Four years ago, Michael Westen was blacklisted. He has spent all this time trying to uncover who is behind his burn notice. In the process he has discovered a global conspiracy involving assassinations and wars around the world. Jesse Porter has been investigating the same conspiracy, but while trying to find out more about it, Michael inadvertently caused Jesse to be blacklisted, too. Michael offered to help Jesse, while Jesse swore to kill anyone involved with his own burn notice. Fiona has been feeling guilty all this time for lying to Jesse, and Michael’s mother, Madeline, has been pressuring her son, too, to come clean. Now Jesse has learned the truth on his own. He nearly killed Fiona for helping Michael, and now Michael fears Jesse is coming after him. Even Sam is complaining to Michael that the situation is bad for the team.
Then there is Simon’s coded bible that communications technology CEO John Barrett needs to get his hands on. With Barrett in town and Jesse after him, it’s not as if Michael doesn’t have his hands full, but still he agrees to help some criminal defense attorney retrieving his kidnapped daughter. For once I had hoped that the episode would focus just on the conspiracy plot, without the distraction of one of the clients. The story is classic Burn Notice: plan A, simply to rescue the daughter, fails; but plan B, to make it appear they are agreeing to the kidnappers’ terms, succeeds. Meanwhile, Fiona tries talking to Jesse, and brings Madeline in tow. As always, Madeline gives the most touching performance, this time defending her son in front of Jesse. “If you’re going to kill my son,” she tells him, “just wait a few days, because he is trying to save a little girl’s life.” Jesse then agrees to talk to Michael, who admits he is guilty as charged, but suggests that Barrett may offer an opportunity to get Jesse reinstated.
Michael’s meeting with Barrett doesn’t exactly go as planned. Despite Michael’s insistence that he’ll go at this alone (well, with Sam and Fiona), Vaughn and his men show up, causing a chaotic shoot-out. One of Barrett’s bodyguards grabs Michael. Suddenly at of nowhere, Jesse shoots at Michael, so that the same bullet kills the bodyguard, but not Michael. Barrett drags Michael into his car and drives off. Michael, bleeding profusely, jerks the steering wheel, to get the car to tumble off the road. This summer finale ends with Michael crawling out of the car, while someone in tanker boots picks up the suitcase with the coded bible that we now know contains the key to the names of people behind all the burn notices. So, who picked up the briefcase? Was it one of Vaughn’s men? Simon himself? Or perhaps Jesse? We have to wait until the show returns in November.
Then there is Simon’s coded bible that communications technology CEO John Barrett needs to get his hands on. With Barrett in town and Jesse after him, it’s not as if Michael doesn’t have his hands full, but still he agrees to help some criminal defense attorney retrieving his kidnapped daughter. For once I had hoped that the episode would focus just on the conspiracy plot, without the distraction of one of the clients. The story is classic Burn Notice: plan A, simply to rescue the daughter, fails; but plan B, to make it appear they are agreeing to the kidnappers’ terms, succeeds. Meanwhile, Fiona tries talking to Jesse, and brings Madeline in tow. As always, Madeline gives the most touching performance, this time defending her son in front of Jesse. “If you’re going to kill my son,” she tells him, “just wait a few days, because he is trying to save a little girl’s life.” Jesse then agrees to talk to Michael, who admits he is guilty as charged, but suggests that Barrett may offer an opportunity to get Jesse reinstated.
Michael’s meeting with Barrett doesn’t exactly go as planned. Despite Michael’s insistence that he’ll go at this alone (well, with Sam and Fiona), Vaughn and his men show up, causing a chaotic shoot-out. One of Barrett’s bodyguards grabs Michael. Suddenly at of nowhere, Jesse shoots at Michael, so that the same bullet kills the bodyguard, but not Michael. Barrett drags Michael into his car and drives off. Michael, bleeding profusely, jerks the steering wheel, to get the car to tumble off the road. This summer finale ends with Michael crawling out of the car, while someone in tanker boots picks up the suitcase with the coded bible that we now know contains the key to the names of people behind all the burn notices. So, who picked up the briefcase? Was it one of Vaughn’s men? Simon himself? Or perhaps Jesse? We have to wait until the show returns in November.
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