The team discovers that the key to taking down a corrupt financier is the fate of an Alaskan mountain climber who is missing. When Nate visits Mark’s isolated mansion, he becomes a prime suspect in a classic thriller mystery. Nate plans to turn a shadowy political consultant into a celebrity. The question is if Nate can resist the limelight himself. The team pursues the lost Van Gogh masterpiece and re-enact a love affair between the only two people who know its exact whereabouts. When an agribusiness takes a tuber from its owner, Sophie takes the lead in an improvised con that sees them recover the tuber from the headquarters of the agribusiness.

The team tries to steal a new computer chip from a family household. However, in an attempt to steal this chip, they discover that the family child is kidnapped, and they decide to get the child back. Elliot faces Roper, an old adversary. The Leverage team goes after a grifter and her two sons, who are posing as funeral directors, while embezzling money from clients and selling identities of the dead to a drug dealer. Hardison is kidnapped, and buried alive and it is up to the team to save his life. Meanwhile, Carter’s feelings for Hardison become more apparent. When the team goes against a legendary con who knows every con in the book, Nate decides that since they can’t con him, they will have to rob him instead. When a sickly defense contractor steals a heart intended for a 15 year old, the team has to steal an airport in less than two hours, to stop the heart from being flown out. The leverage team goes back to college to investigate a research program and Hardison as a cooler version of him.