Nate Ford, an insurance investigator, quits his job after his insurance claims are rejected for his dying son's medical bills. Ford soon finds a job working for an aerospace company, and heads up a group of criminals all working to retrieve stolen blueprints.
The team is hired to investigate the injuries a military reservist sustained while in Iraq.
When a Wall Street broker burns down his stable and kills his racehorses, the team heads to Kentucky to help the horses' trainer.
A priest's church is threatened with demolition. He's an old friend of Nate's, who learns about it and vows to help whether his friend wants his help or not. To stop the developer who is secretly planning to build on the church site, Nate plans to fake a miracle.
Nate and Sophie are at a bank working to take down a crooked judge when two robbers break in. While Parker, Hardison, and Eliot try to find out what's going on and deal with the local cops, Nate and Sophie try to find out what the robbers really want.
The Leverage team works to take down a Serbian adoption agency that has been stealing money from American couples. The crew commandeer a local film production in order to rescue the kids and bring down the agency's mastermind.
Nate reluctantly takes on the case of a restaurant owner's wife whose husband took the fall for the mobster he owed money to. To get close to the crook, the team goes undercover as wedding planners at his daughter's wedding.
The team tries to avenge the death of a young girl who was killed by a corporate business's toxic fertilizer. The trail takes them to a 777 going to the Cayman Islands, where they have to determine which passenger has the information they need to bring down the company.
While helping a National Guardsman who has been taken by an unscrupulous construction company, Nate puts his team on the line when he slips back into his alcoholic ways.
The team works to recover a large amount of money stolen from a charity by an investment broker. However, the team learns the banker isn't as bad of a person as they assumed he would be. Their plan is to trick the financier into rehab, but find out it may be a suitable place for one team member as well.
While at jury duty, Parker learns someone is trying to sway the trial's verdict, which revolves around a dead man and a problematic nutritional supplement.
To take down Ian Blackpoole, Nate's former boss and the CEO who denied Sam his treatment, the team target his rare Michaelangelo maquette of the statue David. However, when they try to sell him a fake, Nate's wife Maggie becomes involved and the team has to steal Blackpoole's heavily guarded First David maquette so that they can convince her and Blackpoole that they have the real Second David.
The Leverage team comes out of hiding to take down Blackpoole and Sterling, and Nate has to recruit his ex-wife Maggie to help them get inside the museum where the Two Davids are stored, and steal the maquettes.
Nate tries to go back to normal work, but becomes involved when a mobster takes out a banker and his daughter to stop the banker from providing evidence to the state police of a major bailout swindle. The rest of the team, bored with going back to being bad guys, comes back and convinces Nate to take on one last job.
The crew work to get a corrupt mixed martial arts promoter to invest all he has into a phony cable network, but their con is discovered. Now it is Nate's job to throw a fight.
The team must commandeer a full hospital floor by spreading a deadly virus in order to quarantine a convicted felon and get him to reveal the location of the stolen money, or die.
To lure a crooked CEO out of his apartment so they can search and find his hidden loot, the team must assure that his son becomes the star of a school musical.
The crew uses the world of government conspiracies to raise paranoia and expose a callous tabloid newscaster as a fraud.
The crew takes on a corrupt food company VP who is covering up the fact he marketed tainted foods to save money. The only way in is for Nate to go in as a magician at the corporate meeting so they can slip by the tight security.
Nate and his crew square off against their opposite numbers when they must match wits against a band of similarly skilled thieves in order to retrieve priceless stolen artwork.
Hardison fills in for Sophie as the inside man when the team sets their sights on an unscrupulous diamond merchant. However, he overplays the role and the merchant's henchmen take him prisoner and force him to break into their employer's vault to steal the diamonds for themselves.
The team takes on a crooked lawyer attempting to get his hands on a fortune belonging to his recently-deceased client. The team plans to convince the lawyer to pay up by proving the dead man had a long-lost daughter. Meanwhile, their client wants a lawyer to accompany them on their mission.
The Leverage team, complete with replacement grifter Tara Cole, targets Russel Pan and his wife Gloria, a couple that are abusing Chinese workers to produce knockoff fashions in their sweatshop plants. In order to get the goods on the Pans, the team goes undercover to infiltrate a fashion show.
The team come to the aid of McRory's Bar when an Irish gangster calls in the dead owner's marker, and the owner's daughter has no way to pay up.
When Nate's ex-wife is framed for the theft of a Faberge Egg from a museum in Kiev, the team leaps into action to clear her name and con the real thief.
Con man Wilson Rand poses as a psychic and bilks the innocent of their money in return for fake spiritual readings. The brother of one victim turns to the Leverage team for help, but things go awry when a convict abducts Rand and Tara and demands they lead him to stolen bank money.
An increasingly unstable Nate insists the team bring down the crooked mayor who had their favorite police lieutenant shot. However, they're plan to trick him into paying a bribe they can use to incriminate him takes a turn for the worse.
The team is on the run after their inadvertent involvement in a FBI sting operation... and Jim Sterling is lending his expertise to bring them to ground. To buy his freedom, Nate may have to sacrifice the others.
Nate is content to stay in a private prison and serve out his time. However, when he learns that the warden is arranging for the conviction and transfer of innocent men so he can maintain his occupancy numbers Nate organizes the team to rescue a convict and himself and take the warden down.
The Leverage team takes on a software magnate selling surveillance programs to dictatorships. However, when they discover his 1980s computer with the program is protected by passwords based on his high school years, they set up a reunion to get him to give them what they need.
Parker takes on a solo mission on behalf of her mentor, but gets in over her head against an unbeatable security system. When the Leverage team learns of her predicament, they swing into action and must work to help her get out... only to discover she doesn't want to leave.
Alexander Moto conspires against his brother, the ruler of Wadata, by obtaining diamonds mined with child labor, selling them on the black market, and using the funds to win the next election. To stop him, the team must get into Moto's Boston vault, hidden beneath a concert hall. To bypass the motion sensors, Hardison must pretend to be a violin prodigy and play a loud concert piece.
A corrupt CEO plans to market a proven fatal drug under a new name and use the funds to finance his career, and the Leverage team go after him by stealing the original samples and threatening to blackmail him.
A C&W singer, Kaye Lynn, hires the Leverage team to take out corrupt record executive Mitchell Kirkwood. To bring him down, the team set up Eliot as a singer so they can get into Kirkwood's studio and recover Kaye Lynn's digital masters.
A crooked debt collector rips off taxpayers on a payment plan and the Leverage team promises to take him down. However, they discover that the crook is using the money to fund an anti-government militia "freedom force," and Alec and Eliot end up captured and sentenced to execution.
The Leverage team go after a former race car driver turned crooked car dealer, and Parker and Alec go undercover as car thieves. However, when Parker befriends a young female mechanic, things take a turn for the worse.
Nate has to go after his own father, Jimmy Ford, when he discovers that his dad is working with Russian mobsters to blackmail three individuals that are the key to a major bank heist. Despite his animosity toward his father, Nate starts to find common ground with Jimmy... until he's betrayed.
The team goes after a mine owner who has been taking government payoffs for a disaster and using the funds to finance a crooked attorney general to cover his tracks.
When a valuable stolen dagger reappears after five years, the criminals in the team argue about which of them originally stole it, and ask Nate to decide which one of them can claim the victory.
The team goes after an antique trafficker who works for Moreau and discovers the man is trying to obtain a royal title. Sophie decides to take advantage of his desire but is forced to reveal her own past with British royalty.
The team discovers that the hedge fund manager they're after, former hockey player Mark Vector, handles the accounts of Damien Moreau. To get to Vector, they have to frame him for a crime he didn't commit and get him to give up his immunity agreement with the U.S. government.
The team comes to the aid of a mall Santa who was framed for alcoholism and fired by an evil owner. However, when they go after the owner, they discover he's involved with one of their old enemies in a credit card scam... and there's a crime within a crime.
The team go after Moreau when he finances the production of an EMP bomb which he plans to sell to international terrorists. To get close to the financier, Eliot has to reveal his past... when he was a killer for Moreau.
After his plans in the U.S. are thwarted, Moreau goes on the run and takes refuge in the country of San Lorenzo, where he has bought President Edwin Ribera. To take down Moreau, the team seeks to undermine Ribera by backing his opposition in the upcoming presidential election.
The Leverage team must scale a mountain to find the corpse of their client's husband and recover vital evidence that will reveal a finance company's fraud. However, things take a turn for the worse when a storm moves in, mercenaries storm the mountain, and Parker and Eliot are trapped in a crevasse.
The Leverage team try to get close to a crooked CEO by attending his murder-mystery party. But when the CEO turns up dead and Nate is set up for the murder, the team must switch tracks and find the real killer.
The team takes on Reed Rockwell, a crooked media consultant who refuses to reveal himself to the public and has nothing they can get him on. To bring him into the spotlight, the Leverage team sets Rockwell up as a hero so they can find out what he's hiding and bring him down.
The team try to track down a missing Van Gogh painting from World War II, and discover that the trail leads to a black soldier and the white heiress that he fell in love with.
An agricultural company goes after a biologist's high-protein potato, and the team tries to recover it by turning the CEO and his chief of operations against each other. Meanwhile, Nate and Sophie try to deal with their new relationship.
The Leverage team takes on the case of a VP who has stolen a revolutionary chip from a designer and plans to sell it on the black market to the Russians. However, the Russians decide to kidnap the VP's daughter as a bargaining chip and the team changes objectives to rescue her.
The team goes after a funeral director who buries her clients in expenses and then disappears with the money. However, they soon learn that the woman also sells the identities of her customers to a drug cartel to use as fake IDs. Things take a turn for the worse when the drug lord abducts Alec... and buries him alive in an unknown location.
The Leverage team goes after their most dangerous opponent: a con man who knows every con because his family invented them all. Since they can't con a con man, they decide to do the next best thing.
While returning from a job, the team arrives at the Cincinnati airport and spot a woman stealing an organ transplant cooler. Nate insists that they get involved and learns that an ailing CEO is stealing the heart from a 15-year-old boy to use for himself.
Jim Sterling asks Nate for help taking down a researcher who has designed a nuclear weight that will allow a terrorist nation to manufacture enriched uranium. However, it soon becomes clear that the Interpol agent has an ulterior motive, one which isolates Nate at a chess tournament, gets Sophie arrested, and takes Eliot out of commission.
A client asks the Leverage team to investigate the death of her father, a homeless vet, who was the subject of college psych experiments by a member of a secret society doing testing for the CIA.
The Leverage team goes undercover as efficiency experts at a greeting card company to take down a crooked CEO, but are forced to spend most of their time dodging a documentary film crew.
Parker comes to the aid of a friend who is swept up in a thief's scheme to use a party at the Venezuelan Consulate to sell oil field statistics, but needs Sophie and Tara Cole to help her.
The guys' game of poker is interrupted when an old "friend," Jack Hurley, contacts Nate while he's in town... unwittingly delivering drugs to a Mexican cartel. The Irish mob takes offense and Nate and Hurley are caught in the middle.
A philanthropist CEO convinces the team to look for his missing wife Lacey, and they soon discover that she's part of a massive scam to connect female grifters with rich businessmen at charity auctions... and then kill the men off.
When a woman conned by a brother-and-sister team running a gold-to-cash scheme comes to the team, Hardison insists on running the job, and comes up with a new con for "his" teammates to use.
When Nate refuses to cooperate with Jack Latimer, the investor hires Nate's father Jimmy to steal a patent application. Nate is forced to rescue Jimmy but soon discovers that someone is using Latimer as a front man to get revenge on Nate and his team.
When an old enemy outsmarts the Leverage team at every turn because he knows them inside and out, Nate and his teammates call upon some old enemies to help them out and get the goods on Latimer.