- Michael's job for Gilroy approaches its conclusion, but he is temporarily sidetracked as he is forced to come to the rescue of Fi, who may be in over her head after she takes a job for a violent kidnapper.
- Fiona seems to get more than she bargained for when she becomes involved with a paranoid kidnapper, only to discover that he's more than what he appears. Meanwhile, things spin out of control when Michael's plan to stop a black operative proves to have much deeper consequences.—USA Publicity
- Mason Gilroy finally calls on Michael for the secret operation, or first a rehearsal, and still manages to keep him and Sam guessing so it remains improvisation. Ultimately, even Gilroy is surprised after the arrival of the extradition plane. Meanwhile Fiona finds herself involved in mixed feelings in the case of Argentinian doctor Gabriel seeking revenge for Coleman's company's chemical waste crimes by criminal means.—KGF Vissers
- Michael brought Sam along as backup for a meeting in an isolated location with Gilroy. Sam didn't feel good about it. Gilroy asked to take Michael for a drive. Sam was against it, but Michael went anyway.
They went to a white supremacist militia training compound. Gilroy wanted to buy a 50-caliber machine gun from them. Michael went in with a briefcase full of cash. He was brought into a room. They weren't interested in selling a gun, but fought his way out of the room. Michael went back to Gilroy's car, and saw that he was just a diversion -- Gilroy had stolen the gun he wanted. They drove away as the white supremacists shot at Gilroy's bulletproof car.
Back at the loft, Sam was upset that Michael left with Gilroy. Fiona was also upset that Michael hadn't responded to her phone calls. She wanted Michael to help her with a harmless weasel named Coleman. Sam went with Fi to meet Coleman, who wanted her to agree to the job before finding out what it involved. He asked her to meet him later, without Sam.
Michael met with some of Sam's old FBI buddies, Lane and Harris, to ask them to stop Gilroy -- whom no one could prove was even in the country -- from hijacking a plane that no one would acknowledge existed. The blew him off.
Sam bugged Fi's phone in advance of her meeting with Coleman. He didn't want to see another friend wander off with a psycho. Fi showed up and Coleman handed her $10,000 cash. Sam listened in and got nervous about the meeting. He didn't want her to go into the house to meet with Coleman's boss Gabriel (Carlos Bernard, demonstrating that there is life after 24.)
Gabriel asked to see Fi's passport, but she didn't have it. He wanted proof that she'd been to Madrid in 2006, as Coleman had told Gabriel she had when they worked on a ransom job. Sam heard this, called Michael and had him get his ID kit over to Fi's house. Sam blocked off Gabriel's guys on the street to buy some time. Michael scrambled to swap out a page in Fi's passport. Gabriel's men showed up, found the passport and called Gabriel to tell him it was legit.
Fi decided to keep working with Gabriel after realizing he'd kidnapped a scientist named Alan. She read a story about the kidnapping in the newspaper, where the man's daughter pleaded to get her daddy back. Fi had noticed a door with a padlock on it in Gabriel's house. She wanted another chance to get in there and search.
She went to meet with Gabriel again and he asked her to take apart a Beretta pistol and put it back together in one minute. She did, elbowing a guy who tried to distract her in the process.
Gabriel handed Fi her file from Interpol and asked why she joined the IRA. She said it was for revenge. Sam and Michael waited outside, nervously. Sam went over Fi's signals with Michael for clarification: one button down on her shirt and she was fine, two buttons down meant she was in trouble. Michael got a call from Gilroy, who gave him directions to their practice run on the big task.
Gabriel struck a nerve when he asked Fi about her reaction to the death of her sister, who died when an English solider fired into a crowd. Sam created a distraction outside to give Fi some time to search inside the house. She went into the locked door. She didn't find the hostage, but found some valuable info on Gabriel, including a picture of his daughter and a bracelet. Sam warned Fi that Gabriel was on his way back in. Gabriel went inside and grew suspicious. He suggested they go for a ride. Fi took a second button down on her shirt and went with him. Michael saw this and they knew she was in trouble.
Gabriel was driving too wildly to be followed easily, so Michael and Sam had to take an all-too convenient shortcut. Gabriel, meanwhile, told Fi as he drove quickly all about his motivation. He said an American company called Apex had moved into his town in Argentina to build computer chips and children were dying as a result of their dumping chemical waste into the water table. He brought the car to a sudden stop and told Fi his daughter's name was Eva and he tried everything to save her, but he couldn't.
He held Fi at gunpoint on a small dock and said he couldn't work with her if he couldn't trust her. Michael and Sam caught up and could only watch from afar as Michael was convinced Gabriel was going to kill Fi. She began to cry as she told Gabriel how she felt when her sister died. It seemed to earned his trust. He lowered his gun.
Fi told Gabriel she knew he kidnapped a man. He admitted he did it and the deadline for negotiation was in five hours. He said they weren't negotiating, "but maybe next time they will." He handed Fi a picture of Apex's lawyer and negotiator, and said that the negotiator would feel differently about negotiating when he became the hostage. He needed Fi's help to lure the negotiator away from his security team. Fi slipped into a bathroom and called Michael to ask for help. He said he'd leave her a package at Gabriel's house.
Sam worked on putting a bug into a lipstick case -- with a little help from Maddy. Sam went back to Gabriel's house, posing as a homeowner's association rep for the second time, and planted the package atop a tire where Fi could easily retrieve it.
Meanwhile, Michael met with Gilroy. He didn't get any information and threatened to leave. Gilroy blasted a shot from the 50-caliber machine gun that shook everything around and temporarily deafened Michael. He warned Michael to stay on the job, if nothing else, to save all the people he'd have to kill if Michael didn't come through.
Fi and Gabriel left his house and she snagged the bugged lipstick case which Sam had placed on the front wheel of Gabriel's car. Sam and Michael tracked her movements back to the hotel where she'd had lunch with Gabriel.
Michael went into the restaurant posing as a health inspector. He cleared out the kitchen, then started a grease fire inside. The restaurant was evacuated, including the negotiator who Gabriel planned to kidnap.
Gabriel took Fi back to where the original hostage was being held. There were no guards. The cage was rigged to go up in flames if anyone messed with it. Gabriel had a medicine drip going into the hostage's arm. Fi distracted Gabriel by telling him she saw something outside. She took the hostage off the drip and moved him away. When Gabriel came back in, she pulled a gun on him and locked him in his own cage. She said the police would be there soon.
Gabriel said he had nothing left to live for and kicked the trigger that would light the whole warehouse on fire. She struggled to open the cage as Gabriel resisted. Michael and Sam showed up just in time to get Gabriel, Fi and the original hostage out before the whole building exploded.
The cops arrested Gabriel, but the hostage blew the whistle on Apex's dealings in Argentina.
Michael and Sam headed out to prep for the job with Gilroy. Michael rigged the bridge that he was supposed to be watching, with explosives. Then he got a call from Sam, saying a truck and a Cessna had an accident at the airport and the cops were swarming it. Michael realized Gilroy wasn't hijacking the plane, he was diverting it, and the plane was going to land in the boonies, where Michael was stationed. Sam said the cops were following the plane to wherever it was going to land, but Michael warned him that if the cops showed up near the bridge, Gilroy would kill them all with the 50-caliber machine gun.
Gilroy met with the prisoner Simon (are those Garret Dillahunt's shackled ankles we see?) as he got off the plane. Gilroy told Michael by phone to stick with the plan. As the cops approached the bridge, Michael blew it up.
Michael ran to Gilroy's car and said they had to go. Michael found Gilroy wounded and dazed inside. Gilroy explained that Simon named paid him $10 million for this operation, but the real plan was to shoot Gilroy and come after Michael.
"Apparently, I'm not his only friend in Miami," Gilroy said, revealing that he was attached to an explosive device. He told Michael to run. Michael left post haste as Gilroy's car exploded.
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