Leverage“The Wedding Job”
Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
Apparently, Kevin’s dad is also the head of the Mafia. Yep, that’s Dan Lauria of The Wonder Years fame guesting in this episode as a Mafia heavy who set an innocent restauranteur up for a murder he committed in the place. The restaurant owner’s wife – who just happens to be an old friend of Sophie’s, so I guess you could call this “the Sophie backstory episode” – wants the title to the restaurant back so at least her husband has something to look forward to. Nate whinges a lot about the Mafia, but relents and the Leverage team has its next case.
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Original Air Date: Jan 13, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
Apparently, Kevin’s dad is also the head of the Mafia. Yep, that’s Dan Lauria of The Wonder Years fame guesting in this episode as a Mafia heavy who set an innocent restauranteur up for a murder he committed in the place. The restaurant owner’s wife – who just happens to be an old friend of Sophie’s, so I guess you could call this “the Sophie backstory episode” – wants the title to the restaurant back so at least her husband has something to look forward to. Nate whinges a lot about the Mafia, but relents and the Leverage team has its next case.
They start with a little information gathering, which consists of Parker and Hardison once again impersonating FBI agents so they can steal one’s badge for Eliot to copy. Eliot then tries to go into the FBI building with a flash drive to copy the Bureau’s surveillance on the mob boss, Mosconi – only to find out it’s all still on cassette tapes. This makes Hardison cry. He and Eliot bicker about technology as Eliot hilariously tries to swipe as many tapes as he can, and Alec sets the fire alarm off. Seventy-odd tapes on a Walkman (!) later, they decide to infiltrate the Mob heavy’s McMansion to swipe a large sum of money, using the guy’s daughter’s wedding as an in. Which means they all have a hilariously over-the-top role to play: Nate the reverend (obviously, given “The Miracle Job”), Sophie the wedding planner, Eliot the chef, Hardison the wedding DJ and Parker as Sophie’s assistant. They all look ridiculous, and this sets up a number of hilarious scenes. We see Sophie being annoyed by the Mob boss’s wife (wonderfully played by Nicole Sullivan from MadTV) and trying to lecture the bride-to-be about men; Eliot trying to cook for an entire wedding party and wanting to stab the bride’s mom with a Ginsu knife when she insults his cooking; and Hardison having a case of male PMS. Probably the best scene is back at headquarters, when the once-married Nate unleashes a rant about how overblown weddings are.
They manage to get to the wedding day, but things get even worse when one of the guests happens to be the infamous Butcher of Kiev, who can ID Eliot from a past engagement. Nate wants to pull the plug, but Sophie (accusing him of “fear of intimacy” no less) wants to stay, so they have no choice but to continue on with the show. Which means Parker in a really awful bridesmaid’s dress, and Nate officiating the wedding. While Nate stalls for time (very badly by telling every lesson he ever learned during marriage), Parker searches the house for the money, which is supposed to be in the house’s screening room. But someone has beaten her – and Mosconi and the Russian he’s doing business with – to the money, meaning someone other than Hardison is gonna cry. Especially when we find out it’s the Russian’s brother Mosconi shot all those years ago. When Eliot goes to help, the Butcher spots him and is none too happy either.
Nate and Sophie do a little work at the reception, and when Sophie steals the mob guy’s wife’s phone, she finds out that his wife phoned the Russian earlier. They deduce that she set up her husband in order to take over. Sophie goes to find her and stop her; Eliot is dealing with the Butcher fittingly in the kitchen; and Parker breaks up the scene in the screening room by pretending to be ridiculously drunk (and there to have sex with Hardison, no less). Eliot kicks butt, Nate deals with the Russian by tipping off the mob guys, and Sophie gets in a catfight with Mrs. Mosconi – or tries to, anyway. This is just enough to get Mosconi to change all the passwords on his bank accounts, which the team overhears via the house phone from where they’re all hanging out in the kitchen. Hardison proceeds to clean out the mob boss’s bank accounts, and yet another bad guy is brought down with a wink and a smile, just in time for them to surprise Sophie’s buddy with a party at the newly reclaimed restaurant – with the news that Mosconi’s arrest may spring her husband from prison, thanks to Parker using one of the FBI’s surveillance bugs while hiding out in the screening room.
Our team sits down for some much deserved food – cooked by Eliot no less – and conversation. We can see that they’re really starting to come together as a group, and bond. Another hilarious episode, and one that leaves me with a nice, warm, fuzzy feeling. What did you think? Sound off below.
Line of the episode - "Did you just kill someone with an appetiser?" :D Really good ep, it was meant to appear earlier in the running order and it showed it a little, but not enough to be distracting. Interesting that the Hardison/Parker banter has been there from the get go, they really do spark well.
ReplyDeleteI'm kinda back on "Marriage is like pushing a cart through Home Depot." I'm also really interested to see where the Hardison/Parker thing goes. It's obvious to me they're pushing the Nate/Sophie thing, but I'm not feeling that despite the actors' best efforts; I'm much more engaged in Alec and Parker and whatever they might turn out to be. But I was laughing out loud from the beginning of the ep, really adored it.
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