* It’s worth noting that Michael’s father was also an alcoholic.* Sam mentions Elsa, his long-term girlfriend, whom he hooked up with in season five and declared his love four in season six.* Michael manages some Spanish this episode it’s been a series-long gag that he can’t speak it, but has mastered more difficult languages like Russian and Farsi.* Madeline quits smoking this episode her nicotine addiction has been a series-long running gag.His incipient birth was announced in season 3, and we saw him as an infant during season four. * We meet a slightly aged Charlie, the son of Michael’s late brother Nate.Perhaps its old charm, however depleted, isn’t entirely gone yet. The amount of premise, backstory, and side-story we must wade through refuses to allow the episode to fly freely, yet the time passes by quite quickly. “New Deal” is a decent episode it has those typical Burn Notice moments of suspense and a couple of big booms, along with some snarky voiceovers. Why should we be rooting for them all to get together again? Just so Michael’s angst over being forced to abandon them can be assuaged? Michael transfused his blood into Sam’s body and gave him mouth-to-mouth he threw himself into danger to make Nate’s death right for Madeline I don’t buy he’d cut them out of his life, even under the threat of deep cover, and especially after we’ve seen Michael create I know they’re searching for dramatic tension, but it might make more sense for his repeated overtures to be rejected by his livid family.Īnother problem is that not only is the entire gang doing fine without him, they’re downright thriving. But the idea that Michael would cut Sam and his mother out of his life, especially in light of last season’s finale and the passing of Nate, is utterly faulty. She’s mad at him, and when Fi is mad at Michael she’s typically completely willing to cut off contact with him. I can imagine Michael refusing to contact Fiona, yes, in spite of the rain of destiny anvils we’ve been had for them over the past few seasons. “New Deal” falters on several other counts the first is what appears to be the season’s central conceit. It’s painfully clichéd, the sort of scene thrown into every action movie entering its final downbeat to illustrate, paraphrasing Walk Hard: the Dewy Cox Story, a really dark period. I thought that was worth mentioning, for the humor is, shall we say, sparring in the opening segment – unless you count the unintentionally hilarious opening sequence, in which the ultra-controlled Westen has been reduced to rinsing his split knuckles with filthy water while slugging down rotgut. Loosely connected through social matter, the four of them race to figure out who’s trying to get information on Michael, while miles away Michael tries to enmesh himself with his targets.īurn Notice began life as an action-comedy-drama. When a shadowy stranger holds him at knifepoint while asking suspicious question about Michael, he digs up the rest of the gang Jesse, who’s gone back to his nine-to-five security job, Fiona, who’s settled into life as a bounty hunter, and Maddie, who has the most surprising arc of all and has quit smoking (?!) to gain custody of her grandson Charlie after his mother fell off the wagon. Meanwhile, his friends have scattered in separate directions Sam is the most unchanged of the group, still living with Elsa in luxury. A terrorist who wants to steal sensitive equipment from a locked down faculty, Michael finds himself relating to the man, committing both to his cover and to the agency who’s planted him deep under cover. Playing a bare-knuckles boxer with a drinking habit, Michael finds his real identity intermeshing with his cover, especially when he manages to win the trust of his target. Nine months after Michael Westen struck a shadowy bargain with the CIA to release his friends from captivity, he’s working a deep cover ID in the Dominican Republic.
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