By Sabrina Cognata

One of the major reasons I love BROTHERHOOD is the fact that there’s rarely a lack of drama.  Last week Collin (Bryan F. O’Bryne) screws up the hit on Freddie Cork and this week the Caffee brothers have to deal with the aftermath.  Freddie gets a hold of Nozzoli and talks him into putting a hit onto Michael (Jason Isaac) for all the profits of his ATMs and half the rent taken in from his properties on the South End.  Nozzoli sends two goomba buffoons to excommunicate Michael from life, but apparently Michael is too much man for two idiot Italian hit men to deal with. 

This leads to a huge Wild West gunfight in the middle of suburban Rhode Island.  Moreover, word gets around that Michael was responsible for that shoot out and it ends up haunting Tommy and his ability to plot and excel politically.  Michael then realizes he needs to take matters into his hands and he alludes to Nozzoli that Freddie Cork (Kevin Chapman) knows that Nozzoli is being wiretapped and uses this to talk Nozzoli into helping Freddie get recaptured by the police.  Meanwhile, Michael decides that his connection to the murder of Marty Trio must be managed and he strangles Ralphie, the only person between him and his freedom. 

Tommy ends up with two major problems this episode:  his mistress & his ability to take over Judd’s position at the state house.  First of all, his crazy mistress gets super pissed off when Tommy tells her to piss off when he sees her having a drink and staring at him while he’s with his wife.  After he tells her to leave she gets in her car and calls his house like a psycho telling his daughter, Mary Rose she’s the other woman.  When Mary Rose tells this to Eileen (Annabeth Gish), Eileen goes bananas and confronts Amber telling her she will kill her if she screws with her family again.  Something tells me insaneo is going to mess with the family again and I can only pray to God that Eileen gets to knife the bitch. 


After this personal disaster, Tommy then has to deal with the Speaker of the House telling him he cannot take over Judd’s position, which is rightfully his in the first place, because Michael’s checkered past and present is a problem.  Tommy does everything in his power to obtain that position anyways, but in the end Michael maintains his ability to be a perpetual thorn in Tommy’s side and this infuriates Tommy beyond belief.  Tommy eventually confronts Michael, hitting him and saying he knew Freddie Cork was having Michael killed after the wedding and he did nothing about it because getting rid of Michael might save his political career.  Michael looks like he is going to knife a bitch upon hearing this, but then Mrs. Wacko herself, their mother Rose (Fionnula Flannagan) prances in drunk as hell with Colin and interrupts the impending brawl.

Colin and Rose are piss drunk because Judd’s kicked the bucket.  Even though Rose hates Colin, the two bond over her lost lover and his dead father.  Colin gets to lose his mind again after he tries to talk Judd’s wife into giving his father a memorial service, but she tells him she doesn’t care if he shares Judd’s DNA because Colin’s basically an insignificant afterthought.  Colin retorts by stealing a Tiffany lamp and a candy bowl and going out to get WASTED.  Clearly, that is the only way to deal with anything worth worrying about.