Episode
Leverage: The (Very) Big Bird Job
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- Leverage
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2012-07-15
- Runtime
- 42 min
Episode context
The (Very) Big Bird Job is Episode 1 in Season 5 of Leverage. It aired on 2012-07-15. The runtime is 42 min.
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