A job for the wife of a wrongly-jailed restaurateur lands the team between the FBI and rival mob families.A job for the wife of a wrongly-jailed restaurateur lands the team between the FBI and rival mob families.A job for the wife of a wrongly-jailed restaurateur lands the team between the FBI and rival mob families.
Marisa Lee Runyon
- Maria Moscone
- (as Marisa Lee)
Bianca Bonciu
- Bridesmaid #2
- (uncredited)
Maritza Cabrera
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaFirst interactive appearance of the inept FBI agents Taggert and McSweetin, whose careers will continue to skyrocket thanks to the intervention of Nate and his team. (First appearance was The Bank Shot Job, but they never met the Leverage team.)
- GoofsWhen Hardison is moving through the house installing hidden microphones, he places one on the inside of the wooden front of a sideboard. This is a completely illogical location since it is facing a mirror in the middle of the sideboard and anyone looking at the mirror would easily spot the microphone.
- Quotes
Eliot Spencer: What, you think the only thing I know how to do is bust heads?
Nathan Ford: No! Well, yeah.
Eliot Spencer: Look, hold a knife like this, cuts through an onion. Hold a knife like this, cuts through, like, eight yakuza in four seconds. Screams, carnage.
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Subpar episode, but still worth viewing
Television shows are often defined by two distinct schedules: the order in which episodes are filmed, and the order in which they are shown. The former matters in terms of the main cast learning their characters and developing them over the course of the show, while the latter matters in terms of how the developments are presented to the viewer. With a largely episodic show such as Leverage, the latter matters less, which gave the TNT network which originally aired the show an opportunity to rearrange some of the episodes to show them in the way they thought best. And while it works, little clues can crop up that expose the shuffling that took place.
"The Wedding Job" is one of the more obvious examples of this. It's an early example of a recurring theme of "the team versus the mob," as the crew takes on Nicky Moscone, a mob boss who pressures a restaurant owner to take the fall for murdering a rival. With the owner's family in need of the money Moscone promised but never provided, the team goes undercover as staff for the upcoming wedding of Moscone's daughter to steal it. The setting proves an effective introduction to Eliot's skills as a chef (one of the better recurring elements of the series) and a more awkward vehicle for exploring Nate and Sophie's relationship.
That exploration seems as though it comes out of nowhere, given that the two of them were getting along nicely in the previous episodes. It's just one of the clues that this episode was meant to be aired earlier than it was. Another is a conversation midway through the episode between Eliot and Hardison in which Eliot mentions a relationship in his past that is almost certainly the one with featured in "The Two-Horse Job," yet it's introduced as though it's unknown to Hardison. And finally there's the inclusion of agents Taggert and McSweeten, the clueless FBI agents who serve as intermittent comic relief for the rest of the series. If they look familiar it's because they appeared at the end of "The Bank Shot Job," in a cameo that would have made more sense had this episode preceded it.
While the reordering doesn't seriously detract from the story, it is one of the weaker episodes of the first season. It's especially unfortunate given the caliber of the guest stars in it. Foremost among them is Dan Lauria, who hardly needs to exert himself to play the episode's mark. He is more than ably assisted by Nicole Sullivan, who makes the most of the momozilla caricature the story requires her to play. And while Andrew Divoff is largely wasted as the Russian mobster doing business with Moscone, this is more than offset by Anthony De Longis's performance as "the butcher of Kiev" (seriously, that's the only name he gets in the episode). Though they and the cast all put in solid performances, they can only do so much with the material they have. The result is a subpar episode, albeit one that still makes for entertaining viewing.
"The Wedding Job" is one of the more obvious examples of this. It's an early example of a recurring theme of "the team versus the mob," as the crew takes on Nicky Moscone, a mob boss who pressures a restaurant owner to take the fall for murdering a rival. With the owner's family in need of the money Moscone promised but never provided, the team goes undercover as staff for the upcoming wedding of Moscone's daughter to steal it. The setting proves an effective introduction to Eliot's skills as a chef (one of the better recurring elements of the series) and a more awkward vehicle for exploring Nate and Sophie's relationship.
That exploration seems as though it comes out of nowhere, given that the two of them were getting along nicely in the previous episodes. It's just one of the clues that this episode was meant to be aired earlier than it was. Another is a conversation midway through the episode between Eliot and Hardison in which Eliot mentions a relationship in his past that is almost certainly the one with featured in "The Two-Horse Job," yet it's introduced as though it's unknown to Hardison. And finally there's the inclusion of agents Taggert and McSweeten, the clueless FBI agents who serve as intermittent comic relief for the rest of the series. If they look familiar it's because they appeared at the end of "The Bank Shot Job," in a cameo that would have made more sense had this episode preceded it.
While the reordering doesn't seriously detract from the story, it is one of the weaker episodes of the first season. It's especially unfortunate given the caliber of the guest stars in it. Foremost among them is Dan Lauria, who hardly needs to exert himself to play the episode's mark. He is more than ably assisted by Nicole Sullivan, who makes the most of the momozilla caricature the story requires her to play. And while Andrew Divoff is largely wasted as the Russian mobster doing business with Moscone, this is more than offset by Anthony De Longis's performance as "the butcher of Kiev" (seriously, that's the only name he gets in the episode). Though they and the cast all put in solid performances, they can only do so much with the material they have. The result is a subpar episode, albeit one that still makes for entertaining viewing.
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- academic-drifter
- Mar 18, 2021
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- Runtime41 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1
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