Burn Notice: Season 5, Episode 18 “Fail Safe” (B+)
It’s a lot of fun to see Michael working as part of a legitimate CIA team. Max was a good partner while he lasted, and the two were extremely effective together. Putting him in the field with Pearce and a team of three agents was even more enticing, affording him the opportunity to work with a different crew. I was glad to see Dean Cain and Kristanna Loken on duty as part of his team, but, as had to be the case, one of them was actually a plant sent in by Anson to sabotage the operation and get the team’s credibility obliterated. Fiona taking potshots at Anson in the opening moments of the episode had me thinking that he was actually going to bite the bullet, given how the careers of most of Michael’s enemies on this show have ultimately ended, but Michael can never let go of a good fight. There was no easy way for all of this to proceed, and I was worried that it was going to end in some sort of cyclical fashion that just made the whole mess even bigger. Instead, we got an enormous twist, which was Fiona’s resilient defiance of Michael and Sam’s wishes, which resulted in her turning herself in for her alleged crimes. That’s definitely going to change things as this show enters its sixth and theoretically final season, with Michael out for blood as he struggles to figure out a way to save one of the people in his life who is most important to him. That’s certainly going to be different, and I’m eager to see how it plays out.
Season grade: B+
Season MVP: Jeffrey Donovan as Michael
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