As the narration notes, getting someone to turn on their own people while making them think it is an act of loyalty, is a pretty badass move for a spy to pull off. The whole con on that Russian mobster is awesome as well: when Sam realises after the first interrogation that the man, Ivan, is 'gulag tough' and the plan won't work, Michael masquerades as another Russian mobster being held captive (aided by Nate playing a guard) and successfully convinces him the man's boss and whole crew will be taken down, escapes with him, gets entrusted with the girls the mobster was holding while Ivan rushes to report to his boss to warn him.That time in season 2 that Fiona tasers a Russian mobster holding on to her leg - fully knowing that it means she will be shocked as well.With a few sentences and playing his role even harder, Mike ends the conversation with the cartel soldier frantically apologizing to his "girlfriend" and arranging for a face-to-face meeting with the cartel boss himself. The soldier is in a savage rage and close to shooting both of them. In "Turn and Burn" Michael walks into a situation where his client, a hostess and undercover DEA agent who is being stalked by a cartel soldier is beating her and holding both Michael and the client at gunpoint, thinking from some phone records that they're sleeping together.In the Season 2 premiere, "Breaking and Entering," Michael's Plan B, complete with a sudden burst of heavy rock as he pulls out a gigantic shotgun from the bag and just begins blasting up the the room.The moment works on many levels since it was established previously that Sam had lost his squad in a similar situation and held a lot of guilt over it. He knows that his captors are very dangerous and willing to kill without hesitation, as well as being very well-prepared. Notable too, the whole reason he wants to get killed is not because he wants a quick death, but to prevent Michael and Fi from trying to rescue him (and getting killed in the process).He even gets a coded message to Michael and Fiona in his proof-of-life picture. His plan is to piss them off further, knowing that a quick death by shooting is better than a slow death by other methods. Every time they hit him, he keeps giving them pointers on what they're doing wrong and mouthing off. Sam's scenes under torture in the season one finale.Also the scene in the warehouse later, when Michael tosses her a gun, she makes a running catch, and starts shooting without missing a beat. Fiona, too, is Made Of Awesome: there's her leap off the bridge at the end of the first half of the finale.A couple seconds later, the phone rings, and he answers it with a casual, flippant "Yello?" Michael stops the car in the middle of the street, blocking traffic, gets out with a gun, points it at his own head (while simultaneously having a crapload of thugs also pointing guns at him), and says into the bugged phone that he knows the Shadowy Bad Guys want him for a specific purpose, and if they don't talk to him right the hell now he's going to kill himself. Later, Michael's trying to get his mom and brother out of the city, and Shadowy Bad Guys are tracking them with a bugged cell phone.I used to be a spy." Total HELL YEAH moment. Carmello asks, "Who are you?" Michael stops, glances back, and says very calmly: "I'm Michael Westen. After planting explosives all over, threatening to blow up the place, and drinking Carmello's expensive champagne, Michael gets up to leave. The club scene with Carmello, the heroin dealer ("second biggest" in Miami).Early in season one, after finding out that the trigger spring has been removed from his gun, Michael promptly improvises a new one.Incredibly, he tops this in season two while posing as a recovering alcoholic newly empowered by religion crashing an SUV into his employer's car, he thunders a truly frightening speech at them about judgment for their sins (before leaving a "confession" of said sins on the windshield for the police to find). In season one, Michael affects a "psycho" persona by destroying two mobsters with a baseball bat, and later by wedging a dumpster against the door of their car, boring through the roof with a power drill, pouring turpentine into the car, threatening to set them on fire, and then jumping up and down on top of the car, screaming, "This neighborhood is mine!" as the roof caves in on the terrified criminals.
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