Previewing the Second Half of Season Four of Leverage

When we last left off the Leverage team, the dude from Deadwood made an offer to Nate that he could refuse: he would offer up corrupt people for the Leverage team to take down, but in doing so will profit from the outcome. An offer that Nate not so politely decline, not that it has stopped Tom Nuttall from continuing to try to get Nate to accept.

That leads us to tonight when Leverage returns to finish up its fourth season with eight straight weeks worth of episodes. Yes that includes new episodes on Christmas and New Years Day and no there is no Christmas themed episode (no word on if they will re-air last year’s The Ho Ho Ho Job within the next month). Instead tonight the gang will be heading back to college to look into shady sociological experiments that use homeless veterans as their lab rats.

Fans of The Office will want to tune in next week (12/4) as the Leverage team infiltrates an office where someone is suspected of embezzlement all the while a documentary crew is filming the office and eighty percent of the episode uses just the documentary footage confessional style interviews that look like they were filmed in the Dufler Mifflin breakroom. Playing the role Michael Scott is Josh Randall (Ed’s Dr. Burton). Unfortunately none of the Leverage team takes the characterization of anyone else on the show, but it does look like Nate raided the closet of Dwight Schrute.

The next week starts up a special two week event where the boys and girls work on separate cons on the same night of their day off with Jeri Ryan reprising her role as Tara who replaced Sophia in the team during the second season. Naturally the ladies week is first. When the team finally convenes, they will be battling Emma Caulfield (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) who runs a ring of trophy wives targeting old men. When the new year comes, expect some more familiar faces as the season closes out including Tom Skerritt as Nate’s father, Richard Chamberlain as Parker’s “father”, Kari Matchett as Nate’s ex-wife, and yes, even Wil Wheaton returns as Chaos.

Leverage airs Sundays at 9:00 on TNT. You can stream recent episodes over at tnt.tv. You can also download Leverage on iTunes.