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'Burn Notice' recap: Entry Point

By Alicia Sutton Jul 16, 2010, 6:48 GMT

02/25/2010 - Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell - 2nd Annual USA Network Character Approved Awards Cocktail Reception - Arrivals - IAC Building, 555 West 18th Street - New York City, NY, USA © Sylvain Gaboury / PR Photos

Things are starting to heat up in “Burn Notice” this week.  

The client of the week, Buddy, is a knock-off goods guy whose previous client is trying to kill him.  Fiona (Gabrielle Anwar) and Michael (Jeffrey Donovan) track the bad guy to a warehouse and while taking a look around, realize that the place is wired. 

While walking away the warehouse blows up, so Michael calls the fire department to put out the flames.   After the fire is out, Michael poses as an arson investigator so that he can get into the warehouse and take a look around.  He discovers that the bad guy is forging an antiquity Alexander the Great sword and used Buddy to make fake jewels for it. 

Fiona and Michael go to the local museum that has the real Alexander sword on display posing as security consultants.  They inform the owner that one of his employees is going to try to steal the sword and swap it out with a fake.  They ask for the employee files so they can find the thief.  The owner, after getting input from his secretary, denies the request.  This doesn’t stop Team Michael, however, as they just break into HR and steal the files. 

After looking over the files, Michael decides that an employee by the name of Andrew Deans looks too clean and so Fiona and Michael break into his house and find overwhelming evidence that he is the thief. 

They then bring the evidence to the owner, and after showing him how Andrew Deans planned to escape after cutting the power and using an infrared paint trail, he reluctantly agrees to have Michael and Fiona help stop the theft. 

While Michael and Fiona are waiting for the thief to make his move, Sam is watching Deans’ house.  He calls Michael and informs him that Deans isn’t the guy as he was blown up via car bomb outside his house.  Michael runs to the sword and sees that it was already switched out. 

After a bombing and being falsely accused that he stole the sword by the owner, Michael escapes the building by jumping out the second story window.   Using his clever spy deducing skills, Michael realizes the thief (who turned out to be the secretary) is dressed as a firefighter and a car chase ensues.  Michael stops the thief by putting a small explosive into a purse on a string and blows the tires off the car.  Cool gadget! 

Meanwhile, Jesse (Coby Bell) is left to interrogate Kendra (Navi Rawat), the assassin Team Michael captured last week.  Playing a weak interrogator with his bosses pushing him too hard, Jesse convinces Kendra that she has control of the situation and gets her to offer him a deal - $300K for her freedom. 

Jesse pretends to think it over quite convincingly and ultimately gives in.  She gives him her bank information. Sam (Bruce Campbell) tries to trace Kendra’s bank account but the money leads them to a dead end so they make it look like her account has been drained. 

Jesse goes back to Kendra with that lie and she buys it and spills everything – she was hired to kill Cobra, but she didn’t know who hired her.  She also was hired to kill three other guys who messed up on a bank robbery last month and got caught, only she doesn’t know what bank. 

Now all Team Michael has to do now is find out the bank and they are one step closer to finding out about who framed Jesse and got him burned….only we know it was Michael by accident.  Poor Jesse, he really is starting to become a real solid member of the team.  It will be quite tragic when he finds out it was his new friends. 
The only quote that stayed with me this week was when after finishing with Kendra, Jesse remarks, “It’s going to be weird not hanging out with her anymore,” to which Michael, in his usual funny yet serious manner replies, “You can really use some more friends…I’d work on that.” 

This episode did not have that many funny one-liners, so this little exchange in the end made up for it.  There was also an obvious lack of the ever-so-wonderful-Emmy-nominated Sharon Gless, so I hope she will be in abundance next week.