"...until you find out who burned you, you're not going anywhere."
All four members of Team Weston are back this week, showing some serious chemistry, some laughs and a hostage situation. It's all in a days work for the best burned spy in the business.
The episode starts off with Fiona and Jesse in the Bahamas trying to get coroner information. Apparently, Jesse does a really good Jamaican accent and after some witty banter between Fiona and Jesse, they get the report and get back to Miami. It was a nice break from Miami, if only for a moment, but back to business.
Once back, Jesse and Fiona, which seem to be getting quite friendly, brief Michael on the situation, making Michael look like the odd man out, asking if he was fully briefed in the end of the conversation. It was funny, but odd for Michael to not have all the answers. After that, we find out that Sam needs help on a job and introduces the client of the week by catching him holding a gun to a guys head. Apparently, the guy and his secretary stole a bunch of money from the clients charity, and the client wants it back. What starts off as a simple introduction turns into a hostage situation with full SWAT teams and negotiators.
While inside, Weston tries to get information out of the thief, while keeping Sam and the client from getting too trigger happy. It's the calm, cool, wise Weston we know and love. We seem him run the gauntlet of techniques from the buddy guy, to the hostage to the guy with the gun. When he does his Weston thing and calls Fiona and Jesse for help, things get tense and the SWAT team is about to bust in and arrest Weston and Axe for hostage taking.
When Fiona and Jesse capture the second part of the con job, they find that a floor safe holds the lost money. Weston uses a bunch of bullets to blow the safe from the floor (which, I don't know if it's possible or not, if you have an opinion, let me know). With the safe open, and the bad guy flushed out, Weston pulls the classic switch-aroo and lets the bad guy get the gun just as the SWAT team comes in, making them think the bad guy is actually the hostage taker. It requires cooperation from the secretary, which, after finding out her boss is a monster, reluctantly helps.
Meanwhile, back to the overall mission of finding the people that burnt Jesse, they are lead to a small house with a nosy neighbor. When they first try, they are caught and forced to leave, but when Michael comes back with a nice fake I.D., they realize the neighbor (Navi Rawat) is really the mark. Before she gets away, she tries to recover a tape from a wall. Despite getting away, she loses the tape, leaving team Weston with a bunch of questions, and an incredibly hot bad girl wanting a tape back.
I liked this episode, despite the overall story arc coming along slowly, it shows Michael in his prime, and Jesse working well with the team. There seems to be a little something between Fiona and Jesse, which could be an issue. We didn't see Michael's mom this week, or any other fun characters, but the bank heist was really good. It's episodes like these that will make Jesse feeling betrayed by Michael even more dramatic once he finds out the truth. Overall, it seems like they are trying to draw out the suspense for something big in the next few weeks. It was another great episode of Burn Notice.
So, let me know your thoughts on the show in the comments. I love hearing peoples opinions (even when it's pointing out spelling mistakes).
