Leverage - Season 1

When Nathan Ford, a former insurance company investigator, is approached by a man asking him to help retrieve some stolen airplane designs, he is dubious. When he finds out that the job requires him to supervise and maintain control of three known thieves that he himself caught in the course of his insurance investigations, he's more than dubious. However, the job offers him the opportunity to get some of his own revenge on the insurance company that allowed his son to die, so he takes it despite his misgivings. After they steal the designs, the team discovers they have been double-crossed and must figure out how to return the property to the rightful owner.

Corporal Robert Perry, an Army reservist who fought in Iraq, was severely injured in an apparent error by Castleman Security, government contractors working in Iraq. The Army investigation clears Castleman of involvement, thus freeing them of any monetary obligation, and Perry lives too far from veteran's resources to receive government funded treatment that would allow him to work. He contacts Nathan Ford for help. What Nathan Ford and the rest of the Leverage team find is far more than a simple error.

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, who lost everything.

Nate and the team help his old friend Father Paul stop the demolition of his church by a shady developer. Nate's means, however, a fake miracle, are a lot less holy than his ends.

Nate, Sophie, and the mark, a corrupt judge, are taken hostage during a botched bank robbery. The team tries to help the two amateur and desperate robbers.

The team goes after an adoption company that is scamming couples looking to adopt war orphans. So, the team hijacks the production of a horror movie. Trying to recover a child for a grieved couple hits close to home for Parker.

A job for the wife of a wrongly-jailed restaurateur lands the team between the FBI and rival mob families. The team poses as wedding planners to get close to a Mafia boss and must pull off a wedding while pulling off the heist.

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.

The team goes after a construction company that foreclosed on a National Guardsman's home, but Nate complicates the simple con of the sleazy contractor and his sons when hundreds of more victims are revealed. Also, Nate puts the team in jeopardy with his drinking.

The team cons an alcoholic embezzler into entering rehab to try to recover the money he swindled from a charity. This causes Nate to confront some of his own issues regarding alcoholism.

When one of Parker's aliases receives jury duty, Nate forces her to go, resulting in a showdown between the team and a corporation tampering with the jury.

The team goes after the CEO of Nate's former insurance company, responsible for denying his late son's medical care, but the situation causes conflict among the crew.

Nate comes out of hiding and tries to get his team back together to directly challenge Sterling and take down Blackpoole for good. Nate finally tells Maggie how Blackpoole's denial of their insurance claim led to their son's death. So, she helps the team.