1.03 Fight or Flight

Summary and spoilers

Michael’s landlord, Oleg, promises 4 month’s free rent if Michael can find out why his best waitress hasn’t left her apartment in a week. Cara, the waitress, witnessed a Lexus owner beat a pizza delivery boy after a car accident. She contacted police with the licence number of the Lexus, and since then, scary guys have been coming around her work, and a dead rat was nailed to her door. She and her daughter Sophie are afraid to leave the apartment.

Meanwhile, Michael infiltrates a conference and gets the name of a delegate whom he believes will have information on who burned him. Michael needs Fiona’s help for this; in exchange, he agrees to ask her mother for his father’s old Dodge Charger.

Michael meets with DeSantos, the man who is terrorizing Cara, but the situation escalates. A hit squad is on the way, but fortunately, Fiona is at Cara’s, and she gets rid of the men by lobbing a couple of Molotov cocktails at them.

Michael shelters Cara and Sophie in his mom’s garage, which he has cleverly turned into a safe house. Meanwhile, he talks to DeSantos’ lawyer, Bruce Gellman. This tactic does not work. Now, there’s a drug cartel-delivered death warrant out on Cara, Sophia, and anyone else who gets in the way.

Comments

Jeffrey Donovan looks a little like Jerry Seinfeld, and his voice has similarities, too. When he delivers lighthearted comedy lines, he sounds even more like him. It’s pleasant.

Burn Notice Quotes

Sam: Oh, c’mon, Mike! You got a sexy cocktail waitress that needs protecting and you send Fiona. What is she – 80 pounds? C’mon, Mike, look at this [flashes modest bicep] – guns of steel.
Michael: Well, I’ll tell you what – if there’s a situation that requires showing off your upper body and boozy flirting, you’re my guy.

Sam: How many were there?
Fiona: I don’t know, four. They took off after cocktail hour.

"Problem with the detonator? [holds up loose wires] I borrowed this when you went to take a leak."
- Michael to assassin