- Michael and former handler Jason Bly are trapped together in a bank robbery. The pair must work together in order to get out alive
- Jason Bly, the agent Michael believed to have discredited, found a way to turn the tables on him, but he tries to toughen it out. When they meet in a bank, it is robbed by a ruthless gangster who cares nothing for casualties on either side. Michael poses a s a doctor to save innocent clients and Jason, who foolishly tried to resist. Michael manages to contact Sam for outside support, aided by Fiona.—KGF Vissers
- As a spy, there are a lot of ways to get information. To wit: the free lunch.
Sam harangues Michael for taking Barry to a fancy lunch in exchange for tracking a mysterious Cayman bank account. Barry starts reciting what he's doing for Michael Weston - breaking a lot of laws.
Michael's Spidey Sense goes off. He realizes he's being taped. And in walks Jason Bly (Alex Carter), the government agent he blackmailed a while ago (Broken Rules (2007)) and hoped to never see again. Michael reminds Bly of the file he has on him and how he was never supposed to see him again.
Bly recounts how thrilled he was to find Barry investigating suspicious accounts for him. He thinks that should negate the blackmail.
Michael frets to Fi. If Bly goes after him with Barry, he's got problems.
Michael returns home to find Bly leading a health department investigation for toxic mold. Bly packs Michael a bag and it's off to mom's.
Of course Mom has a friend with a problem. Paula met a guy, Prescott, on the Internet and now she thinks she's being stalked. Michael agrees to talk to him.
His dating profile leads nowhere.
Sam has to leave for a date with a beer distributor who has a quad kegerator.
Paula calls, Prescott is outside her work.
Michael shows up. She works for a private bank. As they're talking, Bly strolls in. He wants everything that references him. Then in walks the stalker... except that he's not a stalker. Meet Prescott (Mark Sheppard) the bank robber.
He has a team. They block cell' 'phones with a jamming signal and unpack automatic weapons from boxes. They're well-prepared. They herd the hostages into the conference room.
Bly tells Michael they should grab guns. Michael tells him to wait. Instead, Bly tries to grab a gun and gets beat down by a robber. Prescott lays out the rules, which mostly involve him killing people who don't cooperate. To make his point, he shoots Bly in the arm.
Michael tells us a wounded hostage is a good measure of how serious the robbers are. If they're willing to let one die, others will get hurt. Michael tell Prescott he's a doctor and he's just trying to help keep people calm.
Michael examines Bly's arm. He has to get the bullet out.
He asks a bank employee where the data server is. He wants to cut a hole in the hall to get to that room and blast out from there.
Michael walks out "looking for tools" to operate on Bly but actually doing recon. Inside, Bly tells people to start cutting through the wall with scissors. Apparently it's not that hard if you start at the socket.
Michael poo-poos the medical kit and says he needs to search desks. He generally takes control and bosses the goon around as he gathers items, including a spare cell phone. He uses the bank's ether net to boost a cell signal more powerful than the jammer.
Elsewhere Sam is on his date with Adele (Adele Uddo), the perfect woman. She talks beach houses and how she never needs to get married again. A nude beach is mentioned. Finally, Sam answers. Michael needs Sam and Fi to blast an exit in the side wall. Sam tells his date the truth and runs out.
Back in the bank Michael uses an airhammer and match to make a "very inaccurate gun with a single bullet." He puts it back in a guard's bag. He slipped the guards by mentioning they've got people at every exit and he can't really go anywhere. He also mixes meds into a robber's energy drink which should make an interesting combination. Back in the conference room, he gets a gun across the temple as punishment for disappearing.
He gives Bly some pain pills he found as he pours vodka from someone's desk on the wound.
Sam and Fi geap up as Sam gloats over being Michael's first call in a crisis.
Michael uses tweezers to get the bullet out of Bly's arm and stitches him up. The robbers are emptying the vault downstairs. The silent alarm has been cut. No help is coming.
Prescott wants Michael downstairs.
Outside the bank, Fi criticizes Sam for not determining what the signal is for the explosion.
Michael has been called to tend to the man who had the misfortune of handling the airhammer he rigged. He asks to use the liquid nitrogen they're using to cauterize the wound. He also takes a moment to blast Prescott's gun when he's not looking, which can't be good for the gun.
Prescott gets called up to the conference room. The guy cutting through the wall has been busted. Bly steps up and says it was him. He hands over the scissors. Prescott takes aim. And fires.
Fortunately for Bly, the gun explodes in Prescott's hand.
Prescott yells at his men to shoot Bly as he holds his wounded paw, but Michael steps in front of him saying that Prescott is gushing arterial blood and he'll need a doctor to save him. He tells his men to move the hostages downstairs. Bly exhales.
One of the men tells Prescott they're about 20 minutes behind schedule and asks if he should call the boat.
As they walk to the stairs, Bly asks Michael how his plan is going. He's working on Plan B. He asks Bly if he trusts him. Yes. Michael tells him to collapse in a nearby doorway and sell it to buy him time. He does. Michael shouts that he's going into shock and he can't move him, he'll need a few minutes. Prescott gives him one. Michael goes back to the ethernet-boosted phone and calls Sam. He tells him to try to listen into their walkies to find the boat.
Michael mentions how easy it is to sabotage an elevator. One of the goons reports the elevator is busted.
As Michael works on Prescott's hand he lifts a wrench from his bag and takes it. Michael says he needs a splint and asks Prescott if he needs any meds. That's a big 10-4.
In the car, Fi searches for the walkie frequency while Sam calls his lady and tells her not to make plans later.
A cop pulls up and they need to prevent him from investigating the robber's trucks parked out front. Fi causes a distraction with a coffee vendor out front. The cop gets another call and leaves.
Michael goes to Bly under the pretext of getting meds and slips him the wrench he snuck earlier.
He brings Prescott meds, something that cures dry mouth in small doses and acts like Sarin gas in high doses. Prescott wants to see Michael take them first. He pops a few.
Meanwhile, the robber who's been guzzling the dosed energy drink tells Michael he's feeling weird. Michael says he's just going to take his pulse, and cuts off his air instead.
The pills remain in Michael's stomach while he teaches us about the coating on pills that keeps them from dissolving at first. And so he makes himself hurl into a trashcan.
Sam goes to the marina and says he's late to repair someone's boat. He asks if there's anyone waiting around looking pissed. They point him to the boat.
Michael, armed now with the passed-out robber's gun, hears another robber telling Prescott they're ready and Prescott telling him to kill everyone because they've seen their faces.
Bly keeps the hostages calm downstairs as they're moved into the vault.
Upstairs Michael goes back to the "ether phone." He tells Sam it's time for Operation Quicksilver. A blitzkreig, but all Michael has is one bullet so Sam is going to have to sell it.
Angela the perfect woman calls Sam, saying his life is too fast-paced for her. As he's telling her he's just talking a walk in a marina, he apprehends one of the robber's guys at the boat.
Michael prepares to try to take on three armed men using only one bullet. He tells Prescott, who is waiting at the entrance with two others guys, that one of his men had a stroke. Prescott doesn't care and orders a goon to kill Michael. As the man approaches and Michael puts a hand on the gun down the back of his pants, the guy Sam grabbed radios in, asking Prescott why he didn't tell them who they were robbing.
The guy babbles that they're all dead and that someone is coming back. Sam takes over, saying that they're making a huge mistake. The robbers downstairs hear Sam lay on the threats and are distracted, giving Bly just enough a time to use the wrench to whack one and take a gun.
Upstairs, a robber turns on Prescott and Michael piles on Sam's story, saying he recognizes the voice and that Sam once brought him a tortured man to cure so the pain would last longer. "You have no idea who you're dealing with," he says.
The guys in the vault don't answer and Prescott continues to insist nothing is wrong -- until Fi makes his truck outside explode. He kills his two men and grabs the bag but is quickly stopped by the police.
He's arrested laughing at the dumb luck of it all.
Inside, Michael sits down with Bly and they discuss if they're ready to continue trying to destroy each other. Bly recognizes that Michael had plenty of opportunities to let him die. He says he's going to go pass out at the local ER but after that he'll fix the loft and things with Barry. As long as he's feeling helpful, Michael says, could he ask a favor?
Paula tells Madeline about the heist. Michael takes his stuff and starts to head home. But Mom's ordering take out. He'll stay.
Later, Michael meets with Barry, who apologizes for the wire. No hard feelings.
Sam and Fi argue who was more clutch in the op. Fi tells Michael that Sam has been insufferable since Michael called him first. Michael clarifies: he called Fi first, but she didn't answer. So in the future he's going to call Sam first.
Michael meets with Bly in the loft, giving him all his blackmail files. Bly traced the bank and banker, but the account is just a number. Worse, the account was being monitored and it looks like it was tripped. Maybe by him, maybe by Barry. Whoever it is, they know he's coming.
Bly shakes his hand, wishes him luck and leaves.
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