- After Gilroy's plan goes horribly wrong, the FBI is on the lookout for Michael, and they try to use Madeline to get to him. Meanwhile, the man Michael and Gilroy helped to escape turns to Michael to arrange a "meeting" with management.
- Simon Escher, the rogue ex-spy who hired and killed Gilroy to escape, threatens to detonate a bomb in an unspecified hotel to coerce Michael into getting "Management" to come to Miami. While Sam and Fiona find and attempt to disable the bomb, Michael jumps through Simon's hoops and finds "Management" dangerously imprudent, to each party's detriment. Meanwhile FBI Agent Callahan leans heavily on his mother, who braves the risk of arrest.—KGF Vissers
- Previously on Michael cut ties with his handlers, but Management (again in the form of actor John Mahoney) told him he'd been under their protection from his old enemies. A man named Gilroy surfaced and asked Michael for help intercepting a plane with an extremely high-level prisoner on board. They did the job, but it turned out Gilroy who been given $10 million to get to Michael, was killed after helping a federal prisioner named Simon, escape.
Michael told Sam that Simon was free and Gilroy was dead. Sam told him the FBI and Homeland Security were already involved. Michael had to try to get away despite the heavy law enforcement presence. Michael ran from a cop car and hid in some brush. He wrestled the cop down and knocked him out with a sleeper hold. Michael then found a jet ski and took off, hoping the cops would later be in a "forgiving mood."
After getting some rest, finding a new phone and some clothes in a commuter parking lot, Michael called Sam and found out that his loft was being staked out by lots of cops. They decided to meet at the "emergency emergency spot."
FBI Agent Callahan showed up at Maddy's house asking about Michael. She'd been packing a duffel bag and said it was for a day trip. She had a pump-action shotgun in the bag. Callahan told her Michael was in "an enormous amount of danger" and that they just wanted to talk to him. He asked Maddy to call Michael -- now!
Michael, Sam and Fi met at the emergency emergency spot. Maddy called Michael and told him to come home "right now." She hung up before he could respond. Michael remembered it was what she'd said when his dad was on a bender so that he'd avoid coming home. Sam was worried Maddy wouldn't be able to hold out forever.
Sam and Fi were worried about Michael and didn't want him doing anymore "lone wolf crap." He apologized and reminded them he was with them. Sam gave everyone combat knives for "just in case." They started thinking about Simon, and Michael figured he must know an explosives expert in Miami, given the bomb that blew up Gilroy. Fi was going to check it out.
Michael went looking for Simon and stopped in front of a TV store when he saw a food stand go up in flames. He turned toward the TV store and saw his face on all the screens in the window. He walked in and found a man shot dead on the ground, and another man he thought might be Simon peeked out to meet him. On all the TV screens inside the store were images of past operations for which Michael was believed to have been responsible. The incidents were all in his burn notice. They'd claimed many lives but Michael said he didn't do any of them. The man said he'd done them himself, except for "the boring parts."
Michael told Simon it was time to go back to prison, but Simon had other plans. He wanted to have a conversation with Michael and threatened to hurt lots of people by showing him an image of a huge explosive that was stashed at a hotel somewhere in Miami, and he'd detonate it if Michael didn't "behave."
Simon told Michael he wanted his help because "the powers that be" had decided he was uncontrollable. They put him in prison and transferred his file (and "reputation") to Michael. Simon said he wanted his life back (a familiar refrain often used by Michael). Simon said he needed Michael to get "Management" back to Miami for a meeting. If he didn't, "Boom."
Simon asked Michael to think of him as another one of those people he helps with his spare time -- "a desperate fellow with a problem." Suddenly, Simon was the client.
Michael had to get back to the loft, but he told Simon he'd spotted a surveillance van and wanted to talk to whoever was watching him. The van was just for liquor delivery, but Michael used his brief time away from Simon to call Sam and update him about the hotel bomb and Simon's demand to meet with management. He also got a sense of the heat around his loft. He torched the van after telling the delivery driver to run away, and told Simon he "took care of" the surveillance team. Simon was impressed.
Callahan accused Maddy of warning Michael not to come home, but she denied it. Callahan told Maddy about things he said her son had done. He showed her pictures of various missions that ended with lots of casualties and said Michael had done them. He asked her where Michael was and she told him to look for him at a food court in a mall.
Sam and Fi staked out the bomb maker's house. To enter with some element of surprise, Fi sped her car around the corner so she could drive through a window on the side of the house. They found Keith, the hotel bomber, in a bath robe and tied him up. He told them the bomb was in the basement of the Epic Hotel.
Michael and Simon drove up to the canal that leads to Michael's loft. Simon gave Michael 10 minutes to swim to the loft, climb in through the roof, call Management, and get back. Michael made it to the loft, but the FBI agents outside thought they heard something. Michael called Management and made a bomb while he was on the phone setting up the meeting. He tossed the makeshift bomb out the window then headed back toward the roof. He set off the bomb and climbed out. He made it back to Simon in 9 minutes, 30 seconds.
Simon sped away as the cops approached and took them on a quick chase because he went a direction Michael didn't want him to go. Michael was mad and threatened to kill Simon if he pulled another stunt like that.
Callahan told Maddy there was nothing at the mall. He threatened her with "aiding and abetting" if she continued to steer him wrong. He told her his agents would "shoot first and ask questions later" if they caught up to Michael.
Sam and Fi showed up at the Epic Hotel basement and found the massive bomb set up against a load-bearing wall. Fi went to work diffusing it with some liquid nitrogen. Once the detonator was frozen, Sam removed the detonator. They heard a beep, though, and Sam tossed it aside. They thought they were in the clear, but it went off anyway -- albeit a much smaller explosion because it was removed from the rest of the bomb. They left.
Simon wanted Michael to leave until their meeting at 6:00 pm with Management. Michael wanted to stay with Simon so he could keep an eye on him, but Simon insisted Michael leave and meet him later.
Callahan got news of the explosion at the hotel and he told Maddy they thought Michael was responsible. Maddy insisted Michael wouldn't do that and he said Michael had already done horrible things. She told him she knew her son and if he wanted Callahan dead, he'd be dead. Callahan arrested her.
Michael, Fi and Sam checked out the building where Simon wanted to meet Management. They made a plan for how the meeting and presumed shootout would go. Fi suggested they just shoot Simon because they'd already taken care of the bomb. Michael said that if Simon showed himself that was exactly what they should do. Sam was surprised, but agreed as Michael called it "that kind of thing." Michael went to meet Management at his landing site.
Michael prepared to look Management, who'd ruined his life, in the eye and say, "Let's work together." Management told Michael they'd already identified Simon's team and were ready to take them out when the action started. Michael was suspicious. He didn't believe Simon would hire an amateur team for this kind of job. He wondered about helipads in the area. Management said there was just the one he'd just landed at, which led Michael to realize that Simon knew exactly where Management was going to land. That's when the helicopter blew up.
Simon walked out in a security guard uniform, shot a guy and kicked Michael. Michael pulled a knife and stabbed Simon in the leg, giving himself enough time to run away, but Simon and Management were left face to face. More security guards from the building showed up and Simon took Management away.
Michael made it down off the roof through a construction garbage chute and told Sam and Fi that Simon was on the loose. He spotted Simon loading Management into an ambulance. He told them to call the FBI and have them follow him as he chased Simon. Fi didn't want Michael to go off on his own, but he said he had to and left.
Michael drove a construction truck behind Simon's ambulance. Michael took a shortcut and managed to T-bone the ambulance to end the chase. He was shaken up by the impact, but got out and managed to wrestle Simon to the ground and hold a gun to his head. That's when Management came out of the ambulance and told Michael not to shoot and let him take care of it.
"Shooting an unarmed man with the FBI about to arrive would put a big dent in your future," Management told him. "And you have a big future."
Management left and told Michael he'd see him soon.
Simon urged Michael to kill him and not listen to the old man. The cops showed up and told Michael to put the gun down. When Michael finally did, Simon said, "Oh, he owns you now, boy," and added, "You're just like me."
Maddy was in a police interview room and Callahan came in and said he was off the case. He told Maddy the cops had Michael in custody for about 20 minutes and then he just went away. Maddy was concerned and Callahan said, "God only knows what hole he's in now."
Next we saw a man with a hood over his face being led into an extremely heavily secured facility by armed guards.
Back at the jail, Maddy was upset and slapped Callahan for letting someone take her son.
We then saw the hooded man walked around a little more until the guards unlocked all the shackles and removed the hood. It was Michael, who looked a bit dazed and confused. As the camera panned backward, we saw that he was sitting alone in what appeared to be a very nice study.
And that's how Season 3 ends.
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