The Long Con

In part two of the season finale, the team is in a bad way. The FBI has them nearly trapped, and now Sterling has joined the hunt. Nate refuses to give up the job regardless of whether or not it puts them directly in harm’s way. They kidnap the Mayor to have a bargaining chip against the FBI, but Sterling turns it around on Nate by trapping him at his apartment. Nate has one big choice to make: him or the team. Who is going to save them this time? I WONDER.

We had some microphone issues this week. We're really sorry!

The team’s ally Lieutenant Bonnano gets shot down during a secret meet, and Nate takes it personally. This leads him to the possible culprit, the Mayor of a Massachusetts town who doesn’t seem to have any problem selling himself to the highest bidder. Nate decides the best way to taunt him is to take away his prized baseball team, and Eliot becomes their star player. Unfortunately, Nate is too drunk and messed up to see he’s walking the team right into a trap, and it might be one they won’t be able to get out of.

A fame-seeking fake psychic Dalton Rand is scamming people for their money by pretending to get in touch with their loved ones, and the team is hired by the brother of one of his victims. Things get more personal when Rand cold reads Parker and brings out a painful memory of her past. The team intends to scam him back by pretending that Tara is a real psychic and getting Rand to hire her for his new show. However, a criminal complicates things when he mistakes Rand and Tara for real psychics and tries to force them into finding money his former partner hid years ago. Is Luke Perry still as dreamy as he was on 90210? Did Parker get some closure on her brother’s death from bringing it out into the open? All that and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team gets recruited by Sterling to Kiev to help him retrieve a stolen Faberge Egg insured by his company, and the only reason they get involved is because Nate’s ex-wife Maggie is being framed for the theft. They manage to get her out of jail, but things get complicated when it seems Maggie’s new boyfriend Alexander might be the thief they need to take down. Nate struggles with his drinking and his jealousy over Maggie moving on, and when he gets taken by the bad guy, Eliot has to step up as the new Mastermind.

Thanks to my epic fail a few weeks back on the Lost Heir Job, I never did start the episode out with Christian's song as promised. Sorry about that, guys. Enjoy "Seven Days" at the beginning of this week's episode instead!

The Bottle Job:

The team gets pulled into an emergency con when Nate visits a wake at the bar underneath his apartment. It turns out that it used to be his father’s bar, and that the owner, an old friend, recently died. His daughter is hustled by an Irish loanshark and Nate intends to pull ‘The Wire’ job on him, getting him to bet away the loan owed to him. However, due to consuming alcohol and what he finds out about the loanshark, Nate insists on running a second and even more elaborate con. The only question on everyone’s mind: When will we see shirtless Hardison again? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

The team is adjusting to having Tara as their new grifter, and Nate in particular is not happy about it. Sophie encourages them to trust her judgment and to accept Tara, and their first job together involves a cheap garment sweat shop. Nate promises to help one of the sweat shop workers get out of her debt to Russell and Gloria Pan, a vicious couple who bring people to the country to take advantage of them. The crew decides to sneak into Fashion Week in an attempt to fool Gloria, who has ambitions to be a fashion designer, but things get complicated when they learn the Triad is involved. Is guyliner okay in the fashion world? Will Nate ever talk in more than slogans? Will he and Sophie ever talk again? All this and more on this episode of Leverage.

With Sophie still taking some time away to find herself, the team takes on a crooked lawyer attempting to get his hands on a fortune belonging to his recently-deceased client. The crew plans to convince the lawyer to pay up by proving the dead man had a long-lost daughter. All the while working around their client's lawyer, who may not be everything she appears to be.

Just in time to celebrate the return of Leverage Season 3, we bring you The Ice Man Job. With Sophie MIA, the team switches up their roles in a con to help take down the corrupt owner of a jewlery business who had his own mercandise stolen in order to claim the insurance. Hardison goes in as the team's grifter and gets himself in too deep with the mark's Russian goons. It's up to the team to bail him out and finish the con.

Episode 20 is here! The Two Live Crew Job is one of our favorites. We hope you enjoy listening to this episode half has much as we did recording it. When Nate and the team are asked to recover a stolen painting, the go in to get it back, but find that another crew has already beaten them to it. The two teams go head to head after Nate decides to take them on to get the painting back. (And to maybe prove that his team is the best after all.)

We're finally on our way back to releasing episodes on a regular schedule again. Thanks for sticking with us guys, and we hope that everyone is gearing up for the final three episodes of Season 3!