist together, just like we didn’t know at the time that it aired. Was this a satisfying conclusion? How many call backs do you think you missed? And who wants to be invited to Sophie and Nate’s wedding? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 76 - The Toy Job

Episode 76 - The Toy Job

Nate channels Chelsea and hates on Christmas.  Sophie swims with the sharks.  Parker picks the creepiest doll ever manufactured in a sweatshop.  Eliot deals with having a son named Dashel who plays with dolls.  And Hardison feels a lot. All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 75 - The Corkscrew Job

Episode 75 - The Corkscrew Job

The team get involved in a winery after one of the workers dies unexpectedly, and his daughter says the lawyers tried to pay her off. They investigate the owner, Frank Madigan, who plans to make a huge profit off the business no matter what the cost to other people. He has a very rare and expensive bottle of wine in his collection owned by Thomas Jefferson, but if they steal it, he’ll just get the insurance money. Instead they decide to pass the real bottle off as a fake and ruin his reputation. Would you buy wine from Sophie? Does Hardison do a good Gollum impression? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 74 - The White Rabbit Job

Episode 74 - The White Rabbit Job

The crew try to make an Inception of their own on a CEO, Charlie Dodgson, who seems determined to destroy his own business by neglect and  apathy. They pull the White Rabbit job, a grifter con where the mark is tricked into thinking he’s dreaming vividly when he’s not. Things change when Charlie seems to recognize Parker in his dream as someone he once cared for, and they get deeper into why he wants to destroy his life. What would be in your White Rabbit dream? Was this finally resolution for Parker over her brother’s death? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

Ep 73 - The Low Low Price Job

Episode 73 - The Low Low Price Job

Eliot asks the team to help him save a small town. A big corporation is coming in with a super store (cough wal-mart cough) and causing all the local businesses to close. Eliot’s personally invested because he came from a small town himself and his father owned a shop. The team goes up against Caroline Cowan, a businesswoman from corporate who is there to make sure everything goes smoothly. She seems able to block them at every turn. Can David take down the Goliath? Will Eliot ever reconcile with his father? And will we be able to save our beloved show? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

 

* Since this recording, we've found out that Leverage will not be back for a sixth season. :(

Ep 72 - The Frame Up Job

Episode 72 - The Frame Up Job

Nate gets suspicious when Sophie sends him to a murder movie festival to get him out of the way, so he tracks her down to a special art auction. The wealthy owner of a huge private collection has just died and his art is being sold to buyers. Sophie was there for a showing of a never-before-seen painting, but when the vault opened it was missing. Of course Sophie would be the immediate first suspect, and Sterling shows up to accuse her of exactly that. Nate and Sophie have to find the real thief for Sterling while at the same time Nate is trying to figure out why Sophie is there to begin with. Are Sophie and Nate absolutely adorable as a couple? Will Sophie ever be seen as an ex-art thief? Should Nate stop showing up to crime scenes where the murderer is without back up? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 71 - The Rundown Job

Episode 71 - The Rundown Job

Hardison, Parker, and Eliot are in DC finishing up a job when Eliot gets a call from his past. He doesn’t do professional hits anymore, but he knows now there is one about to happen in DC, so the three of them have to stop it. They manage to save the victim but Eliot figures out quickly the job was part of a much bigger conspiracy. He calls in his friend Colonel Vance to report a potential terrorist attack. Vance pretends to arrest them, but instead gives them the mission to find out the truth and stop it. Is it smart to go back to the scene of the crime? Could the three of them pull off their own show? And wasn’t this a crazy intense episode? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 70 - The Broken Wing Job

Episode 70 - The Broken Wing Job

The team are on an extravagant trip to Japan, but Parker is left back at home because she tore her ACL on a mission. While she slowly goes mad from the boredom, she sees something suspicious on Hardison’s surveillance system of the pub. Parker figures out a couple of thieves are about to pull off a job right under her nose. She decides to team up with her caretaker, waitress Amy, to catch them. Are Romeo and Juliet really the best names for those two? Would you want to take part in a heist with Parker? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 69 - The Real Fake Car Job

Episode 69 - The Real Fake Car Job

The team goes up against a fellow thief, Gabe Erickson, who conned people out of their life savings but he is protected by the government. He purposely made mob connections so he could agree to testify against them in case he got in trouble. They decide to use his obsession with vintage cars against him to try and follow his money trail to where he’s hidden millions of dollars. Things take an interesting turn when the Marshall protecting him has secrets of her own. Should any of the Leverage crew think about retiring? Is Gabe more evil for stealing money or for spoiling a little girl’s favorite series? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 68 - The D.B. Cooper Job

 

Episode 68 - The D.B. Cooper Job

Agent McSweeten asks Parker to help him investigate a case that his father never managed to close: The D. B. Cooper mystery. Nate agrees to take it on and interviews McSweeten’s dying father Peter about what happened. They also meet his partner and best friend Steve Reynolds, whose wife was on the plane that day. Like the Van Gogh Job from last season, the Leverage actors play new characters as they reimagine what happened in the famous 70s crime.

Ep 67 - The Gimmie A K Street Job

 

Episode 67 - The Gimmie A K Street Job

 

The team has to get involved with the government when a young cheerleader gets injured because the competition isn’t up to safety codes. The company that owns them, Pep, is allowed to get away with sub-par safety because cheerleading is considered a recreational activity and not a sport. The team decides to try and get the government to turn cheerleading into a sport, but they find out it’s not as easy as buying a politician or two. They have to work against the clock to turn four congressmen by the time the bill goes up in front of them. Should cheerleading be a sport or an activity? How far of a drop would Parker consider scary? And what the heck is going on with Nate? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.
 

Ep 66 - The French Connection Job

Episode 66 - The French Connection Job

Toby Heath, the man who taught Eliot how to cook, comes to the team for help after he gets fired from a special culinary institute. He thinks the owner David Lampard is doing illegal business on the side, possibly drugs. Eliot and Hardison infiltrate with Eliot becoming the new teacher and Hardison one of the students. They find out it’s not drugs Lampard is dealing in but expensive and rare truffles. Would you want Eliot as a cooking instructor? Is food cooler if it’s made with a laser? And shouldn’t Hardison be better at safe cracking by now? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 65 - The First Contact Job

Episode 65 - The First Contact Job

A man named James Kanack stole a special design from his employee Oren Matz, ruining his reputation and the credit he deserves. The team finds out that Kanack is obsessed with the idea of Extraterrestrial life and believes in aliens. They decide to “steal a close encounter” and get him to believe that there’s a message from outer space only they can decipher. They do manage to steal money from him, but that’s not enough for Oren, who cares more about his creation and reputation than money. Can the team take down Kanack for good? How perfect was it that Jonathan Frakes directed this episode? Can you get Hardison and Eliot’s song out of your head? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

We apologize for the sound issues in this episode. We tried to fix them as best we could, but didn't want to delay releasing the episode any longer. We'll try to have them corrected for next time. Sorry, everyone!

Ep 64 - The Blue Line Job

Episode 64 - The Blue Line Job

The team is approached by a boy named Danny whose father Craig is a professional hockey player. He’s getting into constant fights while playing and Danny thinks he’s going to die before the end of the season. They find out that his father is being offered more money by his coach to start fights because the crowds like it, and that the coach is making all the doctors clear him even when he’s injured. It’s up to them to find a way to take down the corrupt coach and save Craig from himself. Is Eliot good at all sports? Should Vlad become a regular guest star? And did Sophie really steal the Stanley Cup? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 63 - The Very Big Bird Job

Episode 63 - The Very Big Bird Job

The gang is back from their break, and Hardison’s set up a new base and business in Portland, Oregon. Nate agrees this is the right place for them to lay low until they get back on track. Their first client is a grieving widow whose husband died on the job and the airline company got away with it. They target the wealthy executive Scott Roemer, who happens to have an unusual obsession with Howard Hughes. Nate uses this against him by creating a con about Howard Hughes’ famous plane the Spruce Goose. Can Eliot make a teddy bear menacing? Should Sophie start her own theater? Why are Nate and Hardison making top secret plans together? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 62 - The Last Dam Job

Episode 62 - The Last Dam Job

The real villain of season four has been revealed: Victor Dubenich. The man who brought the team together in the first place and became their very first victim. He’s been in prison all this time studying everything they did. He partnered with Latimer and mapped out where Nate was going to have the team hit next, so they made money off of every job. Unfortunately Dubenich knows everything about them, so none of their usual tricks will work. They have to recruit former enemies to do the job for them. Meanwhile Nate considers killing Dubenich in revenge for his father’s death, and the team tries to talk him out of it. Should Quinn, Chaos, Archie, and Maggie have their own spin-off show? Does anyone else want Archie’s cane? And what do you think should happen in season five? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 61 - The Radio Job

Episode 61 - The Radio Job

Nate runs off on his own when he finds out that Latimer hired his father, Jimmy Ford, for a special job. Jimmy’s supposed to steal a specific patent, but by the time they all get inside someone’s called the cops. The team has to keep fending the cops off by pretending to have a hostage situation and then a terrorist attack, but one thing is for sure: someone is messing with them and it isn’t Latimer. The true villain of season four is revealed and Nate gets one more reason to be an alcoholic. Why were there so many Doctor Who references in this episode? How did Sophie look so amazing pregnant? And did anyone actually care about Jimmy by the end? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Ep 60 - The Gold Job

Episode 60 - The Gold Job

The team goes up against a brother and sister who are corrupt gold dealers. This seems like the perfect time for Hardison to finally take point and run his own con. When he refuses to work until they listen to him, Nate gives in. Hardison claims he has a new con, a revolutionary con, and one that involves video game knowledge. He thinks he has it all working perfectly, but he’s not ready to take Nate’s position quite yet. Should they keep their nicknames? Will Hardison ever be able to be a mastermind? Would you have rage quit earlier? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

Episode 59 - The Lonely Hearts Club Job

Episode 59 - The Lonely Hearts Club Job

Nate is surprised when a wealthy businessman, someone he’s targeted as a potential enemy, comes into the bar and asks for their help. His much younger wife has gone missing. They assume that she’s probably a grifter and agree to take a job in exchange for a favor from him down the road. The team quickly realize she’s from a team of grifters run by a manipulative woman named Meredith. Nate goes undercover as a potential partner to Meredith and Sophie goes undercover as the mark he is supposed to seduce. Who would you bid on, Hardison or Eliot? Is it a surprise to anyone that Nate and Sophie have their first real date on a con? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.