Plot

As Michael prepares for his meeting with John Barrett, he also agrees to help a sleazy defense attorney whose daughter has been kidnapped, while Fi and Madeline try to convince Jesse not to kill Michael for burning him.

Dispicable underworld-lawyer Adam Scott hires Michael to rescue his young daughter Becky, who was kidnapped by scum client Dale Lawson, who demands his jailed brother's freedom. It's too late to hope for an acquittal, so the team must stage a fake escape during jail transport, even kidnapping a parking lot attendant to involuntarily impersonate the convict. Michael and Vaughn plan a deal with John Barrett, offering the coded 'Bible', worrying about deeply hurt Jesse as presumed loose gun.—KGF Vissers

Michael has his hands full when a dangerous gang leader kidnaps a defense attorney's daughter and holds her for ransom. With a terrorist threat still on the horizon, Michael will need to focus on what matters most in order to get everybody back alive... including himself. Meanwhile, a startling revelation forces Jesse to reconsider where he stands.—USA Publicity

Previously: Michael was looking into an international weapons and covert war ring, and had to burn Jesse along the way. He befriended Jesse, bonding as fellow burned spies. But Jesse found out and was none too pleased. He threatened Fiona and she thinks Jesse is going to make them pay. Meanwhile, Michael traced the international war funding operation back to a corporation run by a guy named Barrett, who is on his way to see Michael in Miami.

Guilty as Charged: Maddy came back from Tampa and Jesse was gone. Michael was still focused on finding Barrett (Robert Patrick) and asking him some questions. Maddy told Michael she'd stay and try to convince Jesse not to shoot him. Michael just wanted to find Bennett to make sure Jesse's burning didn't amount to anything.

Michael went to the place where Barrett was staying and took out one of Barrett's watchmen. He radioed in to talk to Barrett. He did it so that Barrett would take him seriously. Barrett told him, Mission accomplished. Michael told Barrett to meet him the next day to discuss the code-key Bible. Michael also wanted to talk about their future together, telling Barrett that he could use some new staff.

Vaughn was surprised Michael was able to get Barrett to Miami. Vaughn was worried about Jesse being a distraction while they were so close to nailing Barrett.

Michael assured Sam he wasn't planning on turning Barrett over to Vaughn. He considered Barrett a pretty big card to play and thought he could hand Barrett over to the CIA or the FBI. A guy came and asked Michael if he could help a defense attorney named Adam Scott. His daughter had been kidnapped by one of his clients, who was on trial for murder. The verdict was due soon. The man's brother, Dale (Michael Rooker), threatened to kill Adams daughter if he lost the case. Michael told Adam to set up a meeting with Dale. Michael said he wasn't helping Adam, though -- because he'd made some bad choices in who he represented. Michael was considering the girl, Becky, his client.

Michael told Dale that he was a miracle worker who could do some maneuvering to get his brother out of jail. Michael left the meeting hoping to be tailed, and it worked. Michael ran some errands while Sam and Fi followed, as well. They figured out who was tailing him and followed that car back to a nightclub that seemed to have a lot of activity going on, considering it was daytime. Fi distracted the lookout while Sam put tracking devices on all the cars in the parking lot. Before they left, they realized they were being watched by Jesse, who drove away.

Sam was doing some map work to figure out where Dale's guys were. He traced their movements to a little strip of land that juts into the bay. They had to get there unseen, by water. He told Adam to get in touch with one of his drug cartel clients who owns a submersible vehicle used to smuggle drugs. Adam objected at first, but Michael told him he was serious and not long after, Sam and Fi were handed the keys to such a vehicle.

Michael met with Vaughn, who told him where Jesse was staying. Michael told Fi that they knew where Jesse was, and she revealed that they had kissed. She told Michael she should talk to him first -- and maybe bring Maddy along -- then told Michael to go save that girl.

Michael tried to make his surprise entry to the bayside house where he thought the girl was being held, but Dale and his guards knew he was coming because he had tapped Adam's phone and heard him telling his ex-wife about Michael's plan. They surrounded him quickly and Michael had a chat with Dale. Michael told Dale he could still do his magic to keep his brother out of prison and Dale told Michael to go ahead and show him a miracle.

Michael was upset with Adam for having nearly gotten him killed. Michael had a new plan: to make Dale think his brother Rod was free just long enough to get Becky back. Michael said the plan would take money and a bit of manpower.

Fi and Maddy went to see Jesse. He didn't want to talk to them, but Maddy urged him to hear them out. Fi tried to explain that getting him burned was an accident and that they all really were his friends. Jesse wasn't buying it and told Fi that if she wanted to help Michael, tell him to watch his back. Fi told Jesse he could meet Michael at a diner that night if he changed his mind. Maddy told Jesse that Michael isn't the man Jesse thinks he is. Jesse told Maddy that she might not know him or Michael as well as she thinks she does. Then she told him, "Maybe not, but if youre going to kill my son, just do me a favor and wait a couple of days because he's trying to save a little girl's life." Then she left.

Michael and Sam built a fake prison van -- based on government standard specs easily found on the Internet -- and Fi found them a fake prisoner, the guy from the nightclub parking lot who'd been rude to her. They shaved the guys head and put him in a prison uniform, and loaded him into the fake prison van. They'd also gotten a thug on loan through Adam and dressed him as a prison guard.

With Michael and Dale watching from a car in the distance, Dale was loaded onto a prison transport van. Michael told Dale his people were going to hit the van along its route to the courthouse and they would take his brother Rod from the van -- and Dale agreed he'd give up the girl. Along the way, their thug-for-hire, driving the fake prison van with the fake prisoner in it, slipped in and Sam and Fi blew up the fake van and made a show of forcing the guard to give up the prisoner. Dale was impressed.

Michael and Dale went to the rendezvous point to exchange the girl. Michael got the girl and took her to safety while Dale went to the truck where he thought his brother was being held and discovered he'd been played. After a bit of a shootout, Michael drove them all away.

Michael tried to tell Adam to keep his daughter safe. He said she'd be heading out of the country soon and Dale would never be a threat to her again. Michael also told Adam to watch out for himself, and Adam said he could handle it. Michael didn't want money, but wanted to keep the submersible vehicle. Adam said that was fine, but asked what he wanted with it.

"That's my business," Michael said.

Michael waited at the diner and Jesse finally showed up. He said he was sitting outside with Michael's head in the crosshairs of a rifle scope, wondering if I should shoot the man who ruined his life.

"And?" Michael asked.

"Still thinking," Jesse replied.

Michael told Jesse they were going after Barrett, the meeting was set and he needed him back on the team. Michael told Jesse that if they could get Barrett, maybe they could get him back in. Jesse said he's not a guy that trusts easily, never had a lot of friends. Michael assured Jesse he was his friend and had always been. He said Barrett would expect him at the meeting. Jesse told Michael to have his meeting with Barrett, "but as far as me and you go, I make no promises."

Sam worried they couldn't pull off their plan with Barrett without Jesse. At best, the plan called for Michael to be alone with Barrett and two guys at the point of taking Barrett.

Michael went to the meeting in a pretty isolated spot. Michael handed Barrett the Bible and one of his men started checking it. Then Michael asked about the Bible. Barrett told Michael the Bible is a coded list of all the people involved in doing the burning.

Then things went really wrong. Barrett got a call from his guys about a team of people headed up the road. It was Vaughn and a whole crew, which caught Michael by surprise, but led Barrett to think Michael was in on the plan the whole time.

Then, Michael was shot, but voiceover Michael explained the process of shooting a friendly to hit the person behind him, and Jesse emerged from the brush. Sam explained to Fi, as they were watching everything unfold, that Jesse was saving Mike's butt.

Barrett grabbed Michael and loaded him into an SUV. He sped away and began yelling at Michael, telling him he was going to wish he was dead. Losing blood, Michael desperately grabbed the steering wheel and flipped the SUV. After the crash, Michael crawled from the over-turned vehicle, saw that Barrett had not survived, then laid on the road and saw that the briefcase that contained the Bible had been thrown clear of the wreck.

Then he saw someone in black boots pick it up just before his eyes closed as he passed out.