"...until you find out who burned you, you're not going anywhere."
In Made Man, Michael is still dealing with the spy he accidentally burned (Coby Bell) as he tries to not only get to who let out Simon in last season's finale, but also not let on to Jesse Michael is the one who burned him. It's all pretty complicated, but when you add a mob boss to the mix, it gets crazy.
The episode starts off with Michael and Jesse getting along much better than they did last week. While the chemistry is still a work in progress, Jesse tells Team Weston about a bad guy who can get them a lead nicknamed "Cobra." The best part is the team thought it was as goofy as a name as you did reading it and made fun of it the whole time. The investigation lead to the docks, where during some snooping, we hear the patented Weston voice over talking to us about the proper way to get intel. Meanwhile, Jesse sees a guard getting beat up and rushes over to stop it while Weston is focused more on the job at hand and less on some puny guard. Once the guard is rescued in a really good scene with Jesse, we find out a Mob Boss is working the docks, and now, Team Weston has a new client.
With a Mob Boss as the intended target, Team Weston tries to plant Michael as an FBI Agent ready to turn for the Boss. In an interesting change of pace, Weston's plan comes undone and he has to get out of the situation with some great fighting moves, which leaves non other than Jesse and Chuck Finlay to save the day. Finlay goes in and convinces the Mob Boss he is about to die, and the only way to save his own skin is to rob a big shipment of merchandise on the docks. After a great interrogation scene, we get Jesse telling the mob guy about a real life story from Sam's Navy Seal days, which gets Sam upset. After the heist job goes wrong, the team is forced to convince the Mob guy to confront his superior in a move to take over the business. After team Weston and all the guys backup disappears, the Mob boss and his superior shoot it out, resulting in no more problem for the guard.
On the overall story arc, we learn this "Cobra" guy dumped some sort of body out of a plane, which may be a dead end. We also find out why Jesse rushes in to save the little guy, and like all guys, it had to do with his mom getting gunned down when he was a kid. Apparently, no one did anything to help her, and she bled out. Finally, we also got Michael's mom showing that she is a master interrogator as she coaxes the truth about Jesse out, and figures out that Michael is the cause of Jesse's problem, and in the last scene, confront Michael about his lies, leaving our hero standing there, ready to start balling, as he tries to convince himself he is not a monster.
Overall, it wasn't a bad episode. This episode progressed the storyline of Jesse quite a bit, and for a change, put Michael on the back burner, which was something different. The final scene where Michael's Mom confronts Michael was as powerful as anything we've seen from her, as Sharon Gless continues to impress me. We also got a good dose of Chuck Finlay, which is always entertaining. The one down side, is that it didn't advance Michael's search for who is behind all the problems very much, but I have a feeling, it will come in big doses throughout the season.
