Leverage - Season 5.01 - 5.09 - Episode Synopsis

Season Premiere: "The (Very) Big Bird Job" – Sunday, July 15, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
When a shipping CEO’s cost-cutting measures result in a plane crash, the Leverage team cons him into buying the largest plane ever built – the Spruce Goose – in order to expose him before a merger is completed that would put more lives at risk.

Directed by John Rogers
Written by John Rogers
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey

"The Blue Line Job" – Sunday, July 22, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
While trying to save a stubborn hockey enforcer from sustaining permanent injury in the playoffs, the Leverage crew discovers that someone has nefarious designs on the team.

Directed by Marc Roskin
Written by M. Scott Veach & Paul Guyot
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey

"The First Contact Job" – Sunday, August 5, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
The Leverage team takes down a wealthy scientist who stole his former research partner's discovery and ruined his reputation. Their tactic is to convince him he’s made first contact with aliens..

Directed by Jonathan Frakes
Written by Aaron Denius Garcia
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


"The French Connection Job" – Sunday, August 12, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
The Leverage team goes inside the world of culinary schools and celebrity chefs to bring down a corrupt restaurateur who destroys lives in his pursuit of fame and money.

Directed by Tawnia McTiernan
Written by Paul Guyot
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


"The Gimme a K Street Job" – Sunday, August 19, at 8 p.m. (ET/PT)
To take down a competitive cheerleading company that profits by putting teenage girls at risk, the team must tackle its most corrupt foe yet: Congress.

Directed by Jonathan Frakes
Written by Jeremy Bernstein
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


"The D.B. Cooper Job" – Sunday, August 26, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
A dying FBI Agent's greatest failure – allowing skyjacker D.B. Cooper to escape justice –becomes Nate's obsession as he looks back to the '70s to solve one of America's great mysteries.

Directed by Marc Roskin
Written by Chris Downey
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


"The Real Fake Car Job" – Sunday, September 2, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
The Leverage team fakes the discovery of a legendary antique car in order to convince a Wall Street fraud to break the immunity deal that protects him from prosecution.

Directed by John Harrison
Written by Josh Schaer
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


"The White Rabbit Job" – Sunday, September 9, at 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
In order to prevent a businessman from destroying his company and the town it supports, the Leverage team must run the hardest con in grifter history: the White Rabbit.

Directed by P.J. Pesce
Written by Geoffrey Thorne
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


“The Frame-Up Job” – Sunday, September 16, 9 p.m. (ET/PT)
When Sophie is implicated in the theft of a valuable painting, Nate must use all his skills as an investigator to find the real culprit and clear her name.

Directed by Marc Roskin
Written by Geoffrey Thorne & Jeremy Bernstein
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey


“The Rundown Job” – Sunday, September 16, 10 p.m. (ET/PT)
Eliot, Hardison and Parker join Colonel Vance in a race to stop a terrorist from launching a biological attack on Washington, D.C.

Directed by Dean Devlin
Written by Chris Downey & Josh Schaer
Created by John Rogers & Chris Downey

Source: TNT