THE NIGERIAN JOB
Original Airdate: December 7, 2008
Written by John Rogers & Chris Downy
Directed by Dean Devlin
A desperate aerospace CEO asks Nate Ford – an insurance investigator who once specialized in recovering stolen goods worth millions – to lead a team of expert thieves to recover airplane from the rival company that took them. But there’s a twist: the designs were never the CEO’s to begin with. Now, the honest man he hired must convince the band of criminals to do the right thing…steal the plans back.
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THE HOMECOMING JOB
Original Airdate: December 9, 2008
Story by John Rogers & Dean Devlin
Teleplay by John Rogers
Directed by Dean Devlin
Leverage Consulting & Associates opens for business as the crew reunites to help a Reservist who’s been wounded in Iraq by private military contractors. In order to get the veteran the medical rehabilitation he needs but cannot afford, the team investigates why he was shot by friendly fire in the first place, and uncovers the security firm had a secret worth killing for.
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THE WEDDING JOB
Original Airdate: December 30, 2008
Written by Chris Downey
Directed by Jonathan Frakes
To retrieve the money promised to the family of an innocent man who took the fall for a Mafia boss, the Leverage team poses as the wedding planners for the don’s only daughter on her big day. Somehow, the team must manage to pull off a wedding in the midst of pulling off the heist, all while avoiding dangerous Russian mobster know as The Butcher.
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THE SNOW JOB
Original Airdate: January 27, 2009
Written by Albert Kim
Directed by Tony Bill
The Leverage team helps a beleagured National Guardsman find justice against the unscrupulous construction firm that foreclosed on his home. Knowing all too well what it feels like to fail as a father, Nate seeks solace in the bottle putting the team - and the job - in serious jeopardy.
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THE MILE HIGH JOB
Original Airdate: January 20, 2009
Written by Amy Berg
Directed by Rob Minkoff
The Leverage team attempts to expose a conglomerate’s cover-up of their toxic fertilizer, which has resulted in the death of a young girl. But the CEO has put all of the damning evidence on a plane to the Caymen islands. The team races to catch the flight but once airborne, they discover that the CEO’s intentions are far more sinister, and that to avenge one life they’ll have to save their own.
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THE MIRACLE JOB
Original Airdate: December 23, 2008
Written by Christine Boylan
Directed by Arvin Brown
When the downtown church of Nate's former priest - and childhood best friend - is about to be razed by a profittering real estate developer, the Leverage team must steal a miracle in order to save it. But as the story progresses, the question arises as to who exactly is saving whom.
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THE TWO-HORSE JOB
Original Airdate: December 16, 2008
Written by Melissa Glenn & Jessica Rieder
Directed by Craig R. Baxley
A high-rolling Wall Street broker burns down his own stable to kiss off his underperforming racehorses. The Leverage team goes to Kentucky to help the heartbroken horse trainer, who has lost everything and who also happens to be the father of Eliot’s high school sweetheart.
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THE BANK SHOT JOB
Original Airdate: January 21, 2009
Written by Amy Berg
Directed by Dean Devlin
While working a con on a corrupt judge in an outlying desert town, the team gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery, and Nate and Sophie are taken as hostages, along with their mark. Now they must not only find a way to keep their own con going without being discovered, but also figure out how to help two very desperate - and very amateur - armed robbers.
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THE STORK JOB
Original Airdate: January 6, 2009
Written by Albert Kim
Directed by Marc Roskin
The Leverage crew goes after a Serbian adoption agency that's scamming money from desperate American couples looking to adopt needy orphans. To entrap the ringleader and rescue the children, the team must hijack the local production of an independent horror movie.
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THE JUROR #6 JOB
Original Airdate: February 3, 2009
Written by Rebecca Kirsch
Directed by Jonathan Frakes
When Parker attends jury duty in order to keep up the legitimacy of one of her aliases, she notices some strange things at the trial. Is seems someone is trying to buy a favorable verdict, but not if the Leverage team can steal it first.
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THE 12-STEP JOB
Original Airdate: February 10, 2009
Written by Amy Berg & Chris Downey
Directed by Rod Hardy
The team targets an investment broker who swindled a charity. To discover when the money is hidden, they trick the alcoholic financier into entering a rehab facility. There they learn their mark is not the terrible person he at first appeared and that rehab may be exactly the place one of them needs to be.
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THE FIRST DAVID JOB
Original Airdate: February 17, 2009
Written by John Rogers
Directed by Dean Devlin
For Nate's benifit, the team targets the CEO of the company that denied Nate's son's medical treatment and allowed him to die. All they have to do is steal Blackpoole's prized Michelangelo maquette and sell it back to him as its twin. All goes according to plan until Sterling reappears.
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THE SECOND DAVID JOB
Original Airdate: February 24, 2009
Written by John Rogers & Chris Downey
Directed by Dean Devlin
Nate comes out of hiding to directly challenge Sterling and Blackpoole. This time he's going to steal both David statuettes right out from under their noses. But Nate's bigger challenge is to get his fractured team to work together again. The stakes have never been higher; either nate gets his vengeancce, or his friends go to jail for the rest of their lives.
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All of the mini episode summaries are the same as those written inside the 1st Season DVD set