EPISODE

4. No Good Deed

Barry's brother is framed for attacking a server, so the gang track down the real hacker to clear his name.

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Michael's team works to clear the name of Barry 's straight-arrow brother (Guest Star: John Ross Bowie ), a bank manager, after a thief (Guest Star: Big Show ) uses his ID to steal an encrypted server with thousands of member records. The real mastermind turns out to be an experienced, ruthless hacker who thwarts the team's every effort and threatens them even after they convince her that the mobster who hired her to decrypt the drive is planning to betray her, so Fi blows up her computer to salvage the situation. Later, after completing a mission to infiltrate a protected room and retrieve tech secrets stolen from another nation by French operatives, Michael heads in for debriefing only to find Max dying after being shot by an unknown assassin, with Michael framed for the murder. He barely escapes, covering the killer's tracks in the process, so the team must race to find the gunman before the CIA comes for Michael.

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