The 3rd last ever episode of
Burn Notice is structured oddly. There are two storylines happening. One
concerns Michael and his mission with James and also features Sam and Jesse,
and the other takes place in Miami and is mostly Fiona with Maddy. However both
are part of the same story and take place concurrently.
Michael has gained enough information from
Sonya by sleeping with her that Strong and his team, which now seems to include
Sam and Jesse, despite them having no affiliation whatsoever with the CIA, can
finally grab James and hopefully Sonya.
Strong either can’t, or won’t, protect
Maddy and Charlie and Michael knows James has them watched and uses them as
insurance. He asks Fiona to do it for him, because there’s no telling what may
happen when he betrays James. Fiona sets herself up in a car outside the house,
armed with a sniper rifle.
The CIA ambush James, along with Michael
and Sonya, but he slips it and escapes with some of his team by carjacking a
couple of Mexican locals. The CIA use the phone Michael took from the person he
carjacked, to track him. Then James and Sonya split from Michael and agree to
rendezvous down the track.
Fiona goes in, but doesn’t enter the house,
just booby-traps it, but tells Maddy by pretending to be a neighbour calling
her. Maddy plays it well, but all the while they’re hoping nothing will happen.
Charlie is still in the house and vulnerable. Before Fiona can set off her
explosive and go in guns blazing, the guards in the house receive a call
telling them to back off. Fiona quickly hides behind a tree so that she isn’t
spotted.
At the boat house Michael goes to, the CIA
extraction team go into action and after Michael has disabled one of James’
people, tell him that he can come out. Only one member of the team is still
alive, he turns around and he’s Simon.
Acting under Simon and Strong’s
instruction, Michael calls James and Sonya and gets them to meet him. Michael
and Simon talk. Simon was let out to do CIA dirty work almost from the moment
Michael delivered him to them. He sees his situation and Michael’s as similar.
They’re both weapons that the CIA or someone else takes out when they’re needed
and use. The difference is that Michael’s friends and family give them leverage
against him. With Simon they use the fact that he’s not locked up, and that he
actually enjoys killing people.
Michael actually realizes that Simon is
right. The two of them fight and Michael kills him. It was one of the best
choreographed fights in the show thus far. I know Jeffrey Donovan has martial
arts experience. I don’t think Garrett Dillahunt does, but he still looks to
have moves, and he does often play that sort of role.
Instead of letting the CIA take James,
Michael helps he and Sonya get away. At his safe house, a palatial mansion,
James wants answers and blood.
As an aside I do often wonder where James
gets his money, or if he’s being bankrolled by someone. He has all sorts of
expensive equipment and toys. He razed a $10,000,000 mansion to the ground in
Miami to avoid detection, and yes real estate in Mexico isn’t as expensive as
in Miami, but it still isn’t thrown away, then he also pays the mercenaries he
hires and they don’t come cheap.
James wants to kill Sonya, because she was
the only one who knew his movements. Maybe she broke under torture and rolled
over on him. Just when the trigger is inches from being pulled, Michael
confesses. He was the rat, he’s been the rat all along.
He then makes an impassioned speech about
how he believed in the CIA and by using someone like Simon they betrayed him
and all that he stood for, so if James wants to now kill him, go ahead. James
gives the gun to Sonya, she thinks about pulling the trigger and then lowers
it. So who’s killing who now?
Sam and Jesse are incensed with Strong for
using Simon.
It’s all up in the air for the big finale,
which will more than likely run over two episodes.
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