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Leverage Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
The (Very) Big Bird Job
Sun, Jul 15, 201243 mins
Cary Elwes opens the final season as Scott Roemer, CEO of Global Transit Airlines in Portland. Global started with military drones and expanded into cargo shipping. Roemer is a huge fan of Howard Hughes and covets The Spruce Goose. When one of his pilots dies, his widow and young daughter are absolutely decimated by the court. They turn to Hardison and Parker and tell them about the fraud and corner-cutting which caused the pilot's death. The team lines up a con so clever, even Roemer's mama would smile.
Episode 2
The Blue Line Job
Sun, Jul 22, 201243 mins
Danny Marko is worried about his father, Craig. Danny already lost his mother three years ago; now, he asks the team to save his father from himself. Craig plays wing with the Oregon Otters, but he is also an enforcer. Danny thinks his father has brain damage, but owner Pete Rising (Treat Williams) has doctors that have cleared Craig to play. For his part of the con, Eliot must climb onto the ice so he and the rest of the team can be enforcers for the Markos.
Episode 3
The First Contact Job
Sun, Aug 5, 201243 mins
An average but wealthy engineer whose father's genius skipped a generation chases fame by stealing inventions and putting "James Kanack" on them. Parker and Hardison add fun to date night when Oren Metz hires the team. Willie Riker is a country hunk come to town, or so Kanack believes, but when Nate orders a Close Encounter, he's not whistling Star Trek. Parker annoys Eliot with her best Drew Barrymore imitation.
Episode 4
The French Connection Job
Sun, Aug 12, 201243 mins
The team targets David Lampard, a failed chef turned businessman. Lampard fires Eliot's first mentor, Toby Heath, and turns Toby's culinary school into a tuition mill for celebrity TV chefs when Toby interrupts a shady deal at $12,000 per kilo. Eliot does double duty, cooking at Hardison's brew pub and as the new teaching chef at the culinary school and restaurant. Hardison plays with menus, lasers and safes while Sophie plays with her new theatre and Nate plays with minds and mushrooms. Parker feels left out and yearns to discover her passion. Eliot shares his philosophy: Food is Life with appreciative audiences.
Episode 5
The Gimme a K Street Job
Sun, Aug 19, 201243 mins
A cheerleader is injured in competition at Pep Cheer Camp and her coach cries "foul," and gets the team involved. Sophie offhandedly remarks that the Mafia has a less complicated setup than Pep Athletics. This leads Nate to dream of federal task forces, sugar plums and RICO. Hardison, already a veteran trial lawyer, makes legal research, Shepardizing and clerking for a tough Congresswoman a cakewalk. Can Nate and the team beat a cheerleader who prides herself on knowing how to motivate quarterbacks? Congress proves to be grifters' paradise for some and a complex, unhappy education for others.
Episode 6
The D.B. Cooper Job
Sun, Aug 26, 201242 mins
Agent Todd McSweeten is legacy FBI; his father, Peter, was the Agent-in-Charge of the infamous D.B. Cooper case. He was Chief of Portland FBI (losing a promotion to Seattle when he failed to solve Cooper.) Todd brings in the team-- having realized their real function--because Peter is dying. The Leverage team re-enacts the events of 1971, with Nate as Peter McSweeten and the team learns the former Chief's mantra: give compassion and respect to all men, even criminals. Is it possible Peter knew more about D.B. Cooper than he ever publicized?
Episode 7
The Real Fake Car Job
Sun, Sep 2, 201243 mins
Matthew Lillard plays Gabe Erickson, former investor/broker indicted for stealing $130 million from clients and laundering cash for other clients like the Godfather of NY, Don Paolo Brancato. Erickson hid $50 million before his arrest. The team's client saw Erickson, not behind bars, but playing golf. Eliot scans surveillance photos and determines from the weaponry Erickson is in Wit Sec, trading testimony for jail time. Parker and Hardison go on a trash run to learn Erickson's passion: classic cars, as Nate concocts a hyper-elaborate scheme, starring a car show and a vintage Packard 1101 Coupe. Two "men of respect" shake hands over cappuccino as cars and heads roll.
Episode 8
The Broken Wing Job
Sun, Sep 9, 201242 mins
A crew of high-tech crooks attempt to steal from wealthy criminals and corrupt businessmen. When a broken leg leaves Parker behind on the crew's latest job, she spies on the BrewPub's customers for fun and discovers a group of thieves planning a heist.
Episode 9
The Rundown Job
Sun, Sep 16, 201245 mins
Dean Devlin directs this episode where the "youngsters," Eliot, Hardison and Parker, take a trip to Washington DC. Close to a central Metro station, Eliot assesses an impending assassination attempt, and the team saves the victim and meets Eliot's old military buddy, Col. Michael Vance. Soon, the one attempt turns into possible citywide Armeggedon. Before pigs can fly, the trio and a huge, intrusive governmental boondoggle on wheels protects DC from biological attack by a madman.
Episode 10
The Frame-Up Job
Sun, Sep 16, 201243 mins
When millionaire art collector Jonas Gault dies, he leaves a messy family situation and a complete, curated collection of artist, Jean Mettier, as part of his estate. While the kids are in DC, Sophie sneaks to the Gault estate for an art auction. It takes Nate 20 whole minutes to deduce her planned itinerary and affix upon her tail. Sophie claims she just wants to view 'Ma Mystere,' Mettier's first work which no person but the artist and owner have ever seen. Sophie claims it is just personal interest. Sterling turns up a few seconds after the crowd discovers the painting is missing and turns up the heat.
Episode 11
The Low Low Price Job
Tue, Nov 27, 201243 mins
Duelling redheads: one small Mom and Pop grocer and one high-powered big box store executive vie for their lives. Redhead #1 had the good luck to drink in the Brew Pub, so she has the first team on her side. Value!More has been on Nate-dar because of illegal business practices, but they are so huge. The EPA may never declare a Love Canal, but the team leaves Redhead #2, aka Caroline Cowan of Value!More, singing the cadmium blues. Eliot bonds with Martin, a sick old man who reminds him of Oklahoma City, home and hearth.
Episode 12
The White Rabbit Job
Tue, Dec 4, 201242 mins
Dodgson Energetics, opened by Charles Dodgson, Sr., is the lifeblood and soul of Oxford, OR. Under the control of Charles Dodgson, III, a healthy DE is, inexplicably, being systematically dismantled and the employees fired for absolutely no reason. The team is called to "turn Charles III back into the person he used to be," so Nate suggests The White Rabbit, the ungriftable grift. Parker is the key at getting to the root of the issue, no matter how many cranks or PhonyhDs appear on the scene.
Episode 13
The Corkscrew Job
Tue, Dec 11, 201242 mins
California is known for the grape, but great wine in the west extends all the way from San Diego to Washington State. Yamhill County, OR has its share of fabulous wine. At "Bee Winery," Frank Madigan is the new owner who used his pricey wine collection as collateral to buy the winery, including a bottle once owned by Thomas Jefferson. When grape picker, Sam Knox, dies at the vine; Madigan offers $1 million to his daughter ...in exchange for signing a convoluted non-disclosure agreement. Suspicious of Madigan's use of a lethal agricultural chemical, SN-12, on his new grapes, Sophie applies to Bee as pourer, Hardison as vintner, Eliot as picker. and Parker as cellar rat. Nate stays at the helm, leading a quest to devalue a 200+ year old bottle of wine and save a winery.
Episode 14
The Toy Job
Tue, Dec 18, 201242 mins
The team goes after a CEO who is selling dangerous toys to the public.
Episode 15
The Long Good-bye Job
Tue, Dec 25, 201243 mins
The final episode promises a sequel with Eliot, Hardison and Parker (and we await it anxiously) as Nate finally launches one last con, which he planned for years, before he disappears into the wind with Sophie. He is leaving the Mastermind reins to Parker. Does the con have anything to do with IYS? Does it happen as it unfolds or is a mirror in place? Does Hardison visit the clouds to get computer information? Does Sophie fail to chew scenery as Lady Macbeth? Or does everyone actually die? Even James Sterling appears for the final act of Part I: Leverage. Audiences await Part II with baited breath...
