Burn Notice: Season 5, Episode 10 “Army of One” (B+)
It’s hard not to be impressed by Michael. In addition to multitasking and helping Jesse out with his job while monitoring Agent Pearce’s investigation, he manages to singlehandedly save the day, as well as the lives of all of the hostages. Jesse having Madeleine take surveillance photos for him also ends up working out quite well, putting her in the room so that she can help Michael maintain his cover and figure out a way to take down all the bad guys without them knowing it. After having Patrick Bachau on this show as Lucien last week, we get his costar from “The Pretender,” Michael T. Weiss as this week’s big bad guy, who is most definitely more involved with guns than Blackberrys. Michael’s plan was tactful and highly effective, suggesting a roll call so that he can create a fake employee to keep the hostage takers on their toes so that they think they have an enemy in their midst. Jesse clearing the runways by posing as a CIA agent gave him yet another opportunity to yell at people for doing their jobs ineffectively, and helped create helpful panic among the hostage takers. Of course, Michael would describe the tie of choice for igniting a gas tank, and I enjoyed Madeleine voicing her concerns about how putting blood on his shirt can’t be very sanitary. Faking a fatal injury and volunteering for a suicide mission proved to be a great resolution for this particular situation, and hats off to a Michael for another successful execution of a largely improvised mission.
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