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Michael’s having another seizure sitting at the table at Cathy’s house, and he comes to not knowing what’s happened. After Cathy and her daughter leave to go to a birthday party he heads off to see how Pete’s doing. Turns out he’s doing well refurbishing cars for a guy who used to owe Michael money. The debt’s been wiped clean and Michael is apparently paying his salary so the guy doesn’t end up short any money.

Tommy’s out campaigning for re-election, and the Mayor shows up to see if Tommy’s going to help him get re-elected (despite not helping him last time when Tommy needed the assistance). As they’re leaving Mary Kate is giving Tommy advice about making his marriage look happy for the public, going as far as to say he’s the one that holds the family together.

Deco shows up at Cassie’s house to fix the garbage disposal and she walks in with groceries and tells him to leave. She’s not having any of it and tells him to leave, but before he goes she asks him to meet her and her parents for dinner because she hasn’t told them yet. She says she’ll play like everything is fine between them, but in reality they’re done.

While Tommy’s at the office he gets a call from security telling him his cousin has come to visit. Turns out they have a cousin named Colin who’s in town! Tommy brings him home and lets him sleep in the apartment they’d been renovating to use for extra money. Eileen’s more than a little upset about it, but what’s done is done.

Michael heads to the bar to see Freddie, who tells him he’s got to go do some work for Nozzoli, and take Moe with him. Moe gets all frustrated and tells them to call him Jeff. Begrudgingly the pair head off to do business with the Italians. He’s got to hijack a truck filled with Playstation 3’s and bring it to one of Nozzoli’s warehouses.

Now that Colin’s in town, the Caffey family is up in arms with the new addition. Rose isn’t happy to have him here, claiming there’s something wrong with him showing up unannounced and asking to be taken care of. Eileen doesn’t want him in her house, while Tommy believes he’s family and should be taken care of. And Michael? Michael’s not even going to visit him, as he’s so busy with his Nozzoli jobs.

Deco and Ralph head to Marty’s place to make sure he’s still going to testify at the grand jury hearing, as apparently he’s suddenly decided to be super silent about things. Marty’s lived at least six months longer than the doctors expected him too, and that might have something to do with his sudden silence. It sounds like he’s having second thoughts about the whole thing, feeling his loyalties to the Caffey family more than ever. He says he wants his conscience clean, but really he just wants to cover his own ass.

Mary Kate (Tommy’s campaign manager) shows up to help make dinner and tell him he’s going to be the main guest on the Mort Adler show! Eileen’s against it because Mort’s friends with the Mayor, whom Tommy is unwilling to support, but both Tommy and Mary Kate agree it’s the right decision.

Michael and Moe/Jeff head off to steal the truck, but Moe freaks out and starts beating the guy until he has a heart attack. Michael tells him to put the guy in his car and take him to the hospital.

Colin heads downstairs to find Tommy sleeping on the porch, and the two swap memories about the time he spent in America when he was a pre-teen. Colin asks him to help him find a job, and that he’s got citizenship so there’s no greencard issues. Tommy says he’ll help him get a job doing maintenance down at the statehouse, and now there’s three Caffeys on the hill! When he heads down to meet the head of maintenance, he runs into the cute secretary and flirts her up until the man he’s supposed to see catches him and isn’t very happy about it, so puts him on bathroom duty.

Tommy’s on the Mort Adler radio show, and it doesn’t take more than three seconds for Mort to attack him, bring up his brother and turn the interview as sour as Eileen thought it would go. He finally realizes Eileen was right, and calls the mayor to offer his support in exchange for the bad press and attacking to end.

Colin heads to Rose’s house to see him, and asks her to let him into the family. He’s no dummy and knows that she’s the gateway to acceptance, and so asks for her to make it so. She doesn’t look convinced, but he leaves letting her know he’s not a bad guy.

The dinner with Cassie and her family seemed to go okay, but there was obvious tension between the pair. After her parents leave she tells him to go, without giving him even a second to talk. She says the whole thing was totally false, but he tells her it wasn’t a lie for him, that he loves her and wants to be with her. In the end she still tells him to go, but you can see she’s starting to soften.

The day of the deposition Marty’s clearly uncomfortable and distracted. He ends up saying he’s never seen any dealings between Tommy and Freddie, and pretty much going back on all the things he’d said earlier. This will screw Deco and Ralph for sure. Tommy finally runs into the Mayor and tells him he can offer his support to the campaign, and in return the Mayor invites him to dinner at his house.

Colin gets busted screwing the boss’s secretary and so almost loses his job. Tommy stands up for him when the boss won’t say why he wants to fire him, so he gets to stay. Back at the house, Tommy tells Colin he should get his own place as soon as possible, to have his independence. Colin tells him the real reason he was fired, which clears it quickly and Tommy changes his mind about kicking him out. Instead of apologizing, he bashes in all the boss’s windows on his car and leaves a bottle of Kettle One on the car.

Deco and Ralph show up to pick up Marty, who has officially been indited because he didn’t live up to his end of the bargain. Marty’s okay with it, saying it felt good to finally pick a side. After taking Marty down to the station, Deco goes out and gets drunk and calls Cassie leaving her a rather strange, drunken message, lying about where he is and what he’s doing. He wants to tell her she’s the only one he wants, and says he knows she’s sitting there listening to the phone, but in reality she’s not there.

To save his ass Moe tells everyone Michael was so scared of Nozzoli that he pissed himself. Michael leaves the bar and heads off to visit Pete, but Pete’s quit the job. Apparently he quit because he’s scared of Michael, and took off without telling anyone where he went. Good for Pete for doing what’s best for him.

The night of the Mayor’s dinner Tommy takes his sister instead of Eileen, which is clearly rubbing her the wrong way. Jimmy and Eileen are left to sulk over being excluded, and bust into some ice cream to eat away their sorrows.

Michael’s over at Cathy’s house and while they’re trying to eat dinner Eddie shows up, drunk and banging on the door. Eddie tells Michael to give him his wife back, but the longer they stand there the more resolve he loses. Michael lets him in and tells him to be quiet and behave because Cathy’s upstairs reading the kids a story. He lays him down on the couch and covers him up with a blanket, and Eddie passes out before his shoes are even off. Not what you’d expect him to do, but nothing’s like it used to be with Michael Caffey.

catch up on old episodes:

season one recaps
One Too Many Mornings (s2, e1)

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