Due to sub-standard safety precautions and a build-up of methane gases, a mine explodes, killing several of its workers. Two years later, the mine owner has used his Government issued funds to buy off a local Attorney General instead of using it to make the mines a safer place to work. The team takes on two bad guys as they con the mine owner into buying a useless Colton mining process, and make sure to bring his AG down with him. Does Eliot have a future in the mining industry? Can Parker really steal your soul? And how in the hell does Gina still look gorgeous even when wearing a hard hat? All that and more, on this episode of Leverage.

Innocent people are being blackmailed into doing illegal things in exchange for their families not being harmed. At first the team thinks it is just a bunch of Russian thugs doing the con, but it turns out they’re being led by Jimmy Ford, Nate’s criminal father. He’s out of jail and tired of being small time. He wants to do one big score. He starts working out of Nate’s bar, and Nate is determined to take his father down at any cost. The team is uncomfortable but agree to help him, but who exactly is being conned? Jimmy or Nate? What game will win out, chess or three-card monte? Let’s find out on this episode of Leverage!

An innocent teacher is framed for the theft of a car he thought he bought legitimately from a crooked car dealer named Duke Penzer. He has a team of car thieves under his command, and Parker is reminded of her past in the same business. Nate poses as a rival car dealer in the same business as Parker infiltrates the thieves, and Sophie grifts as Nate’s best saleswoman who Duke wants to steal. Things go wrong when Parker warns a young girl who reminds her of herself, and she warns the bad guys. Should Hardison make ear buds that are waterproof? Is Sophie the answer to a failing economy? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

A con-man has been stealing money from people by posing as the IRS and demanding late payments from them. He uses the money to fund a private militia who plan to stage a ‘revolution’ against the government. The Leverage team con him into investing his money with a shell company and all seems to be going to plan, but Hardison and Eliot are captured while posing as IRS agents. They have to figure out a way to take him down, dismantle the militia, and save their boys in the meantime! Do Hardison and Eliot need saving? Is virtual fishing the same as real fishing? All that and more on this episode of Leverage!

This week the team is taking down a corrupt Country record executive, who has made himself rich and powerful by taking what he wants by force, and pushing other people around. They decide to go after him by running the Fiddle game on him, with Eliot acting as the fiddle. Posing as a up and coming country singer, Eliot performs the only song their client has left. But the team has to act fast when they find out the mark intends to have Eliot killed and steal the song for himself. Will there ever be another music video as amazing as Kirkwood’s? Exactly how many countries have a price on Eliot’s head? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

A new client literally runs into Hardison and Eliot as she’s being followed by evil henchmen, and it turns out she’s looking into the truth behind her sister’s sudden death. A pharmaceutical company’s test drug is the cause, and everyone who took it is now dead. The head of the company plans to use that same drug and sell it as a new one, regardless of the tragic deaths it will cause. It’s up to the team to pull a double blind job on him. At the same time, Parker is struggling with her growing feelings … for pretzels

The Leverage Team is asked to help a journalist bring down the power hungry brother of the foreign president of Wadata. They end up doing the dirty work for the mysterious (and annoying) Italian in The Scherazade Job. The team times a robbery to an orchestra performance in order to get their hands on the smuggled diamonds that would fund Moto's coup on his brother. Will Hardison be able to play the most difficult violinist solo known to man? Is the Italian chick really necessary? Will Nate forever be a bastard? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is taken on a surprise mission when they find out Parker is trying to help save her old mentor, legendary thief Archie Leach. His family is being threatened if he cannot steal biotech research, but the building it is in has a famous security system called Steranko. It is supposed to be impossible to hack and steal from, because the system learns and adapts. Can the team save Parker from her own crazy mission? Why didn’t Archie just adopt her already? Why does Hardison call the girl he likes ‘mama’? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team goes after a computer software tycoon who is gathering the names and locations of protesters in Iran, and plans to sell them to people who want them silenced. Hardison is unable to hack into his computer, because he's still using the one he had in the 80s, and he is absolutely obsessed with his past in high school. The team stages a high school reunion to try and get his passwords out of him and end up having to save his life from an assasin at the same time. Would Nate and Sophie have dated in high school? Does anyone care if Eliot's alive? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

Season three finds Nate behind bars after turning himself in in the season finale and unwilling to get Shawshanked by the team. While the team is working on ways of getting him out, Nate discovers that the warden is corrupt and bribing judges to give ridiculously harsh punishments for minor offenses. This ensures that the warden can keep his occupancy up and his state funding coming in. Will the team be able to bring down the warden and talk Nate into escaping? Will Sophie ever tell Nate her real name? Did Leverage accurately convey life in prison? All this and more in this episode.