The conversation Mike has with Price is the key to the entire show. It lays it all out in one succinct statement....
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I've known good criminals and bad cops, bad priests, honorable thieves. You can be on one side of the law or the other, but if you make a deal with somebody, you keep your word. You can go home today with your money and never do this again, but you took soemthing that wasn't yours and you sold it for a profit. You are now a criminal. Good one, bad one, that's up to you." - Mike
Season one was all about exactly how Jimmy decided where he belongs on that spectrum
