In their ongoing search to discover who is responsible for Michael’s burn notice, Sam and Michael break into a police station and steal some information in the hopes of tracking down the man who is now in possession of the information that decodes Simon’s coded bible. They get their hands on a series of anonymous e-mails which indicates that the list is up for auction. Now they need help from an insider and lure Jesse’s former handler Marv back to Miami. Reluctantly he agrees and arranges they can get in on the auction in Santo Domingo in two weeks.
Meanwhile, Fiona has taken on a client who claims his sister has been kidnapped by some Venezuelan diplomat. Fiona and Jesse soon learn that the dirty diplomat’s house is much too protected just for holding someone hostage. Just when they are confronting their client he gets shot. Natalie, an old enemy, returns to the scene and tells them that the diplomat is in league with some South American revolutionaries and is holding a chemical weapon on his compound that is so lethal it makes mustard gas smell like cologne. The whole team joins in to save innocent people from dying. Plan A falls through, of course; and even after Plan B succeeds, Natalie still steels the weapon from Sam and is about to sell to some shady suits. Naturally, Michael saves the day and they force Natalie to turn the weapon in with the FBI.
In the end Madeline forces Michael and Jesse to shut it and sit down, to start trusting each other again before one of them ends up dead. She tells Jesse get over the fact that Michael ruined his life, and tells Michael to deal with the fact that Jesse was trying to save his life when he shot him in the chest. She’s not talking about closure, but about good old-fashioned gutting it out. It’s what families do when the lie and betray each other – they suck it up. They shake on it – and then it’s back to business as usual. In all, the episode felt contrived and formulaic, and not as much exciting fun as usual. Even the sit-down at the end was not as gratifying as Madeline’s scenes usually are. It seemed more like a convenient way to get past the guys’ mutual distrust and resentment, instead of dragging it on for too long. Let’s hope the show gets its groove back soon. Over and out.
Meanwhile, Fiona has taken on a client who claims his sister has been kidnapped by some Venezuelan diplomat. Fiona and Jesse soon learn that the dirty diplomat’s house is much too protected just for holding someone hostage. Just when they are confronting their client he gets shot. Natalie, an old enemy, returns to the scene and tells them that the diplomat is in league with some South American revolutionaries and is holding a chemical weapon on his compound that is so lethal it makes mustard gas smell like cologne. The whole team joins in to save innocent people from dying. Plan A falls through, of course; and even after Plan B succeeds, Natalie still steels the weapon from Sam and is about to sell to some shady suits. Naturally, Michael saves the day and they force Natalie to turn the weapon in with the FBI.
In the end Madeline forces Michael and Jesse to shut it and sit down, to start trusting each other again before one of them ends up dead. She tells Jesse get over the fact that Michael ruined his life, and tells Michael to deal with the fact that Jesse was trying to save his life when he shot him in the chest. She’s not talking about closure, but about good old-fashioned gutting it out. It’s what families do when the lie and betray each other – they suck it up. They shake on it – and then it’s back to business as usual. In all, the episode felt contrived and formulaic, and not as much exciting fun as usual. Even the sit-down at the end was not as gratifying as Madeline’s scenes usually are. It seemed more like a convenient way to get past the guys’ mutual distrust and resentment, instead of dragging it on for too long. Let’s hope the show gets its groove back soon. Over and out.
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