- An old drug-dealing acquaintance asks Michael to help his mentally-challenged cousin, who is unknowingly involved in a heist. Meanwhile, Gilroy gives Michael a mission, but he is forced to work with a dangerous partner.
- Scary Mason Gilroy recruits Michael and icy thief Claude to steal a file from the Chilean consulate, but the team gets rid of Claude more consequentially than they imagined. Sugar begs Mike for help to get his simpleton cousin out of the clutch of violent crime baron Lynch, but fails to keep his distance while the team infiltrates and still has to improvise as they misread the gang's plans.—KGF Vissers
- Sam was worried about Michael working with Gilroy. Michael said the only way to stop whatever Gilroy was doing was to be right in the middle of it.
Michael went inside to a French restaurant to meet him. Michael was suspicious and looked for clues that something was amiss. An obvious one: There was a third place setting at a table for two. A man named Claude was coming, Gilroy told him, and Claude would be working with Michael on their little project. Michael was going to leave, when he met Claude. Michael agreed to sit back down next to Claude, his "new teammate."
Michael later told Fi that Gilroy wanted him to break into the Chilean consulate and get a file. Michael said he was going to figure out a way to take Claude out without Gilroy noticing. Sugar, Michael's drug-dealing former neighbor, came by. His face was beaten up. Sugar said he came to hire him to help his cousin, who was in trouble.
Sugar said his cousin was hanging with some bad people. He offered Michael $5,000 to take care of this guy named Lynch who was messing with Sugar's cousin Doug. Michael told Sugar to help Doug move away from Lynch.
Michael got a phone call and told Fi it was his mom. He went over to her house and discovered she was getting the Crimefighter of the Month award. She was getting an award for calling in three stolen cars -- cars Michael stole. She wanted him to go with her to the awards presentation.
Sam told Michael he found nothing on Claude. Michael went home and Fi had some information on Claude, but she wanted Michael to help Sugar and his cousin. She told him about Claude, who was a former Australian SIS and his real name was Thomas Molling, which was why Sam found nothing.
Michael went to meet with Sugar, who had a trunk full of guns and duct tape. Michael said he was going to check on Lynch first to see why he was so interested in Doug. Michael told Sugar to leave town and wait for his call.
Michael, Sam and Fi went to check out Lynch at his sprawling compound. When Lynch left, Sam and Fi stayed behind to bug the house and Michael followed Lynch. Fi put a bug in the remote control. Fi found some underwater gear and weaponry in the house that made it seem as though was planning some kind of amphibious assault.
Michael, meanwhile, followed Lynch and his crew while voiceover Michael explained that you can always tell when a crew is going to kill someone. They're careful about driving under the speed limit and obeying stop signs, and "there's something about the way they move -- a little strut, a hard set to the jaw." Michael called Sugar and asked if he'd left town. He told Sugar that Lynch was out front and told Sugar to go out the back. Sugar refused to be run out of his house and started shooting at Lynch's men with a shotgun. They started shooting back and hit Sugar.
Michael ran inside the house through the back and started rigging up a microwave oven to do some serious damage. He set the timer and after a few seconds -- which he used to escape -- he literally blew the doors off the house, giving just enough cover to get away with Sugar.
Sam said Sugar was touch and go despite taking four shots from assault rifles. Michael told Fi they had to keep Doug working with Lynch until whatever job they wanted Doug for was in process. He also realized they had more work to do to figure out what the job entailed.
Michael went to meet with Gilroy and Claude for a "strategy session." He said the file would be in the Chilean consulate office on Friday and taken away Sunday, so they had to get it on Saturday. Gilroy wanted Claude to take the lead. Claude told Michael to stage a diversion and didn't share many other details of his plan to get inside the building.
Sam went over to Dougie's job at a refrigerated flower warehouse to see what he does. Dougie was a little slow, and shared with Sam that he'd always wanted to be in the Army but didn't pass the test. Then he revealed that his "friend Lynch" was a Marine and still goes on missions. He said Lynch was going to let him go on a mission soon, then invited Sam to a party Lynch was hosting. Sam called Fi and asked her if she was in a partying mood.
At the party, Lynch was getting Dougie drunk and poking fun at him in front of the crowd. Fi lingered a bit and Lynch called an impromptu meeting behind closed doors. She pretended to be drunk and moved the remote control (with the bug in it) into the room where Lynch was having his meeting. He was talking about a guy named Bolo who could get them a thief who could get a necessary "piece of hardware." He said there was a plan to use Dougie.
Michael and Sam waited for Bolo to show up at a restaurant and when he did they cornered him and injected him with a placebo they said was poison that would give him five hours to live unless he got the antidote. Michael told Bolo to call off the thief he was going to introduce to Lynch and instead introduce Michael as the thief. Lynch showed up and Bolo introduced him to Michael, calling him D.J. Lynch told Michael he needed to get his hands on some "jaws of life" that firefighters use. Michael said it would take him a few days and Lynch demanded it be done in one day. Michael decided to take the deal, even if it meant making the situation worse in the short term.
Michael, Fi and Sam tried to figure out why Lynch needed Dougie, and they thought it might have something to do with a flower delivery. Fi also gave Michael a tidbit about Claude -- he's been learning how to scale walls by freeclimbing.
Michael to to his mom's house to get a city inspector shirt that his dad used to wear when he was stealing equipment. Maddy pulled out from behind a false wall in a closet. She gave him a tie for her award banquet on Saturday, but he said something had come up and he couldn't go.
Sam went to the flower warehouse to get the full delivery schedule. He saw Dougie putting together a bunch of flowers for his injured cousin.
Michael rigged up the Chilean consulate and put some goop on a couple of potential hand holds that Claude might use when he's trying to climb the side of the building.
Michael went to a fire training station to get his hands on a jaws of life -- rather than take ones that might be needed to save lives -- and pretended to be a city inspector who needed to service them. When the station chief bristled, Mike frantically ran over to where the cutters were being used and told them to stop because they could break, at which point, "You can take your right hand and use it to wave goodbye to your left." The station chief had some trainees help Michael load the cutters onto his truck.
Sam's flower delivery schedule turned up a possible target for Lynch's heist. A hotel that was hosting an international art auction. They figured out Lynch needed the jaws of life to open the containers that valuable art is shipped in.
Michael gave Lynch the jaws of life and Lynch appeared to move more quickly than any of them expected. Sam rechecked the schedule and figured out that an armored truck was the target. They all took off.
They went straight to the flower warehouse, where Doug let Lynch's van inside. They realized that Lynch and his team were going to take over the armored truck, which was picking up cash at the end of the week, and they were going to gas the sealed flower warehouse with nitrogen to knock out the truck guards, using oxygen masks to keep themselves safe.
Outside, Fi rigged an explosive a few feet away from the warehouse while Michael took out the guy on the roof who was messing with the air conditioning (where he was going to pipe in the nitrogen). Meanwhile, Sam went inside to get Dougie out of the warehouse.
As the armored truck approached, Fi set off the explosive, causing the driver to throw the truck into reverse and take off. Inside the warehouse, Sam got caught up in a shootout with Lynch and his guys, and managed to get out with Dougie. They both hopped into Fi's car and left. Michael, still on the roof, let the nitrogen flow while Lynch and his men were still inside the warehouse.
Lynch called the cell phone of the guy on the roof, but Michael answered and told Lynch that the cops were on their way. He said he hoped they'd get there before Lynch's oxygen tanks ran out.
Sugar thanked Michael and Fi, and he told them that when he was a kid he made fun of Dougie more than anyone. But one day when Sugar was getting beat up by some other kids, Dougie came and saved him. He said he did it because he loved him, because they were family. "Like it was just that simple," Sugar said.
There was still the matter of Michael's Chilean consulate job with Claude. He did his job of creating a diversion outside the building by putting some olive oil and motor oil into an exhaust pipe of a truck, creating a big plume of completely non-threatening smoke.
As crowds gathered around the smoking truck, Michael went to be Claude's lookout as Claude freeclimbed the side of the building to get to the right office window. It wasn't long before Claude reached to hang on to the pipe that Michael had doused with silicon-based lubricant, slipped and fell a couple of stories, apparently breaking his ankle. Michael helped him hobbled away -- mission: thwarted.
Michael managed to show up to his mom's award ceremony, but she let him off the hook and they left early.
Michael had dinner with Gilroy, who told him that Claude "didn't survive his injuries." He told Michael he was now working alone, as he wanted to in the first place. Gilroy told Michael he should honor Claude's memory by completing his mission.
"Consider it a reason for living, as it were," Gilroy said.
They toasted, to Claude.
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