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Leverage is nearing the end of its second season right about now, with just six new episodes left for the winter portion of its current second season. After watching 22 intricate and entertaining cons unfold right before your eyes on the small screen, do you have a favorite one that sticks out in your mind?
Well, TNT certainly does, and the network has even gone so far as to put together a nice roundup of what it considers Team Nate’s ten bestest and finest jobs. Continue reading to check ‘em out and decide if you agree.
TNT’s Top 10 Leverage Jobs
10. The Three Days of the Hunter Job
Season 2, Episode 5
Original Air Date: August 12, 2009
Team Nate schemes to discredit a fear-mongering TV reporter as Parker and Hardison play the grifters and Sophie manages the con.
9. The Two-Horse Job
Season 1, Episode 3
Original Air Date: December 16, 2008
Sophie plays a Southern belle and Eliot shows his romantic side when Team Nate takes down an evil businessman who kills horses just to make money.
8. The Tap Out Job
Season 2, Episode 2
Original Air Date: July 22, 2009
Eliot gets his fight on inside the ring to help Team Nate seek justice for a sleazy mixed martial arts promoter. UFC fighter and Olympic wrestler Matt Lindland guest stars.
7. The Lost Heir Job
Season 2, Episode 9
Original Air Date: September 9, 2009
Jeri Ryan‘s character Tara Cole arrives during the summer finale to help take up some slack while Sophie is away during Team Nate’s attempts to foil a shady lawyer intent on stealing his client’s inheritance.
6. The Mile High Job
Season 1, Episode 8
Original Air Date: January 20, 2009
Team Nate flies the dangerous skies to a Caymans con job and almost ends up in a plane crash during the trip … fortunately, however, land-locked Hardison saves the day and his colleagues’ lives.
5. The Nigerian Job
Season 1, Episode 1
Original Air Date: December 7, 2008
The flashback-filled series premiere that hooked me and tons of other diehard fans introduces us to Team Nate as they work together for the first time and then realize they can still be crooks while working for a good cause.
4. The Bank Shot Job
Season 1, Episode 5
Original Air Date: December 30, 2008
The villains turn out to be the victims when Team Nate helps apparent bank robbers get revenge on a crooked judge.
3. The First David Job
Season 1, Episode 12
Original Air Date: February 17, 2009
Team Nate steals valuable art to help the boss get even with his slimy former employer, the jerk who was responsible for denying the much-needed insurance claim for Nate’s son.
2. The Second David Job
Season 1, Episode 13
Original Air Date: February 24, 2009
But wait … there’s more, namely the season finale. With their covers blown and their future in conning now in serious danger, the members of Team Nate regroup and get a little essential help from Nate’s ex-wife (Kari Matchett of TNT’s Heartland) to finish what they started during the first David job.
1. The Two Live Crew Job
Season 2, Episode 7
Original Air Date: August 26, 2009
Team Nate meets its match when an annoying, equally competent rival crew tries to best them on the same job: retrieving millions in lifted art.
Leverage will present six brand-new episodes this winter, starting on Wednesday, January 13, at 10pm ET.
