

With no way of making amends, and both Michael and Jesse appreciating the other's position, they reconcile and find common ground in helping Michael's 'clients'.īy the fifth season, Jesse has been reinstated into an official agency but finds the bureaucracy and red tape unbearable. Surprisingly, Madeline brokers peace between Michael and Jesse, calling both 'my boys' and stating that they have to get past their mistakes she appeals to their sense of family and forces both to look at the emotional pain their rift has caused the team, comparing it to ripping a family apart. Jesse later agrees to work with Michael and recover the book cipher for them. The meeting ends with the bible cipher missing, and Barrett dead. While Fiona, Sam, and Madeline are unsuccessful in convincing Jesse to forgive or work with Michael, he nonetheless appears at the meet and saves Michael from Barrett's men. In the lead-up to the mid-season finale, Jesse finds proof of Michael's involvement in his burning and confronts Fiona, whom he leaves alive, amid an operation to take down John Barrett, a major player in the organization that he was hunting. Jesse makes contact with Marv, and convinces him to provide information about a failed safety-deposit box bank heist that he believes will help find the people he believes burned him but in the box, they find only a book-cipher bible, which becomes a major story object. Despite his tendency to act as a 'lone wolf,' the team quickly comes to appreciate Jesse's support like Michael, he is extremely well-rounded and competent in intelligence gathering, operating undercover, firearms, and explosives.īecause of the circumstances of his burning, his old handler Marv believes he is innocent and has been set up this connection proves vital later in the season. Porter quickly comes to respect Madeline, whose natural interest, rapport-building, and persistence he finds comparable to any counter-intelligence operative he's worked with.

Additionally, Porter initially clashes with Sam, who is much more team-oriented due to his SEAL training and experience, frequently putting the two at odds over the best way to accomplish a mission. Jesse becomes fast friends with Fiona, with whom he shares a similar temperament and attitude toward their extra-legal activities they are both firearm and explosives enthusiasts and have difficulty putting missions before people, being much more willing than Michael and Sam to drop everything and rush to a victim's aid. Left with nothing, Jesse then moves into Madeline's newly converted garage apartment and thereafter becomes a member of Michael's team. Michael accepts Jesse as a client, but Jesse's adamant search for the people who burned him leads the team to cover their part of the trail, lest he discovers Michael's role in it. In the use of dramatic irony, the show's writers send Jesse to Michael for help to find out who has burned him. Because Jesse researched the war-profiteering organization that Management was hunting, Michael was forced to unknowingly steal files using duplicates of Jesse's ID, unintentionally burning him. He had initially been stationed in the field, but his risky and impulsive tactical maneuvers led to his demotion to desk duty. Jesse Porter ( Coby Bell) is a former Counterintelligence Field Activity/ Defense Intelligence Agency agent introduced in the Season four premiere. Former: CIFA/DIA Counter-Intelligence Agent
