While Nate is in a supermax prison, he must work with the team to escape in order to unmask the prison's corrupt warden and to save an inmate. Working behind the scenes is a mysterious Italian woman known only as "The Italian" who blackmails the crew into taking down Damien Moreau, a rich, powerful and untouchable crime lord. If the team does not take out Moreau in six months, Nate will be imprisoned in Italy, and the team will be killed.
The team goes undercover during a high school reunion they hijacked to get a critical password from a powerful software executive named Larry Duberman.
While working a theft on behalf of her father figure and mentor Archie Leach (Richard Chamberlain), Parker becomes trapped somewhere in a forty-story building with a state-of-the-art security system, and the team must scam their way in to save her before she gets caught and arrested by the security staff.
Hardison takes up the violin and joins the symphony as part of the team's plan to rob the vault of a corrupt African government official. He learns the hard way what it takes to be a leader after expressing his interest in running his own crew one day to Nate.
Running a double blind-like scam, the team enters the pharmaceutical business to take down a corrupt CEO and stop his plan to release a fatal prescription pain reliever. Meanwhile, Parker gets jealous when Hardison spends more time with the client and finds it hard to express how she feels for him.
To con a crooked record label executive, the Leverage crew infiltrates the country music industry—and inadvertently turns Eliot into a genuine star.
The team works to take down a con-man (Clancy Brown) using his collection agency posing as the IRS to fund a private revolution. But when his militia takes Eliot and Hardison captive, without the others knowing about it, Sophie, Parker and Nate are left on their own to complete the con.
The team goes up against a used car salesman whose dealership is stocked with stolen vehicles from a local chop shop.
Nate leads the team into battle against his father, the great Jimmy Ford (Tom Skerritt), who is running a scheme involving bank robberies and the Russian and Irish mobs.
In the aftermath of a deadly mine explosion, the team infiltrates the coal mines of West Virginia to put an end to the dangerous practices of the mine’s owner. But what the team digs up will threaten the livelihood of everyone in this tight-knit community.
While discussing the solo crimes they committed as independent thieves, the team members each reminisce about a particular night five years earlier, when it turns out they each unwittingly tried to steal the same artifact at the same time.
When the team finds out that an antiquities trafficker working for Moreau is using refugee children as mules to smuggle artifacts, they travel to London to lure him into an Auction House scam. While there, Sophie confronts the consequences of her past. James Frain guest-stars.
Leverage must get a former star hockey player turned crooked investor to give up his knowledge of Damien Moreau's financial dealings before he fulfills an immunity agreement by testifying before a grand jury the next day.
The team is hired by a former mall Santa to investigate the mall's owner. In the process, they discover that he is working with an old adversary to rob the Federal Depository.
When The Italian tells the team that Damien Moreau is on his way to Washington, they must form a plan to prevent Moreau from selling a bomb at an auction, only for the plan to hit a snag when Eliot reveals to the team that he once worked for Moreau.
After Moreau escapes to San Lorenzo, the Leverage team follows him and must pose as election consultants for an honest and hard working politician in order to overthrow the current president of the country, who bought the presidency with the help of Moreau, triggering a final showdown between Moreau and the team as Nate vows to make sure that Moreau is taken down once and for all.
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