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"Leverage" (2008): Season 1: Episode 9 -- Nate complicates a simple con regarding a sleazy contractor and the recovery of a family's house.
"Leverage" (2008): Season 1: Episode 8 -- The team traces incriminating evidence about a corporation's misdeeds to two witnesses on a plane to the Cayman Islands, not knowing what the corporation has planned for the flight.
"Leverage" (2008): Season 1: Episode 7 -- A job for the wife of a wrongly-jailed restaurateur lands the team between the FBI and rival mob families.
"Leverage" (2008): Season 1: Episode 5 -- While Nate and Sophie try to con a corrupt Judge, they are taken hostage during a botched bank robbery.
"Leverage" (2008): Season 1: Episode 3 -- After a Wall Street broker sets fire to his stable-killing his underachieving racehorses in the process-the team visits Kentucky to help the heartsick trainer, Eliot's high school love.

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Seasons:
1 | 2 full episode list
Genre:
Crime | Drama | Thriller more
Plot:
A crew of high-tech crooks attempt to steal from wealthy criminals and corrupt businessmen.
Awards:
2 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(39 articles)
TV Review: Leverage Season 2 Premiere
 (From Beyond Hollywood. 10 July 2009, 8:30 AM, PDT)

TNT Introduce New Online Games "Leverage" And "Dark Blue"
 (From iCelebz. 9 July 2009, 11:53 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Generally positive, but the jury's still out more

Cast

 (Series Cast Summary - 5 of 23)

Timothy Hutton ... Nathan Ford (15 episodes, 2008-2009)

Christian Kane ... Eliot Spencer (15 episodes, 2008-2009)
Aldis Hodge ... Alec Hardison (15 episodes, 2008-2009)
Gina Bellman ... Sophie Devereaux (15 episodes, 2008-2009)

Beth Riesgraf ... Parker (15 episodes, 2008-2009)
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Additional Details

Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Certification:
Netherlands:12
Filming Locations:
Portland, Oregon, USA

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Trivia:
Christian Kane, who plays Eliot Spencer, played Lindsey McDonald in "Angel" (1999). Sam Anderson, who played his boss in Angel, plays Henry Retzing, one of their marks, in the episode "The Snow Job." Kane and Anderson say that they exchanged a wink on camera as a reference to this in one scene. more
Quotes:
Alec Hardison: [just lost a bet to Eliot] How did you know?
Eliot Spencer: You have a tell.
Alec Hardison: I have a tell? In Rock-Paper-Scissors, I have a tell?
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25 out of 33 people found the following comment useful:-
Generally positive, but the jury's still out, 8 December 2008
8/10
Author: Bob Stout from Houston, Texas, USA

I could tell from the trailers that Leverage would be the kind of show I'd enjoy - good guys vs. bad guys without the ambiguity of the legal system to get in the way. It did indeed deliver on that promise. It was cleverly paced and scripted and populated with interesting, likable characters.

So why is the jury still out? The short answer is that I DVR'ed it and watched it more than once.

Although it's slick, the script had holes it just hoped you wouldn't notice. When compared to a show with really clever scripts (e.g. Burn Notice), I found too many "wait a minute" moments - places where your successful suspension of disbelief depends on the viewer's short attention span or lack of reasoning ability. I won't drop spoilers to name some of the more obvious ones - if anyone doesn't notice them, who am I to point them out?

There's a lot of talent in this series. I only hope that in the future they allow the scriptwriters a little more time to work out the kinks before shooting.

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