EPISODE

7. Shot in the Dark

Michael helps a boy run his abusive stepfather out of town by convincing the man that he's the target of an assassination plot. Elsewhere, Strickler promises to help Michael get back into the intelligence community in exchange for working together.

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Michael and the team work with a determined young boy, whose abusive step-father is the public face for his brother’s covert smuggling operation and is trying to take his kids away from their mother. Despite their efforts to run him out of town by convincing him someone is trying to kill him, he won’t leave and their attempt to force his hand by staging their own deaths fails when his brother steps in to solve the problem, so they make it look like the man is crazy to get him out of the way of his family. Meanwhile, with Strickler dogging him and promising to help with the burn notice in exchange for his services, Michael turns to Garza to see if Strickler has the connections, and, when Garza’s reaction essentially confirms it, Michael decides to make the deal.

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