In order to get the men who murdered his father (Tom Skerritt) Nate (Timothy Hutton) is going to need some help. Dubinech (Saul Rubinek) knows the team and their methods, after all he’s the one who originally put them together. Now freed from jail his one responsibility is to keep Nate and his team away from Latimer (Leon Rippy). Not surprisingly, this turns out to be easier said than done.
After Nate’s father (Tom Skerritt) takes a job from Latimer (Leon Rippy) and becomes trapped in the United States Patent Office, Nate (Timothy Hutton) and the team have no choice but to go in to get him out. But the team has to think on their feet when they discover the entire job is a set-up and the building is surrounded by Federal agents.
Feeling underappreciated and ready to run his own con, Hardison (Aldis Hodge) convinces Nate (Timothy Hutton) to let him run the show to take down an brother (Todd Stashwick) and sister (Sasha Barrese) team scamming customers by buying their gold at only a fraction of its actual worth.
The Leverage team takes a case from an unlikely client when a millionaire (David Ogden Stiers), the sort the team usually takes down, begs Nate (Timothy Hutton) to find his missing wife. What starts out as a missing persons case, or a possible kidnapping, turns into something completely different when the team uncovers a ring of grifters running a complex sweetheart scam on several unsuspecting marks.
It’s not every episode you see Nate (Timothy Hutton) dress up like a priest and punch out a nun. Okay, to be fair Sister Lupe (Sofia Pernas) isn’t a real nun and things always get a bit crazy when Hurley (Drew Powell) is in town.
In the latest episodes of Leverage the team splits into two groups as the ladies and gents both have themselves one crazy night. This week’s episode, “The Girls’ Night Out Job,” showcases the ladies’ adventure involving a thief, an old friend (Jeri Ryan), an embassy party, and an explosive finale. Next week, “The Boys’ Night Out Job” will give us the skinny on what trouble the guys get into when another old friend (Drew Powell) returns.
On their latest job the team has to work around a documentary film crew while attempting to take down a crooked CEO (Josh Randall) while at the same time save the sale of the small business to a big corporation which will provide a much needed influx of money into the town.
The team is hired to investigate a psychology student (Jonathan Keltz) who is running sleep deprivation studies on former soldiers suffering from shell-shock including a homeless man whose daughter (Meredith Adelaide) is sure the experiment is what caused her father’s death.
The mid-season finale gives us a trip to Dubai, a chess tournament, a young prodigy (Ayla Kell), terrorists, a double-cross, and the return of Nate’s (Timothy Hutton) former co-worker and the team’s nemesis. Sterling (Mark Sheppard) comes to Nate for help in keeping a nuclear reactor component out of the hands of some very dangerous people.
Season Four is likely to be remembered as the season the writers shook things up by putting the team in unusual situations. Already this season we’ve seen the actors play characters in 70 year-old flashbacks, get caught in a murder mystery, have one of the team (Aldis Hodge) get buried alive, and now this week the Leverage team tries to steal back a stolen heart with no prep time or any of their regular tools.
