The Wedding Job

An impossible plot but great fun all the way around. The story begins when a mob boss kills a man in cold blood in a restaurant. He then puts a guy in jail, making promises to him, letting him rot. The wife comes to the Leverage office and pleads to get back everything they lost: their restaurant, their peace, their lives.

The mob daughter is going to get married and they finagle their ways into the wedding, doing various jobs.

Meanwhile, the opposing mob shows up to be paid for services rendered.

The funny part of the show is Eliot getting into cooking for the entire reception. Nathan dresses as a priest, and the others do their usual deceptive roles.

Of course, with all the evil in the rooms, it is not going to be easy.

This episode is basically a lot of fun with a harsh ending.

I thought the show was great it was good to see Timothy Hutton doing this show as well. The actress who played Teresa Palermo (Lisa Joffrey) was really wonderful and I think I have seen her before on other shows. She was very moving. There was a lot of humanity in her performance. The plot of the show had plenty of twists and turns and also a good level of humor. Great job cheers to all. This show also reminds me of another show that had a similar set up and ran similar stories that was on AMC I forget the name of that show but I liked it also I believe it took place in England and it was not the same but similar. That didn't bother me though I still liked Leverage.

A mobster has murdered someone and apparently he told an innocent man to testify that HE did the killing, not the mobster. And, if he doesn't, his family will die. Now, several years later, his wife has come to Leverage to aks for their help. While getting the husband out of prison is doubtful, she wants the money the mobster promised them if the husband took the blame...and they never saw a penny. However, Nathan is VERY apprehensive to accept the case. After all, the guy IS a mob boss and these folks aren't known for their niceness! But a chance to help does present itself, as the mobster's daughter is getting married and they pose as wedding planners to infiltrate.

This is an enjoyable episode, though it seemed silly that they could just walk into a mob compound with few questions asked. Still, it's never dull and is worth your time.

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.