Hadn't Jesse taken the kid away before she set the fire? I feel certain that was the plan.
Nope. Wrong scene. This was where they set her house on fire. Maddie urged Charlie to go outside and wait for her, and stood there, inside, not checking, while the house was set aflame around her. That's the thing I remember most about the end of the series--that it's a miracle the kid survived.
Didn't Sam & Jesse just keep going with the show's premise? I thought Jesse had some good reveals (like why in hell he puts up with this shit from these people), but I didn't get any awesome off of anything.
Poor Maddie, espousing her guilt at having put her son in that abusive situation shortly before torching the house (and little did we know she'd pay the price of her life), but HER SON SHOULD NEVER HAVE PUT HER IN THIS POSITION. Every time she fucked up and said the wrong thing to the wrong people I wanted to punch Michael in the face. Spend so much time monologuing about how spies are different from us mundanes and throw your aging mother right into the fray year after year, especially now that she's raising your nephew whose father you got killed?
GREAT PLAN, BRO.