Burn Notice Recap 4.09 – Center of The Storm

Mark Marksman August 6, 2010 Comments Off

Michael and his team start to examine the bible, and Michael wants to get a face to face with Simon.  He calls Vaughn to town to see if he can give him a face-to-face with Simon, there is a Hurricane on it’s way to Miami and the team has prepare for Vaughn’s arrival.  Michael meets with Vaughn, who tells him that he knows he can get him in touch with Simon.  Vaughn asks Michael to give him the bible and to let him handle it, but Michael is not having any of it, and tells Vaughn to get out when he refuses to help him get in touch with Simon.

Michael and Jesse start to take the boards off of Madeline’s house after the Hurricane, and Jesse wants to apply some pressure since they found the bible.  They are interrupted by two FBI agents who wants Michael’s help after they were jumped briefing a witness named Bailey.  The agents want Michael to find Bailey, and Michael agrees to help Agents Lane and Harris by looking for the hit man.  Michael tries to track down the weapon used by the hit man, and asks Fiona since guns are her specialty and she gives him the name of a well known gun dealer.

Michael and Sam bust in on the gun dealer, and they find out who he sold the specialized gun to.  The dealer gives them the information and they head off after locking him and his partner in the trunk of one of their cars.  Vaughn shows up at Fiona’s place with lunch while Sam and Michael head to the location that the gun dealer gave them.  Michael breaks into the home of the hit man to find out more about him, and he goes into a room with a claymore attached to the door.  As Michael attempts to disarm the claymore a man comes out of the closet, he is the hit man named Cole who was also hired by the Turks to take out Bailey.  He thinks that Michael is a second hit man assigned the same job; Michael goes along with that as Cole pulls a gun on him.

Michael plays like he is “Matt Reese” and tells Cole that he has an FBI source that can tell them where Bailey is hiding; Cole agrees to be partners with Michael although it is a fragile partnership.  As Michael and Cole leave the apartment he signals Sam to stand by, and let things play out.  Vaughn is trying to chat Fiona up and has not made all of his intentions known, but he then offers to give Jesse his old job back if Fiona will give him the Bible.  Vaughn tells Fiona this is the best thing for Michael and Jesse and leaves his car, and then he takes off feeling he convinced her.

Michael convinces Cole to steal an emergency vehicle because the police officers are not letting people freely drive around because of the Hurricane, while he is in the vehicle he radios Sam and briefs him on what is going on.  Michael or “Matt Reese” in this case needs to point out the exact house where Bailey is once they get into the neighborhood, he tries to get some information from Sam to help him do that but they don’t have anything at the moment.  As they are trying to escape with the stolen emergency vehicle Cole gets caught on a car, Michael makes him throw his gun out and helps him to safety.  He slugs Cole when he gets off the ladder, but Cole has another gun and tells Michael if he tries that again he is going to eat a bullet.

Madeline, Fiona, and Jesse start to search Bailey’s house to see if there are any clues that may lead them to where he might be hiding.  They find some information about where Bailey’s girlfriend lives, Michael tricks Cole into letting him get on the CB radio, Sam and Jesse relay coded information to Michael who picks up on it and shows the house to Cole. Just as they get ready to head over to the house the real “Matt Reese” and his team start shooting at them, Cole figures out that Michael is not Matt Reese.  By the time he realizes it Michael has already started to escape on foot once he realizes his cover is blown.

Michael runs to Bailey’s house and gets ready for Cole to show up, Cole bursts in and starts shooting.  A gun fight between Michael and Cole ensues, but Michael starts to reason with him and it seems to be working.  Matt Reese and his crew show up to take care of Bailey, but they tell Cole he can go free if he comes out so they can finish off Bailey.  Michael convinces Cole to team up with him and they setup a trap for Matt Reese’s team, by rigging an air conditioner to explode like a flame thrower.  The plan works like a charm except Michael gets beat up by Matt Reese, and Cole has to save him.

Cole takes off as the police are on their way to the scene, Michael heads back to Madeline’s house.  They two FBI agents show up at Madeline’s house to thank Michael because they received credit for the bust, but they told him he is owed a favor.  Michael goes over to Fiona’s place and she tells him that Vaughn stopped by trying to find the bible, Michael is glad she did not give it to him.  Michael gets the FBI agents to lean on Vaughn, Michael then tells Vaughn is he visits Fiona again he is going to have problems.  Then Michael finally convinces Vaughn to give him access to Simon, and Vaughn tells him he will, but he is sure Michael does not know what he is getting into.  Simon returns in next week’s episode, so it should be a good one.