Burn Notice: Season 6, Episode 8 “Unchained” (B+)
There’s always more than one fire burning at the same time on this show, and the divide and conquer attitude the team has really works. Michael and Sam doing the favor for Sam’s friend of a friend in the FBI, played by Brian White from “The Shield,” was a productive use of time while Pearce and Jesse ran down the leads in the closed file on Nate. Michael posing as a Boston mobster was fun, and I liked the casting of Billy Smith as Jimmy, given his resume as a Providence gangster in the fantastic Showtime series “Brotherhood.” Fiona running the FBI car off the road and having Michael break Jimmy out was a cool setup, and blazing through a checkpoint to keep up the charade worked well too. It’s terrific to see Michael and Fiona work together so seamlessly, counting to three on the phone to simultaneously start fighting their way out of a bad situation. Fiona giving Michael a hard time for saying that he didn’t need her was amusing, and it’s good that Michael has some sort of outlet for his increasing stress load. Jesse had a fun job in this hour, getting an executive drunk in order to blackmail him, and Pearce swooped in at a crucial moment to rescue the operation. Unfortunately, it got them minimal intelligence and her reassigned to Mumbai. Michael is drastically losing allies at this point, and something tells me that he’s never going to have as good a friend at the CIA as Pearce.
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