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* RoadkillForDinner: Virgil offers Sam and Michael alligator steaks as an additional payment for helping him repossess a boat. Later they have to stash Virgil at Michael's mother's house, and Mike explodes the next morning after finding out Virgil and Madeline found a CommonalityConnection and slept together, arguing that he lives in a trailer (true) and gets half his meals from roadkill (unproven).
-->'''Madeline:''' Stop being so judgemental, Michael! Your father had problems, too!
-->'''Madeline:''' Stop being so judgemental, Michael! Your father had problems, too!
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* DirtyCop: The men who hired Virgil to repo the Jamaicans' boat. They're just in it for the money, are threatening Virgil's daughter, and intended to kill Virgil when he got the boat.
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* DirtyCop: The men who hired Virgil to repo the Jamaicans' boat. They're just in it for the money, are threatening Virgil's daughter, and intended to kill Virgil when he got the boat. When Andre is "introduced" to them during the standoff, he mockingly shouts they're not cops, but thieves.
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It turns out the boat is loaded with ten million dollars in cash. The dirty cops and the Jamaicans both have a great deal of incentive to get that money back, and to kill Team Westen. Sam and Virgil dump the boat, and end up having to run from the Jamaicans, who have tracked it down, while Michael talks with the cops. The cops agree that, in return for the money, they'll help Team Westen with the Jamaicans.
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It turns out the boat is loaded with ten $10 million dollars in cash. The dirty cops and the Jamaicans both have a great deal of incentive to get that money back, and to kill Team Westen. Sam and Virgil dump the boat, and end up having to run from the Jamaicans, who have tracked it down, while Michael talks with the cops. The cops agree that, in return for the money, they'll help Team Westen with the Jamaicans.
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Team Westen splits the small amount of cash they kept, perhaps as much as $100,000 each, and Virgil agrees to leave town.
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Team Westen splits the small amount of cash they kept, perhaps as much as $100,000 each, and Virgil agrees to leave town.
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There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult. A three man team broke into Michael's loft and didn't care that he knew. Then Michael got a call from his mother, men have broken in there as well, and they're threatening to hurt her. Michael arrives and has a brief discussion with a man who describes himself as "higher up the food chain." His purpose is to punish Michael and convince him to stop making trouble.
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There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult. A three man three-man team broke into Michael's loft and didn't care that he knew. Then Michael got a call from his mother, men have broken in there as well, and they're threatening to hurt her. Michael arrives and has a brief discussion with a man who describes himself as "higher up the food chain." His purpose is to punish Michael and convince him to stop making trouble.
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Michael breaks into the agent's hotel room and plants a powerful electromagnet in the base of a lamp to destroy his computer. All Michael wants is to make the guy angry. He succeeds. Fiona continues to track him. As the episode ends, Michael confronts the agent one more time, trying to anger him, and Fiona picks his pocket, learning his name and agency affiliation. He's Agent Jason Bly with the CSS, and he alluded to a dossier that can explain why Michael got burned.
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Michael breaks into the agent's hotel room and plants a powerful electromagnet in the base of a lamp to destroy his computer.computer files. All Michael wants is to make the guy angry. He succeeds. Fiona continues to track him. As the episode ends, Michael confronts the agent one more time, trying to anger him, and Fiona picks his pocket, learning his name and agency affiliation. He's Agent Jason Bly with the CSS, and he alluded to a dossier that can explain why Michael got burned.
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The cops are threatening to frame Virgil's daughter and tell Michael that "Pretty girls don't last long in prison. The other girls tend to ugly 'em up real quick."
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* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Discussed and averted. The cops are threatening to frame Virgil's daughter for drug possession and tell Michael that "Pretty girls don't last long in prison. The other girls tend to ugly 'em up real quick."
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** Virgil claims to be doing a favor for a friend. Michael makes it clear that lie's not going to fly after he lists the numerous details making it clear they're dirty cops.
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* BreakInThreat: Michael's new government watcher, Jason Bly, broke in with a three man team and wasn't subtle about it. Then they did the same with Michael's mother, only she was home at the time. Michael returns the favor.
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* BreakInThreat: Michael's new government watcher, Jason Bly, broke in with a three man three-man team and wasn't subtle about it. Then they did the same with Michael's mother, only she was home at the time. Michael returns the favor.
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* DeadManSwitch: Michael holds a propane torch over the pile of money, doused in gasoline so no one can dare kill him.
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* DeadManSwitch: Michael holds a propane torch over the pile of money, doused in gasoline so no one can would dare kill him.
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* MadeOfTemptation: Ten million dollars is ''awfully'' tempting, especially when you're planning on burning it. They end up taking enough for themselves and Virgil's daughter.
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** Michael and Fi search for a bug using an oscilloscope with an improvised antenna
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* MadeOfTemptation:Ten $10 million dollars is ''awfully'' tempting, especially when you're planning on burning it. They end up taking enough for themselves and Virgil's daughter.
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* PlotHole: Okay, the Jamaicans had a second tracker on the boat, fine. But why did it take them so long to track down the boat.
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* PlotHole: Okay, the Jamaicans had a second tracker on the boat, fine. But why did it take them so long to track down the boat.boat?
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Virgil, like Sam, is a former SEAL (with former top secret clearance) and buddies who can help him out.
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* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Virgil, like Sam, is a former SEAL (with former top secret clearance) and has buddies who can help him out.
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* FunnyBackgroundEvent: Michael's mother and Virgil bond... Michael finds and plays with a hatchet in the background.
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* FireForgedFriends: Sam makes it clear that he and Virgil are this. Then Michael makes it clear that he and Sam are, too.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Everyone involved in this fiasco knows the boat's ''way'' too fancy to be repo'd. Virgil gets taken by surprise because he's been out of the game a while, but he still knows it's a smuggler's boat. The rest of the episode involves people correctly avoiding betrayal.
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* BadassBoast: Andre takes his job ''very'' seriously:
-->'''Andre:''' I stay in business because when someone trusts me with their funds, I don't let nothin' or no one come in the way of a safe delivery. I make a promise to my clients. I would sooner cut my own throat than leave a debt unpaid. You think I would hesitate to cut ''yours''?
-->'''Andre:''' I stay in business because when someone trusts me with their funds, I don't let nothin' or no one come in the way of a safe delivery. I make a promise to my clients. I would sooner cut my own throat than leave a debt unpaid. You think I would hesitate to cut ''yours''?
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michael and Fi defeat the optical bug with a "personal massager".
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Virgil assures Madeline that she doesn't want to know about Michael's past. Half of it is so boring, you'd tear your hair out, and the rest so scary it would just fall out.
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Virgil assures Madeline that she doesn't want to know about Michael's past. Half of it is so boring, you'd tear your hair out, and the rest so scary it would just fall out.
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Virgil assures Madeline that she doesn't want to know about Michael's past. Half of it is so boring, you'd tear your hair out, and the rest so scary it would just fall out.
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* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Virgil assures Madeline that she doesn't want to know about Michael's past. Half of it is so boring, you'd tear your hair out, and the rest so scary it would just fall out.
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* PlotHole: Okay, the Jamaicans had a second tracker on the boat, fine. But why did it take them
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* PlotHole: Okay, the Jamaicans had a second tracker on the boat, fine. But why did it take them so long to track down the boat.
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* IncendiaryExponent: Team Westen lights the money on fire. [[FridgeLogic Probably so
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Client of the Week: Sam's former SEAL buddy, Virgil, has been hired to repo a boat owned by some Jamaicans. The Jamaicans are smugglers, and the guy who "hired" Virgil are dirty cops threatening his daughter. Caught between two fires, Michael has to survive the twin threats and resist the temptation presented by millions of dollars in cash.
Burn Notice Arc: There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult. He attacked Michael's mother and has promised to make Michael's life hell. Meanwhile, Michael and Fi discuss their relationship.
Burn Notice Arc: There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult. He attacked Michael's mother and has promised to make Michael's life hell. Meanwhile, Michael and Fi discuss their relationship.
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Sam's former SEAL buddy, Virgil, has been hired to repo a boat owned by some Jamaicans. The Jamaicans are
With a little unintentional support from the police, Michael and Fiona get the boat away from the Jamaicans. The first thing Michael does is search it, successfully, for a GPS tracker. Michael makes the delivery, but it turns out the guys repoing the boat are dirty cops, who intended to kill Virgil. Michael makes the get-away, but then they have to solve the problem.
It turns out the boat is loaded with ten million dollars in cash. The dirty cops
Michael then meets with the Jamaicans to set up very much the same deal. Virgil, meanwhile, goes on a date with Madeline and gets captured by the Jamaicans.
The next day, the three groups meet on an abandoned overpass. Establishing another staple of the series, Sam backs Michael up with a sniper rifle while he and Fiona stand in between
Team Westen splits the small amount of cash they kept, perhaps as much as $100,000 each, and
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There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult.
Of course, Michael isn't going to stop. He steps up his own efforts so as to keep them occupied and learn more about them so he can learn more about his burn notice. He ties up his phone line for a few hours, keeping the team listening to it occupied as well. The agent responds by cutting Michael's phone and taking his car. Michael similarly defeats an optical bug at his place, leaving Fi to track the team that are supposed to be listening to it.
Michael breaks into the agent's hotel room and plants a powerful electromagnet in the base of a lamp to destroy his computer. All Michael wants is to make the guy angry. He succeeds. Fiona continues to track him. As the episode ends, Michael confronts the agent one more time, trying to anger him, and Fiona picks his pocket, learning his name and agency affiliation. He's Agent Jason Bly with the CSS, and he alluded to a dossier that can explain why Michael got burned.
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* AffablyEvil: The Jamaican agrees to a meeting with Michael and demands, for the sake of courtesy, that he allow him to buy Michael a drink.
* AwesomeButImpractical: Large bundles of cash. It's dense, and therefore heavy, and "Nobody ever thinks to pack it something with a god damn handle!" It also makes for a ''very'' tempting target.
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: The cops are threatening to frame Virgil's daughter and tell Michael that "Pretty girls don't last long in prison. The other girls tend to ugly 'em up real quick."
* BlatantLies
** Bly cuts open a chair in Madeline's home. Because "you can't be too careful."
** Virgil claims to be doing a favor for a friend. Michael makes it clear that lie's not going to fly after he lists the numerous details making it clear they're dirty cops.
* BrainBleach: Michael reaches for it as soon as he learns Virgil didn't spend the night in the ''guest'' room.
* BreakInThreat: Michael's new government watcher, Jason Bly, broke in with a three man team and wasn't subtle about it. Then they did the same with Michael's mother, only she was home at the time. Michael returns the favor.
* CaptainObvious: "If it's on fire, of course, that complicates things further."
* CoolBoat: The Donzi Michael "repos". It's worth a couple hundred grand and is an ideal smuggling boat.
* DeadManSwitch: Michael holds a propane torch over the pile of money, doused in gasoline so no one can dare kill him.
* DeceasedFallGuyGambit: How the cops were planning to steal the money. The Jamaicans would only have dealt with Virgil, and the cops were planning on killing him.
* DirtyCop: The men who hired Virgil to repo the Jamaicans' boat. They're just in it for the money, are threatening Virgil's daughter, and intended to kill Virgil when he got the boat.
* FriendlySniper: Possibly the first time in the series. Sam backs up Michael's play with a sniper rifle.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Michael and Fi defeat the optical bug with a "personal massager".
* HeroismIncentive: Michael needs to scrounge up some cash to pay for the damage to his mother's home.
* IOweYouMyLife: Sam trusts Virgil like a brother because of this.
* IncendiaryExponent: Team Westen lights the money on fire. [[FridgeLogic Probably so
* ItsPersonal
** Michael gets a little hot under the collar after Mason and his friends try to kill him. Seeing a barrel of chemicals intended to incinerate your body can do that.
** Michael also deliberately seeks to infuriate the new agent. If you can't make him a friend, next best thing is an enemy.
* LetsYouAndHimFight: A pile of money. Angry Jamaicans on one side, dirty cops on the other.
* MacGyvering
** Sam has to try finding what's stashed in the boat using a hatchet and a vice grip.
** Michael and Fi search for a bug using an oscilloscope with an improvised antenna
* MadeOfTemptation: Ten million dollars is ''awfully'' tempting, especially when you're planning on burning it. They end up taking enough for themselves and Virgil's daughter.
* OhCrap: When Michael learns the Jamaicans have Virgil.
* PantsPositiveSafety: Bad guys, as always, love to tuck handguns in their trousers.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Madeline and Virgil.
* PlotHole: Okay, the Jamaicans had a second tracker on the boat, fine. But why did it take them
* PunnyName: Mike's cover ID, Homer, devoted employee of Virgil.
* RetiredBadass: Virgil, former SEAL. Of course, he's fifty years old and on blood thinners, so a team of young Jamaicans with a baseball bat were able to take him out. He shows he still has some chops at the night club with Madeline.
* SchmuckBait
** When a line has been tapped, anyone listening to the tap has to actually sit and listen so long as you're talking. Michael ties up the line for hours calling random people (like consulates) and saying cryptic things (typically from magazine ads like "Wednesday, 20%") before putting it down in front of a television and wandering off.
** Also, Michael's entire plan for dealing with Bly is to get him angry enough that Michael can get information out of him.
* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: Virgil, like Sam, is a former SEAL (with former top secret clearance) and buddies who can help him out.
* SmugSnake: Someone higher up the food chain shows up and starts making Michael's life
* TooMuchInformation
** Michael doesn't want to hear about Sam's sex life.
** Michael is ''not'' happy to learn about his mother's liaison with Virgil.
* YouDoNotWantToKnow: Virgil assures Madeline that she doesn't want to know about Michael's past. Half of it is so boring, you'd tear your hair out, and
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Client of the Week: Sam's former SEAL buddy, Virgil, has been hired to repo a boat owned by some Jamaicans. The Jamaicans are smugglers, and the guy who "hired" Virgil are dirty cops threatening his daughter. Caught between two fires, Michael has to survive the twin threats and resist the temptation presented by millions of dollars in cash.
Burn Notice Arc: There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult. He attacked Michael's mother and has promised to make Michael's life hell. Meanwhile, Michael and Fi discuss their relationship.
Burn Notice Arc: There's a new federal agent in town making Michael's life difficult. He attacked Michael's mother and has promised to make Michael's life hell. Meanwhile, Michael and Fi discuss their relationship.
