12. Dead to Rights

Complete story — includes the ending

An aggravated Pearce conditionally agrees to let Michael talk with Max's killer, but, though he confesses, he commits suicide rather than risking arrest, warning Michael in advance it isn't over for him. Shortly thereafter, Michael's mentor Larry surprises him and forces him to help him break into the British consulate to plant false documents using the access of a DIA psychiatrist named Anson, whose wife he's using as leverage. Shockingly, the woman ends up dead anyway, prompting Fi to go to extremes to help Michael get free of Larry the psycho once and for all, even if it means setting off a bomb at the consulate. That causes a chain reaction which ends up killing innocent people and soon Anson steps forward to reveal himself as the ultimate puppet master: he's a co-founder, and the last member, of the organization that burned Michael, though his history with Michael goes back to before his father died, and now he's planning to use the bombing to make Michael do his bidding.