Burn Notice s02e14 Episode Script

My name is michael westen.
I used to be a spy until We got a burn noticeon you.
You're blacklisted.
When you're burned, you've got nothing -- no cash, no credit, no job history.
You're stuck in whatever city they decide to dump you in.
- Where am I? - Miami.
You do whatever work comes your way.
You rely on anyone who's still talking to you.
- A trigger-happy ex-girlfriend - should we shoot them? An old friend who used to inform on you to the fbi you know spies --a bunch of bitchy little girls.
Family, too hey, is that your mom again? If you're desperate.
Someone needs your help,michael.
Bottom line -- until you figure out who burned you, you're not going anywhere.
Bribery's a lot more difficult than it sounds.
There's no way to shop around, so you usually overpay for whatever information you're after.
There's no money-back guarantee if the information's bad, and of course the only thing that you know for sure is that you're handing your money to a thief and a liar.
I still can't believeyou're giving all this money to some sleazy bank manager.
I went to a lot of troubleto find this guy.
I don't havea lot of options here.
Michael, he hid money for a manwho tried to assassinate you.
Which makes hima good person to know if I'm trying to findthat assassin.
You're going to this meetingunarmed.
You have no information.
It's a tactical risk.
Fi, I was warned not to meet you the first time.
Yeah.
I almost blew off your handwith a block of c-4.
And I made a friend.
Maybe I'll make another one.
Watch my back.
Gustavo.
****** Do you have the money? No small talk? How was the flight? Bad.
All the way here,I wonder why I do this.
You came here becauseI'm giving you a lot of money for a little information.
I just want a name,a few numbers, and you're back on a plane.
First, I need to knowhow you found me.
Bank-secrecy regulationsin the cayman islands are not easy to penetrate.
I have friends.
What friends? I don't even know who you are orwhy you want this information.
When someone's asking for sensitive information, it's basic security to make sure that the person you're dealing with is who he says he is.
An easy way is to change details that the other person would know.
Gustavo, we talked about thison the phone.
I'm giving you $8,000for a file.
Part of what that money buysis privacy.
I-I don't carewhat I said on the phone.
You don't tell mewhat I want to know, you don't get this file --$8,000, no $8,000.
The deal I made with gustavowas for $10,000, not $8,000.
He was very clearabout that number.
And we never talkedon the phone.
You want to tell mewho you are? I can explain.
No! No! No! No! Michael, what happened? He didn't want tomake friends.
Hey, mike.
Look what I got for you, huh? It's my police buddy.
It was his day off.
We went out on his boat.
Did you get anything besides the fish? I got a peek at a police file from the caymans.
Seems that the real gustavo was found dead in a bar.
I guess that's what you get if you run payroll for an assassin.
Hey, where do you want me to put this? Sink.
Did you catch it? No, buddy of mine did, but I figured you could use the protein.
Thanks.
So there was nothing on my friend with the knives? No, except that he's as dead as that fish.
Probably got smuggled in.
Fi knows some people who make extra-special travel arrangements.
I'm supposed to meet her at the carlito for lunch.
Bring the fish.
Maybe they'll cook it for you.
Mr.
Westen? That depends.
My name is claude laurent.
I need help.
I found someone who worked with you before.
He said that you were a good man and once worked for the government? Yeah, I was a government worker.
Please, please.
I can pay you.
What exactly do you need? Several years ago, my daughter, veronique, was murdered in haiti.
I am here to bring the man who killed her to justice.
I'm not sure what you've heard about me, but a murder in haiti, that's not -- - no, I can't go there.
- No, please.
Here.
See? Jean-pierre duman.
He has a new name.
I have this, too.
It's from the inter-american court of human rights.
We use it to make him come back to haiti and stand trial.
Duman was an official in haiti.
Veronique spoke out against him.
He had her put in prison, and then he had her killed.
Uh, mr.
Laurent, this is not gonna work in an american court.
Who -- who is this man with the fish? The man with the fish is right.
You don't even have proof of duman's identity.
- No, no, no, no, I have found him, and -- - claude, listen to me.
I'm sure veronique would want you to go home and live out the rest of your life remembering -- you know nothing of my daughter.
You do not deserve to speak her name.
They said you werean honorable man.
They lied.
- What? - Nothing.
Just waitingfor fi to show up.
You know, mike, uh,back in the day, I had some buddieswho worked in haiti.
Saw some of those prisons.
Bad, mike.
Very bad.
Sam.
A lot of guys got away witha lot of bad stuff evil.
Always wished I could do more,honestly.
Sam, he's gota worthless letter.
Yeah.
Yeah, I know.
Probably justa big fat waste of time.
Just forget all about it.
A man and his daughter.
You want me to check out duman? Is that what you want me to do? I made some callswhen I was taking a leak, and I found addresses ofa couple places he hangs out.
Yeah, mom? Michael, I need youto come over.
There's been a break-in.
All right.
I'll be right there.
So, this wasthe break-in, mom? I didn't even knowyou still owned this car.
I park itat mrs.
Gartelman'S.
They took the tape deck,michael! What do you want meto do about it? Well, not you -- we.
I mean, they're having break-insall over the neighborhood.
There's a real crime spree, and I thought that the two of uscould look into it together.
Well, how aboutI get you a new stereo? It's not about the stereo.
I got the descriptionsof the boys who did it.
So call the police.
Yeah, right.
They're not gonna do anythingabout this, and you know it.
Could you at least give mea ride to the store? 'Cause the carwon't start now.
Because the tape deckis stolen? Hey, blame your father.
He installed the radio.
He wired the damn thingto the ignition.
Spend enough time in international hot spots, and you learn that a lot of the worst monsters on earth are just spoiled rich kids.
Mass murderers come in many shapes and sizes, but they tend to drink the same brands of champagne.
That's the guy.
Jean-pierre duman.
His dadwas a regional governor -- damn near turned corruptioninto an art form, died a few years back.
Jean-pierre went intothe family business? Yeah.
Party boy thereran the local prison.
Anybody complained,they went there.
Lucky oneswere just executed.
****** Then after the election, the whole family disappearedwith most of the island's gnp.
Disappeared till now? Well, yeah,now he's luc renard.
He chases skirts, throws partiesat his place on star island.
Mike, I'm telling you,we can do this.
You mean prove he's duman? Yeah, and you know how it is.
Nobody throws out everythingwhen they go off-grid.
We just got toget into his place.
Into his high-security placeon star island.
Mike, nothing worth doingis easy, and nobody loves easymore than me, but it's true.
Fiona, feel likecoming to a party? People love the sound of their native tongue.
Even the most security-conscious person often lets his guard down when he hears somebody who speaks his language.
If that somebody happens to be in a designerssre What, I can't go in? So much the better.
********* ********* ************* ******** ************ I will see you both later? No.
No, you won'T.
And what do you supposeI will be doing later? I'll think of something.
I don't even know your name.
Luc renard.
Claire neville.
Come.
Party at my house.
Bon soir.
Is this yours? Yes.
Do you like it? Oui.
Does it belongto your family, or did you buy all thisall by yourself? You know, I don't like totalk business.
Come, let me show youthe rest of the house.
Where does this lead? Uh, this leads nowhere.
Come this way.
I have the biggest bathtubin miami.
Well, if it's so big, maybe we should invitea friend or -- or two.
No? Give me a minute.
Yeah, fi? I'm in his office.
There's not much here.
Well, then, get out.
If duman catches you, you're not getting out of therewith a stern conversation.
Well, it's a shameto waste the opportunity.
I'm planting a bug.
This is the house of jean-pierre duman! He murdered my daughter! Come out and show yourself, jean-pierre! You cannot hide from your crime! Our haitian friendjust crashed the party, and it looks like monsieur dumanis not too happy about his new guest.
Go and take careof him -- now! Go! You have 30 secondsto get here before duman kills anothermember of the laurent family.
You're driving my car back.
No problem, mike.
Come out, duman! He murdered my daughter! Staying hidden isn't always about sticking to the shadows.
Get in the car now! In fact, if you're enemy's eyes are adjusted to the dark, there's no better place to be than behind the brightest light you can find.
Why did you come? Why did you change your mind? Because that'sthe kind of guy he is.
He's an honorable man,just like they told you.
He's just a little slowsometimes.
So, where do we gofrom here? You go back to haiti.
I am not leaving.
I am stayinguntil it is done.
We have more experiencewith this kind of thing.
I can help.
I found duman when no one elsecould find him.
Ah, listen, claude.
You've done your part.
Now let us do ours.
We'll get the guy.
How? How will you do that? By getting him to give usevidence proving who he is.
Now, mikeis a very convincing guy.
Trust me.
You can count on him.
But you need to go home.
It's better for everyone.
You understand? Yes.
I understand.
So, I asked around aboutwho might have brought your knife-wielding fake bankerinto the country.
It was rough.
I mean, the miami gun smugglersand the miami people smugglers, they don't get along.
And I've always beenmore of a gun person.
You're sure as hellnot a people person.
You want to take over, sam? Oh, wait.
That's right.
I forgot.
All your friends wear uniforms,which makes you useless.
Hey, who found out about thisguy in the first place, huh? Sam, fi,just keep looking.
I intend to.
Good newson the haitian front.
I got an angle on duman.
His family used to do businesswith flintridge industries.
It's a big multinationalthat built all the prisons.
Fbi's been nosing around themfor years.
You still in touchwith those fbi agents that were on the "follow michaelwesten around miami" beat? Well, I could make a call, but we didn't parton the best of terms.
Well, I think it's timeto mend some fences, sam.
If you've spent time working for the government, you understand that it's a game with its own rules.
If you want to make the government work for you, you have to know how the game is played.
An fbi agent might hate you, but if working with you gets him out of an assignment he hates even more, you've got yourself a partner.
Hey, guys! What's going on, huh? She looks dangerous.
Cute, sam.
You know you're interferingwith a federal investigation? What is she, like 80? Did shesteal somebody's dentures? It's a racketeering case -- biggest drug-smuggling familyin south florida.
Is she the boss? Boss's grandmother.
Oh, man.
You should check the film speedin that camera.
At the rate she's moving,you don't want to miss anything.
What do you want, axe? I come bearing gifts.
I have a peace offering,a case that you guys can take back to your officeand be proud of.
You might even get a commendation fromthe higher-ups.
This more crap like the stuffyou gave us on westen? Hey, I never liedto you guys about him.
Well, sure,I forgot some stuff.
What is it, sam? We've got work to do here.
He's an international fugitive hiding in miamiunder a new identity, related to an investigationyou guys are already doing.
Hmm, that's a wholedifferent department, sam -- years in court.
Listen, guys,just check it out, all right? We've had our differences, but I know you fbi guysbust your ass every day to do the right thing.
I'll give you a timeand a place.
Just check it out.
Watch out for granny.
You know, if you guys want meto take her out, let me know.
All right.
Good luck.
Being a fugitive takes work.
When you're being hunted, hiding isn't something you can do effectively without help.
So the best way to catch a fugitive isn't to approach him as one of the people hunting him down.
It's to approach him as one of the people who can help him stay on the run.
Ladies, I'm terribly sorry, but I have a very importantmeeting with mr.
Duman now.
- Could you excuse us? - Who are you? Me? My name is owen matthews.
But the more importantquestion is, who are you? If you don't want to havea very public, very uncomfortable conversationon that topic right now, I'd ask these ladiesto leave.
What do you want? What makes you thinkyou can just sit at my table? What gives you that right? You know, I don't like to havea meeting like this, but when I findjean-pierre duman sitting in a restaurantwith fbi agents outside, it is my obligationto sit down.
I've got a job to do.
The people I work forpay me a lot of money to make sure they don't landin federal prison.
The people I work forare very concerned right now about the legal problemsof jean-pierre duman.
I don't knowwhat you're talking about.
My name is luc renard.
Luc renard, yeah.
Call yourself whatever you like.
It doesn't matter what I think.
It matters what they think because they'rethe ones following you.
They're the ones who willbe asking you questions.
This conversation is over.
Just give mea few more minutes.
You need to hear what I have to say.
Speak.
The people I work forwere at flintridge industries back when the company wasworking with the duman family.
I have been hired to sanitizethe record of those years.
I am here to help you,jean-pierre.
My name is luc renard.
No, it's not.
Not yet.
There is still a trailthat exists, linking who you arewith who you were.
I am here to redirectthat trail, jean-pierre.
Until I do,everyone's in jeopardy -- you, my clients, everyone.
Let go of my arm.
I'm not the problem here.
I'm the solution.
Call me.
- Hey, maddie.
- Hey, sam! What are you doing here? Mike said your ignition needed some work.
I'm alreadytaking care of it.
I'm not helpless, sam.
You ever had your carbroken into? No, mostly just broken.
Well, I told the police I want a list of all thereported break-ins in this area over the last six months.
Do you know these typesof crimes tend to cluster? I read that.
Very impressive.
Don't pretend.
This is gonna take time.
I have a partner-stretchingclass in half an hour.
Can you give me a ride? Uh, sure, yeah,I can get you over there.
Great! 'Cause I need a partner, too,all right? So you can hang outfor the class and then give mea ride back.
Partner stretching? That sounds painful.
Ugh, boy.
Geez.
You all right, sam? This body was not builtfor the hip-adductor stretch.
What? I got an inflamed bursal sac.
Got to ice it down.
Look, mike,I think it's best if you deal with your momabout the car.
With the fbi.
They know my real name.
- Is that the bug in duman's office? - Yeah.
What do I pay you for? To protect me,to keep your eyes on things.
We found the license plateof the car that was here at the gates, the manwith the megaphone.
So, who was he? His name is claude laurent.
He's staying at the goldensunset motel down by the beach.
Maybe he talked to the fbi.
Then why are we here? Take me.
Now! Mike, claude didn't leave miami.
We got to get over there.
Before duman sends him homein a body bag.
Oh, boy.
Well, looky there.
Got our own little death squadright here in the U.
S.
Of A.
Hold on, sam.
Stay here.
Mike, I'm pretty surethis is a two-man job, you know,once the shooting starts.
I'm gonna see if I can keepthe shooting from starting.
Tell me you guysaren't this stupid.
What the hellare you doing here? What do you thinkI'm doing here? I'm here becausethe guy in this motel is pretty pissedat the duman family and causing problemsfor my clients.
But let me ask you, luc,what are you doing here? Last we spoke, you hadn't evenheard of the duman family.
Get out of my way.
You think this is gonnasolve anything? No, this is gonna solve nothing.
It is gonna cause us problems.
It's gonna make it worse -- worse for me,worse for my clients, worse for you.
Move! Aw, mike.
You kill that man,you validate everything he says.
That means news attention,attention from the fbi.
I cannot let that happen.
You say you can change the past.
How? Yes, I can change that.
I can take everything thatconnects you back to haiti, every document,every bank statement, all of it.
I can clean it and hand you backa whole new you, a jean-pierre dumanwho never has to hide again.
Now choose.
I can change your story or end it.
Come to my house tomorrow.
Your house? Is that jean-pierre duman'shouse or luc renard's? We will see.
no, wait, wait, wait, wait.
You said you were goingto leave town.
No, you said it wouldbe safer for me to go.
I said I understood.
And I do.
You put yourself in danger.
I do not want safety,mr.
Westen.
I want justice.
Claude, we saidwe would handle this.
You think your daughter wantsyou to get yourself killed? That is what they said when I wanted to goto the prisons to find her.
That is what they said when iwanted to go to the newspapers.
I failed her before.
I will not fail her again.
You were not responsible.
I was a coward! But never again.
I will not leave until jean-pierre duman is returned to haiti to face what he has done.
Working covert ops, you learn to exploit weakness.
You manipulate greed, fear, pride to make people do what you want.
But when you're dealing with true believers, those weaknesses aren't there.
All you can do is help or get out of the way.
Wait.
You won't be safeat your motel.
I would like youto stay here.
It seems my people skillsare improving, michael.
You found the guywho smuggled in our fake banker from the cayman islands? I found where he keeps his boat,and he just arrived.
****** - Go easy on him, fi.
- You're breaking up.
As a spy, it's usually best to be unknown.
It allows you to adjust to any situation and be whoever you need to be.
There are certain advantages to being known, however.
A reputation can be a powerful tool.
Wait.
You leaving? - I was just, uh -- - you just got here.
I forgot something.
I have to go get the thingthat I forgot.
Look, I don't wantany trouble.
But we haven't hada chance to meet.
Fiona.
Yeah, I know who you are.
You shot up paco's boat, and you set fireto that guy's place up in boca.
Well, they interfered withone of my gun shipments.
But you wouldn't do that,would you, gary? - We're friends.
- What do you want? Well, I need to know about a guywho came in a few days ago, called himself gustavo.
He liked to play with knives.
He's dead, gary.
He fell off a parking garage.
I brought him in on a run-upfrom the caymans.
He paid cash.
That's it.
You know, I got to tell you,I'm a little disappointed, gary.
I expect so much morefrom my friends.
I brought him in.
I dropped him offat a storage unit.
I never saw him again.
A storage unit.
That's good.
You wouldn't happen to have theaddress of that storage unit, would you, gary? Ma! What, honey? Have you seendad's power sander? What? I've been to your place,michael.
Your sander's betterthan your father'S.
What, are you checkingon my progress? I've seen guided missileswith simpler circuitry.
- Why don't you just let me -- - I can do this.
How's sam? Recovering.
Your stretching classnearly killed him.
Well, what doesn't kill himwill make him stronger.
Believe me.
I know.
I don't think that appliesto cigarettes, ma.
You want to go downto the police station with me? They're gonna show me photosof every burglar in the area.
No, I got to michael,what is so important that you couldn'tdo that with me? I'm helping a man get justicefor his murdered daughter.
Well, if you need any help withthat, honey, you let me know.
I think I foundthe storage facility where gustavokept his stuff.
Not too much damage done,I hope? Oh, no.
I didn't have to lift a finger.
My reputation precedes me,apparently.
You should think about movinginto one of these storage units.
Some of themhave air-conditioning.
It would be a step up.
I'll keep it in mind.
Call the storage unitand make some inquiries.
Let them knowgustavo passed away and that you're coming byafter-hours to check on the unit.
I think I can handle that.
And you can say helloto monsieur duman for me.
Most people have a hard time letting go of their past.
The same guy who will burn a village to the ground without a thought often won't throw away an old necktie because it reminds him of his high-school graduation.
If you know what you're doing, you can hang him with that necktie.
Come in.
How does this work,what you do? You give meeverything you have -- your passport, your medicalrecords, your financial records, everythingfrom the old days, everything that ties youto the name jean-pierre duman.
And then? We give youa new set of records.
The money siphonedfrom the government turns into incomefrom overseas investments.
You get a new travel record proving you weren'teven in the country when your enemies diedin prison.
I handle it all.
My family left the islandof haiti in a hurry.
These are some of the thingswe thought we might need.
My fatherwanted to burn them, but I thoughtperhaps someday -- you made the right choice.
No man should everhave to hide forever.
I'll take these,and I'll start cleaning them.
Wait.
First my father wouldlike to speak to you.
Your father? - I've readthat your father was -- - was dead, yes? Back in haiti, we buriedanother man in his place.
Oh, no.
Daddy's still alive.
He's old-fashioned,my father.
He wants me to sit in the houseand hide from the cameras, but I told him about you.
He did not believe, but I saidthat you would explain.
So this is the manwho can change the past.
I called some peopleI know long ago at flintridge industries.
They do not know you.
Tell me.
Why is this? Some big misunderstanding.
Let's clear it up, though.
Who did you talk to? Sam? Because sam is who I talk to.
Let me get him on the phone.
Uh, you know sam.
He's got the big officewith the big windows, south side of the building,the glass doors, you know, where you can walkright out onto the balcony.
There is no such man.
Who are you? Papa, wait.
He said he knewabout the prisons, about flintridge,about the money, he -- how many times I tell you to be careful? But he warned me thatthe fbi was investigating us.
Tell him! It takes a lot longer to pull a gun than most people think it does -- almost five seconds, on average, to draw and line up a shot.
Whether this is good news or bad news depends on what side of the gun you're on.
Get him! Get him! The papers are gone.
They know we're looking.
They'll have burned themby now.
So that's it? Now we can do nothing? I didn't say that.
The papers were just a wayto get him to haiti.
I assume there are people who can identify him therewithout papers? Yes, many people.
It's time for duman to takea trip back home.
I like it.
Fi, can you get dumanaway from his bodyguards? Oui.
Sam, can you get usa truck? For the chance to take theseguys down, I'll get us a convoy.
When you're abducting someone, transportation usually isn't the issue.
There is no trick to driving a truck with someone hidden in the back.
The challenge is getting them into the truck.
You can walk them in, drag them in, or let gravity do the work and drop them in.
Well, that should do it.
I just hopeit's not too comfortable.
I'm sure it'll be fine.
My guys in ties.
We checked out duman.
Looks like the information yougave us is good for once, axe.
He's a realson of a bitch.
Thing is, there's nota whole lot we can do, not without proofof who he is.
Damn shame, really.
Right.
But the thing is,if you still want to help come on, axe,you know as well as I do we can't do anything officialunless we got warrants.
The whole thing'sgot to go up the chain.
Yeah, I figured.
But, unofficially,what did you have in mind? Luc? ********* ********* ******** ***** ********** Spend time with corrupt, homicidal third-world political figures, and you hear a lot of self-pity.
******** ******* ********** What kind of man throws his political enemies in prison and tortures them to death? Usually it's a guy who feels so sorry for himself he feels justified doing anything.
Killers, by and large, are whiny losers, but that doesn't make them any less dangerous.
I do notwant to be disturbed.
Understand? Lie downon your stomach.
Close your eyes.
Most over-the-counter allergy medicines contain mild sedatives.
In the right dosage, they cause a pleasant drowsiness.
In the wrong dosage, they cause dizziness, hallucinations, and unconsciousness.
What was that? My secret.
Mr.
Duman? ******** Mr.
Duman? ** Mr.
Duman, open the door! ********* Open the door! Calm down.
Keep screamingall the way back to haiti, you're gonna be hoarsefor your trial.
I guess he can't changethe past after all.
You need to get going.
Sam has a friend with a boat.
He'll get you bothback to haiti.
You'll go now? Yes.
My daughter,she would have liked you.
She was very brave.
Like her father.
Michael! What are those for? Well, I thought I'd, uh, help you with the rewiringof the car, if you needed it.
I did it! Really? You rewired the carby yourself? I did it.
I went through someof your father's old papers.
I found this diagram,and I just put the wires back where they weresupposed to be.
It wasn't that hard,michael.
I don't know what to say.
They caught them! Teenagersbreaking into garages.
I watched them come outof mrs.
Hale's house.
I recognized the photographs,and I called the cops.
You know why I think your fatherwired the car the way he did? 'Cause I think he thoughtif he was the only one who could fix itthat we'd always need him.
He'd be more useful, you know,part of the family.
So, did you catch yours? The guy who killed the girl? Yeah.
Yeah, I did.
Good for you, sweetheart.
Hey, sam, your buddy's boatmake it back to haiti okay? Uh, yeah,the coast guard kept clear, thanks to you guys.
We have no idea what you're talking about, axe.
Yeah, right.
Well, I got a list of officialswho took kickbacks from flintridge industriesback in the day.
It's probably enough for you guys to goafter papa duman, too.
A little bird told me.
Little bird, huh? He thought it would keep himfrom being returned to the nest, and I figured this could buy youguys some time away from granny.
Not exactlyby the book, axe.
Or I could send you a bouquetwith a nice card.
We'll find a wayto use this.
Man, all this talkingmakes me hungry, but mostly thirsty.
Drinks on uncle sam.
Yeah! Come on, guys.
Cough it up.
Mojito! you call the storage place? The managerknows we're coming.
For the record, michael,I don't like this plan.
What plan? You using yourself as bait to see if whoever sent gustavoafter you takes another crack.
That's what I would do.
You're gonna let me back you upfor real this time? Fi if you're right, there's a goodchance he's waiting on a roof with a rifleto take a shot at you.
That's what I would do.
I need him alive.
I need you alive.
You see anything, fi? Not yet.
Maybe it's timewe announced our arrival.
If you suspect you're walking into an ambush, searching for where the bad guys are hidden is probably going to get you killed.
Unless you get lucky and find them in the first place you look, you're dead.
If you can manage it, the best move is to make it impossible to hide.
He's right above you.
He's on the move, michael.
When you're in a foot chase, the trick is to stay visual contact with whoever you're pursuing until they run out of gas.
Of course, visual contact doesn't do you much good if you're separated by a 12-foot-high, razor-wire-topped fence.
****** You should changeyour workout, michael! You're not doingenough cardio.
Wait.
Michael, did you see him? Yeah.
Turns out we've met before.