Episode 14 – Truth & Reconciliation
Michael, after spending a great deal of money, finally tracks down the Cayman Islands bank manager who managed the account; Gustavo, and arranges to meet him in a parking garage to give him a cash bribe in exchange for more information. The man who meets him, however, is only pretending to be Gustavo; the real Gustavo having been murdered after the account holder learned of Michael’s attempt to get the information. The man Michael meets is an assassin. During their fight, the man accidentally stumbles over the wall of the parking structure, falling several stories to his death. Michael asks Fiona to pressure her trafficking contacts for details on how the assassin was smuggled into the United States. Meanwhile, Michael is approached by Claude Laurent; whose daughter; Veronique, was sent to prison and to her death after speaking out against Jean-Pierre Duman; a corrupt Haitian government official who, along with his family, ruled over Haiti with an iron fist until being forced to flee after stealing most of the island’s money. Laurent tries to convince Michael to try to expose Duman’s true identity and, after an attack of conscience, Michael agrees. Initially, Michael tries to bluff Duman into giving him information on his true name, claiming to be an agent of Flintridge Industries – the corporation who, being just as corrupt, worked with the Duman family while they were in power, and so Michael is there to make Duman’s family’s alibi secure when it appears the FBI is investigating them (really FBI Agents Lane & Harris; convinced by Sam to bend protocol and help them expose Duman in exchange for the potential career boost expected from Duman’s capture). Just when it seems Michael would succeed, Duman’s tyrannical father; Sebastien, reveals himself to be alive and, having contacts in Flintridge, knows Michael is lying. After escaping, though losing the information, Michael resorts to simple kidnapping; with the behind-the-scenes aid of Lane & Harris; Michael has Duman sent back to Haiti where many people await to confirm his identity and send him to trial. Later that night, Michael and Fiona prepare an assault on the storage container the assassin used as a base of operations, and they give chase to someone already waiting for them. The man gets away, but before escaping, he reveals himself to them, and the identity of the agent trying to kill Michael is revealed: It’s Victor.
Michael and Sam meet with asks Barry, after asking him to track down the account number Michael got from Derek Poole. During lunch, however, Michael notices how Barry is acting and realizes he is being recorded. Suddenly, the government agent responsible reveals himself – Agent Jason Bly; the troublesome agent who Michael blackmailed in Season 1. Even though Michael wishes to use the blackmail materials to destroy Bly’s career, Bly has an effective counter-measure (explaining his return); he discovered Barry’s investigation efforts, which are very illegal, and threatens to expose Michael’s ties to Barry unless Michael forfeits the materials. Locked in a stalemate, Bly once again tries to make Michael’s life miserable, and so Michael focuses his effort on a new job with helping a woman deal with a stalker – Tom Prescott. While in the bank the woman works at, awaiting Prescott, Bly once again confronts Michael. No sooner have they agreed to destroy each other, then Prescott arrives. But Prescott is not a stalker. He’s a bank robber. Prescott and a gang of professional armed thieves take everyone hostage, and so Michael and Bly are trapped. Initially, Bly is resistant to working together and tries to get the upper-hand now by attacking one of the robbers, only for Prescott to shoot him in the arm. Michael, in response, poses as a doctor and, after managing to contact Sam for help (interrupting his date with a rich beer distributer), begins subtley sabotaging Prescott’s robbery efforts (with Bly’s eventual assistance), giving them the impression they are having a serious case of bad luck. In the end, after Sam tracks down Prescott’s getaway boat, subdues one of Prescott’s awaiting men and, after subduing him, forces him to make a fake radio transmission to the remaining team; implying Sam is a mysterious crime lord who owns the bank they are robbing and is attacking their operation. The remaining robbers, already paranoid as it is, begin to crack; and conflict develops, festered by Michael. The conflict reaches its limit when Fiona blows up the getaway truck; Prescott and his remaining men hold each other hostage; with it ending when Prescott shoots and kills his remaining men and attempts to escape on his own; only to be captured immediately by arriving police. Michael and Bly, by this time, have developed a grudging respect for each other, and so decide to not ruin each other’s lives as they had planned. In exchange for the blackmail materials, Bly agrees to release Barry and then use CSS resources to locate information on the account number. Bly later reports that not only is there no name on the account, but someone (either Barry or Bly himself) accidentally tripped a security program linked to it. Whoever owns this account now knows Michael is looking into it. Bly then departs, this time on good terms with Michael.
Michael tracks a hacker for a wealthy art dealer and poses as a corporate-security specialist. He finds the spy in the gallery, the receptionist, but she tells him her father was an artist and the art dealer had him killed for a multi-million dollar painting. Michael then cons the art dealer and plays on his paranoia to get him to reveal the location of the painting. Meanwhile he and Fiona hook up with Seymour, an arms dealer, to track down the man who bombed Michael’s loft. They capture him and find he was a freelancer and all he has is a bank account number in the Caymans.
