- Michael's quest to get a new CIA connection is interrupted when a mentally disturbed man comes to him with credible evidence that someone is sending encrypted messages that reveal the names of operatives.
- Sam helps Mike identify Diego Garza as a CIA operative in Miami by spotting his cover firm airplane. Before then can force his hand, hoping to get Mike back in the game, they are spotted themselves by mathematical genius Spencer Watkowski. He has a loony theory about aliens, but also makes predictions and proves his colleague Brad was murdered. Mike's team checks out their employer, a firm which sells encryption to secret government agencies, and confirm the manager is copying the software keys, worth a fortune to state enemies.—KGF Vissers
- Michael talked about how nobody wants to hear from a burned spy, so he was looking to track down an agent in the field. Fi wanted Michael to take her out to lunch, but he was too focused on finding an agent who might be able to pull some strings and get him back in the game. He was working on a fake driver's license so he could request some flight records.
Mike sweet-talked a receptionist at the airport to give him copies of some flight records, pretending to be a private investigator, but once the authorities figured out what he was up to, he had to make some kind of run for it. He jumped out the window -- with the file.
At the shooting range, Mike was upset that Barry was charging him $1,000 to look into the company that owns the airplane, but figured the price was right when Sam explained that the trip to the state capital would require Barry to visit his mother. Sam wondered why Fi didn't join them since she rarely missed an opportunity to fire off some rounds. Just then, a guy came running up to Mike saying he wasn't sure if Mike really existed. The guy said Michael was "some kind of special ops guy."
The guy rambled quickly about seeing patterns in violent crimes in the area and narrowed it down to Mike, saying "you're the guy." The guy, Spencer, threatened to out Mike as a rogue spy, so Mike agreed to talk to him. Spencer, a mathematician, said he worked at a large government contract defense firm and that one of the vice presidents was a killer and would strike next in Malaysia. Spencer had a bit of a breakdown before flipping over a table and getting taken away in an ambulance. Michael was worried about Spencer's ability to find him.
Mike found Barry, who told him the airplane isn't officially owned by anyone, but there was a company tied to it.
Mike returned to the loft to find Spencer there with Sam and Fi. He broke out of a psych ward and Mike went ahead and asked Spencer for proof about the pattern of killings he'd been talking about. Spencer had a bunch of newspaper articles detailing killings from around the world, saying there was a pattern involving aliens (who did the killing) hidden in them. Sam found an article among them all with a killing in Malaysia, just like Spencer said there would be.
Sam suggested to Michael that "aliens" in Spencer's world might be spies in real life. Spencer spotted Shannon Park, the VP/killer, whom he also believed to be an alien, and Michael and Co. devised a plan to get into Shannon's office to hack her computer passwords.
Michael got into the office and Spencer slipped inside to load something onto Shannon's computer.
Mike went to the airport to check on the company connected to the spy airplane he spotted. He rolled in looking for someone in charge, and a man named Diego Garza introduced himself as "the spy you're looking for." He knew Michael was trying to get back in and said, "I don't want this to hurt your feelings, but I'd really like it if you'd get the hell out of here." Diego said he didn't want to "rock that boat" and take a chance on helping out Michael.
Michael had made a key to use on Shannon's office door. Sam went into the office, posing as a teamwork consultant and pulled everyone, including Shannon, into a conference room. Meanwhile, Michael and Spencer snuck into Shannon's office and Spencer read a bunch of code that showed Shannon was clearing her bank account and sending out names. Shannon left Sam's teamwork meeting and headed back to her office while Spencer panicked, saying "they're all going to die," out of frustration that they couldn't crack the code.
While Spencer continued to panic, Michael grew more impatient with trying to talk to him, so Fi jumped in and explained the plan to Spencer. Michael was going to use the stolen e-mails to scare Shannon and lead her to change the code to the skiff room, the vault where the decoder was hidden.
Mike went to meet with Shannon, posing as an agent who was warning her about a leak in her security system. He gave Shannon a cell phone that he'd also use as a bug to hear her conversations throughout the evening. They planned to meet the next morning -- a Saturday -- when they could into the office with no one around.
That night, Michael went to the airport and broke into the front company for the spy airplane. He stole something and left a note for Diego, saying, "Sorry to rock your boat, Amigo."
On the bug, Sam heard Shannon talking to a hitman who'd planted a bomb under Spencer's house after she figured out someone at that address had been hacking her security system at work. Michael and Fi raced to the house and pulled Spencer out with seconds to spare before the place exploded. They realized Shannon was probably clearing all the info back at the office.
Back at the loft, Michael and Fi told Spencer he'd have to meet with Shannon face to face without mentioning aliens or light beams. He was hesitant at first but Fi smoothed it over.
Spencer met with Shannon and managed to convince her that he knew about her shenanigans by calling her out on selling another name to the Venezuelans.
In the end, Michael got Shannon back to the office and handcuffed her to a wall in the skiff room where FBI agents would eventually come to arrest her.
Michael went to meet Diego again at the airport. Diego told Michael that his plan worked. Michael had stolen some bowls from the front company and posted them on eBay under the "Michael Hearts Diego." It caught Diego's bosses' attention and they made Diego Michael's point of contact in Miami.
Diego told Michael that the company was not interested in his services, but would review his file.
That night, Michael came back to a waiting Fi. Michael said he wasn't sure how it went. "Whatever happens, one of us will be happy, I guess," Michael said.
Michael said what he really wanted was to do more jobs like the one he did this day, which resulted in saving American lives. He told her she should want that of him, too. She cried and said, "I'll be with you."
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