- Michael's ex-fiancée asks for help after a black market dealer kidnaps her son to force her to steal a tracking chip for him.
- Master-hit-man Victor remains on Michael's trail, so he makes his protesting mother stay with him for safety. Samantha stole a crucial military chip as ransom for her young son Charlie. Michael agrees to help her steal it back from ruthless arms-dealer Tyler Brennen, himself an ex-spy. Thereto he pretends to provide vital security for the sale of the chip.—KGF Vissers
- Mike opened the night by bringing us through the story of his ordeal: Guy tried to kill him, guy was hard to find, found the guy, shot the guy, got the guy to lead him to the money, that didn't help either. Mike tried to get Carla to have her thugs in suits stop following him so he could draw out Victor, the guy who tried to kill him.
Mike was worried enough that he had Sam bring his mom to the loft. They heard the sound of someone coming to the loft and Mike opened the door to find another Sam -- his ex-fiancee, Samantha.
Mike talked about how, for a spy, compartmentalizing is second nature. He'd pretty much compartmentalized his "ex-fiancee" situation. Sam (the real Sam) joked about how it would be confusing with two Sams around. But Maddie said that since he'd never been secretly engaged to her son, it'd be easy to tell them apart.
Samantha said she "needed to find" Mike because she was in a lot of trouble. She told him about Tyler Brennen, a black market trader and "evil son of a bitch." She told him Brennen wanted her to steal something to do with spy drones. She handed over a device that she said would have them coming after her. She said it was ransom for her kidnapped son. He's 9, but Samantha said "no he's not" when Mike suggested the kid might be his son.
Mike staked out the location of the handoff and made the plan for Sam to back up Samantha and Fi to get a spot where she could watch. Mike was going to try to get the exchange done, but somehow manage to get the device back from Brennen because it was dangerous to let it stay in is possession.
Mike explained to Fi that he never found the right time to tell her about the fact that he'd been engaged. She was upset that it was suddenly the right time "when she showed up on your front step."
Sam brought Mike some information on Victor that explained how Victor got burned. Sam suggested to Mike that Victor was a lot like him -- "only with, you know, rabies."
Mike came home late to find Maddie still awake. She said he should be sorry for not telling her he'd been engaged. He said it "just never came up -- it was a long time ago."
"So was World War II," Maddie said, "but they still talk about it."
Mike got a phone call from Victor, who was in a loud club. Victor asked Mike if he was trying to make friends. They agreed to get together, but Victor didn't say when or where. He wanted to make that a surprise.
Brennen showed up, surprised to see Sam but not ready to break the deal because of his presence (as Mike suspected). They did the exchange, Samantha handed over the device and her son was handed over to her. But he had a fake cast on his arm with a bomb embedded into it. Brennen was using the threat of the bomb as insurance for getting away with the device clearly, before Mike or anyone else could track him down and take it. Fi noticed this and told Mike to stand down. He did, and watched Brennen walk away.
Mike brought Samantha back to the loft because he knew she'd have "every security service in the Western hemisphere" on her when they realized the device was gone. Mike said he was going to get it back and help her return it.
Mike and Fi broke in to Brennen's apartment and since Brennen's background made it so that he knew all the tricks about covers, they decided not to use covers. Mike came clean and told Brennen who he was and told Brennen that he and Samantha used to work together and Fi played the jealous girlfriend. He told Brennen that Samantha is planning on getting the device back. Mike told Brennen he didn't trust Samantha, and was willing to help. Brennen said he'd pass.
Fi told Brennen that Samantha kept a piece of "your little doo-dad" so he'd get caught when he tried to sell it. Brennen insisted he didn't believe them, so they again told him their real names and said he should call them. Mike was convinced he'd call -- "I think," he added.
Carla came and picked Mike up. His story checked out and Mike asked her to give him his life back. He again asked Carla to "back off" with her guys and Victor would make his move.
Brennen called Mike and said they should talk. Mike and Fi came by and Brennen and his guard held them at gunpoint while they took the device to get tested at the airport. Fi noticed that they had a visitor -- it looked like Victor watching from a distance. Mike decided to use his presence to suggest it was someone Samantha had sent to keep an eye on the device. Brennen turned to shoot at Victor and Victor shot back.
"You believe me now?" Mike asked.
"Not really," Brennen said, before telling Mike and Fi to get in the car.
Mike told Brennen he wanted 5 percent of the sale price to protect against Samantha. Brennen insisted on doing the deal for the chip at his hangar at the airport, which Mike thought was a bad idea. But Brennen told Mike to "lock it down," meaning the hangar.
Mike, Fi and Samantha pondered how they were going to get their hands on the chip if Brennen's security was so tight and he wouldn't change the location of the deal. Mike said they "might be able to sneak in some special construction materials."
"Like we did in Dublin?" Fi asked. Mike said, "Yes."
Samantha piped in with, "She talking about that thing you and I did in St. Petersberg?"
"Yeah," Mike said.
Mike's phone rang and it was Victor, wondering why Mike first didn't shoot at him and then set up a firing squad against him. Mike said it was nothing personal, he was just selling a cover ID. Mike wanted to delay his meeting with Victor until Friday to keep guns out of the equation.
Meanwhile, Maddie asked Samantha to lunch so they could chat. Maddie wanted to know about her past with Mike. Samantha said she proposed to him and that he was the first guy that ever really understood her. "We had fun," Samantha said. Then he just disappeared.
"Yeah, that sounds like Michael," Maddie said.
Mike and Fi set up the hangar, and included a moving van inside the hangar with a false wall inside it, where Samantha and Sam were hiding. Mike and the Sams were surprised when Brennen decided to do the deal outside the hangar. Sam started shooting toward one of the men doing the deal and everyone scattered.
Brennen realized his only way out of the bad situation was to give the chip back. Mike gladly took it and left.
Mike and Samantha mapped out their plan to get the chip back to AFC. They got through the building's heavy security by showing fake badges and lifting a guy's fingerprints off a soda can. Then they had to don some fancy radiation suits, which gave them both a chance to check each other out as they stripped.
As they walked toward a huge vault, they set up sensors along the way. Mike blew up the vault door and they put the chip back in place. The building was evacuated and there were alarms going all over the place. Mike said they wouldn't know what to make of the event because nothing was missing.
Brennen said he would one day figure out what game Mike was playing, but Mike just advised that Brennen get out of the country, because his burned buyers didn't seem happy.
Mike told Samantha to be thankful she escaped this mess and told her to get out of her life of thievery. They had a long, sweet goodbye that ended with Mike telling Samantha, "A lot of things could've been," and her planting a soft kiss on his lips.
Mike came home late to find Fi waiting for him. He told her it was over. Fi started to leave and Mike told her to wait. He wanted to explain that he and Samantha worked because she was like him. It was easy to be with her, he explained.
"And then I met you," he said. "It was different. It was never easy. You knew a part of me she never did. And I left her because you don't marry someone when you love somebody else."
He walked away without saying anything else, and Fi said nothing.
The next morning, Mike was working up a disposable camera to work as a taser. Maddie woke up and told Mike she was sorry and didn't mean to be eavesdropping the night before. She told him he picked the right girl. "I just hope you're not waiting for her to propose, too," she said.
Mike walked past a security entrance to a building and went through a metal detector, slipping his camera past the guard.
Mike met Victor in a bathroom inside city hall. Victor offered his terms: Tell Carla someone else went after her operatives and we're friends. He said they wouldn't be friendly friends, they would just not try to kill each other.
Mike said he wanted questions and wanted Victor to answer them. Victor didn't relent. "We're friends on my terms, or we're enemies," Victor said.
"And I'm asking for answers," Mike said.
They threw some punches and Mike was able to Tase Victor and knock him out by slamming his head against a sink. He rolls down one of his socks and reveals an ankle wrapped in gauze, which he uses to make Victor look more convincing as an injured man. In the next scene, Michael has placed the unconscious Victor in a wheelchair and is rolling him out of the building.
"Spend a career in covert ops and you learn a lot about yourself," Mike explained in a voiceover. "Will you lie to learn something important? Yes. Will you betray someone to serve a higher cause?...Maybe."
"Will you trade another man's life for your freedom?" he finished. "You don't really know the answer until you face the question."
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