![]() Maddy hasn't answered one of Michael's calls since Nate's funeral and she isn't interested in conversation now. To say things are frigid between them would be an understatement. He's surprised to find the front door locked but after everything that has happened, I'm surprised Maddy hasn't put in bullet proof glass, reinforced doors, and a moat. Michael informs Sam of the plan while driving to his mom's house. Card reminds Michael, "I am way out on the skinny branches on this one, so whatever happens in Panama stays in Panama." I really regret that Las Vegas ad ever ran. Michael's been screwed over by the government far too many times for comfort. Given that we've never heard of Brady and Card is being incredibly generous, one of them is guaranteed to betray Michael. Chin (aka Sam) with him where they will join Brady Pressman who worked in Langley on Anson's capture. Officially the CIA can't run an operation so Michael will have to go under the guise of checking out a munitions robbery. He heads to the CIA office of his old mentor Tom Card, who tells him Tyler is in Panama. Fi is concerned there will be a heavy price to pay later if the CIA gets involved but Michael doesn't care. Fi accuses Michael of lying to her but Michael needs CIA resources to track Nate's killer. Again, I understand how the series works, just don’t insult my intelligence.Michael dresses in the loft when Fiona enters, upset that Michael read the CIA in on the Pryon Group/Tyler Gray information. I’m not asking for them to be all over one another each week, but to not mention it for seven episodes and then have them fall back in love just because the story calls for it rings a little false to me. I know that’s how the series works - just as Madeline says they love each other, they hate each other - but that whole dynamic is only examined or brought to the forefront when the series needs to add an actual layer of drama. However, just as Jesse’s feelings for Fiona felt forced, so did the re-ignition of the flame between she and Michael. The situation also gave Fiona more to do, and frankly, she hasn’t had a whole lot this season. He’s always so in control that the change of pace is a welcome one. I’m especially okay with it because the series really works when Michael loses his cool, starts yelling and is clearly out of control. It’s easy to bait the audience in by putting one of the team members’ lives at stake, but we haven’t had an episode with Michael scrambling to rescue Fi since the S3 mid-season finale, so I’m okay with it. Jesse did say that he would kill the person that burned him, after all.Īdditionally, this episode was probably the most exciting on a procedural level as well. I would love to Jesse completely lose it when he finds out that Michael was the one that burned him and become the big, bad villain for the whole second half of the season. ![]() ![]() Thankfully, this episode reminded us that Michael is lying to Jesse despite his good intentions and it’s getting tougher and tougher to cover his tracks the closer and closer the two of them get to Michael’s past. However, amid a series of more standalone episodes and the aforementioned dilution of this story, it was all lost. The series did a lot of legwork in the first two or three episodes in attempting to convince us that what Michael did to Jesse was horribly awful and that consequences could be coming and they could be drastic. The problem is, I’m not too sure that it’s going to come to a head next week and waiting until January sucks. And even though the small beat with Jesse’s feelings for Fiona was totally obvious and kind of cheap, it reminded me of how personal this thing is going to get between Michael and Jesse when it actually comes to a head. through a series of hoops that were created just to lull us into some sense of mythology progression. Per usual, the ongoing story was lost about four episodes in, as Michael and Jesse chased files, digital data, ghosts, etc. ![]() Thursday’s episode, “Where There’s Smoke,” tied the vagueness of the last handful of weeks together in a way that has me more interested for what I think is the mid-season finale this coming week. For most USA series, that’s fine, but I expect a little more from this one. I watch them, I’m entertained and then it just completely seeps away from my brain. For the most part, despite their quality on an individual level, the last few episodes of Burn Notice have totally ran together for me. ![]()
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