Line #32 Recap/BurnNoticeS1E5FamilyBusiness


1	!!Client of the Week
2	Michael's brother, Nate, comes to him with another job. He calls from an airport in trouble. Next thing we know, Nate's getting beaten by a foreign man in very nice clothes who is very capable in a fight and threatens to kill Nate.
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4	Nate took a job helping a man working security at a small, private airport. The man, Jake, did a few favors for a family of three men, the Zamars, who have started blackmailing him. When the little favors they've done aren't enough to make him do what they want, they threaten him. It turns out the elder Zamar is ex-Mossad, Israeli intelligence, and is training his two sons in arms dealing.
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6	Team Westen's end is the younger son Ari, who's a bit of a playboy. Michael poses as an arms dealer looking for a distributor. He plays on Ari's insecurities/family resentments and uses him to learn where the Zamars have a stash of weapons. Michael steals the weapon stash and has Jake tell the Zamars that the new guy that Ari introduced him to (Michael) came around saying that he owns Jake, roughed Jake up, and tried to get information about the Zamars.
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8	In a paranoid frenzy, papa Zamar pulls the family and their operation out of Miami, figuring it's better to relocate than to try to fight a heavily armed enemy that has intel on them and they know nothing about.
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10	Meanwhile, Nate and Michael fight over ownership of the Charger. Both of them suffered at their father's hands, both worked on it, and both have a good claim to the car.
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12	!!Burn Notice Arc
13	The feds turned the pressure up on Sam to deliver more intel on Michael's comings and goings. This led to him planting a somewhat obvious bug in the Charger. Fiona immediately identifies it as Sam's handiwork and Sam admits he might as well have signed his name to it. He struggles throughout the episode to admit this to Michael.
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15	When he finally does, Michael tells him to just come directly to him the next time and tells Sam where to find the Homeland Security directive authorizing his burn notice (under his sink). When Sam hands it over, the FBI team is recalled and someone higher up the chain is tasked, though we don't learn who. Apparently, the situation was so unsettling that the feds dropped $60 on a $10 tab. Sam takes the money and begins wooing a new sugar mama.
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17	!! Tropes include:
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19	* ActuallyPrettyFunny: To keep the brothers from finding Michael sneaking around, Sam acts like a drunk bitter over getting laid off by a factory. A couple reactions show Mike finds this rather amusing.
20	* AffectionatePickpocket: How Nate steals Michael's wallet at the end of the episode.
21	* TheAlcoholic: Implied about Michael's father.
22	-->'''Michael:''' Did you ever wonder how we got to the store to get groceries when dad was on a tear?
23	* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Debbie, the younger Zamar's girlfriend, immediately falls for Michael when he's playing up his persona as a cunning and experienced world traveller. Hard.
24	* TheAllegedCar: The Charger ''still'' doesn't work well.
25	* AndSomeOtherStuff: First time! Michael says you can fake C4 with fondant. You can make ''real'' C4 with... stuff.
26	* ArmorPiercingQuestion: One that results in Nate's StunnedSilence.
27	-->'''Nate:''' On paper, you're a bigger screw-up than me. You stole more cars by the time you were 12 than I did my entire life.\
28	'''Michael:''' Dad was never around. You ever wonder how we got to the store to get groceries when Dad was on a tear?
29	* BadassIsraeli: The elder Zamar and his older son. Ari, not so much, although he still has the training and an itchy trigger finger.
30	* {{Blackmail}}: How the Zamars put the screws to Jake. They threaten him with his previous infractions, then they threaten him and his wife.
31	* BlindfoldedTrip: Michael is blindfolded for his trip to the Zamars' warehouse.
32	* ButtMonkey: Nate gets the crap kicked out of him for trying to help his (and later Michael's) client getout from the Zamars' thumb.
33	* ComplimentFishing: Fi spends some time talking to Michael about Ari's girlfriend Debbie, who's infatuated with Michael's international-man-of-mystery persona.
34	-->'''Fi:''' Admit it, you were tempted.
35	-->'''Michael:''' Not for a minute, Fi. If I need a beautiful woman to mess up my life... I could do a lot better than Debbie.
36	* {{Delinquents}}: Both Nate and Michael had troubled childhoods, though apparently Michael was far more ambitious about it.
37	* {{Foreshadowing}}: Harris and Lane report that they are no longer assigned to watching Michael, saying someone new is heading down to Miami to take over.
38	* GodzillaThreshold: The reason Sam opted for an IncrediblyObviousBug is because the FBI has been riding him hard. He wouldn't go as far as to break into the loft, but he had to do something to relieve the pressure.
39	* GoldDigger: Debbie tells her boyfriend she wants diamonds, apropos of nothing.
40	* GreenEyedMonster: Ari, the younger Zamar, is the jealous type, and nearly shoots Michael when he thinks Michael is out to seduce Debbie. (For the record, Debbie was throwing herself at him.)
41	* HeadsOrTails: How Michael and Nate settle their dispute over the Charger.
42	* HotBlooded: Ari, who is quick to resort to guns when angry.
43	* HoYay: "Michael, when you read this guy's profile, you're gonna wanna kiss me. Look, I'm not saying I'm gonna like it, I'm just saying you're gonna wanna kiss me."
44	* IncrediblyObviousBug: Sam plants a bug under the dashboard of the Charger and Mike and Fi immediately recognize it as his handiwork. Sam admits he might well have signed it.
45	* JustForFun: Michael's cover ID is "Steve Remington", gun dealer. Sam has to have ''some'' fun.
46	** Sam also asks to lick the bowl when they're done making fake C4 out of cake frosting.
47	* KickTheDog:
48	** The Zamars threaten Jack's wife. She's pregnant.
49	** The younger Zamar, Ari, pistol whips Jack when he hesitates.
50	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The elder Zamar decides that it's better to move their operation elsewhere than face a heavily armed, dangerous, and unknown competent enemy.
51	* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Michael finds that Jake's predecessor at the airport died in a car accident caused by all the brakes "suddenly" failing.
52	* MoodWhiplash: After losing the coin toss for the car, Nate gives Michael a hug to suggest there's no hard feelings. Maddie says she just wants them to be a family again, which Michael takes stock of before realizing that Nate lifted his wallet during the hug. The episode ends with him chasing after Nate.
53	* MrsRobinson: Sam begins a new romance with a ''very'' attractive woman.
54	* NotWorthKilling: Nate survives his encounter with Eli Zamar by convincing him that killing him would make too much trouble afterwards, what with having to clean up his body and then having to deal with police.
55	* ObfuscatingStupidity: Sam pretends to be a drunk, unemployed stevedore to distract the Zamar sons. Likewise, Fi pretends to be a ditzy bimbo when infiltrating the Zamar warehouses.
56	* OhCrap:
57	** Eli when Ari confesses that he showed "Steve Remington" the warehouse in which they perform their operations.
58	** When Maddie learns that Nate stole Michael's wallet at the end of the episode.
59	* PassiveAggressiveKombat: Michael understands why Sam planted a bug in the Charger, but he gets some digs in all the same before everything's out in the open. Towards the end, Sam makes it clear he's aware of this jibes.
60	* PragmaticVillainy: According to Michael...
61	--> Well, next time you accept a bribe, I'd hold out for court-side seats.
62	--> Well, since they're planning on killing you if you say anything else, I'd suggest "Yes."
63	** Michael also spent his childhood stealing cars so his mother could get to the grocery store.
64	* ProperlyParanoid: Eli, who is shown looking around for suspicious people while conducting his business and Elan, who we are told only goes from home to work and back again. Ari, not so much, as was shown when he complains while following Elan to check for intruders.
65	* StealthHiBye: Michael pulls one on-screen, walking away while Ari, the younger Zamar, has his back turned.
66	* StuffBlowingUp: Michael demonstrates a plastic explosive in a junkyard car to impress the younger Zamar.
67	* StunnedSilence: Nate's busy looking for proof their father wanted Michael to have the car, and suggests Michael's a worse screw-up than he is. Michael responds that all the crap he did was how their family got basic things like groceries. This shuts Nate up.
68	* WellDoneSonGuy:
69	** Michael believed his mother when she said his father wanted him to have the Charger. He gets very attached to it very quickly. Nate suffers the same issue and scraps with Michael over ownership of the car.
70	** It turns out that Michael's father kept notes on all his exploits. On paper, Michael's a bigger screw-up than Nate; Michael stole more cars before age 12 than Nate has in his whole life.
71	** In a similar vein, Ari Zamar has insecurities about his father's approval while resenting the controls his father places on his life.
72	* WineIsClassy: "Steve Remington" and Ari spend some time bonding over expensive wines. It's how Steve introduces himself to Ari.
73	* YouOweMe: Nate feels that Michael should let him have the Charger, saying Mike leaving home meant getting twice as much crap from their father.

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