To take down a Wall Street swindler (Matthew Lillard) who avoided prosecution for his crime by agreeing to testify in a mob trial and is now witness protection, the Leverage team sells the man on his dream vintage car – Benito Mussolini’s lost Packard 1934 1101 Roadster Coupe in an attempt to track his offshore funds back to the source and redistribute them amongst his victims.
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Parker (Beth Riesgraf) is approached by FBI Agent McSweeton (Gerald Downey) who needs help solving his father’s (Ronny Cox) most famous unsolved case before the man dies. Parker, in the guise of Agent Haggan, introduces Nate (Timothy Hutton) as a FBI consultant and profiler to McSweeton, his father and his father’s old partner (Fred Ward) in hopes that Nate can come up with a theory as to what really happened to D.B. Cooper (Matt Nolan).
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The Leverage team sets their sites on a the CEO (Danielle Bisutti) of PEP, a corrupt corporation in control of a cheerleading empire whose cost-cutting measures, substandard safety regulations, and negligence is putting the young women in danger. Parker (Beth Riesgraf) goes undercover as the new coach of a team whose former coach, and the team’s new client, was scapegoated when one of her cheerleaders is hospitalized with serious injuries. Meanwhile, the rest of the team heads to Washington D.C. to take on Congress.
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In “The French Connection” the Leverage team sets their sites on the ruthless owner (Steve Valentine) of a culinary school with ties to organized crime who has cut funding for underprivileged youth, beating up and firing the chef in charge of the project – who happens to be an old friend of Elliot’s (Christian Kane), in favor of promoting celebrities and dealing black market truffles under the table to the highest bidder.
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The Fourth Season of Leverage saw one of the crew being buried alive, murder, complicated cons, and the return of several characters including Sterling (Mark Sheppard), Jimmy Ford (Tom Skerritt), Hurley (Drew Powell), Tara (Jeri Ryan), and in the season finale Parker’s mentor (Richard Chamberlain), Wil Wheaton, Kari Matchett, Clayne Crawford, and Saul Rubinek as the man who put the team together - Victor Dubenich.
Highlights from a very strong season include breaking into United States Patent Office, Hardison (Aldis Hodge) taking the lead in a complicated con involving buried treasure in tunnels underneath Portland, a gang of female grifters led by Emma Caulfield hunting wealthy men, a trip to Dubai to help out Sterling (who, of course, double-crosses them), the takedown of a renown con man (David Rees Snell), the crew getting used to Nate (Timothy Hutton) and Sophie (Gina Bellman) as a couple, the cast playing other characters in a flashback episode to the 1940′s, and Parker and Hardison finally sorta admitting their feelings to each other.
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To get justice for a scientist (Oren Rehany) whose partner (Neil Hopkins) stole his research and ruined his reputation, the Leverage team sets out to retrieve the files that will show Metz not Kanack is responsible for the revolutionary aircraft engine. However, when Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Hardison’s (Aldis Hodge) attempt to retrieve the files comes up empty Nate (Timothy Hutton) comes up with a back-up plan – to make the man believe he has made first contact with aliens.
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The team is hired by the son of a brain-damaged minor league hockey enforcer Craig Marko (Graham Shiels) whose owner (Treat Williams) markets hockey brawls no matter the injury or long term cost to the players, even if that means having the team doctors lie to the players about their health and falsify medical test results.
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To take down a shipping CEO (Cary Elwes) responsible for a plane crash the Leverage team comes back together after their separate vacations to run an elaborate con involving Howard Hughes‘ vintage aircraft, the Spruce Goose. The team also has mixed feelings about moving into their new Portland headquarters, in the back of a microbrewery, following the events of last season’s finale that left their former home base burned and staked out by several members of law enforcement.
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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.
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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.
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