Burn Notice Recap 4.12 – Guilty As Charged (Season Finale)

Posted by The Marksman at 27 August, at 09 : 08 AM Print

Michael and company are on the lookout for Jesse, and Michael knows that there is nothing he can do about it except go ahead and complete the mission.  They find out where Barrett is staying and they want to make a statement to Barrett that she should be worried about Michael as a threat.  Michael infiltrates the perimeter of the compound and contacts Barrett on a Walkie Talkie after he disables one of the body guards outside.  He tells Barrett that he should take him seriously; Barrett agrees and tells Michael not go get cocky because he has several men targeting him at the moment.

Michael says he is just there to talk, and they start to negotiate about ownership of the bible.  A meeting location is set and they start to talk terms, Michael tells Barrett he wants to know what the bible decodes and that Barrett should hire him.  Michael leaves the scene with the meeting time set, and he goes to meet with Vaughn in order to update him on the situation.  Vaughn tells Michael that Jesse is reaching out to sources in the intelligence world and that he will take Jesse out if Michael does not keep him under control.

While Michael, Sam, and Fiona are talking about the plan a man walks up and hands Michal a load of money and asks him to come with him.  Michael scoffs initially, but then the man tells him his boss a prominent lawyer’s daughter was kidnapped and he needs his help to get her back.  Mr. Scott tells Michael that his daughter Becky was kidnapped by one of his clients who is telling him he better get his brother out of jail or else.  They meet with Dale Dawson who shows them proof of life and says if he brother gets out everything will be fine, Michael makes a few comments to make Dawson want to figure out who he is.  As they leave Dale Dawson has Michael tailed, but Fiona and Sam are watching and they follow the tail back to a night club.

The night club has a lot of activity during the day, so Fiona goes to distract the lookout while same puts gps trackers on the bottom of every car in the parking lot.  As the head back to their car they see Jesse was outside watching them, as they try to talk to him he gets in his car and speeds off.  Sam starts to map out where all the cars he put the trackers on and see where they are going, he is trying to find a commonality between their driving patterns.

Sam finds a location that is far away and gives the kidnappers the ability to see approaches in all directions, so Michael and Sam attempt to come up with a plan of attack.  Michael asks Mr. Scott to ask one of his clients to borrow a submersible vehicle from one of his drug smuggler clients; in the meantime Fiona is looking for Jesse and is unable to find him.  Michael goes to meet with Vaughn and they start to plan how they are going to get Barrett, Vaughn also gives Michael Jesse’s location as his men tracked him to a hotel.

Michael meets with Fiona and tells her that he found Jesse, but then Fiona reveals that she kissed Jesse on their last operation and that her betrayal cut deeper than his.  She volunteers to talk to Jesse and thinks taking Madeline with her will make sure that Jesse does not kill her, Michael agrees to it as he leaves to go save the kidnapped girl (Becky).  Michael arrives in the submarine and as he sneaks up on the building several armed men converge on him and Dale Dawson walks out.  He tells Michael he tapped Mr. Scott’s Ex-wife’s phone thinking he might get some good information, and he overheard a call where Mr. Scott told his Ex-wife that a man in a submarine was leaving to save their daughter.

Dawson gives Michael a video of Mr. Scott’s daughter and tells him to give it to him, but Michael says a not guilty verdict is impossible and he can get his brother out.  Dawson is interested and decides to take Michael up on the offer, so Michael heads back to Mr. Scott’s house and admonishes him for talking about the plan to anyone.  The come up with a plan to trick Dawson into believing that his brother is free long enough to get Becky back, and he tells Mr. Scott to call in some muscle from his criminal friends.  Madeline and Fiona go to talk to Jesse and Fiona apologizes and asks Jesse to forgive them for what they did to him, Jesse is obviously pissed and does not want to hear it.  Madeline asks Jesse to wait a few days to kill Michael because he is trying to save a little girl, it seems like they got through to Jesse a bit.

Michael and Sam meet up with the muscle sent over by Mr. Scott, and setup a van as a fake police transport.  Fiona goes and kidnaps the guard who was watching the club, they dress him up to look like Dawson’s brother and put the plan in action.  They have Fiona and Sam act like they rammed the prison transport van with Dawson’s brother inside, Fiona and Sam play the role and act like they held the guard and up and took Dawson’s brother and got away.

They head to the meeting point to do the hostage exchange location and both parties bring out their people and hostages.  Dawson gets over to the car and see that the prisoner is not his brother and a gun fight ensues, Michael and his team get away with Becky and no one was hurt in the process.  Dawson is angry now, Michael warns him that Dawson knows who he is, but Mr. Scott does not seem too worried as he has his daughter booked on a flight out of the country.  Michael decides to keep the submarine as payment for his services.

Michael goes to the place where he plans on meeting Jesse, he is late but Jesse finally shows up.  When he walks in he tells Michael that he contemplated shooting him from the outside for about 20 minutes, and that he has not decide whether he is going to kill Michael or not.  Michael asks Jesse to help him bring Barrett in, Jesse does not plan on helping him, and he is still undecided whether he is going to take Michael out or not.

When Michael gets back they talk over the plan and no matter what they come up with it comes down to Michael being alone with Barrett, they really need Jesse to help, but have to go ahead with the plan.  As Michael sits at the meeting location Barrett drives up as Michael stands there with the bible in hand.  Barrett and his men get out as Sam and Fiona keep watch from a concealed location, Barrett walks up and Michael tells him he wants work in exchange for the bible.  As Michael hands over the bible he finds out that the secret cipher in the bible is a list of names detailing the lives of the people who burned Michael and Simon.

As all of this is being revealed Vaughn moves in and tarts attacking Barrett’s men, apparently he did not heed Michael’s suggestion to stay away from the meet.  Barrett thinks Michael double crossed him and decides to take him in order to find out what is going on, as they grab Michael Jesse reveals himself and shoots the guy grabbing Michael.  In the process he shoots Michael through the shoulder, Barrett end up grabbing Michael and the Bible and driving off in an attempt to get away.

Michael is losing blood from his wound and grabs the steering wheel causing the SUV to flip over; Michael makes his way out of the SUV while Barrett looks to be out of commission.  As Michael lay on the ground next to the SUV drifting in and out of consciousness he looks at the metal case containing the bible and decipher code.  Before Michael goes fully unconscious he see someone walk up grab the case and walk off with it, he is in no condition to do anything about it as he goes unconscious from the blood loss.  The leaves a lot of questions; is Barrett dead?  Who took the bible?  Is Jesse back in with Michael or was his shot a failed attempt at killing him?  New episodes of Burn Notice start again in November tune in.

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