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The Company You Keep – Pilot

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  • Title: The Company You Keep – Pilot
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On the night each of their previous relationships have gone down in flames, con man and criminal Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) and CIA Agent Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim) meet in a hotel bar and spend the next 36 hours together. The “Pilot” episode captures their meeting, and the couple other run-ins between the pair, but is primarily focused on their separate lives with Charlie’s criminal family (Sarah Wayne Callies, Polly Draper, and William Fichtner) getting the bulk of the screentime. For Emma we get the standard “too smart to be listened to” set-up for her character that, like Charlie, sees things others miss.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Turkish Prisoner Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Turkish Prisoner Job
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Letting Harry (Noah Wyle) take the lead, the team goes up against a couple of crooked local cops (Alanna Masterson and Derek Theler) jailing honest people for real estate kickbacks after their homes get foreclosed. The transition from taking down the cops to saving the life of their latest victim is a little more clumsy than usual with Harry in charge, but the team manages to pull off a classic con sending the pair of marks after hidden treasure allowing their greed to blind them temporarily. 

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Leverage: Redemption – The Big Rig Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Big Rig Job
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Just before Christmas, the Leverage team targets a trucking company whose new owners’ (Garrett Coffey and Kate Eastman) predatory practices are stealing money from employees and lining their own pockets, and also smuggling guns for the local mafia, while planning to gut and sell the company. After the team’s antics tank the inspection of the prospective buyers, Parker (Beth Riesgraf) and Harry (Noah Wyle) step-in as a reality-TV crew gaining more access and getting the would-be influencer of the siblings on-tape about her dirty business practices (a thread which the episode drops after the smuggling in discovered).

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Leverage: Redemption – The Fractured Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Fractured Job
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Eliot (Christian Kane) returns home… again. For those who don’t remember, one of earliest episodes of Leverage focused on Eliot, with his Leverage pals in tow, returning to Kentucky to help out his high school sweetheart. 14 years later, Leverage: Redemption sends Eliot back home to Oklahoma (not Kentucky) and a small town (rather than a ranch or farm) in attempts to make up with his estranged father. While in town, he uncovers a fracking conspiracy and cover-up that brings in the rest of the team to save the small town.

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Leverage: Redemption – The Walk in the Woods Job

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  • Title: Leverage: Redemption – The Walk in the Woods Job
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The apparent murder of Eliot‘s (Christian Kane) old friend sends the Leverage team after a former soldier (Eric Nenninger) turned head of a private security company who bombed the clinic to prevent the victim from sharing damaging information. To find evidence of the man’s misdeeds, the team crashes a gathering of a (rather kooky) secret organization made up of the country’s power brokers which their mark’s company is providing security for.

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