- While Sam and Jesse try to save a weapons maker held against his will to build a missile for an African warlord, Michael and Fi discover that Madeline's new boyfriend actually working for Anson.
- The CIA instructs Michael to prove his mission leader skills. So Sam, Jesse and Fiona, all with dubious reputations, must officially assist him dealing with Liberian war lord Joseph Kamba, who bought an abandoned plant to have a missile assembled by scientist William Resnick, whose teenage daughter Sophie is held hostage by his goons in a villa. Madeleine pigheadedly refuses to heed Michael's warning that her present boyfriend Benny is used, knowingly or not, by Anson Fullerton.—KGF Vissers
- Michael is focused now on listening in on Anson's communication. The security on Anson's signal is tough, but it'll be worth it. Fi isn't feeling confident about being able to plant a bug.
There's a secure defense contractor's building across the street. Michael and Fi pose as window washers. They blow up their own suspended scaffold and it smashes the window to an office. They get in and quickly download some records from a computer inside the defense contractor's offices. When a guard shows up, they play it off like they've escaped an ordeal and are lucky to be alive and when the guy asks for their phone numbers so they could be contacted later, if necessary, Michael says "the lawyers" will all be talking -- implying he's going to sue the company. The guard lets them leave.
Michael and Fi stake out a house where Anson's been placing calls. They soon discover it's the home of Benny, Maddy's boyfriend. Michael has to meet with Pearce and leaves Fi to stake out Benny's place longer.
Pearce has a job for Michael. The CIA has tracked calls from a weapons engineer, William Resnik, selling guidance chips to he Liberian chemical company upstate. Michael isn't being asked to go into the plant, but to run the operation with Sam and Jesse going in. Pearce tells Michael it wouldn't hurt him to look like a team player.
We next see Sam and Jesse with Michael checking out the chemical plant. It's heavily guarded. They think Resnik is building a missile inside. Sam and Jesse aren't wild about working for the CIA.
Sam and Jesse pose as the guys delivering the guidance chip and get a guard to escort them inside, saying they need to oversee the installation. Sam and Jesse spot Resnik, who is being watched by an armed guard. Sam doesn't think they're dealing with a traitor, but a hostage. Jesse gets a chance to pull Resnik aside and asks him what's happening. Resnik says he can't escape because the warlord who wants the missile has Resnik's daughter. Jesse tells Resnik he has to play along while they convince the warlord to let him leave.
The warlord, Joseph Kamba (Jonathan Adams), comes to the scene. Sam says the housings in the missile don't fit the piece that he and Jesse brought. Kamba is not happy and backhands Resnik across the face. When Sam says they can bring a new chip the next day, Kamba takes Jesse as a hostage and says Jesse will be free to go when the new chip is delivered. Kamba holds Jesse at gunpoint while Sam is taken out of the building.
Pearce and Sam are worried about leaving Jesse inside Kamba's plant. They need to find Resnik's daughter, and the CIA wants the specs from Kamba's missile.
Fi calls Michael -- who is preparing to sneak some weapons into Kamba's plant -- and tells him that Benny is acting suspiciously, like he's been trained. Michael goes to talk to Maddy about Benny and tells her that Benny's working for Anson and spying on them. Maddy doesn't want to believe Michael and says she'll find out the truth her own way. And, she says, if Michael's right she'll plant the bug on Benny herself.
Michael and Fi head to Cutler Bay, to a compound where Kamba might be keeping Resnik's daughter. Using heat-sensing binoculars, Michael sees that when Fi knocks on the door to be a friendly neighbor and delivers some baked goods. Michael thinks he's got a sense of where Resnik's daughter, Sophie, is being held, but they can't move in until they get Jesse and Resnik out of Kamba's plant.
Sam can't bring car onto the property, and that's where the rest of the guns are hidden. In order to provide Resnik the support and security inside the plant that he needs, Sam and Jesse realize they have to stay in, as well. And if Kamba is going to let them stay, they'll need a reason: an injury to Resnik. They plot to have Resnik burn his hand on a bunsen burner, which would mean that Sam and Jesse would have to stay to build the missile while taking Resnik's directions. Kamba is suspicious, but agrees to let them do the work.
Sam calls Michael and tells him they couldn't get the guns in. Michael tells him he's going to bury two M-4s 20 feet from the fence. They set up an electrical malfunction in the missile to convince Kamba to move the fence back -- allowing for access to the guns Michael buried.
At Benny's place, Maddy ridlers through a desk and finds a file with pictures of Michael and Fiona. She's stunned and when Benny gets home, she plays it like she was there to surprise him by making him a salmon dinner with pecan pie for dessert. She asks him to get a bottle of wine from the car, and when he walks out, she plants a bug in his phone.
The fence is being moved at the plant and Sam and Jesse are making their plan to get to the guns, but things are shaken up when Kamba brings Resnik's daughter, handcuffed, to the plant to provide him some extra motivation to work harder.
Resnik say he's done listening to Sam and Jesse, but they convince him to keep listening because Kamba will have no reason to let them live even if the missile is delivered.
Sam calls Michael, who suggests they try something they did in Ukraine back in 1997. Michael and Fi blow up a gas line while Sam tells Kamba that one of his men is working against him. They convince Kamba to move out of the plant and to let the missile explode, ruining any evidence against him. They tell him they can sneak him out of the plant through a fence (where the guns were buried) and while they're cutting through the fence the missile goes off. Kamba turns to watch it and that's when they get the guns. When he turns around, it's game over. Sam clocks Kamba with a left hook and Sophie runs to her father's arms.
Pearce's bosses at the CIA aren't pleased that they didn't get the specs on the missile, and Sam tells her that leaving the CIA half-satisfied is "a Sam Axe special."
Maddy sits with Michael while they wait to hear something from the bug she planted. Anson calls Benny, who says he feels terrible about what he's doing to Maddy. Anson asks Benny if he got the package he sent, and Benny thinks it's a new wireless mike. Michael's ears perk up when he hears about this package and he starts to run toward the house, but it's too late. Benny opens up the package and discovers a bomb, which goes off long before Michael is able to do anything to stop it.
Maddys face shows shock and heartbreak at the lethal explosion. Michael is sad as well, because of the effect this will have on his mother.
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